Linux-Hardware Digest #229, Volume #13 Thu, 13 Jul 00 19:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Epox modem in linux (altus)
Re: mknod for Parallel Ports? (Tobbe)
Re: Sound card config problem (Tobbe)
RH 2.2.16-3/megaRAID problems (Russ Magee)
Re: SCSI controller (Tobbe)
Re: recommended DVD players and mice for Linux Mandrake 7 (Spider)
Re: Netgear FA-310TX with Tulip chip (heyday)
Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard (Tobbe)
Re: SCSI controller (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations? ("Stephen Fuld")
mpeg capture from video capture card (Thierry)
Play mpeg without Xwindows (Thierry)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 740 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations? (Maarten)
Re: AHA-2940UW Post BIOS 2.57.2 Blues (Jim)
Arcos Zip100 ? (Ulrich Lauther)
Re: ati rage 128 pro: random placement of text lines (Bob Chiodini)
winmodem ("Mimo")
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From: altus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epox modem in linux
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 19:30:07 GMT
Hou can i get my epox intirnal 56k. pci modem to work in linux red-hat
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From: Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mknod for Parallel Ports?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:30:00 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
> I am having trouble adding a fourth parallel port in Redhat 6.2
> I have added the address and IRQ as auto in /etc/conf.modules
> as such
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278,0x6100,0x6200 irq=7,auto,auto,auto
>
> where 278 is an ISA parallel port
> 378 is the onboard
> 6100 is a PCI parallel port (works!)
> 6200 is the second PCI parallel port
>
> I used the following commands to add the special file in /dev
> /mknod -m 666 /dev/lp3 c 6 3
>
> where
> -m= mode
> 666= read write for everyone
> /dev/lp3 = fourth lpt
> c = character device
> 6 = Major; I think it stands for what kind of device it is.
> 3 = Minor; lp #; so if lp3 then this is 3, lp4 then this is 4 etc.
>
> chgrp daemon /dev/lp3
>
> When I add the printer it the test page fails for /dev/lp3
>
> I think it may be be my mknod.
> Can anyone help me out?
>
> Oleh
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
ls -l /dev/lp* if that's look OK, and i think it will.
you have to look elsewhere.
/Tobbe
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-46021/
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From: Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card config problem
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:50:18 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev:
> I'm having a problem getting my sound card (Creative Labs Sound Blaster
> 16C PnP) to work on my system (Debian Linux. Kernel 2.2.14. Dell
> Dimension XPS T550). this machine is a dual boot NT/Linux. Sound works
> perfectly in NT. The soundcard properties that the Audio device in NT
> was set up with indicate that the following ports should be OK for use
> with soundcard: IO=0x330, 0x388; DMA=anything but 03; IRQ=anything but
> 10. Using this information i have been trying to get sound up in Linux.
> After doing a pnpdump into /etc/isapnp.conf, I uncommented what seemed
> to be the appropriate lines for this sound card.
> My /etc/isapnp.conf basically now reads:
>
> ################################
> # (DEBUG)
> (READPORT 0x0273)
> (ISOLATE PRESERVE)
> (IDENTIFY *)
> (VERBOSITY 2)
> (CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
>
> # Card 1: (serial identifier e5 ff ff ff ff 70 00 8c 0e)
> # Vendor Id CTL0070, No Serial Number (-1), checksum 0xE5.
> # Version 1.0, Vendor version 1.0
> # ANSI string -->Creative ViBRA16C PnP<--
>
> (CONFIGURE CTL0070/-1 (LD 0
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority preferred
> # IRQ 5.
> # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
> # First DMA channel 1.
> (DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
> # Next DMA channel 5.
> (DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> (IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
>
> # End dependent functions
> (NAME "CTL0070/-1[0]{Audio }")
> (ACT Y)
> ))
> ################################
>
> I issue 'isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf' and I get the following out:
>
> Board 1 has Identity e5 ff ff ff ff 70 00 8c 0e: CTL0070 Serial No -1
> [checksum e5]
> CTL0070/-1[0]{Audio }: Port 0x388; IRQ5 DMA1 DMA5
> ---Enabled OK
>
> No errors, this is good. But then I issue 'modprobe sb io=0x0388 irq=5
> dma=1 dma16=5' (sb being the driver that I think is most appropriate for
> my card) and I get:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o
> failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/sb.o: insmod sb failed
>
> I've tried many many different values for IRQ and DMA following the
> "Hint" advice - but i still get the same damn error mesgs! When I do an
> lsmod I get:
>
> Module Size Used by
> soundcore 2372 0 (autoclean)
> lockd 30632 1 (autoclean)
> sunrpc 51588 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
> ntfs 33640 0 (unused)
> msdos 5276 0 (unused)
> fat 28800 0 [msdos]
> 3c59x 18336 1
>
> No other sound drivers are running as far as i can tell (soundcore
> should not cause a conflict, right?)
>
> What could be the problem?! Any ideas?!?!
>
> Going Insane,
> GG
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
0x388 is your midi. do a new pnpdump.
/sbin/modprobe sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
/sbin/modprobe opl3 io=0x388
/Tobbe
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-46021/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Russ Magee)
Subject: RH 2.2.16-3/megaRAID problems
Date: 13 Jul 2000 19:56:50 GMT
Hi all,
I want to upgrade the kernel on our Dell PowerEdge 2300 server (dual PII/450)
from 2.2.12-20 to 2.2.16-3. (I read an alert about a possible setuid exploit
that is closed in 2.2.15+ kernels).
The Dell has two SCSI controllers -- an AIC7860 for the CDROMs and non-RAID
stuff, and an AMI 'megaRAID' for the RAID-5 (sorry if this is slightly
inaccurate -- I don't want to bring the server down to look inside..)
I can build the 2.2.12-20 from scratch, uniprocessor and SMP mode, no
problem. Boots fine from an init RAM disk, jumping over to the RAID
once the 'aic7xxx' and 'megaRAID' kernel modules are loaded up.
However, the exact same build procedure with the 2.2.16-3 kernel, as
supplied in RedHat's source RPM, results in a kernel that dumps registers
and panics when loading the megaRAID module. Has anyone else gotten
a similar Dell system to work with this kernel?
Here's the build procedure I'm using:
$ cd /usr/src/linux-2.2.16-3
$ make menuconfig (config 'aix7xxx' and 'megaRAID' as modules)
$ make dep
$ make clean
$ make bzImage
$ make modules
$ make modules_install
$ cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-3
$ mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.16-3.img 2.2.16-3
(then, of course, updating /etc/lilo.conf and running LILO to install the
image.)
I've installed the latest modutils, insmod, and mkinitrd that I could find,
so I think I've got up-to-date tools...
If anyone with more RAID config experience could help me out I'd really
appreciate it. (If needed, I'll hook up another PC to the serial port and
try to capture the failed boot messages.)
Thanks,
Russ Magee,
IA/sysadmin-wannabe, Mount Royal College
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From: Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI controller
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:13:32 +0100
Azsandorl skrev:
> I recently purchased Mandrake 7.0. It seems that my SCSI controller doesn't
> work with Linux 2.2.14 I have a Promise Technology Ultra66. is there any way
> for me (a newbie) to get this to work? if not is it possible to get a
> compatible scsi controller and how much would one cost (I don't have much money
> right now)
Ultra66 is a IDE controller, work good with Linux
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-46021/
/Tobbe
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From: Spider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recommended DVD players and mice for Linux Mandrake 7
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 12:23:04 -0700
On 11 Jul 2000 16:28:10 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>:)About mice: The intellimouse protocol is well supported under linux. I'm
>:)not sure if this is the protocol that these new optical mice use though.
I may have a partial answer.
I have recently purchased Slackware 7 but have yet to install it. I am
still researching (thus reading this group). I want to run it as a
proxy/firewall.
I also recently installed an optical mouse under Win88 SE.
If using it as a USB mouse I get a conflict with my NIC.
I hooked it up as a PS/2 mouse and it ran fine under the old Logitech
drivers but again the conflict if I tried to install the optical
drivers.
The mouse has two extra buttons for fwd and back when at a website.
The old drivers don't support these buttons and I don't miss them as
they are easily pressed by accident. The three buttons and wheel work
just fine withn the Logitech drivers so I haven't bothered to try and
resolve the conflict. I just use the old drivers. A plus since I can
ignore the unwanted buttons.
I hope this experience helps answer the question for someone.
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Subject: Re: Netgear FA-310TX with Tulip chip
From: heyday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:26:03 -0700
I have been using mine for about 1 year now and just realized it
is only running in Half Duplex mode!
Anyone know any easy way to force my netgear card to go at Full
Duplex? I'm running Mandrake 6.2
Heyday
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From: Tobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:27:45 +0100
Neven Boric skrev:
> I wouls like to buy a dual chip motherboard, but I have no experience on
> this, so I would appreciate some advice. I'm loking for something cheap,
> but powerful, i.e two Celeron or two K6-3. How much would this cost (the
> mb and the chips), wich is the better option, waht mb. model should I
> get, etc. Can anyone help me on this?
Take a look at my BP6 http://home.swipnet.se/~w-46021/
/Tobbe
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Subject: Re: SCSI controller
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Jul 2000 16:46:06 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Azsandorl) writes:
> I recently purchased Mandrake 7.0. It seems that my SCSI controller
> doesn't work with Linux 2.2.14 I have a Promise Technology Ultra66.
that's because it's *not* a scsi controller. it's an eide controller.
> is there any way for me (a newbie) to get this to work? if not is it
> possible to get a compatible scsi controller and how much would one
> cost (I don't have much money right now)
this depends upon what you want. tekram has good, inexpensive
controllers.
tekram dc-390f is ultra-wide and runs about $70.
tekram dc-390u2w has u2w/lvd and ultra segments and costs about $140.
(avoid the 390u2b model since it's almost as expensive and has only
one bus segment.)
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[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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From: "Stephen Fuld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 20:52:54 GMT
"Carl Perkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten) writes...
> }The speed at which even _really_fast_ transistors process signals is
> }way way smaller than the speed at which they travel thru copper.
> }A few years back, the delay of a simple 74Fxx port was several
> }nanoseconds IIRC. The equivalent of >> several metres at lightspeed,
> }right ?
> }
> }Maarten
>
> The speed of light in a vacuum is a smidge under 30cm per nanosecond.
>
> The speed that electrical signal travel through copper wire is slower
> than this by a few percent, as I recall.
>
> So it takes more than 3.3 nanoseconds for a signal to travel down a meter
> of copper wire.
>
> Whcih just goes to show that a nanosecond is a rather short period of
time.
>
> --- Carl
And those of us who were fortunate to attend one of the late Admiral
"Amazing" Grace Hopper's lectures know that she used to carry around and
give out nanoseconds (a length of wire, approximately a foot long which
represented the distance that light traveled in one nanosecond.) She also
carried around a microsecond, but said that it was too hard to carry a
millisecond.
She said that she used to nanosecond to explain to Admirals and others who
didn't understand why there was a delay when talking to a ship via a
satellite link. She used to move the her hand containing the wire up by a
foot at a time while explaining that "there were a lot of nanoseconds from
earth to the satellite."
She also said that it was always the job of the newest member of her team to
walk through the Pentagon and find where the telephone man was and
"requisition" some of their multi conductor wire to make more nanoseconds.
A truly great lady.
Sorry for the off topic reminiscing. I couldn't resist.
--
- Stephen Fuld
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From: Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: mpeg capture from video capture card
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:50:43 -0700
Hi,
Do you know an existing program (with sources) wich capture video from a
video capture card (bt chips) and save it in mpeg or quicktime format.
Without using Xwindows.
Thanks a lot.
thierry
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From: Thierry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Play mpeg without Xwindows
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:52:57 -0700
Hi,
Is it possible to play a movie (mpeg or quicktime) without using Xwindows,
only in Shell screen.
Maybe using frame buffer ?
Thanks a lot for your help.
thierry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 740
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:15:04 GMT
I�m having quite a similar problem with printing on my three PC�s,
operating a little LAN, all with linux kernel 2.2.5, and one HP Deskjet
670C variably attached to any of them.
Until recently it would work on all of them, then within a matter of a
few months one after the other refused to work. At first I simply used
the net to keep printing on one of the PC�s still printing, while making
sporadic attempts at solving the problem.
the printer queues seem quite alright - lpq registers the jobs, then
after a lapse of time returns "no entries", as if it had been printing,
lpc status doesn�t return any error message either, tunelp refects an
orderly state of affairs. And still even cat <file> | lpr won�t make the
printer move in the least. Booting one of the PC�s with microsoft
windows 98 there is no problem printing at all :-( , so I suppose,
it can�t be a hardware problem.
>
> >I'm working with an Epson SC740, kernel version 2.2.16, and I've run
> into
> >something of a wall:
>
> >The print daemon is running, the parallel support module is loaded,
> and yet
> >my printer refuses to print. Output redirected to /dev/lp0 produces
> no
> >response, but no error messages either. The cable is fine, the
> printer is
> >fine.
so are mine
>
> you haven't accidentally overwritten the /dev/lp0 with an ordinary
> file? I managed to do similar..
I don�t think so .... ls -l /dev/lp0 returns " crw-rw---- 1 root lp
6, 0 Apr 5 1999 /dev/lp0"
> Did you check /var/log/messages?
no error message here .... just informing that lpd is running and
parport is being used.
>
> Bye
> Richard
>
>
what the hell is this ?????
Rainer
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten)
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.sys.intel,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: Are TSC's synchronized in an Intel P6 SMP configurations?
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 21:01:11 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Perkins) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten) writes...
>}The speed at which even _really_fast_ transistors process signals is
>}way way smaller than the speed at which they travel thru copper.
>}A few years back, the delay of a simple 74Fxx port was several
>}nanoseconds IIRC. The equivalent of >> several metres at lightspeed,
>}right ?
>}
>}Maarten
>
>The speed of light in a vacuum is a smidge under 30cm per nanosecond.
Ok, fine. I was seriously doubting my calculator anyway ;-)
But since those 74Fxx (F for Fast) gates were about the fastest
available at the time, and its time was 'several' nanoseconds, that
still adds up to a considerable length, far more than the copper on a
typical motherboard.
>The speed that electrical signal travel through copper wire is slower
>than this by a few percent, as I recall.
>
>So it takes more than 3.3 nanoseconds for a signal to travel down a meter
>of copper wire.
>
>Whcih just goes to show that a nanosecond is a rather short period of time.
:-))
This answer took about 26000000000 nanoseconds to type in. give or
take a few.
Maarten
>--- Carl
--
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is no relationship between theory and practice."
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: AHA-2940UW Post BIOS 2.57.2 Blues
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 00:20:01 +0200
PJC,
I have the same controller but, have not tried a BIOS upgrade. Take it from a
very
old hand. If it ain't broke don't fix it :). But, on to your problem. The
only thing I
can think of that might allow you to save your data is to try and use a floppy
distro
(such as muLinux) to access your partitions. Check out the following link:
http://www.txdirect.net/users/mdfranz/tinux.html
Hope this can be of some help.
Good Luck,
Jim
www.GlobalLinux.com
PJC wrote:
> I have two AHA-2940UW cards on two machine. Machine one is running Win2K and
> Mandrake Linux 7.1 (dual boot - same disk) and machine two has just Red Hat
> Linux 6.2. After I flashed the 2.57.2 BIOS into both cards, on machine 1,
> Linux crashed when trying to boot. I can't tell you if Win2K would have
> crashed since I tried the Linux first. After rebooting, I tried to get into
> Win2K with no luck (its a nice blue screen of death by the way). I think the
> problem was a faulty Linux driver so has anyone else had this problem? any
> ideas? I tried to put the old bios back, but the disk was already corrupted
> I guess, b/c I could not get into Linux or Win2K.
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From: Ulrich Lauther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Arcos Zip100 ?
Date: 13 Jul 2000 22:44:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did anyone get the Archos Zip100 PCMCIA drive to work?
Thanks for any info!
-ulrich
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From: Bob Chiodini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro: random placement of text lines
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 22:23:22 GMT
Do you mean XFCom_r128?
Bob...
Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Bob Terrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Does anyone have a solution to this?
>
> The driver on the SuSE site works (I had exactly the symptoms you
> report with the standard 3.3.6 driver from RH 6.2; the SuSE driver
> fixed it).
> --
> Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
> Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
> New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
> VL 2000 Homepage: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/
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Bob Chiodini [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "Mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Mimo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: winmodem
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:39:09 GMT
Hello, this is my first message here.
I�ve got a Supramax 56 Voice PCI -winmodem-, and I�ve seen some drivers for
LT winmodems at linmodems.org. Does anybody know if these drivers works with
Supramax? Has anybody the same modem working in Linux. Unfortunately, I��ve
got to write this message in W98 8:o(
Thanks a lot
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