Linux-Hardware Digest #200, Volume #13 Sun, 9 Jul 00 06:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Kernel Compile Problem ("Victor")
Re: can't play audio CD's but works otherwise (redhatbrat)
Re: Asus K7V and the VIA sound chip problem (Lee Bosch)
56k modem + Ethernet PCMCIA combo ("Shippy!")
Re: HP Laserjet, RH6.2, Gigabyte GA-7IX (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: PCI Internal Modem ("Michael Faurot")
Intel 2100 DSL Modem... (Andrzej Zawadzki)
Re: Can't set using_dma = 1 (Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=FCcker?=)
Re: ESS Solo-1 sound card (Andrzej Zawadzki)
Re: Can't set using_dma = 1 (Andrzej Zawadzki)
Re: Hardware recommendations (Peter Nunn)
Re: how can I change thesettings to the system sounds in gnome/sawmill? (David. E.
Goble)
Re: can't play audio CD's but works otherwise (Narbey Derbekyan)
Re: Strange printing problem with a BJC 250 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3Com 2012 Netzwerkkarte (=?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Brockmann)
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From: "Victor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Kernel Compile Problem
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 02:14:55 GMT
Well, here is the skinny.
I reinstalled RH6.2, same result. Nothing has changed. But now I couldn't
even compile SSH. I downloaded TurboLinux Server 6.0.2 (cause I didn't
notice 6.0.4) Well, I installed that (took like 5 minutes, it's practically
RedHat, everything seems to be taken from redhat but a lot more customized
for server installs). Well, after I got that running, I checked the gcc and
gcc said:
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-pc-linux/2.95.2/specs
gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
I compiled SSH without a single problem. I recompiled the new kernel without
a single problem. No SIG 11, nothing. Everything works flawlessly!
Considering that I was running BSD before (without a single issue) and that
Turbo seems to be running without a hitch, I am led to believe that the
problem lies in the 6.2 version of RedHat. I don't know what they did there,
but I feel a lot safer with gcc 2.95.2, since I could not find any distro
with 2.91.66 anywhere. I haven't seen any packages of that version at all.
The fact that my machine runs without any problems using Turbo (which is
practically a knockoff redhat, in my opinion) tells me that my hardware is
just fine. Something is a problem in 6.2 distribution.
The ram I use is all PC100 running on a PC100 motherboard using VIA MVP4
Chipset and an AMD K6-2 500 CPU. I have ECC Crucial Chip 128 Megs, and a
Kingston KVR part 64Megs. Both are brand name sticks and both worked fine in
both BSD and Windows.
I did hear that Linux doesn't like my NETGEAR FA310TX card, but they seem to
be running just fine right now.
Well, I sure hope that next release will fix these problems. I think it is
the compiler. Everything else is identical to this Turbo install.
Thanks for your help
Victor
"Bob Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Victor wrote:
> >
> > Hi, I just replaced my Kingston 64 Ram Module with a Crucial (micron)
128
> > ECC dimm. No overclocking on this system.
> >
> > Any ideas ??? My compiler is egcs 2.91.66, could this be the problem ???
I
> > think this is some kind of weird version.
> >
>
> Same version I'm using, nothing weird aboutit that I know of ( they do
> say not to use the newest version, 2.95 I think, as won't compile the
> kernel but not for sig 11 ).
>
> I would try putting your original memory back and try again, see if the
> results are the same. For the new memory make sure it is matched for the
> bus speed, that is don't use PC66 speed memory if you have the board set
> to use 100mhz bus.
> --
>
> Bob Martin
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From: redhatbrat
Subject: Re: can't play audio CD's but works otherwise
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 03:09:29 GMT
Narbey -- I had the exact same problem you describe, and I have a
similar system. After almost pulling my hair out I solved it. The
problem for me was GNOME and a little program called magicdev (auto
mounts CD when you put them in) Check your system to see if magicdev
is running:
ps -eaf | grep magicdev
if its running kill it (kill -9 XXX)
now try to run XMCD (you still get the SCSI command error crap but the
CD plays!! also XMMS, and tcd work)
IF that solves your problem, then edit
/home/yourusername/.gnome/session and delete all lines for magicdev
and decrement numbers also decrement num_clients. (I had to delete 14
lines- since it was in 2 places: default and trash)
Another note: when I started with this problem, I couldn't figure why
I could play an audio CD when not running X (with the program tcd)
-big tipoff that's is due to a gnome prog.
Anyway, Hope this solves your problem too.""):--)
On Sat, 01 Jul 2000 18:58:18 GMT, Narbey Derbekyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> More information:
> xmcd is spitting out the following on STDERR
>
>Opcode=0x42 Status=0x1 Msg=0x0 Host=0x0 Driver=0x28
>Key=0x5 Code=0x24 Qual=0x0
>
> Does anyone know what this means ?
>
> narbey
>
>Narbey Derbekyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Greetings:
>
>: I'm having some dificulties playing audio CDs from my new
>: cdrom. My system is a redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.16. Basically I can
>: mount and read CDroms but I can't seem to be able to play CDs.
>
>: I recently upgraded my 4x scsi2 cdrom with a much faster one,
>: NEC DC-3010. The system boots up just fine, I can mount the cdrom and
>: read iso fs, no problems. But when I try to play my CDs with various
>: CD player software, I only hear a half second of sound and then
>: nothing. The track slider on XMMS is jumping back an forth in place as
>: if the cdrom is skipping. I did not have any such issues with the
>: older cdrom. Ditto for kernel 2.2.14, same problem. All the CD players
>: can read the number of tracks and correctly lookup the CD in CDDB.
>
>: They're both scsi and have the same 50 pin connector. The only
>: difference I can tell is that the new cdrom is ultra-scsi, but my card
>: supports it and I can mount and read from CDs.
>
>: If anyone has any insights as to what's up with this, please
>: let me know.
>
>: really wierd.
>
>: narbey
>
>
>--------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------- http://www2.shore.net/~narbey --------
> Iron is strong but it melts in the fire.
> Stay pliant like water, that makes fire afraid.
> -Nahabed Kouchag
>---------------------------- Narbey Derbekyan ----------------------------
>
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From: Lee Bosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus K7V and the VIA sound chip problem
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 03:17:30 GMT
In article <8jpfv2$2oi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I've got a problem with the VIA sound chip AC'97 on the Asus K7V.
> > Namely, the via82cxxx kernel module hangs the system solid when
> installed
> > (e.g. with modprobe). Has anyone experienced such a behavior?
Not exactly. I'm running RedHat v6.1 and it simply failed until I
added the 'option sb support=1' line to the conf.modules as suggested
elsewhere. That locked it up so tight I had to break into the startup
so I could remove it. I am unable to compile the latest version of the
driver (via82cxxx_audio 1.1.18) so I'm hoping that someone will fashion
an RPM.
Lee Bosch
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From: "Shippy!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 56k modem + Ethernet PCMCIA combo
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 22:15:39 -0600
I'm looking for a PCMCIA card that has both a modem and
RJ-45 Ethernet jack that works in Linux. Could anybody
recommend some brands and model numbers to me? 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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Subject: Re: HP Laserjet, RH6.2, Gigabyte GA-7IX
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 05:06:09 GMT
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an HP Laserjet model 2686A (one of the originals,
> made in 1987) that I've been trying to get to work with
> my Athlon 650 on a Gigabyte GA-7IX running RH 6.2.
>
> I can "Print ASCII directly to port" from printtool
> and can cat <file> > /dev/ttyS1 and have text come out.
> If I try to "Print ASCII test page" or "Print Postscript
> test page", however, the display on the printer flashes
> "40".
>
> I have set up the ghostscript filter in printtool with
> the one labeled LaserJet (imagine! :-) ).
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> Does anyone know what the error code numbers mean?
>
> Craig
A quick look through Google tells me that error 40 means the serial
port configurations between the printer and computer don't match up
(ie. the baud rate, parity, etc.) Either reconfigure the printer or
reconfigure the computer serial port via 'stty'.
http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl04079.html
BTW, I suggest in the future you search Google or Deja News *first*
as you will get faster results than via a newsgroup. In 3 seconds, I
got the relevant information from Google on the first hit. All I did
was search under 'HP Laserjet 2686A'.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI Internal Modem
Date: 9 Jul 2000 05:18:33 GMT
Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: There is a web site to check on but I forget the URL - it appears
: on here pretty frequently and has something like gromit in the URL
: somewhere.
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Andrzej Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel 2100 DSL Modem...
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 23:38:40 -0700
... is this modem can work in Linux?
I've DSL line to USWEST by this PCI internal modem. I'll be glad if I
can use this modem. Maybe somebody has a driver?
Thanks for any response!
--
zawada e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Technical University of Gdansk
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From: Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=FCcker?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't set using_dma = 1
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 00:25:11 +0200
Try hdparm -c3 -d1 -X34 -k1
-c3 I/O 32 bit
-d1 dma = yes
-X34 Multiword DMA PIO4
-k1 KEEP SETTINGS ( Linux resets IDE and SCSI Buses after a while )
so all hdparm settings get lost!
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From: Andrzej Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ESS Solo-1 sound card
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2000 23:53:42 -0700
"A.N." wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a ESS Solo-1 sound card. I'm not sure if Linux
> supports that (in fact, I have not seen it in the list of
> Linux sound cards). Anyway, perhaps somebody has
> made it work under Linux ... Heeelp!
I've RedHat 6.2 and my ESS Solo is working. I used sndconfig.
When You wont recompile your kernel, You have to mark:
- in: Code maturity level options
yes - prompt....
and then You will be have in
- Sound menu - Solo take this options - (this is not ready driver
yet but is working!)
Take modules of course.
Good luck!
ps. my english is not very good ;-))
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zawada
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From: Andrzej Zawadzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't set using_dma = 1
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 00:04:54 -0700
rbroman wrote:
>
> ********************************************
> "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
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Why only mode2???
>
> ********************************************
> "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
^^^^^^^
This one has UDMA mode 4. This is strange for me...
anyway:
1 - man hdparm about UDMA66
2 - Try: hdparm -c1(3)d1X68W1u1m16k1 /dev/hda - be carefull!!!
--
zawada
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From: Peter Nunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware recommendations
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 17:08:14 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the info Smitty,
it will be a workstation (I will be useing an older system as
the server) so sounds like a two headed system with one fast processor
it is.
Thanks again.
Peter
Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Peter Nunn wrote:
>>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am in the position where I am about to purchase a new box and would
>> like some advice.
>>
>> I am going to run RH on it and am wondering two things. Am I getter
>> getting two slower processors or one fast one and can I run two
>> monitors on it like I can Win2K?
>>
>> Thanks..
>>
>> Peter
>> Peter Nunn
>> DownUnder
>That depends what you want to do with it, Peter. If it is going to be a
>busy server, then two CPUs would be in order. If simply a workstation,
>all you need is one CPU. Yes, you can run Linux with two monitors.
>Please ensure that all your cards are supported under Linux. Most are,
>but look into it forehand.
>Modem cards can be winmodems, you don't want that.
>Smitty
Peter Nunn
DownUnder
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David. E. Goble)
Subject: Re: how can I change thesettings to the system sounds in gnome/sawmill?
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 07:33:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 05 Jul 2000 12:29:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David. E. Goble)
wrote:
>Hi all;
>
>My sound card produces some sounds when I am running gnome/sawmill on
>redhat 6.2. However when I tried to play the sound files set in the
>sound set control, I can only just make out the differentes. The
>laughter.wav sounds like a couple of bits and blurps.
>
>The system is on a 486dx2/66 with 20meg RAM. Anyway to make the sounds
>better. Oh I have a ES1868 sound card from ESS Technology.
>
Hi again;
I run KDE and the sounds are find. Whats up with the sounds that come
with gnome?
--Regards : David. E. Goble
goble[AT]kin.net.au
http://www-mugc.cc.monash.edu.au/~degob1/goble
Po Box 648 Kingscote Kangaroo Island South Australia 5223
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From: Narbey Derbekyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't play audio CD's but works otherwise
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 09:10:42 GMT
Hey, thanks that was a good tipoff. I'm still having odd
problems tho.
First thing I did was to, under gnome control center, turn off
auto mounting and auto-running of a cd player for audio cd's. I
checked to see if magicdev was running and it wasn't. xmcd was now
able to play the cd but time-elapsed was stuck on 0 and it was still
scsi command errors STDERR. xmms oddly enough worked just fine. gtcd
on the other hand did not work at all. something really odd is going
on. tcd is working tho.
really odd. I'm going to put my old cdrom back int and check
out out.
narbey
redhatbrat wrote:
: Narbey -- I had the exact same problem you describe, and I have a
: similar system. After almost pulling my hair out I solved it. The
: problem for me was GNOME and a little program called magicdev (auto
: mounts CD when you put them in) Check your system to see if magicdev
: is running:
: ps -eaf | grep magicdev
: if its running kill it (kill -9 XXX)
: now try to run XMCD (you still get the SCSI command error crap but the
: CD plays!! also XMMS, and tcd work)
: IF that solves your problem, then edit
: /home/yourusername/.gnome/session and delete all lines for magicdev
: and decrement numbers also decrement num_clients. (I had to delete 14
: lines- since it was in 2 places: default and trash)
: Another note: when I started with this problem, I couldn't figure why
: I could play an audio CD when not running X (with the program tcd)
: -big tipoff that's is due to a gnome prog.
: Anyway, Hope this solves your problem too.""):--)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange printing problem with a BJC 250
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 09:38:18 GMT
I sometimes get the following problem when changing from black ink to
colour or vice versa:-
The printing is half - width but full height. I have found that I need
to disconnect the DC power cord from the printer & leave it out for 2 -
5 minutes. The printer seems to get 'stuck' in a wrong mode soemtimes &
needs to be powered down completely.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
> I used to have no problems printing (albeit not very sharp
> and dull color) on a canon BJC 250 printer. I upgraded recently
> to gs-5.5, and started to get fuzzy text. I then downgraded back
> to gs-5.1, and the fuzzy text is still there.
>
> I have since run out of ink in my black cartridge, and put in a
> color (photo ink) cartridge that I had as a spare. I'm still sending
> data to the printer using gs-5.1, from the command line (having some
> problems with printtool) using a command like the following:
>
> # gs -sDEVICE=uniprint @bjc610a1.upp -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 whatever.ps
>
> All of a sudden (after changing the cartridge) everything printed to
> the printer is suddenly only 1/2 as large as it should be. It is as if
> the page is being limited to 1/2 the regular length of the page (4
instead
> of 8 inches) and is being squeezed to fit in this size. I can't
understand
> why a simple cartridge change would have this effect. I wonder if
anyone
> has had this problem?
>
> --
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> David E. Fox Census Thanks for letting me
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2000 change magnetic
patterns
> Be Counted: http://www.census.gov on your hard disk.
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>
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Brockmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3Com 2012 Netzwerkkarte
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2000 11:59:42 +0200
Hallo,
ich habe von einem Bekannten 2 Netzwerkkarten bekommen und w�rde gern
wissen, ob es daf�r Treiber und / oder Dokumentation gibt.
Die Karten sind volle L�nge ISA-Steckkarten mit DIX- und BNC-Stecker,
Aufschrift:
3Com Corp, Mt View, CA.
Assy 2012-01 Rev Y SN
Wei� irgendjemand, ob diese Karte zu einer in der Kernelkonfiguration
enthaltenen Netzwerkkarten kompatibel ist ?
Vielen Dank im Voraus
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