Linux-Hardware Digest #38, Volume #13 Tue, 13 Jun 00 15:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dual boot from scratch... (John Gluck)
Re: Hardware Problems? ("fatykhov")
Re: Thinkpad A20m Sound Card (Matthew C Barry)
V15K ("Groarke, Sean [FRAVA:0019:EXCH]")
Re: Inkjet Printers (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Performance of a 486DX4/100 (Daniel Haude)
Re: adaptec 1542 under linux (Daniel Haude)
Re: Books (Peet James)
Linux 2.4-test1 print problem (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: SMC EZnet 1660 (Kevin Conway)
Installing RH 6.1 on Gateway Desktop system ("Alex Robinson")
Re: Emachine 333cs (Scott Alfter)
SCSI problem ("mansour")
Re: IDE Zip disk faster via ide-scsi ??? (Christopher McClan)
Re: Conflict between modem and COM1 (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: SCSI problem (Dances With Crows)
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From: John Gluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot from scratch...
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:32:35 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here we go..
>
> building a new box...want to make it dual boot Win2000 and Rhat 6.2.
>
> I have one 30.7G drive for each OS. Total of two 30.7G drives....I don't
> care who goes where, but I want to use LILO for the boot manager. (altho
> NTLDR would be ok with me, i've just never used it for a dual boot..)
>
> Should I install Win2k or Linux FIRST?....I've looked at the HOW-TOOs
> but I can't find anything directly on Win2K. Probably out there
> somewhere....a pointer to it would be great...
>
> Any personal triumphs would be great...
>
> TIA..
>
> sk123
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Install win2k first.
When you partition, make sure you have a small partition called /boot that
is entirely below cyl 1024 this is where your kernel will go.
I use Linux and win98 with a loader called xosl it's freeware at
http://www.xosl.org
--
John Gluck (Passport Kernel Design Group)
(613) 765-8392 ESN 395-8392
Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed here are strictly my own
and do not reflect any official position of Nortel Networks.
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From: "fatykhov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Hardware Problems?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 11:37:34 -0400
Hi All,
I have the same problem with my home built PC, NT and 95 work good.
Linux works good, but when I try to comlipe software (licq, irc, ...) by
make after
./configure I got a message 'Internal compiler error !!! send comiler bug to
developers'
I use Mandrake 7, AMD Aphlon 700 (133 Mg. Bus), 128 Mb, 20 Gb. hard drive.
Mandrake 7 compiler works good on the Armada 7300 laptop with the same
program configuration but Pentium 166, 64 Mb.
I suppose that is AMD problem.
Alisher
"Bob Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Simon Hodgson wrote:
> >
> > I have a problem with a homebuilt PC which I'm running linux on, 95% of
the time it runs OK, but when I try to compile software from the source
code, or run ./configure scripts the machine either crashes with a core
dump, or stops responding, currently it is fitted with an AMD K6-2 450
(which I suspected was faultly so I've had it replaced, no differernce) when
fitted with a P133 these problems go away (although everything runs a bit
slow!)
> > Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong? - I have swapped the RAM
over with a different machine, still no difference, full spec is as follows:
> >
> > AOpen HX59 PRO Motherboard (on board grpahics & sound)
> > AMD K6-2 450 (stepping 12)
> > 64MB SD 100 RAM
> > 13Gb Maxtor HDD
> > AOpen 32x CD ROM
>
> I assume this is similiar to the AX59Pro with the addition of video and
> sound. This board supports both 66 and 100 mhz bus. since the p133 is a
> 66mhz and you're not ahving any problems with it, the 450 is probably a
> 100mhz bus ( AMD was making both bus types for awhile for CPUs over
> 300mhz ), you may need to change the bus speed jumpers for the CPU.
> --
>
> Bob Martin
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Crossposted-To: 5col.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 12:06:38 -0400
From: Matthew C Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thinkpad A20m Sound Card
Quick question: have you TRIED an OSS driver? i havent used the A20, but
i had a thinkpad with a crystal cs4237b chip, and the alsa driver, while
claiming to provide full support, never really worked quite right.
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Brian Donovan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been trying to setup my sound card on one of the new Thinkpad A20s.
> Under windows the card is reported as a Crystal Soundfusion. Redhat's
> sndconfig states that the chips is a Crystal 4614/22/24 and that alsa has a
> driver for it. I've downloads/compiled/installed the alsa
> drivers/libraries/drivers.
>
> I've been manually loading the snd-card-cs461x and snd-pcm-oss drivers. For
> the most part they load fine. However the occationally fail with the message
> that the DAC could not be powered up.
>
> When I do get the drivers to load I use amixer to unmute the PCM, PC
> Speaker, and Master portions of the mixer. When I use aplay or xmms to
> attempt to play anything I get nothing but noise. The alsa FAQ states that
> I should comment out Option PCI in XF86Config. I don't have this line in my
> config file.
>
> A) Any idea what might be causing my problems.
> B) Has any one been working with and A20.
> C) Is their anyway I can load a standard soundblaster driver by hand?
>
> Brian
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From: "Groarke, Sean [FRAVA:0019:EXCH]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: V15K
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:05:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob,
Re. V15K code testing: I'm awaiting a response to Sanjiv's request to Bill Naas
for them to, again, supply the pre-2.0 code for us to test. As soon as I have
the code (and that's up to the guys in the US!) I'll get an initial test-cycle
done within a few hours. The results even after a few hours will probably give
us a goodish idea of what we've got.
Sean
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Tel: +33 (0)4 9296 1350 ESN: 296-1350 Fax: +33 (0)4 9296 1668
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Inkjet Printers
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:19:07 -0700
Hi,
this web page is what are you looking for
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
Andrey
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Subject: Re: Performance of a 486DX4/100
Date: 13 Jun 2000 16:31:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 09 Jun 2000 14:15:02 GMT,
Martin Herrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in Msg. <3940fbe6$0$774@reader5>
| Ehm.. you're right. My own 486 only has 8 mb of ram, so freeing up as much
| memory as possible is a good thing. His 486 has 72 mb of ram, so should
| make no difference (i'm jalous :-).
You shouldn't be because 64MB of it is defective. At the moment I'm trying
to combat that problem using memtest86 and badram, but there are still
some things I don't understand.
--Daniel
--
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy
way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Subject: Re: adaptec 1542 under linux
Date: 13 Jun 2000 16:37:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 04:41:13 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in Msg. <8i1pl8$fmd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| I cannot get my adaptec 1542CF adapter to work. I am trying out the
| Storm linux installation as my first linux install, and it won't see my
| scsi adapter.
I've had the same problem with my AHA152X driver because it was set to
non-standard I/O address and IRQ. After adding "aha152x=0x140,11" to the
kernel command line, everything was fine. Look at the driver source or the
SCSI howto, you should find something there.
--Daniel
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"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy
way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead"
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From: Peet James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Books
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:41:18 -0600
I went to buy a linux book awhile back (they were $25=$60 for most of them).
None were mandrake specific at the time, but I did see a mandrake specific
one last week at borders. I then say the nes deluxe madrake distribution and
it included 7 books on its 3rd cd under ebooks. It cost $29.99 and I bought. I
much prefer having the book online. I travel and can just have the cd with to
read stuff if I get stuck in an airport. Also the ability to search is great in
the pdf files. A bunch of times I have had a problem and just searched on a
key word in one of the book pdf files and found a whole section. That is how
I got samba and my printer all working.
The books that came with my mandrake dist are:
- Red hat Linux 6 unleashed <- most helpful
- Special Edition Linux <- #2 one that I have used when I have a question
- sams teach yourself kde1.1 <- helpful at first to learn kde
- sams teach yourself gimp <- never used
- sams teach yourself linx <- #3 one that I used when I have question
- Special Edition Wordperfect 8 for linus < not used
- Special Edition StarOffice 5.0 <- not used
I am sure the new version of mandrake has updated books, but 7 books for
$29.9 makes it work it.
One last thing. I started subscribing to linux magazine (www.linux-mag.com)
and find it quite informative and useful for help. Also the how to's both in
the distribution and online are very helpful.
Peet
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: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux 2.4-test1 print problem
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 09:48:02 -0700
Hi experts,
I try to get my Epson 860 working under kernel 2.4-test1 (Redhat 6.2)
and no luck till now. I can compile kernel without any errors and I
configure support of Parallel Port as module with support ieee1284. So,
since then I do modprobe parport_pc.
in /proc/sys/.../parport/autodetect I can see that printer has been
autorecognized.
lsmod show modules:
parport
parport_pc
in BIOS settings for port - normal
so, if I try to make
cat /tmp/file > /dev/lp0
cat /tmp/file > /dev/lp1
cat /tmp/file > /dev/lp2
I got
device not recognized (supported)
I start read src/linux/Documentation for parport and found there that it
should be compiled lp.o module, but in my case it just not compiled.
I found source lp.c in the kernel tree but for some reason it was not
compiled. I come throught kernel configuration again and could not find
any option which I could miss.
I must confess that I never used printer with Linux before as I
did't had printer at home, but I am working as a system administrator
(Solaris) several years already and never had a problem like that.
Normaly I used printer on Linux system which was connected to Sun box.
Any ideas welcome
Andrey
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From: Kevin Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SMC EZnet 1660
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 13:01:18 -0400
Unfortunately, I think I understand the problem but not the solution. Your
ethernet card is an ISA, the ne.c driver module is set for PCI
cards. Would you adjust add the io=0xwhatever to your etc/modules.conf or
some other settings file where eth0 is configured.
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, james trudeau wrote:
> I have an SMC EZnet 1660 ehternet card (ISA) it's supposed to work with
> the NE2000 driver but it doesn't. when I boot the folloing message is
> displayed: "ne.c: No PCI cards found. Use "io=0xNNN" value(s) for ISA
> cards ." what does that mean and what can I do to make it work?
>
>
Kevin Conway
Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario
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From: "Alex Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RH 6.1 on Gateway Desktop system
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:15:16 +0200
I'm new to this group so forgive me if my question has been answered before.
Anyway, my problem is simple. I have a Gateway system (sorry I don't know
its exact model as it is at home many miles away) that has a Promise Ultra66
card with all of the disk devices (DVD, CD-RW and hard disk) hanging off of
it. When I install from the RH CD it doesn't recognise my HD! Show stopper!!
About 6 months ago I was able to create some partitions on my HD by booting
from an older version of RH and giving some switches on the boot line. But
that install never created a bootable floppy nor a boot record on my HD. So
I figured RH 6.1 would have fixed this. But still no luck.
Any help would be appreciated. I've searched Google and found no mention of
this problem anywhere.
--
Regards,
Alex Robinson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Emachine 333cs
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 17:26:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mohamed Sentissi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello I just got an emachine 333cs and I had problem getting my onboard
>ATI rage IIc graphic card to work:after playing around the x conf file the
>best result I can recieve is a normal screen with some very disturbing
>fragment in the right hand side . please if any body has the same machine
>or know about what I am sayinfg can you please help me ?
You are using the Mach64 X server, right? Beyond that, the configuration
utilities included wiht X will usually set up your system properly as long
as you feed them accurate info about your system (especially the
monitor...it sounds like you might be exceeding your monitor's
capabilities).
_/_
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(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: "mansour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI problem
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:11:45 +0100
Hi All,
I attached two SCSI device to my linux. On of them is a Sony OPTI and
the other is a Pioneer WORM. at boot up Linux can detect both of them and it
will assign sda to Sony but It doesn't assign anything to Pioneer drive ( or
at least I don't which sd? assigned to it!).
My questions are:
1- If it doesn't assign any device to Pioneer how I can assign one to it?
2- If it is assign now how I can find which device it is assigned to?
3- Do I need to compile a new kernel? If yes what I should change in new
kernel?
4- Any other help?
Thanks
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From: Christopher McClan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE Zip disk faster via ide-scsi ???
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:57:38 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Igor Boukanov wrote:
>
> When I enabled SCSI interface emulation to my 100 MB IDE Zip drive
> (via modprobe ide-scsi) I noticed significant performance improvements,
> i.e. "dd if=/dev/zip of=/dev/null" started to run 20% faster with
> zip=/dev/sda4 than it had been with zip=/dev/hdd4.
>
> Are there any reasons for that? I mean if you so easily can improve
> performance by 20% with this trick why it is not on by default???
>
> Regards, Igor
Hi...
Could you please enlighten me as to where I might find out how to use
ide-scsi for an IDE zip drive. Presumably then all the normal zip drive
tools will work with the drive and I can eject it properly as well
etc...
Cheers
Cim
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Conflict between modem and COM1
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 21:00:18 +0200
"Scott E. Post" wrote:
> > You need to select a different
> >port *and* IRQ setting for either the modem or the serial port.
> Any hints on how to change the port and IRQ of one or the other? I
> read the serial-HOWTO and they didn't give any examples so I couldn't
> figure out how to do it.
You will have to do that with your hardware. You might have some jumpers
or dip-switches on your modem to change port and IRQ and you might have
some CMOS settings to change port and IRQ for the serial port on your
motherboard. Check the manual of your modem and your motherboard.
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: SCSI problem
Date: 13 Jun 2000 14:35:07 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 19:11:45 +0100, mansour
<<8i5t2s$lqm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> I attached two SCSI device to my linux. On of them is a Sony OPTI and
>the other is a Pioneer WORM. at boot up Linux can detect both of them and it
>will assign sda to Sony but It doesn't assign anything to Pioneer drive ( or
>at least I don't which sd? assigned to it!).
>1- If it doesn't assign any device to Pioneer how I can assign one to it?
You can't manually assign a device ID to a SCSI device--the kernel takes
care of that. Is this a CD-R (they were known as WORMs a long time ago
IIRC) or a magneto-optical drive, or what? See below...
>2- If it is assign now how I can find which device it is assigned to?
SCSI disk drives are assigned device nodes sd[a-h][0-15], SCSI CD-ROMs are
assigned device nodes scd[0-7], SCSI tape drives are assigned device nodes
st[0-7] and nst[0-7], and SCSI generic devices (anything that's not a
disk, CD, or tape) are assigned sg[0-7].
CD-R(W)s are odd in that they get 2 device nodes: One read-only CD-ROM
node, which acts like a normal CD-ROM, and one write-enabled generic
node. Mine reads on /dev/scd0 and writes on /dev/sg1.
Look at the boot log, often in /var/log/boot.msg . There should be some
messages about SCSI in there.
>3- Do I need to compile a new kernel? If yes what I should change in new
Probably not, if you have a recent distro kernel and haven't messed with
it. Recent distros include every module you can think of, so if the
device is supported in Linux, it's probably supported via one of the
modules you already have.
At the very least, I think you should be able to access the drive via one
of the generic nodes. Try " dd if=/dev/sgX of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1"
for values of X ranging from 0 to 7... one of those should make your WORM
drive spin/make noise. Remember though that you can't really mount a
generic device as it's a character special device, not a block special
device! I suppose you could try copying the whole WORM disk over to the
HD using dd, then mounting the image with the -o loop option... Not sure
how well that would work.
More information on the make+model of the drive and which distro/kernel
you're running would be helpful too...
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