Linux-Hardware Digest #678, Volume #12 Thu, 13 Apr 00 15:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Linux Buslogic scsi driver parameters (tjm)
How can I access zip drive? (Omar Hayat)
Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why? (Dances With Crows)
Re: LS-120 and making a boot floppy (bill davidsen)
Multiple PCI Ethernet Cards in Elder Compaq (Matt Fuerst)
Leo-Scan S3 and Linux (Thomas Jensen)
Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why? ("onvoy")
tape drive ("onvoy")
Syquest SparQ IDE won't mount ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cd-rom server under slakware (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Gmake errors... (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors? ("Alex Lam.")
Re: Driver for Yamaha DS-XG ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Serious Mounting Problem!! ("Ricardo")
i810 Chipset - Error Installing ("Scott C. Zielinski")
Re: Multiple PCI Ethernet Cards in Elder Compaq (Matt Fuerst)
Re: Mouse Question ("Scott C. Zielinski")
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From: tjm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Linux Buslogic scsi driver parameters
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 09:32:19 -0700
Hello:
Is anyone familiar with passing parameters to
the linux buslogic scsi driver? I'm trying to set
the queue depth on a particular drive, but the
driver always defaults to it's own number. I
must be missing a switch somewhere in the driver
setup that allows the user setting to be read.
Can anyone shed any light on this problem? If
I can hardcode the numbers in the driver and
recompile, this would work, but where to put
them is the question. I've tried the lilo options
and entering the parameters from the boot prompt.
No luck. More info is available on the problem.
Tried all the procedures listed in the docs and
source. No reply from the author of the driver.
thanks,
--
tony mollica
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From: Omar Hayat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I access zip drive?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:30:18 GMT
Hi, I have SuSE 6.3 Linux and don't know how to access zip drive?
Please help.
Thanx.
Omar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why?
Date: 13 Apr 2000 12:35:04 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:47:45 +0200, Marek Futrega
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I've kernel-2.2.14-5 and shuttle av11 with 128mb memory but kernel detects
>only 64mb out of it.. win95/98/2000 detects 128mb without problems.
>Is something wrong with shuttle av11 or kernel?
>And how can I have all the 128mb memory detected by kernel?
RTFFAQ. This gets asked every day in almost every Linux NG.
Adding the line
append="mem=128M"
before the first "image=" line in /etc/lilo.conf and then re-running LILO
and then rebooting will work wonders. There's probably nothing wrong with
the motherboard; some BIOSes report a max of 64M with the function
call, some can report much more than that. The development kernel,
2.3.99-pre{3,4} has better support for detecting large amounts of memory
automatically and seems pretty stable for me... 2.4 should fix this
problem for good once it is ready for release.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: LS-120 and making a boot floppy
Date: 13 Apr 2000 16:34:15 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
D. D. Brierton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| My computer that I am running Linux Mandrake 7.0 (AIR) on has *no*
| floppy disk drive, but instead an IDE/ATAPI LS-120 drive. Therefore,
| there is no device corresponding to /dev/fd0. Instead my "floppy" is
| /dev/hda. This is an excerpt from the startup messages (as related by
| dmesg):
|
| hda: LS-120 VER4 07 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
| hdb: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SCR-3231, ATAPI CDROM drive
| hdc: Maxtor 90680D4, ATA DISK drive
| The problem is with formatting floppies (1.4MB 3.5" HD diskettes---I
| haven't even tried a 120MB 3.5" UHD diskette yet), and, especially,
| creating a boot floppy. fdformat does not appear to want to have
| anything to do with the LS-120 drive, and I tried various permutations
| of:
|
| mkbootdisk --verbose --device /dev/ls120 <kernel-name>
Suggestions:
See if there is an option at boot time which solves this, as
hdd=ide-scsi does for CD burners. As a last resort drop ATAPI-floppy
support and see if it looks like a floppy then.
Finally, before you do any of this, did you try Superformat? Sometimes
smarter is better, it may accept what you tell it. Then again you may
confuse the hell out of it ;-)
--
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"Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979"(tm)
The hardest test of maturity is knowing the difference between
resisting temptation and missing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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From: Matt Fuerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple PCI Ethernet Cards in Elder Compaq
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 12:33:25 -0400
Hello all,
Here's the situation. I am setting up a machine that eventually is going to
server as a PFR. Right now I just want to get an install on it and working, and
then pare down and get it ready for it's filtering functions.
The machine itself is a elder Compaq Mini-tower, Pentium 60, with two PCI
slots. (Exact model number on request). I installed an ethernet card and did a
ftp install of RH 6.2.. all went well. I have got ssh on the machine and all
the goodies that I want. I then went ahead and installed another PCI ethernet
card. This is the exact same ethernet card that is in the first slot (potential
problem #1 - the card by the way is some knockoff that identifies itslef as an
Intel Pro/100, I don't think it's a genuine Intel card but it may be). I boot
up, Kudzu finds the card and ID's it properly as being the same as the other
card.
/etc/sysconfig/hwconf correctly lists both of the cards:
-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: eth
driver: eepro100
desc: "Intel Corporation|82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 1229
pciType: 1
-
class: NETWORK
bus: PCI
detached: 0
device: eth
driver: eepro100
desc: "Intel Corporation|82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]"
vendorId: 8086
deviceId: 1229
pciType: 1
-
but when I run ifconfig, I get the following:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:75:29:82
inet addr:10.1.1.18 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:2176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1401 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:1 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000
and the lookback device.
No eth0. So I run an "ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.19 broadcast 10.1.1.255 netmask
255.255.255.0" command and get back "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily
unavailable". What a pain.
So I wonder what the problem may be? This is one of the first models to have
PCI slots, is it possible it is not giving me an IRQ? Or a proper IRQ? That
makes sense on one level but on another Kudzu is finding the card properly, so
it must be able to identify it, and communicate with it.
I run linuxconf and it has both entries for eth0 and eth1, but it has eth0
turned off. When I choose enable, nothing happens.
Any ideas? I am grasping at straws... maybe removing both cards and restarting
will allow the Compaq to reassign IRQ's after I reinstall both cards at once?
That is a pretty slim chance. I sure hope you have a better idea.
Matt Fuerst
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Jensen)
Crossposted-To:
de.comp.hardware.scanner,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.scanner
Subject: Leo-Scan S3 and Linux
Date: 13 Apr 2000 16:08:58 GMT
Hello,
i own the SCSI-Scanner Leo-Scan S3.
Is there a way to use it with Linux and Sane?
I've been searching a lot in dejanews etc. but found no solution.
Does anybody have this scanner working with Linux?
Regards
Thomas
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From: "onvoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel detects only 64mb out of 128mb -- why?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:35:18 GMT
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you need to pass the kernel mem=128
if you are using lilo
add
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From: "onvoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tape drive
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:32:30 GMT
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has anyone had any luck with a ide tape drive with linux?
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Chris
http://bliss.treewax.com
The remembered visit
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Syquest SparQ IDE won't mount
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:30:39 GMT
Whenever I try to mount my SparQ IDE, I get the error:
mount: /dev/hdd is not a valid block device
It is the secondary slave, so hdd is the right device (cdrom is the sec.
master, works on hdc), and it works great in windoze, bios recognizes
it, etc. So I know it works, I just can't get linux to mount it.
If I go to /dev and try, say, cat hdd, I get "Device not configured"
Any thoughts?
Thx
Evan
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cd-rom server under slakware
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:04:18 +0200
"P.E. Kimble" wrote:
> Is there a block device that will configure mitsumi FX-001
>cd-roms (proprietary) as a cd server.
>tried, to no success to use the mcdx driver
You could also try the mcd driver. That one is unable to handle
multisession burned CDs, but it used to work better for me with my old
mitsumi.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gmake errors...
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:22:30 +0200
Dan wrote:
> I have downloaded both the bttv and xawtv from the site. However the
> install notes are not clear. (I wish all install notes were like
> those with xchat, step by step console commands...)
It's not so far from that. Follow the step by step instructions in the
INSTALL textfile.
> ./configure doesn't exist, and I get error reports for the make
> commands.
You will have to manually edit the Makefile as described in INSTALL.
regards Henrik
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From: "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:00:50 -0700
Marcel Nihon wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Does Linux work fine with multiprocessors?
> Is there recommendations on the choice of the motherboard?
> Tkanks in advance,
>
> --
> Marcel Nihon
>
I'm running 2 SMP machines with Asus motherboard, U2WSCSI with
both SuSE-Linux and FreeBSD. No problem with either. SuSE-Linux
6.3 and later comes with pre-compiled SMP
kernel and can be choosen at installation time.
Performance on both machines are excellent.
Alex Lam.
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> Universite de Liege
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> Belgium email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Driver for Yamaha DS-XG
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:53:04 GMT
about 30 US dollars at www.opensound.com and it works for me.
Sound is not perfect though, might be better to buy a supported card.
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
geoffrey wilfart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all !
>
> I'm running Linux RH6.1. My computer has a Yamaha DS-XG sound card,
> which is not supported by this distribution.
>
> I've tried the latest sndconfig without results. Does anyone know if
> there is a driver for this card, and where I could find it ?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Geoffrey
>
>
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From: "Ricardo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serious Mounting Problem!!
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:40:00 +0100
I've installed Red Hat 6.1.
- When I try to mount my floppy disk it says "mount problem wrong fs type,
bad option bad superblock on dev/fd0 or too many mounted systems".
Does any one knows what dis means? How can i fix it?
-I've got two disks, one of them has the Linux partion, i can't mount the
other disk or the windows partion.How can i mount it at start up?
Because of these two problems the only way to use files from outside with
Linux is trough the cd-rom drive the only problem is that i don't have a cd
recorder!
Thanks.
Ricardo Pires
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:35:09 -0400
From: "Scott C. Zielinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i810 Chipset - Error Installing
I received the following error message when trying to install the i810
Chipset.
Did the first part (rpm -Uvh XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh60.i386.rpm),
which worked find, but it was when I ran rpm --rebuild
I810Gtt-0.1-5.src.rpm that I ended up getting this error at the end -
the first half of the install seemed to work find
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
./version-test.sh: ./version-test: No such file or directory
h@h@/usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
./version-test.sh: ./version-test: No such file or directory
KERNEL_VERSION=
KERNEL_VERSION_MAJOR=.
Something wrong with detection of KERNEL_VERSION?
Please check Makefile and report bug
KERNEL_VERSION_MAJOR=.
agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels exit -1
agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels
make: *** [agpgart.o] Error 255
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9674 (%build)
Any ideas? It suck using 4 bit colors - and 320x200 resolution (maybe
its 640, but it still sucks)
--
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From: Matt Fuerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple PCI Ethernet Cards in Elder Compaq
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 14:56:30 -0400
To just follow up on my own posting...
I am now totally certain that it is a problem with regards to the Bus Mastering
capabilities of the PCI Slot on the motherboard.
I have toyed with /etc/conf.modules and passed it the IRQ and Memory addresses
of both ethernet cards, as I got from my BIOS, and still no luck, I get an
error in dmesg that says to make sure I have a Bus Mastering available. I also
tried to pass the commands via the LILO route as in:
lilo: linux ether=11,0x1000,eth0 ether=9,0x7000,eth1
which would boot and bring up eth1 but eth0 would stay down with the
"Temporarily Unavailable" error.
How aggrevating. I don't think it is worth even any more time.. I am betting if
I can get my hands on a "non-Bus Mastering" PCI Ethernet card my problem will
get solved very quickly. Hints, tips? Anyone know of such a beasty?
Matt
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Matt Fuerst wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>Here's the situation. I am setting up a machine that eventually is going to
>server as a PFR. Right now I just want to get an install on it and working, and
>then pare down and get it ready for it's filtering functions.
>
>The machine itself is a elder Compaq Mini-tower, Pentium 60, with two PCI
>slots. (Exact model number on request). I installed an ethernet card and did a
>ftp install of RH 6.2.. all went well. I have got ssh on the machine and all
>the goodies that I want. I then went ahead and installed another PCI ethernet
>card. This is the exact same ethernet card that is in the first slot (potential
>problem #1 - the card by the way is some knockoff that identifies itslef as an
>Intel Pro/100, I don't think it's a genuine Intel card but it may be). I boot
>up, Kudzu finds the card and ID's it properly as being the same as the other
>card.
>
>/etc/sysconfig/hwconf correctly lists both of the cards:
>
>-
>class: NETWORK
>bus: PCI
>detached: 0
>device: eth
>driver: eepro100
>desc: "Intel Corporation|82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]"
>vendorId: 8086
>deviceId: 1229
>pciType: 1
>-
>class: NETWORK
>bus: PCI
>detached: 0
>device: eth
>driver: eepro100
>desc: "Intel Corporation|82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]"
>vendorId: 8086
>deviceId: 1229
>pciType: 1
>-
>
>but when I run ifconfig, I get the following:
>
>eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:75:29:82
> inet addr:10.1.1.18 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:2176 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:1401 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:1 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xe000
>
>and the lookback device.
>
>No eth0. So I run an "ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.19 broadcast 10.1.1.255 netmask
>255.255.255.0" command and get back "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily
>unavailable". What a pain.
>
>So I wonder what the problem may be? This is one of the first models to have
>PCI slots, is it possible it is not giving me an IRQ? Or a proper IRQ? That
>makes sense on one level but on another Kudzu is finding the card properly, so
>it must be able to identify it, and communicate with it.
>
>I run linuxconf and it has both entries for eth0 and eth1, but it has eth0
>turned off. When I choose enable, nothing happens.
>
>Any ideas? I am grasping at straws... maybe removing both cards and restarting
>will allow the Compaq to reassign IRQ's after I reinstall both cards at once?
>That is a pretty slim chance. I sure hope you have a better idea.
>
>Matt Fuerst
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Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:08:12 -0400
From: "Scott C. Zielinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Question
Eddie Bauer wrote:
>
> I have a Logitech Mouseman Wheel. RH 6.2 Linux installed. I chose
> generic 3-btn. mouse during setup. How do I go about changing that to my
> new mouse?
> Thanks, Eddie
I believe you could use xf86config and reset your mouse setting - but
this may interfere with your monitor/graphics card settings (it will
re-ask you to set those up).
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