Linux-Hardware Digest #43, Volume #13 Wed, 14 Jun 00 15:13:13 EDT
Contents:
laptop mouse ("Ed Bras")
Re: SMC Ultra ISA NIC setup (Tom Bottomley)
Re: SMC Ultra ISA NIC setup ("cyfur")
CD/Floppy Combo ("Richard Clafton")
Re: Dual boot from scratch... ("Jhon Masschelein")
SCSI bus timeout with new ST318416W drives (bruce)
CD/Floppy Combination Drives ("Richard Clafton")
VIA82Cxxx buggy in 2.2.16? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Yamaha sound card? ("Jasper")
Re: z-51 (Eric)
HELP! PCHost 1220 (TI1220) (Keo)
Re: VIA82Cxxx buggy in 2.2.16? (Rod Smith)
Who installed linux on mvp4 motherboard ("Jack")
[ Drivers ] ... for the Guillemot Fortissimo sound card ? (Francois)
CDR/Soundcard Problem (Gary Green)
CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4 (Esther Klabbers)
Re: strange hard drive problem (Floris Martens)
SC4000 (ALS 4000) Sound Card (scanman)
Linux on Toshiba Libertto 50ct (Thomas Baruchel)
Re: VIA82Cxxx buggy in 2.2.16? (Adrian)
Re: eMachines and other Integrated Systems ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E. Larson))
Re: Hard Disk Problems (Henrik Carlqvist)
Voodoo3 framebuffer (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Lucent LT winmodem
Re: R, G, and B (David C.)
Re: Lucent LT winmodem (Dances With Crows)
Hang during IDE init (Alexander Garden)
Re: CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4 (Dances With Crows)
DPT SMART RAID VI Motherboards? (Chris)
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From: "Ed Bras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: laptop mouse
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:22:32 +0200
How do I use my laptop mouse to copy text ?
I have Redhat 6.2 and a gateway laptop, and want to copy text from one
window to another with the "middle" mouse button just as I do with my
desktop ? But apparently this doens't work and during install I choose for
generic 3 button mouse, while I have a middle button.
Where can i configure these kind of things ?
Regards,
Ed Bras
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From: Tom Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC Ultra ISA NIC setup
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:51:40 +0100
Hi,
If the utility will not run under dosemu - dos emulation
you will have to make a bootable DOS diskette with the
utilities on and just boot from that to set the card parameters.
Regards,
Tom.
cyfur wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of a linux utility to set the card parameters on an SMC
> Ultra ISA NIC ?
>
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Reply-To: "cyfur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "cyfur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC Ultra ISA NIC setup
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:04:58 +1000
"Tom Bottomley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> If the utility will not run under dosemu - dos emulation
> you will have to make a bootable DOS diskette with the
> utilities on and just boot from that to set the card parameters.
> Regards,
> Tom.
>
Hi Tom,
I've never used dosemu, but didn't think it would work, beaing as the setup
utility is going to want to access the NIC hardware directly. I'll install
it and give it a shot tho. I was hoping that there'd be some code that does
the job, the old SMC cards seem to be pretty well supported.
BTW the box doesn't have a floppy drive (or a cd), lives on a net and gets
along fine.
--
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From: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD/Floppy Combo
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:36:31 +0100
Reply-To: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does anybody know of a Manufacturer of CD/Floppy Combination drives. The
type you find on some laptops and and compaq servers.
The unit I am looking for contains a slimline CDRom and Floppy drive in a
single 5.25" unit.
Regards
Richard Clafton
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From: "Jhon Masschelein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual boot from scratch...
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:31:21 +0200
>setting up LILO to boot both OSes. The RedHat installation scripts
>should set up LILO pretty easily for you.
As long as it's a dos patition yes, but the installer doesn't recognise nt
filesystems automatically. (don't know about RH6.2).
It's not realy a problem, you just boot linux and adapt lilo.conf manually.
jhon
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From: bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI bus timeout with new ST318416W drives
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:56:30 -0400
RedHat 6.1
AIC7880
two ST118273W drives
one NEC CD-ROM
We're running out of space on the above server. Instead of limiting
usage, they have opted to
buy more drives. I tried to order 2 more of my drives but was told they
had been replaced with
a new model, ST318416W. When I add these new drives & boot, all drives
are recognized by
post.
However, when linux boots, it sees the two original drives but then
starts reporting SCSI bus
timeouts, resets, trying harder, etc. when it gets to the new drives. I
remove the new drives and everything works again. Everything appears to
be terminated correctly. I've fiddled with the Adaptec config utility,
trying various negotiation rates, etc. Nothing I've tried has fixed
this. Does anyone have a solution? TIA.
TIA
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From: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.superdisk,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,uk.comp.misc,uk.comp.ve
Subject: CD/Floppy Combination Drives
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:20:46 +0100
Reply-To: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does anybody know of a Manufacturer of CD/Floppy Combination drives. The
type you find on some laptops and and compaq servers.
The unit I am looking for contains a slimline CDRom and Floppy drive in a
single 5.25" unit.
Regards
Richard Clafton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VIA82Cxxx buggy in 2.2.16?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:01:41 GMT
Hi,
I just installed Kernel 2.2.16 with the recent ide.patch and the
reiserfs.patch. All works fine but the onboard sound of my ASUS K7M.
As I have it working in 2.2.14, it must be a problem in 2.2.16.
With a modprobe via82cxxx i get:
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/sb.o
failed
and in /var/log/messages i get
kernel: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen
1993-1996
kernel: sb: dsp reset failed.
Any suggestions or solutions?
Ulrich
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Before you buy.
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From: "Jasper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha sound card?
Date: 14 Jun 2000 13:49:56 GMT
> Is there somewhere I can get a driver for a Yamaha sound card?
> I neeed sound!!!!
The only way to get sound out of a Yamaha soundcard in Linux is to buy OSS.
Because OSS is expensive a new soundcard may be a better option....
Jasper
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: z-51
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 13:59:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm Your Handiman -Online- wrote:
>
> hi anyone..
>
> I use a lexmark Z-51..so far only text driver.......anyone out there
> got a graphics driver working with it and hopefully color ta boot......
>
> lexmark doesn't have anything for it yet what i h ave is from linux user
> just no color/graphics..
>
> Thanks
> lee-
You got a text driver??
where did you get it from?
could you please post the url where you found it.
Thanks in advance
Eric
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From: Keo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! PCHost 1220 (TI1220)
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:35:26 -0400
We're having trouble getting the PChost 1220 (TI1220) from Syscard to
work with Red Hat 6.1 Linux, kernel 2.2.14, pcmcia 3.1.16, and Linksys
EtherFast 10/100 Cardbus (PMCPC200).
Has anyone worked with the TI1220 card on linux? We're having interrupt
problem. Here's the output:
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.16
kernel build: 2.2.14 #2 SMP Tue Jun 13 11:09:27 EDT 2000
options: [pci] [cardbus]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xfdf40
00:10.0 -> irq 9
Intel PCIC probe:
TI 1220 rev 02 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:10, mem 0x68000000
host opts [0]: [pci only] [pci irq 9] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34]
host opts [1]: [isa irq] [no pci irq] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37]
PCI irq 9 test failed
ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,10,11,12,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: cb_alloc(bus 32): vendor 0x1011, device 0x0019
cs: cb_config(bus 32)
fn 0 bar 1: io 0x100-0x17f
fn 0 bar 2: mem 0x600c0000-0x600c03ff
fn 0 rom: mem 0x60080000-0x600bffff
irq 3
cs: cb_enable(bus 32)
bridge io map 0 (flags 0x21): 0x100-0x17f
bridge mem map 0 (flags 0x1): 0x60080000-0x600c0fff
tulip_attach(device 20:00.0)
tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (modified by
[EMAIL PROTECTED] for XIRCOM CBE, fixed by Doug Ledford)
eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0x100, 00:E0:98:76:E0:9A, IRQ 3.
eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3)
block.
eth0: MII transceiver #0 config 3000 status 7809 advertising 01e1.
eth0: Tx hung, 11 vs. 0.
Any ideas on how we may fix the problem would be much appreciated!
Thank you.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: VIA82Cxxx buggy in 2.2.16?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:23:54 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8i7vna$p8l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi,
>
> I just installed Kernel 2.2.16 with the recent ide.patch and the
> reiserfs.patch. All works fine but the onboard sound of my ASUS K7M.
Try the ALSA drivers (http://www.alsa-project.org). The last I checked,
the standard kernel drivers provide only 8-bit sound anyhow, whereas the
ALSA drivers provide full 16-bit sound. They're a bit of a pain to
install, though.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Jack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Who installed linux on mvp4 motherboard
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:52:19 +0800
Hi,
Could any one tell me that does linux support mvp4 motherboard? Can it run
on linux stable? Can linux support it's disp card and sound card?
Which vendor of mvp4 motherboard is better?(I means which type of
motherboard is better.)
Thanks a lot!!
Jack
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From: Francois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [ Drivers ] ... for the Guillemot Fortissimo sound card ?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:48:34 +0200
Hello,
does anybody heard about linux drivers working for the Guillemot
Fortissimo sound card ?
thanks you,
--
Francois Boux de Casson
Doctorant en informatique
INRIA Rh�ne Alpes
http://www.inrialpes.fr/sharp/people/boux/
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From: Gary Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: CDR/Soundcard Problem
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:59:57 -0500
Recently I installed Mandrake Linux w/the 2.2.x kernel, I had Gtoaster
running in KDE just fine burning CDR's.
I am running a IDE CD that mounts fine, is found by Gtoaster.
The CDR was found at scd0 (1,0) when using cdrecord --scanbus. I set the
Gtoaster preferences. When burning I get the messages that scd0 is found
and being used (by Gtoaster/cdrecord)
When I install a sound card, and try to use Gtoaster as I previously
did, I get the message from Gtoaster of:
Cdrecord permission denied.
Cant open /dev/sg0
Cant open SCSI driver
Then the recording process bails out.
What the heck did I do, and how do I go about fixing it?
Thanks!
Gary Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Esther Klabbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:39:33 +0200
Having just started using Linux, I was surprised at how quick and easy
it was to install SuSE Linux 6.4. However, the CD-ROM cannot be mounted
and there is no sound. No matter which drivers I try, it won't work.
My CD-ROM is a NEC CD-ROM DRIVE 28B. My sound card a Crystal PnP Audio
System. All is running on a DELL computer.
I hope someone can tell me how to solve this.
Thanks.
Esther Klabbers.
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Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:37:28 +0200
From: Floris Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: strange hard drive problem
Floris Martens wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have a P133, with an ibm 1.0 gb drive and a laptop disk (via a pin
> converter) connected to the motherboard. But, completely at random, hda
> (and a little later hdb) locks up, console is filled with error
> messages, (ipmasq keeps working), but the harddisks don't work anymore
> (so squid stops working). The only way to get the system out of this
> state is using the on/off switch (which results in the 2 disks being
> check during the next boot).
>
> How to solve/troubleshoot this problem?
>
> Floris
>
> PS. when I was already logged in, i could disconnect the power to the
> root-filesystem hard drive, and plug it back in, and then do a su and
> reboot ... but somehow I don't think this is the way it should be...
Some extra info's (probably with typos, have to read the text off the
screen):
hda: status timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
hda: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
hdb: status timeout: status=0xd0 {Busy}
hdb: drive not ready for command
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0xd0
end_request: I/O error, dev 3:41 {hdb}, sector 769390
...and so on (the end_request also happens on hda)
What to do?
Floris
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From: scanman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SC4000 (ALS 4000) Sound Card
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 10:53:40 -0500
Hello. While I still was using windows I bought a "Golden Melody
Hi-Live" PCI sound card by Advance Logic, Inc. It is model SC4000 (ALS
4000). It says it complie s with Microsoft ACPI 1.0 and PC99. I have not
been able to get it to work. Is there a driver for this card?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Baruchel)
Subject: Linux on Toshiba Libertto 50ct
Date: 14 Jun 2000 17:01:55 GMT
Reply-To: baruchel arrobas libertysurf point fr
Brest, le lundi 12 juin
Hi,
I am completely desesperated.
I very often mail this question to some people, they didn't really understood
what I want.
I have linux on a libretto 50ct (Toshiba).
It's great, but I can't use the floppy (because of the PC card)
I looked for a precompiled kernel that would recognise my floppy drive,
but each time people answered to me:
I have one, but I can't send it to you, because a linux kernel depends on your
installation. It won't work if you have this or this.
I really have nothing (no scanner, no CD-ROM, no scsi, nothing except my hard
drive). I also don't use sound, and could really don't use X if it was the point
I would like this kernel, because I can't compile it myself
(I have no CD-ROM, the source on internet is between 12MO and 16MO, and my modem
isn't really fast; I never compiled a kernel, and all thoses stories of patches
seems complicated to me).
;-) You see you have something: a modem
Yes I have one, OK, it's on the serial port. I have nothing else...
No printer? No.
I AM NOT A WIZARD
I like Linux, because I can do great things. I am happy with vim, groff, TeX,
ghostscript, perl, pyhton, mutt, slrn, etc.
But I won't manage to compile a kernel with patches or thinks of the kind.
If you have one for your own Toshiba Libretto? Could you send a copy to me?
Would someone be kind enough to send to me a precompiled kernel that could
recognize my floppy drive with explanation about how to use it.
(I boot with LILO; but I would like to try it first with loadlin).
Thank you very much ;-)
--
.~. Thomas Baruchel
/V\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
// \\ Brest
/( )\ FRANCE
^`~'^
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From: Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA82Cxxx buggy in 2.2.16?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:58:11 +0800
Well...I've tried it but I don't know how to install...
Could you give me some hints about it??
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <8i7vna$p8l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just installed Kernel 2.2.16 with the recent ide.patch and the
> > reiserfs.patch. All works fine but the onboard sound of my ASUS K7M.
>
> Try the ALSA drivers (http://www.alsa-project.org). The last I checked,
> the standard kernel drivers provide only 8-bit sound anyhow, whereas the
> ALSA drivers provide full 16-bit sound. They're a bit of a pain to
> install, though.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: whistler@<blahblah>twcny.rr.com (Paul E. Larson)
Subject: Re: eMachines and other Integrated Systems
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 17:38:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris Harshman wrote:
>
>> for. Most notably, I have seen a *lot* (considerably higher than what I
>> would consider the norm) of these units go belly up after a few weeks /
>> months with dead power supplies.
>
>I have to concur on this. We had four of these boxes sent to us by
>our corporate office, and I bought a couple more since then. Of
>those six,
I wil have to say the direct opposite. We have had 4 running as hosts for
Reachout sessions for just over 1 year. A noisy power supply fan on one of
them every once in a while was the biggest problem. Until the hard drive on
one started going bouncy bouncy at startup, actually I think it is the same
PC. Of the 7 we have at work I have replaced the CPU fans on 2 of the 3 in the
work areas. Just my take.
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Problems
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:11:50 +0200
Ian Chilton wrote:
> Sometimes, it turns on, and just sits forever saying it is doing the
> diagnostics
> Sometimes I get the back window saying "Unable to boot"
> Sometimes I get the black window, which keeps putting SCSI errors up
> every 2 seconds...
Did you doublecheck the cables and scsi termination?
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Subject: Voodoo3 framebuffer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:32:07 GMT
Does anybody uses native framebuffer on Voodoo3? I have two problem
with it:
1) everything is displayed OK, except boot logo - colors
are completly messed, why???
2) few times when watching tv with fbtv suddenly all
system hanged (it was real hang - television stopped
in overlay mode and even magic sysrq doesn't work)
I use 2.2.16 and V3 framebuffer version 0.1.3. What version is
included in 2.3.x/2.4test ? Was it changed in process of
development of 2.3.x ?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lucent LT winmodem
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:30:09 GMT
hello,
I have a Lucent chip winmodem. I downloaded the driver from
linmodems.org, and it worked fine under mandrake 7.0, but it will not work
under mandrake 7.1. I get the following error message
"insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found"
Any ideas as to why it will not work, and how i can get it to work under
7.1
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: R, G, and B
Date: 14 Jun 2000 14:42:01 -0400
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> A VGA interface is analog, not digital.
>
> Actually, there are (according to Winn Rosch) new digital VGA
> connections on some systems that use flat-panel displays.
Is anybody calling these connections "VGA"? I've simply seen it
referred to as "digital video", or sometimes "DVI" or "DVP".
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Lucent LT winmodem
Date: 14 Jun 2000 14:46:31 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:30:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a Lucent chip winmodem. I downloaded the driver from
>linmodems.org, and it worked fine under mandrake 7.0, but it will not work
>under mandrake 7.1. I get the following error message
>
>"insmod: ltmodem: no module by that name found"
>
>Any ideas as to why it will not work, and how i can get it to work under
>7.1
The ltmodem.o binary was installed under /lib/modules/KERNELVERSION/DIR/
where KERNELVERSION was the version# of the old kernel you were running.
Find that file and copy it to /lib/modules/NEWVERSION/DIR where NEWVERSION
is the new version of the kernel, and DIR is the same DIR that was in the
first path. Run "depmod -a", then "insmod -f ltmodem". HTH,
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "Online
But only Light too dim for us to see\ gender bending going too far?" --/me
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From: Alexander Garden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hang during IDE init
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:39:20 GMT
Greetings,
I have a Pentium 90 with the cmd640b chipset running SuSE Linux 6.3. It
worked just fine for several months, but now it hangs during boot. The
following are the last five lines:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision 6.20
CMD640: ignored by ide_scan_pci_device() (uses own driver)
ide0: buggy cmd640b interface on PCI (type1), config=0x1e
ide1: not serialized, secondary interface not responding
cmd640: drive0 timings/prefetch(on) preserved
cmd640: drive1 timings/prefetch(on) preserved
Then it hangs and I must press the reset button. The kernel is 2.2.13.
2.2.14 has the same problem; 2.0.36 does not. Dos ('95) boots from a
diskette, but cannot access c:. It can access the cd drive, which is
also on ide0. The drive is a Quantum Fireball. It can be mounted from
within Linux 2.0.26 booted off of CD, so it is fine (I think).
The other weird thing I noted is, the hd access light stays on from the
time of reset or power on. It does not go off unless I boot dos or
2.0.36.
Anyone know what the problem may be? Some patch I need?
Thanks for your time,
Alexander Garden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4
Date: 14 Jun 2000 14:55:18 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:39:33 +0200, Esther Klabbers
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Having just started using Linux, I was surprised at how quick and easy
>it was to install SuSE Linux 6.4. However, the CD-ROM cannot be mounted
>and there is no sound. No matter which drivers I try, it won't work.
>My CD-ROM is a NEC CD-ROM DRIVE 28B. My sound card a Crystal PnP Audio
>System. All is running on a DELL computer.
Where is the CD-ROM plugged in, and is it SCSI or IDE? Most systems these
days have IDE CD-ROMs, which are on /dev/hd{b,c,d} in most cases. If you
installed from the CD-ROM, you should have no problems mounting the
CD-ROM... as root, try this with a data CD-ROM inserted in the drive:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
and report whatever error messages come up.
"Crystal PnP Audio" can mean a lot of different things; it seems to be
MS's shorthand for "We don't know what this card is, but the 3rd-party
drivers should work." I've seen an ES1371 and several CS423x ships come
up with that exact designation in the Windoze Device Mangler. Try doing
"cat /proc/pci" and if the numbers 1371 or 1370 show up in association
with a sound card, all you have to do is:
modprobe es1371 (es1370 if that number showed up)
for sound to work.
If not, try:
insmod sound dmabuf=1
insmod cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
insmod opl3 io=0x388
...which should work if you have a CS423x. Change the io= from 0x534 to
0x530 if that doesn't work. I *think* a lot of Dells shipped with CS423x
chips embedded on the motherboard; not completely sure.
SuSE also has a utility called "alsa-conf" that might do the trick for
sound. HTH,
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "Online
But only Light too dim for us to see\ gender bending going too far?" --/me
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DPT SMART RAID VI Motherboards?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:42:42 GMT
I just had a lousy experience with DPT (Adaptec) tech support and wanted
to rant a bit
and ask a question.
I wanted to use their PM 1564U3 Smart RAID VI card in an ASUS K7M rev
1.2 motherboard.
But the two are incompatible. When I called their tech support, I found
that there is a
README file on their site (http://www.dpt.com/techsup/index.html) which
lists boards
which they have tested. I was later told that these listed boards were
really tested with the
SMART RAID V card, and they haven't done testing since.
So I asked them what sort of board I should buy to go with their
RAID card provided it
used 133MHz RAM, and would run at 700MHz or better....and they couldn't
tell me!
So to anyone out there who is considering DPT, know this when it comes
to hardware compatibility:
you're on your own. And to the few souls out there who already have the
card, it works very
well with the Abit BP6 even though it's not on their compatibility
list. Anybody have one running
on some newish (read less than a year old) hardware? If so, I'd like to
know what you're running on.
Chris Porter
The Boeing Company
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