Linux-Hardware Digest #452, Volume #12 Fri, 10 Mar 00 18:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Intel Sys, IDE free? (Greg T Hill)
Re: soundchip HT8338A/pci drivers (Greg T Hill)
Re: Intel Sys, IDE free? (David C.)
Re: Intel Sys, IDE free? (David C.)
Re: ati rage 128 pro (NTK)
Re: is it true that all external modems are not winmodems? (Rod Smith)
Re: Bogomips miss caclulated? ("Gregory M. Hebel")
Trouble with RAID controller (Michael Tempsch)
Iiyama LCD monitor (Martin Cleaver)
Re: PCI bus information (Rob Sims)
Re: problem with gcc...urgent ! (Tom Eastep)
Re: /dev/sequencer: not found? (Chaotic Thought)
How to fix harddisk error (zung)
differential card for Linux
Compatibility with Intel i820 motherboard ("Ronald A. Girogio")
Compatibilty with Diamond Viper V550 ("Ronald A. Girogio")
CDROM OTI HERMES Doesn't work. (Ludovic Le Botlan)
Re: EPoX (Dances With Crows)
It is possible to config...... ("Ivo Marques")
How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!! ("Pliev")
How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!! ("Pliev")
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From: Greg T Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Sys, IDE free?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:10:15 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 10:17:23 -0600, Chris Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >Hello gurus ... I am setting up a Linux box from hand-me-downs
> >and don't have a hard-disk. I was thinking to get an Adaptec
> >SCSI controller and skip having a IDE drive at all. Is the floppy
> >is controlled by the IDE card, and does the _Intel pentium 90+
> >motherboard_ setup need the IDE controller to work properly?
> >I'd like to do without, and am looking for advice. Thanks. Chris
>
> If the motherboard has integrated IDE on it like most do then the floppy
> contorller will be on it. You can disable the IDE parts w/out disabling
> the floppy controller.
It's definitely doable but why put a scsi on a p90? Unless you can get
the scsi disk and card as a hand-me-down also it doesn't make $en$e.
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From: Greg T Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundchip HT8338A/pci drivers
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:20:43 -0500
Erik Jongebloed wrote:
>
> Does anybody know if there are any linux drivers for this soundchip.
> It's located on a M748MR mainboard manufactured by PCCHIPS. The company
> site does not contain drivers for linux for this soundchip. Any help
> will be appreciated.
>
> I'm a newbie to linux so maybe there are compatible drivers with the
> distribution I have.
>
> Erik Jongebloed
> Celeron 400
> 192 Mb RAM
> 12 Gb harddisk
> Suse linux 6.3
I have PCChips mb also, m598. The chip is a CMedia-PCI. It uses module
cmpci. Don't know (cause you didn't say) bout your distro.
Its an experimental driver so it may not be installed, but works fine
for me.
Greg Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Intel Sys, IDE free?
Date: 10 Mar 2000 15:25:02 -0500
"Chris Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hello gurus ... I am setting up a Linux box from hand-me-downs and
> don't have a hard-disk. I was thinking to get an Adaptec SCSI
> controller and skip having a IDE drive at all. Is the floppy is
> controlled by the IDE card, and does the _Intel pentium 90+
> motherboard_ setup need the IDE controller to work properly? I'd like
> to do without, and am looking for advice. Thanks. Chris
If your motherboard doesn't have an on-board floppy controller, you'll
need to add one yourself.
Some Adaptec cards have them, some done. In general, the cards that end
in "2" (like the 1542, and 1522) have floppy controllers, while those
that end in "0" (like the 1540 and 1520) don't.
I don't think the current-models (like the 2940) come in versions with
floppy controllers.
In the worst, case situation, it shouldn't be too hard to get a floppy
controller card. I've seen generic AT-I/O cards (serial, parallel, IDE,
and floppy) sell for $15 and less. Unless your motherboard is an
unusual design, chances are that it will have all of these ports or none
of them.
If you have an IDE controller and don't want to use it, that's not a
problem. Just configure your BIOS for "no drive" and you'll be fine.
Make sure your SCSI controller has a BIOS chip, or you won't be able to
boot from a SCSI device.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Intel Sys, IDE free?
Date: 10 Mar 2000 15:27:14 -0500
Greg T Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> It's definitely doable but why put a scsi on a p90? Unless you can get
> the scsi disk and card as a hand-me-down also it doesn't make $en$e.
Depends on what you need.
It's rather hard to use external devices with IDE interfaces.
Performance can also suffer if you have two devices attached to the same
IDE channel.
And some devices (like scanners) perform far better on SCSI than on
alternate interfaces (like parallel ports).
-- David
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From: NTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:30:07 GMT
I, myself, was wondering whether it supports R128Pro chip set for a while
and on my Mandrake7.0, it did not support R128pro card, only supported
R128 chipset. And I forgot about it for a while until I came across your
posting here. So, I started looking and it came to me. All this linux
stuff, it's known for the open source, right? So, I just downloaded the
source from David St.Clair's homepage
(www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/2daccel.html) and looked into the source file.
I looked in 'r128_driver.c' for 'chipID', and only saw;
case PCI_CHIP_RAGE128RE: /* Rage 128 */
case PCI_CHIP_RAGE128RF:
case PCI_CHIP_RAGE128RK:
case PCI_CHIP_RAGE128RL:
If this driver supports the R128Pro chip set, there should
be "PCI_CHIP_RAGE128PF:" or something other than the above four lines.
So, to my disappointment as to yours, it does not support the Rage128Pro
chipset. And, I have this feeling that XFree86 v4.0 does not support
Rage128Pro chipset either. Don't take my word for it though, you can poke
around its source code yourself if you really wanna find out. Maybe, I
will just right a new one myself. Um... I hope I helped get rid of the
anxiety of not knowing whether it supports it or not. I did me.
Lawrence Houston wrote:
>
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Terry Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I looked into the source for the SVGA driver and there are references
to
> : the Rage 128 Pro.
> : scanpci turns up a device code 0x5046 which is defined in vgaPCI.h as
> : PCI_CHIP_RAGE128PF but the xserver see a strange device - something
like
> : 0x3f3f0000 - and quits.
>
> This is in keeping with what the Font Patched SVGA (XFree86 3.3.6)
Server:
>
> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/XFree86-3.3.6-SVGA-fixed.tar.gz
>
> is returning (ATI Rage 128 PF and Unknown 0x3F3F0000)!
>
>
===========================================================================
=====
> (--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage 128 PF rev 0, Memory @ 0xf8000000, 0xf0100000,
I/O @ 0x9000
> Using XFree86 ATI driver version 4.6.
> Unknown graphics controller detected.
> Unknown chip descriptor in BIOS: 0x3F3F0000.
> Unknown video adapter detected.
> Brooktree 476 or similar RAMDAC detected.
> Support for this video adapter is highly experimental!
>
===========================================================================
=====
>
> : Lawrence Houston wrote:
> :>
> :> In comp.os.linux.hardware Terry Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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]
> :>
> :> We have a Rage 128 Pro which came in a Dell XPS T550 and are
experiencing
> :> similar problems with the XFree86 3.3.6 include in the Mandrake 7.0
> :> Distribution! Tried both XFree86 3.3.6's own SVGA and the RAGE128
they
> :> included from the SUSE Distribution (XFCon). Todate I have NOT found
an
> :> XFree86 Server supporting the Rage 128 Pro and from what have read on
the
> :> Web it appears to be a "different/new" Chipset???
> :>
> :> --
> :>
> :> Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> --
>
> Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: is it true that all external modems are not winmodems?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:35:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jianxin Xiong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Be careful. Some external moderms use USB interface, which may be either
> hardware moderm or software modem. Even it's a hardware one, it's
> currently not supportted by linux. So avoid any USB modem.
USB support in 2.2.x kernels is certainly weak, but it's much better in
the 2.3.x development kernels. I've never used it, but there's a driver in
the 2.3.x kernel for USB modems (CDCACM modems, specifically). I've no
idea how good this driver is or how many products it supports, though.
It's possible to add the 2.3.x kernel's USB support to a 2.2.x kernel by
applying a patch available from http://www.linux-usb.org. Still, all
things considered, it's best to get a conventional RS-232 serial port
modem, since you won't be dealing with bleeding-edge drivers. If you've
got some compelling reason to use a USB modem, though (say, you've already
got it, or both your serial ports are in use), a USB modem may be worth
trying.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: "Gregory M. Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bogomips miss caclulated?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:48:13 GMT
Willow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got an AMD K6-3 450Mhz overclocked to 475Mhz and it has got 950.27
> Bogomips. I love my processor.
Read the BogoMIPS-HOWTO. Your processor's BogoMIPS value may not
necessarily be indicative of your processor's clock speed.
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Tempsch)
Subject: Trouble with RAID controller
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 20:54:38 GMT
Hi,
just got a new machine to play with at work for a while...
Intel L440GX+ w/ 4 550MHz Xeon processors, 4G RAM, 6 18G SCSI-disks on
an Amaquest CTL-95U2 RAID controller.
This controller is currently config'ed to show these disks as 2 normal
SCSI disks (~8G and ~78G) using RAID 5. Win2000 came with the system,
installed on the first 4G of the first (8G) disk and sees both disks
correctly. Decided to make a test installation of RH6.1 (not my
decision...) on the remaining 4G... No real problems but the second
disk (78G) is not found by Linux, not by fdisk, nor at boot time.
The first is correctly seen as /dev/sda...
Anyone with any experience on this sort of stuff?
I saw the kernel option 'Probe all LUNs', but the kernel that I made
with that option on wouldn't work (probably something else I missed) and
then I had to leave. Is that option something that might help?
Would reconfiguring the controller to act like one disk be a reasonable
option?
BTW, how much memory can Linux use on this type of card? free only
reports ~1G RAM (or does free report RAM/processor?)
/Michael
--
Linux: Turn on...Tune in...Fork out...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Cleaver)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Iiyama LCD monitor
Date: 10 Mar 2000 20:56:46 GMT
I bought an Iiyama LCD monitor (Prolite 38e) for my Linux box... but it seems
to be acting up. I can't get XF86Setup to run the way it should...
Along the top of the graphical screen should be the menu:
Mouse Keyboard Card Modeselection Monitor Other
but I have:
Mouse Keyboard Ca Mouse itor Modeselectio rd Monitor
So instead of ABCDEFGHIJ the screen seems to be ABCDEABJGHFG or somesuch...
Or somesuch. WHy should the IIyama monityor completely get the order of the
screen wrong? ANy ideas?
If I soldier on, then try to restart, then Mandrake 6.1 "couldn't execute
/usr/X11R6/Bin/XF86_SVGA"...
Help!
Rgds
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Sims)
Crossposted-To: hp.os.linux
Subject: Re: PCI bus information
Date: 10 Mar 2000 21:00:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: If I look at the data in /proc/pci and the output from lspci, the
: information seems to be different. The last two lines of the output from
: lspci, shown below, show two CardBus bridges at 0.12.0 and 0.12.1. The
: last two items in the output of 'cat /proc/pci', also shown below, shows
: the same two CardBus bridges at 0.18.0 and 0.18.1.
: Why the difference?
Just a guess from the context - 12h == 18d
: 00:12.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI-1220 (rev 02)
: Bus 0, device 18, function 0:
: CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments Unknown device (rev 2).
: Vendor id=104c. Device id=ac17.
: Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=192.Max
: Lat=7.
--
Rob Sims
HP SVTC, Fort Collins, CO
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Eastep)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: problem with gcc...urgent !
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:10:12 GMT
fatjack wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I downloaded the latest driver for my NIC from manuifacturer website. It
>said user have to use gcc to complie the driver then add the driver to
>kernel. After compling, then i ran "insmod xxx" (where xxx is the name of
>the complied driver and it is part of the instruction). However, an error
>message said the version that i complied is for kernel 2.0.36, and the
>version of kernel that i am using now is 2.2.12 with CorelLinux 1.0. It
>pisses me off........>(
>
Don't know why it should -- sounds like you compiled the driver against
the wrong version of the kernel source.
-Tom
--
Tom Eastep \ Eastep's First Principle of Computing:
ICQ #60745924 \ "Any sane computer will tell you how it
[EMAIL PROTECTED] \ works if you ask it the proper questions"
Shoreline, Washington USA \___________________________________________
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From: Chaotic Thought <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/sequencer: not found?
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:12:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Chaotic> After that, sound works just fine but only PCM. Trying to
> Chaotic> play a midi file using the playmidi utility gives the
> Chaotic> error "/dev/sequencer: not found" or something
> Chaotic> similar.
>
> I have a similar problem with a different setup, and rather than beat
> my head against it, I just use timidity instead of playmidi. It
> sounds better, anyway.
>
> I think timidity isn't really using the MIDI on the soundcard, it's
> converting the MIDI information to sound information using the cpu.
Yes, timidity is a software synthesizer and it uses cpu to do its magic. It
definitely sounds worse than my GUS PnP, though. And I need /dev/sequencer
support for things like DOSemu to use dos midi sequencing programs. Timidity
just plays MIDI files.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: zung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to fix harddisk error
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 15:59:06 -0500
My system encounterred a disk error. The disk error message was in
a loop and could not be interrupted. I had to power down to stop it.
Of course it caused inconsistency on the disk and fsck revealed some
errors. But it never completely fixed them.I got the following
every time I ran a fsck
passs 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
}
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=433520,
sector=135089, end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06 (hda), sector 135089
Error reading block 16886 (Attempt to read block from filesystem
resulted in short read) while reading indirect block of inode 7368.
Ignore error<y>?
I let it go and enterred 'y' when prompted for fix<y>?
I ran this s few times but the error remains. If I do some IO (i.e
creating new files) I will encounter the disk error again.
Is there some utility that will fix this for good like 'scandisk'
under Windows ?
Zung
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: differential card for Linux
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 21:30:12 GMT
Any differential cards that work with Linux?
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From: "Ronald A. Girogio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compatibility with Intel i820 motherboard
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:58:18 -0500
Is Corel version of Linux compatible with Intel i820 boards
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From: "Ronald A. Girogio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compatibilty with Diamond Viper V550
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 04:59:30 -0500
Is Corel version Linux compatible with Diamond Viper V550 video cards?
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From: Ludovic Le Botlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CDROM OTI HERMES Doesn't work.
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:18:21 GMT
Hello
I have probleme for reading cd with this OTI HERMES f911lpv4 (20x).
Files copied from the cd doesn't work evry times. It seems to me, that
the probleme happened with big files.
Is it a probleme of configuration ?
Thanks,
Bobot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: EPoX
Date: 10 Mar 2000 17:30:54 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:30:02 GMT, cambion
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have an EPoX EP-MVP3G mainboard running an AMDk6 450mhz anybody know of
>any problems?
>Diamond Viper V-770.............video
>Diamond Monstersound MX-300.....sound
>usb Logitech mouse
I have that mainboard; rock stable. I have that video card; works great
with Xfree86 >= 3.3.4, and Corel Linux shipped with 3.3.5 IIRC.
The sound card and the USB mouse might give you some trouble. Oh yeah, if
you have any ISA cards, make sure your kernel is compiled with
"PCI_QUIRKS" support. There's something in the VIA chipset's handling of
ISA DMA that isn't done right, but that option fixes it at the cost of
some CPU time. HTH.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: "Ivo Marques" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: It is possible to config......
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:30:54 -0000
It is possible to config. Hp Deskjet 720 c,Supra 56i(PCI) and Sblaster Live
value in the CorelLinux?
Tanks
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From: "Pliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!!
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:44:05 +0300
Hello All! I have Linux Red Hat 6.02. I am sorry, my question is funny, but
I am beginner of Linux.
I had old network adapter, ISA, non PnP, but Linux it recognized (when I
made install Linux) and set made setting - IRQ13 and I/O 300H. But I made
change old card and installed new card, PCI, PnP(Realtek Ethernet RTL).
Linux don't recognize new card now! How I can to install new network
adapter?
Thanks! Dima.
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From: "Pliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to install new network Ethernet adapter?!!
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:47:09 +0300
Hello All! I have Linux Red Hat 6.02. I am sorry, my question is funny, but
I am beginner of Linux.
I had old network adapter, ISA, non PnP, but Linux it recognized (when I
made install Linux) and set made setting - IRQ13 and I/O 300H. But I made
change old card and installed new card, PCI, PnP(Realtek Ethernet RTL).
Linux don't recognize new card now! How I can to install new network
adapter?
Thanks! Dima.
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