Linux-Hardware Digest #29, Volume #13 Mon, 12 Jun 00 09:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Silent Power Supply? (Ronald Cole)
aiwa bolt drive (root)
Re: Anyone still familiar with EISA systems? (James Stafford)
Linux on Intel 810 (Lawrence)
vga card not suitable (jeffrey)
Re: Modem won't hangup (Dex)
Setting IRQ for Network Interface Card (Kheng-Teong Goh)
Books ("Stu")
Re: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment ("David Wang")
Motorola 56k modem with linux (matthieu schipman)
videocard problems ("Jonas Ohrvall")
Re: SB Live! sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Books (Jared Morrow)
Re: What happened to the aic7xxx SCSI driver between 6.1 and 6.2 ????? (jwk)
Re: Old Monitor ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment (Dances With Crows)
Re: Setting IRQ for Network Interface Card (Dances With Crows)
Problem with Proliant 1600 and Linux (Mariusz Brylant)
Re: Modem won't hangup ("Peter Carnegie")
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: Silent Power Supply?
Date: 11 Jun 2000 22:36:04 -0700
Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >when you
> >turn on the machine, a 235W p/s is more than enough for any modern
> >system
>
> That's just not true.
It's been my experience.
--
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Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
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Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 13:12:04 -0500
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aiwa bolt drive
Tim -
Don't know how this is working, but it is.
I just plugged up my Aiwa Bolt (10 GB) drive on /dev/hdd.
Did 'insmod /path-to/ide-tape.o.
Checked for /dev/ht0, and it was there. (as well as /dev/nht0).
Installed BRU (Personal Edition v. 15.1).
from command line:
> bru -cvf /dev/ht0 /usr/src
worked flawlessly. Also was able to tar things out just fine. That
constitutes several megs of stuff (at least 50).
Currently running the new Mandrake (7.1), gnome, etc.
lsmod:
Module Size Used by
ide-tape 49224 1
Then I configured X-Bru for backup (selected device OTHER, size 5000M),
and it worked as well. Have written several megs on three occasions now,
without errors. It doesn't appear to be as fast as under windows, but
it has been quite awhile since I've used it anywhere. The upshot of all
this is that you may want to give the new Mandrake a shot. As long as
you are running 7.0 anyway, 7.1 shouldn't be much of a stretch. Besides,
they've fixed XFree 4.0 on the install now (it was broken in the beta).
-Ron.
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone still familiar with EISA systems?
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 07:29:22 GMT
Doug Robbins wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 12:51:20 GMT, James Stafford
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> >>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Robbins) writes:
> >>
> >> >Hoping someone has some knowledge of the long-gone EISA systems.
>
> [snip]
>
> >> EISA uses a setup program on a floppy disk for the installation
> >> and configuration of add-on cards. If you don't have it, you're
> >> stuck,
>
> [snip]
>
> >The first time I installed Linux it was on a 486 DX2 50 Mhz EISA
> >computer. This computer was given to me, it was just a case with the
> >motherboard. It took me two weeks of searching on the web for a EISA
> >config utility that worked with the MB. I just went to multiple
> search
> >engines and looked until I found something that worked.
> >
> >Do you know what chipset and BIOS the motherboard has? I can see if I
> >can help you with a EISA config utility that works (I found and saved
> a
> >lot of them).
> >
> >jamess
>
> BIOS is PhoenixBIOS E486 version 1.00. I don't know what to look at to
> determine the chipset (?)
>
> Thanks, your help is appreciated.
>
> --
> Doug Robbins
The chipset should flash by on the screen when you first turn on the
computer.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Intel 810
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 07:30:05 GMT
Dear all,
Due to space limitation, I want to install the linux server on a BookPC.
The motherboard of this kind of PC employs the Intel 810 chipset and has
built in with sound card, network card, VGA card and so on (all-in-one).
I wonder whether the Redhat 6.2 can recognize all the built-in hardware or
not. Do anyone have experience of installing the linux on these kind of
PC? Thank you in advance!
Lawrence
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Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:13:48 -0700
From: jeffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vga card not suitable
if my video card not suitable for the linux,got any way to configure it?
i am using red hat 6.1
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From: Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem won't hangup
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 04:35:19 -0400
Again, thanks for responding Peter. This problem just popped up a couple of days
ago. Think my next step will be to borrow a friends computer and try it on my
line next chance I get. Looks like I'll be in the market for a new modem though.
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From: Kheng-Teong Goh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setting IRQ for Network Interface Card
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:32:27 +0800
How do I set IRQ for my NIC? Thank you.
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From: "Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Books
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:52:03 +0100
Hi All,
I have installed a Linux distribution at home and started to get used to
using it. I need a reference book which will fill in the knowledge gaps and
get me up to speed quickly. I don't want to run before I can walk with
Linux and so any suggestions for decent, lucid, informative, and generally
easy to follow books to help me along which also stop me flooding the
newsgroups on an hourly basis will be greatly appreciated. What did other
users buy and has anyone purchased 'Linux Clearly Explained' as I'm
considering that publication??
As usual, all helpful replies are gratefully received,
Stu
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From: "David Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:09:59 -0700
Reply-To: "David Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thank you for your kindly help, However, I have choose the right model and
vendor of my monitor --> Sony Multiscan 15sfII and also try it in manully
setting way, but it doesn't use the 75KHz for my monitor. It just use 60KHz
for 800X600 16Bit. I am wondering if I can choose higher frequence by
modifying the XF86Config file directly or something else? If it is possible,
which section should I use?
Thanks,
David
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:48:13 -0700, David Wang
> <<8hqat0$ai1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> 0. become root
> 1. run Xconfigurator
> 2. choose your monitor from a list, or enter the Hsync and Vsync rates of
> the monitor if your monitor's not on the list. The Hsync/Vsync
> information is in your monitor's manual.
> 3. restart X.
>
> The marketing for the monitor may have said something like "85
> Hz! [fineprint]at 640x480[/fineprint] so beware.
>
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with
more
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being
stupid?
> But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
> (Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of
cool. --MegaHAL
>
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From: matthieu schipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Motorola 56k modem with linux
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 11:11:24 +0200
hello,
I tried to install my 56k modem on a Redhat 6.0 . the modem is detected,
but when I want to connect, it is always busy.
what can I do ?
thanks
mat
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From: "Jonas Ohrvall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: videocard problems
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:54:41 +0200
Hi
I have Redhat 6.2 and KDE windowssystem. I trying to get the right
adjustment for my
videocard CL-GD5430 with 1MB Ram memory.
How I do that?
I have used xconfiguration and XF86Setup but it doesn't work!!
I am sure you can help me!!
--
Jonas Ohrvall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB Live! sound
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 10:16:06 +0100
Reply-To: no_replyto@oursite
This message has been posted by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ewart)
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 14:45:49 -0400, Phil Bridges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I very happy that I managed to get my SB Live! up and running on my
>soon-to-be linux jukebox. I installed mpg123 today, and I can get my mass
>collection of mp3s playing, but there are "pops" and "clicks" when they are
>being played. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I am
>using SuSE 6.4 (2.2.14), with the emu10k1 2.2.14 drivers for the Live!
>
You could always try the very latest emu10k1 drivers - I had one of the March
builds and it seemed to work only intermittently. I got hold of the build
from May 23rd 2000 (the latest available at the time) and it has been fine.
Dave.
--
Dave Ewart
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computing Manager
ICRF Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Oxford UK
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From: Jared Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Books
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 02:43:03 -0700
Before you go out and purchase anything, you might want to check online first.
There is a infinite number of sources of information on the internet. For
instance, mandrake 7.1 has an entire book about linux, installed via rpm in its
install.
Stu wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have installed a Linux distribution at home and started to get used to
> using it. I need a reference book which will fill in the knowledge gaps and
> get me up to speed quickly. I don't want to run before I can walk with
> Linux and so any suggestions for decent, lucid, informative, and generally
> easy to follow books to help me along which also stop me flooding the
> newsgroups on an hourly basis will be greatly appreciated. What did other
> users buy and has anyone purchased 'Linux Clearly Explained' as I'm
> considering that publication??
>
> As usual, all helpful replies are gratefully received,
>
> Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: What happened to the aic7xxx SCSI driver between 6.1 and 6.2 ?????
Date: 12 Jun 2000 10:41:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000 19:02:17 -0400, Bob Hayden
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just picked up Redhat 6.2 today and ran the install. I get as far as
>specifying my CDROM (for source media location) then I get the following
>error and the system hangs when it tries to load the aic7xxx:
>
>kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT
>
>The SCSI driver on the Redhat v5.2, 6.0, 6.1 boot disks work fine for me. I
>only get this problem when moving to 6.2. I tried to boot with the v6.1 to
>run the v6.2 install off the CDROM, but the GUI install fails after
>x-windows starts and the system reboots (didn't really think it would work,
>but what the hell). By the way I have a adaptec 2842.
>
>Is there a way to put the v6.1 aic7xxx driver on a floppy and specify this
>driver when running the v6.2 install? How do I do this- specifically what is
>the format of a Red Hat "driver disk"?
>
>
The 2842 driver is broken, since a few releases. Unfortunately, other
than that I cannot help you :-(
Good luck,
Jurriaan
--
I don't need a friend who changes when I change
and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch
GNU/Linux 2.2.15 SMP 3 users load av: 0.07 0.04 0.06
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.turbolinux,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: Re: Old Monitor
Date: 12 Jun 2000 11:17:58 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Paul Andrew Arbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: For the life of me i cannot get my Monitor to syncronize correctly to run
: XF86. I have XF86 installed and it runs(mostly) with my videocard. I
: am using TurboLinux, and have tried everything I can think of, even trial
: and error for about an hour until I got fed up.
: I have a daytek 1436A 14" monitor. the specs I can find for it say it
: has a Horizontal Freq.: 30-48Hz, and Vertical:60-90Hz. A Max resolution
: of 1024x768 and a working frequency of 70Mhz.
At 14" I would expect it to only do 1024x768 interlaced, not full. Is
that enough clue?
: I have managed, after monkeying for a while, to get it to run in a really
: weird 1024x768(I think it is 1024x768) but it has ALOT of flicker. Once
: and only once have I managed to make it visible at all. Any other time I
: do anything I get crappy out of sync image.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment
Date: 12 Jun 2000 08:16:33 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 17:09:59 -0700, David Wang
<<8i299r$277$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Thank you for your kindly help, However, I have choose the right model and
>vendor of my monitor --> Sony Multiscan 15sfII and also try it in manully
>setting way, but it doesn't use the 75KHz for my monitor. It just use 60KHz
^^^^^
If your monitor has a 75KHz vertical refresh rate, you're extremely lucky
and I think various monitor manufacturers would like to talk with
you. You mean 75Hz, I'm sure.
>for 800X600 16Bit. I am wondering if I can choose higher frequence by
>modifying the XF86Config file directly or something else? If it is possible,
>which section should I use?
Adjust the Hsync and Vsync ranges upwards--CAREFULLY--in your X
configuration program. Get the Hsync and Vsync ranges from your monitor's
manual, or find them from the manufacturer's Website. Modern monitors
should not be damaged by being "overclocked" (mine displays a black screen
with "Frequency Out Of Range" if Hsync or Vsync is set too high) but older
monitors could be overloaded and burned out if the sync ranges were
bad. The program "xvidtune" might also help you out.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Setting IRQ for Network Interface Card
Date: 12 Jun 2000 08:22:44 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 16:32:27 +0800, Kheng-Teong Goh
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>How do I set IRQ for my NIC? Thank you.
If we knew what kind of NIC it was, we might have a chance of helping
you. As it is, I can only offer very general advice:
If it's a PCI NIC, you shouldn't have to worry about it.
If it's an ISA card with jumpers on it, find out which jumper settings
correspond to which IRQs, set them, and go.
If it's a jumperless (PnP) ISA card, it depends greatly on the make and
model of the card. Some cards can be configured through the isapnp tools,
so read the documentation for pnpdump and isapnp. Some cards can't, but
most cards like this have some sort of DOS configuration utility you can
use to turn off PnP and set an IRQ manually.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: Mariusz Brylant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware
Subject: Problem with Proliant 1600 and Linux
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 12:34:56 GMT
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I have noticed a problem with my Linux instalation on Proliant 1600
machine.
Does anyone understand what this log entries mean:
1) Jun 5 16:23:39 reptile kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received. Dazed and
confused,
but trying to continue
2) Jun 5 16:23:39 reptile kernel: You probably have a hardware problem
with
your RAM chips
3) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: kmem_free: Bad obj addr
(objp=c4dbfde0,
name=buffer_head)
4) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: kmem_free: Bad obj addr
(objp=c4dbfde0,
name=buffer_head)
5) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000000
6) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000000
7) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 =
00101000
8) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 =
00101000
9) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: *pde = 00000000
10) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: *pde = 00000000
11) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: Oops: 0002
12) Jun 5 17:39:48 reptile kernel: CPU: 0
That was a lasat entry after which system completely
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From: "Peter Carnegie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem won't hangup
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 13:52:12 +0100
I've had this problem only when using a Linmodem, (pctel.o) under Linux as
well - is that what u're using
Peter
Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Again, thanks for responding Peter. This problem just popped up a couple
of days
> ago. Think my next step will be to borrow a friends computer and try it on
my
> line next chance I get. Looks like I'll be in the market for a new modem
though.
>
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