Linux-Hardware Digest #471, Volume #12 Mon, 13 Mar 00 19:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: KPPP (C. C. McPherson)
Re: Modem and sound card installation (Bill B.)
Re: modems and linux... ("plato")
Re: Trouble with RAID controller (Giuseppe)
SCSI card not detected anymore ?? ("David Alia")
Kernel and IDE-SCSI support problems (Andre-John Mas)
CD Writer IDE ??? ("Die Fietzos")
Re: 3c509 driver sources (C. C. McPherson)
Re: How i got my SBLive working in Linux (SB PCI512) (Ted Kokenos)
ATI Rage Fury and Linux ("Keith")
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Johan Kullstam)
XFree86-3.3.6 and S3Trio3D - stopped working :-o (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Re: ATI Rage Fury and Linux (J Bland)
Re: 3c509 driver sources (LhD Administrator)
Re: SMP / Adaptec 2940 problems (LhD Administrator)
Re: Difference between Server and Workstation Motherboard Configration (LhD
Administrator)
Re: Sound card problem (LhD Administrator)
Re: Please help (LhD Administrator)
x-window configuration problem w/RH 6.1 (r miller)
Motherboard Configuration (Vivek Gupta)
x-window configuration problem w/RH 6.1 (r miller)
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KPPP
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:31:03 -0500
> Sorry for the third time. But I spent the money to
eliminate the use of
> windows, and all I was able to do was install a linux os, Caldera 2.3, on my
> Compaq Presario. Amazingly Caldera 2.3 was the first linux os out four. The
> first three didn't recognize my video card. Caldera found it great.
> However now that I am able to use a linux os on my box, I can't get
> online with it. I have no clue if my modem is even compatable. Compatablity
> lists don't help, as my modem seems to elude these lists. I have heard that
> Winmodems don't work with linux. But I don't even know if I have a Winmodem.
> Now for the modem questions...
> 1:How do I setup a Rockwell HCF 56k Data Fax PCI Modem that is on COM2,
> Interrupt 11, Address 2F8, Max Speed 115200, Dail bits 8, with Parity, Stop
> bits 1 that ,waits for dial tone, cancels after 60 secs, uses FIFO buffer
> 16550 UART, recieve buffer14, transmitt buffer 16, uses error , compress
> data uses flow control, hardware RTS/CTS
>
You can't, it's a winmodem. Any DSP modem will work, i'd
recommend a external modem.
> 2:What is the Caldera equivilent of the above settings in windows?
> 3:Why do I get no modem, modem is busy messages when trying to find my
> modem?
> 4:When I think I have found my modem, why does it start by saying
> Initializing and then nothing happens?
> 5:Is there a better type of modem to have if this modem continues to not
> work with linux? I hate to have spent money not to be able to use linux
> online.
Non winmodem. External is the best.
> 6:If this problem is solved by someone, would they be interested in
> telling me if my Compaq IJ700 printer will work with linux? I have no clue
> how to setup a printer at all.
The only data I can find on the IJ700 is that Lexmark made
it and this refrence book is suspious. You could check the
ghostscript web pages.
> :o)
>
> All help is great help even if the goal is not met.
> Help is good by the nature of it.
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Bill B. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem and sound card installation
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:30:12 GMT
I'm afraid that you have a winmodem, which cant be run under linux, youre
gonna need to buy a new ISA modem. As for the sound card i cant help ya
there.
Bill
Fernando Marques Figueira Filho wrote:
>
>
> Hi all :)
>
> My Red Hat 6.1 didn't find my modem (a US Robotics 56K x2) and my sound
card
> (Opti is the name). I have the drivers to install them in Windows. This
> drivers can work under linux?! How?!
>
> Thanx
>
>
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From: "plato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modems and linux...
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:37:25 +0200
thanks a lot..i'll look for one
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giuseppe)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Trouble with RAID controller
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:33:17 +0100
Written by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>> 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...
>
>/dev/sdb does not exist? Strange...
U may "force" it if it's not recognized ad boot time, but I believe this
isn't the point.
type echo "scsi add-single-device x y z t" subst'ing letters with controller
channel id lun of the peripheal.
What cat /proc/scsi/scsi says?
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From: "David Alia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI card not detected anymore ??
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:47:01 +0100
Hi !
This is very strange. When I installed Redhat 6.1, it detected my Adaptec
2940UW SCSI card. There are two CDROMs and one hard drive on it. Everything
worked fine until yesterday i saw this message : scsi : 0 hosts (and redhat
"checking new hardware" warned me my CDROMs and my hard disk weren't
found...)
Although, under windoz 98 it works fine !
Does anybody know why it is not detected anymore ?
PS : There was a message once, that said that I use the autotermination
function. But it worked fine still...
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From: Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel and IDE-SCSI support problems
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 21:37:29 GMT
I have compiled my kernel (2.2.14), which came with Mandrake 7.0, for
generic scsi support and it still does not use generic-scsi by default
for my CD drives. I still have to add the line 'append="hdd=ide-scsi"'
to my lilo.conf file. I did the following :
make menuconfig
make bzImage
make install
I have one CD-ROM drive and one CD-RW drive. I would like to use scsi
emulation for both of them. On start-up they are recognised as ATAPI
devices.
I have checked the cd-rom how-to, but it doesn't seem to apply to
the new kernels.
Any idea as to what I should be doing?
Andre
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From: "Die Fietzos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Writer IDE ???
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:53:49 +0100
My problem : I enable the scsi-support , i can mount my
CD writer(ide) as an scsi-writer. But i can`t mount an
empty cd-r , an error message appears (too may mounted
systems, cd is writeprotected....)
CD-toast show my Ricoh writer on scsi 8 times,
the ide port shows hda,hdb and hdc(my writer).
How can i burn ????
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509 driver sources
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:06:22 -0500
> Hi,
>
> Where is it possible to find the source code for linux driver for 3Com
> 3c509 nic ?
>
> cheers,
> Seb
>
The source should be in your linux directory under
drivers/net and should be called 3c509.c
-Clyde
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From: Ted Kokenos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How i got my SBLive working in Linux (SB PCI512)
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:30:05 GMT
Paxus wrote:
>
>
> Ok, I know lots of you have had this problem, so I'll tell you what
worked
> for me. First of all, I'm using SuSE 6.1 with kernel 2.2.14. I have an SB
> PCI512 which, while not an SBLive, uses the SAME driver.
> Now, I got the opensource driver emu10k1-20000212.tar.gz and
decompressed. I
> edited the Makefile to take out SMP support as well as module version
> support (when I recompiled my kernel, I took out module version support.)
> After editing the Makefile, it compiled fine. I didn't do the "make
install"
> like they suggested, because I've been having a problem with this for
days,
> and decided to go about it manually. I also checked to make sure there
> weren't any other copies of emu10k1.o floating around on my disk (sounds
> stupid, but ...). After copying the emu10k1.0 file to my modules
directory,
> I unloaded all sound related modules (soundcore), deleted all references
to
> a sound module in conf.modules (I think in RedHat it's modules.conf,
doesn't
> matter, it reads either), and added the 'alias char-major-14 emu10k1'
line
> in.
> After that, running 'depmod -a', and finally 'modprobe emu10k1' , it
worked!
>
> (Keep in mind that since this is the opensource driver, it doesn't matter
> which version of the kernel you're running. Just look while it's
compiling
> and make sure it reads the correct one.)
>
> Hope this helps SOMEONE.
>
>
Thanks for the info ....
I'm still trying to get SUSE 6.1 installed properly. It doesn't seem to
like my CD drive and I can't get past CD number two. I wanted to install
a sound card and the information may help me before purchasing one.
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From: "Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Rage Fury and Linux
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:50:52 GMT
Does the follwing mean that the Rage Fury is supported under Linux now. It
is an excerpt from the XFree86 4.0.
www.xfree86.org
6. ATI
3.3.6:
Accelerated support is provided for the Mach8 chips (by the XF86_Mach8
server), Mach32 chips (by the XF86_Mach32 server), the following Mach64 and
Rage chips: GX, CX, CT, ET, VT, VT3, GT, RageII+DVD, RagePro (GB, GD, GI,
FP, GQ), VT4, Rage IIC (GV, GW, GZ), Rage LT Pro (LD, LB, LI, LP), Rage LT,
Rage XL or XC (GL, GM, GN, GO, GR, GS) and Rage Mobility (LM, LN, LR, LS)
(by the XF86_Mach64 server). Unaccelerated support is provided for most of
the above (except some early Mach8 and Mach32 adapters), as well the old
VGAWonder series chipsets (18800, 18800-1, 28800-2, 28800-4, 28800-5,
28800-6) by the XF86_SVGA server with the ati driver. Accelerated support is
provided for the Rage 128 chips by the XF86_SVGA server with the r128
driver.
4.0:
Accelerated support is provided for the Rage 128 chips by the "r128" driver.
Unaccelerated support is provided for all of the others except the Mach8 and
some early Mach32 chips by the "ati" driver.
Summary:
All chips supported in 3.3.6 are supported in 4.0 except for Mach8 and some
old Mach32 chips. The support in 4.0 is, however, unaccelerated for all
chips except the Rage 128.
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Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:01:23 GMT
Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams) writes:
> >
> > > On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 12:34:33, "Wayne Monteath"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > COM2 uses IRQ3.
> > > > COM1 uses IRQ4
> > > >
> > > > IRQ3 gets serviced (has a higher priority) before IRQ4.
> > >
> > > This is backwards (which is why COM1 is on IRQ4 by default), but
> > > it doesn't matter in any case.
> >
> > if you care, irqtune can rearrange the priorities.
> What kind of data rates are we talking about, and what processor speed?
> If it is a 486 or higher I can't imagine that a 56kbit data rate would
> have any impact.
from the irqtune docs, it's not the other serial port that matters.
it's stuff like your hard drive grabbing the interrupt and holding it
for a long time. hard drives haven't sped up as much as cpus and now
their buffers are bigger. i would guess that a hard disk interrupt
could still be a long one. if your hard drive interrupt has higher
priority it would block the serial interrupts. it could be long
enough for a serial port uart buffer to blow out and start losing
data.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Subject: XFree86-3.3.6 and S3Trio3D - stopped working :-o
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:10:58 GMT
I don't understand what happened. S3Trio3D works good with XFree86-3.3.5
and XFree86-3.3.6. Now I installed Mandrake-7.0.2 with XFree86-3.3.6
and can't configure X. Everytime I try to run X monitor turn off. But
"modeline" is good (it works with svgalib, and it's from XFree86 documentation
about Trio3D)! HorizSync and VertSync is good too.. XServer is correct (SVGA).
What can be wrong?
PS. I only configured X with framebuffer, it's slow :-(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury and Linux
Date: 13 Mar 2000 23:07:17 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 22:50:52 GMT, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does the follwing mean that the Rage Fury is supported under Linux now. It
>is an excerpt from the XFree86 4.0.
>www.xfree86.org
>
[snipped list of chips]
Basically yes. The one that has only just been supported is the ATi Rage128,
but the older 3d Rage Pro, Rage LT Pro, Rage IIc etc etc have been supported
by the SVGA, mach32/64 drivers for quite a while.
JB
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509 driver sources
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:36:31 GMT
Sebastien Guillemin wrote:
> Where is it possible to find the source code for linux driver for 3Com
> 3c509 nic ?
See:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?87
and
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c509.c
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP / Adaptec 2940 problems
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:34:01 GMT
Chris J/#6 wrote:
> In a similar vien, I've had my Yamaha 4416S lock up with an Adpatec
> 2940AU,
The 4416S (http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?379)
gets very high marks, surprised to hear you are having trouble.
> And, more in tune with the above problem from Dimitri, a Yamaha 8424S
> gave problems until we disabled parity checking in the Adaptec BIOS.
Interesting workaround -- maybe you should rate this one:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?673
As for Adaptec 2940xx, the recent drivers all seem to work well for most
people, SMP or UP.
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Difference between Server and Workstation Motherboard Configration
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:35:54 GMT
Vivek Gupta wrote:
> I want to built my own PC and install Linux on it. I have a DSL
> connection. I want to host some nameserver, webserver etc..
> I went to market to buy motherboard. There are lotz of motherboard with
Provided you stay away from the *bad* ones (and there are a few), you
should be fine. What you are describing is fairly light use, not something
that would require a $500 multi-processor ECC/RAMBUS powerhouse of a
motherboard. The more expensive versions also often include SCSI onboard,
and you mentioned that you already have a good SCSI adapter.
You may want to visit LhD to read what others have said, but keep in mind
that there shouldn't be any reason to get a really expensive motherboard
for your needs.
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card problem
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:36:58 GMT
joseph1 wrote:
> i just install slakware with KDE on my PC but there is no sound, could
> some one give me a solution to configure my sound card (Soundblaster
> PCI), i can't find a config program like linuxconf from redhat to solve
Which SoundBlaster PCI? :-)
Try http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=sound
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:36:46 GMT
Buchacher wrote:
> My mouse doesn't react neither with gpm nor in X-Window
This may seem stupid, but it *does* work normally (on another machine or
in MS Windows), right?
Do you get any interrupts in /proc/interrupts from it?
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From: r miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: x-window configuration problem w/RH 6.1
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 23:59:43 GMT
I have installed it but i can not get X to start. It is pretty useless.
I have the the exact same problem. Is there a way to manually select a
generic video card during the install as a temp solution.
My Hardware: Celeron 333a slot 1, Abit BX6 rev2.0, ATI RageFury 32mb,
Viewsonic A70 monitor, Digital Research 40X CD-ROM, OEM LiveValue, Quantum
6.4 EX Gb, 64mb PC-100 SDRAM generic, 3Com PCI FAX Modem #5610
What can i do? Will using Mandrake Linux 7.0 solve this problem? I am a
newbie
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> I installed linux redhat 5.2 on a pc : amd k7 500, 128 Mo, ATI Fury 32 Mo,
> smile 17"
> but i can't use x-window (the program doesn't launch and i have a black
> screen)
> i think it's a compatibility problem with my video card (i 'm not sure).
> how can i solve this problem ???!
> thanks
>
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From: Vivek Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Motherboard Configuration
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:50:23 -0800
Hi,
I want to built my own PC. I am not sure what are the features we
should look in motherboard for Server. In market motherboard ranges from
$80 to $500 which support Pentium III 500 Mhz/133Mhz.
I will be hosting a Website/Nameserver/MailServer.
Please tell me What we should look in a motherboard ?
Regards,
Thanks in advance,
Vivek
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From: r miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: x-window configuration problem w/RH 6.1
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:08:46 GMT
Linux Newbie
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot configure X during install. I have installed it but i can not get X to
start. It is pretty useless. I have the the exact same problem. Is there a way
to manually select a generic video card during the install as a temp solution.
> My Hardware: Celeron 333a slot 1, Abit BX6 rev2.0, ATI RageFury 32mb,
> Viewsonic A70 monitor, Digital Research 40X CD-ROM, OEM LiveValue, Quantum
> 6.4 EX Gb, 64mb PC-100 SDRAM generic, 3Com PCI FAX Modem #5610
>
> What can i do? Will using Mandrake Linux 7.0 or Caldera solve this problem?
> I am a newbie and this is my first time. I am sure there is something to
> download, but i need full funtionality.
>
Thanks
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