Linux-Hardware Digest #688, Volume #12 Sat, 15 Apr 00 13:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Yamaha DS-XG onboard chip (Christoph Scheurer)
SB AWE64 (Cihl)
default font size (Emil alvin)
Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation ("Simian")
Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation ("Simian")
Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation ("Simian")
Re: PCMCIA modem problem ("zoobe")
Asus CUBX Motherboard: Linux and FreeBSD (Peter Santoro)
Re: Multi-port Tulip config q's (Doc Shipley)
Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not. (cow)
Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not. (cow)
crw8424e wrong size? (Marek Jakubowicz)
DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work! (HELP!)
CPU makes buzz noise (Mirko Mazzoli)
Re: default font size (Hal Burgiss)
3 Com PCI modem and Linux ("Gerald Caldwell Jr.")
Re: Palm pilot and serial port question (Henrik Becker)
Re: Linux Uses Less Power? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dual Xeon Motherboard? ("Jack L. Owens")
Re: 3 Com PCI modem and Linux (Rob Clark)
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From: Christoph Scheurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yamaha DS-XG onboard chip
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:58:59 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DOes anyone have an idea how to run a DS-XG onboard chip with Linux?
It's listet in /proc/pci but there isn't any driver for it.
Best regards
Chris Scheurer
--
Christoph Scheurer Tel: +41 (0)32 393 50 04
Rebmatt 1 Fax: keiner
3270 Aarberg EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Switzerland
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From: Cihl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB AWE64
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:31:33 GMT
Hi, (-politeness phrase added automatically-)
Does anyone know how to make midi playback work in kernel
2.3.99-pre4 on a Soundblaster AWE64?
It's an IsaPnP card, and normal sound (mp3s and system
sounds) works fine, without any additional configuration
apart from the kernel recompile.
Here's some bootup info:
isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00
ISAPnP: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:02
isapnp: AWE32 quirk - adding two ports
isapnp: Card 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
And a little further down the list:
ISAPnP reports AWE64 WaveTable at i/o 0x620
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)>
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
1993-1996
sb: Creative SB AWE64 PnP detected
sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq
5, dma 1, 5
I can't figure out what's wrong with this, or why it isn't
working at all! Can anybody *please* help me?
--
% make fire
Don't know how to make fire
% Why not?
No match
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emil alvin)
Subject: default font size
Date: 15 Apr 2000 12:48:29 GMT
How do I increase the default font size of my termwidows?
Thanks in advance,
Scott
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From: "Simian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:09:33 +0800
Attempted to install Red Hat 6.1 on a PC containing an adaptec AHA-1520B and
a Pioneer DR- U16S.
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From: "Simian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:16:05 +0800
Attempted to install Red Hat 6.1 on a PC containing an adaptec AHA-1520B and
a Pioneer DR- U16S.
System refuses to recognise shows error message instead(unable to read
message as it is blocked by installation window)
Please advise.
p.s. am new to LINUX.
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From: "Simian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Failure to recognise SCSI controller card during Installation
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 21:16:15 +0800
Attempted to install Red Hat 6.1 on a PC containing an adaptec AHA-1520B and
a Pioneer DR- U16S.
System refuses to recognise shows error message instead(unable to read
message as it is blocked by installation window)
Please advise.
p.s. am new to LINUX.
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From: "zoobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem problem
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:41:48 -0500
I have a similar problem. I'm using a Dell Latitude CPi with a Xircom
ethernet/modem combo. I've read the PCMCIA HOWTO several times and have
found no help there. I'm new to Linux on laptops.
How are you verifying that it does not connect with any serial port? I'm
using Redhat 6.1 and according to the PCMCIA howto cardmgr should record the
device information for each socket in the "stab" file; however; I cannot
find the "stab" file in any of the locations it lists. Do you know where it
is located in the Redhat dist?
(HOWTO: section 4.1)
Erik
"Alexei Pankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8d86q4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I installed Redhat 6.2 on my Compaq Armada 7800. PCMCIA driver loads
> and cardctl recognizes successfully my modem, but it looks like it does
not
> connect with any serial port and minicom does not work.
>
> I would appreciate any suggestions.
>
> Alex.
>
>
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From: Peter Santoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd
Subject: Asus CUBX Motherboard: Linux and FreeBSD
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 09:41:56 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm considering building a PC with this motherboard. Anyone out their
successfully using this motherboard with Linux and/or FreeBSD? If so,
what problems, if any, did you run into?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Peter
--
UNIX, it already goes there... :-)
Peter Santoro Computing
Internet e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web address: http://www.connix.com/~psantoro/
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multi-port Tulip config q's
Date: 15 Apr 2000 09:49:34 -0500
Trevor Coghlan wrote:
>
> I have a 4 port DEC tulip based PCI ethernet card that I am trying to
> configure.
>
I'm guessing, here, as I'm not familiar with your card. But if you have
identical devices at different IRQ & I/O addresses, you may have to
specify the addresses in lilo.conf. I ran into this last year with two
NE2000 PCI adapters.
Basically, "cat /proc/pci" to see where each port sits, then in
lilo.conf add an append line like:
append="ether=12,0x300,eth0 ether=15,0x340,eth1 ether=9,0x240,eth2
ether=10,0x388,eth3"
IIRC, some ethernet modules respond to the "ether" part, and some you
have to name the module.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Support
TARL Labs, UT
Austin, Texas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 14:53:47 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 03:16:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
><<3_aJ4.50881$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
>shouted forth into the ether:
>>My installation is RH 6.2, Dell Precision Workstation 220, all
>>When I launch X-CD-Roast 0.96ex as root, I get this message:
>>
>>"No Generic_SCSI-Support has been detected. Without it, no SCSI
>>I then, as root, execute insmod sg It appears to
>>go fime.
>>I try X-CD-Roast again, same result.
>[fstab snipped]
>
>More information is required. Is this an IDE or SCSI CD-RW?
It's IDE/ATAPI. After posting, I reread the CD-Writing Howto :) and also
found the README.ATPI for X-CD-Roast. In there, I found the reference to the
boot/lilo command you noted below. What I had been unsure of, and which
you've addressed, is whether all the modules noted on page 9 of the HowTo
needed to be loaded. It appears from your response that the answer is yes.?
> What does
>lsmod show after the insmod command? (Should show ide_scsi, scsi_mod, and
>sg at least.) Does the boot log say that your CD-RW is registered with
>the ATAPI CD-ROM driver?
Yes, this is what was happening. So, my mounting in the drive was an already
written CD which, I assume got mounted as read only, seeing the burner as an
ide read only drive.
Overall, I have this observation. While I'm new to burning CDs in Linux (but
not "alien systems ;), I've about a year's experience with Red Hat, moving
from 5.2 up now to 6.2, and am reasonably capable at most workstation and home
network tasks. I found sorting through the documentation for this bit of
configuration to be amongst the most difficult that I've encountered. I would
suppose that for new, Intel, PCI/IDE hardware, the solution I found would be
most common and could be captured in a four sentence mini-HOWTO. What do you
think?
Regards,
John
>(If so, you must edit lilo.conf so that it
>contains the line "append=hdX=ide-scsi" where X is the CD-RW location,
>re-run LILO, and reboot!) Where are those symbolic links for /dev/cdro
>and /dev/cdrom1 pointing to? What does "cdrecord -scanbus" show?
>
>xcdroast is a frontend to the cdrecord and mkisofs programs. cdrecord is
>what does the cd-writing, so its error messages are more to be trusted
>than anything xcdroast spits out.
>
>>A blank CD-R mounts fine.
>
>Do tell how you managed that. Also, you might wish to read the CD-Writing
>HOWTO-- http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html . Read it
>again if you have already read it; there is a lot of info in there and
>it's easy to miss something.
>
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From: cow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not.
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 22:34:07 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
U can know it at win95 or 98 by the command "winifcfg"
This is the way I get the DNS for linux!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.portable Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dan wrote:
>
> >> I have had several teething problems (the main one being that my isp
> >> would not give me their DNS ip, and pppd won't work without it).
>
> > What?!?
>
> > The DNS server IP address is essential! If they won't give it to
> > you, change ISPs. That's like them saying that they'll provide
> > you with dial-in service, but won't give you the phone number.
>
> Not so. You are on Linux? Install you own DNS server.
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> Victor Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Programmer Office:7-(095)-203-50-60
> Institute for Commerce Home: 7-(095)-135-46-61
> Engineering http://www.ice.ru/~vitus
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From: cow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not.
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 22:35:46 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry , it should be "winipcfg", U can type it when you are online!
cow wrote:
> U can know it at win95 or 98 by the command "winifcfg"
> This is the way I get the DNS for linux!
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > In comp.os.linux.portable Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Dan wrote:
> >
> > >> I have had several teething problems (the main one being that my isp
> > >> would not give me their DNS ip, and pppd won't work without it).
> >
> > > What?!?
> >
> > > The DNS server IP address is essential! If they won't give it to
> > > you, change ISPs. That's like them saying that they'll provide
> > > you with dial-in service, but won't give you the phone number.
> >
> > Not so. You are on Linux? Install you own DNS server.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> > Victor Wagner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Programmer Office:7-(095)-203-50-60
> > Institute for Commerce Home: 7-(095)-135-46-61
> > Engineering http://www.ice.ru/~vitus
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From: Marek Jakubowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: crw8424e wrong size?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:28:23 +0200
Hello!
I have RedHat 6.0,kernel 2.2.13, cdrecord 1.8.1 (compiled with libc5),
and CD recorder Yamaha CRW8424E.
cdrecord -scanbus (with cdrecord 1.6) sends me correct information
about my scsibus, but
with cdrecord 1.8 something is wrong:
>cdrecord -scanbus
linux>cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD
capabilities page.
linux>1,1,0 101) ' ' 'ATAPI CDROM ' '130M' Removable CD-ROM
Help!
--
Marek Jakubowicz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: HELP! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work!
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:45:19 GMT
I had a 1.6 gig which was working fine, but I removed it and put in an 8.2 gig. I
fdisked
it and such but I get an error saying there is a problem with it and forces me to
single
mode. What do I need to do to get this working?
Using Slack 7.0
Note: I also have my 3.5 gig which the OS is one and it works fine.
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From: Mirko Mazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CPU makes buzz noise
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:48:35 GMT
while doing almost anything (eg moving the mouse, accessing the hds,
transferring data with the modem) a buzz noise comes from the cpu.
i'm sure it's the cpu (or its socket) because i physically umplugged
almost everything else (even the hard drives) and the noise kept coming,
so i took away the mb from the box to hear better and it really seems
that the cpu is the problem.
i can only guess it's a problem with the interrupts, maybe a conflict,
but beside this i'm clueless... any idea?
ps: i have an AMD K6-2 400 MHz, mounted on a Soyo SY-5EHM v1.0
motherboard with a ETEQ 82C6638AT/6629 AGP chipset
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: default font size
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 15:49:38 GMT
On 15 Apr 2000 12:48:29 GMT, Emil alvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do I increase the default font size of my termwidows?
man <termwindow>.
Something like this in ~/.Xdefaults (for rxvt here) for permanent:
rxvt*font: -*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-*-18-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Also, via command line like 'rxvt -fn <whatever>'.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
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From: "Gerald Caldwell Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3 Com PCI modem and Linux
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 11:58:06 -0700
I'm running Red Hat 6.1 on a Dell Dimension XPS
My modem is a 3 Com PCI Controller Based Data Fax Modem. Model number
3CP3298-DELL
Has anyone gotten this modem to work under Red Hat Linux? I'm pretty sure
that my modem is a hardware based modem and not a winmodem.
Thanks in advance for any help
Gerald
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From: Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Palm pilot and serial port question
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:04:08 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Hughett wrote:
> Thaddeus Selden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Could someone please explain to me what the difference is between
> : /dev/ttys* and /dev/cua*? I use /dev/cua0 for my Wacom graphics tablet and
> : it works fine. On my old machine, I only had one serial port and used
> : /dev/cua0 for both the cradle and the tablet and just switched between
> : them. But now all of the documentation says to use /dev/ttyS*. Also, any
> : ideas how to fix the problem? I've already made sure to use the /dev/pilot
> : link to whichever serial port I'm trying and made sure that permissions are
> : correct. TIA
the cua are an old standard, only use the new ttyS* now.
Now what is the other problem?
You might want to take a look at the jpilot guide at (see below), it has some
stuff on the ttyS*
--
Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.HenrikBecker.de
support FREE SOFTWARE www.KDE.org www.WINDOWMAKER.org www.LINUX.org
dt. J-Pilot Handbuch fertig: http://www.henrikbecker.de/jpilot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux Uses Less Power?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 12:02:46 -0400
Robert Redelmeier wrote:
---
> Very easily explained, and I'd actually expect a larger difference.
> Linux idles at a "HLT" instruction wherein the CPU typically
> comsumes less than 1 Watt. MS-Win9? idles in a busy loop,
> typically consuming 15W of power (highly CPU dependant).
---
Thanks for the explanation. I knew it either had to be with the
CPU or RAM because my hard drive was acting the same under both
tests. (It was spinning, but no read or writes were occurring.)
---
> BTW: what do you use to measure power? It's very tough to get
> good readings that low, and you have to be careful because power
> supplies are highly non-linear (powerfactor = ~50%).
---
I used an Amprobe digital multimeter (model AM-1280) and some
power cords I had spliced so the multimeter would be in series with
the power cord going to the computer. This model multimeter gives a 3
3/4 digit display and is calibrated to read out AC values in RMS.
Since I wasn't too particular about the precision, I set the
multimeter to measure AC current in the 10A range. (Valid from 40Hz
to 1kHz.) The resolution at this setting is 0.01A, which was good
enough for my desires. The manual says this setting has an accuracy
of "+/-1.5% of rdg +/- 5 LSD." I hate to admit this, but I don't know
what "rdg" or "LSD" stand for in this context.
I know computing power from an AC system can get complicated, so
I only gave values for current in my original post. However, from an
elementary electricity book I consulted, RMS voltage multiplied by RMS
current should give the power being used. Power factors come into
play when the AC current is being drawn out of sync with the AC
voltage, right? How far off do you suspect my values would be if I
did this? How would you suggest measuring the power used by the
computer? Thanks!
--
Bernie Hoefer
(Change my address to fname.lname@company to e-mail me.)
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From: "Jack L. Owens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Xeon Motherboard?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:03:15 GMT
I think I screwed up. I just purchased a couple of Xeon PII 400-1M pulls
with the intention of using them in a dual processor motherboard. My
current mb is a two year old ASUS P2B that has had few faults. So, I was
looking at the ASUS P2BD. Unfortunately, the two Xeon processors require
a Slot 2 motherboard. I have two IBM ATA66 7200RPM 20.6 GIG drives which
could be used in a RAID 5 setup.
Any suggestions for motherboard selection would be appreciated.
--
Jack L. Owens K6PWY 562-989-9413 949-498-6157
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 4421 Myrtle Aveniue, Long Beach, CA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 1001 Avenida Buena Vista, San Clemente, CA
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Subject: Re: 3 Com PCI modem and Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 17:00:34 GMT
In article <8da3iu$ek8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gerald Caldwell Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running Red Hat 6.1 on a Dell Dimension XPS
>My modem is a 3 Com PCI Controller Based Data Fax Modem. Model number
>3CP3298-DELL
>
>Has anyone gotten this modem to work under Red Hat Linux? I'm pretty sure
>that my modem is a hardware based modem and not a winmodem.
If you have a controller-based 3Com modem, 'cat /proc/pci' should return
many lines including:
Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
The rule of thumb for 3Com PCI modems:
Device id=1006 controllerless modems (FCC# 4X2USA-25314-M5-E)
Device id=1007 controllerless modems (FCC# 4X2USA-34110-M5-E)
Device id=1008 hardware modems (FCC# 4X2USA-32034-M5-E)
If you have a hardware (controller-based) PCI modem, please see the
instructions at:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/3cp5610.txt
for hints.
I would also like to get any info you have on your modem for the "big
list" at http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html. This will help the
next person with your question :)
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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