Linux-Hardware Digest #430, Volume #12 Wed, 8 Mar 00 12:13:10 EST
Contents:
USB problems. (Jason Breitweiser)
Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem (Jason Breitweiser)
Re: SCSI Plextor CDROM not regogniced (Frank Hahn)
Re: VIA vs Intel chipsets - which is better? ("John Howland")
Re: Sound blaster pci 128 (Lien-Fei Chu)
Re: ati rage 128 pro (Trevor Nightingale)
IDE2 IRQ problem on MB ABIT BP6 (andrej antusek)
Mountd (or other HW?) fatal error ?!?!?! ("David J. Topper")
Signal 10 on SCSI Disk during boot (nchmishs)
Re: Would Linux work with this PC configuration? (jaelica)
OpenSound driver for neomagic under linux -- ?? NO SOUND ?? (Christian Bohn)
Touchscreen (Matthias Brantner)
Re: An optical allusion that will astound you, works on all spec pc's:) 420 ("Don
Oliver")
Re: Digital Cameras and Linux (Markus Wandel)
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From: Jason Breitweiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB problems.
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:03:57 GMT
I have recompiled my kernel with usb. I have 2.2.14 with the latest
usb vackport from 2.3.47. I get a long string of error code at boot up
that begind with usb_debug.o, or something like that. It is in the
form of the usb structure listed in on of the document included with
the drives(linux/Documentation/usb/) When I mount the usbdevfs to
/proc/bus/usb, there is nothing listed.
If I cat a file to /dev/usblp0, I get a permissions error. I have the
right usb driver because it has the short IO address (0x2341). Help me
please.
Compaq 5240
via chip set
K6-2 v400
Jason
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From: Jason Breitweiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:57:01 GMT
Try setting your connection protocal. If you are getting the same
speed as 33.6 and 28.8, try going to http://808hi.com/56k/x2-
linklimit.htm to find tips for your init string. You may be defaulting
to a slower v.34.
Jason
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
J.R. Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought it was time for a bit of a rejoinder. I can't thank you
enough
> for all of your suggestions...despite the fact that I haven't found
the
> trick yet, I've learned a great deal about modems, linux, serial
ports, and
> computers in general. You folks are quite clever and equally (if not
more)
> generous. I had another thought that might be worth considering...I
use
> kppp, and in the section where I can pass switches to pppd, the only
thing
> I have in there is "--detach" as this was what I found in the
instructions
> I used to configure kppp. It seems to me that there are a wealth of
other
> options I could (should?) be passing to pppd. In particular I was
thinking
> of some sort of compression. However, the file I keep transfering to
> assess my throughput is a .tar.gz and so compression shouldn't help,
> right? In any case, I thought I should mention the optional
arguments to
> pppd in the hopes of spurring some additional suggestions.
>
> Also, I thought it would be helpful to gather some of the diagnostic
> information from my machine and put it all in one place. It is at the
> bottom of this message. Thanks again.
>
> All the best,
> J.R.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Machine: HP Pavilion w/ Intel Celeron 433 MHz
> OS: Red Hat Linux 6.1
> pppd interface: kppp
> Modem: 3Com U.S. Robotics 56K External Fax/Modem
> Flow control: CRTSCTS
> Line Termination: CR/LR
> Connection Speed: 115200
> (NOTE: If I switch this down to 57,600 or even 38,400, my download
speeds
> are the same (?))
>
> Results of "setserial -a /dev/modem"
> /dev/modem, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_vhi skip_test
>
> Selected results from "/sbin/ifconfig"
> ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
> inet addr:128.2.60.17 P-t-P:128.2.13.10
Mask:255.255.255.255
> UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:345 errors:12 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:12
> TX packets:181 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: SCSI Plextor CDROM not regogniced
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:10:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:08:05 +0100, ilepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok I must admit I am fearly new at Linux.
>After installing Mandrake 7.0 I saw that both my plextor
>scsi cd roms weren't detected. My scsi card (Foreport 40)
>is detected, and even my external scsi ZIP drive is detected.
>but not my cdrom drives.
>There's also a utility where you can see what devices are connected to my
>scsi adapter, but it didnt find the cdrom drives.
>I know they are working, cause under windows no problem.
>Here is some info I gathered form Windows
>
[Stuff deleted]
>Anybody got a working plextor drive??
>Or can anybody point me to some docs about the subject, thanks
>
I have an ASUS SC-875 SCSI card which I believe is similiar to
your card. I have a Quantum hard drive, Plextor 12/20PLEX CD,
and a Smart & Friendly 426 CD-RW drive and they all get recognized.
I have a Slackware system with a 2.0.36 kernel. So it is possible
to get it to work.
The only suggestion that I have is to just try one device at a time
and verify cabling, termination, etc.
--
Frank Hahn
Conscious is when you are aware of something and conscience is when you
wish you weren't.
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From: "John Howland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: VIA vs Intel chipsets - which is better?
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 07:06:32 -0800
No, the Coppermine L2 cache runs at full CPU MHz...
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Sebastian Kaliszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8a5f8t$7n7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dean_Kent wrote in message <#41yLVMi$GA.96@cpmsnbbsa02>...
> [snip]
> >The Coppermine processors have a 256K full speed L2 cache that is 'wider'
> >than the Klamath processors 512K 1/2 speed cache. It has a higher initial
> >latency, but better overall throughput. Net result is that the Cu
> >processors are faster. FSB is the same (memory to CPU), it is the cache
> >speed that is different (BSB).
>
>
> Err, small correction. Coppermine has half speed cache as well (look at the
> burst scheme: X-0-2-0), but with 256bit bus and has much lower (not higher)
> latency (about factor of 4, Cumine L2 latency is ~8 cycles, while Katmai L2
> latency is over 20 cycles).
>
> Regards
> Sebastian Kaliszewski
> --
> "Never underestimate the power of human stupidity" - from Notebooks of L.L.
>
>
>
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From: Lien-Fei Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound blaster pci 128
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:11:57 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry for the confusion :-(
I am running RedHat 6.0 using ES 1370 driver (since my is 1370)... My methol may
sound stupid... but I do not know any other way to do it. The same thing happened
to me: freez up and not able to heard the sample running sndconfig.
1. If you put the mixer on your panel, remove it from the panel at this moment. It
gives me some troubles (don't know why). If you really want to use mixer, use the
one in the KDE meun.
2. Reboot your machine. Run sndconfig after reboot as root.
3. Here is the thing I think it is very stupid but I have no explain to that...
>From my experience, if you see the sngconfig freez up on you, it will keep freezing
up everytime UNLESS you reboot. However, after reboot, I can't garantee that
sndconfig will not freez up on you. I kept doing this for hours to get it to work.
ps. I use Enlightenment, I do use and place the mixer (applet) on my panel... but,
I will never RUN the program... because evertime I do that.... My sound goes away
and that means I have to try to configure my soundcard again.
I hope this help.
Good luck
Alex.
Harvey Braun wrote:
> >
>
> snip
>
> > > > Can you indicate approximately where the chip is located on the card. I
> > > > have a SB128 PCI card that I can't get working with Redhat 6.1 but does
> > > > work with the OSS sound drivers. I have looked over the card and cannot
> > > > find anything that has either number.
> >
> > Just out of curious... If you have OSS driver (it works with PCI 128), why
> > can't you get it to work under Redhat? (The OSS driver is for Linux, right?)
> > When I did the installation, everything works pretty well right from the
> > begining... Although I did get in trouble later on with the card... BUT, I got
> > it working again by running the sndconfig again.
> >
> > I can't remember where the chip or identification is at the moment... It might
> > take a week or so before I have the time to open my box up again.
> > Good Luck.
> >
> > Alex.
> >
>
> The OSS driver that I am referring to is the current commercial one from
> www.opensound.com. When I try to use the RedHat sndconfig it identifies the same
> chip (1371) always locks up during the sound sample play. I have tried using the
> --noautoconfig but the end results are the same. I can get out of it by using
> ctrl-d but I have never been able to hear any sounds.
>
> Harvey
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From: Trevor Nightingale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 09:44:31 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norman,
I have RH6.1 and an ATI Xpert 128 16Mb card.
I have tried XFree86 3.3.6 and the XFCom_r128 approach and so far have
not got either to work !!
With XFCom_r128 I was able to see the GNOME desktop (sort of ) as the
screen resolution was huge and not all on the screen, also, GNOME
failed straight away.
With XFree86 I am able to get a series of xterms with indistiguishable
fonts and hideous colours that do not fit on the screen.
I will let you know if I actually get anywhere with this card !!!!
Trevor
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 15:09:44 -0600, Norman Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hey I was able to get XFCom_Rage128 to work for RedHat 6.0 but now that
>I've upgraded to RedHat 6.1 I can't get it to work. Also, Xfree86 3.3.6
>has been giving me fits. My card was detected when I ran Xconfigurator. I
>have a
>Rage 128 VR AGP and the server it listed was Mach64. I haven't been able
>to get
>XF86_Mach64 to work. Have you tried it?
>
>Terry Kovacs wrote:
>
>> I have a Dell XPS T500 system with a card that is identified as an "ATI
>> Rage 128 Pro" under windows 98.
>>
>> Does anyone know if the "rage 128 pro" card is significantly different
>> than the "rage 128"?
>> I have been trying to configure this card under linux/xfree86 3.3.6
>> which has support for the rage 128 cards but have had no success. The
>> XF86_SVGA server goes blank with every configuration I've tried. The
>> XFCom_Rage128 server (from suse) usually just core dumps.
>>
>> Terry Kovacs
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: andrej antusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE2 IRQ problem on MB ABIT BP6
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 04:21:34 +0100
I have dual celeron with MB ABIT BP6 and instaled RedHat6.0.
Kernel (2.2.5-15smp) has problem to inicialize IDE2 during
booting. This is part of dmesg file:
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
hdc: IRQ probe failed (0)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, 19574MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63
As IDE2/Master I have conected CDROM. This configuration works
without any problems under win98 where IDE1 controler has IRQ14 and
IDE2 controler has IRQ15.
Can anybody help how to solve this problem?
Thanks
A.
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From: "David J. Topper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Mountd (or other HW?) fatal error ?!?!?!
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:33:38 -0500
Hi folks,
Running Slackware 7.0 on some Intel machines here. 1 serves as "server"
with user directories mounted. Has been working fine for weeks. But
now client machines can't mount /users.
When I try from a client, I get:
client:~# mount /users/
mount: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused
and then I see in the host's /var/adm/messages:
harmony init: PANIC: segmentation violation at 0x808b463! sleeping for
30 seconds.
What the hell does that mean?
We do have machines tcp wrapped and use only ssh to get around. But
like I said, it's been fine for months. Worried we've been hacked /
or the HD is dying.
Email responses preferred.
Thanks,
Dave Topper
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http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
(804) 924-6887
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From: nchmishs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Signal 10 on SCSI Disk during boot
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:40:50 GMT
Good Day
I am testing Red Hat Linux 6.1 on a Dell 4200 server with adaptec 2940
ultra wide SCSI controller and 5 * 4 Gig disks.
The install went fine and all seems well on the system except many time
during a re-boot or shutdown and power cycle I am getting the error:
"Warning ... fsck.ext2 for device /dev/sdc6 exited with signal 10"
This error comes up probably half the time I re-boot and the partition
is different each time, sometimes two partitions have errors. So far
each error has been an extended partition.
I have tried fsck -f before and after this error and have not found a
problem yet.
Any information or help is appreciated.
--
Robert Littlejohn
UNIX Administrator
NCH Promotional Services Ltd.
Saint John, NB
CANADA
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Subject: Re: Would Linux work with this PC configuration?
From: jaelica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 07:49:02 -0800
If possible, get Partition Magic (or some utility like it) and
dual boot (I'm assuming you're currently running some version of
Windows). That way, you can test the setup and see if it works
before you go through the trouble of erasing a working
configuration only to re-create it later.
I haven't tried using a scanner or DVD on my Linux side, so I
don't know how they would work. One good thing about Linux: you
*know* someone's tried it before ;-).
Have you checked the Linux Documentation Project? You may find
some good help there:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/
HTH
JA
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roland Watson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Can anyone tell me if the following spec is compatible with
RedHat
>Linix?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Roland Watson.
>
>
> Mouse: MS\256 IntelliMouse & Mouse pad
> Keyboard: Windows 105-key Keyboard
> External Ports: 1 Parallel, 2 Serial Ports, 2 USB ports
> Scanner: AGFA Snapscan 1212P Scanner
> Monitor: 17" EV700 colour Monitor (15.9"
viewable area)
> Multimedia: Creative 1373 Digital Sound Card &
Creative
>GCS200 Speakers
> Graphics Accelerator: VOODOO 3 3000 16MB Graphics Card
> Bios Chip: Phoenix BIOS
> Fax/Modem: V.90 56K Data/Fax/Voice Modem with free
>gateway.net Internet Access
> CD-ROM: Toshiba DVD VI 12x DVD 48x CD
> Memory: 128MB 100MHz SDRAM (expandable to
768MB)
> Chipset: Intel 440BX chipset
> Expansion Slots: 4 PCI, 1 shared ISA/PCI slot + 1 AGP
slot
> Processor: Intel 550MHz Pentium III Processor
> Printer: Epson Stylus Colour 460 Printer
> Cache: 512K L2 Cache
> Hard Drive: Western Digital 20GB 7200rpm IDE Hard
Drive
>
>
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From: Christian Bohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OpenSound driver for neomagic under linux -- ?? NO SOUND ??
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:50:59 +0100
Thanks much for any help!
I just tried do make noise on a Dell Latitude CSx notebook under
(SuSE-) Linux. It seemed that the OpenSound driver is the best
to do so...
(?)
I installed it -- './sound{on,off,config,check}' worked but I didn't
hear any sound (using kde, and trying the Test-button in
Settings->Sound->Sstem_Sound).
Hoping that anybody can point me to a volume slider or similar ;-))
Christian
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From: Matthias Brantner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Touchscreen
Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 15:35:32 +0100
Hi,
does anybody of you ever had any experience with Linux and Touchscreen.
Can anybody give me some information if this works, or does anybody have
any Drivers or Kernel Patches.
Thanx in advance
Matthias
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From: "Don Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: An optical allusion that will astound you, works on all spec pc's:) 420
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 08:10:44 -0800
Whatever it is, it is definitely not an "allusion" :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras and Linux
Date: 8 Mar 2000 16:16:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tom Rosso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Fujifilm MX-1200 digital camera that connects to the
>back of my computer via a serial port. The software for this
>camera has Windows 98/NT and Mac versions, but the authors didn't
>have the forsight to include Linux software. Basically, from
>what I can tell, it connects using some kind of Twain driver so
>it can be accessed from Photoshop and Corel Draw and all of those
>other wonderful expensive and buggy graphics programs. Does
>anybody have any experience hooking up this camera, or any
>Fujifilm MX-series camera, or any digital camera in general, to
>Linux. I'm currently running Mandrake 7, which is compatable
>(sort of) with RedHat. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!
I have a Fuji DX10 (predecessor to the MX1200) and I use this program:
http://topo.math.u-psud.fr/~bousch/fujiplay.html
It does exactly what a digital camera download program should do in
my opinion:
fujiplay -d all
downloads all the pictures into the current directory and deletes them
from the camera. End of story. Unfortunately the download is as
miserably slow as in the provided Windows software since the camera
only manages about 4.5kbytes/sec regardless what baud rate you talk
to it at. I don't know if the MX1200 is better in this regard.
I tried gphoto not two weeks ago and it did not meet my basic stability
criterion: I was able to crash it within a minute of playing with it,
and bsides it could not reliably talk to the camera.
Markus
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