Linux-Hardware Digest #489, Volume #12 Thu, 16 Mar 00 07:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Problem with Adaptec AHA-2940UW (kernel panic) ("Nathan Appleton")
comtrol RocketPort PCI ("���ؿ�")
Re: Nikon LS20 ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Ricoh CD-R/RW mp7060s ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: comtrol RocketPort PCI ("���ؿ�")
RedHat 6.1 on Compaq Armada E500 Notebook (Bernd Nies)
Re: Memory question ("Janice Paquette")
Re: Geforce instalation under Linux (Mandrake 6.5) ("Jason Byrne")
Re: UDMA66 & OpenLinux (Chuan-kai Lin)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Snoeij JM)
Re: Big Harddisk for Linux... (Snoeij JM)
Re: 20G hdd (Snoeij JM)
HELP: FastTrak66 under Linux - HowTo? ("Andreas Loewe")
Dell Latitude CSx / SuSE --> ?? SOUND ?? (Christian Bohn)
Probs Installing Redhat 6.1 to Sun SParc IPX (Tandem&Unisys Utility)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Simon Brooke)
Soundblaster PCI 128 Midi / Suse 6.3. ("E")
Re: Dell Latitude CSx / SuSE --> ?? SOUND ?? (Axel Hein)
Linux wth USB-ISDN!! ("KKP")
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec AHA-2940UW (kernel panic)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:17:01 -0800
You might want to have a look at:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?9
Some of the user reports may be helpful.
Good luck.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8al0u4$d2l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, All
>
> I have a problem with SCSI controller Adaptec AHA-2940UW.
> Box with this card fine work under dos, win95, NT and FreeBSD too.
> ( system: PII-450, m/b Gigabyte, subj and 2 x Seagate ST34820 )
>
> Next time, I'm need to set up linux there ( RedHat 6.0 w/k 2.2.14 )
> Well. Linux installing, module aic7xxx.o detected card AHA-2940W/UW
> and trouble follow:
>
> SCSI host:1
> sequencer ram parity error
> Kernel panic
> :(((
>
> Have ideas?
>
> Pleas, send reply to my email too
>
> With best wishes
> Radik Chereshnia EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "���ؿ�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: comtrol RocketPort PCI
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:18:38 +0900
Hi.
Has anybody managed to get the above card (comtrol RocketPort PCI) working
under Linux?
I think it somewhat work well, but some problems remain that I will explain
below.
We are developing Embeded OS, so using serial to upload OS boot image from
linux to other platform(ex, SA1100).
We usually set baud rate 1152000, from PC serial (Linux RedHat 6.0 kernel is
2.2.14 upgraded) to target board(SA1100). When I set the baud rate with
'setrocket ' like 'setrocket /dev/ttyR0 spd_vhi(115200bps), serial
communication failed. Crashed characters could be seen on screeen when
debugging. some error returned like EFAULT(definded in
/usr/include/asm/errorno.h) which indicate "bad address")
Is it because of remapping ability in RocketPort ? (please refer the README
file below)
=========================================
README
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
==============
For backward compatibility with the conventional serial driver, and
previous versions of the Comtrol RocketPort/RocketModem, the driver
supports the remapping of 38400 baud to either 57600, 115200, 230400
or 460800 baud. If you are using external modems attached to a
Rocketport Card, note that not all modems support speeds faster than
115200 baud --- check your modem manual for more details.
In addition, "setrocket" can be used to remap 38400 baud to 460800
baud.
If your system has a recent shared libc installed *and* your
communication programs have been recompiled to take advantage of the
higher baud rates, then you may not need to use the remapping option.
However, the use of 460800 baud will still require the remapping
option until the appropriate changes can be propagated into the
kernel, libc, and communication programs so as to support this speed
directly.
=========================================
Any of baud rate could not be done successfully.(But direct connection of
two PC(between Hyperterminal(win2k) and minicom(linux)) succeeded)
How can I do?
What should I check?
Thanks in advance
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nikon LS20
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:20:38 -0800
You might want to have a look at this site:
http://www.mostang.com/sane/intro.html
SANE stands for "Scanner Access Now Easy" and is an application programming
interface (API) that provides standardized access to any raster image
scanner hardware (flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video- and
still-cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.).
"Roger Sach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8am7gm$dr4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know the where abouts of a good non commercial LINUX driver
for
> this very good scanner???
>
> TIA
>
> Roger
>
>
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ricoh CD-R/RW mp7060s
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 00:23:53 -0800
The 7060s got pretty good ratings at linhardware.com.
See: http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?709
"Michael" <michael!nospam!(at)pldi.net> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am considering purchasing this for a system using windows and linux.
If
> anyone has had any experience at all with it I would appreciate your
input.
> Michael
>
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From: "���ؿ�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: comtrol RocketPort PCI
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 17:23:21 +0900
"���ؿ�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8aq5fo$735$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.
> Has anybody managed to get the above card (comtrol RocketPort PCI) working
> under Linux?
>
> I think it somewhat work well, but some problems remain that I will
explain
> below.
>
> We are developing Embeded OS, so using serial to upload OS boot image from
> linux to other platform(ex, SA1100).
>
> We usually set baud rate 1152000, from PC serial (Linux RedHat 6.0 kernel
is
> 2.2.14 upgraded) to target board(SA1100). When I set the baud rate with
> 'setrocket ' like 'setrocket /dev/ttyR0 spd_vhi(115200bps), serial
> communication failed. Crashed characters could be seen on screeen when
> debugging. some error returned like EFAULT(definded in
> /usr/include/asm/errorno.h) which indicate "bad address")
>
> Is it because of remapping ability in RocketPort ? (please refer the
README
> file below)
> -----------------------------------------
> README
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> COMPATIBILITY ISSUES
> --------------
> For backward compatibility with the conventional serial driver, and
> previous versions of the Comtrol RocketPort/RocketModem, the driver
> supports the remapping of 38400 baud to either 57600, 115200, 230400
> or 460800 baud. If you are using external modems attached to a
> Rocketport Card, note that not all modems support speeds faster than
> 115200 baud --- check your modem manual for more details.
> In addition, "setrocket" can be used to remap 38400 baud to 460800
> baud.
> If your system has a recent shared libc installed *and* your
> communication programs have been recompiled to take advantage of the
> higher baud rates, then you may not need to use the remapping option.
> However, the use of 460800 baud will still require the remapping
> option until the appropriate changes can be propagated into the
> kernel, libc, and communication programs so as to support this speed
> directly.
> -----------------------------------------
> Any of baud rate could not be done successfully.(But direct connection of
> two PC(between Hyperterminal(win2k) and minicom(linux)) succeeded)
>
> How can I do?
> What should I check?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Bernd Nies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.1 on Compaq Armada E500 Notebook
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:30:29 +0100
Hi,
Did someone have success to get RedHat 6.1 working on a
Compaq Armada E500 Notebook? I'm having problems with the
graphics card (no suitable graphics mode) and network interface
(Compaq Netelligent 10/100 PC card). Autonegotation failed. It
uses 10 Mbps instead of 100 Mbps.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bernd
--
_ _ ___ ___
| || / __| _ \ Bernd Nies, System Engineer
| __ \__ \ / HSR Hochschule, Oberseestr.10, CH-8640 Rapperswil
|_||_|___/_|_\ +41-55-2224984, www.hsr.ch, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "Janice Paquette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Janice Paquette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: Memory question
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:03:19 GMT
.
> >
> > So whats happen if I got CPU running at 133MHz bus
> > eg. 667/133 but a PC100 64MB DIMM.
> > Will I have an issue?
>
> Everything will be overclocked by 2x. The PCI bus will be at 66Mhz
instead
> of 33. The AGP at 133 instead of 66. The chipset at 133 instead of 100
> (may not be that bad) which means the IDE controller also and HDDs.
> How many of your devices do you imagine can do this? I'll bet the HDDs
will
> be the first to cause big trouble, probably have to lower to PIO mode 4 or
> lower.
> You'll have all kind of issues!
All depends on the hardware.. good harware will tolerate a 133 MHz bus. In
fact, Via's new chipset natively supports it. If you want to overclock, all
of the issues brought up are somewhat valid. But not everything will be
OC'd at 2x.
The PCI bus will run at 1/3(133) = 44.3 MHz (11 Mhz out of spec)
The AGP bus (assuming you don't have a nifty MoBo that has a 1/2 AGP
divider) will be: 2/3(133) = 88.6 MHz (22 Mhz out of spec)
and the chipset, as mentioned at 133 (33 Mhz out of spec, assuming it's not
a native 133 board).
Couple notes to make: Hard Drives are part of the PCI bus.
Memory is part of the System (or Front) bus.
So, PC100 ram will be running 33% out of spec. Do you know what rating the
chips are in it? PC133 ram is rated at 7.5 ns. The rating for your ram is
what it's guaranteed to run at. 8ns ram readily overclocks to a 133 MHz FSB
(Fronst side bus, the main system bus)
And if you're using older hard drives, you might have to take it down to pio
4, but that's a rare case, if you use good and tested hardware.
Remember, every element of your system has to hold to these new standards
for it to work properly.. the system is as strong as it's weakest link.
Hope this helps!
--Dan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Geforce instalation under Linux (Mandrake 6.5)
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:13:51 -0800
did you try 'everything' to set it up yet? (xf86config is probably the
safest - in terms of not locking up your machine - if you know all your
hardware specs)
You might also have XF86Setup... and I guess 'Xconfigurator' if Mandrake is
very similar to RedHat.
Also... I don't know which version of XFree86 Mandrake 6.5 is shipped
with... but you should upgrade to XFree86-3.3.6 if you don't already have
it.
finally... check /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc for tips on configuring your card
Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I am trying to set up a duel boot system on my computer, however, my linux
> does not recognise my Asus AGP-V66000 Geforce 256 graphics card. The
> screen goes black with a couple of lines across it. How can I configure it
> so that it will work?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: Chuan-kai Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA66 & OpenLinux
Date: 16 Mar 2000 09:36:30 GMT
Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> able to install anyway. I don't see how Linux can
> install to a hard drive without the driver when NT
> doesn't even recognize it unless you load the
> Promise(in my case) Ultra66 Dma NT driver.
> It doesn't make sense.
Yes, it does make sense. You cannot do so with NT because your options
with NT are limited, but with Linux there are actually a few tricks you
may wish to try.
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/
-- Chuan-kai Lin
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From: Snoeij JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:42:29 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Matthew Malthouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: : In article <894lsv$2cl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. Newport) wrote:
: : Eek! I've had to use them from the days when they were the only option for
: : Suns and I HATE them, truely and utterly detest. The wipe clean notion
: : would be fine if they worked in any reasonable manner even when pristine.
: I've never understood this. I've used both types of mice for years and
: I love the optical mice and hate the roller mice. Rollers clog up and
: need cleaning or just plain stop working. Optical mice always work just
: perfect.
The nastiest thing of an optical mouse is that ik rolls much harder.
Esspecialy when the mouse pad is dirty, this is bad for my RSI :(
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From: Snoeij JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Big Harddisk for Linux...
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:52:04 GMT
Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:23:39 GMT, Snoeij JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: wrote:
:>I'm using a big 13 GB harddisk for Linux (and a minor part for W?ndow$)
:>when i try to mount the third partition af my drive, Linux returnes an
:>error does linux support big drives??
:>
:>I'm getting the following
:>
:>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
:> or too many mounted file systems
: 'wrong fs type' sounds like a likely cause of this. What exactly type is
: it, and how are you calling mount?
It's an win partition inside an extended partition I call mount with the
type option on vfat..
But when I started fdisk, i got another shred of information. The cylinders
of my disk have exceeded 1024 (okay sure i know that!) this can be a problem
to fdisk, lilo, mount and others.. So is it possible to mount a big disk
I mean is there some kind of big disk support, or are we trying something
here what cannot be done??
Thanks,
Jeroen
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From: Snoeij JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 20G hdd
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:57:57 GMT
Michael Elizarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: NT also loaded from CD, but told me that although my disk has more than
: Now I stuck. When I boot linux from HDD, it says hda..... CHS
: 1024/255/63, what IMHO should say 2482/255/63. When I run fdisk, it says
: I have only 1024 cyls. I tried:
: 1. lilo: linux hd=255,63,2482
: 2. /etc/lilo.conf
: disk=/dev/hda
: heads=255
: cylinders=2482
: sectors=63
: 3. Append line with hd= in lilo.conf
: 4. ???
I have the same problem with my disk (13 GB) I have installed an dynamic
overlay, to overload my BIOS and tell my computer how big my disk really
is. Further more i Installed NT at the beginning, Linux prim + swap before
8GB and than some things for NT again. The last partitions of my drive I
cannot reach, and i wonder if it is supported at all...
So find a dynamic overlay for your drive that will overload your BIOS even
when using lilo, this will be done first then linux will tell you how big
your disk is, but will also tell you that it cannot quite cope with that :(
Greetz,
Jeroen
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From: "Andreas Loewe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP: FastTrak66 under Linux - HowTo?
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:02:28 +0100
Hello All,
I just installed a FastTrak66 with 2 20GB connected to it. Card BIOS detects
them and does mirroring etc. fine. The FastTrak66 is an IDE controller and
works ok under Windows.
How can I make Linux (Mandrake AIR) install on this drive instead of the
build in (ide0,1) ones?
TIA, Andreas
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
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| D-53117 Bonn Germany +49 228 734205 (Fax) |
| Institute for Inorganic Chemistry - University of Bonn |
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From: Christian Bohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Latitude CSx / SuSE --> ?? SOUND ??
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:00:49 +0100
I succeeded in installing kernel, modem etc.....
But the sound?
Did anybody already get it on this or a similar
configuration (like Latitude CP)?
Thanks very much for _any help_
Christian
--
Christian Bohn, Dept. of Rendering Techniques and Application
Institute for Media Communication http://imk.gmd.de/reta/
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From: Tandem&Unisys Utility <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Probs Installing Redhat 6.1 to Sun SParc IPX
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:24:07 +0000
We are trying to install Redhat 6.1 on a SunSparc IPX and it keeps
hanging while installing the packages.
As far as we can tell there is a core dump being produced (a file about 6.7Mb?)
Mainly it happens when installing ldconfig, but occasionallly gets a little
further
but only to 11 packages from about 300.
We're not exactly sure which model of Sun Sparc IPX it is (dates from about
1992)
docs seem to refer to "sun4c" type names etc.
We have 64Mb memory, have tried installing from floppy and CDROM,
tried various levels of install from bare minimum to fully automatic.
We've tried 2 base units, 3 cdrom drives.
No error messages.
bsh is in one screen and after hang, it pauses for a few seconds but then
responds
normally. (We assume this is while the dump file is still be written)
Any help appreciated
Cliff and Dave
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Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:33:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon) writes:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:30:13 +0000, Jonathan Buzzard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>said:
> >It would appear that Honeywell have sold the patent on to KeyTronic
> >and is avaliable as the LifeTime mouse in North America or the KT Mouse
> >in Europe. For details see
> >
> > http://www.keytronic.com/products/mouse.htm
> >
> >Unfortunately I can't find anyone in the U.K. that sells them. So far I
> >have tried Insight, SMC Direct, Dabs Direct, Watford Electronics, Simply,
> >Inmac, Action, MicroWarehouse, Global Direct, Tech Direct and
> >Software Warehouse. If anyone knows of a U.K. supplier please let me know,
> >I am would dearly love to purchase one of these mice.
>
> Did you try...
>
> http://www.keytronic-europe.com/profile/northeurope.htm
The actual page is at
<URL:http://www.keytronic-europe.com/products/mouse.htm>, but Netscape
4.x can't render it - presumably because of the missing </table>
tag. Mozilla M14 renders the page fine, and it appears to the mouse
discussed earlier in this thread. Unfortunately, you can't buy one
direct from the keytronic site, and no dealers are listed.
Does sound good though. Comes with swappable buttons, including a
proper three-button set.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundum variat.
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From: "E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster PCI 128 Midi / Suse 6.3.
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:52:26 +0100
Hello,
I have some trouble getting my Soundblaster to play some decent MIDI. Normal
sound operation is ok. The /dev/mixer is not present, so mixer software does
not work.
Has anyone managed to get SB128 working with midi?
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From: Axel Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Latitude CSx / SuSE --> ?? SOUND ??
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 12:48:09 +0100
Hi,
afaik sound support is not compiled in standard (ie pre-compiled)
kernels of the SuSE distribution, ie you have to build your own kernel
and to enter the respective data of your sound card. (see SuSE support
database, keywords 'sound' and 'kernel', or the sound-howto).
Axel
Christian Bohn wrote:
> I succeeded in installing kernel, modem etc.....
>
> But the sound?
>
> Did anybody already get it on this or a similar
> configuration (like Latitude CP)?
>
> Thanks very much for _any help_
>
> Christian
>
> --
> Christian Bohn, Dept. of Rendering Techniques and Application
> Institute for Media Communication http://imk.gmd.de/reta/
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From: "KKP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux wth USB-ISDN!!
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 11:55:24 GMT
Now heres something to chew on!
Does anyone have any comments on this?
I have this kind of equipment. Everything works now with Win98 on other
partition but it would be, oh, so nice to get it working wth Linux. My Linux
version in that new Best Linux 2000. www.bestlinux.com
emailme any comments or suggestions, or if you have any experience on the
subject?
Thanks!
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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