Linux-Hardware Digest #111, Volume #13 Sun, 25 Jun 00 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
geforce 256 supported ? ("Corsaro Nero")
Re: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse (David Efflandt)
IWILL SCSI card - Kernel panic, I panic:-) (Anthony White)
Procesor PII 400 ("Dima")
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver (herman dumont)
Re: Linux installation with ATI Rage 128 GL AGP
Re: IWILL SCSI card - Kernel panic, I panic:-) (Steve Martin)
Linux & USB mouse: how?!? (Ruud Mol)
Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?! ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: LILO not taking dual nic string ("Tom Hoffmann")
Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?! ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver (FROZEN_Steam)
problem: scanning with sane ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: APC Powerchute not working (Bill Gee)
Re: Hayes Accura on Mandrake 7
Fasttrack and IDE RAID ("Martin Klingensmith")
scheda audio cmi8330 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help with CS4232 on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 - reports "failed (Edward Lee)
Re: Need a clean hard disk (Jerry Natowitz)
Re: Professional quality sound card for Linux *and* Win2K? (keith)
Re: IWILL SCSI card - Kernel panic, I panic:-) (Bob Chiodini)
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From: "Corsaro Nero" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: geforce 256 supported ?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 08:29:56 GMT
Does anyone knows if geforce 256 based video cards are supported by RH 6.2 ?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux, Quake2 and a PS/2 Mouse
Date: 25 Jun 2000 09:30:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Charles Tryon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
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What's with all the html posting lately. Please use plain text.
>I've been running the Linux version of Quake2 for a while, using a serial
>mouse. I just upgraded to another motherboard with a PS/2 mouse. I got
>Linux and X11 to recognize the new mouse, but Quake freaks out - as if it's
>getting a continuous stream of negative coordinates or something. What do
>I need to change in the configuration (or drivers) to get Quake to work?
Quake uses svgalib for the mouse, not gpm. In fact I heard that it is
best to killall gpm before running quake (I used a script to do that, run
q2 and then restart gpm when quitting).
But the problem is that you need to change your mouse in
/etc/vga/libvga.config from 'mouse Microsoft' to 'mouse PS2'. As you
found out, your ammo disappears rather quickly otherwise.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
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From: Anthony White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IWILL SCSI card - Kernel panic, I panic:-)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 10:19:12 GMT
Hi All Linux Experts,
I have purchased an IWILL SCSI ULTRA Wide card that I want to
use instead of my old Adaptec Ultra SCSI card.
When Linux boots up it tries to do a modprobe and fails
to load the advansys.o module in '/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/scsi'
and goes into kernel panic.
I have tried adding the driver statement in
/etc/conf.modules
where my old SCSI card was set up.
What am I doing wrong?
I tried to boot the RH6.2 CD-ROM and the card is found just
fine. It is as if the kernel can not access the
'/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/scsi' directory when booting up
with the card.
Do I need to pass anything to the kernel via Lilo?
My '/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/scsi/advansys.0' resides
on a different partition from the boot partition.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Anthony
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From: "Dima" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix,fon.hardware,yu.beotelnet,yu.comp.hardware
Subject: Procesor PII 400
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:16:12 +0200
Prodajem procesor PII 400MHz.
Pravi Pentium 2 (ne Celeron)
Cena: 180DM
Zainteresovani neka se jave na
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: herman dumont <[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: X server crashes with nvidia-driver
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:28:30 +0200
Floris Hammer wrote:
>
> I forgot to tell that if I run the 'install.sh' script from the src
> directory of the kernel driver before starting x, everything works fine.
>
> I tried doing cat /proc/pci and found out that my soundcard and NVdriver
> were on the same irq, so I removed my sound from the kernel, but that
> didn't work...
>
> any other ideas?
>
> Conan wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I've got the same problem with my geforce card. After many e-mails
> > with [EMAIL PROTECTED], it turned out to be an IRQ conflict. With me
> > - it was the HISAX driver who could not share IRQ. Do a "cat
> > /proc/pci" and check out who shares resources.
> >
> > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:05:19 +0200, "FROZEN_Steam"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >Hello,
> > >
> > >I've installed Nidia's driver for my tnt2 ultra card. When I attempt to
> > >start X, the screen gets black and the system doesn't react to anything. The
> > >only way to get out of this is by restarting with ctrl-alt-del...
> > >
> > >I've already put 'char-major-195 NVdriver' in /etc/conf.modules, but it
> > >still doesn't work.
> > >
> > >Can anyone help?
> > >
> > >thanx,
> > >Floris
> > >
> > >
Hi,
try this one:
in XFConfig put in Section Screen:
Option "NvAgp" "0"
HTH
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux installation with ATI Rage 128 GL AGP
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 11:30:03 GMT
I also had a problem with that card and the version of Linux that I used
was RedHat 6.1. I then switched over to Linux-Mandrake and everything is
fine. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/
Justin Kremer wrote:
>
>
> Sirs,
>
> First of all, I am a relative newbie to Linux. I'm trying to install
Redhat
> Linux 6.2 on my machine. It has an ATI Rage 128 GL AGP graphics card and
a
> CTX 17" monitor.
> During the setup screen where I select the graphics card (I selected ATI
> Rage 128 (generic)) and then hit 'Test this configuration'. The test
screen
> displays correctly, but when I'm brought back to Linux setup screen, the
> display is very jumbled.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> Many thanks,
> Justin
>
>
--
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IWILL SCSI card - Kernel panic, I panic:-)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 07:54:20 -0400
Anthony White wrote:
> When Linux boots up it tries to do a modprobe and fails
> to load the advansys.o module in '/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/scsi'
> and goes into kernel panic.
> My '/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/scsi/advansys.0' resides
> on a different partition from the boot partition.
I'd say that this is your problem. When Linux boots up, it probes
for the hardware in the system *before* it mounts filesystems.
(It can do this since the modprobe program is located in the
/sbin directory, which is part of your root filesystem.)
If your modules directory is on a different partition, then it
truly is not visible to the kernel when it tries to load it.
My guess is that you need to relocate your /lib directory to
the same filesystem where your root directory is located.
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From: Ruud Mol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux & USB mouse: how?!?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:33:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks,
Can anyone help me with my mousing-trouble?
I have an IntelliMouse Explorer which uses either a PS/2 or USB port. I
want to use it with my USB port, since my mainboard supports "power up
on mouse" so my mouse keeps getting power and the lights inside (which
are visible on the outside) keep burning. Real annoying, since my
computer is in my bedroom and i can't sleep with all that light
around... (and I'm too lame to switch the main power off on the back)
I downloaded the Dutch USB-howto at
http://nl.linux.org/doc/HOWTO/USB-HOWTO-NL.html and did everything I
should have done, but still no USB-mousing... What I've done, in
accordance with the manual, is the following (because I can't expect you
all to speak Dutch):
-Modified /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/Config.in ; and yes, I got to compile
USB into my kernel.
- made menuconfig; activated "Support for USB", "UHCI (Intel PIIX4 and
others)" and "USB mouse support"
-made bzImage, added to /etc/lilo.conf, gave "lilo" and got the
OK message by lilo (Added foo)
-Made /dev/usbmouse through "mknod usbmouse c 10 32"
-Changed /etc/XF86Config; in pointer section: Protocol "PS2"
and Device "/dev/usbmouse"
According to the HOWTO this should do it... according to my mouse it
doesn't! Now I've heard that there are some additional things one should
do, but I haven't got a clue what... Can anybody help?
Thanks in advance!
Mol
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?!
Date: 25 Jun 2000 12:44:36 GMT
MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've read the posts here on 3C509 and they all seem to revolve around
: loadable modules. I'm confused. Recent kernels offer support for this
: card compiled directly into the kernel, or as a module. (Why would
: anyone install a NIC as a module?) Once PNP has been disabled on the
Why would they not? Unless you are running a diskless node, a NIC
is obviously one thing you don't need at bootup! So you can load its
driver later. The most sensible thing is even to load it on demand, as
you either need it permamently or you permanently don't need it.
Modules are easy to load and unload (thus resetting the NIC). They
can be reconfigured with new settings at the same time. All without
rebooting.
Peter
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From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO not taking dual nic string
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:48:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Kirkpatrick
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried to enter a dual nic setup into lilo.conf but its
> rejected when I run lilo. I tried the following plus all sorts of
> variations. LILO: ether=11,0x7b80,eth0 ether10,0x7c80,eth1 LILO:
> ether=11,eth0 ether=10,eth1 ether=11,eth0 ether=10,eth1 etc. All
> returned syntax error. I used the same lines at boot and they took and
> worked. I ended up setting up ipcfg-ethx to get the cards working so
> don't have to enter the strings at boot. But I am curious why the
> Lilo rejected the string. I used to be able to do this with ? I forget
> now, it was with some release of Slackware a few years ago and with a
> pre 5.2 release of RH. What happened? David please cc:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you try putting a separate append line in for each nic?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?!
Date: 25 Jun 2000 12:48:01 GMT
T Bluck. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John F. Connolly
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
:>The only way that I could get my 3c509 to work was to use the rom
:>configuration package that came with the card to turn off the plug and
:>play seetings on the NIC card. Once I had done that the card worked
:>perfectly.
:>
:>John
: I'm using a few 3C509B cards here in the Linux (red hat) boxes.
: I set them up by booting with a DOS floppy, then ran the config
: software. They're all working fine.
This is indeed the standard way.
However, you have to choose a feasible io and irq in the config
software. It lets you choose any. Only a few of them actually
can work on that card. As far as I recall, 0x300 and irq 5 are safe. As
is 0x210 and irq 7 or 3 ?
Peter
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From: FROZEN_Steam <[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: X server crashes with nvidia-driver
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:00:18 +0200
Didn't work, should it be in a special subsection?
PS. FROZEN_Steam and Floris Hammer are the same person, just sometimes
posting from windows, sometimes from linux...
herman dumont wrote:
>
> Floris Hammer wrote:
> >
> > I forgot to tell that if I run the 'install.sh' script from the src
> > directory of the kernel driver before starting x, everything works fine.
> >
> > I tried doing cat /proc/pci and found out that my soundcard and NVdriver
> > were on the same irq, so I removed my sound from the kernel, but that
> > didn't work...
> >
> > any other ideas?
> >
> > Conan wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I've got the same problem with my geforce card. After many e-mails
> > > with [EMAIL PROTECTED], it turned out to be an IRQ conflict. With me
> > > - it was the HISAX driver who could not share IRQ. Do a "cat
> > > /proc/pci" and check out who shares resources.
> > >
> > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:05:19 +0200, "FROZEN_Steam"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > >Hello,
> > > >
> > > >I've installed Nidia's driver for my tnt2 ultra card. When I attempt to
> > > >start X, the screen gets black and the system doesn't react to anything. The
> > > >only way to get out of this is by restarting with ctrl-alt-del...
> > > >
> > > >I've already put 'char-major-195 NVdriver' in /etc/conf.modules, but it
> > > >still doesn't work.
> > > >
> > > >Can anyone help?
> > > >
> > > >thanx,
> > > >Floris
> > > >
> > > >
> Hi,
>
> try this one:
> in XFConfig put in Section Screen:
> Option "NvAgp" "0"
>
> HTH
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: problem: scanning with sane
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:59:18 GMT
Hi,
i've got a problem with scanning under linux mandrake 7.0.
When i try to scan with my Mikrotek Scanmaker 6X, connected with a
DawiControl SCSI2 card, via sane/scanimage, the scanner only makes a few
not-so-good-sounding noises, then scanimage locks and i have to kill it.
I've had the same error under SuSe 6.3.
Can anybody tell me if there's a solution for this problem?
Thanks
Johannes Bauer
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Bill Gee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: APC Powerchute not working
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 08:18:40 -0500
No modems on this computer, and /dev/ttyS1 does exactly the same thing.
"B. Joshua Rosen" wrote:
>
> Try /dev/ttys1, on my system the internal modem is on /dev/ttys0 so the
> external port is /dev/ttys1. I'm running Powerchute with a Back-UPS 500
> connected to /dev/ttys1, works fine.
>
> Josh
>
> Bill Gee wrote:
> >
> > I installed APC PowerChute on my server. When I run Config.sh, it
> > eventually tells me the serial port must be set for modem control. I
> > run the stty command like this:
> >
> > stty -F /dev/ttyS0 -clocal
> >
> > Then run "stty -a -F /dev/ttyS0" and it reports -clocal. Running
> > Config.sh gives the same error and the port reverts to +clocal again.
> >
> > The system is RH6.2 and the UPS is a Back-UPS 650 (simple signalling).
> > It's a server, so there is no X system - I have to configure by hand or
> > shell scripts. When I had NT on this same hardware, the UPS worked like
> > a champ.
> >
> > Clues?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hayes Accura on Mandrake 7
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:30:03 GMT
Josh wrote:
>
> I don't know if anyone can help or not, but I am trying to find out why
my
> Hayes Accura 56K pcmcia card will not work in Mandrake 7. I have had it
> running fine in RedHat 6.0 for almost a year now, and it worked fine in
> RedHat 5.2 before that.
>
> If anyone knows of a way to get it going, or has an idea how to point me
> in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> thank you,
>
> Josh
Josh,
I have the same modem, and just recently began trying Mandrake 7.0. Did
you ever get it working? If so, How?? Thanks for your reply.
Mark Linder
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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From: "Martin Klingensmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fasttrack and IDE RAID
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 13:30:12 GMT
Does anyone have experience with installing Linux on an IDE RAID volume, or
setting up Linux to support it?
Thanks
Martin Klingensmith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: scheda audio cmi8330
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:38:09 +0200
ciao a tutti -- qualcuno mi sa dire come si fa funzionare la scheda
audio on-board cmi8330 sotto linux (redhat 6.1) ?
grazie ;)
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help with CS4232 on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 - reports "failed
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 12:02:29 -0700
You should load the CSC4236 driver at http://linnix.com. The 4232 is for older
chips which has a slightly different register sets.
LR wrote:
> Hi folks, hope you can help:
>
> I have an IBM Aptiva P200, which I want to convert to Linux PC. According
> to all the IBM specs he audio controller is a Crystal 4237B. All the
> drivers were 4232.
>
> When I installed Linux, the install wouldn't autodetect the soundcard,
> although it is apparently support. Attempting to add it using the package
> manager, resulted in a message telling me that the AD1848 driver had to be
> installed (which it did ok). After that attempting to add the Crystal 4232
> gets me only a cryptic "failed loading module" message.
>
> Caldera support suggested I should check out ISAPNP but after reading the
> HowTo for it and PnPDump, I'm no further ahead.
>
> I'm also wondering whether I should try to install the ALSA drivers instead.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Luis
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Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Natowitz)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:41:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown) writes:
>>
>> From the IBM site: the description of WIPE.EXE:
>>
>> Wipe is a DOS software utility that writes zeroes to every sector on a
>> hard disk drive up to 8 GB. It can be used with both SCSI and IDE
>> drives.
>>
>> When it says "every sector", it means it. I've used it.
>
>Neat. That's better than what I used to use - the Norton WIPEDISK.EXE
>program. It would write zeros all over a logical volume. Effectively
>unformatting a floppy or a HD partition, but would not wipe the
>partitions themselves.
>
>Of course, couldn't you also just do something simple like:
>
> cat /dev/zero > /dev/hda
>
>This will also wipe the disk to the point that repartitioning and
>rewriting the MBR will be necessary.
I never tried that, but I have used:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=64k
It will over-write the MBR, partition table and all data. If you are really
security conscious, you will want to repeat the process with /dev/urandom
a few times and then /dev/zero again. This is because it is possible to read
a disk even after it has been over-written, albeit with special equipment.
--
Jerry Natowitz - jin at spdcc dot com
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From: keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.advocacy,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech
Subject: Re: Professional quality sound card for Linux *and* Win2K?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:58:18 GMT
hi
try www.hoontech.com
keith
Flacco wrote:
> 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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From: Bob Chiodini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IWILL SCSI card - Kernel panic, I panic:-)
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 14:59:51 GMT
Build the advansys driver into the kernel. If this controller is for
your primary disks then building it as a module is pointless. It
stays loaded all the time.
Bob...
Steve Martin wrote:
> Anthony White wrote:
>
> > When Linux boots up it tries to do a modprobe and fails
> > to load the advansys.o module in '/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/scsi'
> > and goes into kernel panic.
>
> > My '/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/scsi/advansys.0' resides
> > on a different partition from the boot partition.
>
> I'd say that this is your problem. When Linux boots up, it probes
> for the hardware in the system *before* it mounts filesystems.
> (It can do this since the modprobe program is located in the
> /sbin directory, which is part of your root filesystem.)
> If your modules directory is on a different partition, then it
> truly is not visible to the kernel when it tries to load it.
> My guess is that you need to relocate your /lib directory to
> the same filesystem where your root directory is located.
--
=========================================================
Bob Chiodini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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