Linux-Hardware Digest #524, Volume #12 Tue, 21 Mar 00 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
RH 6.1 Netgear FA410TX NIC ("Michael E. Martinka")
Strange disk problem (Edward L. Hepler)
Linux OK on an Intel CA810/CA810E motherboard? ("Steve Snyder")
Re: Strange disk problem ("John Arnott - PDbS, Inc.")
Small and silent Linux hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Noisy LINUX? (Default)
Re: Geforce 256, DRI, XFree86 4.0 and 3D Accel. (Chris)
Re: Small and silent Linux hardware ("Mark Kirby")
Re: yukf (Tom Morton)
Re: Zoom modem configuration (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: USB ISDN modem (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: Re-Partition NTFS2 drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RealPlayer 7 beta for Linux HOW TO INSTALL (Jim Jerzycke)
where can I find cheap linux systems? ("Luis Hernandez")
Re: New MB using Intel i820 Chipset WITH ASUS P3C2000 ("Terry Proveau")
Re: YAMAHA under Linux (Marcelo Penna Guerra)
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From: "Michael E. Martinka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH 6.1 Netgear FA410TX NIC
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:14:46 GMT
Anyone,
I am trying to get RH 6.1 to use the netgear FA410TX NIC I have in my
lap top. I can tell the hardware is OK since it works under windows, and
Linux can see the card but I can't get it to activate it. RH 6.1 auto
detected it as a 8390 [pcnet_cs]. I don't think that is correct but I
can't find any driver info anywhere. Any help would be great.
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward L. Hepler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Strange disk problem
Date: 21 Mar 2000 16:48:51 -0500
I just purchased a Dell Dimension T desktop and have a strange problem
with the the disk...
I purchased the machine with the ATA66 controller and soon found that
Red Hat 6.1 did not support this yet.... So I moved the disk cable from
the Promise Ultra66 controller to the primary IDE controller on the
motherboard... The disk is a Maxtor 54098U8 (40Gbyte)...
I loaded RH6.1 onto the drive, partitioning it with /, /boot, swap, and
/home partitions. The /home partition was specified as one huge partition
having a requested size of 1Mbyte, but was to expand to the end of the
disk)... It ended up being about 34 Gbytes. (This is because earlier,
I had unsucessfyly tried to make more, smaller partitions and the
RH installer couldn't seem to find the last couple!) Druid assigned
/home to hda6.
After loading, I booted and started to configure other things, then noticed
that the system didn't seem to be operating properly... I did a shutdown,
and reboot...
The system came up but reported multiple errors on /dev/hda6 (the BIG /home
partition)... Thinking that perhaps I had forgotten to tell the RH installer
to format /home, I did a "mkfs" on /dev/hda6... Then I rebooted...
The system booted... I made a few changes... Then decided to reboot to see
that everything was OK... When the system came up again, /dev/hda6 was
reported as having errors again... The boot dropped into root mode so that
I could manually run fsck... I instructed fsck to fix all the problems that
it reported... Then ran fsck a second time... It reported a clean /dev/hda6.
The machine rebooted after exiting root mode... I verified that I could
get into X-windows, etc., then asked for a shutdown -r... The system rebooted,
again reporting a corrupted /dev/hda6...
Runing fsck cleans things up again, but takes longer (more problems)... and
my empty home directory and even [lost+found] are now gone!
I have tried removing the ATA66 card, thinking that perhaps it is somehow
interfering with the onboard transfers (how I don't know, but I grasping
for straws...)...
I also looked at the setup screen and it seems to be correctly recognizing
the drive, etc.
I also thought that perhaps there was some sort of size limit on the
paritions that I was violating... I went back to the RH installer and
it couldn't find the hard drive (I believe it couldn't find the partition
table)... I also tried cfdisk and asked it for the partition table
and it found all zeros! sfdisk got a read error trying to read sector
71633835, but reported a parition table that looks sort of reasonable,
although it also reports the wrong number of cylinders, and heads.
fdisk seems to think that the disk has 4982 cylinders, although it also
says that it can not read /dev/hda... The info on the Maxtor page of
Dell's web site says that it has 79,406 cylinders, 8 heads, 63 sectors per
track, 512 bytes/sector...
Could the parition table have been trashed by Linux???
Should I try to use one of the [ ,c,s]fdisk programs to reset the
drive geometry?
Is the disk bad? Is there anything in an IDE controller to go bad? Why
is only /dev/hda6 affected by this?
Any assistance or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Ed Hepler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
or
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux OK on an Intel CA810/CA810E motherboard?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:37:36 GMT
These boards are, of course, based on Intel's 810/810E chipsets.
Any experience on this hardware? If the ATA66 controller supported by
the v2.2.14+ kernel?
Thank you.
***** Steve Snyder *****
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From: "John Arnott - PDbS, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Strange disk problem
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:00:01 GMT
I am curious about this. It is similar to a problem I am experiencing. I
added a drive to hdb1. It is a 40GB maxtor. It is reported as 39389776 1k
pages. I got past all of the errors, but now the drive does not allow
writing. Everytime I attempt to create a directory or copy a file I
receive:
mkdir: cannot make directory `testdir': No such file or directory
Please include me on any replies to this thread.
I am running RH 6.1
Best Regards,
John Arnott
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Edward L. Hepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8b8qo3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I just purchased a Dell Dimension T desktop and have a strange problem
> with the the disk...
>
> I purchased the machine with the ATA66 controller and soon found that
> Red Hat 6.1 did not support this yet.... So I moved the disk cable from
> the Promise Ultra66 controller to the primary IDE controller on the
> motherboard... The disk is a Maxtor 54098U8 (40Gbyte)...
>
> I loaded RH6.1 onto the drive, partitioning it with /, /boot, swap, and
> /home partitions. The /home partition was specified as one huge partition
> having a requested size of 1Mbyte, but was to expand to the end of the
> disk)... It ended up being about 34 Gbytes. (This is because earlier,
> I had unsucessfyly tried to make more, smaller partitions and the
> RH installer couldn't seem to find the last couple!) Druid assigned
> /home to hda6.
>
> After loading, I booted and started to configure other things, then
noticed
> that the system didn't seem to be operating properly... I did a shutdown,
> and reboot...
>
> The system came up but reported multiple errors on /dev/hda6 (the BIG
/home
> partition)... Thinking that perhaps I had forgotten to tell the RH
installer
> to format /home, I did a "mkfs" on /dev/hda6... Then I rebooted...
>
> The system booted... I made a few changes... Then decided to reboot to
see
> that everything was OK... When the system came up again, /dev/hda6 was
> reported as having errors again... The boot dropped into root mode so
that
> I could manually run fsck... I instructed fsck to fix all the problems
that
> it reported... Then ran fsck a second time... It reported a clean
/dev/hda6.
>
> The machine rebooted after exiting root mode... I verified that I could
> get into X-windows, etc., then asked for a shutdown -r... The system
rebooted,
> again reporting a corrupted /dev/hda6...
>
> Runing fsck cleans things up again, but takes longer (more problems)...
and
> my empty home directory and even [lost+found] are now gone!
>
> I have tried removing the ATA66 card, thinking that perhaps it is somehow
> interfering with the onboard transfers (how I don't know, but I grasping
> for straws...)...
>
> I also looked at the setup screen and it seems to be correctly recognizing
> the drive, etc.
>
> I also thought that perhaps there was some sort of size limit on the
> paritions that I was violating... I went back to the RH installer and
> it couldn't find the hard drive (I believe it couldn't find the partition
> table)... I also tried cfdisk and asked it for the partition table
> and it found all zeros! sfdisk got a read error trying to read sector
> 71633835, but reported a parition table that looks sort of reasonable,
> although it also reports the wrong number of cylinders, and heads.
> fdisk seems to think that the disk has 4982 cylinders, although it also
> says that it can not read /dev/hda... The info on the Maxtor page of
> Dell's web site says that it has 79,406 cylinders, 8 heads, 63 sectors per
> track, 512 bytes/sector...
>
> Could the parition table have been trashed by Linux???
>
> Should I try to use one of the [ ,c,s]fdisk programs to reset the
> drive geometry?
>
> Is the disk bad? Is there anything in an IDE controller to go bad? Why
> is only /dev/hda6 affected by this?
>
>
> Any assistance or ideas would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ed Hepler
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> or
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Small and silent Linux hardware
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 23:54:46 GMT
Greetings all,
I'm interested in building up a very small system capable of running
Linux and wonder if anyone else has done the same.
Basically, I want a small, silent box that can be my IP firewall, SMTP
server, etc, etc. It doesn't have to be fast, doesn't have to have
loads of memory or disk space, but I want to be able to leave it
switched on 24h without CPU fans, power supply fans, spinning hard disks
and the like.
Ages ago I remember seeing ads for PC motherboards the size of a 5.25"
hard disk, but now I can't find the references again.
It doesn't have to be an Intel system. If anyone has a suggestion that
involves another CPU, please tell me!
TIA,
Alan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Default <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Noisy LINUX?
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 16:14:10 -0800
Call this phenomenon "good memory management" under Linux.
Mark
mircea wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> My hard disk is extremely loud in Windows, and inaudible in Linux. Go
> figure.
>
> mst
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris)
Subject: Re: Geforce 256, DRI, XFree86 4.0 and 3D Accel.
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 00:23:42 GMT
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 01:41:26 GMT, Kevin Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in comp.os.linux.hardware:
>I just upgrade to XFree86 4.0. While they say that driver support
>(diver nv) is included in xf4.0 for the GEforce 256 I am having trouble
>finding any information on it and how it fits in to DRI. Has anybody
>try using this set up for 3D acceleration (I am thinking Q3 and UT)? I
>hate to think that I will have to boot back into windows to take
>advantage of my new (expensive?) graphics card. Any info would help.
There's an article on SlashDot today on this topic. It seems that after
building up hopes that NVidia would be a Linux-friendly open-source
manufacturer they have done a big about-turn and will now only be
supporting their hardware using proprietary binary drivers. Apparently
they don't think much of DRI. There are mutterings about a boycott....
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From: "Mark Kirby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Small and silent Linux hardware
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 11:18:19 +1100
http://www.linux-hacker.net/iopener
:)
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From: Tom Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: yukf
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:09:55 +0000
Tom Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something odd
Sorry. Don't know how that got sent :-}
--=20
Tom "Moretom" Morton, Drangband Maintainer:
http://www.yikesstation.freeserve.co.uk/drang/drang.htm
Yikes Station, Frontier Elite 2 Fansite:
http://www.yikesstation.freeserve.co.uk/frontier/yikes.htm
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zoom modem configuration
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:03:24 +0000
Yep. That's what mine did when I left the PnP jumper (J2) installed to
experiment. I think Linux is looking for a "Standard" irq to go with the
com port that it's on;e.g. for com3 it wants irq 1. When i re-booted
into Linux it either said "modem busy" or "couldn't find a modem" (I
forget which....I've seen both on various test systems). Other than
that, it works fine, and connects between 48000-52000.
Jim
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: USB ISDN modem
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:08:44 +0000
Try the usenet group linux.dev.isdn, and you'll get a lot of replies.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Re-Partition NTFS2 drive
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:11:06 -0500
In <0NRB4.69$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/21/2000
at 09:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith) said:
>I think I've
>heard W2K also includes some partition-resizing features, but I've never
>investigated the matter.
Now there's a comforting thought. First DR-DOS, then OS/2 . . . Linux is
next in the sights, I'm sure of it. Redmond + Linux = trouble.
Pardon my paranoia; been a rough day.
--
===========================================================
Duane A. Bielling
http://www.datasync.com/~bielling
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt. 6:33; John 3:16; Rom. 8:1
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RealPlayer 7 beta for Linux HOW TO INSTALL
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:16:36 +0000
All you have to do is rename the file. The way I use is to: mv
real_7_0_i386_rpm real_7_0.i386.rpm
Notice that the "mv" command will rename the file, and that the two
underscores are now replaced with"dots".
Then just install the file as you would a normal rpm. The remaining
underscores don't seem to matter.
regards, Jim
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From: "Luis Hernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where can I find cheap linux systems?
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:50:37 GMT
Hi,
I want to set up a really cheap web server, nothing fancy, just something
that has a couple of gigs of space, and can handle apache, php and mySQL but
not on heavy usage, Probably not even more than a couple of hundred hits a
day.
I'd like a system that's atleast 200mhz, 32-64mb of ram, CDROM and ethernet.
No monitor necessary. I once saw an add for a system that was somewhat
better than these specs and was $300, but I lost the ad! Can anyone point me
to a site that sells real cheap systems? Nothing more expensive than $300.
Thanks,
Luis
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From: "Terry Proveau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New MB using Intel i820 Chipset WITH ASUS P3C2000
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:51:19 -0500
I am using the ASUS P3C2000 and have UDMA66 installed with Win98. I can
install Linux Caldera 2.3 to a separate hard drive (a Fujitsu udma66 13 gig)
and it works fine, Linux boots right up. When I tried Linux on a partition
on my 27 gig 7200rpm udma66 it installed fine and ran fine at the install
but will not boot. I am using partition magic but Linux does not support the
udma66 so I have been informed. I have not tried too much on the full drive
install, just installed Star Office and Word Perfect and played some of the
games that came with Linux. Don't have the sound card setup yet.
Asus used to have a newsgroup that was helpfull but its been down for
months!
Good luck with your ASUS P3C2000. I can't complain too much with my setup
using Win98.
Tony R. Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8b64p4$q91$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Gary Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Well I took a chance on a new motherboard for a PC I want to complete
> >by this summer. I bought an ASUS P3C2000. This is a coppermine
> >ready board with some nice features at a nice price, but used the
> >Intel i820 chipset. Naturally, there is no mention that I can find
> >about this chipset at any Linux sites I track, but I know there have
> >been chipset problems in the past. Nor is there discussion at the
> >asus website. I particularly wanted a board that might still be
> >upgradable two years from now, thus the gamble on coppermine.
> >
> >Would a hardware guy like to comment? I expect a few arrows if I go
> >for bleedn' edge stuff, but my hope is that any problems will be dealt
> >with by the time the new kernel release hits the net this summer.
> >
> >By the way, there's a neat PC maintenance and update manual that I
> >bought last night at B&N rewritten for Linux. That book only goes as
> >high as the i810 set of course and this stuff is too new to make it
> >into a recent book. I've forgotten the authors names but will post
> >the ISBN tomorrow.
> >
> >--Gary Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Check out what the 'Driver Status' link at
> http://www.xfree.org/4.0/Status16.html#16 says:
>
> 16. Intel
>
> 3.3.6:
>
> Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the
> XF86_SVGA server with the i740 driver, and for the Intel i810 with
> the i810 driver. The i810 is currently only supported on Linux, and
> requires the agpgart.o kernel module in order to use modes that
> require more than 1MB of video memory.
>
> 4.0:
>
> Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the "i740"
> driver, and support for the Intel i810 is provided by the "i810"
> driver. The "i810" driver is currently Linux-only, and requires
> the agpgart.o kernel module.
>
> Summary:
>
> The i740 and i810 are supported in both
> versions, but the i810 is only supported on
> Linux/x86 platforms at present.
>
> --
> Anti-spam filter: I am not root@localhost
> trb@teleport dot com COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with
Teleport
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From: Marcelo Penna Guerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: YAMAHA under Linux
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 22:15:43 -0300
Well, there�s a comercial binary-only driver from 4Front. But the ALSA team
listed the DS-XG in their black list, because Yamaha refuses to release the
information needed to write a driver (probally 4Front got one of those NDA).
You can download a evaluation version of the driver from
http://www.opensound.com/
Marcelo
xiangola wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I have a YAMAHA DS-XG PCI audio system made onto my motherboard (if it
> isn't, I could've replaced it with a SB vibra a long time ago) and I wonder
> if there's any Linux driver that would support such an audio system.
>
> Live long and prosper.
>
> Xiangola
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