Linux-Hardware Digest #574, Volume #12 Wed, 29 Mar 00 22:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!! (Marc)
Re: Best Video Card w/tv/mpeg2/dvd/capture for SuSE /FreeBSD? ("Alex Lam.")
help with apcupsd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: free Linux installation CD (Michael Kelly)
Seagate Tape Support (Gunnar Weygold)
Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Infra-red transceiver Project ? (Andre-John Mas)
Re: Looking for the "right" SMP Linux motherboard ... (aggressive hobbyist use) (LhD
Administrator)
Re: Realtek 8019 network card & RedHat 6.0 (LhD Administrator)
Re: Accounting software (Christopher Browne)
Re: Linksys Ethernet card problem (LhD Administrator)
RealAudio setup (grant lowe)
Promise Boot Problem? (Abe Waranowitz)
Troubles with Dell and Promise IDE Ultra card ("Kevin P. Inscoe")
Problem configuring Linux to work with APC UPS - OR - How to configure serial port
correctly? (Josef Meger)
Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1 (Colin)
Re: Problems configuring NIC ("Jason Byrne")
Re: XFree86 4.0 and Intel i810 (D G)
Linux Driver for Artist PT80 video card ? (Alan Lui)
Re: Newbie to Slackware, Oldie to DOS. ("Branimir Maksimovic")
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help LILO 10101... Problem!!!
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:27:45 GMT
Martin wrote:
>
> When installing RH 6.1 on my system after the LILO configuration has
> completed upon rebooting my system I get the 10101010... string running
> accross the screen. I then have to boot into DOS and "fdisk /mbr". I have an
> IBM Deskstar 20.5GB drive with 2 partitions of 10GB running Win 98 and a 4GB
> Quantumn Fireball running Linux. I did not have any probs with LILO before
> the IBM drive was installed.
>
> Any help on how to get around this problem will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Martin
I have had a similar problem with my machine.
I have two hard disks in the computer, one is fixed the other is in a
removable drawer.
The removable disk (which I call home disk) is a win95 disk set as
primary master that I can remove and replace with another disk form the
offic. The second disk is a fixed disk set as primary slave containing
my Linux OS.
The 1010101 error occured when I removed my "home" disk and replaced it
with my "office" disk to do a little bit of work. While booting, I
modified my BIOS setting "to forget" that I have a disk on the primary
slave (setting to "NONE") forcing it to recongnise only the primary
master ("WORK") disk.
After my work was done, I put back my "home" disk in the computer,
which I forgot to tell you, contains the lilo in the MBR and rebooted
without modifying the BIOS settings by mistake. On booting, just after
doing the internal test and just when it was supposed to go to lilo,
...... 1010101010101010110.
I am not an expert, just a beginner, My opinion is take in my case,
lilo was looking for my primary slave disk and did not find it gave me
the 10101010 erorr message. Everything was back to normal when I
modified the BIOS settings.
Marc.
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From: "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Video Card w/tv/mpeg2/dvd/capture for SuSE /FreeBSD?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:57:27 -0800
TJ Snider wrote:
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> I'm running RH6.1 with XFree86 4.0 on a Rage Fury 128 32MB TV-OUT. I haven't
> done anything with Linux and the TV-OUT but it does do okay under Win98.
> Performance is quite snappy under Linux.
>
> I'm waiting for Precision-Insight to make the DRI compatible driver so that
> I can do 3D under linux. I believe the current r128 driver is already
> available for SuSE (I think they helped fund it).
>
> TJ
Thx. I'm gathering info right now. Wait for the price to fall
on cpu. (As Intel's
just released Celeron 2 - with .18 coppermine tech today, and
higher speeds P3 and AMDs k7 are
expected real soon.) Should see a decent price drop from both
Intel and AMD within a week or so.
Working under Windoze doesn't help. All my machines are 100% M$
Free.
Yeah, SuSE got the most hardware supports, especially the newer
ones.
So, I won't doubt it if SuSE did help funding some driver's
development.
Alex Lam.
> ----------
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> > Building a new multi-media entertainment box.
> >
> > What is the best and reasonable priced video card (around $250.us)
> >for Linux kernel 2.2.x, or FreeBSD3.x?
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help with apcupsd
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:43:20 GMT
Anyone here with experience with this program? It comes with little
documentation and the default configuration uncleanly shuts down the ups
about 10 seconds after power failure. Just kils the whole system without
issueing the shutdown command Running smartups 1000 with 940 0020b
cable.
Note if I set the configuration for the correct ups (smartups)
I get this error :
ERROR: Changing UPSTYPE from SmartUPs to BackUPS due wrong Cable of
Smart signls.
Just changing it to backups stops the error message but what
is going on. Also I get a second error message ( or just one if
type is set to backups)
Error! (shouldn't happen)
What shouldn't happen and where can I find some documentation with
these error codes?
I check status after the program loads and it says all is fine. But
if I kill ac power , users get like 2 warning messages (as long as
they are not in xwindows) then it just kills the whole system.
Surely there is some way to make it do a clean shutdown ?
Thanks, Fletch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Subject: Re: free Linux installation CD
Date: 29 Mar 2000 23:52:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> The problem with this strategy is that it tends to get you last year's
> (at best) CD. If you get far enough in your installation to start
> writing questions about how to get things to work to the internet, you
> will then get a lot of answers like "This problem was fixed last Fall;
> upgrade to the latest version". I recommend getting the latest CD
> from cheapbytes or somewhere like that. Or borrowing one from
> someone. Or convincing the library to order the latest cd and loan it
> to users.
>
Thanks for the pointer on cheapbytes Laura. I knew there was a place
where you could get Linux CDs for like $5 or so, but I forgot where
it was. :)
The nice thing about Linux is if someone has a recent CD you can
burn a copy without copyright or copy protection worries. :)
--
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
-- Groucho Marx
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From: Gunnar Weygold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Seagate Tape Support
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:59:45 GMT
I spoke with one of the Seagate rep's about support for an ATAPI / IDE
Travan drive under Linux and was told that all current drives are
supported, even the autoloading DAT's. There are no extra drivers are
required, and all of the drives are supported by TAR, Dump, and CPIO.
He sent me the URL's for the web site that shows the official support:
Hornet Travan SCSI
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/tape/horn_scsi_sw_comp.html
Hornet Travan ATAPI
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/tape/horn_atapi_sw_comp.html
Scorpion DAT
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/tape/scorp_sw_comp.html
Scorpion DAT Autoloader
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/tape/scorp_auto_sw_comp.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:16:50 GMT
It is a PnP card, but it is a PCI card. Isn't isapnptools for ISA cards?
I installed it in a Win95 machine and got the card to work, but never in
my linux box. Got the widely reported "linux discovers the card, but
hangs when it tries to play a sample sound" error.
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
codifex maximus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I give up! I've tried to get my SB PCI 128 to work for quite a
while,
> > and I now admit defeat.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a good PCI sound card that RH 6.1 will recognize
> > right out of the box?
> >
> > Anyone want to buy a SB PCI 128?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> Is it a PnP card? If so, did you try activating the card using
> isapnptools and then loading the sb driver/module?
>
> --
>
> Codifex Maximus
> I'm the rat that jumped out of the maze.
>
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From: Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Infra-red transceiver Project ?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:23:46 GMT
I found what I was looking for at
http://www.thp.Uni-Koeln.DE/~rjkm/lirc/
Thanks for those who passed on the info.
Andre
In article <8btk3c$gop$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> Does anyone know of any projects that would show me how to add
> an infra-red transceiver to a PC and how I could program it under
> Linux to respond to TV-controller type device?
> Andre
> --
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>
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>
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for the "right" SMP Linux motherboard ... (aggressive hobbyist
use)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:31:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Karlo Szabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BP6, no questions about it.
There are some very mixed reports about the BP6, especially from those
who use the on-board IDE controllers or have earlier revisions of the
boards. It seems very polar -- either a 1 or a 5 out of 5.
--
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realtek 8019 network card & RedHat 6.0
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:37:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Adrian Lukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a network card with a Realtek 8019 cip.
This should help -- follow the workaround suggestions & check out the
driver/resource links.
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?312
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Accounting software
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:53:02 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Toolman would say:
>Thanks for the info, but we need something for a small business. We
>need accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, etc. (like
>QuickBooks)
Take a look at the URL below; a number of possibilities are listed.
I somewhat doubt that there will *ever* be a "free" payroll system;
the process of keeping such software up-to-date based on the
ever-changing tax rules is likely to make such an effort prohibitive
to "volunteers."
There are a number of proprietary options that may be worth looking
at.
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys Ethernet card problem
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:46:06 GMT
In article <K3dE4.528$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mark Atwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Here are some of the lines (out of hundreds) spit out by the compiler:
Hmm... Looks pretty bad. So you do have the entire sources installed,
and you are typing something like "make bzImage" after "make xconfig"?
Is "/usr/src/linux" linked to the "/usr/src/linux-2.2.12" or some older
version?
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From: grant lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RealAudio setup
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 01:03:55 GMT
I have RedHat6.0 installed. I used sndconfig to get audio working.
However, I can't get RealAudio to work. It starts for like 1 or 2
seconds, then stops. Any ideas?
grant
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From: Abe Waranowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise Boot Problem?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 01:09:06 GMT
I've read all the FAQ's & Howto's and followed directions, but I still
can't boot from a Promise UDMA66 PCI card.
I'm using kernel 2.2.15-pre14 with the Promise patch posted earlier in
this newsgroup.
If I boot from an ISA IDE card, the kernel recognizes and displays the
Promise info. In my case, hde is at 0x6400 according to
/var/log/messages. But a cat/proc/pci says 0x6000. Hmmm.....
Anyway, when I attempt to boot from the Promise card, I simply get:
Loading linux.............
and that's it. Even if I add ide2=0x6400 or ide0=0x6400 or 0x6000 or
anything....
Shouldn't it get farther than this? Do I need to compile the kernel
differently? Or use a different LILO option? Remember, it works
perfectly from ISA IDE.
Sigh.
What's the deal?
Thanks for the help!
-Abe
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From: "Kevin P. Inscoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Troubles with Dell and Promise IDE Ultra card
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:18:37 GMT
Sigh! My mboard IDE on my Dell Optiplex 5133 (Phoenix bios)
is generating lots of errors (IDE resets, etc...read errors)
so I went out and bought a top of the line ATA/EIDE PCI
controller.
http://www.promise.com/Products/idecards/u66.htm
However I can't even get it to work even in DOS. I have a
Seagate ATA-2 drive as master in IDE 1 with ATAPI CDROM in slave.
On IDE 2 I have a EIDE Maxtor master drive. The BIOS insert comes
up and sees drives but...when I boot dos with cdrom drivers
no C: or D:. Redhat 6.1 installer does not see them either
Any ideas? CMOS settings to "None". Promise is no help.
If this card is not what I want what do you recommend for RH 6.1?
TIA
~kevin
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From: Josef Meger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem configuring Linux to work with APC UPS - OR - How to configure serial
port correctly?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:52:56 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Linux box running Redhat 6.1 I believe - Kernel version 2.2.12.
This is a headless box working as our firewall.
I'm having trouble getting APC's PowerChute software working on it. I've
talked several times to their technical support, and they've basically
been helpful, sending me a new cable when I had the wrong one,
but I'm on my own to fix the basic problem.
I can communicate with the UPS (I can send one character ["A"] to the UPS to
produce a beep.) This lets me know I have the correct device entry (/dev/ttyS0)
and that the cable is connected correctly. But the other parts of the APC software
fail because, APC say, I have the port configured for modem use and not
terminal use.
I'd like to be able to use high-level GUI tools like control-panel... but..
for security and memory reasons X has been ripped off this box. That's
OK and I see no reason to change it. But that seems to leave me only
with low level tools for changing the port, and I'm quite lost.
I have been reading HOW-TOs and various O'Reilly books for hours, but
I cannot figure out how to change the way this port is configured.
Here's a dump of the stty settings for the relevant port:
[root@fishbone /dev]# stty -a < /dev/ttyS0
speed 2400 baud; rows 0; columns 0; line = 0;
intr = <undef>; quit = <undef>; erase = <undef>; kill = <undef>; eof = ^A;
eol = ^A; eol2 = <undef>; start = M-^?; stop = M-^?; susp = M-^?; rprnt = ^A;
werase = ^Q; lnext = ^S; flush = M-^?; min = 0; time = 1;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk brkint ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr igncr -icrnl ixon ixoff
-iuclc -ixany imaxbel
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten -echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke
What files do I need to change to move this port back to terminal use?
How do I control the initial stty settings this port has?
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From: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:05:55 GMT
On 29 Mar 2000 17:06:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mrghostly)
blabbed:
>I've had good luck with the Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI. It works
>with every distro I use (Debian/Slack/RedHat), along with OpenBSD
>and NetBSD. It's not the best card on the market, but it's cheap
>and very well-supported.
I tried installing this sound card with the es1371 module. I managed
to get the CD player to play music but most other sound programs would
fail. My "wave" sounds in afterstep would no long play; the joystick
port would not work. I'm wondering if I'm missing any other modules
that would enable all the sounds that I had before.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems configuring NIC
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:13:48 -0800
Chris Keating <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8bt57t$2pn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Houston Technologies motherboard that has a built in NIC by
> Davicom. I am able to get the card configured and the network up and
running
> at the command prompt. At boot, a message "Delaying eth0 intialization"
> occurs. I have narrowed the problem to the NIC module not be loaded at
boot
> (i.e., lsmod indicates the module is not running).
>
> My question:
>
> How do I get the NIC module loaded at boot. I have added the following to
> conf.modules:
>
> alias eth0 dmfe
> options dmfe io=c800 irq=10
did you mean to type 'io=c800?'
That wouldn't be a valid value...
try something like 0x280, 0x2a0, 0x300, etc... (just trying to make clear
examples - not suggesting these values are correct)
Also... you might try to see if it finds your card without specifying any
irq/io values with an 'options' statement for eth0.
> Thanks in advance
>
>
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0 and Intel i810
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:26:48 -0800
REN wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed XFree86 4.0, but could not get the X-window running.
> During the configuration process, I did not find the driver for
> intel i810 (I found Intel 5430? instead). Any suggestions?
> Thanks!
You need to install the agpgart.o module and then make the link to the
i810 driver. I'm not sure what the driver name is since I am using
3.3.5 with the driver at http://support.intel.com. However, this driver
is now included in the 3.3.6 and 4.0 releases. It was named
XFcom_something_or_other. It is not an accelerated driver, so you need
to use the svga screen setup in XF86Config.
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From: Alan Lui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Driver for Artist PT80 video card ?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:30:34 GMT
Does anyone know if Artist PT80 video card (PCI) will support Linux 6.1
Red Hat ? Thanks
Alan
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From: "Branimir Maksimovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie to Slackware, Oldie to DOS.
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 04:15:19 +0200
PaulTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry for this double-posting:
>
> In the past, I've grown up to computers with UNIX systems, etc.
>
> Now that I've purchased "The Complete LINUX Kit" with the CD
> having Linux v1.1 kernel, X Windows System Version 11 Release 6
> and a whole bunch of other stuff, by SYBEX.
>
> I installed MSDOS 6.22. Then installed Mitsumi CD drivers. I have
> a (Gateway) P5-120 and 32MB of ram and a 125MB IDE (St3144at)
> and a 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive. It seems adaquate for Linux, so
> far. No "Windows" anything on the previously blank drive.
I think that 125 MB will not be enough for whole installation.
I have installed Slackware 7.0(full installation) and I've got 1GB of hard
drive space occupied. But you can choose basic stuff
(no X and window managers , etc), so it can fit.
>
> I go to the D:\ drive (CD) and ran "rawrite" to make the two boot
> disks, that worked. Then booted them both. Next I booted and
> logged in as root. Typed "setup" to install the Linux system. And
> tried to figure out what next, it can't find the CD!
>
> Amazing! What gives?
>
> I think it's a mitsumi type. It is a master on the secondary IDE
> connector.
Nope. I've installed slackware on similar configuration without any
problems. Secondary IDE controller (separate cable), Mitsumi on it.
I think that you have chosen wrong kernel to boot or maybe
it is a BIOS thing.
Try to mount CD first.
mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom (or similar).
Then setup.
BTW, did you run fdisk or cfdisk (not dos fdisk) after booting to setup
linux partition first?
If you did not, your problems are quite explainable.
>
> I have the "Gateway CD install disk" that goes with the CD and
> used that to install the DOS drivers. DOS finds the CD on
> power-up, although it does complain that there's a "hardware
> conflict" and have to hit ESC on every power-up/reset. This
> "conflict" appeared when I plugged in the CD drive. It's on its
> own cable by itself separate from the IDE cable.
>
Can't say much more, except that it can be BIOS or cabling
(check whether Mitsumi jumper settings are ok ),
and try to make linux partition (and swap partition), before setup.
Greetings, Bane.
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