Linux-Hardware Digest #924, Volume #10 Wed, 4 Aug 99 01:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Re: SB1000 Cable modem & Redhat 6.0? ("Joe")
Network Driver Needed for Alton M598LMR motherboard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HPT366 + IBM 13.5 GB 7200rpm ATA66 problem ... (zitang)
Re: Need support for Asus V3800 Riva TNT2. (Timothy Murphy)
Re: Problem with DE-528CT and RH6.0 (Sean McAvoy)
Re: G400 & XFree86 3.3.4 (Howard Mann)
anyone try to use the sblive in kernel 2.3.12 ? (zitang)
Re: Using IDE controller card ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Does Linux support the TR-4 Tape drive? (Rod Roark)
Re: Can lilo handle 13 Gigs? ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Xwindows and screen res. (Howard Mann)
Abit BP6 + ultra ATA 66 + RIVA TNT2 + SBlive (zitang)
Abit BE6 (ATA66) Question (Vanza)
Re: MX300 ("David Brown")
Re: loading ppa module at bootup (Col 2.2)? (Bob White)
Re: UPS Software? (not for APC UPSes) ("Gabriel L. Somlo")
can't find module st, also 9Gig SCSI disks? OK? (Lyndon F. Bartels)
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From: "Joe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: SB1000 Cable modem & Redhat 6.0?
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 22:52:32 -0400
I tried executing the shell sb1kinst.sh, after answering questions about my
isp, it looked at my ioports and irqs, and said it updated my isapnp.conf.
It still failed on the sb1000.c, however. When I ran isapnp isapnp.conf , I
got a new failure, didn't know what to do with (check). So I removed the
check from the end of my two ioports 0x0110 0x0310 and it ran successfully.
gic1000/70180004180 surfboard network adapter:ports 0x110 0x310;irq11
enabled ok
Now I believe the problem with sb1000.c, is this patch I need.
sb1000-1.1.2_127.patch
Does anyone know where to get this patch...
Thanks again.
by the way, I still don't see 0x110 or 0x310, nor irq11 assigned when I look
at proc/ioports or interrupts. Shouldn't I see this, I rebooted and all.
The isapnp.conf file is located in directory etc, should I do something
else?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network Driver Needed for Alton M598LMR motherboard
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 03:15:55 GMT
Does anyone know where I can get a driver for the Alton m598lmr
motherboard onboard 10BaseT/100BaseTX LAN.
Thanks
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From: zitang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: HPT366 + IBM 13.5 GB 7200rpm ATA66 problem ...
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 02:30:36 GMT
i try yo install the redhat6.0 on ABIT BP6 ...
i only use the IDE3 for the IBM ATA66 hardisk ....
but it fail on the hadisk SETUP ..... shit shit shit ....
anyone solve this problem ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Need support for Asus V3800 Riva TNT2.
Date: 4 Aug 1999 03:26:52 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
>>> XFree86 version 3.3.1 (the latest rev, AFAIK) supports it fine. Pick
>>> the generic "Riva TNT" drive from xf86config. Use the SVGA server.
>>>
>>> I'm running mine at 1360x1024 at 16-bit color. No problems.
>>
>> That works with the TNT but not the TNT2 apparently.
I don't think that is true.
It works perfectly well with my Asus TNT2 card (AGP-V3800).
What doesn't work perfectly well is Xconfigurator and xf86config.
>> Here's a link
>> that finally got my V3800 working (thanks to Laurent):
>>
>> http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html
I agree that that is probably the best way to go.
However, XFree80-3.3.1 (SVGA server) does in fact work with TNT and TNT2 cards.
>Thanks for the info. I didn't realize the TNT2 wasn't backward
>compatible with the TNT.
I have seen no evidence that TNT2 is _not_ backward compatible with TNT.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 03:38:20 +0000
From: Sean McAvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Problem with DE-528CT and RH6.0
The 528 uses the RealTEK 8029 chipset... very generic..
try looking in /proc/pci to see the IRQ/PORT info and then
load ne2k-pci with those values. It will work under Linux, I have setup
a few under Linux... I didn't have any problems though :)
Terrance wrote:
> Just installed RH6.0. I have a D-Link DE-528CT PCI ethernet card that
> gets
> detected as a ne2k-pci clone during the installation, but the ne2k
> driver
> fails to initialize the DE-528CT card during boot. Does anyone have a
> solution to this?
>
> Please reply to "tlockett at ti dot com".
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: G400 & XFree86 3.3.4
Date: 4 Aug 1999 03:30:36 GMT
James Ciesielski wrote:
> Hello
>
> First, let it be known I am a Linux NEWBIE.
>
> Now then:
>
> I have a Matrox G400 32MB single head graphics card. I've tried to
> install Red Hat Linux 6.0 and the XFree86 3.3.4 drivers with no luck.
>
> First of all, the XFree86 web site does not have very good installation
> instructions as far as I (the newbie) is concerned. I think I
> downloaded the right files, but who is to know on their enormous FTP
> server.
>
> Second, when I ran their "preinst.sh" file, I got a message telling me
> that I needed a version of "ld.so" greater than or equal to 1.7.14. But
> when I checked the version of the file on my machine, it read
> 1.9.something... which to me is GREATER than 1.7.14 (9 being greater
> than 7).
>
> And so, I decided to skip the instructions that the pre-installation
> script gave me and extracted the ".tgz" files and ran the "postinst.sh"
> script.
>
> The FIRST time I did this procedure, upon rebooting my machine, I was
> immediately launched into X windows (a feature I declined to set-up upon
> installation of the OS) but not GNOME or KDE or any fun X windows
> interface, though the right resolution.
>
> So I then booted into Win98, got online and discovered "switchdesk".
> Upon booting back into Linux and typing "switchdesk" and selecting
> GNOME, a dialog told me to restart X, but I couldn't!! Nothing I could
> do would let me log out of X and back to the regular DOS like prompt...
> And when I rebooted, I was thrown back into the ugly X windows interface
> again.
>
> By this time I was quite fed up, I re-installed the OS and proceeded to
> re-install the XFree86 drivers but this time I couldn't launch X, I kept
> getting a "errno=111" line....after following the same procedure!!!
Firstly, it is not necessary to re-install the OS when you run into trouble
like this.
If you are now at the point where you get the "errno=111" message, peruse
http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/Xwoes.html
You need to analyze the error messages you get when you "startx"
as described on that page.
If necessary, post the results of X -probeonly and the relevant sections
of your XF86Config file.
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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From: zitang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,redhat.general
Subject: anyone try to use the sblive in kernel 2.3.12 ?
Date: 4 Aug 1999 03:30:37 GMT
is it possible to use in this kernel ?
coz i will try it myself later ...
wat i mean is to re-config the modules ...
hope can work ....
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Using IDE controller card
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:41:16 -0400
LILO can only boot RH 5.2 from a Primary IDE controller.
MTGL wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have successfully installed Linux 5.2, NT4.0 and Win95 on a pc with a
>Promise Ultra controller card over 2 HDD's using a cdrom off the
>secondary controller (from the motherboard)....
>
>It looks like this..
>Promise Ultra DMA Controller:
> hde1 - Linux native - / (800Mb)
> hde2 - NTFS - NT (1000Mb)
> hde3 - FAT32 - 95 (2000Mb)
> hdf1 - Linux swap (130Mb)
> hdf2 - FAT16 - Empty (680Mb)
>Intel controller (secondary port from motherboard)
> cdrom
>
>After numerous adventures in partition creation and destruction by the
>various operating systems I have managed to get them all to live
>together happily.. more or less by not telling them too much about their
>neighbours.
>
>I have one more problem to solve however and I hope someone can help me
>out with it as I am out of ideas for the moment.
>
>Crucial to the process is the installation of LILO which I could install
>if I used the on-board controller (intel primary controller port on
>motherboard). With the drives plugged into this controller they are
>recognised as hda and hdb and LILO installs without argument. Then I
>plug the drives into the Promise controller and install the operating
>systems to their correct partitions. Note that 95 is the only one that
>completely screwed up the MBR. NT and 95 working successfully I then
>re-install Linux 5.2 using the Promise controller.. it has no problem
>with this but will not install LILO (drives are now hde and hdf). This
>is not such a dilemma as the boot disk works fine and LILO boots the
>other o/ss' no problem.
>
>Obviously though I would rather have Linux working the same way.. my
>questions are..
>Is there a linux driver to get the Promise Ultra controller working with
>linux?
>Will Linux 6.0 eliminate this problem anyway?
>What manual changes could I make to convince Linux to work?
>(have already tried editing the fstab - there must be others I have
>missed)
>
>The error I get when trying to boot using LILO is this:
>VFS:Cannot open root device 03:01
>kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 03:01
>
>alternately of course.. if I don't use the Promise controller I would
>not have the problem.. this is just an interesting exercise and the
>controller does appear to make a difference to performance of the drives
>(it came with the pc - don't want to waste it).
>
>Does anyone have any ideas that might help me with this before I become
>completely insane?
>
>(if it's not too much trouble please write directly as well as post.. we
>are not permanently on-line at work and obviously home is not complete
>yet)
>
>Thanks in advance for your suggestions..
>Clint
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Does Linux support the TR-4 Tape drive?
Date: 4 Aug 1999 04:01:58 GMT
Matt McDevitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm using RedHat 6.0 -
>I can't seem to get the TR-4 tape drive to be recognized.
>Is there a driver out there for it?
It works out of the box. What exactly are you doing and what
is the result?
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can lilo handle 13 Gigs?
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:50:30 -0400
There will usually be no problem if you use a small (10-15 Meg)
/boot partition which is entirely below cylinder 1023. If LBA
is available and enabled in your bios, your drive will have
effectively about 1600 logical cylinders.
(You will probably find large-drive installation much easier
with a later version of Linux like RH 6.0).
Joe Smith wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
> I have a 13 Gig hard drive and read somewhere that lilo may
>have problems with a hard disk this size. Is this true?
> If so, are they are alternatives without having to use 3rd
>party software?
>
>Thanks, any response is appreciated.
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xwindows and screen res.
Date: 4 Aug 1999 03:30:37 GMT
Massimo Candian wrote:
>
> I'm a new user of RedHat 5.1. When I start xWindows I cannot use many
> applications because their windows are too wide for my screen and I
cannot
> join the button because they are out of my screen. How can I change the
size
> of this windos or how can I change the screen resolution?
>
> Help me please,
>
> Massimo
>
1. If you want to change your screen resolution, re-run
XConfigurator and specify the resolution/color depth in
the relevant dialogue window.
2. You can specify the geometry of a program's window
in a .Xdefaults file in your home directory.
Peruse : http://www.xmission.com/~howardm/dotfiles.html
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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From: zitang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Abit BP6 + ultra ATA 66 + RIVA TNT2 + SBlive
Date: 4 Aug 1999 03:30:35 GMT
anyone try to install linux on this board ?
my system ...
celeron 400
Micron 128MB
SBLive Value
PCI NE2000
Monitor 15' Mag DX15T
-> Creative RIVA TNT2 Value 16MB
-> IBM 13.5 GB 7200rpm ATA66
-> Fujisu 2.5 GB 5400rpm Mode 4
when i connect the IBM hardisk on the ATA66 IDE ...
when i try to install Redhat 6.0
i got Error in the FDISK
(Fujisu it detect - Cyc.. 1024 Head...128 Sec...63)
after i disconnect the IBM ... then it can detect it "fine"(better) ...
(Fujisu it detect - Cyc.. 4952 Head...16 Sec...63)
i can install it but i cant boot it using the LILO ...
only can boot by Floopy ...
finally all done ...
but the X window got problem ...
so i think i really need to install XFree86 3.3.4 maybe 3.9.15 ...
about the SBlive ...
is it only can work on Kernel 2.2.5-15 ?
if i patch the kernel to 2.3.12 then should it possible to work on it ?
coz i need to try kernel 2.3.12 to test the Ultra ATA66 to be work ...
so anyone got same question like me ?
zitang - ^Devil Evil^ -
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From: Vanza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit BE6 (ATA66) Question
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 03:35:02 GMT
Hi there,
I've searched all through Deja and could not find any mention to
this motherboard. The question is about the built-in ATA66 controller,
which is on-board but is a separate controller (aside from the standard
two ATA33 channels the BX chipset provides).
Does it work on Linux? If so, do I need to recompile the kernel or
something to add some driver?
I'm asking because this can be the difference between going for a
(cheaper) BX6 Rev. 2, that doesn't have ATA66. I don't see many
advantages in ATA66, and if I can't run Linux on it, then my doubts are
over. :-)
On a totally different matter, anyone knows of any effort to write
drivers for Aureal's Vortex 2 chip? I bought a card with that chip, and
all I've found about it under Linux is that OSS (the paid version) will
have support for it, sometime in the future... that does not look very
promising (maybe I won't dump my good'ol SB16).
Please, when answering, send a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or,
preferably, to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), as I do not read this group...
Thanks in advance, Marcelo.
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From: "David Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MX300
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 23:03:16 -0700
Thanks for the reply. One more question. I have a spare SB 16. Can I put
this in with the MX300? Will I get conflicts in Windows, Linux, or both?
Or will this work. I have a dual boot system, and would like to use the
MX300 for Win and the SB16 for my Suse Linux.
Andrew Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The Aureal drivers for Linux are currently in development.
>I believe that they are scheduled for release sometime in the Autumn.
>
>I am in the same boat as you !
>
>Regards
>
>
>Andrew
>
>bruce wrote:
>>
>> I buy a diamond MX300 sound card, but Red Hat 6.0 does not have the
>> driver for it, until now, my pc is quiet.
>> How do get the driver for red hat?
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From: Bob White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: loading ppa module at bootup (Col 2.2)?
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 21:55:59 -0600
Craig Lambert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know how to load the ppa module in at bootime for col 2.2?
> I've tried using COAS and the Kernel Configuration package; however it
> gives me an error and says it cannot load the module. If I just insmod
> ppa at the terminal emulation it loads fine; yet of course, I have to do
> this everytime I go into linux.
>
> Thanks for any advice
>
> Craig Lambert
One solution would be to add the insmod command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
file. I'm using RedHat, but I think Caldera has the same boot process.
Bob White
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From: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS Software? (not for APC UPSes)
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 1999 21:54:32 -0600
Andre Ilie wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Iīm using an INOVATEC ARGO 2 UPS with Linux 2.2.10. Inovatec gave me
> some Software for Linux to control it but the software is very poor and
> it doesnīt stop the shutdown on network clients if the power is
> returning.
>
> Iīve tried apcupsd but this software is only for APC UPSes. Is there any
> possibility to use apcupsd with an UPS which is not an APC UPS.
>
> Or is there any other (working) Linux UPS Software with network support?
>
> ... sorry if this is off topic ... but I canīt find any UPS related
> newsgroup. :(
>
> cya
> Shoki
I don't know if this is exactly what you're after, BUT:
If you know which three pins of your seral line are pertinent to the
status of your UPS,
you can easily change the little daemon I've written to work with your
particular
hardware. It also works with any number of "client" workstations that
are on the same
network.
Check it out at http://www.cs.colostate.edu/~somlo/backupsd.c
Good luck,
Gabriel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyndon F. Bartels)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: can't find module st, also 9Gig SCSI disks? OK?
Date: 4 Aug 1999 04:14:42 GMT
Hello,
I have the following hardware/software setup.
Intel P-II 350 CPU.
192 Meg Ram.
S3 Virge video card
3C509 ethernet card
Adaptec 2940UW controller.
2 4.5G hard drives.
Adaptec 2910 SCSI controller
SCSI CD-ROM
Exabyte 8200 tape drive.
RedHat 6.0 Linux. As yet, with no updates.
2.2-5-15 kernel.
When I boot the system, I get the following error message.
Enabling Swap Space [OK]
can't locate module st
INIT: Entering run level 3 yadda yadda yadda.
I'm assuming this has something to do with the tape drive? Any obviously
simple answers?
Also, I'm planning on adding 2 9G drives to this system for data storage.
I have the OS and httpd server setup on the existing 4.5s. I'm merely adding
the 9Giggers. I read somewhere that either Adaptec doesn't like drives larger
that 8Gig, or that Linux doesn't. What's the skinny? Am I doomed?
Thanks in advance,
Lyndon
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