Linux-Hardware Digest #205, Volume #11 Wed, 8 Sep 99 00:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: Creative TNT2 Ultra need help ("Matt DeCaro")
Problems configuring Sound Blaster 128 PCI. HELP!!!! (Miguel)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help configuring cs4236 sound on HiNote (Alexander R Svirsky)
Re: Can I delete files of TMP directory in RedHat6.0 ? (Stuart R. Fuller)
[Q] EIZO L360 LCD monitor (Ryuji Yokoyama)
FA: Overclocked Celeron & Dual Celeron Systems with Linux (Paul Hanson)
netgear TX310 + SUSE6.1 ("Xiaozhou Qiu")
More IDE CDRW Problems (CannonBll)
Re: Adaptec 1535 + Slackware 4.0 (David Cooley)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. (David Cooley)
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From: "Matt DeCaro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative TNT2 Ultra need help
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 02:51:28 GMT
Go to the nVidia waeb site. They make RIVA-TNT2 video cards. You can get a
functional driver. It doesn't usr all the card features, but it works.
I have a Diamond Viper 770 card with the same chip.
Michael Wellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Okay, there a way to do this. It's not har but a little strange.
There is a text based browser called lynx. Just type lynx and it will
come up on your screen.
Of course I'm assumming you know how to get to a text based connsole.
If your booting straight into X try [control]-[alt]-[F2].
I hope this helps.
I'm using a TNT2 M64 just fine. Got Quake2 running 800x600 in
OpneGL!!!
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 9/7/99, 4:46:22 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Creative
TNT2 Ultra need help:
> I am jumping back in to the Linux world again but I seems
> I have run into a snag. Previously I had a Diamond Viper 550
> it worked perfect with RH5.2 I just tried installing RH 6.0
> with my new vid card the Creative TNT2 Ultra. No dice. I got the
> test screen to work twice but the screen is so large you can not
> do anything. I tried multi monitor selections. No dice. I do no
> that Nvidia has linux drivers for the TNT and the TNT2 but
> how am I to download and install them when X is not working. Any help
> or thoughts on this one would be appreciated.
> Randy G
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Miguel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,fa.linux.sound
Subject: Problems configuring Sound Blaster 128 PCI. HELP!!!!
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:55:26 -0400
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Hi there,
It's the 3rd week that I spend on my computer not being able to
hear anything coming out of the speakers! I really need help. I use
Red Hat 6.0. My sound card is Sound Blaster PCI 128 (sound chip
es1371). I'm also sure that the card is supported since I've seen it
explicitly mentionned as such on many official sites.
The 1st thing I tried was to use the sndconfig tool to configure
my card. Everything was just fine except that the sound test didn't
work. So I manually picked up the right card (still in sndconfig),
which was the sound chip es1371 and tried the sound test again. Here's
what it said:
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: init_modules: Device or
resource busy
So I quit the sndconfig tool and try to reboot. The following
error message came up:
Loading sound modules
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: init_modules: Device or
resource busy [FAILED]
From there, I tried to manually load the sound module es1371.o
using the command:
insmod es1371.o
which gave me the following message:
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_mixer_R7afc9d8a
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_dsp_Rcd083b10
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_midi_R39c69610
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_dsp_Rb9e4e5a6
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_mixer_R373704d4
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
unregister_sound_midi_Rfdab6de3
Not knowing if this was good or bad, and seeing that sound was
still not coming out, I asked a friend to give me a couple of lines of
his conf.modules file. At that point my conf.modules file looked like
that with the last two lines copied from my friend's file (replacing all
"sb" by "es1371"):
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuff=1
options es1371 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
I tried to boot again. The following message appeared when
booting:
Loading sound modules
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: invalid parameter io
[FAILED]
I'm really out of options. I'm fairly new to linux (only 1
month) and has searched the net, read HOWTO's, FAQ, Newsgroup, used IRC
#linux & #linuxfr. I'm out of options and ideas. I really need help.
If you have ANY idea please tell me about it.
Thanks,
Jonathan Jette.
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Hi there,
<P> It's the 3rd week that I
spend on my computer not being able to hear anything coming out of the
speakers! I really need help. I use Red Hat 6.0. My sound
card is Sound Blaster PCI 128 (sound chip es1371). I'm also sure
that the card is supported since I've seen it explicitly mentionned as
such on many official sites.
<P> The 1st thing I tried was
to use the <I>sndconfig</I> tool to configure my card. Everything
was just fine except that the sound test didn't work. So I manually
picked up the right card (still in sndconfig), which was the sound chip
es1371 and tried the sound test again. Here's what it said:
<P> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
init_modules: Device or resource busy
<P> So I quit the sndconfig tool
and try to reboot. The following error message came up:
<P> Loading sound modules
<BR> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
init_modules: Device or resource busy [FAILED]
<P> From there, I tried to manually
load the sound module es1371.o using the command:
<P> insmod es1371.o
<P> which gave me the following
message:
<P> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixer_R7afc9d8a
<BR> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp_Rcd083b10
<BR> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_sound_midi_R39c69610
<BR> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_sound_dsp_Rb9e4e5a6
<BR> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_sound_mixer_R373704d4
<BR> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
unresolved symbol unregister_sound_midi_Rfdab6de3
<P> Not knowing if this was good
or bad, and seeing that sound was still not coming out, I asked a friend
to give me a couple of lines of his conf.modules file. At that point
my conf.modules file looked like that with the last two lines copied from
my friend's file (replacing all "sb" by "es1371"):
<P> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
<BR> pre-install pcmcia_core
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
<BR> pre-install sound insmod
sound dmabuff=1
<BR> options es1371 io=0x220
irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
<P> I tried to boot again.
The following message appeared when booting:
<P> Loading sound modules
<BR> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o:
invalid parameter io [FAILED]
<P> I'm really out of options.
I'm fairly new to linux (only 1 month) and has searched the net, read HOWTO's,
FAQ, Newsgroup, used IRC #linux & #linuxfr. I'm out of options
and ideas. I really need help. If you have ANY idea please
tell me about it.
<P>Thanks,
<BR>Jonathan Jette.</HTML>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 02:13:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll have to get those and try again... I have Raidtools 0.90-3 from
> the redhat site... I'm running UltraPenguin 1.1.9 and it seems that
> although it's based on RedHat 5.2, RH 5.2 for sparc RPM's won't
install
> giving the error that the SW must be RH 5.1 or greater...
Good ol' RPM... Yeah, I just ordered a copy of "Maximum RPM" so
I can figure out how to make the RPM database happy when I install
my own kernel, tar.gz files, etc. Hopefully the book will be as
good as others have said it is.
Have you gotten brave and tried the --nodeps flag to get the RPM
to install anyway?
> You should see what we have at work!
> E4000, 10cpu's, 1.5G ram, 75G raid 5 (SUN Raid 214 rack), an E450, 2
> cpu's, 512M ram, 500G raid 5, 588 slot StorageTek 9710 tape library
> with 6 9840 drives...
Man, with that much hardware there wouldn't be enough time to
go hang out by the water cooler! ;-)
We've got Ultra1's on the desktops (1 CPU, 256MB) and Ultra2's
in the server pool (2 CPUs, 2GB). We use all of the resources
the servers have available for big chip layout jobs. And we
want more! :-O
Cheers,
- Leo
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Alexander R Svirsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help configuring cs4236 sound on HiNote
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 02:59:03 GMT
I'm using an interesting kludge to get around this for now: After all my
sound modules including cs4232 get loaded, I have the rc.local file issue
'rmmod cs4232' and 'modprobe cs4232 irq=5 io=0x530 dma=1 dma2=0' to unload
and reload the module. It's not graceful, but sound works.
Funny you mention the MPU. I noticed a note in the addendum to my HiNote
User's Guide that mentions that enabling the MPU if I do not have a
wave table installed results in no sound at all. So I used the BIOS to
disable the MPU and I still had the same problem.
Thanks for the response!
-Alex
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Neil C. Dean wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have had a similar problem on a HP Omnibook.
>
> I used the CS4232 driver even though its a cs4237B and after much fiddling
> with the stuff in the BIOS.... It only stopped popping after I stopped
> loading the opl3 module??? I don't know why... it makes absolutely no
> sense to me whatsoever!
>
> I also had no luck from the OSS modules.
>
> One other thing I did change was I stopped using the mpu options on the
> CS4232 module..
>
> Sorry I'm not much help!
>
> Neil
_______-~,
Alexander R Svirsky N1PRW /_______ { [EMAIL PROTECTED]
\,}_)
^ .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Can I delete files of TMP directory in RedHat6.0 ?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 03:10:01 GMT
Jack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
: there will be a directory called tmp in the Linux RH6. the number of files
: in this directory increased by and by, can I delete files in this
: directory.
Yes you can.
However, note that some of them may still be in use.
There is usually a cron job that removes files that haven't been accessed in
the previous 2 weeks. Check to see if any of the files are over 2 weeks old.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryuji Yokoyama)
Subject: [Q] EIZO L360 LCD monitor
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 03:19:10 GMT
Hello All! This question might be a off topic, but I don't know any
other place to ask. I am thinking to buy EIZO L360. Does it work for
X? I am using Diamond Viper 550. I think if Viper550 works with the
monitor, there is no problem under X. Am I right? So, I want to know
if my video card supports LCD monitor.
Thanks in advance
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From: Paul Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.systems,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FA: Overclocked Celeron & Dual Celeron Systems with Linux
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:14:02 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Xiaozhou Qiu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: netgear TX310 + SUSE6.1
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 23:10:15 -0700
I am trying to set up my Netgear TX310 card in Suse6.1. I chose the tulip
option in the YAST, however, I met the following error message.
The PCI BIOS has not enabled the device at 0/80! updating PCI command
0003-0007
tulip.c: V0.90 10/20/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0x1400, 00 a0 cc 3f 46 00 IRQ 0
Any idea? Thanks in advance!
Xiaozhou Qiu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CannonBll)
Subject: More IDE CDRW Problems
Date: 08 Sep 1999 03:39:54 GMT
I have been trying (read that *really* trying) to get this IDE CDRW to work and
so far I have had no luck at all. The CDRW is recognized first as an IDE-CD
and then when the scsi is initialized the drive is recognized by the IDE-SCSI
emulation but when I run cdrecord I get the following output.
>>
Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
scsibus0:
ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected - discarding data
ide-scsi: transferred 2 of 8 bytes
cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page.
0) 'LG ' 'CD-RW CED-8041B ' '1.00' Removable CD-ROM
1) *
2) *
3) *
4) *
5) *
6) *
7) *
<<
I don't know if I'm just plain out of luck or I'm doing something wrong setting
this up.
I have read the CDRW How to from http://www.guug.something or other, I have
build kernels with different options and it seems like the drive is always
recognized as an IDE drive first even when IDE-ATAPI CDROM was built a module.
First of all, what does the output from cdrecord mean and are there any other
tricks out there to help me burn a cd?
I should add that I can access a regular cdrom in the drive under ide-scsi
emulation without any problems but I get the error message from cdrecord so I'm
all confused.
Your help is greatly appreciated!
Tito
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1535 + Slackware 4.0
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 21:35:49 -0400
Ben Bauer wrote:
>
> I am having some trouble getting an Adaptec 1535
> recognised by Linux 2.2.6 (Slack4.0). I am using
> the scsi.s kernel and I tried append="aha1542=0x130,11,4,5"
> in the lilo settings, but no luck. According to several
> newsgroup postings, the 1535 is "a 1542CP without BIOS".
>
Isn't that also an AIC7xxx chip?
I know there were some SCSI cards that had to have the AIC7xxx drivers
installed to run.
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 23:35:12 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Good ol' RPM... Yeah, I just ordered a copy of "Maximum RPM" so
> I can figure out how to make the RPM database happy when I install
> my own kernel, tar.gz files, etc. Hopefully the book will be as
> good as others have said it is.
>
> Have you gotten brave and tried the --nodeps flag to get the RPM
> to install anyway?
>
Hadn't gotten that far yet... Gonna do a tape backup of the system
tomorrow, and save my SMB config and raid config files to another
computer for later re-installation (fought too long and hard to lose
them!) then try and install from a true RH 6.0 CD the whole system...
UltraPenguin 1.1.9 is nice, but it seems to be slightly skewed from
mainline RH 5.2 for Sparc... And it seems no one has anything
specifically for the UltraPenguin build as far as apps go, whereas the
RH 6 has plenty of source to compile and plenty of rpm's.
>
> Man, with that much hardware there wouldn't be enough time to
> go hang out by the water cooler! ;-)
>
> We've got Ultra1's on the desktops (1 CPU, 256MB) and Ultra2's
> in the server pool (2 CPUs, 2GB). We use all of the resources
> the servers have available for big chip layout jobs. And we
> want more! :-O
Our desktops are Ultra 10's with 512M ram, 2 9G internal drives and an
external 9G disk pak.
They run DOME MD2PCX video and run 2 2K res mono monitors on all but 3
stations, and run 4 of the monitors on the last 3... These are in a
hospital and we are turning the X-ray department filmless... The doctors
actually read the patients X-Rays, CT and MR scans off the high bright
2K monitors, and it's better than film... they can change bright and
contrast on the images, zoom in etc. Hospital has spent over $10
million thru my company so far, and has several more phases negotiated
and ready to roll for about another $5 million.
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