Linux-Hardware Digest #182, Volume #13 Wed, 5 Jul 00 19:13:07 EDT
Contents:
es1370 and alsa driver - ports busy/resource not available ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I Did A Bad Thing... (Arthur R Peale)
Velleman K8000 (hihihi)
Re: Macintosh modem (David Guichard)
Re: Can't set using_dma = 1 (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: unable to configure a dlink dfe530tx+ NIC (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (Duane)
Looking for touch screen monitors with drivers for CGA apps (Arun Khan)
Re: Installing 3rd HD ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Looking for touch screen monitors with drivers for CGA apps (Andreas Schweitzer)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working (UPDATE) (Duane)
Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds (porterh)
Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW? (Brian Stretch)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: es1370 and alsa driver - ports busy/resource not available
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 21:03:33 GMT
Hello,
I'm trying to setup the es1370 sound card on Linux Debian 2.2.14. Every
time I try to insert the ALSA drivers (using alsa 'insert') I get
'0xb800 ports busy, resource not available'. The OSS driver that comes
with Linux source works fine. However, even when I remove the OSS driver
(no other drivers are installed for that soundcard) and try to insert
the ALSA drivers, I still get the same error. There is a whole bunch of
drivers in the ALSA version - snd-ens1370 and snd-card-ens1370 and all
the underlying drivers (snd-mixer, snd-seq-device, etc.). Could it be
that some of those are blocking each other ? I noticed that I cannot
install the OSS driver after the ALSA drivers have been installed (I get
the same error). I can install the OSS driver on the clean system, but I
cannot do the same with the ALSA drivers (install on clean system still
gets the error).
I would appreciate any help on this subject.
Thank you,
Martin
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Arthur R Peale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I Did A Bad Thing...
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:18:38 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jim Jerzycke wrote:
>
> Either go to the manufacturer's website and look for your hard-disk
> specs, or pull it out of the machine and read the label on it.
No, that would give me the specs that are already in the BIOS. I have
that already. What I'm looking for is the specs to put it back to the 8
gigs that it was before I upgraded.
The new BIOS is too flakey. Everything is great, except for this
problem with HDD powering down after 20 seconds of non-usage. I'm going
to go back to the old version, IF the manufacturer will give it to me.
They haven't gotten back to me yet.
Arthur R Peale
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:18:05 +0200
From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Velleman K8000
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.robotics.misc,alt.robotwars
The velleman K8000 is a computer interface card.
It is used for robotics stuff.
http://www.velleman.be/kits/k8000.htm
I started a discussion mailinglist for the K8000 and related
subjects..
http://k8000.listbot.com
Just in case anyone wants to know :-))
--
My home page at my provider http://www.casema.net/~hihihi
My webserver http://hihihi.penguinpowered.com
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From: David Guichard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Macintosh modem
Date: 05 Jul 2000 14:31:47 -0700
I understand the power now--there is a UDB plug that gets power from
the keyboard socket...that should be easy to deal with?
-- David
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't set using_dma = 1
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:36:20 -0700
Hi there,
did you check http://www.ibm.com for your disks? I just looked there and found
that
Deskstar 75GXP, DTLA-307030 is - Interface - Ultra ATA
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/desk/ds75gxp.htm
Deskstar 34GXP, DPTA - 372730 is - Interface - Ultra-ATA/66
http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/diskdrdl/desk/ds34gxp.htm
Info for another disk drives availabe at this page
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/table.htm
and here page with Linux questions
http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/linuxfaqs.htm
So, your old disk can be as twice fast as new disk if you have ATA Udma66
card. Of course there is the question "why you can not turn udma on?". I guess
that in case of Ultra66 card with the disk which support only Ultra33 you can
not turn on Udma33 for this disk. If you have second chanel availabe for this
disk try connect it there and use hdparm again. I hope that it can accept it.
But it difficult to say anything as "I can only guess what IDE interface on
your motherboard".
Andrey
rbroman wrote:
> Just purchased new 30GB IBM Deskstar 75GXP drives. hdparm -tT shows
> they're slower
> than older 27GB Deskstar 34GXP drives on essentially the same system
> .... see below.
>
> The systems are both PIII 533 on Tyan S1854 MB, uses Via Apollo Pro
> 82C586 chipset.
> Running RH 6.2 with 2.2.14 kernels .... separately compiled, but I
> thought I picked all the
> right IDE options in xconfig in each case ..... maybe I missed
> something????
>
> Apart from slower performance, the "symptom" is that the new system
> "won't take" setting
> using_dma = 1 .... ie. I can set it to 1 with hdparm, but if I look at
> hdparm *after* running the
> timings I'll always see it set back to zero (using_dma = 0 (off)).
>
> Sooooo .... I can see why the new drive would be slower if I can't set
> dma "on" for it, but I
> can't figure out why I can't set dma "on". Anyone know?
>
> Thanx, Randy
>
> ********************************************
> "New" System ......... Deskstar 75GXP, DTLA-307030
>
> [root@jboat10 /root]# hdparm -i /dev/hda
> Model=IBM-DTLA-307030, FwRev=TX4OA50C, SerialNo=YK0YKT0M884
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40
> BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16,
> MultSect=off
> DblWordIO=no, maxPIO=2(fast), DMA=yes, maxDMA=2(fast)
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes
> LBA CHS=1023/256/63 Remapping, LBA=yes, LBAsects=60036480
> tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
> UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2
>
> [root@jboat10 /root]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.58 seconds =81.01 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 8.43 seconds = 7.59 MB/sec
>
> ********************************************
> "Old" System ......... Deskstar 34GXP, DPTA - 372730
>
> [root@jboat rbroman]# /sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hda
> Model=IBM-DPTA-372730, FwRev=P78OA30A, SerialNo=JRYJR023925
> Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=34
> BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=1961kB, MaxMultSect=16,
> MultSect=off
> DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=2
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=53464320
> tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
> UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 mode2 mode3 *mode4
>
> [root@jboat rbroman]# /sbin/hdparm -tT /dev/hda
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.83 seconds =154.22 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.87 seconds = 22.30 MB/sec
>
> --
> Randy Broman Linuxcare Inc. Phone:(415)354-4495
> Technical Account Manager 650 Townsend Street FAX: (415)701-7457
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] San Francisco, CA 94103
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unable to configure a dlink dfe530tx+ NIC
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:47:31 -0700
Hi,
did you check that option Plug&Play is off in your BIOS? If it is on make
it off and try again.
Andrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Red Hat LInux 6.2. The installation has the driver already
> (rtl8139.o). I have been unsucessful in getting the driver to work.
> Ater the card is installed in a PCI slot, Linux prompts asking to
> install and configure the the NIC. I say yes and configure the card for
> a static IP and subnet mask. The configuration is confirmed and the
> boot process continues. As Linux gives feedback on which modules have
> started sucessfully? The configuration for a ethernet card "fails" and
> the error message says something about the command "ismod" to setup the
> card.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 13:49:55 -0700
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> OSguy wrote:
>
> > You need to recompile your kernel to add scsi emulation support and SCSI
> > support for CD drives. Cdrecord will then treat your CD as a scsi CD
> > device. Without that emulation, cdrecord will never see it. Read the
> > notes on the kernel compile carefully because you may have to remove the
> > ATAPI/ide CD support to keep from interferring with the SCSI emulation.
>
> I agree. In fact, if you're using SCSI emulation, there's no need at all
> to keep the IDE CD driver. IDE peripherals such as a Zip or a CD-RW
> will both show up as SCSI devices and can be accessed as such (I'm
> doing that here with both).
Which is something I have wondered about. Is there any advantage to
using the ide-cd driver? Speed perhaps? Is there any such thing as an
old CD drive that is not ATAPI? I think it would sure make life a lot
easier for the average Linux user if distributions just used ide-scsi,
and left ide-cd to people that wanted to configure it themselves.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Looking for touch screen monitors with drivers for CGA apps
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 17:07:22 -0500
I have an application, runs under SCO Openserver 5.x platform. It is
"curses" based and uses CGA style boxes to display menus. The
application works with keyboard input as well Microtouch touch screen
monitors. Microtouch has drivers that support CGA.
I am evaluating a port of this app to Linux. However, Microtouch (and
ELO Touch) do not provide any drivers that work in CGA mode; their
respective web sites point to the XFree86 drivers for the X Windows
environment.
If you know of any touch screen product that has drivers for the CGA
mode please let me know. I would appreciate it very much.
Thanks for your time.
A. Khan
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Subject: Re: Installing 3rd HD ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 22:13:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> my old 486, with an I/O card which drives my 2 physical HDs,
> doesn't "see" more than 2 HD settings ( C: & D:) when I, enter
> CMOS setup.
A lot of older computers had only a single IDE channel. It's possible
that this computer is one of them.
> The I/O card has many jumpers.
> * Is it perhaps jumpered to see only the master and slave of the
> first IDE port ?
> * can the CMOS setting even handle another 2 HD's; since it seems the
> CMOS-setting-screen would need to show 2 more lines ?
You can often kludge your way around the BIOS. Once a reasonably
intelligent OS starts, it can usually detect all the drives there are,
whether the BIOS knows about them or not. So if you're only using
Linux, you might be able to put in another controller card (jumpered
to different settings, obviously) and boot from one of the drives your
BIOS does recognize.
> * since I can't figure out how the jumper settings go, does this
> mean I can't fit a third physical HD ?
No, you can always add more drives, somehow. If all else fails, you
can buy a SCSI controller and just use SCSI hard drives. SCSI has
been able to handle many devices since its inception, unlike the
horrible bastard spawn of MFM or whatever the pre-IDE interface was
called.
--
Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
oh, wait."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Schweitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Looking for touch screen monitors with drivers for CGA apps
Date: 5 Jul 2000 22:19:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arun Khan wrote:
>I have an application, runs under SCO Openserver 5.x platform. It is
>"curses" based and uses CGA style boxes to display menus. The
>application works with keyboard input as well Microtouch touch screen
>monitors. Microtouch has drivers that support CGA.
<snip>
>If you know of any touch screen product that has drivers for the CGA
>mode please let me know. I would appreciate it very much.
I don't know if this helps, but did you check gpm ?
ftp://animal.unipv.it/pub/gpm/
or more generally
http://www.hof-berlin.de/tablet/tablet.html
Andreas
--
Andreas Schweitzer
http://dilbert.physast.uga.edu/~andy/
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working (UPDATE)
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 14:20:08 -0700
NYCeyes wrote:
>
> Hello All:
>
> Thank you collectively for your replies!!!
> At the end of this letter is what my configuration
> looks like right now. Have a look please and see if
> anything pops out at you. If you need more information
> let me know. Sorry for the verbose email and posting,
> but I can only help my cause by giving as much info
> as I can.
>
> ...
>
> Now for my configuration. Have a look.
>
> #################################################################
> root@linuxpc# cat /etc/lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/hda1
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdc1
> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20.FCS
> label=FCS_linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdc1
> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
> ##################################################################
>
> ##############################################################################
> root@linuxpc# dmesg
> ...
> hda: WDC AC33100H, ATA DISK drive
> hdb: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdc: ST34342A, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: CDA66801I, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: WDC AC33100H, 3020MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=767/128/63
> hdc: ST34342A, 4103MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=8894/15/63
> hdb: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1024kB Cache
Most of it is working. The missing hdb in the second disk listing means
that it correctly saw the append="hdb=ide-scsi" line. But first I would
suggest putting the disk drives on one IDE interface, and the CDROMs on
the other. Otherwise, I think you might be hurting disk performance. The
second thing is that many people report problems if they try to mix
straight IDE with SCSI emulation on one IDE interface (but your mileage
may vary), so once you put both CDROMs on the same interface, you might
want to put append lines for both drives into /etc/lilo.conf (therefore
using scsi emulation for both drives).
> ...
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 1 host.
> ########################################################################
These two lines indicate that that the ide-scsi driver was loaded and
saw your CDROM. You might try this:
# cd /dev
# mknod sgi c 21 8
And now see if cdrecord -scanbus shows anything.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds
From: porterh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 15:25:11 -0700
that worked for me.
thanks alot.
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From: Brian Stretch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.verilog
Subject: Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW?
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 23:05:27 GMT
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> Steven Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Now that Pentium w/ 1GHz+ chips are available, using PCs with Linux to
> > run [selected] EDA applications suddenly becomes an irresistible
> > alternative. Anyone can share their experiences in this area?
> > Specifically,
> > Which vendor has better 1GHz machine?
>
> gateway reported some snag with the amd 1GHz thunderbird athlon.
> probably just motherboard circuit timing. i'd wait a couple weeks to
> see how it works out. so far ia32 rankings seem to be
10to1 says Gateway's 1GHz problems are the result of using a too-weak
power supply. If you go to http://www1.amd.com/athlon/power and check
out recommended power supplies, you'll note that an awful lot of them
drop off the list when you spec a 1GHz processor. Athlons are *great*
chips, but they are power hogs. If you have the luxury of
custom-building a system, I'd get a case and 350watt power supply from
PC Power & Cooling (http://www.pcpowercooling.com), along with chassis
fans and perhaps CPU heatsink/fan (if you're buying an OEM processor;
boxed processors come with them).
> pentium iii katmai < athlon classic < p-iii coppermine < athlon t-bird
>
> intel willamette pentium not out yet but will probably give athlon
> good competion if it doesn't beat it.
Don't forget, Mustang-core Athlons (multiprocessor, larger cache, less
power consumption) will be out around the same time at about the same
clock speed.
> > What's the advantage of Rambus memory compared with, say, SDRAM with
> > 133MHz bus?
>
> from my perusal of hardware sites, performance-wise there's not much
> difference. with rambus you can experience a lightness of wallet as
> compared to sdram.
Yup. Get a SDRAM-based motherboard and load up on PC133 CAS2 DIMMs at
http://www.crucial.com. I just think it's cool to get DIMMs
more-or-less straight from the factory, YMMV.
> > Any machine can provide more than 1G physical memory (2G is
> > preferred)?
>
> sure. lots of them.
>
> > How easy/difficult is the setup? Any unexpected difficulties?
> > Are any of those Linux service providers of any usage?
I custom-build all my machines. If you only need one or a few boxes,
it's the way to go, especially if you want a heavy firepower machine.
The biggest question is whether or not you want a single or dual
processor box. Single-processor, definitely a Thunderbird-core Athlon.
Dual, you have to go with a P3, for the next 2-3 months at least. I
don't have a recommendation for motherboards; Thunderbird availability
is constrained for the next few weeks as Socket A motherboards arrive
from Taiwan, and P3-side you'll suffer from Intel's boneheaded decision
to back Rambus, not to mention the scarcity of top-of-the-line P3 CPUs
on the market. You'll probably have to go with a Dell Precision
workstation (and atrociously expensive RDRAM) rather than custom-build,
not necessarily a bad thing if you've got the budget.
Video card is easy: Matrox G400 Max, direct from http://www.matrox.com.
Very Linux-friendly, and generates the cleanest video signal at
1600x1200 res of any mass-market card out there.
--
Brian Stretch http://www.mindspring.com/~bstretch Cert. Technojunkie
"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a
well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all,
enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy."--John Derbyshire, NR
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