Linux-Hardware Digest #314, Volume #13 Fri, 28 Jul 00 16:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Plextor PleXWriter 12/10/32 (Dances With Crows)
PDC2062 ("Joeri Labeeuw")
Re: need help with soun card config (Dances With Crows)
Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk (John in SD)
Re: Plextor PleXWriter 12/10/32 (Gabriel Gagnon)
Re: 2 NE2000 cards, only one module loading (Dances With Crows)
Re: 2 NE2000 cards, only one module loading (Tim Moore)
Re: Laserjet 1100 and delay between pages (Tim Moore)
Re: SMP and command-line execution (Tim Moore)
Ripping CD's with Linux??? ("dionysis")
Sound output distorts when screen changes in X ("Henno Schooljan")
Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: cmpci sound and RedHat 6.2 (Edward Lee)
Re: need help with soun card config (Edward Lee)
Re: Sound output distorts when screen changes in X (Edward Lee)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Plextor PleXWriter 12/10/32
Date: 28 Jul 2000 19:18:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:29:12 -0400, Gabriel Gagnon wrote:
>I'll buy a new system and I will buy also a cd writer. I thought to buy
>a HP 9130i (it seems that all HP writer are compatible with Linux), but
>I saw last week that Plextor was selling a new writer, Plextor
>PleXWriter 12/10/32X, with a new technology. Now, I am thinking maybe
>buying this one. But, I am quite affraid that this writer is not
>compatible with Linux, because of the new technology, BURN-Proof.
>Is someone install this writer on a Linux box ? What are the problems ?
The cdrecord homepage at
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/
private/cdrecord.html (put that all on one line)
says that the latest version of cdrecord supports Burn-Proof(tm).
FWIW, I've *never* had a problem with buffer underruns, even when I've
been doing something silly like using Netscape while a CD is burning,
and even though my system's all-IDE and the hard drive maxes out at 13M/sec.
If this Plextor device is SCSI, you should be set. Good luck....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: "Joeri Labeeuw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PDC2062
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 20:53:00 +0200
Last month I installed suse 6.4. No Problems occured.
Now I want to compile my kernel. After installing, my system does not
boot anymore.
I think that detection of PDC2062 is anabled.
Normally while booting the next messages appear:
.
.
.
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
<4>ide: Assuming 40MGz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebos=xx
<4>PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
<4>PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4> ide1: IBM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd: DMA
without recompling the kernel, the next message appear, but after compiling
the message is lost:
<4>PDC20262: IDE controll er on PCI bus 00 dev 78
<4>PDC20262: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4> ide2: BM-DMA at .....
etc
because all modules and linux stuf are present at ide2 and ide3, the system
cannot boot.
Why don't I get the PDC20262 message after I compiled the kernel?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: need help with soun card config
Date: 28 Jul 2000 19:25:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Jul 2000 18:59:22 GMT, Wutmewurry wrote:
>I have a Crystal CS423x sounchip in a HP Pavilion.
[snippage of sound card problems]
Hmm. I've messed with these chips in Thinkpads and Dell GX1s, and a
good starting point is to do this:
modprobe sound dmabuf=1
modprobe cs4232 irq=5 io=0x534 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
modprobe opl3 io=0x388
The io= value may not work for you; try 0x530 if that's the case.
Unfortunately, a Pavilion I worked with a while ago had ridiculous
problems with its AD1816 card (this under Lose9x! Supported hardware my
arse.) Apparently, for that particular card in that particular machine,
the normal driver does not work, and the solution was to install
InsecureX 6 several times, cross fingers, and pray. I hope you don't
run into a similar problem.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:38:09 GMT
LILO will only boot from disks with BIOS support. Some mixed IDE/SCSI systems
have BIOS support for both. The diagnostic floppy from the LILO 21.4.4 or
21.5 distributions will tell you what disks have BIOS support.
If you have BIOS support, the disk=/bios= options will likely be needed in
lilo.conf.
--John
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 17:17:56 +0200, Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
> I cannot get LILO booting from an SCSI disk. Can you give me some
>hints?
>
> This is the situation. I've just installed Linux Red Hat 6.2 on a Dual
>Pentium III machine equipped with:
> Mainboard: SUPERMICRO, SUPER P6DBE
> SCSI controller: Adaptec SCSI Card 29160
> SCSI disk: Seagate ST318436LW (17.5G)
> IDE disk: Seagate STS320430A (20GB)
>
> The IDE disk is only temporally installed, and it is going to be used
>only to hold data, no system files. All the system is installed on the
>SCSI disk. This is the partition table (generated with disk druid):
>--------------------
>Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2233 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
>/dev/sda2 14 2233 17832150 5 Extended
>/dev/sda5 14 906 7172991 83 Linux
>/dev/sda6 907 1548 5156833+ 83 Linux
>/dev/sda7 1549 1880 2666758+ 83 Linux
>/dev/sda8 1881 2174 2361523+ 83 Linux
>/dev/sda9 2175 2213 313236 82 Linux swap
>/dev/sda10 2214 2233 160618+ 83
>Linux --------------------
>
>and this an excerpt from /etc/fstab:
>--------------------
>/dev/sda10 / ext2 defaults
>1 1
>/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults
>1 2
>/dev/sda5 /home ext2 defaults
>1 2
>/dev/sda6 /usr ext2 defaults
>1 2
>/dev/sda7 /usr/local ext2 defaults
>1 2
>/dev/sda8 /var ext2 defaults
>1 2
>/dev/sda9 swap swap defaults
>0 0
>--------------------
>So the /boot partition is (/dev/sda1) located at very beginning of the
>disk.
>
> The overall installation was straightforward. Only the LILO
>installation issued a warning:
>"Warning: /dev/sda1 is not on the first disk"
>
> But then, before booting again I changed the BIOS booting sequence
>setting SCSI on the first place and IDE on the second. After saving
>this, the booting is restarted. The BIOS displays:
>"Searching for Boot Record from SCSI..OK"
>And then only appears:
>"LI"
>and it gets frozen.
> According to LILO's User's Guide (pag. 44):
>"LI The first stage boot loader was able to load the second stage boot
> loader, but has failed to execute it. This can either be caused by a
> geometry mismatch or by moving /boot/boot.b without running the map
> installer."
>Of course, I haven't moved /boob/boot.b. Since the disk is a large one,
>I used the "linear" global option in lilo.conf, but no luck. I've also
>tried without it, with the same lack of success.
>
> If I install LILO on the IDE disk, it works all right, but I don't like
>this solution because of the temporal condition of the disk.
>
> LILO's version is 21.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help to get the SCSI disk booting
>properly.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Cheers!
>
> Jos� Manuel
>
>
>
LILO version 21.5 (18-Jul-2000) source at
ftp: brun.dyndns.org dir: /pub/linux/lilo
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From: Gabriel Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plextor PleXWriter 12/10/32
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:36:46 -0400
Thank very much !
I tried to find this kind of information on www.linhardware.com and
www.linux.com and nobody had installed it, yet (or post something yet).
I guess, I'll buy one of these !
Gabriel Gagnon
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:29:12 -0400, Gabriel Gagnon wrote:
> >I'll buy a new system and I will buy also a cd writer. I thought to buy
> >a HP 9130i (it seems that all HP writer are compatible with Linux), but
> >I saw last week that Plextor was selling a new writer, Plextor
> >PleXWriter 12/10/32X, with a new technology. Now, I am thinking maybe
> >buying this one. But, I am quite affraid that this writer is not
> >compatible with Linux, because of the new technology, BURN-Proof.
> >Is someone install this writer on a Linux box ? What are the problems ?
>
> The cdrecord homepage at
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/
> private/cdrecord.html (put that all on one line)
> says that the latest version of cdrecord supports Burn-Proof(tm).
>
> FWIW, I've *never* had a problem with buffer underruns, even when I've
> been doing something silly like using Netscape while a CD is burning,
> and even though my system's all-IDE and the hard drive maxes out at 13M/sec.
> If this Plextor device is SCSI, you should be set. Good luck....
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
> http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
> -----------------------------/ --Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 2 NE2000 cards, only one module loading
Date: 28 Jul 2000 19:42:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 15:09:23 GMT, jake wrote:
>Ok. I have 2 NE2000 compatible cards. The kernel messages at boot say that
>both eth0 and eth1 modules are loaded successfully. But when I check with
>"lsmod", only eth0 "ne" module has been loaded. My conf.modules file is as
>follows:
>
>alias eth0 ne
>alias eth1 ne
>options eth0 -o ne-0 io=0x240 irq=5
>options eth1 -o ne-1 io=0x300 irq=3
>
>My question is: Because one on my cards is connected via dhcp, does that
>interfere with both cards using the "ne" module.
DHCP should have nothing to do with whether a card is up or not. Also,
the ne2000 module can drive multiple cards, so only one module should be
loaded. Those lines in conf.modules look a bit funny to me, as well--try
this:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x240,0x300 irq=5,3
You may not need the irq= parameter; the module can determine the IRQ
if it knows the I/O value. However, eth0 and eth1 may be swapped from
how you want them! If that happens, the best and easiest thing to do
is probably to swap the incoming cables...
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 NE2000 cards, only one module loading
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:42:54 GMT
> Ok. I have 2 NE2000 compatible cards. The kernel messages at boot say that
> both eth0 and eth1 modules are loaded successfully. But when I check with
> "lsmod", only eth0 "ne" module has been loaded. My conf.modules file is as
> ...
Are both NIC words working? Most modern NIC drivers only load once. Here's
what my setup looks like.
# cat /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x240,0x340 irq=3,11
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
ip_masq_vdolive 1136 0 (unused)
ip_masq_user 2440 0 (unused)
ip_masq_quake 1156 0 (unused)
ip_masq_irc 1392 0 (unused)
ip_masq_raudio 2800 0 (unused)
ip_masq_ftp 2448 0
ne 5952 2 (autoclean)
8390 6340 0 (autoclean) [ne]
# dmesg
...
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 50 ba a0 f7 6c
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 3.
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 00 40 33 d0 f5 88
eth1: NE2000 found at 0x340, using IRQ 11.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laserjet 1100 and delay between pages
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:50:40 GMT
> BTW, are 6mb (4+2) enough in all the cases? i mean, does it happen
> to you every now and then (when you have complex postscript pages
> perhaps?) that the printer prints slowly (pauses between pages) or
> has it *always* printed at full speed?
Complex graphics or large ps files slow it down, but it's the printer
waiting on gs being CPU bound given the host pc is a 40MB DX4/100. I
believe HP has a 6MB module but I went with a spare toner cart instead.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP and command-line execution
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:52:51 GMT
> >>Also, I'm looking for a version of 'top' that displays the cpu number
> >>that each process is executing on. This is available for Sequent
> >>hardware, but wondered whether this has been done under Linux.
xosview will display CPU0, CPU1 for SMP.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: "dionysis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:45:24 GMT
I'm unable to iron out driver problems in Win 98 to be able to digitally rip
audio CD's. Someone suggested I run Linux tandem with Win 98. I have a
crappy Samsung SCR 3232, would be willing to install a CD-R or CD-RW to make
this work.
Are the Linux CD drivers better at digitally ripping audio CD's to MP3?
I found Caldera Linux 2.2 with documention used for $20.
I also found Linux 6.5 Mandrake used with documentation for $20. Should I
go
with that if I decide to try this?
Which Linux is "better"?
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From: "Henno Schooljan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Sound output distorts when screen changes in X
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:55:02 +0200
Hi,
I've got a sound problem with Red Hat Linux 6.0 when I try to play sound
(e.g. a MP3-file) with XFree 3.3.6.1. The MP3-file plays just great when I
just sit back and don't touch anything, but when I move the mouse pointer or
open some menu's which causes the screen contents to change, the sound
becomes jerky. (I even had to switch off that moving spectrum analyzer of
X11amp, because that also caused sound distortion). I know my computer is
pretty old (Pentium running at 83 MHz), but I do not have these problems
running Windows 95 (and that OS is noticeably slower than Linux...) I hope
anyone can help me with this problem.
Henno Schooljan
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Help] LILO doesn't boot from SCSI disk
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 19:57:04 GMT
Jose Manuel Benitez Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hints?
timeout=50
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
And then I suggest you change the type of the extended partition from
05 to 85 for the case that the disk should coexist with an operation
system that uses the partitions types correctly.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: cmpci sound and RedHat 6.2
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 12:57:42 -0700
The cmpci driver in 2.4.0 is functionally identical to the one in 2.2.16
(should work in 2.2.14 as well). You probably need to enable experimental
option in make config. If your distribution kernel does not allow it, download
the standard kernel.
Eric Lengvenis wrote:
> I recently purchased a system with an integrated sound card. I am running
> RedHat 6.2 kernel 2.2.14-5. The sound card is cmpci. Right now the sound
> works as a generic sound card, but I have been unable to compile the driver
> which allows full functionality. It has 4-channels and S/PDIF which I would
> like to use.
>
> When I do a make xconfig, the sound option shows cmpci greyed out with
> '(experimental)' beside it. It will not let me choose it. I downloaded the
> 2.4-test.4 kernel, and make xconfig lets me choose that option. I shied away
> from a full kernel re-compile, because that is way beyond anything I have
> done before.
>
> Does anyone know how to get 2.2.14 to compile this driver? The driver was
> supplied with the motherboard. (That is a good sign. more systems ship with
> drivers for linux)
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Eric Lengvenis
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need help with soun card config
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:00:44 -0700
Try the CSC4236 driver at http://linnix.com.
Wutmewurry wrote:
> I have a Crystal CS423x sounchip in a HP Pavilion.
>
> >HI there,
> >
> >it is good that you described you problem but you did not point what model of
> >sound card you have. Please, give as information about card as nobody will
> >able
> >to help without this info.
> >
> >Andrey
> >
> >Wutmewurry wrote:
> >
> >> I have Red Hat Linux 6.1 installed and am trying to get the soundcard
> >> configured. I tried the sndconfig command, but that used to completely
> >stall my
> >> system. Now I tell my BIOS that I don't I don't have a PnP OS and I can get
> >a
> >> little further with sndconfig but I still need some help. I can hear
> >sndconfig
> >> play Linus' pronounciation of Linux, but then when it says that it will
> >play a
> >> MIDI sample to determine if my card's synth has been correctly configured,
> >I
> >> get the following message:
> >> "The following error occurred running the modprobe program:
> >> init_module : Device or resource busy
> >> sound : Device or resource busy"
> >> Also, my speakers pop quite loudly when the prog plays the Linus sound
> >bite.
> >> I tried all the different IO options available in sndconfig but they all
> >give
> >> me the same error. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
> >> - Sean
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Sound output distorts when screen changes in X
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 13:09:36 -0700
Your system is barely enough to decode mp3. You can try a character based
player such as mpg123 to reduce resources, or add more memory to reduce
swapping. You can also try a less resource hungry window manager. Windows 95
is probably using less resources and less swapping.
Henno Schooljan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a sound problem with Red Hat Linux 6.0 when I try to play sound
> (e.g. a MP3-file) with XFree 3.3.6.1. The MP3-file plays just great when I
> just sit back and don't touch anything, but when I move the mouse pointer or
> open some menu's which causes the screen contents to change, the sound
> becomes jerky. (I even had to switch off that moving spectrum analyzer of
> X11amp, because that also caused sound distortion). I know my computer is
> pretty old (Pentium running at 83 MHz), but I do not have these problems
> running Windows 95 (and that OS is noticeably slower than Linux...) I hope
> anyone can help me with this problem.
>
> Henno Schooljan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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