Linux-Hardware Digest #501, Volume #12 Fri, 17 Mar 00 22:13:14 EST
Contents:
blank screen (newbie) (Arthur H Plotnik)
Xfree86 4.0 works well on ASUS SP97-V (SiS 5597/5598). (Pat Sojay)
ATA66 on new micron millenia (Elliot Yan)
Re: ATA66 on new micron millenia (Hal Burgiss)
Re: patch for LITEON cdrom? (TheGolem)
Respawning too fast - modem problem (Luiz Antonio)
Re: ABIT BP6 [was: Re: SMP / Adaptec 2940 problems] (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Kenneth Crudup)
[booting] no prompt (Junghwa)
caldera and glowing mouse ("steve greedy")
Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT (Kenneth Crudup)
Aha152x install problem
Mousewheel with XFree86 6.4 (^Vigil^)
Problem with Lucent WaveLan/IEEE ISA ("Anthony Hinsinger")
bios/partitioning problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Serial Port Login ? (Luiz Antonio)
Re: minicom can't find /dev/modem (Steve Martin)
Re: caldera and glowing mouse (Rod Smith)
xf98 vs xf86...config ("Lew Schwartz")
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From: Arthur H Plotnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: blank screen (newbie)
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:44:26 -0500
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I installed Corel linux so that it will boot from DOS, in a Win98 environment.
When I rebooted, through DOS, a preliminary screen started Linux, and then
everything went blank.
<p>From my Win98 experience I assume that this means my graphics card and/or
my monitor are not recognized by Linux.
<p>1. Where can I find a list of hardware compatible with Linux?
<br>2. If I need new drivers, how do I go about getting them and what is
the installation procedure.
<p>I have an AMD-350 based computer with a Voodoo2 graphics card (AGP,
I believe). My monitor is a Sony Multiscan 100 sx. Would a PCI graphics
card solve my problem?
<p>Thanks for any help you can provide.
<p><a href="[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Art.</a></html>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x
Subject: Xfree86 4.0 works well on ASUS SP97-V (SiS 5597/5598).
From: Pat Sojay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Mar 2000 16:01:52 -0800
For the record (and people searching archives like at deja.com):
XFree86 4.0 runs fine on my ASUS SP97-V (SiS 5597/5598) (Cyrix 6x86MX)
after I built it from the two tar files. (Took 3 hours with PR233 CPU).
I did this on a Red Hat 6.1. I let XF86 create a completely new
/etc/X11 and a new /usr/X11, leaving Red Hat's /usr/X11R6 until I'm
ready to delete it. A few things to mess with like "ldconfig", but
no problems to speak of.
I've havn't been able to use with XF86 > 3.3.3.1, but I've read
>= 3.3.3.6 works. 4.0 was very noisy until I used FastVram option
which caused X to work much better that it ever has on this MB.
No more intermittent pauses during big window rewrites in Netscape!
I use 1152x864 at about 70Hz on a fairly good 15" montitor.
I noticed "xboing" hardly uses any CPU where it used to use all
it could get. (Unfortunately, paddle movement is still glitchy.)
Here's the key parts of XF86Config (which I edited after creating
with 4.0's "XFree86 -configure"):
Section "Device"
Identifier "SiS 5597" ## Required entry.
Driver "sis" ## Required entry.
Option "TurboQueue" "On" ## This might cause dropouts in some situations.
Haven't noticed ANY effect.
Option "FastVram" ## This fixed noisy, slow 4.0 X server.
EndSection
Also: This MB had a crummy flat cable for video from MB to back-of-box
connector. Wrapping this with several layers of aluminum foil and
electrical tape removed the considerable fuzziness that existed before.
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From: Elliot Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA66 on new micron millenia
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:14:08 GMT
Hi all
I just bought a millenia from micronpc with VIA Technologies VT
82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6) chip set and WDC WD205BA which is an ATA 66
drive. (733MHz with 133Mhz system bus)
I have installed latest patch with kernel 2.2.15-pre14 along with UDMA
patch. But DMA or UDMA is not turned on by the kernel even I forced it on by configure
the kernel src or use hdparm. However UDMA is on for my CDROM and
CDRW. Note that CDROM and CDRW are in ATA33 and disk is in ATA66. So
I just wonder is it my hardware, the kernel ? would 2.3.xx help ??
I am using PIO right now and it is getting annoying!
I use RH6.1
Thanks in advance!
- Elliot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ATA66 on new micron millenia
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:20:49 GMT
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:14:08 GMT, Elliot Yan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just bought a millenia from micronpc with VIA Technologies VT 82C586
>Apollo IDE (rev 6) chip set and WDC WD205BA which is an ATA 66 drive.
>(733MHz with 133Mhz system bus)
>
>I have installed latest patch with kernel 2.2.15-pre14 along with UDMA
>patch. But DMA or UDMA is not turned on by the kernel even I forced it
>on by configure the kernel src or use hdparm. However UDMA is on for
>my CDROM and CDRW. Note that CDROM and CDRW are in ATA33 and disk is
>in ATA66. So I just wonder is it my hardware, the kernel ? would
>2.3.xx help ??
I went thru something like this with an IBM ATA66. Drove me nuts.
2.2.15pre+ide patch. I had to try 4-5 kernel configs before I finally
got a workable setup. Not sure which one did the trick, but eventually
it did work.
>I am using PIO right now and it is getting annoying!
I bet.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
From: TheGolem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: patch for LITEON cdrom?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:23:28 GMT
What do you mean by incompatible? Is it bootable? If not you can change
the bios to make it bootable, or make a boot disk by formating a disk,
going to DOS and then cd d: or whatever your cdrom drive is and do a
cd \dosutils and type rawrite, which will make a bootable in your a:
drive.
TheGolem
http://pnews.org/
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, GJ wrote:
> Hi
> I want to install redhat 6.0 on a compaq that has an incompatible cdrom
> (Liteon). Is there any way around this problem? It is running win98.
> Thanks for the help
>
>
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From: Luiz Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Respawning too fast - modem problem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:17:22 -0800
I'm almost sure that my messages are not being delivered to
the group for some reason. This time I'm using altavista
instead of outlook xpress. If I'm wrong, pls forgive my
impatience. Here it goes again ...
Hi everybody,
I am installing (in fact trying to install) a *new* USR pci
modem in my
*new* computer using my *old* RH5.2 and want to use mgetty
to answer
incomming calls. It was working before when I had
everything old.
It seems that irq (using 4) and port (ttyS0) are ok and as
desired (I forced
them using the bios setup); setserial /dev/ttyS0 is
reporting irq 4, port
0x3f8 but uart is unknown.
cat /proc/pci reports medium devsel IRQ4; IO at 0xddf0,
which is not the
desired one.
Every 5 minutes INIT sends the message "Id s0 respawning
too fast: disabled
for 5 minutes".
What is causing this? IRQ4 flood? If so, why? Wrong modem
setup?
Incompatible modem?
That is nothing even similar to this message in the mgetty
& modem how-tos.
I appreciate any help.
tks,
luiz antonio
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Subject: Re: ABIT BP6 [was: Re: SMP / Adaptec 2940 problems]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:41:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Schamus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>Do not put a SCSI card in Slot 3 since it shares an IRQ with the HPT366.
The restriction on sharing IRQs is completely unnecessary with Linux. I
have one of my SCSI card in my BP-6 in slot 3.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:45:54 GMT
In article <01bf8c1f$7bea7120$b48060cf@node_g>,
"Wayne Monteath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>COM2 uses IRQ3
>COM1 uses IRQ4
>IRQ3 gets serviced (has a higher priority) before IRQ4.
>So put your external modem on COM2 for optimal performance.
Yeah, so instead of say, 41666.0000000000000000001 bps thruput, you'll
get 41666.0000000000000000002 bps thruput!
In actuality, it makes *ZERO* difference.
-Kenny, who has both his serial ports on IRQ4 on his ABit MB
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 10:37:33 +0900
From: Junghwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [booting] no prompt
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Hi!
HDD: master: 13G , win98 one partition
slave: 4.3G, redhat 6.1 two partition
After installing redhat 6.1 and LILo, I can't boot. And when I turn on
the power, these mesage appeares.
found CD-ROM
verify DMI poll data
l010101001010010101010101.......................................................................................
And can't boot on win98... I must insert the boot disk.
I tried deleted lilo in dos prompt, but it didn't work.
fdisk /mbr
invalid....
so I deleted lilo in linux( I can't remember what command I used -_-
lilo -e? ...) . But, my computer doesn't show me "starting win98.."
Could you please tell me what to do? Why this problem happen?
It's bios problem , or lilo?
It's urgency, please give me a mail.
bye and take care.
** In this message," I" is my friend. because She can't boot on win98. I
don't know what exatly her situation is, but could you tell me what may
be a cause of booting problem?
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Hi!
<br>HDD: master: 13G , win98 one partition
<br> slave: 4.3G, redhat 6.1 two partition
<br>After installing redhat 6.1 and LILo, I can't boot. And when I turn
on the power, these mesage appeares.
<br><b>found CD-ROM</b>
<br><b>verify DMI poll data</b>
<br><b>l010101001010010101010101.......................................................................................</b>
<br>And can't boot on win98... I must insert the boot disk.
<br>I tried deleted lilo in dos prompt, but it didn't work.
<br><b>fdisk /mbr</b>
<br><b>invalid.</b>...
<br>so I deleted lilo in linux( I can't remember what command I used -_-
lilo -e? ...) . But, my computer doesn't show me "starting win98.."
<br>Could you please tell me what to do? Why this problem happen?
<br>It's bios problem , or lilo?
<br>It's urgency, please give me a mail.
<br>bye and take care.
<br>** In this message," I" is my friend. because She can't boot on win98.
I don't know what exatly her situation is, but could you tell me what may
be a cause of booting problem?</html>
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From: "steve greedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: caldera and glowing mouse
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:47:22 -0000
It's now taken me two weeks to install linux (caldera 2.3,..yes I'm new to
this).
Anyhow, all through the installation process , I had no probs with the
mouse(MS intellimouse USB. no ball, glowing red an' all that), but once it
was completed and I was rebooted into the KDE the mouse
pointer remained fixed to the middle of the screen.
Anyone any ideas/solutions....etc.
I have a bog standard PS2 mouse, if my only option is to use this how do I
install it?
Steve
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems with Adaptec 1542b SCSI & Sony SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:52:15 GMT
In article <MPG.13398e92d2cf58a2989686@kangserver>,
Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>I have recently aquired an old Adaptec AHA1542b ISA SCSI card and a Sony
>SDT-5000 DDS2 DAT drive and am having problems.
I used to have a SDT-1000(? I think- it was years ago) and a 1542B, and
that combination was *very* senstive to cabling issues. Ensure that, first.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aha152x install problem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 07:37:26 -0500
I'm trying to install AHA1505 adpater and so far I've had no luck with the
setup. I reconfigured card's BIOS not to support card's PnP. I know the
address 0x340, IRQ 9, SCSI ID 7. I made sure that in BIOS IRQ 9 is reserved
for Legacy ISA adapters...and still the damn thing just doesn't want to be
recognized by kernel...i tried:
1.Recompiling kernel with Aha152x support and specing it at lilo boot
2.Recompiling kernel with Aha152x included as a module, than trying modprobe
Aha152x....
I now that device is working because doing modprobe lights up my SCSI CDR
connected to the adapter, but I always get "Device or Resource Busy" error
reported insmod. Auy suggestions?
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From: @. (^Vigil^)
Subject: Mousewheel with XFree86 6.4
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:02:40 GMT
has anyone been able to get it to work? it used to with with 3.3.6 by using
ZAxisMapping but with this new version ZAxisMapping is not a valid 'thing' :-/
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From: "Anthony Hinsinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Problem with Lucent WaveLan/IEEE ISA
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 02:32:20 +0100
Hello,
i'm trying to install a WaveLan/IEEE ISA card (compose by a pcmcia wavelan
card and a ISA-to-PCMCIA card) on a linux RedHat 6.1.
pcmcia_core.o module is loading....
i82365.o module doesn't find my ISA-to-PCMCIA card (based on a Vadem VG-469
Chip)
dmesg output - > Intel PCIC probe: not found.
(pcmcia-cs-3.1.13 installed on a 2.2.14 kernel)
Any ideas ?
Thanks Anthony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bios/partitioning problem
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 01:17:24 GMT
Hello all,
I want to install Slackware 7.0 (zipslack) on my old P90, to live there
with W98 long enough for me to use the old tape software to get all my
old data. To do this I need to use all the disks on the machine, and
there's the problem.
The original HD was a 730 mB western digital (1416 cyl, 15 hd, 63 spt),
and there's a second HD installed as "primary slave" 4.3 gB (8896 cyl,
15 hd, 63 sec). The BIOS (c1994, Phoenix 4.03) recognizes HD1 just fine.
However, there are problems with the BIOS setup and HD2.
When I go into BIOS setup, it does an "autotype fixed disk" run and
identifies teh cylinders, heads, tracks, and physical drive just fine.
However, it thinks that the drive has only 9mB. When I save and exit,
reboot, and go to a partitioning utility I get random stuff.
The partitioning utilities (using under MSDOS fdisk, aefdisk, and
efdisk) all say the same wrong things: that HD1 is (C/H/S) 707/32/63 and
695 mB, and HD2 is 703/15/63 and 324 mB.
No amount of repeating the attempt to get the BIOS change to take seems
to work. Any ideas? TIA - PB.
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From: Luiz Antonio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Serial Port Login ?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:57:46 -0800
Hi,
I did it using mgetty this way
1 - added this line to /etc/inittab
s2:345:respawn:/sbin/mgetty -r /dev/ttyS2
2 - added these lines to /etc/mgetty+sendfax/mgetty.config
port ttyS2
direct y
speed 19200
toggle-dtr n
3 - configured terminal as follows
speed 19200
8 data bits
parity none
stop bits=1
xon/xoff
vt100
Rebooted the machine (don't know how to activate the
changes w/o rebooting)
Of course mgetty howto helped me a lot.
It is working fine.
I hope have helped someway.
Luiz Antonio
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: minicom can't find /dev/modem
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:46:58 -0500
Rob Clark wrote:
> ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/modem
... of course, do this as superuser, since you need write
permission to /dev
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: caldera and glowing mouse
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 02:54:51 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8aujmn$lqv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"steve greedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's now taken me two weeks to install linux (caldera 2.3,..yes I'm new to
> this).
> Anyhow, all through the installation process , I had no probs with the
> mouse(MS intellimouse USB. no ball, glowing red an' all that), but once it
> was completed and I was rebooted into the KDE the mouse
> pointer remained fixed to the middle of the screen.
>
> Anyone any ideas/solutions....etc.
USB support is still pretty new to Linux. It sounds like Caldera got it
right for the install, but not for the post-install configuration. I
suggest you skip on over to http://www.linux-usb.org and check out what's
written about USB mouse configuration. It's probably just a matter of
setting a symbolic link in the /dev directory or editing your
/etc/XF86Config file to point to the correct device file, but you might
need to do more than this.
> I have a bog standard PS2 mouse, if my only option is to use this how do I
> install it?
Plug it in and modify the /etc/XF86Config file. Specifically, you may need
to be sure that the pointer section includes the line:
Device "/dev/psaux"
This is basically what you'd need to do to get a USB mouse working, except
that it's possible you'd need to do a lot more for USB support, if Caldera
dropped the ball more seriously than I suspect they did.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: "Lew Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xf98 vs xf86...config
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 21:59:02 -0500
What's the difference?
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