Linux-Hardware Digest #679, Volume #10 Tue, 6 Jul 99 02:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: sorry for the last one (Joe)
Re: Please help with Zip 100 IDE access error (wizard)
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? (Tim Roberts)
Re: Problem with Iomega ZIP. (wizard)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (David Fox)
Re: Add 2nd vfat IDE to linux box (wizard)
Re: Please help with Zip 100 IDE access error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Running X on an LCD (Valentin Guillen)
Re: How much space for each partition? (wizard)
Re: S3 ViRGE DX/GX PCI (375/385) Modeline (key)
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From: Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sorry for the last one
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 05:04:58 GMT
If you have 3com905b, the PNP version, your best bet is to boot up with
dos diskette and run the configuration utility to disable pnp. The you can
assign irq and io the will remain permanent. Or you can mess around with
isapnp on the linux side:)
Joe.
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Michael Hohenegger wrote:
> salam
>
> i got the following problem:
>
> 2 ethernetcards:
> 1. 3com509
> 2. de220 isa (NE2000comp)
>
> Nr.1 functions as eth0 to the outside,
> Nr.2 functions as eth1 to the inside.
>
> (masquerading)
>
> my suse detects the 3com automatically
> and fixes her to io=0x300 and irq 10
>
> the second i configure manually with io=0x320 and irq 5
>
> and everything works fine
>
> but: after every reboot linux searches after nr.1 and tells me something
> about wrong io adress
> the second works fine
>
> more tips:
> 1. when i try to configure the 3com manually (with the values from the
> automatic detection), always an error merssage occurs
> 2. both cards are in /etc/conf.modules with the alias and their io
> adresses
>
>
> what is the answer
>
> bye & thankyou
> hohi
>
>
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Please help with Zip 100 IDE access error
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 01:32:44 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am running Red Hat Linux 6.0, kernel version 2.2.5-15.
>
> I have an IDE system with a 4.3Gb hard drive as the master on IDE0, an
> IOMEGA Zip 100Mb as the slave on IDE0, and a CD-Rom as the master on
> IDE1 (this is where I stopped moving cables, jumpers, and drives...).
>
> When I attempt to use the Zip drive to move data to or from the system,
> I am getting the following messges on the console and in the
> /var/log/messages file (note: this is only two 'sets' of errors, I get
> many more at different sector numbers,)
>
> Jul 5 12:28:44 alrod kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 2a, key =
> 4, asc = 47, ascq = 0
> Jul 5 12:28:44 alrod kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44 (hdb),
> sector 7509
> Jul 5 12:28:49 alrod kernel: ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 2a, key =
> 4, asc = 47, ascq = 0
> Jul 5 12:28:49 alrod kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44 (hdb),
> sector 7641
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this. I have been using Zip drives (IDE
> and SCSI) on older versions of Red Hat without difficulty. I need these
> drives in order to transfer data to and from client sites, and the
> machine I just put together is going to be in Mexico tomorrow (I and in
> Los Angeles, Calif.). Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Larry Troth
> Systems Engineer
> The Unicode Group, Inc.
> voice: (818) 678-2600
> fax : (818) 678-2609
> http://www.unicode.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Larry;
I have my system set up just like you described and have not had
trouble. I'm currently running redhat 6.0 (2.2.5-22) and before that
5.2. The hardware is ASUS P2B.
Not seeing this problem before I can only suggest a couple of things.
One would be to replace your IDE cables.
Another idea is to place the ZIP on the CDROM channel. It sounds like
you may have allready tried some of the different possiblities. If so you
may want to double check the Zip Install datasaheets for any possible
changes to jumper settings. At this time you may want to just make sure
the drive is fine by configuring it as a master on its own IDE port.
Possible mother board problem (: Didn't want to suggest this but hyou
may want to try the Zips youve worked with so far in a different machine.
The Zip and the harddisk might not be compatiable. A long time ago I ran
into a problem with two good IDE drives that just would not work together
on the same port. Litterally spent hours on it. Since I work with
IDE dirves almost once a week this one really frustrated me, because there
is usally a solution.
Sorry I can't provide a stronger possiblity. Assuming the drives are
good then I would look at hardware next. I suppose that there might be a
remote possiblity of a software issue but if this is a generic install I
can't think what it might be.
Thanks
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Roberts)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop?
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 04:52:27 GMT
"H. Michael Smith, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I stand, quite happily, corrected. I see now (@ dell.com) that they
>do ship Red Hat. It still seems as though they do not ship/support
>Linux on the Inspiron laptops, hence the listerv :
>...>
>PLEASE, prove me wrong on this one, too. These are those times that
>being wrong is good. :)
One question on the Dell Inspiron FAQ is "will installing Linux on my
machine invalidate the warranty", and the answer is "NO". That's not all
the way to "supporting" Linux, but at least they don't deprecate it.
>BTW.. RH6.0 runs great on my Inspiron 7000 (300MHz, 128MB RAM, ATI
>Rage LT Pro video 8MB, 15" LCD, etc) and Gnome looks nice.
RH6.0/Mandrake also runs great on my 7000, 266MHz, 64MB RAM, Rage LT Pro
8MB, 14" LCD.
--
- Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,flashnet.it.hobby.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with Iomega ZIP.
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 01:09:17 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marc Leeman wrote:
> > HI, I've installed RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5) and now I've some trouble
> > with my parallel port Zip.
> > With my old version of Red Hat (5.2) I've only to do "insmod ppa" from a
> > root account and then to mount the correct sda device (4 for Dos disks
> > or 1 for Linux disks).
> > Now when do "insmod ppa" I get a list of errors:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_claim_Rcca15f23
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_register_device_R064ebecf
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_unregister_device_R3618c96f
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_enumerate_R648d1e26
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol
> > parport_release_R4430d136
> >
>
> I got the same.
>
> insmod parport
> insmod ppa
>
> solves it for me
hi all
You may want to try:
insmod parport
insmod imm
Imm being the newer more versatile driver. This works well for me.
Dave
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: 05 Jul 1999 22:36:00 -0700
"Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unrot13 this;
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to David Fox;
>
> DF> "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> 2; Freedom is worth many times what a name brand education is.
> >> And its often far more educational.
>
> DF> Difficult to see how you could have tried out both of these...
>
> From your point of view, which from the address=higher education, you
> may well be correct. But the University of Hard Knocks, from which I
> *do* have a diploma, is also a very good teacher. From my point of
> view, my technical expertise has managed to put me at the right place at
> the right time (in my younger years) to be able to do a few things that
> now that I've had time to look back at it, I was phemomenally lucky to
> have been involved in.
>
> Those pictures of the eyeless fish and such that the trieste brought
> back from 37,000 feet deep in the mohole, back in '63? My fingerprints,
> and my solder joints were in those cameras.
>
> The fuel tank ullage pressure regulators that gave John Glenn his first
> orbital ride? I probably tested them.
Great stuff, but I would be surprised if there weren't a few folks
with brand name educations right there with you -- maybe from Woods
Hole? Academia is not always a completely pointless exercise.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add 2nd vfat IDE to linux box
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 01:38:13 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Elsesser wrote:
> I thought you may be on to something, but I've tried all combinations
> with the 2 drives, none seem to work. I have the hda set as master, and
> the new drive as slave, both on the 1st channel. Setting 1 on each
> channel makes no difference. I still get 'LI'. Would having 2 IDE's and
> 1 SCSI cause this?
>
> John McKown wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 19:34:22 -0400, Tom Elsesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >have a 4.3gig IDE that has win progs on it which I want to install,
> > >however lilo will not get past "li"if I have the 2nd IDE drive hooked
> > >up. How can I reconfigure Lilo to"see" the 2nd IDE and not stall ?
> >
> > This is just off-the-wall, but are you sure that you optioned the 2nd HD
> > correctly? If it is the second HD on the controller, then it should
> > be optioned as the "slave" drive. In some cases, such as Western Digital,
> > the current drive must be optioned to accept a "slave". You'll need to
> > double check the documentation. As I recall, WD can be optioned as
> > "Master Only", "Master with Slave", and "Slave". If you have two masters
> > on the same IDE channel, it won't work at all. I am fairly sure that if
> > you have the "Master Only" then it will work, but you won't "see" the
> > second HD. If you have two "slaves", that won't work either - but it's
> > unlikely since it works if you remove the second HD. My best guess is
> > that you have the second HD set as "master".
Note that some drives will funtion quite well as slaves on there own IDE port.
It pays to check every drive against the manufactures data. This does sound
like a a configuration issue, but one should not forget the possiblity of a BIOS
issue. Hopefully they are being Autodetected properly, then again it may pay to
manually configure every thing.
Dave
>
> >
> > John
>
> --
>
> Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Please help with Zip 100 IDE access error
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 03:48:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Terrapin) wrote:
> I had some problems with my intitial windows setup in selecting where
> my drives went. What I had to do back then was to put the HD on
> primary/master, the CDROM on secondary master and the IDE Zip100 on
> the secondary/slave. (You can try with your configuration - just
> change the hddx to hdbx)
>
Thanks for the response, but 'been there, done that'. I have tried
every combination of the Cd-Rom and Zip on both IDE0 and IDE1 except
moving the hard drive! Thats what's making me crazy! The drive mounts,
but it is unreliable in reading/writing. And I have tried two different
Zip drives! I've been using SCSI Zip drives with Linux for over a year,
and I'm familiar with the fdisk partitions that Linux and Winwoes use,
so the mounting is nothing new.
Again, thanks for the response, maybe someone has another idea?
> hdd4 will be the vfat ZIP drive and was picked up automatically by
> RH6. I just had to run linuxconf and set my preferences. If the disk
> is formatted w/ linux, it will be hdd1 and the type will have to be
> ext2. You can make an entry for both.
>
> /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip-dos vfat user,noauto,(whatever you want) 1 1
> /dev/hdd1 /mnt/zip-linux ext2 user,noauto,(whatever you want) 1
>
> linuxconf:
> (The following will allow you to read your Windows partitions.
> This will create new directories and modify fstab for you.)
> Config->File systems->Access local drive:-
> <add>
> base tab:
> partition: /dev/hdd4 (for my IDE Zip100)
> type: vfat (choose from menu)
> mount point: /mnt/zip
> (Note: Gnome expects this to be in /mnt in order to get desktop
> icons to automatically mount/unmount/eject and open a file
> manager.)
> options tab:
> <set> User mountable
> <set> Not mount at boot time
> dos options tab:
> default user id terp (this will allow terp to rwx)
> default group id (blank or what you want)
> default permission (blank or what security level you want)
> default translation mode (I leave blank)
> <Accept>
> <quit>
>
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Running X on an LCD
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 23:17:17 -0400
Chad,
That's true about the LCD screen being totally different than a traditional
monitor, and not having traditional "scan frequencies".
Including a section in your X config file which contains the info which
would correspond to a 60hz scan frequency has done the trick on my laptop.
My box has a Chips&Tech 65554 chipset with 2meg vid mem. It works like a
champ. Here is my config file I'm using with MetroX.
Section "Files"
LogFile "/var/log/Xerrors"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Metro/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Metro/modules"
FontPath "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "libextmod.a"
EndSection
Section "Vendor"
Identifier "Metro Link"
Option "KbdDesc" "English: USA / 102 key Keyboard"
Option "MouseDesc" "PS/2 Compatible"
Option "ScreenLayoutIndex" "0"
EndSection
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol "Standard"
XkbKeymap "xfree86(us_EN)"
EndSection
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "PS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Buttons 2
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
ModelName "GENERIC 800x600 @60Hz 14 inch"
DisplaySize 246 184
HorizSync 30.0 - 90.0
VertRefresh 48.0 - 90.0
ModeLine "640x480" 28.32 640 656 752 800 480 490 492 525
-hsync -vsync
ModeLine "800x600" 35.40 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625
-hsync -vsync
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "graphics0"
BoardName "No-Name"
VideoRam 2048
Driver "ct"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen0"
Device "graphics0"
Monitor "monitor0"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
Virtual 1024 768
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
I wrote the config file from scratch, because the configuration utility
didn't even have an entry for selecting this particular chipset. I have
virtual res of 1024x768 enabled, although this screen has a max physical res
of 800x600.
Perhaps you'll find further info, or even a working config file for your box
at this address:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
Write back if I can help you figure more out!
--
Valentin Guillen
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: How much space for each partition?
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 01:04:10 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DanH wrote:
> Marc Mutz wrote:
> >
> > I have all these on separate partitions:
> > / 50M
> > /usr 2G
> > /var 500M
> > (more if you have a local news server and want to do big printing jobs)
> > /tmp 1G
> > (I'm going to burn CD's and here's where the images go)
> > /home 3.7G
> > /opt 1G
> > (here is where KDE and Gnome and *Office and other large package reside)
>
> Been using Solaris?
>
> /usr/local is where most of the Linux products get put. I don't even
> have an /opt directory on my Linux box and nothing's seemed to miss it.
>
> Solaris uses /opt for the 'optional' packages.
>
> Dan
> --
> UNIX - Not just for vestal virgins anymore
> Linux - Choice of a GNU generation
Hi Dan;
Actually there are many RPMs available that make use of the /opt tree.
Some of these are compiler snap shots, having this directory as a place to
put experimental stuff is very useful. A one time a few binary Tarballs
floated around that expected to put every thing in the /opt directory. I
find it useful for binarys that are not locally compiled nor are RPMS.
This allows the freedom of using a package manager for the core system and a
place to put the other nice stuff out there.
Since almost everything on a computer is optional maybe we need a better name
for this directory.
Dave
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From: key <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: S3 ViRGE DX/GX PCI (375/385) Modeline
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 11:14:15 +0800
Andrew Hon wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know what is the correct modeline for S3 Virge DX/GX
> (375/385) video card? My X windows is not working property and I need
> to solve this problem right away.
>
> I have seen there is a tool for generating modeline for X from Freshmeat
> site, but I couldn't find it now. Does anybody know the name of that
> program??? I think I saw that program within 3 months.
>
> Please reply this msg via email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" !!!
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> andrew
See if this can help:
HorizSync 30-65
VertRefresh 50-100
Modeline "1024x768" 65.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 768 771 777 806 -hsync
-vsync
Modeline "800x600" 50.00 800 856 976 1040 600 637 643 666 +hsync
+vsync
Modeline "640x480" 36.00 640 696 752 832 480 481 484 509 -hsync
-vsync
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