Linux-Hardware Digest #99, Volume #13 Fri, 23 Jun 00 09:13:05 EDT
Contents:
xset dpms no longer works ("Shippy!")
Re: I just got my laptop and I want to install Linux, now what ??? (Mike)
s.n.a.f.u. ("Uncle")
Acceleraid 250 prevents Linux from booting ("Xavier GALLEZ")
Re: Add drive, rearrange mounts? (Eric)
Re: DMA and/or corruption problems with VIA IDE driver (Athlon K7M board)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? (Daniel Haude)
failed to eject cdrom (Bernhard Mogens Ege)
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? (Daniel Haude)
Re: Add drive, rearrange mounts? ("Flacco")
Re: Add drive, rearrange mounts? ("Flacco")
Re: ATI Rage 128 (Nicolas Delattre)
Professional quality sound card for Linux *and* Win2K? ("Flacco")
Is my Athlon going bad? (Bernhard Mogens Ege)
frame grabber drivers ("SIMON PARKER")
DFE 530 TX ("Michael Fraefel")
Compaq Proliant 4500 Server & Red Hat ("Jesse Cheng")
Integrated Audio on new Motherboard (Chris Rankin)
HDD problem? (Tim Wood)
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
external non-scsi tape drive recommendation? (Jim Magnuson)
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From: "Shippy!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: xset dpms no longer works
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 00:16:02 -0600
I've recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 and I'm using
XFree86 4.0. Before, I was running RedHat Linux 6.1 with
XFree86 3.3.6 When I used to run RedHat, I had a line in
my .xinitrc that said 'xset dpms 0 0 300' and after 5
minutes of idle time my monitor would go into sleep mode.
Now, I'm still trying to use that same line to make my
monitor sleep, but it no longer turns off. Even if I
say 'xset dpms force off', my monitor doesn't turn off.
I'm sure it has something to do with the new X server
I'm running, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
X detects my monitor as a standard SVGA and my video
card is an nVIDIA TNT2 running with 32bpp at 1024x768.
If anybody could help me fix this, I would really appreciate
it. Thanks!
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| Jeff "Shippy" Shipman E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| Computer Science Major ICQ: 1786493 |
| New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology |
| Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy |
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.dev.laptop
Subject: Re: I just got my laptop and I want to install Linux, now what ???
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 01:21:26 -0500
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 13:01:31 -0400, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just bought a used compaq presario 1210. It's a p150, with an
>upgraded 6 gig hd. I want to install linux and maybe even a 98/linux
>dual boot.
>
>Will I have any problems installing linux on this laptop ?
>
>How hard is it to do a dual boot?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>peter
This webpage has a lot of great information.
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
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From: "Uncle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: s.n.a.f.u.
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:20:16 GMT
Hi everyone,
I'm working on some shell scripts to help me monitor logs and current system
information, quick access to common confs, etc. I'm calling the program
s.n.a.f.u. and im finding thats usually the case when I use it, hehe.
Anyway,
s.n.a.f.u. is at the point where I'd love some outside input. Anyone
interested in trying it can swing by http://www.geekcave.net and check it
out.
Its only been tested on RH 6.0 and 6.1 so i don't know how it'll handle
other distros. Any suggestions, comments, complaints, flames, etc.,
can be sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Uncle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.geekcave.net
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From: "Xavier GALLEZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Acceleraid 250 prevents Linux from booting
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:25:19 +0200
I am encountering troubles with an Acceleraid 250 RAID controller. Very
briefly, the computer does not boot if the RAID controller is installed and
configured. Here is how the system is configured:
- motherboard: Intel Lancewood w/ on-board Ultra2 et Ultra wide SCSI
- OS drive : on the motherboard's Ultra wide bus : ChB, target 0, IBM single
ended.
- RAID controller Acceleraid 250, RAID 5 with 5 Seagate 36.4 GB Ultra2 SCSI
HD (SCSI ids ranging from 1 to 5)
When the RAID controller is pugged in, but not configured, the system boots
just fine on the IBM drive. The BIOS initialisation sequence however
completes with a (counter-intuitive) message like "No system drive
installed. DAC960 scan complete".
If, on the other hand, the RAID controller is configured, the system
restarts after the BIOS initialisation sequence, which this time issues the
message "1system drive installed. DAC960 scan complete". I can boot from the
floppy though. The IBM system drive is however detected when the SCSI buses
are scanned very early in the initialisation process.
So, it looks like the motherboard Ultra Wide SCSI bus cannot be accessed
after the controller initialises. Is there any option I should select when
configuring the RAID controller ?
Best Regards,
Xavier Gallez
PS: OS is RedHat Linux 6.1, which detects the controller just fine.
--
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Xavier Gallez
http://www.meca.ucl.ac.be/~gallez
Centre for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME)
Universite Catholique de Louvain
Batiment Euler, Av. Georges Lemaitre, 4-6
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, BELGIUM
Tel: + 32 - 10 - 47 2365
Fax: + 32 - 10 - 47 2180
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add drive, rearrange mounts?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:04:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric wrote:
>
> Flacco wrote:
> >
> > I installed Linux with my SCSI JAZ drive powered down, so during the
> > installation it was not accounted for. Now, if I start Linux with the
> > JAZ drive on, I'm unable to run Linux.
> >
> > I am able to start it with the root=/dev/sdd2 (root is /dev/sdc2 by
> > default), but basically any mappings to the original partition are now
> > incorrect.
> >
> > Someone has suggested I make the JAZ SCSI ID greater than the Linux hard
> > drive SCSI ID, but I don't think this will help since they are on
> > different controllers.
>
> As this someone suggested (yes that was me!) change the scsi ID's. Have
> you even tried it?
Oops, overseen the two card-thing. Well anyway the solution is still
essentially the same, change the order in which the drives are detected.
If they're on different controllers, just switch the controllers in
their sloths(they're both PCI cards, right?)
Eric
> > Is there *any* way around this without reinstalling Linux? I have
> > several days' setup invested in my current installation.
>
> There's no need for that, change the ID's and all listings will be
> correct again. If you always want to keep the JAZZ on, change the fstab
> entries to point to their /dev/sdd equivalents.
>
> Eric
>
> > Thanks
>
> No thanks, but give it try first!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DMA and/or corruption problems with VIA IDE driver (Athlon K7M board)
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:50:00 GMT
> I've just installed an Asus K7M Athlon board with:
> AMD "Irongate" 751 memory controller
> VIA "Apollo" VT82C586 I/O and IDE controller
>
> Has anyone got DMA working *reliably* on this setup?
> If so, can you please tell me how you did it?
Hi, I have 3 Athlon boxes running with K7M and experience the
same problem. I also tried the 2.4.0test1 Kernel without success.
The three boxes don't behave identically (one reverts to PIO after
some minutes, one after some hours). I think there is some
kind of hardware glitch. Perhaps it will get better with the
2.4.x kernel.
Ulrich
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: 23 Jun 2000 09:21:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 22 Jun 2000 12:27:21 GMT,
J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in Msg. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| The minimum install for SuSE 6.4 is ~80MB. Which would easily fit onto the
| harddrive, and that's with Perl iirc.
Sure, I was just talking about the default assumptions of what the
customer wants. There, I'd judge Slackware and Debian as "small" and SuSE
as "big".
--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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Subject: failed to eject cdrom
From: Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 09:22:49 GMT
I have a wierd and irritating problem. My cdrom drive will eject!
Usually there is no problem, but this time I pressed the eject button
before I unmounted the cd and now I cannot eject (either by pressing
the eject button or using the eject command). Is there a way to
force ejection or do I have to reboot my machine?
eject -v cdrom
eject: device name is `cdrom'
eject: expanded name is `/dev/cdrom'
eject: `/dev/cdrom' is a link to `/dev/hdd'
eject: `/dev/hdd' is not mounted
eject: `/dev/hdd' is not a mount point
eject: `/dev/hdd' is a multipartition device
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdd' using CD-ROM eject command
eject: CD-ROM eject command failed
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdd' using SCSI commands
eject: SCSI eject failed
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdd' using floppy eject command
eject: floppy eject command failed
eject: trying to eject `/dev/hdd' using tape offline command
eject: tape offline command failed
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument
Even tried to eject as root.
regards,
Bernhard Ege
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: 23 Jun 2000 09:23:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Jun 2000 12:44:58 -0700,
Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in Msg. <y0u45.17$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| We've been running SLS on an AMD
| 386sx/40 with 4MB RAM and an 80MB hard drive, and we're only using 17MB of
| space on the drive (not including swap)!
C'mon, why don't you scrap the swap. You don't really need it.
--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: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Add drive, rearrange mounts?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:45:28 -0400
> Boot up linux, then edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab to reflect
> the partition number change. Re-run lilo to write the changes to
> the boot record. Then run "rdev" (see "man rdev" for details) to
> change the hard-coded "/" partition and swap partition locations
> in your kernel image. When you reboot after this it should work
> the way you expect.
Thanks, I think that's what I'm looking for.
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From: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Add drive, rearrange mounts?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 06:46:22 -0400
> Oops, overseen the two card-thing. Well anyway the solution is still
> essentially the same, change the order in which the drives are detected.
> If they're on different controllers, just switch the controllers in
> their sloths(they're both PCI cards, right?)
Two of the controllers are embedded on the motherboard, the third is in a
PCI slot.
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From: Nicolas Delattre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:04:52 +0200
Try this link, it works for me :
http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/cg_rage128.html
Warren Gross a �crit :
> re: strange problem's I've been having with RAGE 128
>
> I verified that the same problem happens with XF86 4.0
> and the problem goes away when using 8 bit colour.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Warren
>
> Warren Gross wrote:
>
> > I've had this problem in KDE too....
> >
> > Warren
> >
> > Brandon Nuttall wrote:
> >
> > > James C Randall wrote:
> > >
> > > > Warren Gross wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I'm having a strange problem with my ATI Rage 128 (XPERT 2000)
> > > > >
> > > > > I installed Redhat 6.2 (xfree86 3.3.6) and it found and configured
> > > > > the card properly. I get video that appears ok, but whenever I move
> > > > > a window I see a lot of strange video noise appearing as vertical bands
> > > > > running from the top to the bottom of the screen. They are relatively
> > > > > evenly spaced.
> > > > >
> > > > > Anybody else seen this problem? Is the card ok?
> > > > >
> > > > > Warren
> > > >
> > > > I've seen similar situations on my RH 6.1 using XPERT Rage.......But
> > > > ONLY when I have the mouse in the window. Once I move the mouse....the
> > > > bands go away. (But as I use that system as a server.......I'm not really
> > > > too workied about.)
> > >
> > > I've seen this before, but only when I was running GNOME. In KDE, I don't
> > > have this problem. GNOME only problem?
> > >
> > > Brandon
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From: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech
Subject: Professional quality sound card for Linux *and* Win2K?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 07:13:02 -0400
Can someone recommend a high-end sound card for use on a system that
dual-boots Win2K and Linux?
I currrently have a Turtle Beach Pinnacle working under Win2K, but things
are looking grim for a Linux driver.
I'd like to get a comparable-quality card (excellent audio and a decent
synthesizer) that currently has drivers for both OS's.
Finally, it would be ideal if this card were games-compatible.
THanks
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Subject: Is my Athlon going bad?
From: Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:41:25 GMT
My Athlon is freezing more often than I care for. It has happened 4
times now, 3 times at night, and 1 just now. This last time it hasn't
been running more than 16 hours!
I am using the 2.2.16 kernel with the ide driver patch applied (to
make it recognize my ide controller). The patch I do not suspect as
the crashing has occured before I used that patch.
The crash was as follows:
I watched netscape draw a page (loading big image from net) and the
machine suddenly stopped responding (no mouse, keyboard). From another
machine I could ping it (kernel responed normally), and a telnet and
ftp did connect, but the daemons never got further than establishing
the connection (no HD access).
ctrl-alt-del did not work. ctrl-alt-backspace neither. alt-sysreq
isn't compiled in.
Nothing else to do than push hardware reset (really hate that part).
On bootup, fsck did not detect any errors on the filesystem
(fortunately! but on earlier crashes a manual fsck was required). Just
as I was logged in (in X) the HD spun down and then spun up again!
This I have never experienced before.
What can be wrong with my system?
The first 6 month of Linux were without crashes, now they suddenly
turn up. I need this machine to work at all times (always on).
regards,
Bernhard Ege
System: Athlon Classic 500, MSI 6167, Western Digital Expert 18Gb drive, 128Mb RAM,
50x CDROM, 3com network interface (100Mbit)
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From: "SIMON PARKER" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: frame grabber drivers
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 13:00:48 +0100
does anybody know if there are any linux drivers available for the following
frame grabber cards:
ALACRON FAST FRAME
BITFLOW ROAD RUNNER
CORECO VIPER DIGITAL
ITI PC-DIG/IC-DIG
VISICOM VIGRA VISION PCI PRO
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From: "Michael Fraefel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DFE 530 TX
Date: 23 Jun 2000 12:20:28 GMT
Ich habe eine neue Netzwerkkarte DLINK DFE 530 TX. Leider ist die neue
Karte nicht mehr ganz kompatiebel zu der die ich vor etwa 3 Monate gekauft
habe. Weiss jemand einen neueren Treiber?
Gruass Michael
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From: "Jesse Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Proliant 4500 Server & Red Hat
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:26:06 +0800
Hi,
Anyone know how to install Red Hat 6.2 on Compaq Proliant 4500 server?
I try to install RH6.2 on it, but it seems RH cannot detect the onboard SCSI
(which CDRom connected to) and Compaq Smart Array Controller (which harddisk
connected to).
According to compaq support, I can select "Symbios/NCR 53c8xx" for the
onboard SCSI and Compaq Smart Array Controller from the device list.
But when I select NCR53c8xx from the list, it cannot detect the onboard
SCSI.
Any idea about this problem?
Regards
Jesse Cheng
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Integrated Audio on new Motherboard
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 22:36:36 +1000
Hi,
Does anyone know what kind of sound-chip the AC97 is, please? Which
driver would I (could I?) use to support it?
Thanks for any info,
Cheers,
Chris
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Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:34:47 +0800
From: Tim Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HDD problem?
Hi,
I got the following after logging out from a X11 session and hitting
Ctrl-D to logout completely.
RH6.2 on a Laptop; PII-233 64MB RAM 4GB Ultra HDD.
"ll-rw-block: device 03:06 only 512-char blocks implemented (4096)"
I'm running Setiathome on a round robin of 6 cached units on a ramdrive.
On this occasion I had mounted 4 FAT32 windoze drives and used the File
Manager to search for a letter I was missing. I did not unmount the
drives.
My drive has become quite noisy and I'm trying to offload it. I have
seen suggestions that the life of the drive may be determined more by
the number of starts than hours in use.
Any helpful comments would be welcome.
TIA,
Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: 23 Jun 2000 21:49:58 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Chris Harshman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>For that kind of hardware, take a look at the Soft Landing System (SLS)
>distribution, as that hardware will be more than enough to accomodate that
>distro with plenty of room to grow. We've been running SLS on an AMD
>386sx/40 with 4MB RAM and an 80MB hard drive, and we're only using 17MB of
>space on the drive (not including swap)!
>;-)
Uhm, much as I fondly remember downloading the various versions of SLS,
I seem to recall the last one being more than half a decade old....
While that might result in lower system requirements, it will also
mean that none of the current crop of precompiled software will run on
it, very little of the current documentation will still apply, and lots
of current hardware will be utterly unsupported.
Bernie
--
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular
Adlai Stevenson
Democratic Presidential candidate for the 1952 US election
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From: Jim Magnuson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: external non-scsi tape drive recommendation?
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 08:57:19 -0400
Hi, I'm looking for an external tape drive. External is an important
criterion, because I'm going to be backing up two machines in different
physical locations.
My number one option right now is an HP Colorado 14gb parallel drive. I
haven't found this on any compatibility lists, though, and I'm wondering
if anyone's used this.
elinux.com sells it, but they don't seem to guarantee that it will work
with linux.
If anyone has a recommendation for an external (non-scsi) drive, I'd
appreciate hearing it (though I'm on a tight budget -- $289 for the HP is
already stretching it).
Thanks,
jim
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