Linux-Hardware Digest #351, Volume #12 Sat, 26 Feb 00 18:13:08 EST
Contents:
MDK 7.0 - No serial mouse!(?) ("Michael Cronan")
Re: Win modem & Linux (J Bland)
Re: USB on VIA MVP4 (Compaq Presario) (C. C. McPherson)
Re: Asus K7M vs FIC SDll athlon boards?? (C. C. McPherson)
Re: Modem question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: top (or other) for SMP? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't load aha1542 driver (new 1542CF as 2d SCSI) (teri)
How do i clear ttyS's so i can install new modem (Dave Brown)
Re: Modem question (Skip)
HP 8210e USB CDRW support? (Herbert Niederle)
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From: "Michael Cronan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MDK 7.0 - No serial mouse!(?)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:08:44 -0800
I'm a newbie -
The installation went very well and the only problem is that my mouse
doesn't work. I tried editing the miscdevice.h file - didn't work. I
thought I should get advice before proceeding. Is there another file I can
edit? It's inconvenient operating in the keyboard mode.
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Win modem & Linux
Date: 26 Feb 2000 22:18:13 GMT
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 16:02:34 -0500, Douglas Bayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Everything I've heard about Linux and Win modems states that you should forget
>it. If you wrote hardware drivers for a living would it be possible but Redhat
>out of the box does not support winmodems. Also, there doesn't seem to be any
>tools out there to help you either.
>
My colleague, using a winmodem under SuSE Linux, would possibly disagree with
you. The support is by no means complete but you *can* use WinModems (with
some jiggery pokery) under Linux.
The fact that certain manufacturers made Winmodems in the first place should
possibly persuade you to not buy anything else from them; they degrade
performance and tie you to a single OS. How fsking stupid is that?
"Here's a SCSI adapter; all the data transfer is done by the CPU and it
needs to use the win32 API so it won't run on anything else. Great isn't
it?"
Software modems in emebedded applications can be useful but on normal PCs??
Just what were people thinking??
Shrike
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: USB on VIA MVP4 (Compaq Presario)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:18:55 -0500
> Rod Smith wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently acquired a Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 notebook computer. This
> > machine uses a VIA MVP4 chipset. I've been trying to get USB working on
> > this machine using the 2.3.4x kernel series, with no luck. Whenever I try
> > loading the uhci.o or usb-uhci.o module, the system hangs. The uhci.o
> > module gives me no messages before the hang, but the usb-uhci.o module
> > says it's located two ports (the Compaq has just one, but I believe the
> > MVP4 chipset supports two). Using the -m and -v options to insmod doesn't
> > reveal any more information. If I compile either driver into the kernel
> > proper (rather than as a module), the system doesn't boot completely. No
> > matter how it's done, the system is completely unresponsive to keyboard,
> > mouse, and network input (it doesn't even respond to pings via the
> > Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card I've got). I get the same behavior with the
> > 2.3.43, 2.3.44, and 2.3.47 kernels. I have no problems with any of this on
> > a desktop computer that uses a VIA MVP3 chipset.
> >
> > Any ideas on this? Has anybody gotten USB working with an MVP4 chipset? Or
> > is there perhaps something else going on here...? Thanks for any help on
> > this matter.
> >
> > --
> > Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www.rodsbooks.com
> > Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
>
> It is my understanding that Linux does not yet support the USB.
> Marvin
>
>
You should also note that VIA is having trouble getting USB
correct. Check out some mobo newsgroups and you'll see (such
as SOYO, FIC, whoever). A lot of users with VIA chipsets are
even having USB problems in windoz. One user I know can use
his with his digital camera, but his USB printer can't seem
to use it properly.
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus K7M vs FIC SDll athlon boards??
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:26:17 -0500
> In this posting I present the main results of our
investigations with an
> Asus K7M and with a Gigabyte 7IX motherboard.
>
> We experimented with several disks and with several operating systems.
>
> These are the disks
> Quantum Fireball 18.2 Gbyte,
> Western Digital 17.6 Gbyte,
> Samsung 20.4 Gbyte
>
> The operating systems we are using are the following:
> Dos, only for start-up
> Win98 and Win98-SE
> Linux 2.2.14 and 2.2.39
>
> Our configuration is the following:
>
> >- MB k7m (one version with SB16 and another - newer - one without)
> >- Proc. Athlon 500
> >- Linux 2.2.13/2.2.14 or 2.3.36 under Debian Potato
> >- 3com 3c905
> >- video V3800 ASUS
> >- Quantum Fireball 18G2 UDMA disk or Western Digital (wbc-ac418000e)
> 17G6 UDMA
>
> We also tried
> >- MB gigabyte GA 71X motherboard
>
>
> Main findings
> We cannot get a well-functioning file system with two K7M Asus
> motherboards
> with a VIA BusMaster chipset. With both motherboards we experienced the
> same problems. Under Win98 an Win98-SE we could not get sufficient
> performance for any of the drives and for Linux we could not get a
> stable
> file system.
>
> We also experimented with Gigabyte GA 7IX. Instead of a Via chipset is
> has an
> AMD chipset (Viper) for the IDE interface. With this board we could run
> stable under Linux as well as under Win98-SE. They both provided a good
> file system performance.
>
>
> Our conclusion is the following.
> Until now (16 jan 2000)
>
> 1. We could not get a stable Linux system get running on a K7M with VIA
> chipset: copying big files crashed the filesystem.
This is really interesting, I can understand Linux's problem
(no via patches), but with WIN98 that's interesting because
VIA says that the new VIA BusMaster patches are in WIN98SE.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem question
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:15:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
rick bragg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> will my EISA 56k modem work with linux, or does it have to be PCI
modem.
No it doesn't have to be a pci modem. You most likely are going to have
to configure it manually with "setserial". Run it in a terminal. Make
sure you no your modem's IRQ and I/O numbers. I'll refer you to
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-9.html It will tell you all
about setserial. There is also a possibility that your version of linux
will auto detect your modem. I don't know because i don't have you
modem.
Good luck,
Ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: top (or other) for SMP?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:15:18 GMT
Ktop from KDE works for showing how much is processed on each CPU,
at least for PIII's. I would like to find something that reports what
process is running per processor
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Topper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I can do a cat /proc/cpu and see my CPUs ... but top doesn't seem to
> report usage as such. How can I monitor the load on each? I remember
> top on an SMP Solaris box reporting stats for each CPU.
>
> Are there some other utils I can use?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Topper
> --
> Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (teri)
Subject: Can't load aha1542 driver (new 1542CF as 2d SCSI)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 17:45:06 EST
Greetings everyone,
I've added an Adaptec 1542CF ISA SCSI controller to a pretty full machine
that otherwise works great. No matter what I try the driver won't load.
# modprobe -v aha1542
/sbin/insmod -L /lib/modules/2.2.10/scsi/aha1542.o 0x134 0x134
cursor here ----^
and the command never completes, with the cursor stuck where the '^'
above is, until I hit ^C. Then the following line appears where the
cursor was previously stuck.
scsi_mod: Device or resource busy
I've read all I could find, including the source for the aha1542 driver.
Since I have the I/O address configured (via dip switch) to 0x134 (a
valid address according to the driver source) I have this line in
/etc/modules.conf
options aha1542 0x134
Again from reading the source, it appears that this one option is
correct in this form and others are optional, so it should be OK like
this. Still I don't understand why the modprobe/insmod command (see
above) tries to install it with 2 parameters.
I've tried multiple configurations and I'm quite confident that there
are no conflicts of memory, irq or other resource. The 1542CF was
configured with SCSISelect (^A at boot) to DMA 5, IRQ 9, Bios C8000, and
via dip-switch to I/O 0x134. When the scanner (the only device connected
to this card) is powered up on boot-up it is recognized. The SCSISelect
DMA test works fine.
cat of most /proc files can be found below, but to summarize, this machine
has only one PNP board, the Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO sound card that is
controlled by the commercial OSS driver. It works perfectly in full-duplex
and uses IRQs 5 and 15.
The complete list of cards follows:
ISA
SMC Ultra Ethernet card IRQ 10
Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO IRQ 5 & 15
Adaptec 1542CF IRQ 9
PCI
Matrox Millennium video card IRQ 11
Matrox Meteor video capture card IRQ 14
Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller IRQ 12
So, does anybody have any idea why the aha1542 driver refuses to load and
claims that the device is busy? Since I'm already using the aic7xxx
driver, I doubt this is a case of missing higher level SCSI module, or
is it? I even tried to have this driver loaded on boot but the boot
never completed, I had to hard-reset and boot from floppy.
The meteor driver is not even loaded at this point, since it needs the
bigphysarea patch to the kernel and this the standard Caldera 2.3 kernel.
That's why, for instance, its IRQ doesn't show up in the interrupts list
below. With older 2.0.x kernels, suitably patched, the Meteor worked
just fine.
I have checked the SCSI FAQ (www.scsifaq.org) but there isn't much
linux-specific there and none that I could find that applies. PNP
is disabled in the BIOS and the only place (in the BIOS) where you can
deallocate IRQs is in the PCI section, and the PCI IRQs currently used
are explicitly specified there. I didn't need to do anything special
in the BIOS for the other non-PNP ISA card (the SMC Ultra) to work fine.
As I said, everything else in the computer works just fine.
Can anyone suggest anything that I might have forgotten? I have read
everything I could find and am now out of ideas. I've read multiple
posts here about the error I get: "scsi_mod: Device or resource busy"
but none of the solutions given are applicable here. HELP!!! I would
really like to use the scanner...
Many thanks in advance for any hints, help or solutions. And sorry for
the lengthy post, but I wanted to give all the necessary information.
The output of /proc file follows for those that want to dig deeper...
As can be seen there, this is Caldera Open Linux 2.3's standard kernel.
/proc> cat devices
Character devices:
1 mem
2 pty
3 ttyp
4 ttyS
5 cua
7 vcs
10 misc
14 OSS
29 fb
36 netlink
128 ptm
136 pts
Block devices:
1 ramdisk
2 fd
7 loop
8 sd
9 md
11 sr
/proc> cat dma
0: ENSONIQ SoundscapeVIVO
1: ENSONIQ SoundscapeVIVO
4: cascade
/proc> cat interrupts
CPU0
0: 16692197 XT-PIC timer
1: 4675 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 88148 XT-PIC serial
5: 360 XT-PIC ENSONIQ SoundscapeVIVO
8: 0 XT-PIC rtc
10: 110544 XT-PIC SMC Ultra
12: 235369 XT-PIC aic7xxx
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
15: 0 XT-PIC VIVO
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
/proc> cat ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
020b-020b : PnP read port
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0340-035f : SMC Ultra
03c0-03df : vga+
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0440-047f : VIVO
0534-0537 : ENSONIQ SoundscapeVIVO
3000-3007 : ide0
3008-300f : ide1
6000-60be : aic7xxx
/proc> cat modules
sr_mod 17500 1 (autoclean)
pnp 46148 0
vivosynth 103500 0
ad1848 49392 0
midi 27960 0 [pnp vivosynth ad1848]
soundbase 483200 0 [pnp vivosynth ad1848 midi]
sndshield 4364 0 [pnp vivosynth ad1848 midi soundbase]
nfs 30168 1 (autoclean)
lockd 31720 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc 53924 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
smc-ultra 4024 1
8390 6468 0 [smc-ultra]
parport_pc 5620 0 (unused)
parport 7648 0 [parport_pc]
sd_mod 17116 5
aic7xxx 103484 6
loop 7712 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 59248 3 [sr_mod sd_mod aic7xxx]
/proc> cat pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82437 (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371FB PIIX ISA (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371FB PIIX IDE (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0x3000 [0x3001].
Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 12. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
I/O at 0x6000 [0x6001].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0804000 [0xf0804000].
Bus 0, device 19, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Matrox Millennium (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0800000 [0xf0800000].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0000000 [0xf0000008].
Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
Multimedia video controller: Intel SAA7116 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. IRQ 14. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf0805000 [0xf0805000].
/proc> cat version
Linux version 2.2.10 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 19:01:45 MDT 1999
/proc> cat misc
135 rtc
1 psaux
/proc> cat scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: QUANTUM Model: XP39100J Rev: LYK8
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: Quantum Model: XP34300W Rev: L912
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3701TA Rev: 3055
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
/proc> cat scsi/aic7xxx/0
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.17/3.2.4
Compile Options:
TCQ Enabled By Default : Disabled
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Disabled
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 5
Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter
Ultra Wide Controller
PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xf0804000
Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used.
Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
IRQ: 12
SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 2,
Allocated 15, HW 16, Page 255
Interrupts: 235625
BIOS Control Word: 0x18b6
Adapter Control Word: 0x005a
Extended Translation: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff
Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0001
Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000
Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000
Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
Statistics:
(scsi0:0:0:0)
Device using Wide/Sync transfers at 40.0 MByte/sec, offset 8
Transinfo settings: current(12/8/1/0), goal(12/8/1/0), user(12/15/1/0)
Total transfers 135865 (91546 reads and 44319 writes)
(scsi0:0:1:0)
Device using Wide/Sync transfers at 20.0 MByte/sec, offset 8
Transinfo settings: current(25/8/1/0), goal(12/8/1/0), user(12/15/1/0)
Total transfers 99221 (35463 reads and 63758 writes)
(scsi0:0:4:0)
Device using Narrow/Sync transfers at 4.4 MByte/sec, offset 15
Transinfo settings: current(51/15/0/0), goal(12/15/0/0), user(12/15/1/0)
Total transfers 1 (1 reads and 0 writes)
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From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do i clear ttyS's so i can install new modem
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 22:30:35 GMT
I have a friend with the 3Com gaming modem...And it works, so i know its
compatable...I tryed installing my old modem on every ttyS....and
dev/modem....how would i un-install my old modem from the ttyS's? So I can
install my new 3Com gaming modem? This is what i'm typing to install it in
the first place...."setserial /dev/ttyS1 uart 16550A port 0x10a0 irq
3"....and than it gives me the error message "cannot setserial, adress
already in use"...And i've tryed installing it under every ttyS...And it
gives me that same error message...So thats why i think my old modem is
still installed for some reason...How can i clear the ttyS's?
-dave brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Skip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem question
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 14:53:22 -0800
Rick,
External modems typically work best. Most PCI modems are winmodems and are
difficult or impossible to configure for Linux. EISA modems? My internal ISA
modem worked great. I ran across this website this afternoon that you may
find useful: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html.
Hope this helps, Skip
rick bragg wrote:
> will my EISA 56k modem work with linux, or does it have to be PCI modem.
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From: Herbert Niederle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: HP 8210e USB CDRW support?
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 23:55:31 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is there any chance to use the 8210e USB device with SuSE Linux 6.3?
I til know only heard something about a hp_scanner module.
Any hint would be nice, thanx in advance,
Herbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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