Linux-Hardware Digest #496, Volume #12 Fri, 17 Mar 00 06:13:04 EST
Contents:
NIC ISA PNP no worky in Compaq! (Henricus)
Re: Sound Blaster 128PCI ("Greg Fortune")
Re: sound blaster PCI 128 ("Greg Fortune")
reconpile or appende=ide-scsi for CDRW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cdrecord -scanbus ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Noisy LINUX? (Eric Wick)
minor bttv problems (Paul Brannan)
Re: Sound Blaster 128PCI ("E")
Re: linux on HP pavilion (Harris L. Gilliam)
Re: Sound Blaster 128PCI ("Steffen Jost")
Linux Serial Port Login ? ("Paul McGrath")
How to add a 2nd SCSI Hard disk in SuSE Linux 6.3 (Dave Hodson)
Re: SB PCI 128 ??model number CT4750?? ("Greg Fortune")
Xircom RBEM56G-100 ("Hook")
Micronics W6LI only fit for use as fan heater ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ATI Rage Mobility works with XFree86 4.0 (Steen Suder)
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From: Henricus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: NIC ISA PNP no worky in Compaq!
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:57:11 -0600
I can not get my Compaq Presario to recognize my NIC! I figured out how
to use the PNP software and it sees the card and when I un-remark the
appropriate lines and execute isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf I get the
following message:
Board 1 has Identity 1d 97 8f b7 8a 90 50 6d 50: TCM5090 Serial No
2542778250 [checksum 1d]
/etc/isapnp.conf:47 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating 16 bytes of
IO at 210 (see /etc/isapnp.conf)
/etc/isapnp.conf:47 -- Fatal - IO range check attempted while device
activated
/etc/isapnp.conf:47 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request
'<IORESCHECK> ' --- further action aborted
I have done this with two cards with the same error. I'm starting to
think it is the COMPAQ proprietary stuff that is holding me up. The
CMOS is so simple, but yet I feel confident that I selected the proper
settings. HELP!!!!!!
--
I am Henricus.
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From: "Greg Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 128PCI
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:46:33 -0800
Same problem here except with Mandrake 7.0. Mine simply hangs. I've got
windoze installed on the same machine now and sound works fine there. I'm
gunna try goofing around with the settings in windoze and see if I can get
the card to work correctly in Linux. Can people with SB PCI 128's post
their config info (ie IRQ) from their sound cards under here so I know what
is working on other systems, especially Mandrake or Redhat... Also, what do
I use to get Linux to print out the IRQ it is using for each device from the
command prompt?
Greg Fortune
* Unknown * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a sound blaster 128 pci sound card installed in Red hat 6.1 that
> I can't seem to make work. I tried sndconfig, and red hat recognizes my
> card and thinks it works correctly, but when it plays the test sound I
> hear nothing. Anybody have an idea?
>
> TIA
>
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From: "Greg Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound blaster PCI 128
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 21:50:07 -0800
same here... I'm still fighting with, maybe I can get it to work. :)
Greg Fortune
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I am contemplating buying a Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card
and I
> > was wondering if it is supported by linux or if someone has gotten it to
> > work with linux by special drivers.
>
> I have one I'll sell you cheap. I bought it for Linux, never could
> get the darned thing to work. The driver loaded, dmesg showed it
> detected the card, but I never could get it to do anything. Replaced
> it with an Opti card and I'm cranking on all cylinders. It worked under
> Win95, so I know it wasn't a hardware problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: reconpile or appende=ide-scsi for CDRW
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:09:56 GMT
RH 6.1 & Yamaha CDRW 4416E
don't have enough room in the /usr/src to recompile kernel to add the
needed drivers for cdw. Can I just include it in the
Linux stanza as: append=ide-scsi or do I really need to recompile
kernel? I don't have enough room for it, can anyone
help?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecord -scanbus
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 06:22:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas E. Mitton) wrote:
>
> What distribution are you using? You may not have to recompile the
> kernel at all! On Mandrake 6.1 and 7 the modules are already in place
> for the ide-scsi emulation, you just have to implement them.
>
> I'm doing this from memory but if you look in:
> /var/lib/<kernel-version>/misc and see scsi-ide.o then you are all
> set.
>
> Be warned, compiling a new kernel is NOT for the faint of heart,
> especially if you don't have an emergency boot disk, /etc/lilo.conf
> configured to to allow old/new kernel selection on boot and an
> understanding of how LILO works. If you understand this stuff then
> just keep compiling kernels, implement them and see if they do what
> you want. Its the only way to learn BUT you have to be able to undo
> what you've done so that you can get your system back to booting.
>
> Good luck!
>
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 08:25:20 -0700, "Hugh Fairfield"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >it is an ide. What would the steps I would follow to recompile the
kernel to
> >allow for scsi emulation and what would be the best way to test for
this?
> >thanks for the help,
> >
> >--
> >Hugh C. Fairfield< B. Sc.
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >(780) 903 5812
> >"Steve Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > in an attempt to run a cdwriter, I am trying to detect my
cdwriter I
> >type in
> >> > cdrecord -scanbus and I get a target not found error.
> >> > Where should I start on this?
> >>
> >> I'm using cdrecord here successfully. You don't mention, but is
your
> >> drive a SCSI or an IDE? If it's IDE, do you have SCSI emulation
> >> compiled into your kernel? If it's SCSI, perhaps there is a
termination
> >> error. SCSI is quite critical about improper terminations.
>
> ------------------------------------------------
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>
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>
Can I just edit that LiLo stanza to read:
append=ide-scsi
on RH6.1 with a yamaha cdrw 4416E?
I don't have enough space to recompile :(
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Date: 16 Mar 2000 22:4:30 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Sean Akers;
SA> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
SA> [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Unrot13 this;
>> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>
>> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Sean Akers;
>>
>> I am beginning to think this card is trouble. I ran one for 6 months,
>> no problem, then suddenly it decided to start locking the bus, and
>> thence the whole machine, requireing a hard reset and reboot to fix.
>>
>> I gave up, and threw some more money at it, getting an Advansys card
>> which seems to be a lot more intelligent, and hasn't crashed me since.
>>
SA> Gene,
SA> Which Advansys card did you get ? I am thinking of getting the ABP3925
SA> which is fairly cheap. I only want it for the tape drive, and possibly a
SA> CD-RW at a later date.
An ABP-930, which is a 'SCSI-2 ULTRA', has the old style 50 pin hidens
on the back, and a 50 pin ribbon for the internals. This thing is
supposed to be able to move 20 megs/second, but my old drives would
probably upchuck the whole lunch if they tried that. These cards are
actually a risc based interface, doing a lot of stuff the drivers don't
have to worry about. When I moved the hard drive to it so I could
remove the old adaptec card, the connector that I plugged into the drive
turned out not to be polarized, and I obeyed Murphy's Law and plugged it
in bass-ackwards. Very shortly after the memory test in post, I was
looking at a message from the card advising me the termination was
munged, would I be so kind as to double check it please?
I think I'm gonna like this card. (-:
Cheers, Gene
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email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: Eric Wick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Noisy LINUX?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:10:48 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian wrote:
> I just installed LINUX on my home PC and there is a rather loud
buzzing > or humming that I hear every time I boot up LINUX. I do not
hear this > sound when I run Windows 98. Have any of you had similar
Maybe Linux uses your HD Controller better and faster than win? Some
Boards let the frequencies in udma come out through the speaker but in
normal PIO Mode this effect wont come up.
I plugged out the speaker, now i only hear some frequencies from the hd
cabling. (VIA MVP3 and 2.2.14 Kernel, gives 14.5MB/s)
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ByeBye
Eric
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From: Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: minor bttv problems
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:15:33 -0500
I finally got the issues solved with bttv under Linux. Sound wasn't
working because I didn't specify the right mixer. The colors were all
messed up ("hot" colors showed up as green) because I was in 16-bit
mode; now that I've switched to 15-bit mode everything works fine.
But now I've got two issues left:
1) Sometimes, especially on certain channels, the image gets out of
"sync", and starts flipping horizontally, as if the hold is wrong. I've
tried changing the PLL, but to no avail (not even seeing a message in
the logs).
2) This isn't really a problem, but is still somewhat of an issue. In
Windows, when I watch the TV in a window, it comes out really smooth --
i.e., the image is antialiased. However, in Linux, the image shows up
as if it's a dumb rescale, so it looks a bit choppy unless viewed full
screen at a distance. Is there a way to enable antialiasing when the
image is scaled?
My hardware's an STB TV/PCI and a STB Velocity 128/AGP. My
conf.modules:
# Sound
alias sound es1370
# TV
alias char-major-81 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner
options tuner type=6
post-install bttv modprobe -k radio-aztech
options bttv vidmem=0xe20 pll=1 card=3
# Radio
alias radio radio-aztech
options radio-aztech io=0x350
Any ideas? TIA,
Paul Brannan
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From: "E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 128PCI
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:59:46 +0100
I have the same card with Suse 6.3; With me the sound works ok, only midi is
causing trouble.
I think your problem has to do with interrupt conflicts.
Elton
Greg Fortune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:QGjA4.60$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Same problem here except with Mandrake 7.0. Mine simply hangs. I've got
> windoze installed on the same machine now and sound works fine there. I'm
> gunna try goofing around with the settings in windoze and see if I can get
> the card to work correctly in Linux. Can people with SB PCI 128's post
> their config info (ie IRQ) from their sound cards under here so I know
what
> is working on other systems, especially Mandrake or Redhat... Also, what
do
> I use to get Linux to print out the IRQ it is using for each device from
the
> command prompt?
>
> Greg Fortune
>
> * Unknown * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a sound blaster 128 pci sound card installed in Red hat 6.1 that
> > I can't seem to make work. I tried sndconfig, and red hat recognizes my
> > card and thinks it works correctly, but when it plays the test sound I
> > hear nothing. Anybody have an idea?
> >
> > TIA
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harris L. Gilliam)
Subject: Re: linux on HP pavilion
Date: 16 Mar 2000 19:27:18 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harris L. Gilliam)
I have an HP Pavillion 8480Z and 6.1 installed okay. Most propably
you have the Riptide modem/sound card combo which unfortunately isn't
a real modem or Soundblaster Compatible soundcard. Its a Winmodem,
which means it uses a Windoze driver and the processor to work, and
the SB compatibility is done in software as well. Get yourself a real
modem and a real soundcard. There are many to choose from... I use an
external Motorola 33.6 ModemSURFER and a Soundblaster Live PCI512.
Both work very well. Exactly what problems are you having with the
install ?
---Harris
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From: "Steffen Jost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 128PCI
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 10:02:30 +0100
Hi!
I�m using SuSE 6.2 with kernel 2.2.10, but maybe it�s not so different from
your distribution/setup...
SB128PCI has irq 10 and i/o 0xec00, with the drivers compiled into kernel. I
had some problems getting it to work under Win98, because the delivered
drivers for my Via vpx/vp pro chipset had problems with mapping pci irqs
correctly. In my linux setup there was pci quirks already enabled, so the
problem didn�t show up with linux at all. Maybe this causes some problems,
check your chipset on the motherboard.
Check the directory /proc, with cat <filename> you can get info on the
appropriate issue, e.g. pci, irq, dma( I don�t know the exact file names,
I�m posting from under Win), it prints the configuration. Maybe this helps
you to find the problems.
Sb 128pci won�t play midi directly, it has no chip on board to do this , you
will need to
get some program to do this for you, like timidity. But I haven�t tried this
myself yet...
Hope I could help
Steffen
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From: "Paul McGrath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Serial Port Login ?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:18:55 -0000
I'm running SuSe Linux 6.3 on a Compaq server. I need to be able to login
via the serial port. The idea being to connnect a laptop to the back with
appropraite coms software to get a login promt via this serial connection.
I have tried /sbin/agetty 9600 ttyS1 , and /sbin/agetty -L 9600 ttyS1 vt100
without any sucess. Am I on the right lines. Any help would be appreciated
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best wishes
Paul
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From: Dave Hodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to add a 2nd SCSI Hard disk in SuSE Linux 6.3
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 09:27:06 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have tried this twice now and only managed to completely mess up Linux
requiring me to reinstall everything! Can somebody please post an idiots
guide (ie step by step) to adding an extra SCSI hard disk to Linux (the
hardware is installed and working). How do I mount it and where? I want
to use it for programs so how do I get YAST to use it to install
software to?
Thanks in advance......
Dave Hodson
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From: "Greg Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB PCI 128 ??model number CT4750??
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 02:03:39 -0800
Thnxs those who have posted help so far. I'm still playing with the IRQ's
and no luck but now I'm seriously questioning the chipset. I took a
physical look at the card today and noticed it's not an ES1371 like I
expected it to be. Don't get me wrong, it is an SB PCI 128, but it looks as
if they may have changed their chip set from the ensoniq batch. The model
listed on the card is CT4750. Two things strike me as strange... 1. CT
looks a lot like CreaTive implying that they may have changed the chip set.
2. I looked on their web site and found some info on the CT4700 which is
listed as a card distinct from the ES1370 and ES1371. It also makes me
wonder that mine is maybe only weeks out of the factory and, as of yet, has
not been encountered by enough users. Is there anyone with a model CT4750
card in their Linux box that is working?
Greg
<snip> <snip> .... Discussion so far has been about unexplained hangs while
trying to get sndconfig to play the test sound file on a Sound Blaster PCI
128.
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From: "Hook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xircom RBEM56G-100
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:06:51 -0000
Help me please.
Can anyone please tell me were I can find the driver for the Xircom
RBEM56G-100 for linux .
Pleeeeeaaaassseeee
Thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Micronics W6LI only fit for use as fan heater
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:25:28 GMT
Has anybody had any success with this board? For what it cost, I would
have hoped that it would work well with Linux, but this does not appear
to be the case. I can only run a UP kernel - SMP kernels loop endlessly
resetting the SCSI bus during the SCSI bus probe.
The W6LI has an on-board Adaptec AIC-7880 and uses the aic7xxx driver.
I have tried the following kernels:
2.2.5-15 RH 6.0 default install works fine
2.2.5-15smp RH 6.0 rpm SCSI Reset loop
2.2.10 Home build SCSI Reset loop
2.2.13 Home build SCSI Reset loop
Can anyone help or do I have to stick to using only one of the
processors whilst the other heats the room?
Cheers,
T.
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From: Steen Suder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.X,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: ATI Rage Mobility works with XFree86 4.0
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:55:05 +0100
Earlier, I've brought up the question on how to make X work with the ATI
Rage Mobility chipset.
This chipset sits in my Compaq Armada V300 among others.
I've only made the chipset work with the 3.3.6 SVGA server, which is
very slow.
Happily, it works very fine with the ati module of XFree86 4.0.
Just set it up with XFree86 3.3.6 or the like and compile the whole
thing without any mods to the site.defs file. Then make install and
install.man and use xf86config to make a basic XF86Config file. Now
you're up and running. It worked for me at least.
Tested with:
Compaq Armada V300 w/ ATI Rage Mobility 2xAGP
Mandrake 7.0 (and 7.0-2 ;-)
Linux 2.2.14
XFree86 4.0 source distribution
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