Linux-Hardware Digest #33, Volume #11 Tue, 17 Aug 99 16:13:41 EDT
Contents:
AMD and TNT (David A. Rogers)
Booting Keyboardless on Tyan S1830S Tsunami AT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LS-120 Probs (Steffen Sobiech)
Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W (Jerry Craker)
ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0 (Iteration X)
Re: Old Adaptec ISA SCSI Support (B'ichela)
eiger pcmcia combo 10baset +33.6 modem card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SB Pro and MP3's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem with a dual nic system (chili)
third hard disk and slow boot ("john w. connolly")
Re: Driver Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATAPI CD-RW w/ SCSI Emulation Question (David C.)
Hardware Related Issues would like working ! ("Omega")
Questions: segmentation fault, ppa, floppy ("B. Chapman")
Re: emachines eOne w/ Intel 21145 ethernet controller under Linux?` (Henrik
Carlqvist)
Re: Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ? (Greg Leblanc)
Re: S3 Savage4 GT 8MB (Gareth Reeves)
Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga) (Gert van der Knokke)
Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ? (Michael Malone)
Re: SB16 PnP problems (Brett Hall)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Rogers)
Subject: AMD and TNT
Date: 17 Aug 1999 15:29:42 GMT
I've seen in a couple of places on the web that AMD cpus and TNT video cards
don't play well together. I'm thinking of getting a new system with an AMD
K6-450. What 3D video card should I get that is supported by xfree?
Thanks,
dar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Booting Keyboardless on Tyan S1830S Tsunami AT
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:02:31 GMT
I've searched past posting to this problem, but found no definitive
answer.
For some reason the BIOS for this motherboard does not have a setting
that permits booting without the keyboard. I seen where it's been
suggested that a loopback plug for the keyboard should work, execept I
can seem to find one anywhere.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
MK
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From: Steffen Sobiech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LS-120 Probs
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:10:58 +0200
Hi!
My LS-120 parallel-port drive works basically fine with Linux,
but everytime the computer accesses it the system cpu usage goes to
100% and it nearly freezes up until the drive operation is completed.
I think the problem has something to do with the parallel-port driver
not working correctly, as it does not use the irq I assigned it.
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From: Jerry Craker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:25:49 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good Luck :)
"J.M. van der Kolk" wrote:
> RedHat 5.2 install can't find the SCSI adaptor either. I just got word
> from RedHat support. Tech. support is working on a fix. Unfortunately
> it might take some time, so I'll have to wait.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jean-Marc van der Kolk
>
> On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:28:10 -0400, Jerry Craker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I had the identical problem with a 2940UW. My solution was fairly complex,
> >since I could get nothing out of RedHat. I had installed 5.2 (which worked
> >fine). I created a boot disk for that kernel. I then installed RedHat 6.0
> >using the 5.2 installation diskette. ( I got some errors but it installed
> >O.K.). I then booted the 5.2 diskette, and overwrote the kernel (2.5) with
> >2.9, which I had downloaded from the net. (www.kernel.org). This kernel
> >fixes all the SCSI problems, and everything works now. (I am currently
> >running kernel 2.11). I realize this is fairly complex, but it was the only
> >way I could get it to work, since the Adaptec drivers in 6.0 do not seem to
> >function correctly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iteration X)
Subject: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:36:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installed RH 6.0 on a Gateway E-4200 with a P3/450 and an ATI Rage 128
GL AGP video card.
Can't seem to get an Xserver to find the card or work. Tried the
Mach64 server, but no dice.
If I understand this correctly, I don't need the OpenGL support in
X11, I'll need to find that elsewhere. I just need an Xserver that
will work.
Ah, the joys of running Linux on new hardware . . .
Help?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Old Adaptec ISA SCSI Support
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 05:07:58 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:25:55 -0700, Ryan Dlugosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got an old Adaptec ISA SCSI Card in my pc, it works in
>Windows, I think its dectected as a 152x or something to
>that effect. So far I've been unsuccessful with getting it
>to work in Linux. Even if I tell it that its at IRQ 10,
>the system swears that it doesn't see it... Any Ideas?
>Please Cc: in email.
I don't know if Slrn can CC: but I will manually add a Cc: line and
see if it works.
First of all. What is the model of your card? That is not only
Important but vital. Is it a AHA-1522 or a AHA1520 or a AHA2825?
Second what does your EZScsi bios report as its IOport, Card
Scsi Address and IrQ?
on my Adaptek Aha2826 Vesa Local bus card the info I needed as
follows
Scsi IO Address: 7
Scsi Port Address 340
Scsicard IrQ 11
Therefore in Lilo I enter
aha152x=0x340,11,7
try that out.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: eiger pcmcia combo 10baset +33.6 modem card
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:45:36 GMT
Does anyone have info on how I can get this pcmcia card to work
in linux? both the ethernet and modem . I plan to use both.
Joel Henry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SB Pro and MP3's
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:44:53 GMT
I have just got my _old_ original Soundblaster Pro
working on my Suse 6.1 system using OSS. When I
tried to play MP3 on the card (using xmms/X11amp),
there was alot of popping and generally poor
playback. I tried switching the IRQ in case there
was an I/O confilct, to no avail.
My question is Is the original Soundblaster Pro
capable of playing MP3's at an acceptable speed?
Or is it a problem with the drivers?
Thanks alot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chili)
Subject: Problem with a dual nic system
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:33:58 GMT
Ok, so I bought this Intel Dual Pentium Pro board with a built
in 100 mb card and I tossed in an additional 10/100 Intel card.
After I installed RH 6.0 only 1 card was detected. I tried to
use linuxconf to bring up eth1 but negatory.
How can I troubleshoot the second network card? I know there must
be several commands I can use to troubleshoot this problem.
Any help out there?
Chili
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From: "john w. connolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: third hard disk and slow boot
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 12:07:32 -0500
I installed a third hard disk on a Dell Optiplex XMT 120 as a slave to
the cdrom some months ago. The system runs fine but boot time is over 5
minutes. This has not been a problem until now but I am going to move
the box to a place where it will be turned on and off regularly. As a
result of earlier advice I changed the master/slave relationship between
the 3rd drive and the cd drive but that has had no effect on boot time.
The output of fdisk -l is:
bash# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 525 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 1 524 1056352+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
Disk /dev/hdb: 64 heads, 63 sectors, 621 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 1 51 102784+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/hdb2 52 52 604 1114848 83 Linux native
/dev/hdb3 605 605 613 18144 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb4 614 614 621 16128 82 Linux swap
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 16383.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 1 2000 1007968+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hdc2 1024 2001 16383 7249032 83 Linux native
Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
w(rite)
Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16383 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
Thanks for your help.
JWC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Driver Question
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:02:09 GMT
It seems as if you are pretty new at this. For your fist steps I would
recomend that you not look to download any files but instead try running
X out of the box. Type
> XF86Setup
This will attempt to load the lowest common denomonater server and allow
you to graphically configure the X server.
Try this website for more info:
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/QuickStart.html
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (R Pomerenk) wrote:
> I have just began setting up a Linux box with Red Hat Linux 5.2. Here
is what
> I need help with. I have found a driver for my video card to use with
X
> Windows. If I download this with a Windows 98 box, can someone give
me the
> exact steps to put it on the Linux box, install it and get it running.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-RW w/ SCSI Emulation Question
Date: 17 Aug 1999 12:59:38 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) writes:
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 18:22:10 -0500 Gerard Schlundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> The drive works fine in the Windoze world (Ran it there to test it)
>> however, when my newly compiled kernel boots, I get the following
>> error log:
>>
>> Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
>> sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
>> sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
>> sdb : extended sense code = 2
>> sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
>> sdb:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0, absolute sector 0
>
> That seems to mean that there's no disk in the drive, but your
> /etc/fstab is set up to mount it automatically (and of course fails).
Yes, it means there's no disk in the drive at boot time.
No, it makes no difference what's in fstab.
This is perfectly normal for all removable media drives.
-- David
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From: "Omega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hardware Related Issues would like working !
Date: 17 Aug 1999 13:30:09 -0400
Hello everyone I just have a few hardware related issues I need help with
1. How do I mount my Windows95 Partition in Linux ? <- Read numerous things
on this can't find exactly how to do it.
2. How do I mount my CD & Floppy Disks so there always mounted just like
Question1 ?
3. I have a Diamond Viper 330 I know my monitors vertical sync range but my
resolution is only 640x480 if I set it to 1024x768x16 the top part of the
window in KDE is cut off (Are there drivers from Diamond for this ?) Im
gonna check there site any addional info is needed
4. How do I get my sound to work in Linux
Version of Linux Im using RedHat 6.0
Thank You
Omega
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From: "B. Chapman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Questions: segmentation fault, ppa, floppy
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:21:35 -0700
I'm a fairly new linux user, and I've got a few problems.
1. Occasionally when I try to load the ppa module with modprobe ppa so I
can use my zip drive, I get a segmentation fault. If I try it again,
sometimes it works, sometimes not. Does anyone know what type of problem
this is and or how to fix it?
2. When I try to copy or move, or for that matter, do anything to the
floppy, I get "anything: /floppy Operation not supported." Sometimes it
still writes part of the file to the floppy, but usually not most of it.
I'm logged in as root so I don't think it's a permission problem. It's a
REALLY old drive (10+ years) so that could be a problem. Could this
problem and the segmentation fault be related?
I appreciate any help anyone can offer.
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks!
Brian Chapman
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: emachines eOne w/ Intel 21145 ethernet controller under Linux?`
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:43:55 +0200
Dirk Leas wrote:
> Anybody have a clue about which linux network driver might work?
Try to boot with a Slackware NFS installation boot floppy. That kernel
is able to autodetect most network cards.
regards Henrik
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From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
Subject: Re: Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:10:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> XFree86[tm] 3.3.4 supports Matrox G400, but the G400 MAX?
The listing in the XFree86 compability thing is for the G400 chipset,
and not for the G400 card. Both cards use the same chipset.
>
> Anyone know ??
>
> What's the 50.00 difference, anyway?
The G400 MAX runs at a higher clock frequency, and supports dual output,
and probably comes with a few other pieces of software that you don't
get on the other one.
>
> Thanks,
You're Welcome,
>
> Michael
Greg
>
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From: Gareth Reeves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Savage4 GT 8MB
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:30:52 GMT
Does anyone know how stable that X server is... ?
I also have a Savage4 from Creative which i want to try out.
Thanks, Gareth
Pinwu Xu wrote:
> If that's a CreativeLab's card, you could go to its web site, they've got
> X server for S3 Savage4 at http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
>
> Saqr Binghalib wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a Compaq Pentium III 5736 .. running linux.
> >
> > One of the problems is that I have a S3 Savage4 GT video card that I
> > cant get to run on X windows.
> >
> > Does any one know what can I do to get X running. even if I could run
> > it in SVGA mode. because i can run it in VGA16 but the screen appears
to
> > be to big.
> >
> > The monitor i have is a COMPAQ mv920
> >
> > thanks in advance
> >
> > Saqr Binghalib
>
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From: Gert van der Knokke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:22:48 +0000
Thomas Kochak wrote:
> http://opensource.captech.com/LinuxIDE/
>
> dagimp wrote:
>
> > I just bought an Abit BP6 that has both DMA33 and DMA66 IDE controllers
> > on board. This would be really great for my server, as then it could
> > support up to 8 IDE devices! However, I can't use the two DMA66 ports
> > due to lack of linux support, or am I wrong? Anyone know of any
> > drivers out for the HPT366 (HighPoint) chipset?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > jason
> >
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Hi,
Just yesterday I stumbled upon this problem at a friend of mine.
He just bought this shinign enw dual Celeron system and wanted to install
Linux on it. He had connected the HD to IDE3 (=ide2) on the board but Linux
install could'nt find the drive.
I added:
ide2=0xd800,0xd807,11
to the command line of the linux boot floppy. It then detected the ide2
interface as it should. Of course, the irq number, 11 here, can vary
according to your setup settings in the Bios (maybe also the I/O mappeing).
We managed to install Suse Linux 6.0 this way. Only problem was that Lilo
didn't know how to handle this device so the system won't autoboot Linux (it
does boot Windblows...)
For now, the system can be brought alive by means of a simple boot floppy.
Hope this helps.
BTW, we found out the correct I/O and IRQ settings by booting with the boot
disk from Suse 6.1 (with the 2.2.7 kernel) this displayed other, read
correct, information than the boot disk of 6.0.
After succesfull aprtitioning and installation, Suse 6.0 asked if we wanted
to create a bootfloppy and put good old 2.0.36 from the CD together with the
added command line parameters on a fresh floppy and the system boots fine
from this disk.
Gert
Tip for Abit: make the extra IDE ports remappable to IDE1 and 2 (ide0/ide1)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Malone)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
Subject: Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ?
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:08:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
XFree86[tm] 3.3.4 supports Matrox G400, but the G400 MAX?
Anyone know ??
What's the 50.00 difference, anyway?
Thanks,
Michael
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From: Brett Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB16 PnP problems
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 17:32:34 +0000
Dave Ulrick wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 12:18:23 GMT,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Brett Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi-
> >> I've got a monster sound MX300 which of course doesn't have a linux
> >> driver yet. So I went out and got a SB16 (I think its actually
> >> something like a vibra16). Unfortuantely its plug and play. I've
> >used
> >> isapnp to set it up as
> >>
> >> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> >> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> >> (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3))
> > ^^^
> >
> >Be sure the DMA Channels you are specifying are the same as what the
> >BIOS is reporting on boot--you can't just pick them! (I tried...)
>
> I just got done wrestling with a SB16 PnP this weekend. It turns out
> that the card doesn't even have a 16-bit DMA channel: the BIOS reports
> that the card uses DMA channels 1 and 0. The fix was to recompile the
> kernel and modules with the 16-bit DMA channel set to -1.
OK, that seems to have done the trick. Just changed dma16 to -1 in
conf.modules and no more error messages, plus sound is still working. thanks
-brett
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