Linux-Hardware Digest #507, Volume #12 Sun, 19 Mar 00 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
New installation on old machine (Bus Error) (Jesse F. Hughes)
Re: HPT366 controller won't boot drive. (wayne rattz)
HP880c working with gs? (Konstantinos Agouros)
Promise UDMA 66 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: New laptops with WinModem :-( (Goofy root)
Re: Painful SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0? ("Shan J. Gill")
Re: HP880c working with gs? (Jeremiah)
Re: ATI Rage Mobility works with XFree86 4.0 (robert t. lemmon)
High-Speed Serial Ports ("Christopher G. Petty")
Re: Status Errors on HDD (jose zamorano)
Re: Tar and SCSI tape (Patrik J�nsson)
modem help ("cheyenne")
Re: New installation on old machine (Bus Error) (Stanislaw Flatto)
pcmcia modem ("Motti Eisenberg")
Zoltrix TV Max no Audio ("VE9GLN")
Re: best graphics card? (Dean S Jones)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: New installation on old machine (Bus Error)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jesse F. Hughes)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:20:07 GMT
Hey ho.
I've decided to install Slackware 7.0 on an old 386 laptop. I don't
know much about the machine, but it seems to run DOS 6.2 okay. That's
not saying much, of course.
When I boot up the machine using boot and root floppies from the
distribution, all seems to go well until it sets up the proc system.
Then I see the following:
INIT: version 2.76 booting
none on /proc type proc (rw)
Bus error
INIT: Entering runlevel: 4
Thereafter, when I try to log in as root, one of the following occurs:
(a) I get this error:
(Oops! I couldn't reproduce the error just now -- something about
Id coming in too fast -- or ld?)
(b) The message of the day (or whatever that first screen of
instructions is) rolls up the screen again and I see another login
prompt.
Is this a hardware error? What should I do?
(Forgive the crosspost, but it's not clear which group to write to.
Also, let me know what details I should give that I haven't.)
As an aside, the boot and root floppies work on another machine I
have.
--
Jesse Hughes
"You see 300 of something, anything, and you go `[Man], that's a lot of
stuff.'" -- Jim Bigler, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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From: wayne rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPT366 controller won't boot drive.
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 02:30:12 GMT
HELLO:Try using my ultra 66 controller howto.Its worked for a number of
people including myself.It dosent envolve installing patches just telling
linux where to look.The site is
http://www.geocities.com/wrattz/linux1.html Click on the howto's on the
right side of the page.Go to the second page .good luck wayne!
David Stringer wrote:
>
> Hi Pat,
>
> I moved the drive to the UDMA 33 controller, reinstalled linux,=20
> applied the kernel patch to the kernel. The system would boot up and=20
> recognzie the controller. I then tried moving the drive back to the 66=20
> controller and I ended up being stuck back in the same place I was=20
> before. :-(
>
>
> Dave
>
> In article <q8Yj4.93265$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Try installing with hd on regular ide, withhpt66 drivers. When done=20
> switch
> > to ata66 controller.
> > Let me know if this works for you...
> >=20
> > "David Stringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:86of4g$knt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Can anyone help ?
> > >
> > > I am trying to get Mandrake 7 (linux kernel 2.2.14) to boot off a=20
> drive
> > > connected to the HPT366 controller on my Abit BE6 motherboard. I
have=
> =20
> gone
> > > over the instructions that are availible on
> > > http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/ several times now, and
I=
> =20
> can
> > > get it to ALMOST work. The lilo will come up, the kernel will
start=20
> to
> > > load, the HPT drivers seem to recognize the drive, then it
freezes.=20=
> =20
> In
> > > order to demonstrate how far the kernel boots, I have copied this=20
> messages
> > > file from http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/messages and=20
> have
> > > indicated below where my system comes to a halt. (Of course there are
> > other
> > > differences, but it should illustrate my point).
> > >
> > > To Recap:
> > > My current configuration is:
> > > -Abit BE6 motherboard with a built in HPT366 controll
> > > -18.2 GB Quantum Fireball KA
> > > -The disk is partioned like so:
> > > 1: 2 gb fat 32.
> > > 2: 4 gb fat 32
> > > 3: 16mb ext2 (/boot, this is within the first 1024 cylenders)
> > > 4: 3.8 gb ext2 (/)
> > > 5: 256 swap
> > > 6: 2gb fat 16
> > > 7: 4gb fat 16
> > > -128mb ram
> > > -OS - Linux Mandrake 7
> > > -Kernel 2.2.14, fresh from the source.
> > > -I have tried the three latest IDE patches from Hendrick.
> > > -Lilo looks like it's configured properly
> > > -The system will boot fine with the kernel not compiled with the
IDE=20
> patch
> > > and using the backward compatibility features of the controller.
> > > -Sad part is the controller works great with WINDOWS 98!
> > >
> > > ***********SAMPLE MESSAGE FILE************
> > > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> > > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> > > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> > > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> > > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> > > Starting kswapd v 1.5
> > > Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> > > Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
> > > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq =3D 4) is a 16550A
> > > ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq =3D 3) is a 16550A
> > > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> > > Software Watchdog Timer: 0.05, timer margin: 60 sec
> > > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> > > apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
> > > Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> > > .
> > > ... no scsi controllers installed
> > > .
> > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > > Freeing unused kernel memory: 40k freed
> > > Adding Swap: 377520k swap-space (priority -1)
> > > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
> > > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> > > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> > > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> > > HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
> > > HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > > HPT366: reg5ah=3D0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port0
> > > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
> > > HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
> > > HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > > HPT366: reg5ah=3D0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port1
> > > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
> > > hda: CR-4802TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > > hdc: FUJITSU MCC3064AP, ATAPI OPTICAL drive
> > > hdd: Conner Peripherals 420MB - CFS420A, ATA DISK drive
> > > hde: IBM-DJNA-370910, ATA DISK drive
> > > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> > > ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 18
> > >
> > > ****** The system comes to a halt right here **********
> > >
> > > I don't think there is much more I can add....
> > >
> > > ANYONE HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > David Stringer
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >=20
> >=20
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: HP880c working with gs?
Date: 18 Mar 2000 23:07:11 +0100
Hi,
the subject says it all, is the 880c working with Ghostscript? Anybody tried
that?
What about USB-Support in newer Kernels?
Konstantin
--
Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
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"Captain, this ship will not sustain the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Promise UDMA 66
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 03:47:25 GMT
Although Promise UDMA 66 is working and I can also boot from a disk
on it, I cant enable DMA transfer from it. Is that the current state
of support? Is there someone who has enabled DMA transfer on a drive
connected on such a card?
My configuration:
Kernel 2.2.14, Redhat 6.1
Disk: WD Caviar WDC AC313000R, 12416MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=25228/16/63
The symptoms:
#/sbin/hdparm -c1 -d1 -k1 -m16 -W1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting 32-bit I/O support flag to 1
setting multcount to 16
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
setting keep_settings to 1 (on)
setting drive write-caching to 1 (on)
multcount = 16 (on)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 1 (on)
# /sbin/hdparm -Tt /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.39 seconds =92.09 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 8.94 seconds = 7.16 MB/sec
That speed is 13MB/s when the disk is on the on board interface with
DMA enabled.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Goofy root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: New laptops with WinModem :-(
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 19:45:47 -0800
Thanks again for your reply. I was just too frustrated with WinModems I
couldn't even run in my NT's. I though heard some Linux folks able to use
WinModem with from Linux boxes but not easy to configure than regular modem.
Rod Smith wrote:
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Goofy Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've looking to buy new laptop, apparently most or all has WinModem
> > within, e.g., Toshiba 1625CDT, 1605CDS, Compaq 1200 XL, etc... I called
> > the tech support of the manufacturers they said there's not much market
> > for Linux yet. Now here's my question: if I install Linux multiboot
> > with NT, is it okay to use PCMCIA regular modem to do dial out for Linux
> > without device conflict with that darn WinModem?
>
> The Lucent software modem in my Compaq 1200-XL106 works fine using the
> Lucent drivers from http://www.linmodems.org. See my web page at
> http://www.rodsbooks.com/presario/ for details.
>
> As a more direct answer to your question, in theory a PCMCIA modem should
> work fine without conflicting with the built-in software modem. I've never
> done it, though.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: "Shan J. Gill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Painful SiS6326 and XFree86 4.0?
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 21:25:50 -0800
Thanks, but I had read the README.SiS file, and I had already tried most of
that stuff.
The implementation of the card I have (generic / no brand name that I can
determine, tho it is AGP) is weird, and so none of the settings that were in
the file worked to give me more than 8 bpp. And I found a little nasty
when - out of hellish frustration - I called X with 16 bpp and the process
ate my file system. Not sure what happened, or even if that was the real
cause, but I had to completely re-install RH 6.0 after that little bit of
derring-do. e2fsck couldn't get enough back, and since it was essentially a
brand-new install, I just re-did everything. But am not inclined to try to
get a solid repro on that one.
Jason Byrne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:48SA4.13412$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremiah)
Subject: Re: HP880c working with gs?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 04:29:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros) spake thusly:
> the subject says it all, is the 880c working with Ghostscript? Anybody tried
> that?
It works... more or less. There is a driver which can be
compiled into Ghostscript which will allow printing. You can find it at:
http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html
The 1.31 version of the driver works well for text, and passably for
pictures, though it's nowhere near the quality of the Windows driver.
The 1.4beta version will supposedly be much better for pictures, but
doesn't support the black cartridge yet, and the gamma is way off.
I haven't tried it.
Best of luck,
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert t. lemmon)
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Mobility works with XFree86 4.0
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 06:03:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:55:05 +0100, Steen Suder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Earlier, I've brought up the question on how to make X work with the ATI
>Rage Mobility chipset.
update : LI hang was due to too large /dev/hda1 - still have problem
with poor video display - have switched to Slackware for time being,
not installing X stuff for now ....
thanks.........
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From: "Christopher G. Petty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: High-Speed Serial Ports
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 01:45:00 -0500
Greets, all.
I'm looking for a good, inexpensive, and Linux compatible high speed
serial port to properly drive an ISDN modem. The modem is capable of
460.8Kbps, so I need a serial port that will go at least that quickly.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Please email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED], as I don't
normally subscribe to this list.
-CGP
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From: jose zamorano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Status Errors on HDD
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 09:27:03 GMT
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 10/22/99, 12:56:02 PM, "Rossco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
regarding Status Errors on HDD:
> I'm receiving the following error messages at the console refering to =
HDD
> access.
> hdb:status timeout : status 0xd0 {Busy}
> hdb: no DRQ after issuing write
> ide0:reset:success
> They appear even when the session is idle and are an annoying=20
interruption.
> I've got two HDDs; one Quantum Fireball and one Seagate - both ATAPI=20
and
> 6.4/6.3 Gb
> Has anyone got any clues?
> Thanks in anticipation.
I was getting the same error messages as you whit the Seagate HD. I=20
switch off that messages disabling UDMA in the BIOS setup.
Have a lot of fun
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From: Patrik J�nsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tar and SCSI tape
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:36:09 +0100
Yes of course.
That's why I use the -M flag ...
The thing is that i have HW compression anabled per default in the DAT
and whant to use it... Otherwise i might try to specify tapesize...
/Patrik J
On Sat, 18 Mar 2000 17:38:54 -0500, "Andrew E. Schulman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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
>
>It sounds as though your tape has run out of space. Are you saving more
>than 4 GB at a time?
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From: "cheyenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem help
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 03:26:05 -0600
I have a usr internet gaming modem and for the life of me i can not get it
to work with linux. I have redhat 6.1 Any help would be apperciated
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New installation on old machine (Bus Error)
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 10:02:51 GMT
"Jesse F. Hughes" wrote:
>
> Hey ho.
Hoo-ha!
>
> I've decided to install Slackware 7.0 on an old 386 laptop. I don't
> know much about the machine, but it seems to run DOS 6.2 okay. That's
> not saying much, of course.
How much RAM. Had nice running around with box of 4M untill upgraded to
8M and Slack 7 installed itself.
Don't recall now but look for lowmem image of booting diskette, it may
help.
> Jesse Hughes
>
> "You see 300 of something, anything, and you go `[Man], that's a lot of
> stuff.'" -- Jim Bigler, quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
--
******* Stanislaw ********
Monolog - one person talking to himself,
dialog - two people talking to themselves.
-Shaike Ofir-
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From: "Motti Eisenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pcmcia modem
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 13:58:44 +0200
i have a laptop and a pcmcia modem and i can get it to work
help
motti
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From: "VE9GLN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zoltrix TV Max no Audio
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 08:34:55 -0400
Hello, I have a zoltrix TV Max tuner card. I seem to have a very strange
problem with it.
The video works great!!!, the audio however is another story.
I am using RH6 , bttv.o, tuner.o and kwintv(also tried xawtv)
when I start kwintv, I can hear the tv audio of whatever channel the tuner
was last on. but as soon as the video displays(about 1-2 seconds later) the
audio goes away !
Anyone have any ideas?
I have neeb using linux for about a good many years, but this one has me
puzzled.
Glen Bizeau
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dean S Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: best graphics card?
Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2000 07:49:07 -0500
> So the XFree86 release notes do not mention as supported for 3D
> acceleration the NVidia chipsets. Now, this may be because NVidia have
> been dragging their feet about supporting open source, or whatever.
>
> But this in my mind makes NVidia chips a definite no-buy for Linux; they
> have gone from cards with the best ``provisional'' (non DRI GLX) 3D
> support for Linux to not even being on the map.
Well, I thought the drivers and source code were available directly
from Nvidia. XFree86 3.3.5 non DRI GLX, and DRI GLX for XFree86
4.0 on the way. Thats what the drivers page says at their site ???
Dean S Jones
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