Linux-Hardware Digest #251, Volume #13 Mon, 17 Jul 00 12:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: USB MS Intellimouse - keyboard doesn't respond (William M. Perry)
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP (tabascox)
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP (tabascox)
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP (tabascox)
ppp, chat: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error (Jon Collis)
Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help! ("albert")
Probs with setserial (Jamie Tomlinson)
Linux SMP box Locks (Aaron Smith)
lilo boot problem: hangs on LI (dan)
Re: Intel L440GX+ (Mike)
Microtech USB CameraMate Support? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help! (Dances With Crows)
web server: internal error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Install SCSI card ("Alain DOULIEZ")
Re: Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT... ("Robert Banfill")
Re: D-Link DFE-530TX network card
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Subject: Re: USB MS Intellimouse - keyboard doesn't respond
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William M. Perry)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:12:54 GMT
"binary boy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recompiled the kernel again, this time with OHCI, preliminary USB device
> filesystem, and mouse support. Upon reboot, this time I had keyboard
> function, but I couldn't start X Windows. The bootlog had a message that
> said "MS Intellimouse Explorer - this device not recognized by any USB
> driver", and the XFree86 log said "Mouse0: unknown protocol "usb", no core
> pointer registered."
>
> Something's still not right
Did you load hid, input, and mousedev? Those are required to register the
mouse. Then create /dev/input/mice:
mknod /dev/input/mice c 13 63
Point XFree86 at it with:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "IntelliMouse Explorer"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
The usb mouse stuff does not emulate the ExplorerPS/2 stuff, so you will be
stuck without the full 7 buttons, but I never use those buttons on the side
anyway.
'auto' and 'usb' mouse types do not seem to work, at least on the
2.4.0test2 kernel, for me.
-Bill P.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:26:11 -0500
From: tabascox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP
James Knowles wrote:
> > I get always compression off, but the drive is compression capable !!!
>
> Does your drive have jumpers to set this? Mine does, though mt can set
> compression on/off using the same command:
>
probably. I will open the PC soon to check if I forgot some jumpers..
It is a HP [un]surestore 6000.
>
> jamesk@therrindur:~ :-) sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1
> Compression on.
> jamesk@therrindur:~ :-) sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0
> Compression off.
> jamesk@therrindur:~ :-) sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1
> Compression on.
>
> I assume you're doing this as root either logged in as root or sudo'd
> (or equivalent)?
>
sure....
>
> > Is DDS2 4GB nominal and 8GB compressed ????
>
> As I just posted elsewhere, after looking on HP's web site, yes DDS2 is
> 4GB raw. I stand corrected from my previous posting, which was off the
> top of my head. My DDS3 drive is 12GB raw. I was probably thinking of
> DDS1 drives at 2GB. I don't know where I came up with the number. :-)
>
> > I am expecting to store at least 4GB or should I expect less ??
>
> Depends on different factors, block size, whether you can feed a
> continual stream, etc.
>
still trying !
Thanks
Stefano
>
> --
> Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and go good
> with catsup.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:27:17 -0500
From: tabascox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP
Michael Meissner wrote:
> tabascox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It is really strange, but when I do "mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1", I
> > get:
> > Compression off.
> > Compression capable.
> > Decompression capable.
> >
> > If I do " mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0", I get
> > Compression off.
> > Compression capable.
> > Decompression capable.
> >
> > I get always compression off, but the drive is compression capable !!!
> > Is DDS2 4GB nominal and 8GB compressed ????
> > I am expecting to store at least 4GB or should I expect less ??
> >
> > Right now I am trying to put 65536 as block size and see what happens ..
>
> Check the version of your 'mt' command. If it is 0.4 or 0.5b then you have the
> correct command. If it is 0.5 without the b suffix, you have the version that
> has the bug in it that you can't use the -f option along with an option that
> takes a numeric argument (the argument parsing would also give 0 as the value).
> IIRC, Redhat 6.1 had the buggy mt.
mt -V :
GNU mt version 2.4.2
Stefano
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
> PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
> Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
> Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:30:18 -0500
From: tabascox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP
"David C." wrote:
> tabascox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > I have a DDS 2 and I cannot store all the 4GB I want in a DDS2 tape.
> > here are my commands:
> >
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 rewind
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk 8192
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1
> > tar cpMvl -b 16 -f /dev/nst0 /home
> > mt -f /dev/nst0 eject
> >
> > actually "du /home" gives 3.6 GB (most files are gz or bz2) but around
> > 3.2GB the tape ends and I have to feed the driver with another tape.
> > Am I mistaking the block size ???
>
> There are several possibilities:
>
> 1: Errors on the tape. Most DAT drives will detect bad spots on the
> tape and skip over them. They do not generate errors or warnings
> when they do so. You just notice a reduction in tape capacity. Try
> using a new tape.
>
OK,
>
> 2: The block size could be too large. I think tar pads each file to the
> size of a tape block. So (for the purposes of the tar archive), each
> file's size is being rounded up to the next 8K boundary. This can
> cause a drive's capacity to appear reduced. Try decreasing the block
> size to 4K, 2K, 1K, or 512 bytes and see what happens.
>
the files I am trying to save are very very large (hundreds of MB) so the
block rounding should unsignificant.
>
> 3: Your computer (or SCSI interface might be too slow). If the drive's
> buffer empties, the tape has to resynchronize. This can cause a small
> amount of space to be wasted. If it happens often, all this space
> can add up to a significant figure. Buffering or increasing the
> block size might help here.
> 4: If most of your files are already compressed (as you said), then the
> hardware won't be able to compress the data any further. Using
> compression on already-compressed data tends to make the actual size
> larger (since headers are added to each compressed tape block.) Try
> turning off hardware compression.
>
> 5: You may just be seeing an artifact of tape size measurements. I
> don't remember if the 4G DDS-2 capacity is binary (4,194,304 bytes),
> or decimal (4,000,000) bytes. If decimal, then the 4,000,000 bytes
> is actually 3.8G (binary). But I don't think you're seeing this,
> since you're filling the tape at 3.2GB.
>
> My guess is that this is problem 1, 2, or 4.
>
> -- David
Thanks
I am trying right now and I will report later.
THANKS
STEFANO
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From: Jon Collis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ppp, chat: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:36:28 GMT
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Hello,
I am working with my modem/ppp, attempting to get connected to the
Internet. This is a fresh install of RedHat 6.0 on this machine. I have
a ppp/chat script that I have used on this machine (with this modem)
before with success.
It would appear that my problem is hardware related. Here is the latest
error message:
chat: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error
chat: Connect script failed.
pppd: Exit.
Of note, I had to use setserial to set the IRQ of my modem which was
initially bad. This is now in rc.local. I don't seem to have an
rc.serial. When I reboot in another operating system, the modem is
using the settings that it is using in Linux and it succeeds in dialing.
Of note also, minicom is failing to do anything. It seems unable to
start a session. When I attempt to dial, it tells me that there is
another session active? Resetting seems to do nothing.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Please send me any ideas,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you,
Jon Collis
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Hello,
<p>I am working with my modem/ppp, attempting to get connected to the Internet.
This is a fresh install of RedHat 6.0 on this machine. I have a ppp/chat
script that I have used on this machine (with this modem) before with success.
<p>It would appear that my problem is hardware related. Here is the
latest error message:
<p><font color="#3366FF">chat: Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output
error</font>
<br><font color="#3366FF">chat: Connect script failed.</font>
<br><font color="#3366FF">pppd: Exit.</font>
<br>
<p>Of note, I had to use <b>setserial</b> to set the IRQ of my modem which
was initially bad. This is now in <b>rc.local</b>. I don't
seem to have an <b>rc.serial</b>. When I reboot in another operating
system, the modem is using the settings that it is using in Linux and it
succeeds in dialing.
<p>Of note also, <b>minicom</b> is failing to do anything. It seems
unable to start a session. When I attempt to dial, it tells me that
there is another session active? Resetting seems to do nothing.
<p>Does anyone have any suggestions? Please send me any ideas,
<br>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<p>Thank you,
<br>Jon Collis</html>
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From: "albert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help!
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:57:00 +0100
Hi,
Having passed the configuration prob, I managed to install RH 6.2 on my
windows 98 box, I have my 8.4gb disk splitted in 4x 2.1gb partitions (one
for w98, 2nd for shware, personal docs and the 4th I wanted to put linux
there) Here's the glitch, for my surprise, Rh installed perfectly and even
lilo didn't bother with the 1024 cylinder limit thing, but the lilo boot was
always jumping to linux instead of win98, so I tryied a program called
BOOTMAGIC, and selected the windows partition for boot and also the Linux
partition so that I could choose between one or the other. But when I tryed
it, only windows98 would boot ok!!! Well I tryed the linux rescue disk that
I madde when I was installing linux, but it didn't work too well because now
when I boot to linux is says "kernel panic ..." and the pc stalls
completely.
can one you guros help me out here???
thanks
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From: Jamie Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Probs with setserial
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:36:45 +0100
Hi,
I am having problems setting up my modem in my new motherboard, gigabyte
GA-5AX. I have had the modem working perfectly in my old 486 but I
recently upgraded and have not been able to set this up since then.
Upon loading up the pc I get the Setserial boot up and it reports the
correct io ports for ttyS0,1,2 (0 & 1 being std ports and 2 being the
modem com3) the irq's are incorrect and are reported as 4,3,4
respectively. ttys3 should be irq 5.
My problem is whenever I try to correct this with setserial I always get
an error message as follows:
input/output error.
Nothing is actioned and I can't even type "setserial -g /dev/ttyS2"
without getting the error message. I have never seen this error message
before and I am not sure what is causing it. I have tried this on
several distro's including RH6.1, Definite Linux 7.0, Storm Linux and
Suse 6.3.
Can anyone help?
TIA
Jamie Tomlinson.
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 10:36:26 -0400
From: Aaron Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux SMP box Locks
I have a DELL Poweredge 4400 with dual 800 MHZ pentium III's,
PERC 3 Hardware RAID controller, and an Etherexpress Pro100. Basically,
the stock (hardware wise) Dell 4400. It's running Redhat 6.2 with the
the
2.2.14-6.0.1 kernel.
My problem is that the servers locks up every 5-6 hours. It's under
heavy load,
but I've seen it lock up when there is no load on it at all. The
console displays the
following error:
wait_on_bh, CPU 0:
irq: 0 [0 0]
bh: 1 [0 1]
<[c010adc5]><[c011a297]><[c011a3fl]><[c0113f08]><c0109270]>
After digging around in the Kernel source, it apears that this error
is
indicative of some sort of CPU race condition. An initial perusal of
usenet (deja.com) and such seems to suggest that the Etherexpress Pro
could be a very possibly culprit. I'm in the process of trying to find
an updated
driver. (Near as I can tell, my version is 1.09j-t) I've found a
version that
appears to be (from reading the source code) version 1.10a.
Has anyone else had a problem similar to this? If so, what other
items
can I check to rectify this situation?
As an addition, I have two other boxes that match this hardware
EXACTLY
but are running RedHat 6.1. All three are running the exact same kernel
and
modules as they were all installed from the same binary RPM. The other
2,
however, do not exhibit this problem....but they have not been under any
sort
of heavy load....
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EoExchange, Inc. http://www.eomonitor.com
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From: dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo boot problem: hangs on LI
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:24:30 -0500
i have windows 98 on the "C:" drive (/dev/hda1)
i have rh 6.2 linux on the "first" scsi drive (/dev/sda1)
the scsi drive is 9Gbyte and has 1100+ cylinders
the root partition was created first, and is about half of the disk
so /boot should be below the 1024th cylinder ?
the boot disk (/dev/hda) is 13G, with a 6G partition with win98
on it
the bios has LBA on for the ide disk
i even tried downloading the latest version of lilo (lilo-21.4.4.tar)
and changing "linear" to "lba32" in /etc/lilo.conf
i am out of ideas
i don't have the right lilo.conf here to post, but i THINK it looks
something like this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux-up
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda1
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux-up
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda1
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
thanks for any help,
dan
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel L440GX+
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:41:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<snip>
> I'm not sure if it help, but AFAIK for CPU speed over 550 MHz Intel
designed
> Lancewood motherboard with codename L440GXC (GX+, loaded with 550 MHz
CPUs,
> working great at my site).
> So I suggest you try to run this mobo with "smaller" CPUs. You may
also try
> to run it with single processor.
This is an interesting point - I'm running a later model L440GX+, which
does support 600+ speed processors. Intel technical advisory TA-224-1
seems to explain it. Would Intel have changed anything else in the
L440GX+ when they were tinkering with the voltage regulation module?
cheers,
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Microtech USB CameraMate Support?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:45:28 GMT
Does anyone know if there's a way to get the Microtech USB CameraMate
compact flash card reader to work under Linux?
I've searched all over the place but haven't found anything.
Specifically, I'm not sure if this is a generic type of thing that
should work on a plug and play basis (since it's similar to other USB
card readers which apparently do), or if it needs a special driver. If
it's supposed to work plug-and-play, as far as I can tell, it doesn't.
If it needs a special driver, either it doesn't exist or I need help
finding it.
Since the instructions I've found are a shade obscure, I'd like to have
an idea as to whether it would work at all before I plunge ahead.
I have kernel 2.2.14, and would like to know if upgrading to 2.4 would
solve the problem. If this is generic, it probably would - but I have
no idea whether it is or not. My current distribution is Mandrake 7.0.
If buying and installing a different (upgraded) distribution would solve
this one, I'm open to that as well; I look forward to the time-consuming
task of upgrading my kernel with some trepidation.
Any help would be warmly appreciated.
Many thanks.
D
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help!
Date: 17 Jul 2000 15:16:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and mailed]
[followups set, inappropriate crossposted NGs trimmed]
Don't crosspost to so many bloody NGs, and if you *must* crosspost, pick
appropriate groups! What made you think that your problem has
*anything* to do with X?
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:57:00 +0100, albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>there) Here's the glitch, for my surprise, Rh installed perfectly and even
>lilo didn't bother with the 1024 cylinder limit thing, but the lilo boot was
>always jumping to linux instead of win98, so I tryied a program called
>BOOTMAGIC, and selected the windows partition for boot and also the Linux
>partition so that I could choose between one or the other. But when I tryed
>it, only windows98 would boot ok!!! Well I tryed the linux rescue disk that
>I madde when I was installing linux, but it didn't work too well because now
>when I boot to linux is says "kernel panic ..." and the pc stalls
And what exactly did you do with your rescue disk? BootMagic may have
done something to your hard drive; I'm not familiar with that particular
program so can't help there. However, the rescue disk should be able to
do the following:
0. boot from rescue disk
1. mount /dev/hdXY /mnt
2. edit /mnt/lilo.conf so that it's appropriate for your setup. A
relatively normal one follows:
boot=/dev/hda # warning, uses MBR
message=/boot/message # not entirely necessary, but nice to have
map=/boot/map
prompt
timeout=100 # 10 second-wait at boot time
image=/boot/vmlinuz # change to whatever kernel you use
root=/dev/hdXY # change to your root partition
label=linux
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
Replace X and Y with the letter and number of your Linux root partition.
3. lilo -r /mnt
4. shutdown -r now
If for some sick reason you want to make Lose9x the OS that boots by
default after 10 seconds, switch the order of the image= and other=
blocks. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
"Man could not look too long into the face of the Computer or her
children and still remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did they become
as Gods, or as Usenetters?" --Matt G
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: web server: internal error
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:24:37 GMT
Hi,
we just installed a sql based web server that runs web application in
perl/html. When users try to log in, they get the internal error
message. httpd is still running. what might be the problem?.
email me a copy of your helping post reply.
thanx.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Alain DOULIEZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install SCSI card
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:36:17 +0200
I recently install Linux Mandrake 7.02 but had some problems when detecting
SCSI card. As a solution, I removed the SCSI card and install successfully
Linux. I'm now trying to make my SCSI card being recognized. How can I do it
? How can I check when my SCSI card is recognized ?
Thanks.
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From: "Robert Banfill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic: aic7xxx: unrecoverable BRKADRINT...
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 09:37:59 -0600
Hi James,
> One thing I would appreciated knowing is how you make these messages
> visible. I see the long dmesg list flash past on the screen when the
kernel
> starts but as far as I know I have no means of saving the messages to file
> for later analysis, and when it comes to the normal start-up procedures I
> get a small window saying 'Loading aic7xxx drivers' which just sits there
> till reboot, and have not found a way to see any panic messages. How do
you
> do it?
I was booting off of the factory CD in expert mode. I manually loaded the
module and watched the output on vitrual console 4 (by pressing Alt-F4). I
had to get over there before the machine hung. When I boot off of the hard
disk, I also see all of these messages on the console and because the
machine hangs, they stay on the display. Once I had them on the display, I
just typed them into the message on another machine. Sorry, no nifty tricks
here.
Regards,
Robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX network card
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:06:58 GMT
On Sun, 16 Jul 2000 03:57:28 GMT, Carlos E. Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've had the same problem with the 530TX in RH 6.2. I've tried everything I
Try the via-rhine module.
>can think of and nothing seems to work. Any help would be appreciated
>since I would prefer not to buy another NIC. BTW the same NIC works fine in
>Win98 with no problem.
[deletia]
However, this might be one of those cases of a 'slight revision'.
--
The LGPL does infact tend to be used instead of the GPL in instances
where merely reusing a component, while not actually altering that
component, would be unecessarily burdensome to people seeking to build
their own works.
This dramatically alters the nature and usefulness of Free Software
in practice, contrary to the 'all viral all the time' fantasy the
anti-GPL cabal here would prefer one to believe.
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