Linux-Hardware Digest #65, Volume #13 Sun, 18 Jun 00 15:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: ##HELP!!!!!## RAID question.... (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: 2.2.15 kernel compile problem? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Modems and Sound Cards (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Multi session problems (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? ("Gene
Heskett")
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (JEDIDIAH)
odd gatos problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installation problem wth nvidia drivers (Anton Deguet)
Re: Lilo Problem (Anita Lewis)
Trident 8400 Graphics adapter ("Wes Wieland")
Re: Water cooling system (Simon Lemieux)
Best Home Network Setup "Help" (Todd Lenderman)
Re: Lilo Problem (Anton Deguet)
Re: Modems and Sound Cards (Dances With Crows)
yamaha cdrw ERROR MESSAGES! help (J. Roe)
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ##HELP!!!!!## RAID question....
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 21:56:15 +0200
unclebob wrote:
> Upon install, Redhat detects the adapter as AMI MegaRAID adapter.
> Once the card is detected, it attempts to locate the MBR for a
> partition table (I assume) and at this point spits the dummy.
If your problem is that you don't have any partition table it might help
to create a partition table and add one or more partitions.
You could have to use the fdisk program for this:
fdisk /dev/whatever_the_name_is_of_your_raid_device
Then hit "o" to create a new empty dos partition table.
After that you will be able to add new partitions with "n",
save your partition table with "w" and create a filesystem on your new
partition with the mke2fs program.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.15 kernel compile problem?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:07:28 +0200
Bird Chen wrote:
> 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
Did you try
make dep
make clean
before make bzImage?
If so, did you try
make mrproper
and the again configure your kernel with make *config?
If that doesn't help, maybe the patch which you applied to the kernel
broke the source.
> 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?
If you were able to compile a kernel on another system you should be
able to use that kernel also on slackare. But if you are not using LILO
you might have to modify it with rdev.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modems and Sound Cards
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:33:28 +0200
Niall Wallace wrote:
> 1) Is it possible that PCI Modems could be supported in the future.
> a) Hardware (Getting Hard to find)
If it is a good modem and they release the specifications it is most
likely to happen, at least if the hardware sells in enough quantities.
> b) Software (Win Modems?)
This will happen if:
The specifications is released
AND
someone capable of writing i driver starts coding on this project.
Unfortunately this is very unlikely to happen. Releasing the
specifications would reveal what kind of crap they are selling. Also, no
one capable of writing i driver would want to do it. Two things make
people write programs:
1) Someone else is paying them.
or
2) They need the program for themselves.
However, none of the above is going to happen as no one greedy enough to
spare a few bucks on buying a brain dead piece of hardware would want to
hire a programmer.
The programmers will not need the driver for themselves as no one
capable of writing such a driver would be stupid enough to buy such a
modem.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Multi session problems
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:38:45 +0200
William Buchanan wrote:
> A reboot will fix this everytime, but a couple of days
> later it just stops reading multi again. Its in a server, so I cant
> reboot the machine that often. This morning it read a multi session
> cd fine. A few hours later, after some burns, it read only the first
> session on the same cd.
If it helps to reboot, maybe it would help to restart some driver by
unloading it and reload it as a module. Then you would not have to
reboot the entire machine.
regards Henrik
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Date: 18 Jun 2000 13:18:44 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to JEDIDIAH ;
> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:42:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I've had some experience with this.
>>
>>Apps
>>----
>>
>>Netscape doesn't run well on 486 SXs apparently it runs much better
>>on DXs. If there SXs, then set up a font server on a fast computer.
>>Netscape 4.7 will run on a 486SX33 with 16MB ram if you have all day
>>to wait. Try netscape 2.02, but IIRC you have to install a.out
> 32M is enough to comfortably run Netscape and friends on a full
> desktop machine with office applications a couple of large source
> tarballs building in the background.
> [deletia]
> I would be surprised if 16M isn't really enough to run Netscrape
> by itself...
You have *got* to be kidding. I have 128 megs here, and the swap usage
stays below 10 megs most of the time regardless of what I'm doing. I
have 64 megs in my office machine, and both are running some backgroud
cpu over-heaters like setiathome, with rc5des also running on the home
machine.
The office machine is a 433 celery, mine is a 400 AMD k6-2/3DNow. Both
use KDE1.2.
The office machine takes about half a minute to launch ns, and uses 30+
megs of swap to do it. My home machine launches the same ns in <2
seconds, using little or no additional swap.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:39:50 GMT
On 18 Jun 2000 13:18:44 -0500, Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Unrot13 this;
>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to JEDIDIAH ;
>
>> On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:42:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I've had some experience with this.
>>>
>>>Apps
>>>----
>>>
>>>Netscape doesn't run well on 486 SXs apparently it runs much better
>>>on DXs. If there SXs, then set up a font server on a fast computer.
>>>Netscape 4.7 will run on a 486SX33 with 16MB ram if you have all day
>>>to wait. Try netscape 2.02, but IIRC you have to install a.out
>
>> 32M is enough to comfortably run Netscape and friends on a full
>> desktop machine with office applications a couple of large source
>> tarballs building in the background.
>
>> [deletia]
>
>> I would be surprised if 16M isn't really enough to run Netscrape
>> by itself...
>
>You have *got* to be kidding. I have 128 megs here, and the swap usage
...not at all. My desktop machine was a 32M 486 until I decided
that there was a PCI card that I just had to have.
[deletia]
KDE is certainly not a requirement for a kiosk.
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tell the machine what you want it to do rather than merely having
the machine tell you what you are allowed to do.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: odd gatos problem
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:40:01 GMT
greetings - i'm have a rather strange problem using ALSA sound
with the GATOS TV player. first i should point out that the ALSA
driver has been installed and works well with programs such as XMMS.
i removed all the soft links to /etc/rc.d/init.d/sound under the
various rc dirs and added soft links to the alsasound init script.
my rc.local script sets the volume and unmutes all the ALSA devices
using the asmixer program ( this runs after the alsasound rc ).
now i can play mp3's which sound great - however after re-compiling
GATOS with ./configure --use-alsa i get no sound.
if i plug my headphones into my live xgamer card i can get sound
from GATOS - why then can't i get it from my 4 point speakers?
system:
kernel 2.2.5-15
ATI all in wonder rage 128 16mb agp
Creative Xgamer live
Cambridge soundworks 4 point digital speakers
# cat /etc/conf.modules
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1 snd_device_mode=0666
snd_device_gid=0 snd_device_uid=0
options snd-card-emu10k1 snd_index=0 snd_id=SBLive
snd_dac_frame_size=128 snd_adc_frame_size=64
# cat /etc/asound.conf
# ALSA driver configuration
# This configuration is generated with the alsactl program.
soundcard("SBLive") {
mixer("TriTech (23)") {
; The type is 'bool'.
switch("AC97 PCM Output Path", false)
; The type is 'bool'.
switch("Simulated Stereo Enhancement", false)
; The type is 'bool'.
switch("AC97 Mono Output Select", false)
; The type is 'bool'.
switch("AC97 Second MIC", false)
; The type is 'bool'.
switch("ADC/DAC Loopback", false)
element("Rear Switch",0,100,Switch1(on,on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Rear",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Input Gain Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 15
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 15
element("Input Gain Volume",0,200,Volume1(15,15))
element("Master Mono Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Master Mono Volume",0,200,Volume1(31))
element("Master Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Master Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Aux Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Aux Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Video Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Video Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("CD Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("CD Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Line Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Line Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("MIC Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
element("MIC Volume",0,200,Volume1(31))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 1
element("MIC Boost",0,200,Volume1(0))
element("Phone Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
element("Phone Volume",0,200,Volume1(31))
element("PC Speaker Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 15
element("PC Speaker Volume",0,200,Volume1(15))
element("PCM Switch",0,101,Switch2(on))
; Voice 0 : Min 0 Max 31
; Voice 1 : Min 0 Max 31
element("PCM Volume",0,200,Volume1(31,31))
element("Mono Output MUX",0,401,Mux2(element("Mono-Out
Accumulator",0,301)))
element("Input MUX",0,400,Mux1(element("MIC
Boost",0,200),element("MIC Boost",0,200)))
}
pcm("EMU10K1 EFX") {
capture {
; The type is 'dword'.
; The accepted switch range is from 1 to 4294967295.
switch("EFX voices mask", 0x1001)
}
}
}
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Installation problem wth nvidia drivers
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:50:52 GMT
FROZEN_Steam wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install the nvidia drivers for my tnt2 ultra. (I downloaded
> them from www.nvidia.com)
> But when I do a 'rpm -Uvh NVIDIA-kernel-i386.rpm' I get a message saying
> that the package needs kernel 2.2.0 or above, but I us 2.2.5!
>
> What could be the problem? should I update any other libs?
>
> I have SUSE 6.0 with only the kernel updated (2.2.5)
>
> Thanx,
> Floris
The source code needs a kernel 2.2.0 or above but the binary rpm is for
one release of kernel only and as compiled by Redhat (6.1 or 6.2, don't
remember). If you have an other release/compilation, you need to
download the source rpm and follow the procedure described in the FAQ.
This is rather easy to do.
Anton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lilo Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:53:32 GMT
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:50:32 +0200, Thomas Luzat wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:59:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
>wrote:
>
>>boot with floppy and go into X if you can. cd /usr/doc/lilo-<number>/doc
>>and do gv User_Guide.ps. If you can't use X then copy User_Guide.ps to a
>>dos formatted floppy and view it with acrobat in windows.
>
>With Acrobat? Acrobat Reader? The Acrobat Reader can only be used to
>view PDF files AFAIK.
>
>
>Thomas
I'm so sorry. I'm wrong and I don't know how to read a ps file in Windows.
I was confused with ghostview in linux which reads both ps and pdf.
Here is an online html version of the doc.
http://www.cs.elte.hu/local/Linux-bible/user/user.html
Anita
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From: "Wes Wieland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trident 8400 Graphics adapter
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:57:27 -0500
Installed a new Mother board from PCChips, (585LMR) which has an embeded
AGP/PCI Graphics card on it. Can't see the chipset (hidden by heat
sink). Have not been able to find anything at Tridentmirco's
(www.tridentmicro.com)website, PCChips, (www.pcchips.com), Xfree86, or in
numerous searches of newsgroups and driver oriented web sites. Can anyone
tell me anything about this video adapter. Would like to get something
better than 640x480 resolution out of it when running Xwindows.
Thanks in advance
Wes
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:24:16 GMT
> or even better still, buy a bar fridge and put ya computer in there....
>
> it'll even keep your after work drinks cool at the same time
Yeah I thought about it... It would be way cool, but the point is, I have less
than NO money to spend...
Thanks,
Simon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Lenderman)
Subject: Best Home Network Setup "Help"
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:41:36 GMT
I'm thinking about adding a small home network and
wonder if any of these choices are any good.
They are all Ethernet Networks and Redhat 6.1 support is
important.
Netgear DB104 $129.99
D-Link DFE-910 $109.99
Linksys FENSKO5 $99.99
Thanks for any advice.
Todd
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lilo Problem
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:48:21 GMT
Thomas Luzat wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:59:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
> wrote:
>
> >boot with floppy and go into X if you can. cd /usr/doc/lilo-<number>/doc
> >and do gv User_Guide.ps. If you can't use X then copy User_Guide.ps to a
> >dos formatted floppy and view it with acrobat in windows.
>
> With Acrobat? Acrobat Reader? The Acrobat Reader can only be used to
> view PDF files AFAIK.
>
> Thomas
There is a version of ghostscript/ghostview for windows.
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get30.html
Anton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Modems and Sound Cards
Date: 18 Jun 2000 14:57:35 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:33:28 +0200, Henrik Carlqvist
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>someone capable of writing i driver starts coding on this project.
>Unfortunately this is very unlikely to happen. Two things make
>people write programs:
>
>1) Someone else is paying them.
>2) They need the program for themselves.
Let me add:
3) They like a challenge.
4) They want to be altruistic.
There are a number of people who consider 3 and 4 both excellent reasons
to program.
>However, none of the above is going to happen as no one greedy enough to
>spare a few bucks on buying a brain dead piece of hardware would want to
>hire a programmer. The programmers will not need the driver for
>themselves as no one capable of writing such a driver would be stupid
>enough to buy such a modem.
There are several institutions that *should* jump at the chance to write a
real LoseModem driver. Just think how many more copies of RedHat 6.3 they
could sell if they could advertise "Works with WinModems!" in big letters
on the box.
Also, if you grep -r $RANDOM_SWEAR_WORD /usr/src/linux/drivers/* , you
will find that people have found all kinds of nastinesses in various
pieces of hardware, worked around them, and commented pithily. LoseModems
can't be *that* much different. All hardware sucks, it's just that
LoseModems suck a little harder...
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: yamaha cdrw ERROR MESSAGES! help
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:45:55 GMT
Hi,
I just installed redhat 6.2 on my new box and I have a yamaha cdw8424ez
(IDE). I am getting this constant error set to my log file:
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
(reserved error code) -- (asc=0x3a, ascq=0x01)
The failed "Prevent/Allow Medium Removal" packet command was:
"1e 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
It won't stop sending this message to the log file and thus eating up
disk space. The only time it stops is when I put a disk in the drive.
But when I take a disk out, it starts up again.
Also, when I do have a disk in the cd drive and I do:
[janine@localhost janine]$ dmesg | grep ^hd
hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: packet command error: error=0x00
note the error. I have no idea what this means or how to fix these
problems.
If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it!
Thanks in advance
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