Linux-Hardware Digest #52, Volume #13 Fri, 16 Jun 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: HELP hard drive error?? (thing)
Re: Avoid C-Media sound chipsets if possible (Kim)
Re: Problems with RH 6.2 and Dual PPro (Kelly)
2.2.15 kernel compile problem? (Bird Chen)
Re: SBLive! drivers for SMP kernel (Alex Lam)
Re: AGP with Athlon Irongate Under XFree86 4.0 ("Andy Rink")
Re: HELP hard drive error?? ("Dave Rave")
Assigning IRQ to my USB controller (TeraPico ExaAtto)
Linux installation hangs (RH 6.x/Slackware 7.0) (rtsai)
DVD-RAM or DVD-R on Linux? (Jamie Zawinski)
SoundMAX AC97 built on Motherboard (Morris M M Law)
How to check the micphone? (Chan Chi Lung)
problems with cdrecord! (Eduard Siemsen)
Re: TLB Wait Message on SMP lockup (Chris Shenefiel)
Re: HELP hard drive error?? (Munge)
##HELP!!!!!## RAID question.... ("unclebob")
Re: TLB Wait Message on SMP lockup (Hal Burgiss)
Linux runs fine on Athlons ("Sriram Narayanan")
Linux runs fine on Athlons ("Sriram Narayanan")
Re: high memory missing (IWill motherboard) (John Gluck)
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From: thing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,nz.comp
Subject: Re: HELP hard drive error??
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:25:10 +1200
I have had 2 similar errors off my email server, at first I thought I needed to
reformat the HD and it was then fine, about a year later it started again and
turned out to be the PSU.
First thing is run fsck that fixed the problems for me. See if re-occurs.
Thing
Nick Rout wrote:
> 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: Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Avoid C-Media sound chipsets if possible
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:31:47 -0700
Thanks. RedHat 6.2 auto installation will recognize C-Media chipsets. However
the sound quality is terrible
softrat wrote:
> 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]
> ---
> You! What PLANET is this!
> -- McCoy, "The City on the Edge of Forever", stardate 3134.0
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From: Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with RH 6.2 and Dual PPro
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 00:45:28 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hehehe... he got it!
Yahooooo! No, not the web portal.
I got RH 6.2 to boot up!
Apparently, when the install of 6.2 saw my motherboard being
dual processor capable, it loaded the kernel for SMP. But if
I hit "Tab" key as soon as the LILO prompt comes up, then it
shows two choices, "linux" and "linux-up", and waits at the
boot prompt. Type "linux-up" and it loads the kernel for
uni-processor.
Everything, so far..knock on formica, works great.
startx gives me Gnome with Enlightenment desktop, 1280x1024
res. NIC is recognized and ping to my lan shows 0.7ms
response, gateway thru my WIN98 with ADSL is set, ping out
works, and Netscape browses..in fact, this is posted from
the Linux box;-)
Found the answer on comp.os.linux.setup, thanks for the tip,
DeadSmiley!
Next will be recompile the kernel for uni-processor...or add
another PentiumPro 200 CPU.
That can wait til I get everthing checked out tho;-)
Thanks for the inquiry...
Ronald Cole wrote:
>
> Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Dam thing was running good with 6.0 before this shit. I
> > registered on RH support site but have no answer yet and I
> > leave for Detroit today so I ain't gonna fuck with it before
> > Friday or Saturday at the earliest, but any ideas?
>
> Don't know what to say. RedHat 6.2 works just fine with my ASUS
> P/I-P65UP5/200-P6 mainboard (dual PPro 200s); even after I upgraded
> the kernel to 2.2.14-12. Did HP build the mainboard in your system?
>
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From: Bird Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.2.15 kernel compile problem?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:23:58 +0800
Hi all,
Sorry to bother. I have a slackware-7.0 with kernel 2.2.13. And lately
I would like to compile kernel-2.2.15 with patch-2.2.15aal(lvm patch) to
run lvm-0.8final. But when I compiled the kernel source, I got the error
message at very last procedure.
fs/fs.o: In function `quota_on':
fs/fs.o(.text+0x171bc): undefined reference to `__umoddi3'
drivers/block/block.a(ll_rw_blk.o): In function `blk_dev_init':
ll_rw_blk.o(.text.init+0x53): undefined reference to `memset'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
And I have tried to compile the kernel on redhat-6.1 without any
problem. So if any one know how to solve this problem?
Bird Chen
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From: Alex Lam <"here,there"@everywhere.org>
Subject: Re: SBLive! drivers for SMP kernel
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 23:11:25 -0700
jake wrote:
>
> 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)
OSS have seperate drivers for uniprocessor, and SMP
machines.
Both, as well as the Creative's, and ALSA drivers are
included in SuSE 6.4 distro.
Alex
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From: "Andy Rink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AGP with Athlon Irongate Under XFree86 4.0
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:40:26 GMT
Hello,
I have a FIC SD-11 Motherboard, which has the irongate northbridge and a
via 686a southbridge if I'm not mistaken, I also own a GeForce DDR. Nvidia
recently updated their driver since your post, so if you havnt already go
get them, my card would crash after maybe 20 minutes in X with agp on, now
it doesnt, i havnt tested 3d yet, but give it a shot. As for the issue in
winblowz, try the 5.22 drivers, with agp 2x and sideband this system is the
most stable its been since ive owned it. Good luck.
-Andy Rink
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From: "Dave Rave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,nz.comp
Subject: Re: HELP hard drive error??
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:18:59 +1200
it means Linus needs to do some work on error messages :)
"Nick Rout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: TeraPico ExaAtto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Assigning IRQ to my USB controller
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 08:25:38 GMT
Hi,
My motherboard BIOS does not assign an IRQ to the USB controller when
boot (even I have enable USB in the CMOS). I was told that I can use
the setpci command to assign an IRQ to it. I figured out (by using
lspci) that the bus id and slot id of the controller is 0 and 2
respectively. So, it is correct to assign, for example, irq 10 to the
controller by using the following command?
setpci -s 0:2 interrupt_line=a interrupt_pin=1
Also, my SuSE Linux 6.4 automatically load the usb module (OHCI).
However due to my BIOS does not assign IRQ to the controller, it
always fail to load the module. Assuming the above command is
correct, where should I put it so that I can assign an IRQ to the USB
controller before the system load the module?
Thank you so much.
My motherboard is Iwill XA-100 Plus (Super 7, using Acer Alladin V
chipset). The kernel is 2.2.14.
TeraPico
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: rtsai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux installation hangs (RH 6.x/Slackware 7.0)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 03:10:22 -0400
I'm having problem installing either Red Hat 6.1/2 or Slackware 7.0 on
my newly upgrade system. When I boot from the CDs, both distribution
will hang at:
Red Hat 6.2: Loading aic7xxx driver (crashes)
Slackware 7.0: ...Raid 0.... (same here. I can't remember the whole
line)
Here's what I have:
Asus P3V133 w/ latest BIOS rev. (new)
PIII 600EB (new)
196 MB ram (PC-133 - new)
1 AHA 2940UW w/ 2 UW SCSI disks
At first I thought it was an IRQ issue, but the Win2K seems work without
problems - I mean on the hardware side. Then I checked the termination
on the drives and tried disabling the PNP on the SCSI card, with no
avail. I'm stuck!
Prior to the upgrade I had no problem running either distributions. Your
help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:05:54 -0700
From: Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD-RAM or DVD-R on Linux?
I'm having a hard time tracking down information about using DVD-RAM
and/or DVD-R for backups under Linux...
Which DVD-RAM and DVD-R drives work well with Linux?
I've heard a rumor that discs written by DVD-RAM drives tend to be
wedded to the drive that wrote them, and can't be read on other drives.
Is that true?
If I don't need to re-write the discs, but just want static backups at
around 4G capacity, what should I use, DVD-RAM or DVD-R? I would have
guessed DVD-R, but it looks like DVD-RAM drives are around $600 while
DVD-R drives are around $5000. What is there to recommend DVD-R over
DVD-RAM?
Are these discs as reliable as CD-R discs? If I verify them immediately
after writing them, then put them in a box, can I count on them still
being readable in ten years?
Can DVD-R discs be read in normal DVD-ROM drives? My laptop's CDROM is
really a DVD-ROM -- if I fed it a DVD-R, would it be able to read my
backups, or is there a difference between video and data DVDs?
Thanks in advance for any advice...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morris M M Law)
Subject: SoundMAX AC97 built on Motherboard
Date: 16 Jun 2000 09:29:39 GMT
I have bought a number of Dell Precision 220MT workstations. It seems
that though it is not certificated to run RedHat, the RedHat Linux can
be run without any problem except that the built-in sound card is not
detectable.
The built-in sound card was found to be SoundMAX AC97 as detected in
WinNT and Intel 82801/82810 as detected by sndconfig in RedHat 6.2.
Which is right? Also, can anyone point me to the Linux driver for
SoundMAX? In Analog Devices WWW site, I can find that this sound
card (CODEC) is supported by Linux.
Any opinion and advice is highly appreciated.
Thanks for your advice.
--
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Assistant Computer Officer Address : 224 Waterloo Road, KLN, Hong Kong
Science Faculty Tel : (852) 23395909 Fax : (852) 23395862
Hong Kong Baptist University WWW : http://www.sci.hkbu.edu.hk/~morris
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From: Chan Chi Lung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to check the micphone?
Date: 16 Jun 2000 09:50:33 GMT
Dears,
I want to ask how to check if my microphone is work under Linux.
And what the device name of the microphone in the /dev directory?
Thx..
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From: Eduard Siemsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with cdrecord!
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 13:17:59 +0200
I don't get cdrecord working.
Following the steps of HowTo s I get following output of cdrecord, when
I try
cdrecord -scanbus :
Cdrecord 1.9a02 (i586-pc-linux-gnu (c) 19995-2000 J�rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open Scsi driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try cdrecord -scanbus.
Make sure you are a root.
I'm root and the steps I went through are:
1. makedev loop
2. makedev sg
3. I compiled the kernel 2.2.10 with:
Enhanced IDE/MFMRLL : Y
IDE/ATAPI CDROM: N
SCSI hostadapter emulation ide-scsi : Y
Loopback device : Y
SCSI support : Y
SCSI CD-ROM support : Y
Enable cendor specific : Y
SCSI generic support: Y
ISO 9660 CDRom filesystem iso 9660 : Y
Microsoft Joliet CDRom Joliet : Y
Probe all Luns on each Scsi drive : N
4. ln -sf scd0 cdrom
ln -sf scd1 cdrom1
5. /etc/modules.conf :
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias scsi_hostadapter0 ide-scsi
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ide_scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
options ide-cd ignore=hdd
What's wrong? What is missing?
Who can help me?
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From: Chris Shenefiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TLB Wait Message on SMP lockup
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:48:47 -0400
Thanks,
Will try this. Hal, forgive me for being dense, but what is the QQ BIOS. I tried to
upgrade the BP6 Bios to the BP6NJ, but Linux couldn't address more than 64 Meg memory
(even if I tried the mem= parameter). Is there another version of BIOS that I should
try?
Chris
Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 22:29:01 GMT, Chris Shenefiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >I have an ABIT BP6 SMB Dual Celeron 366 overclocked to 550 board.
>
> Two suggestions: get a newer kernel and don't OC (at least until errors
> are solved). My BP6 (with QQ BIOS):
>
> [hal@feenix hal]$ uname -a
> Linux feenix 2.2.16pre3 #1 SMP Wed May 17 18:35:10 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
>
> [hal@feenix hal]$ uptime
> 6:45pm up 28 days, 23:00, 3 users, load average: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00
>
> Very stable since flashing QQ.
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
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From: Munge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,nz.comp
Subject: Re: HELP hard drive error??
Date: 16 Jun 2000 08:52:45 GMT
In nz.comp Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone give me a definitive analysis. It GENERALLY seems to be the same
: sector number.
Not really.
If you have an IDE drive it should automatically remap bad
sectors, unless it has run out of space. Run "badblocks" on
the partition in question and see if that comes up with something.
If it does detect a bad sector you'll have to reformat the drive
using the bad blocks option.
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From: "unclebob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ##HELP!!!!!## RAID question....
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:48:04 +1000
Hi there all,
I've got an old HP NETSERVER 5/75 LC.
I have just scored a NetRAID-1 contoller, with following specs;
- 4MB Cache
- Firmware A.04.01
I have 2 hard-drives attached as follows;
- HP D4911A (Made by IBM)
- 9.1GB
I have been trying to install Redhat 6.0.
I have used the drives in a striped configuration (RAID 0).
Upon install, Redhat detects the adapter as AMI MegaRAID adapter. The card
is actually a re-badged AMI MegaRAID 428 (this is listed as a supported
device in the www.redhat.com support pages.)
Once the card is detected, it attempts to locate the MBR for a partition
table (I assume) and at this point spits the dummy.
Any ideas???????
I'd hate to have to NT as Linux and SCO are the only supported UNIX-type
OS's supported, and I can't afford SCO.
Cheers,
UncleBob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: TLB Wait Message on SMP lockup
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:51:07 GMT
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 07:48:47 -0400, Chris Shenefiel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Will try this. Hal, forgive me for being dense, but what is the QQ
>BIOS. I tried to upgrade the BP6 Bios to the BP6NJ, but Linux couldn't
>address more than 64 Meg memory (even if I tried the mem= parameter).
>Is there another version of BIOS that I should try?
NJ is no good. QQ solved problems for many -- including me. It is on
Abits ftp site. The current BIOS is RU (IIRC). Don't know much about it.
I am not rocking the boat at this point, since I fought lockups for a
long time.
--
Hal B
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From: "Sriram Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux runs fine on Athlons
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:10:29 +0530
Hi all,
Here is something about Linux on athlon and the K7 boards.
They say and I quote,
--- begin quote ----
--- end quote ---
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispnewsitem.cgi?DISP?153
Also,
I went over to AMD and read their Athlon FAQ, as well as the architecture
information, which states the AMD is x86 compatible.
go to http://www.amd.com as well as http://www.amdzone.com for more info.
bye,
Sriram
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From: "Sriram Narayanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux runs fine on Athlons
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:15:47 +0530
Hi all,
Here is something about Linux on athlon and the K7 boards.
They say and I quote,
--- begin quote ----
Thanks to these reports contributed to LhD, we can now say with certainty
that, except for a few problems, Linux works very well on Athlon systems.
--- end quote ---
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispnewsitem.cgi?DISP?153
Also,
I went over to AMD and read their Athlon FAQ, as well as the architecture
information, which states the AMD is x86 compatible.
go to http://www.amd.com as well as http://www.amdzone.com for more info.
bye,
Sriram
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From: John Gluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: high memory missing (IWill motherboard)
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 09:51:02 -0400
The easiest thing to do is edit your lilo.conf and add the following line:
append="mem=192M"
Exactly as above (no spaces)
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:
>
> Jun 12 00:40:51 yggdrasil kernel: Memory: 64092k/66496k available (996k
> kernel code, 412k reserved, 936k data, 60k init)
>
> I've contacted IWill, and poured through the BIOS settings, even peeked
> at kernel code -- no help.
>
> Any ideas how I can get the missing memory to show up?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> R Brett Wormley
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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