Linux-Hardware Digest #381, Volume #12 Wed, 1 Mar 00 13:13:10 EST
Contents:
Problems solved using SCSI driver??? (Julio C. Gutierrez)
Re: my zip 250 (Sander Grendelman)
Linux Distribution for Siemens RM600 ("AXK")
VA Linux 3500 = SGI 1400? (Anonymous Coward)
Problems with Miro PCTV sound (EP)
aha152x not detected ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: top (or other) for SMP? (Ruediger Otte)
Re: I miss my Scrollie!!!! ("Anthony Trantham")
Re: my zip 250 (Neil)
Re: 13gigs and no where to go...... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AVA1505A with RedHat 6.1? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Hal Burgiss ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: Configuration of Apple LaserWriter IIf? (James Waldby)
Asus P3C-D (dual) (Francisco de Borja Rodriguez)
Re: Overclocked Celery hangs! ("Ben Unger")
Re: unknown disk drive activity
mice for lefties? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: HP Pavillion? (aflinsch)
cd-writer problem (SCSI) (Marcus Zmieszkol)
Re: top (or other) for SMP? (Hal Burgiss)
Newbie question: Smc EtherEZ 8416 ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: UDMA66 WORKS!
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From: Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems solved using SCSI driver???
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:18:40 GMT
Hi all,
Recently I have been having problems using a Creative DVD-ROM ATAPI
drive. I was using it through the IDE/ATAPI CDROM kernel driver, and
I had sometimes a lot of error messages in the log, and even sometimes
I couldn't mount some CDs.
Ok, I have tried to remove this ATAPI driver from the kernel and use
instead the generic SCSI support. I haven't been using it for much
time, but the feeling is that now it works 100% ok!
Is this possible in any way? I mean, is there any explanation for it?
Thanks.
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From: Sander Grendelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my zip 250
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:37:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nelliott wrote:
> > > hello
> > > I just got a zip 250 i've tried a insmod ppa then i
> > > found out i should use the imm module but i still get that dam device
> > > resource busy or not responding.
> > > my parallel port is at 378h using ecp. what am I missing?
>
What does the kernel log say (type dmesg [ENTER] ) ?
Is your IRQ configured right ?
what does "modprobe parport" give ? (also look at dmesg)
also try
modprobe parport io=YourPort irq=YourIrq
modprobe ppa (or imm I thougt imm was only for zip-plus )
and again, if it doesn't work look at dmesg.
> >
> > AFAIK ECP is not a good idea to use with a Zip (mine wouldn't work with
> > it either), try setting your parallel port to EPP (in the BIOS) instead.
>
ecp should work fine, (if your dma is free anyway) can't test because my zip's
been stolen :'(
It always worked for me
ECP/EPP should work fine too
ECP should give less cpu-load with also a bit less performance
EPP more performance but it totally occupies your CPU
I hope this will help,
Sander Grendelman
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From: "AXK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Distribution for Siemens RM600
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 07:57:25 +0100
Hello,
i search an Linux Distribution for SIEMENS RM600,
or what Distribution can i use?
Regards
Axel
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From: Anonymous Coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VA Linux 3500 = SGI 1400?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 09:45:54 -0600
I have looked at the specs on the VA Linux 3500 server (see references
below) and the SGI 1400 server. They appear to be-- apart from the
plastics-- the same machine. Can anyone confirm this?
If this is the case, I'm curious about who actually manufactures the
3500/1400/whatever. Is this particular server OEM'd for any other
vendors? Does anybody else sell this box under their own brand?
The two systems appear to be priced roughly the same.
Specs for the VA Linux 3500 can be found here:
http://www.valinux.com/products/3500ts.html.
Specs for the SGI 1400 can be found here:
http://www.sgi.com/servers/1400/tech_info.html
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From: EP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: free.comp.linux.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Problems with Miro PCTV sound
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:51:57 +0100
Hi
I run linux SuSE 6.3 with KDE environment. I have a Miro PCTV that I
want to make work under linux. I have succeded but not completely. The
tuner seems to work, amd I get the images. But I have a problem with the
sound. Indeed no sound comes out of the PCTV card. If I have understood
what I read, there is a chip on this card for the sound, something like
msp3400 (not completely sure). There is a module of the same name that
was created when I recompile my kernel. I do an insmod with it, it
loads, but when I do a lsmod, I see it is an unused module. So maybe
there are parameters to load or something like that I don't know.
Anyway, if someone knows what happens or already solved such problems, I
would be happy to get some help...
Thanks in advance! :)
EP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: aha152x not detected
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:58:10 GMT
I'm a Linux newbie, trying to install McMillan's Linux-Mandrake 6.1 (100%
RedHat 6.0 compatible) on a 5-year-old, Dell 90MHz Pentium PC with an AMI
BIOS (version A04). I have a SCSI CD-ROM drive (NEC 462) and an Adaptec
AHA1510A host adapter.
Short story:
At a Linux InstallFest last Sunday, we
were only able to install Linux over a network, because the Install kernel
did not detect my SCSI host adapter, making my CD-ROM drive unusable.
I
would like to find a way to get Linux to detect my host adapter, so I can use
my CD-ROM drive.
Long story:
The AHA1510A doesn't have a BIOS. It's a
SCSI-1 card, has manually placed terminator blocks, and uses jumper settings
for I/O base address and IRQ. The default address is 0x340 and the default
IRQ is 11, and these have not been changed. Parity checking is enabled and
so is disconnection, and these are not configurable. The CD-ROM drive is the
only device on the card; it is at the end of the SCSI cable, and its
termination is set (via jumper).
Passing the parameter
aha152x=0x340,11,7,1
to the kernel at bootup doesn't help.
The SCSI card
and CD-ROM drive work fine under DOS/WFW3.11.
Replacing the AHA1510A with an
AHA1520B, and trying every possible combination of BIOS address, I/O address,
and every setting possible with the card's BIOS setup still results in
nondetection of the card.
I've located an unmaintained 1996 SCSI-HOWTO, and
the only other explanation I can come up with is that Linux is somehow not
recognizing the "signature" of *either* of my Adaptec SCSI cards. This
possiblity was raised in the HOWTO. I know that others posting to this
newsgroup have had their cards in this series detected by Linux -- they are
having *other* sorts of problems. Is it possible that Adaptec changed their
card signatures after the Linux drivers were written? Or, that the Linux
community doesn't have a complete database of signatures from this series,
and in particular is missing my two cards?
The SCSI-HOWTO suggests using DOS
debug to capture signature information and post both ascii and hex output to
a newsgroup (I'm not sure what newsgroup, and the HOWTO is 4 years old, so
I'm not sure if that's still where to send it). I haven't used debug since
PC-DOS 3.x or before, and didn't use it much then -- so I'm not really sure
how to go about doing this.
Any other ideas about how to get my AHA1510A
SCSI card detected would be GREATLY appreciated.
Also, if anyone can give me
step-by-step instructions for using DOS debug to capture signature
information about my card, and where to send it, I'd appreciate that, too.
Thanks!!
Rebeccah
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From: Ruediger Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: top (or other) for SMP?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:46:46 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article top (or other) for SMP?,
David Topper writes:
> 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?
You heard about XOsview ? It gives graphical information about
System-Load, Usage of each CPU, Memory Usage etc. This package should come
with most Linux-Distributions.
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From: "Anthony Trantham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I miss my Scrollie!!!!
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:17:09 GMT
There is also a help file in /usr/doc on imwheel. Also, I had to add imwheel
to the autostart folder so that imwheel would load on start up.
Hope that helps.
Anthony
"Latka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have RedHat dual booted w/ Windoze95. I'm using a Kensington
> > ScrollMouse, and all Linux can ID it as i9s a 3 button mouse. How do I
> > set it up to use the scroll wheel? I miss my scrollie!
>
> On RedHat 6.1 there is a package called imwheel. Install it and add
> buttons 4 and 5.
>
> Latka.
> I miss my fatal exception error blue screens...
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From: Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my zip 250
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:18:37 +0000
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:00:10 GMT, nelliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just got a zip 250 i've tried a insmod ppa then i
>found out i should use the imm module but i still get that dam device
>resource busy or not responding.
>my parallel port is at 378h using ecp. what am I missing?
Insert a disk into the drive !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 13gigs and no where to go......
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:08:23 GMT
In article <C97v4.211$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Another way is to use Partition Magic. A Windows program and
> > much more userfriendly than Fips.
>
> Partition Magic is very good, if you willing to fork out for it. It lets you
> resize Windows & Linux partitions without having to wipe them first. Damn
> reliable, too, in my experience.
>
>
If you ever plan to reinstall Windows, you also might want to use BootMagic
for your boot manager, rather than LILO. Boot Magic comes included with most
current distributions of PartitionMagic. Microsoft's Windows9x Setup really
doesn't like LILO in the master boot record, in my experience. ("no fixed
disks present"). It wrote over the BootMagic MBR (so make a Boot Magic
rescue disk before reinstalling Windows), but at least it acknowledged there
was a hard drive present.
Rebeccah
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AVA1505A with RedHat 6.1?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:13:28 GMT
> - Be sure you don't have an interrupt conflict: run the adaptec
> software and configure the card for an unused interrupt
>
> - Then, as root:
>
> modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x340,9,7,0
>
> Where 0x340 is the IO port
> 9 is the interrupt
> 7 is the controller's SCSI ID
> 0 is well, I forget
>
> Peter
>
0 is parity checking enabled.
Rebeccah
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hal Burgiss
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:32:00 GMT
ok i went to one of my old boxes and pulled out a Smc EtherEZ 8416
drivers are at
http://www.smc.com/smc/drivers/Drivers/8416/smc-ultra.c-1.2.13.txt
how does he put it in his cpu to make the card work???
and how does he config his route -n thingy
feel proud of him he got windoze and Linux on the same box =l)
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From: James Waldby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: Configuration of Apple LaserWriter IIf?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:35:43 GMT
Ken McCord wrote:
> Has anyone set up an Apple LaserWriter IIf to work with Linux? Having a
> hell of a time trying to get this thing to work. Can't seem to get the
> protocol setup working correctly ( cat README > /dev/ttyS0 ) only gets
> the ready light to blink. I've got the system set up to setting #2
> (19200 baud, xon/xoff, N81 and using the RS232 port).
>
> Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken McCord
Perhaps http://www.math.uiuc.edu/~strieg/iint.html will help.
You probably need to talk postscript to the printer, not plain
ascii. Eg, "serverdict begin 0 exitserver" and so forth, per above.
Also see http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n26186
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From: Francisco de Borja Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus P3C-D (dual)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 17:29:36 +0100
Hi.....
I'm looking for information on the current status
(supported/unsupported) for the PIII mainboard
ASUS P3C-D Mainboard that based on the all
new Intel� i820 chipset .
Is there any known problems with this board?
(configuration would be something like
2x500PIII, Ati Rage Fury, 256Mb RAM)
Thanks in advance......
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From: "Ben Unger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Overclocked Celery hangs!
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:34:30 -0500
Yeah,
It really doesn't surprise me that it used to work, but now won't.
Sometimes overclocking a processor may not cause a problem today, tomorrow
or even next year, but after a while, it can simply stop working. That's why
the chip wasn't clocked at that speed. Not to mention the fact that
overclocking has been known to shorten the life of the processor.....
Ben Unger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: unknown disk drive activity
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 16:44:49 GMT
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:36:31 +0100, Cl�ment "Nodens" HERMANN
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> My disk drive (actually scsi activity) light flashes every two seconds
>> constantly and the disk seems to make actuating noises about every ten.
>>
>> This is happeneing even when the system is idle. I tried removing any gnome
>> applets that produced screen activity (cpu meter, net monitor) but that had no
>> effect.
>>
>> Is there a way to list what processes are doing i/o?
>
>not a process that is doing i/o, but swaping, probably. How much RAM do
>you own ? how big is your swap partition ?
>--
There's enough ram and even if there wasn't, the swapping should
eventually stabilize as I'm talking about an idle system.
There's 128Mram and a 400M swap partition. The biggest memory (surprise
surprise) is X.
The worst case virtual ram consumption is when I run netscape, and vmware
together. It'll cause about 80M to swap out, but none of the swapped VM is
active. There's no thrashing at all.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: mice for lefties?
Date: 1 Mar 2000 16:43:02 GMT
DO these exist?!
THanks.
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Pavillion?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:50:26 -0600
Patrick Palmer wrote:
>
> Alex Flinsch wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have a HP Pav 4450 and a noname machine from a local shop on my
> > home network. The HP has a sound/winmodem combo card that just
> > does not work under linux. The HP runs fairly well under windows,
> > and is mostly ok under linux, X is kind of flaky sometimes as it
> > uses shared memory for the video. My personal preference for a Linux
> > only machine would be a homebuilt or a local built from a local
> > shop (you might actually find someone there who knows a bit about
> > setting up Linux).
> >
> My wife has an HP6535, and we set up Redhat 6.1 on it. After some
> effort setting it up, it seems to run Linux just fine. Linux even uses
> the builtin modem. (It could use better support for the Intel 810 video
> chip than I have found so far.)
Different machine, different specs. The 6535 is a "higher end" machine
than the 4450. Obviously it has a real modem in it, rather than a
winmodem.
> I am mostly posting this because I disagree strongly with the preference
> stated above for the locally built machine. You might save a few
> hundred dollars, but you don't know where the parts came from (found
> sitting beside a dumpster?), and if they are to be obsolete (i.e. not
> repairable) much sooner than you think. (All warrantys have that
> problem right now -- what does a 2 year or 5 year warranty mean if they
> stop making the parts in 6 months? -- but the big companies have to do
> something about it if you have a problem.
Actually I spent about $250 more for the locally built machine than I
would have for a comparable machine from a national manufacturer. All
parts were name brand, and chosen specifically for compatibility for a
dual boot machine. My personal preference is still for a locally built
machine, but I would advise purchase from a dealer that has been
around for a while.
I possibly could have chosen a better word thatn "noname" to describe
the box. It has all name brand components inside, and just the local
shop'ss name on the outside. I did not mean to infer that the internal
components were of unknown origin.
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From: Marcus Zmieszkol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cd-writer problem (SCSI)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 18:00:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there,
I have a problem with my scsi-cd-writer. It's an Yamaha CDR102. I
followed all steps mentioned in the cd-writing-HOWTO, compiled the
kernel (2.2.14) with the needed options.
dmesg says, the SCSC-Controller (DPT2024) works fine and the cd-writer
is there. (lun0,4,0)
cdrecord -scanbus gives this information, too.
Unfortunately when I try to write a CD, cdrecord says:
'Das Geraet ist nicht konfiguriert. Cannot set SG_SET_TIMEOUT'
Has anybody an idea, what to do?
Thank you in advance,
Marcus.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: top (or other) for SMP?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 17:22:53 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:46:46 +0200, Ruediger Otte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article top (or other) for SMP?,
> David Topper writes:
>
>> 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?
>
>You heard about XOsview ? It gives graphical information about
>System-Load, Usage of each CPU, Memory Usage etc. This package should
>come with most Linux-Distributions.
12:18pm up 10 days, 13:51, 39 users, load average: 0.06, 0.08, 0.05
74 processes: 72 sleeping, 1 running, 1 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 0.6% user, 3.0% system, 0.0% nice, 96.2% idle
CPU0 states: 1.0% user, 2.3% system, 0.0% nice, 96.0% idle
CPU1 states: 0.1% user, 3.1% system, 0.0% nice, 96.2% idle
Mem: 128080K av, 120276K used, 7804K free, 60856K shrd, 6024K buff
Swap: 64224K av, 3880K used, 60344K free 17820K cached
There is an SMP patch for procps (contains top). Try these (I forget
which one has the patch):
http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~rauch/procps.htm
http://queenbee.fhcrc.org/~warnes/procps/
I also have 686 RPM and src.rpm if someone would like them emailed to
them. Note that I kinda question how reliable this is. Just my
opinion...
--
Hal B
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie question: Smc EtherEZ 8416
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 17:39:11 GMT
http://www.smc.com/smc/drivers/Drivers/8416/smc-ultra.c-1.2.13.txt
thats where you can get the drivers but ho do i install them?? how do i make
my card work???
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA66 WORKS!
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 17:30:26 GMT
This is a good solution if you have 2 drives and one of them works with
Linux.
My situation is I have a single disk and I am trying to install RH6.1 for
the first time.
system is
Gateway Performance PIII 600
Quantum Fireball KX27.3
Promise Ultra66 controller
install hangs after the cache report similar to below.
Is there any way to change this information on the boot disk??
Help please!!
Scott A. Simpson wrote:
>
>
> Ok so i saw lots of posts reguarding Ultra ATA66 and it not working.
> Here is the solution that i found.
>
> first let me elaborate on what was wrong...
>
> ABIT BH6
> Celeron 366A
> Promise Ultra66 controller
> Maxtor 91190D7 (hda)
> Quantum Fireball KX27.3(hde)
>
>
> every time i would boot it, the drive would hang right after the cache
> report on hda. here is the problem, the kernel doesn't know where the
> hell the drive is...
>
> disconnect your drive from the card and boot your system. look in the
> /proc/pci (cat /proc/pci)
> Unknown mass storage controller: Promise Technology IDE UltraDMA/66 (rev
> 1).
> Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64.
> I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc01]. (a)
> I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]. (b)
> I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401]. (c)
> I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801]. (d)
> I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec000000 [0xec000000].
>
> on your lilo boot type in "linux ide2=(a)+(b)" and voila
>
> worked for me...and the funny thing is...i read the mini-howto
>
> --Scott
>
>
>
>
>
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