Linux-Hardware Digest #670, Volume #12 Wed, 12 Apr 00 13:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope? (Leonard Evens)
Re: Problems with IDE internal ZIP (philipp scherer)
Re: DHCP not working in kernel 2.2.x, was OK in 2.0.36 (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors? (Larry Ozarow)
Re: Tekram DC-395 (Rod Roark)
Getting sound working on Dell OptiPlex GX1p ("Mike Vonderbecke")
Re: IBM Ultrastar LVD drives with AMI Megaraid 428 card ? (Chris Pitzel)
Re: XF86Config for NeoMagic MagicMedia 256XL+ (Gareth Bowker)
Re: New video card worthwhile? (Gerald Willmann)
SCSI slowness (Pjtg0707)
Install on Dell 4400 with Perc 3??? (michael pemulis)
Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope? (Michael Kelly)
Re: Idea !!! ("The Wogster")
Re: Linux & PCI Modems - Do They Work?
gameport not showing puzzle (Garry Wright)
Re: Linux on a DSP (Dances With Crows)
Re: SB Live 1024 (Anders �quist)
Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope? (Michael Kelly)
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 10:52:36 -0500
Kirk Wythers wrote:
>
> What have I gotten myself into? I have a Ultra ATA66 controller card and a
> 30 gig quantum fireball for a hard disk. Seems that no matter how carefully
> you look at the "supported hardware" page, you overlook something. I'd like
> to install linux on a 6 gig partition. Are there any "work arounds" for
> controller card issue?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kirk
I don't know much about it, but it is mentioned somewhere in
one of the HOWTOs I think. Try the Linux Documentation Project.
I think you can use the card as an ATA33 with recent kernels.
Good Luck.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: philipp scherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with IDE internal ZIP
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:58:11 +0200
>
Have you tried to format the zips using the iomega zip-tools.
I experienced the same problems you described when I
formatted zips with win95 without zip-tools installed.
Philipp Scherer Theoret.Physik T38 TU M�nchen
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP not working in kernel 2.2.x, was OK in 2.0.36
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:18:06 -0400
The Bard wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:39:58 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >WHen I upgraded my Linux kernel to 2.2.x from 2.0.36 my DHCP stopped
> >working.
> >
> >My PC recognizes the network card, and it works if I set a fixed IP for
> >my workstation. But when I try to connect via DHCP, it fails. During
> >boot, the initialization of eth0 service fails.
> >
> >The initialization of the service is a call to
> >/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup. I tried running it by hand and
> >watching what's going on, but I can't spot any obvious clues. It fails
> >on the call to 'pump'.
> >
> >Any help appreciated.
> >
> >Mark
> Make sure that in linuxconf, the correct module is being loaded by
> eth0...
It is loading the right module. With no other changes, I can get it to
work with fixed IP.
One added piece of info: I did a debug log on /sbin/pump and the failure
message is:
reject: id: 0xNNNNNNNN <--> 0xMMMMMMMM
Where N and M are two different hex numbers. There's a meaning here
somewhere, but I
don't know what it is.
Mark
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From: Larry Ozarow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:23:16 GMT
Keith wrote:
> SMP support is greatly improved in the recent kernels, so go for a
> recent distribution. IIRC Redhat includes the SMP kernel as an option
> in their installation. Some other distributions require you to build a
> new kernel with SMP enabled before they will use two processors.
Just as a matter of information, I know that at least Caldera and
Slackware
come with SMP kernels pre-compiled.
Also to chime in on this theme: I run SMP using an old RedHat on a SCSI
dual Pentium at work (motherboard unknown at this point, I'm at home),
and
at home dual Celerons on an Epox KP6-BS. The latter is pretty inexpensive
but has given me no problems whatsoever.
By the way there were some IDE problems when using SMP and add-on
IDE cards. These seem to have been fixed in 2.2.14. So if you are using
an add-on board make sure to use a new kernel.
Larry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Roark)
Subject: Re: Tekram DC-395
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:21:58 GMT
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:30:08 +0400, Max S. Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello All!
>
>After installation of RH6.0 on my computer with TekRam 395 SCSI
>controller I began to receive kernel messages such as "<6>Arbitrarion
>Lost but Reselection win ............." (while copying large files) and
>"EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeng blocks not in
>datazone - block XXXXXXXXX, count - 1" (while deletition)
>
>Whats matter? Help me.
I didn't know the DC-395 series was even supported yet. Is this the
U2W card, and what driver are you using?
Try the corresponding DC-390 card instead. The 390F (sym53c8xx driver)
is a great value for a UW card.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: "Mike Vonderbecke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting sound working on Dell OptiPlex GX1p
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:11:54 -0400
I have a Dell Optiplex GX1p...it has onboard sound (Crystal Audio chipset)
and I am trying to get it working in Redhat 6.1. Is there a special driver
I need to use for this and if not what are the steps I can take to install
and get the sound working? I forget all the steps I used on my computer at
home. Thanks. If possible please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike
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From: Chris Pitzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: IBM Ultrastar LVD drives with AMI Megaraid 428 card ?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:03:13 GMT
> I'm considering getting one of the AMI Megaraid 428 cards that are
> going cheap, and putting my two IBM Ultrastar 4.5gig LVD (U2W) drives
> on it.
> Does anyone have any experience with a similar setup? Concerns are:
I was using a Megaraid 428 for a couple months earlier this year with
drives similar to yours. I hope I can be of some help:
> 1. According to the AMI page, the Megaraid card is Ultra SCSI, not
> U2W. "LVD disks will only work if they are backward compatible
> and can be set to single-ended mode, and the disk firmware allows
> for running in that mode or slower modes." I'm not sure how to be
> absolutely sure the IBM disks conform to that description!
Most, if not all LVD drives have the capability of reverting to SE
mode. However, there likely will be the odd drive design or two,
especially if such designs are pre-release, that the diffsense circuit
just doesn't work properly, or isn't implemented, and thus, the drives
won't work properly in SE mode.
The IBM drives should work though.
> 2. Has anyone used "Generic" or "House Brand" true parity SIMMS (for
> cache) with this RAID card, instead of the approved brands ("PNY,
> SEC, Tanisys, Micron Technologies, Advantage, Unigen, and
> Centon")?
I was using a pair of NEC 16mb parity SIMMS. Definitely not on the
list. I can't make a general statement, but I know that I used a
different brand, and it worked.
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From: Gareth Bowker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config for NeoMagic MagicMedia 256XL+
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:10:04 +0000
Samantha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Has anyone successfully configured this? Especially for 1024x768 at 16bpp
> or better? I've tried various things I picked up from Linux Laptop pages
> and from Precision Insight XFCom drivers and so on with no luck thus far.
> I keep getting unrecognized chipset, a low probed clock speed and dropping
> out to the built-in 320-200 mode when X comes up.
Sorry, I can't really help (I'm trying to get the same chipset set up on
a Dell notebook). But I thought I'd mention some of the things I found:
It seems that the Mandrake 7.0 install can manage 640x480 quite happily,
but I haven't looked into which X server they use in the install.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/#x_window_system has
quite a few good links regarding setting up X. One of the links,
http://www.mnsinc.com/js/Neomagic.html was especially good (although I
still didn't get it set up - didn't have enough time to play around with
the settings).
HTH,
Gareth
PS if you do manage to get it set up, feel free to post the XF86Config
file back ;)
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New video card worthwhile?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:14:16 -0700
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, julien mills wrote:
> I have a pentium 90, which is probably 5 years old,
> and am thinking of getting a new video card and
> monitor.
> But, when I look at the video cards, a lot seem to
> require a pentium II etc. Will it do me any good to
> get a new card? Or is my computer so old it won't be
> able to get the benefit of a better video card?
> Right now I have an old Stealth 64 with 2MB. I can
> run 800x600 or 1024x768 but not at a fast refresh rate.
> I'd like to go 1024x768 or higher, at a high refresh
> rate.
I faced the same problem about a year ago and got a used matrox millenium
with 2 megs for about 30 dollars. Allows for 1152x900 with 16 bit color at
high refresh rates and I'm happy. You should probably get it with 4 or 8
megs so you can have more colors and/or higher resolution.
Gerald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707)
Subject: SCSI slowness
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:29:28 GMT
Hi,
I recently added a vfat scsi drive I have some DOS data to my current system
so I can retrieve some data files.
I've edited the fstab file and used the /dev/sda1 driver and the system
recognized it fine and mounted it at boot time.
However, I am puzzled by the slowness of doing a simple ls for the first
time on the scsi drive from linux prompt. The slowness goes away after the
first ls. It's almost as if the system is cacheing something.
The logs did not reveal anything obvious. Is there anything I need to do to
improve the firs time access time of the vfat partition?
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From: michael pemulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Install on Dell 4400 with Perc 3???
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 09:31:07 -0600
Has anyone done this? Just got a new 4400 with a Perc 3/di RAID in it.
Trying to install RedHat on it with no success. I have tried both 6.1
and 6.2. The
problem is that the install doesn't recognize the RAID setup. Says that
it has
nowhere to install to.
Previously I installed with success on a Dell 1300 with a Perc 2sc card
in it. I
did this following Dell's instructions / supplemental install disk. No
such luck
with this new setup. Dell of course has no interest in helping.
Any takers??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope?
Date: 12 Apr 2000 16:40:03 GMT
In article <8d0p25$d32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kirk Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What have I gotten myself into? I have a Ultra ATA66 controller card and a
> 30 gig quantum fireball for a hard disk. Seems that no matter how carefully
> you look at the "supported hardware" page, you overlook something. I'd like
> to install linux on a 6 gig partition. Are there any "work arounds" for
> controller card issue?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Kirk
>
>
Hi Kirk. Wayne's HOWTO will get you going so you can install(I used it
on a Gateway with Promise Ata66.) If you have the interface cable and
want to get the full udma support, once you get installed and all, then
download and compile the 2.3.4 kernel. I've been using it for a couple
of weeks now with no problems. bonnie went from showing 6.7 MB/sec to
around 21 MB/sec and hdparm showed buffered sequential reads of about
16 MB/sec! Definitely worth a kernel download and compile! You can
set up your lilo.conf so you can boot either the install kernel or the
new one in case there's a problem.
Good luck. :)
--
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
-- Groucho Marx
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From: "The Wogster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea !!!
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:49:03 -0400
Pasi Savolainen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The Wogster wrote:
>> A better mechanism might be for Linux, BSD, SCO, Solaris to bind together
>> with a common driver interface.
>This is where Linus draws the line. He wants to keep driver
>interface/API fully flexible, no guaranties that it doesn't change in
>next prepatch. And he is totally right. If he'd freeze the api, it'd
>take too long for some functions to come to kernel.
>
>best,
>pasi.
>
>ps. no-one is stopping one from writing
>per-kernel-version-call-translator that'd translate function calls...
>but i'm blabbing again.
A properly written common driver interface (CDI), would leave implementation
to the kernel team, if they want to write it as a translator, then it
becomes a library that gets loaded when a driver needs it. The kernel team
could also just implement the interface right into the kernel. The ideal is
that a hardware vendor could write a driver, using the CDI and offer quick
support to a number of platforms. The 13,000,000 Linux users might not be
enough, but add in the 1,000,000 *nix users and it might just be. The user
knows that all CDI drivers get put in a certain place in the directory tree,
and the driver starts by calling a function in the CDI.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Linux & PCI Modems - Do They Work?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:57:50 GMT
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 15:54:00 +1000, Craig McFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>TWIMC,
>I took a punt on a locally made PCI modem. It's based on a Rockwell
>chipset. What do I need to do to get it working with Linux? I'm using
>Red Hat 6.2.
>
If it is a winmodem (most likely) then you're fucked as it was made to be
braindead to save a few bucks.
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From: Garry Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: gameport not showing puzzle
Date: 12 Apr 2000 16:02:53 GMT
I have a Creative Labs s/b 16 with gameport and have initialized
the gameport part with the following per /var/log/messages
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Found board CTL0070/-1 as Card Select Number 1
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing LD 0
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing NAME CTL0070/-1[0]{Audio
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 : Executing CONFIGURE CTL0070/-1
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Found board CTL0070/-1 as Card Select Number 1
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing LD 1
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing IO 0
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing SIZE 8
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing <IORESCHECK>
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing BASE 0x0200
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing <IORESCHECK>
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing NAME CTL0070/-1[1]{Game
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: Executing ACT Y
Apr 12 06:40:29 p166 isapnp: CTL0070/-1[1]{Game }: Port 0x200; ---
Enabled OK
The port does not show in /proc/ioports ala
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0140-015f : aha152x
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0220-022f : soundblaster
02e8-02ef : serial(auto)
0300-031f : WD8013
0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
fcf0-fcf7 : ide0
fcf8-fcff : ide1
doing modprobe joystick seems to work but the
modprobe joy-analog.o gives
[root@p166 /proc]# modprobe joy-analog.o
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/joy-analog.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
My head is sore from banging it so hellllp???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Linux on a DSP
Date: 12 Apr 2000 13:01:48 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:48:42 +0200, Nicolas Dentant
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Does Linux run on a DSP ?
The acronym "DSP" usually refers to a "Digital Signal Processor", which
I'm guessing is not what you meant. Expand acroynm, please?
>What distribution should I use ?
Find a friend nearby who uses Linux and use whatever s/he's using until
you get some familiarity with it. That way, your friend can help you out
with whatever problems you have, and after you gain experience, you can
make a good decision.
>Do you have any good sites I could look at ?
http://www.linuxdoc.org
http://www.linuxnewbie.org
http://www.redhat.com
http://www.suse.com
http://www.slackware.com
http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml
...for starters.
--
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: Anders �quist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live 1024
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:07:19 GMT
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:47:19 +0100, "Cetelem"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote something like:
>I have one SB Live 1024 under redhat 6.1.
>sndconfig tells me that it can't suport it.
>What can I do to this??
>Is there a patch?
Creative has a site,
http://opensource.creative.com/
There you'll have drivers for SB Live.
4front also has working OSS drivers for SB Live cards.
http://www.opensound.com
There should be a demo version there.
/Anders
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope?
Date: 12 Apr 2000 16:57:02 GMT
In article <8d28t3$qfa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly) writes:
> In article <8d0p25$d32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Kirk Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> If you have the interface cable and
> want to get the full udma support, once you get installed and all, then
> download and compile the 2.3.4 kernel. I've been using it for a couple
> of weeks now with no problems. bonnie went from showing 6.7 MB/sec to
> around 21 MB/sec and hdparm showed buffered sequential reads of about
> 16 MB/sec! Definitely worth a kernel download and compile! You can
> set up your lilo.conf so you can boot either the install kernel or the
> new one in case there's a problem.
>
> Good luck. :)
>
Oops! I should also add, if you compile 2.3.4 kernel make sure
you run make config or make xconfig and enable the pd* drivers
that support the Promise udma interface. They are not enabled
by default. Also see the HOWTOs at www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO for
info on enabling the udma on bootup etc..
--
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
-- Groucho Marx
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