Linux-Hardware Digest #317, Volume #13 Sat, 29 Jul 00 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: who is responsible for the cache? (brian moore)
? redhat linux 6.2 - panasonic CW-7585 CD-RW - gnome cd mounter (Ross Tyler)
Please help with LCD panel (Sindh)
Dell Optiplex GX110: Cant detect onboard PCI 3com 3c905c-tx ("Jesus M. Salvo Jr.")
Re: [Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma] (kf)
Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4 (kf)
nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS drivers ("Francesco Massel")
Re: nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS drivers (smp root)
z89373 zilog dsp distributors or third parties for firmware ?
mouse configuration X-window (pepe)
Re: via82cxxx onboard sound - finally works! (Janine Roe)
Re: Questions about Old PC resurection w/Linux. (Kano Ako)
Linux Hardware Handbook available (Rod Smith)
Promise UDMA-33, DOS Install of Debian with W95 (Newbie) ("Marko")
ISDN TA driver (Peter Pan)
contollers and software raid (quagly)
Newbie install problems (Richard Schnedl)
HPT366 Support in Linux-- PLEASE HELP! ("I")
Wacom Graphire - mouse working well under X? (Tillmann Steinbrecher)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: who is responsible for the cache?
Date: 29 Jul 2000 07:22:44 GMT
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000 06:17:50 -0400,
Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Schweikert wrote:
> >
> > >I've been fighting for a while now trying to build gcc-2.95.2 on RH6.2,
> > >no luck yet. I have a few leads, one is that the L2 cache is getting
> > >trashed. So I would like to find out who is responsible for the cache?
> > >Is it the kernel, some libraries in the distro or some mysterious black
> > >magic?
> >
> > AFAIK, it's the motherboard chipset. Sounds like you've got hardware
> > problems to me. Compiling something large (liek gcc or the kernel) puts a
> > lot of strain on memory, and I've had machines with flakey hardware that
> > seemed fine until I tried to compile something. The symptoms of flakey RAM
> > or flakey cache are often random Sig-11's during compiles. You CPU might
> > also be overheating -- check the CPU fan and make sure you're not
> > over-clocking anything.
>
> Hardware, I know that's what keeps poping up. I am not too convinced of that.
Well, if you're convinced of it being the L2 cache, then it -is-
hardware.
> I've tested a different memory stick and had the same problem.
> Unfortunately I can't turn of the L2 cache, but I might flash the
> bios and see if the new version lets me do that. What keeps me from
> blasting the harware is that I have compiled gdb, Motif, and the
> kernel on this machine with no troubles what so ever. This is of
> course enough to at least keep me guessing about the RH6.2 distro.
On 'modern' CPUs, the L2 cache is part of the CPU 'assembly'. If it's
your cache that's being corrupted, then you will need to replace it: it
is not a dimm or simm "stick". (Even with a plain old "Pentium" it
wasn't on a simm, it was usually a few static ram chips on the
motherboard: simms are dynamic ram, with an access speed slow enough to
make using them as a cache silly.)
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From: Ross Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.apps.cdwrite,alt.cdr.panasonic,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: ? redhat linux 6.2 - panasonic CW-7585 CD-RW - gnome cd mounter
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 07:44:44 GMT
i have redhat linux 6.2 (linux kernel-2.2.16-3) and a panasonic CW-7585
ATAPI CD-R/CD-RW.
both OS and hardware are new.
when running a gnome session, the magicdev process (responsible for
automatically mounting such removable media) periodically polls this
device to see if there is a disk available to mount or play.
every time it polls the CW-7585 device, the open(2) call results in a
set of kernel message that gets logged to /var/log/messages. since it
polls often, this file grows large quickly. a typical set of messages
looks like:
Jul 28 17:12:58 localhost kernel: ATAPI device hdd:
Jul 28 17:12:58 localhost kernel: Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Jul 28 17:12:58 localhost kernel: (reserved error code) -- (asc=0x3a,
ascq=0x01)
Jul 28 17:12:58 localhost kernel: The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity"
packet command was:
Jul 28 17:12:58 localhost kernel: "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00"
i notice a similar set of messages on the console when booting.
i notice a similar set of message in /var/log/messages when i write a
dumb program that opens the device like magicdev does.
i notice no such messages with a toshiba SD-M1302 ATAPI CD/DVD drive on
the same system.
besides the annoying messages, magicdev seems to work fine when a disk
is inserted in this drive.
but normally a disk is not in this drive and i cannot live with a full
/var file system!
for now, i have commented out the /etc/fstab entry for this device to
inhibit magicdev from polling it.
i would like to get this problem fixed and eventually use this drive to
burn CD-R and CD-RW disks.
help?!?!?
TIA!
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From: Sindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help with LCD panel
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:32:09 GMT
Hi folks
Does anybody have any data regarding Sharp LCD panel used in laptops
partno:
LM64P805
It has been pulled from a laptop probable IBM thinkpad or something like
that. I am trying to use it on normal vga input. If any wise people have
the
data regarding pin 1 to pin 15 connections please please give me some
help.
Thanks
sreekant
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From: "Jesus M. Salvo Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Optiplex GX110: Cant detect onboard PCI 3com 3c905c-tx
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 11:00:08 +0000
Doing a 'dmesg' doesnt show that it is detected, Under "General Setup"
of 'make menuconfig', I have tried both "Any" and "BIOS" for the 'PCI
Access Mode' option, with the same result. Anyone else have this mobo?
Using RH 6.0
Thanks,
John
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma]
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 07:24:26 -0400
Brian King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a similar problem. Also have 7.1 CD package and can't boot from CD - the
> bios setting doesn't work. I have uninstalled PnP. As far as I can get is
> "detecting CD ROM" and the "loading second image" message. The computer then
> reboots into Windows or goes through the same thing again if i use a floppy.
> One I managed to get it to go through CD probing manually. Matshita was not on
> the list - although it's on Mandrake's official hardware list. I went
> through all the other CDs that were found, but nothing else worked either.
>
> Strange thing is, installation was successful on my other machine with almost
> identical configuration. Any similar experiences, suggestions etc?
>
> ABIT BH6 Mother board
> 300 Mhz Celeron (o'clocked to 450)
> 64 MB PC100 RAM
> Trident Blade 3d PCI/AGP
> Western Digital 6.4 GB HD
> Realtek RTL8029(AS) 10/100 PCI Ethernet
> Creative SB 16 (PCI version)
> Matshita 40X CDROM CR 586
> 100MB Zip Drive
>
Is the CD drive an IDE or SCSI?
If it's an IDE, there shouldn't be a problem with the setup. Mandrake doesn't
seem to handle SCSI very well. I've been having problems with this also.
By the way, is this mailing list the "email support" that you get when you buy
Mandrake Complete v.7.1? If so, it's pretty cheesy of them.
--
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From: kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 07:31:41 -0400
blowfish wrote:
>
> Kevin Adams wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Creating a new initial ramdisk did the trick. Thanks for the info.
> >
> > Although I do have one more question - look at my *new* boot messages (below) -
> > is "enable_irq() unbalanced" something I should be worried about?
> >
> In YaST or YaST2. There's an option called add new hardware. ;-)
Could you elaborate a bit more, please. I'm also having some difficulty getting my
SCSI card to work on Mandrake 7.1.
>
> Alex / blowfish
>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> > <4>Uncompressing........................done.
> > <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> > <6>(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 0/9/0
> > <6>(scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs
> > <6>(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
> > <6>(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
> > <6>(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
> > <6>(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
> > <6>(scsi0) during machine bootup.
> > <6>(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO)
> > <6>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 415 instructions downloaded
> >
> > <4>enable_irq() unbalanced from d000ea36
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > |
> > +-------- Should I be worried about this?
> >
> > <4>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.25/3.2.4
> > <4> <Adaptec AIC-7850 SCSI host adapter>
> > <4>scsi : 1 host.
> > <6>(scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> > <4> Vendor: iomega Model: jaz 1GB Rev: J.83
> > <4> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > <4>Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> > <6>(scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
> > <4> Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7502 Rev: 4.10
> > <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > <4>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> > <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer xa/form2 cdda tray
> > <4>SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2091050 [1021 MB] [1.0 GB]
> > <4>sda: Write Protect is off
> > <4> sda: sda4
> > <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> >
> > .
> > .
> > .
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Kevin Adams
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Francesco Massel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS drivers
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 13:54:10 +0200
Does anyone know if I can use my card (GeForce2) under Linux?
I've downloaded new drivers from nVIDIA website but they don't seem to
work!
tnx
Cesko
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Subject: Re: nVIDIA GeForce2 GTS drivers
From: smp root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:23:51 -0700
yes you can, and it's damn fast too. i've got one running on my
dual-pentium 3 board, and am using home compiled nvidia drivers
with lots of success.
what setup do you have?
you can mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you want... i'll see
what ican do to help
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: z89373 zilog dsp distributors or third parties for firmware ?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 15:41:37 +0200
hello,
do you know some distributors or third parties for firmware about the z89373
zilog dsp ?
best regards,
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Subject: mouse configuration X-window
From: pepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 06:50:44 -0700
Hi, I have a problem, I have installed Linux (debian) in my
computer, I have configured X-window and my mouse (A4 tech
neteasy) isn�t work, I have tried to change XF86Config but
nothing happens. Anybody knows what�s happen?, may it be a
driver problem?.
Thanks
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From: Janine Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: via82cxxx onboard sound - finally works!
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:04:51 GMT
Hi Bert,
Thanks for getting back to me. I appreciate your notes. I will spend
time getting things to work. I was able to finally boot into my
system. I just ctrl-c before loading the modules and then modified the
conf.modules to fix the problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kano Ako)
Subject: Re: Questions about Old PC resurection w/Linux.
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 14:18:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kano
Ako) writes:
>
>Hey All
>
>I am going to resurrect an old PC of mine. It is a 486DX2 at 50MHz
>(purchased in '92). I intend to use it as a firewall. I am planning to
>use Slackware Linux as the OS.
>
>Since it is an old machine I want to offload as much I/O from the CPU as
>possible, this means SCSI. I am planning on using an Adaptec ISA card and
>the smallest HD I can find.
>
>Questions now follow. I take it that the smallest drive available now a
>days exceeds the BIOS' abilities, correct? So then I would have to
>download & flash the bios to be able to handle larger drives, correct?
>Secondly about CDs. Fast CDs require a certain amount of HP from the CPU
>correct? Does this apply to SCSI? I guess I'll not need the latest &
>greatest (just enough to handle loading some not a lot of software) just
>again want to make sure the minimum now a days does not exceed the
>hardwares limitations.
>
>Thanks
>
>Mag-ingat kayong lahat ang sabi ni Kano Ako!
>
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>
Mag-ingat kayong lahat ang sabi ni Kano Ako!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Linux Hardware Handbook available
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 15:11:58 GMT
Hi,
Those in this group may be interested to know that my latest book,
_Linux Hardware Handbook_, is now available. For more information, check
my web page:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/hardware/
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http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: "Marko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise UDMA-33, DOS Install of Debian with W95 (Newbie)
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 16:12:29 +0100
I'm a linux newbie that woul like to know a little more about Linux (Debian
2.1) and my Promise UDMA33 Card.
I've looked up the linux hardware compatibility HOWTO and found all my
hardware listed except my UDMA-33 Controller. I've also looked at the
Promise UDMA66/Hotrod PCI posting but this is meaningless to me (yes, i'm
that sort of a newbie)
My Machine is a very early PII on an Intel 440FX (P-Pro) Motherboard. It
didn't have UDMA Support and so a Promise UDMA-33 controller (PCI) was
added.
On channel 0 of this lies a UDMA33 Quantumn Fireball 6.4Gb (6,149Mb under
promise card, 5.99Gb under FAT32). On the motherboard there are two IDE
channels. Master on the first channel is a Phillips CDRW800 and Master on
the second channel is an LG 40x IDE CDROM.
On POST at boot-up the machine Initialises the graphics card, does thge
memory test, initialises the Phillips CDRW, then initialises the LG CDROM.
Then a screen for the promise card comes up, where it detects the HDD before
starting to boot MSDOS (followed by W95).
My plans were to use Partition Magic to make a 3.8 (ish) Gb partition for
95, a 128Mb partition for Linux Swap Space and Two 1Gb partitions for Linux
and software and for user files. I'd then install Debian from the DOS
partition and it would co-exist with W95. Is this possible with the Promise
card and can anyone explain LoadLin, LILO and IBM Boot Manager to me (for
choosing the OS at startup)?
If anyone can help, please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Marko Cosic
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From: Peter Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: ISDN TA driver
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 17:33:14 +0200
Hi everybody.
I have a Philips ISDN PCA 128 Modem, and as it's about 4 years old, I
can't get any support from Philips. They don't remember anything about
it.
It seems that there's currently no driver available for it under linux,
so I would like to write one myself. The problem is that I can't get the
specs of the card. I know that it uses a MB86701 PnP controller
(Fujitsu), a SAB 82525 HDLC controller (Siemens), and an AM79C32AJC ISDN
controller (AMD). I'd like to avoid having to redraw the schematic of
the card and try to understand how it works, so could anyone give me
some help ? Anything is welcome, either an idea or a more complete
solution.
I have a Win95 driver, but once again I'd like to avoid having to
dissassemble it and try to understand the assembly code.
The card is and ISA PnP (works fine with isapnptools), and uses the
following resources :
IO : 0x140 - 0x14F
IRQ : 3
Thanks in advance for your help.
Laurent
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From: quagly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: contollers and software raid
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 09:05:22 GMT
I understand that most motherboards a very limited in the number of
ide controllers they may have. Like 2. My onboard controller is lame,
so I need a way of getting two more IDE channels.
I would like to set up software mirroring and I had heard that there
were controllers that allowed you to have two masters (the raid how-to
says that doing raid as master slave is bad for performance) Any ideas?
I realize that if something happens to the controller then I am lost.
How can I find out how many IDE controllers I am allowed?
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From: Richard Schnedl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie install problems
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 12:12:02 -0400
I am not a programmer, but I hate windows so I tried to load Linux-
Mandrake 7.1. Unfortunately, I just upgraded most of my computer, to a
PIII 550, ASUS CUBX Mobo, Nvidia GeForce 2 GTS video, and a viewsonic
G773 monitor. First, during installation, 7.1 would not recognize my new
10.2g ATA/66 HD that was on the Third IDE connector. It would only find
my old 1.2g on Primary IDE. So I rebooted with the new HD on one of the
slower ATA/33 controllers(Primary IDE). Then reinstal went fine until it
came to configuring the Printer. I have an old HP Deskjet 820. When it
came to choosing which printer to use, the top of the window said HP 820
found, but there was no where to choose it in the configuration window.
I never could get the printer to work. so next tried another install
this time I chose not to install printer. The next problem was the
Monitor. The install found the Viewsonic G773 monitor that I have but
when I selected it, the screen went jumbled. I tried 4-5 different
monitor selections even generic but could not get anything to work. I am
not completely computer illiterate, but when it comes to messing with the
Kernel I'm lost.
1 - Is there anyway to put windows on one hard drive and Linux on the
other and have a dual boot machine. Windows will be on ATA/66 IDE 3 HD
and Linux on Primary IDE ATA/33 HD.
2 - Is my video card to new to install Linux, until a later version comes
out.
Thanks in advance
Bruno Schnedl
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From: "I" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HPT366 Support in Linux-- PLEASE HELP!
Date: 29 Jul 2000 12:14:09 EDT
I am very new to Linux but am learning fast. So far I've successfully
resolved a few key hardware issues, but not my UDMA 66 controller, which I
really need to use. I am running a dual-boot system and the win98 side, for
some reason, is incredibly buggy when I use the 33 connector. Some details:
I'm using an Abit BE6-II motherboard with a celeron II 533a (clocked to
800...), a 15 gb 7200 rpm Ultra66 HD, running Redhat 6.1. Obviously, I
tried booting up with my hard drive connected to the 66, and I didn't work.
First thing I tried to fix this was updating my kernel. I applied a patch
to the 2.2.15 kernel and I believe- installed it successfully. I enabled
the hpt366 support in config but when I rebooted, I still got "Kernel Panic:
VFS: Unable to mount fs on 3:06." or some such error. Next thing I tried
was to upgrade to an experimental kernel (2.3.30) which had hpt366 support
without patching. Same thing happened at bootup. Then I tried the numbers
trick. I put something like "ide2=0xb400,0xb800,10" at the top of my
lilo.conf. Not sure that was the right way to issue a boot command, and it
didn't work in any case. So now I'm really stuck and would very much like a
solution. I'm thinking about getting a "dinky" 2.4 gb old hard drive from a
friend for a couple bucks and killing the Linux partition I currently have.
I don't even know if this will work however- to have one primary master on
Ultra66 and one on the 33. I don't know where all the boot stuff would go.
Anyway, I would REALLY appreciate any help. Thanks a lot in advance
Ian
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From: Tillmann Steinbrecher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wacom Graphire - mouse working well under X?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:11:22 +0200
Hello!
Does the Wacom Graphire's mouse work well under X (serial version)? Does
the scroll wheel work? Can all 3 buttons be used?
Would you consider the Wacom's mouse better than a standard mouse? I
don't really need the Graphire's pen, but I love the idea of having a
mouse that is both cordless and batteryless.
Thanks for any help!
bye,
Till
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