Linux-Hardware Digest #51, Volume #13 Fri, 16 Jun 00 01:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: SBLive! drivers for SMP kernel ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: hardware recommendations for athlon system ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: high memory missing (IWill motherboard) (Bob Martin)
Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems (Steve Cox)
Re: Full Duplex NIC (bill davidsen)
Re: Athlon recomendations ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: MS-6167 K7 motherboard: any good? ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: SMP mobo and RAID suggestions needed for VPM cluster. ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Linux sur IBM hardware ... (Bob Martin)
Re: z-51 ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: ALSA: Where's the sound? (David Steuber)
Re: Network card ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: SC4000 (ALS 4000) Sound Card ("Nathan Appleton")
K7V won't boot from HD (Kevin Christen)
HELP hard drive error?? ("Nick Rout")
Avoid C-Media sound chipsets if possible (softrat)
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SBLive! drivers for SMP kernel
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:19:08 -0700
"Florian E.J. Fruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> William M. Perry
>
> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > "jake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Creative labs haven't updated there linux drivers page since
September!
> > > Does anyone know where I can find the latest SBLive! drivers?
> > > (i.e. greater than 0.2b)
> >
> > Just use the alsa drivers - they work great.
>
> which one and where to get them ?
Linux Hardware Database (http://www.linhardware.com):
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?315
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hardware recommendations for athlon system
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:22:21 -0700
Linux Hardware Database recently posted two Athlon stories and has over 50
Athlon motherboards in thier database.
"Rumors of Athlon motherboard incompatibility largely unfounded"
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispnewsitem.cgi?DISP?153
"How Well Do Athlon (K7) Motherboard Work with Linux?"
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispnewsitem.cgi?DISP?81
Athlon Motherboards:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=k7
"Sriram Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ic36n$ehq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi Leon,
>
> I've used The Asus K7M motherboard for a few hours wih Redhat.
> But the K7V board that I'm using now is better and faster under NT. I don'
> know abut linux though.
>
> Sriram
>
>
> Leon Hall Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:use%4.29582$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > i'm in the process of building a dual boot athlon system. does anybody
> have
> > any recommendations for an athlon motherboard, modem and a video card?
> > i'm considerring using a matrox g400 tv 32MB dual head card, but not
sure
> > how well, if at all, this will work in linux
> > also, i'm not sure about which modem to get, i found one for $40 +
> > shipping, but it's ISA, so should i just get a strictly PCI motherboard
> and
> > use an external modem?
> >
> > any info would be greatly appreciated, thanx
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: high memory missing (IWill motherboard)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:23:15 -0500
R Brett Wormley wrote:
>
> I'm running RedHat 6.0 off of an IWill BD100+ motherboard, with a 300MHz
> PII and two DIMMs (64M and 128M). During POST the BIOS counts up to
> 192MB as expected, but when the OS boots, it only sees 64MB. I've tried
> just running with one and the other DIMM, but always only 64MB found by
> the OS. The message from the kernel is:
>
Check your BIOS again, specifically to see if the power management is
enabled. If it is , then disable it. Doing this my athlon went from 64
to 256.
--
Bob Martin
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From: Steve Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:30:05 GMT
Ryan,
I just got my Asus K7V-RM and an Athlon 800 today.
Linux would not boot. Always hung up at the IDE detection area. Windows 98
booted fine after the inevitable 20+ install/reboot/install/reboot driver
fun.
I turned off the "Byte Merge" option in the BIOS, as suggested on the
www.k7v.com site. No luck. I tried everything, including disabling UDMA.
Out of pure desperation I turned off "Soundblaster Emulation" in the
Peripherals section. And it BOOTED! :) Typing this in Mandrake 7.0 right
now.
I don't know if this will help you or not, but I hope it will.
Steve
Ryan Sackenheim wrote:
>
> I just recently bought an ASUS K7V motherboard, and I've had problems
with
> hard drive accessing in Linux. First of all I moved my hard drive over
> from my old system, and had some major filesystem errors, in which I
ended
> up having to completely wipe the drive clean. And I have not yet been
able
> to get any Linux OS installed on the machine. I have tried both Mandrake
> 7.0 and Red hat 6.2, and they both either lockup or reset after
attempting
> to format or install.
>
> The strange thing is that it appears to work for a period of time, but
> then drops out with a kernel panic. I have attempted to change some of
the
> settings in the BIOS to disable the Ultra/66 mode for the hard drive, and
I
> even moved it to the slower controller, but I still keep having the same
> errors. I don't think it is a hard drive problem, because the hard drive
> is about 6 months old, and was previously working just fine. Also I was
> able to install Win98 without any problems, so I don't believe it is a
> hardware problem. I was able to use a floppy distribution (Tomsrtbt),
and
> mount the drives without any problem, as well as copying files. But like
I
> said, the problem appears to happen at random (except during
installation).
>
> Has anyone had similar experiences using ASUS's K7V board? I can't
seem
> to find much about it's compatibility with Linux. Is there a way to get
> Linux to work with this board? Here's some general info about my system.
>
> ASUS K7V KX133 Athlon motherboard
> AMD Athlon 650
> 128MB 133x RAM
> 13GB IBM HDD
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Full Duplex NIC
Date: 16 Jun 2000 02:31:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| The only time you want full-duplex is on a 2-machine net with a crossover
| cable. Someone posted this link a while ago and I stole it and put it up
| on my web-site :-)
| http://home.germany.net/101-69082/FullDuplex.txt
I run full duplex on switches all the time, I don't know why anyone
would want half. If you're hooked to a hub, half should negotiate. I
don't have a great way to check it, though.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"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: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Athlon recomendations
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:32:14 -0700
> I read at http://www.redhat.com/hardware that Red Hat does not work well
with
> Ahlon systems, as their motherboards use cutting edge technology (they
must
> be refering to UDMA/66, I think).
Redhat's compatibility warning (http://www.redhat.com/support/hardwasems)
seems exaggerated. Linux Hardware Database posted two news stories in
response to not only RedHat's compatibility note, but also a note by SuSE
and statement from Abit. Have a look at the stories:
"Rumors of Athlon motherboard incompatibility largely unfounded"
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispnewsitem.cgi?DISP?153
How Well Do Athlon (K7) Motherboard Work with Linux?
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispnewsitem.cgi?DISP?81
> Now I'm new to this newsgroup, and request answers or poiners to answer
> sources/ FAQs to the following questions:
> 1. Has any one tried Linux on Athlon/ Asus K7V ?
Yes, see LinHardware.com for user ratings. It received high marks.
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?975
Several other Athlon motherboards received high marks, LinHardware.com has
over 50 K7 boards in their database. Here's the entire list:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=k7
>
> purple dreams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gero H. Marten wrote:
> >
> > >You obviously aren't serving a network, running apache, sendmail, inn,
> > >junkbuster, bind, samba, etc. simultaneously. Athlons are never used
> > >as servers, because they are not 100% i386 compatible. Remember, Linux
> > >was written for the i386 chipset. More questions? Be advised, not to
> > >by an Athlon if you want to do serious work under Linux. On the other
> > >hand, if you just want to peep into Linux and otherwise use Windoze,
> > >be happy.
> >
> > neither is any pentium processor since the PPro 100% compatible!
> >
> > the AMD processor is just as compatible as your compiler's
optimizations.
> > if you compile "apache, sendmail, inn,junkbuster, bind, samba, etc"
poorly
> > or incorrectly then of course you will have problems, but if you do it
> > incorrectly for a P3 you will have problems too.
> >
> > don't make the mistake that hardware is the only cause of
> incompatibilities,
> > or you will be left behind when the itanium gets here (which relies so
> > heavily on compiler optimizations as to be almost independent of
hardware
> > optimizations!)
> >
> > i am a big fan of AMD, but I would also agree that the athlon is
probably
> not
> > the best platform for a hard core server, but because of the
motherboards,
> > not the CPU. the athlon is a much nicer design (IMNSHO) than the CuMine
> :)
> > once the AMD 760 (and higher) chipsets get here we will see just wether
or
> > not an athlon can be a contender in the server marketplace....
> >
> > enjoy :)
> >
> > --
> > purple dreams : http://purpledreams.com
> > I often dream about being carried away by a giant squirrel.
> > Does that make me a nut?
>
>
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS-6167 K7 motherboard: any good?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:35:03 -0700
Several users have rated and commented on this board at Linux Hardware
Database (linhardware.com). It's received pretty low ratings so far.
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?925
"normski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> SuSE 6.4 supports that motherboard, but make sure you've got the latest
> version of BIOS. Older versions of BIOS have a problem if more than 256Mb
of
> memory are fitted - even although the board claims to support 768Mb. The
> problem affects both windows and linux.
>
>
>
> Andres Suarez wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am thinking about buying a new K7 machine.
> >
> > I have checked http://www.linhardware.com but it isn't clear to me if
> > this motherboard (MS-6167 K7) will work well with Linux, so I would like
> > to hear from anyone that has tried it.
> >
> > Bye!
> >
> > --
> > Andres Suarez
>
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP mobo and RAID suggestions needed for VPM cluster.
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:38:25 -0700
Have you looked at these sites?
http://www.nlug.org/smp/
http://www.linhardware.com
"blowfish" <"here,there"@everywhere.org> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Any good suggestion for a SMP motherboard that is stable for
> Linux?
> Something more modern than the Asus P2B D series, have two
> of those already, with or without ultra-widw SCSI. Need
> lots of slots though. Will run with 3 NIC and soundcard,
> video and video capture card and MIDI gears.
>
>
>
> How good does the software RAID works in Linux with SCSI, or
> hardware RAID is still the best way to go? This box is to be
> added to an exsisting VPM cluster for image rendering and
> animation.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Alex Lam.
> * Please cc reply to mydotcom9 @ zdnetonebox .com if
> possible
> My news server sucks. Thx.
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux sur IBM hardware ...
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:38:39 -0500
Arian Novruzi wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I am a novice with Linux but I want to install it in my computer and
> once I will be familiar with it I think to make it my only OS.
> Actually I have an IBM Aptiva with these parameters:
>
> P3, 96MB, HDD IDE, PCI/ISA, S3 Savage,
> Rockwell HCF 56K, CD-RW.
>
> -Do you think that my hardware supports Linux and also X Window?
> -What Linux distribution would be the most convenable?
> -Are supported my modem, CD-RW, printer by Linux?
> -Has anybody installed Linux in such machine or a similar one?
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestion.
> Arian.
Can't tell you for sure as you didn't any specifics like model numbers.
The modem is of course a winmodem ( HCF = winmodem ) so it is not going
to work. I would say the rest would work with most any distro you
choose.
--
Bob Martin
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: z-51
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:56:55 -0700
"Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[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.
Linux Hardware Database has the driver:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispdriver.php3?DISP?834
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ALSA: Where's the sound?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 03:00:01 GMT
More information:
I have determined that I have the ES1879 audio chip. This corresponds
to the snd-card-es18xx driver:
root@solo% lsmod
Module Size Used by
3c575_cb 19948 2
cb_enabler 2280 2 [3c575_cb]
ds 6728 2 [cb_enabler]
i82365 23612 2
pcmcia_core 47680 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]
root@solo% modprobe snd-card-es18xx
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/snd-card-es18xx.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/snd-card-es18xx.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/snd-card-es18xx.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/snd-card-es18xx.o: insmod snd-card-es18xx failed
root@solo% lsmod
Module Size Used by
3c575_cb 19948 2
cb_enabler 2280 2 [3c575_cb]
ds 6728 2 [cb_enabler]
i82365 23612 2
pcmcia_core 47680 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]
root@solo% insmod soundcore
Using /lib/modules/2.2.16/misc/soundcore.o
root@solo% lsmod
Module Size Used by
soundcore 2596 0 (unused)
3c575_cb 19948 2
cb_enabler 2280 2 [3c575_cb]
ds 6728 2 [cb_enabler]
i82365 23612 2
pcmcia_core 47680 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]
root@solo% modprobe snd-card-es18xx
Segmentation fault
root@solo% lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd-seq-device 3240 0 (unused)
snd-opl3 4136 0 (unused)
snd-hwdep 2828 0 [snd-opl3]
snd-timer 8000 0 [snd-opl3]
snd 36844 0 [snd-seq-device snd-opl3 snd-hwdep snd-timer]
soundcore 2596 0 [snd]
3c575_cb 19948 2
cb_enabler 2280 2 [3c575_cb]
ds 6728 2 [cb_enabler]
i82365 23612 2
pcmcia_core 47680 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]
I don't think this is an isapnp card because pnpdump doesn't find
anything.
So what do I do now?
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
All bits are significant. Some bits are more significant than others.
-- Charles Babbage Orwell
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network card
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:04:33 -0700
"Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm getting a pc tomorrow and I'm going to need to install somekind of
> ethernet card in it... nothing special just for @home connection. I'm
> going to run slack (probably v7 or the newest stable version), specs are
> pII 333mhz, 128mbRAM, pci slots open... I had trouble with the crap card
> @home gave me for windows when they came in linux in this computer (in
> fact I ended up giving up) so i'm looking for something that's linux
> compatible with drivers and support and also being able to be easily
> installed in win98 second edition... i know there are a ton of 3com's
> that can do this, but anything cheaper would be really nice... any
> success stories? thanks a lot
Have you taken a look at Linux Hardware Database, the site contians ratings,
drivers and information for over 100 NIC cards.
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=4
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SC4000 (ALS 4000) Sound Card
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:09:12 -0700
"scanman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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?
http://www.alsa-project.org/~goemon/
Hmmm, ALSA lists the card as "possible to support" but doesn't seem to
currently offer a driver :-(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Christen)
Subject: K7V won't boot from HD
Date: 16 Jun 2000 04:18:07 GMT
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My Asus K7V motherboard will not boot from the hard drive. All
hardware is recognized properly by the BIOS, and everything works fine
until I try to boot without a floppy. Then, after listing the PCI
controllers, the system just stops without so much as flashing the
hard drive LED.
I've tried disabling all other devices from the BIOS boot screen and
moving the hard drive to the top of the list, but it doesn't help.
I've installed both NT 4.0 and Linux to the stage where you reboot
from the newly created partition, and neither the NT loader nor LILO
gets a chance to run. I can then boot from a floppy and see the newly
created file systems (the right partition, marked active, with the
right files), but I can't boot from it. This last test proves to me
that the hard drive and on board IDE controller work fine.
This seems like it must be a BIOS problem. Is there any chance that
upgrading from 1005 would help? Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Kevin Christen
Hardware:
Asus K7V with BIOS rev. 1005 in jumperfree mode
Athlon 550Mhz
2 x 128 MB PC133 DIMMS
Seagate Barracuda ATA II ST330630A
ATI Rage Fury Pro w/32 MB
IDE CDROM, 1.44 MB floppy
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From: "Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,nz.comp
Subject: HELP hard drive error??
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:23:26 +1200
Can anyone tell me what this means in my linux logs
Jun 16 11:32:01 gw kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Jun 16 11:32:01 gw kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x40
{ UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=565844, sector=565781
Jun 16 11:32:01 gw kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector
565781
Its recurring a lot. I suspect my hard drive is about to give up the ghost,
which is not too cool.
Can anyone give me a definitive analysis. It GENERALLY seems to be the same
sector number.
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From: softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,redhat.general
Subject: Avoid C-Media sound chipsets if possible
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:50:51 -0700
Avoid C-Media chipsets in Linux. C-Media is very unresponsive and some
of the information they pass out is either incomplete or wrong. To note
their confusion, read the head text on their CM8338/CM8738 driver source
code. Also the driver installation notes contain errors. For example
note 3.c. is wrong. Aliasing char-major-14 did nothing for RedHat 6.0.
In addition, I have never got the midi functions to work and C-Media
does not help.
--
George D. Freeman IV
the softrat
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
---
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-- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0
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