Linux-Hardware Digest #237, Volume #13 Sat, 15 Jul 00 17:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Dual-head setup with ATI cards and XFree 4.0.1 (Joe Lau)
intel i810 ("Olabrems")
monitor ("Olabrems")
Super Commander Dataswitch problems (Thomas Vander Stichele)
UPS (Joe Ringer)
USB modem + Suse 6.4 ("Peter Cameron")
Diamond ISDN adapter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice] (jmvarela)
Interrupt conflict maybe? (Jon J. Morin)
Aztech 3011 ISA Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right (Dan Kegel)
Re: Multisession CD-R - Reading previous tracks (Uwe Malzahn)
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From: Joe Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Dual-head setup with ATI cards and XFree 4.0.1
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 00:39:05 +0800
Hello,
I installed XFree 4.0.1 binaries on Mandrake 7.1 and it seems to work
well
with one card :
ATI 3D Rage Pro - on board AGP card on a Dell GX1
I want to try dual-head and so installed a PCI card :
ATI Rage IIc 4M
With 2 cards installed I cannot start X on the on-board AGP
card, even though it shows up on "XFree86 -scanpci"
Only the PCI card works.
I'd be most grateful for any suggestions.
Thanks,
Joe (newbie)
More details :
The log file says :
(II) Setting vga for screen 0.
(II) Setting vga for screen 1.
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/linux/libint10.a
(II) Module int10: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for
4.0.1, module version = 1.0.0 ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver,
version 0.2
(EE) ATI(0): Cannot read V_BIOS
(EE) ATI(0): Unable to initialise int10 interface.
(II) Loading sub module "int10"
(II) LoadModule: "int10"
My XFConfig file for 2 cards :
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double buffer extension
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA
extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/chi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbModel" "microsoft"
# If you'd like to switch the positions of your capslock and
# control keys, use:
# Option "XkbOptions" "ctrl:swapcaps"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
# Option "XkbModel" "pc101"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbCompat" ""
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Dell"
HorizSync 30-85
VertRefresh 48-120
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Sony"
HorizSync 31.5-64.3
VertRefresh 50-120
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Gx1"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "PCI"
Driver "ati"
BusID "PCI:0:14:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen2"
Device "Gx1"
Monitor "Dell"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "PCI"
Monitor "Sony"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen2"
Screen "Screen1" RightOf "Screen2"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
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From: "Olabrems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: intel i810
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:42:26 +0800
i copy the driver from intel site into a floppy. how to install it?? how to
access the file from floppy. urgent. pls help.
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From: "Olabrems" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: monitor
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 01:46:36 +0800
my monitor is not listed in the monitor list,what can i do to do the
configuration as i don't know amny command line for linux .help!! TQ
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From: Thomas Vander Stichele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Super Commander Dataswitch problems
Date: 15 Jul 2000 17:46:03 GMT
Hi,
I have a Super Commander data switch, which allows me to switch between 4
PC's. It uses the keyboard for its control (scroll lock scroll lock space
to enter the interface), but I have a very annoying problem.
Whenever I start X-windows (Gnome), my keyboard and mouse stop
functioning. I can also not use the hotkeys anymore to switch to another
PC. The only thing I can do is use the switch itself to go back to
another display. Does anyone use the Super Commander or has a solution ?
Personally I think it's because X-windows or gnome takes over the keyboard
and doesn't allow any hot keys anymore, is that possible ?
If you know of an answer, please mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Ringer)
Subject: UPS
Date: 15 Jul 2000 18:12:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Recently starting having eletric supply problems, losing power for 30
seconds or so. I figure it's time for a UPS but I don't have any free serial
ports. Any recommendations, will a UPS work here?
--
clear skies, |http://www.erols.com/jringer3/astro1.htm
Joe |
|Remember when "Truth, Justice, & the American Way"
|wasn't contradictory?
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From: "Peter Cameron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB modem + Suse 6.4
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:12:45 +0100
Can anyone tell me if the USB US Robotics external voice fax modem works
with the USB-supported/backported kernels, or should I keep on trying? Using
kppp to talk to the modem (via setup) produces a "modem busy" message with
Suse 6.4.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Diamond ISDN adapter
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:25:26 +0200
I wonder wheather there are available isdn drivers and utilities for an
isdn adapter from the firm Diamond, either comercial or free. Could
someone inform me?
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From: jmvarela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Installing .bin files [StarOffice]
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:53:25 +0100
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, David Stackis wrote:
>I recently downloaded StarOffice, and burned it to a CD. The file has a .bin
>extension. Being a newbie to Linux I am not quite sure on how to proceed in
>installing this application.
>
>I am use to installing .rpm files, but have not installed a file w/a .bin
>extension. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
Just copy all the files to a directory in your hard disk,
execute chmod 777 *.bin in that directory
than run the .bin file which has number 000
this file will make the installation
regards
jmvarela
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From: Jon J. Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Interrupt conflict maybe?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:15:48 -0400
Hi all. I have been running Mandrake 7.1 successfully so far on my P133 for
about two weeks. Everything has gone fairly smoothly until I tried to get my
Internet connection up and running. Here's the details: I can connect to my
ISP just fine, but the connection speed is REALLY slow unless I move the mouse.
This sounds to me like a possible hardware conflict, maybe conflicting
interrupts. I changed the jumpers on my modem to COM 3, IRQ 3. My mouse is on
COM 1, IRQ 4. I thought that this would solve the problem, but it hasn't. I
have to keep moving the mouse in order to download information. Any thoughts
as to what this could be? Any utilities I could use to change stuff around?
Thanks for any help.
Jon J. Morin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Aztech 3011 ISA Modem
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 19:24:42 GMT
I just installed Corel Linux 2 days ago so I am very new to linux. I
have an Aztech 3011 ISA PnP modem. I am trying to configure it to work.
I ran pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf to make the isapnp file. Now I don't
know what lines to uncomment out. My card has a sound card/modem/and
more stuff. All of it shows up in isapnp.conf when I went to edit it.
I would like to get all of it working. I don't really know what to do
though. I found the part about the modem I just don't know what numbers
to use and which lines to delete the # on. My modem is on com2 in
windows (ttyS1 in Linux). What do I need to do? Thanks in advance.
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Before you buy.
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From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:35:21 -0700
Just bought a system with an Asus P2B-D and two Pentium III-650's.
Installed Red Hat 6.2. When I compile the Linux kernel (a big job
that stresses the computer pretty well for two or three minutes) with
make -j2 bzImage
it fails on a different source file each time, complaining of
an assembler error. Rerunning 'make -j2 bzImage' immediately
causes it to compile the same file without errors and move on.
This is the classic sign of a hardware problem -- but it appears
to be specific to having both processors actively working and
using the disk at the same time.
I can reproduce the problem three ways:
1. boot SMP with all 32 MB RAM, run X, and 'make -j2 bzImage'
2. boot SMP with 'linux mem=24M', run in console mode, and 'make -j2 bzImage'
3. boot SMP with all 32 MB RAM, run in console mode, and 'make -j4 bzImage'
It's very reproducible with the first two methods, and fairly so
with the third.
Booting uniprocessor and doing 'make -j2 bzImage' doesn't do it,
booting SMP and running 'make bzImage' doesn't do it,
booting SMP in console mode with all 32 MB RAM and running 'make -j2 bzImage' doesn't
do it.
The RAM is PC100 ram, and passed an overnight check with memtest86.
The power supply is only 250W, but I think I have 80 watts to spare
(50 watts per CPU + 20 watts hard drive + 10 watts each RAM, CD-ROM,
motherboard chips, ethernet card, and video card: total 170W).
Question: does my motherboard revision support the Coppermine?
http://www.asus.com/Products/Techref/Cpu/Coppermine/ says in part:
The following tables list the up-to-date ASUS motherboard solutions to the Coppermine
processors.
...
Motherboard S1Cu100*
(HW Rev./BIOS)
P2B-D R1.06/1011****
**** The P2B-D ... can be supported by Coppermine CPU in the later shipment
of the same PCB version. Please contact our reseller for detail information.
OK, so I need at least rev 1.06 of the motherboard, and rev 1011 of the BIOS.
My vendor sealed the case (!) so I'm going to let him check the motherboard
version. Presumably it's new and should be up to snuff, but...
See below for failure logs and contents of /proc/cpuinfo and /proc/mtrr.
I think I'm going to take it back to the vendor and let him fix it...
- Dan
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Related links:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/contrib/libc5/i386/memtest86-2.2-3.i386.html
http://www.keylabs.com/linux/linux_tools.html
http://www.asus.com/products/Motherboard/Pentiumpro/P2b-d/
http://www.wdc.com/products/drives/specs/wd205bas-c.html
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Example failure logs:
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log2
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...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386
-DCPU=386 -c -o buffer.o buffer.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386
-DCPU=386 -c -o scsi.o scsi.c
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1699: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
{standard input}:1699: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is ` '.
make[2]: *** [buffer.o] Error 1
Restarted:
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m386 -DCPU=386 -c -o buffer.o buffer.c
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/drivers/pci'
...
went right by it this time!
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log8
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gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m386 -DCPU=386 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c -o sched.o sched.c
sched.c:58: parse error at null character
make[2]: *** [sched.o] Error 1
Reran:
...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386
-DCPU=386 -c -o swap_state.o swap_state.c
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:1: Error: invalid character ',' in mnemonic
{standard input}:2: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `}'.
{standard input}:3: Error: invalid character '"' in mnemonic
{standard input}:15: Error: ignoring unrecognized symbol type "conswitchp"
.......... etc.
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log9
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gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m386 -DCPU=386 -c -o fork.o fork.c
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:661: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is `%'.
make[3]: *** [ide-probe.o] Error 1
...
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log10
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booted with 'mem=24M'
make -j2 bzImage
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m386 -DCPU=386 -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c -o sched.o sched.c
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:853: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `mov'
{standard input}:853: Error: no such 386 instruction: `al -20(%ebp),%ebx'
{standard input}:1116: Error: invalid character '(' in mnemonic
make[2]: *** [sched.o] Error 1
Restarted make immediately with same options. Happily processed
same input it barfed on, until it barfed on another file later on:
...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce
-m386 -DCPU=386 -c -o ide-cd.o ide-cd.c
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:364: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 1.
{standard input}:365: Error: invalid character ')' in mnemonic
make[3]: *** [tty_ioctl.o] Error 1
============================================
System info from /proc:
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/proc/cpuinfo
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processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 651.488012
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 650.44
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 8
model name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping : 3
cpu MHz : 651.488012
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 650.44
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/proc/mtrr
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reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 32MB: write-back, count=1
--
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: Multisession CD-R - Reading previous tracks
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:03:33 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wolfgang Fohl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is it possible to mount previous sessions of a multisession CD-R?
> (I am using it for periodic backup and want to restore the previous
> states of changed configuration files)
> My CD-RW-burner is a RICOH MP 7060A
>
Look for cdfs. Mounting a multisession CD with -t cdfs will give you access
to each session.
Cheers
Uwe
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