Linux-Hardware Digest #505, Volume #12 Sat, 18 Mar 00 17:13:07 EST
Contents:
RH 6.1 install eroor - can't find display (Kevin P Eichelberge)
Re: HP 8xxx Series Pavillion (Joseph Mastroianni)
Re: Microsoft + NVidia (C. C. McPherson)
EXT2-fs error w/ IBM 20GB drive (Daniel Weiskopf)
Re: YAMAHA 2216 IDE CDwriter COREL Linux (Bruce Stephens)
Re: Keyboard suddenly locking up in X (Alexis Bilodeau)
Re: RH 6.1 install eroor - can't find display (Dances With Crows)
tape problem ("markr")
Tar and SCSI tape ("Patrik J�nson")
Re: Painful SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0? ("Jason Byrne")
STB 4COM (Cullen Simpson)
Re: CMI8330 HOWTO ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3Com 3C900: skbuff address problem ("Andreas Meile")
Re: RH 6.1 install eroor - can't find display (Dom)
SuSe 6.3 & Cable Modem ("Stephen")
Q: Imagic Prism (AMD K6-2-500) and Linux (Dragos-Anton Manolescu)
Re: installing RH6.1 from Reveal CD-ROM Drive (Larry Zimmerman)
Re: Xircom RBEM56G-100 ("Nathan Appleton")
STB PCI tv tuner with bttv (chien-yu chen)
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From: Kevin P Eichelberge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: RH 6.1 install eroor - can't find display
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:10:51 -0500
When I try to install Red Hat linux 6.1 (that I got with the Red Hat
Linux Bible - Negus) I get the following error on the install:
fatal error: no screens found
and then the install aborts, and then the runtime error: cannot open
display
I have Gateway vx900 monitor on a ATI Rage 128 16 meg AGP card. This is
my first time installing linux, so I'm a newbie, any help would be
greatly appreciate it.
--
I'm out,
k e v i n
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joseph Mastroianni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 8xxx Series Pavillion
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 12:23:58 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I should have said: ALSO, the rtl8139 driver doesn't appear to work wth
the HP1270-D TX card.... That has nothing to do with the graphics, it's
just an additional problem...
Thanks for you patience,
Joe
Joseph Mastroianni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone has successfully installed RedHat 6.1 on an HP
> Pavillion 8xxx series machine. I've been having just a wonderful time
> trying to get X to start in anything other than 320x200 mode due to
> non-recogniztion of the 810e chipset. Apparently, the realtek 8139
> driver doesn't recognize eth0 even though it seems like the correct
> driver.
>
> I've downloaded the latest XFree86 which claims support of the 810e set,
> but am now going through beta-hell trying to install kernel 2.3.xx which
> is required to make the 810e drivers work...
>
> Alas, any help would be greatly appreciated,
>
> Cheers,
>
> Joe
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft + NVidia
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:29:18 -0500
> isn't it strange how nvidia won't be releasing accelerated
drivers for linux
> when they're in cahoots with microsoft about their x-box...
>
I guess nvidia doesn't want any linux sales, which IMHO is
growing daily. Oh well, "they made their bed and they have
to lay in it"
-Clyde
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Weiskopf)
Subject: EXT2-fs error w/ IBM 20GB drive
Date: 18 Mar 2000 20:32:27 GMT
Hey folks. I'm running kernel 2.2.14, and I've just installed a new IBM
20GB hard drive. It's model number DPTA-372050. My system's currently
on a 2GB Samsung mounted as /dev/hda. The IBM was to be /dev/hdb. I've
got a really old mboard and BIOS, so it sees the drive as being only
8GB, but Linux sees the right size. I read the Large Disk HOWTO, and I
didn't foresee any difficulties moving my system to the new drive.
Here's the problem. I can fdisk the new drive fine. I made a small
boot partition of 75MB, a large middle partition of 15GB, and a smaller
5GB at the end in case I want to install another OS later. I can also
mke2fs these partitions with (seemingly) no problem. E2fsck after the
mke2fs reports nothing wrong.
However, when I go to mount the middle partition, I'm flooded with
errors such as "EXT2-fs error: Wrong free inode count in group ...".
There are a ton of them, dumped into the logs and on console. I can
then copy material over to the new drive, but at some point it decides
that it's full--despite df displaying many gigs remaining.
So how can I manage to use my new drive? Would a 2.3.x series kernel
help? I've searched dozens of linux sites and found nothing that tells
me how to overcome this. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
DAW
--
Daniel Weiskopf
Dept. of Philosophy / Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology Program
Washington University in St. Louis
URL: http://www.byz.org/~debaser/
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From: Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YAMAHA 2216 IDE CDwriter COREL Linux
Date: 18 Mar 2000 20:26:20 +0000
"Mike Bodle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Its not listed - but what the heck?
I've got one, and it works fine.
> I havnt had much luck trying to get it recognised under ide-scsi
> mode - but I am using Corel Linux and the howto's differ from their
> distribution
Well, I recompiled the kernel enabling SCSI emulation. However, it
may be that that's not so easy with Corel Linux.
> I only guess that as ide-cd driver is part of the kernel, it must ignore the
> ide-scsi module
Yes, of course it does.
> and Ive had no luck with lilo.conf or adding append=ide-scsi. Any
> help greatly appreciated.
What do you get in /var/log/messages (or whatever the equivalent is
with Corel, if it's different)? Anything like:
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATA
PI devices
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW2216E Re
v: 1.0a
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: Type: CD-ROM AN
SI SCSI revision: 02
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, i
d 0, lun 0
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom total.
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/f
orm2 cdda tray
Mar 18 10:17:07 cenderis kernel: Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Can you explicitly load the module, by using modprobe?
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From: Alexis Bilodeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard suddenly locking up in X
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:42:59 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have a strange problem all of a sudden -- my keyboard, which is a
> standard "windows 95" keyboard (i.e. standard plus those "start"
> and "right-click" keys), has stopped working in X. I'm using Red Hat
> 6.0 and just upgraded from kernel 2.2.5-15 to 2.2.14. (The problem
> existed before the upgrade, so that's not the cause).
> The keyboard doesn't respond at all -- not even numlock/caps lock
> lights, but the mouse is fine. They keyboard works fine in the console.
> I haven't changed my XF86Config, so it's not that. This is what has
> changed in my computer between working and not working:
> 1. Swapped power supply (broken 250W -> 300W)
> 2. Changed modem (28.8 ISA -> 56k ISA)
> 3. changed a couple of BIOS settings related to video bios shadowing
> I don't see how any of these would affect my keyboard in X, but go
> figure...If anyone has any ideas for me, it would be GREATLY
> appreciated.
> cheers,
> t.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I had this kind of problem when I enabled "PS/2 support" in the BIOS.
You can verify that it's set to AUTO or DISBLED.
--
Alexis Bilodeau
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 install eroor - can't find display
Date: 18 Mar 2000 15:48:15 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 15:10:51 -0500, Kevin P Eichelberge
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>When I try to install Red Hat linux 6.1 (that I got with the Red Hat
>fatal error: no screens found
>and then the install aborts, and then the runtime error: cannot open
>display
>I have Gateway vx900 monitor on a ATI Rage 128 16 meg AGP card. This is
RH 6.1 shipped with Xfree86 3.3.5, which does not support the Rage 128.
Xfree86 3.3.6 does. You need to install RH 6.1 in text mode, which
shouldn't be too hard, get Xfree86 3.3.6, and then run XF86Setup or
Xconfigurator to get your video card recognized and happy. Consult the
book you have for details on installing in text mode. As for Xfree86
3.3.6, check out the URLs below.
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html
Mandrake 7.0 shipped with Xfree86 3.3.6 if this is all too complex :-)
You can get it at cheapbytes.com for less than $10.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: "markr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tape problem
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:54:44 -0000
Hi,
I have a IDE seagate travern which seems to have stopped working. When I
try and read from the tape I get the errors below. Could I have a hardware
conflict
or something ? Module shows up as below. Has it been 'autocleaned' ?
thanks for any ideas.
Module Size Used by
ide-tape 19096 0 (autoclean)
Mar 18 20:36:28 cartman kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 34, key = 3,
asc = 30, ascq = 0
Mar 18 20:36:28 cartman kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 3,
asc = 30, ascq = 0
Mar 18 20:36:28 cartman kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 3,
asc = 30, ascq = 0
Mar 18 20:36:28 cartman kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 3,
asc = 30, ascq = 0
[root@cartman /root]#
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From: "Patrik J�nson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tar and SCSI tape
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:59:31 +0100
I am using an 4GB DAT drive (DDS2), and when using tar to write multivolume
archives I get this error:
> tar -c -M -T FILELIST -f /dev/st0
tar: Removing leading `/' from absolute path names in the archive
.... Some time goes by ....
tar: WARNING: Cannot close /dev/st0 (4, -1): Input/output error
Prepare volume #2 for /dev/st0 and hit return:
.... Some time goes by ....
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
Any ideas on how to fix this...
/Patrik J�nsson
Linux User since 1995...
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Painful SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:02:03 -0800
There is some wonderful reading in:
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/doc/README.SiS
In particular... look at the 'Options' available for the card
btw... I have SiS 620 - not exactly the same... but I'm sure I've had
similar experiences with it. On *my* system... I can get 24 bpp... but the
acceleration is best under 16 bpp. Since I don't have a bionic eye :) - 16
bpp is quite adequate for color depth.
Shan Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:20000318.18542500@patches....
Are you saying you had your SiS6326 video working with 24 bpp? Which
version of Xfree86 were you using to accomplish that?
Very curious.
Shan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 3/17/00, 11:29:56 PM, Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Painful SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0?:
> Hi, there,
> Just want to tell you my recent experience with this hopeless card. I
> have tried XFree86 3.3.3, XFree86 3.3.6 and this XFree86 4.0.
> BTW, my hardwares worked just well in XFree86 3.3.6 except the slow
> refresh rate in 24 bpp.
> If there are anyone else who has done some work with XFree86 4.0 on
> SiS6326, could you share your experience?
> Davis,
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From: Cullen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: STB 4COM
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 20:57:23 GMT
I am lookingfor a source for a manual for an STB 4COM card. I also need
the PS/2 to DB9 adaptors.
I tried the STB/3DFX support and got nowhere.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks,
Cullen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CMI8330 HOWTO
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:07:02 GMT
Here's an update on my P5AB/CMI8330 situation:
I've compiled the following:
Sound Card Support = M
OSS sound modules = M
MSS support = M
MPU-401 = M
100% SB compatible = M
FM synth (OPL-3) = M
In kernel 2.2.14. I then added the following lines to /etc/conf.modules
according to the advice of someone who has posted about getting sound to
work with the CMI8330/P5AB combo before:
post-install sound modprobe -k sb
alias midi uart401
options sb io=0x220 dma=1 dma16=5 irq=5 mpu io=0x330
these options are straight out of the P5AB motherboard manual. I
checked /proc/interrupts, dma, ioports etc and found nothing to conflict
with these settings.
The problem is that even though /dev/dsp exists, I get 'no such device'
when I attempt to use it (I've tried wavplay, and even catting a file
into it). The hell? Here's the ls -l:
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 Mar 8 15:00 dsp
MAKEDEV dsp fails, amd MAKEDEV update seems to get stuck in a loop
saying 'don't know what "nbd" is'. Ack!
Also, I didn't see anything new appear in the various /proc files, I
dunno if that is supposed to happen or not with modules though.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Andreas Meile" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3Com 3C900: skbuff address problem
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 22:29:10 +0100
Dear Linux users
Recently, I migrated my telephone connection from analog to ISDN. With that
I replaced my external analog modem with an internal ISDN card: ELSA
Microlink ISDN PCI, and in the same step, I upgraded S.u.S.E. Linux from 5.2
(Kernel V2.0.33) to 6.2 (Kernel V2.2.10). This Linux box contains a Gigabyte
GA486AM mainboard (486DX2/66 MHz) and a 3Com 3C900 Combo network card, known
as "boomerang". This system is used as a NAT router using IP masquerading.
Since that migration I have a strange problem: In general, the network and
the ISDN connection to my ISP work correctly, but sometimes, the system
suddently crashes completely :-( A "ping" command from another station does
not give an answer and the local console keyboard is also completely "dead"
especially Ctrl+Alt+Del (magic key for "shutdown") doesn't also react, only
the reset button on the main unit's housing itself "wakes" up my system.
After that reboot (takes a while because of fsck's tidy up process) I find
the following messages in /var/log/warn as the system's latest syslogd
entries before the crash:
Mar 13 11:03:21 asi486 kernel: Warning: kfree_skb passed an skb still on a
list (from c671fea0).
Mar 18 01:28:51 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c29ac012 vs. c5648812.
Mar 18 01:30:27 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c5648812 vs. c619a812.
Mar 18 01:50:37 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c619a812 vs. c2ba9012.
Mar 18 01:50:47 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c2ba9012 vs. c54f5812.
Mar 18 02:02:00 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c54f5812 vs. c2a6f812.
Mar 18 02:02:56 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c2a6f812 vs. c5278012.
Mar 18 14:39:30 asi486 kernel: HiSax: ISAC XDU no skb
Mar 18 14:40:24 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c0047012 vs. c5264012.
Mar 18 14:42:28 asi486 kernel: eth0: Warning -- the skbuff addresses do not
match in boomerang_rx: c5264012 vs. c5265012.
Each of these crashes always happened when I was online (ISDN connection
active) and there's traffic between a client station inside my LAN and the
Internet.
My questions:
- Does perhaps Kernel 2.2.10 have any known bugs in the vortex driver or in
the HiSaX driver?
- Or may it be that my 486 mainboard (a Gigabyte GA486AM) is buggy, so I
should disable every kind of PCI bus speed up feature like "PCI burst write"
and so on in the BIOS setup?
Note that there's also an older SCSI controller (NCR 53c825) onboard (It
*only* works with the older driver [NCR 53c7,8xx] instead of the newer BSD's
one) if that one may have a negative influence on the PCI bus (there I also
get the message "<4>scsi0: REQ before WAIT DISCONNECT IID" during startup).
For additional help, here the hardware modprobing dialog during boot
process:
PCI initialisation:
<4>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbfd0
<4>PCI: Using configuration type 1
<4>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ISDN initialisation:
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: ISDN subsystem Rev:
1.83/1.68/1.88/1.49/1.14/1.2 loaded
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Linux Driver for passive ISDN cards
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Version 3.2a (module)
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Layer1 Revision 2.34
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Layer2 Revision 2.17
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: TeiMgr Revision 2.12
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Layer3 Revision 2.9
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: LinkLayer Revision 2.29
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Approval certification failed because
of
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: unauthorized source code changes
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Total 1 card defined
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1 Id=HiSax (0)
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: Elsa driver Rev. 2.14
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: Elsa: QS 1000 PCI defined at 0x6100/0x6000
IRQ 12
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: Elsa: IPAC version 2
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: Elsa PCI: IRQ 12 count 0
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: Elsa PCI: IRQ 12 count 3
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: DSS1 Rev. 2.14
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: 2 channels added
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: MAX_WAITING_CALLS added
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: HiSax: debugging flags card 1 set to 4
Ethernet NIC initialization:
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: 3c59x.c:v0.99L 5/28/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at
0x6200, 00:60:97:58:aa:81, IRQ 11
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split,
autoselect/10 base2 interface.
Mar 18 14:55:15 asi486 kernel: Enabling bus-master transmits and
whole-frame receives.
Important note: A second box which uses Linux too, contains also a 3Com
3C900 NIC, the same model but a Gigabyte GA586TX3 mainboard with Intel
Pentium MMX 166 MHz. There never occured such problems since Linux is
running on it. :-) => It's already helpful for me to known if that "skbuff
address" warning is a hint for badly timed hardware...
Any hints about that problem are appreciated. :-)
Greetings from Switzerland
Andreas
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From: Dom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 install eroor - can't find display
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:26:04 +0000
I had the same problem using an ATI All-in-Wonder 128 AGP (same chipset). You
need to have XFree86 version 3.3.6 or version 4 ( I used v4), the version
supplied with RH6.1 is 3.3.5 and that doesn't work. You can get a new version
from XFree86.org when you install it you then need to run xf86config. You'll
probably find that it still doesn't work. You need to edit the
/etc/X11/XF86Config file. When you look at it you will find the graphics card
driver installed by xf86config. You need to edit it so that the driver is
"r128" instaead of "svga". The X server should then owrk after you re-boot.
NB you can edit the file by running emacs on the command line even if X isn't
working.
Good luck!
Dom
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Kevin P Eichelberge wrote:
>When I try to install Red Hat linux 6.1 (that I got with the Red Hat
>Linux Bible - Negus) I get the following error on the install:
>
>fatal error: no screens found
>
>and then the install aborts, and then the runtime error: cannot open
>display
>
>I have Gateway vx900 monitor on a ATI Rage 128 16 meg AGP card. This is
>my first time installing linux, so I'm a newbie, any help would be
>greatly appreciate it.
>
>--
>I'm out,
>
>k e v i n
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSe 6.3 & Cable Modem
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:33:31 -0500
Good old Linux.. willing toSuSe 6.3 give it a chance, (or two or three), but
my
patence is running low.......
I need a hand here.. I am doing my "Read the Bloody Manual" requirements in
installing Linux, (along with a number of other sources), but I am stuck at
the present.
Linux SuSe 6.3 is installed and running, but I am having trouble getting my
Realtek RTL8029 & Motorola (CyberSurfer) Modem to be recognized, let alone
working.....
Anyone knowledgable with this hardware and distribution.. ? The manual is
not very clear when it comes to cable modems and ethernet cards. If I can
get beyond this, I'll move on to my next step.. (Sound card), which isn't
supported or recognized!
--
Regards,
Stephen
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Subject: Q: Imagic Prism (AMD K6-2-500) and Linux
From: Dragos-Anton Manolescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Mar 2000 15:38:33 -0600
I'm waiting to receive one of these systems from TPI. I would like to
find out how well it works with Linux since that's what I'll run. AGP
video, sound and network and on-board (as well as the modem, but as
far as I can tell it is a WinModem). Unfortunately, the information
they provide about these systems is at the level of PowerPoint
executives :-( Therefore I haven't managed to find details about
VGA/network/sound chipsets and the motherboard.
If you're familiar with these systems (or have one) and could shed
more light over these details, I'd like to hear from you. Thanks!
-Dragos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Zimmerman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: installing RH6.1 from Reveal CD-ROM Drive
Date: 18 Mar 2000 15:48:57 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Igor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to install RH6.0 or RH6.1 on my very old PC. box.
> This box uses Reveal CD-ROM drive which came bundled
> with SC400 Multimedia sound card.
>
> RH installer __does__not__ recognize CDrom drive. It does not matter
> which CDROM driver I pick, CD ROM does not work, therefore
> I can not install RH distribution..
>
> Does anybody know HOW to install Linux in such a case ??
I have the same card and CD in my 486 - and the same problem.
My solution - download debian base files, copy to floppy, and install
debian from the net (cablemodem is great!).
You can use my solution, or replace the kernel on the RH install floppies
with a kernel compiled with correct drivers for your system.
BTW - I still can't get sound to work on this card, and have had problems
with SMC NIC drivers. It seems that newer versions of the kernel,
drivers, and other packages no longer support the systems they
started out on. maybe it's time for a "Legacy Linux" distribution.
Larry Z.
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xircom RBEM56G-100
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 14:03:08 -0800
Try this page:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispdriver.cgi?DISP?88
"Hook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8atpm2$365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry to ask but can you open the link's in the xircom download page ?????
> I can't ...
> If you can, can you please send me an email with the file attached ,
please.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
> "Laurent Bloch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8atjlv$ctg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone please tell me were I can find the driver for the Xircom
> > > RBEM56G-100 for linux .
> >
> > http://www.xircom.com/cda/page/0,1298,1_20-476,00.html
>
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From: chien-yu chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: STB PCI tv tuner with bttv
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 16:09:37 -0600
hi!
I just got a STB PCI that has a TDA9850 stereo decoder.
the bttv driver found the card perfectly, and detected the TDA9850
except there is no sound coming out. seems like the card is in a
mute state. any suggestion on this? I am using 2.2.14
thanks
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