Linux-Hardware Digest #359, Volume #13 Sat, 5 Aug 00 01:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI (George/USA)
Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI (George/USA)
Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI (Tony Curtis)
Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI (George/USA)
Re: DEC 21140 Ethernet (sideband)
Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI (sideband)
Re: detecting my ethernet card? (sideband)
Voodoo 3 drivers for xfree? ("noone")
Re: Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1? (Mike Castle)
20.4GB HD, bios limitation, EZ-drive or any other? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: what is a "segmentation fault"? (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: what is a "segmentation fault"? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
REQ video acceleration ("alexisc")
Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dual NICs of same type? (Jim McKean)
Re: dump and hardware compression (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Digital Audio out from AV510 soundcard? Any recommendations welcome (anonymous)
AIC7xxx problems w/ a Dell PowerEdge 1300 (Joe Croft)
ASUS CUSL2 Solano 2 M/B; Compatible? ("Niklas Krumm")
Re: Voodoo 3 drivers for xfree? (larry)
Re: 20.4GB HD, bios limitation, EZ-drive or any other? ("Greg Guillou")
video card problem (Michael)
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From: George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 20:15:36 -0400
Tony Curtis wrote:
> >> On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 19:44:39 -0400,
> >> George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> <<snip>>
>
> did you read the lilo howto?
>
> 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.
>
> Are you doing something weird with the disk?
>
I read the How-to...
Nope... Ive disabled the boot manager that came with
the hard drive (The drive was on a W95 machine before),
and it is totally dedicated to Linux. Ive done nothing to it
except make sure (via jumpers) that it is read as a single
drive on the IDE port.....
George
<<snip>>
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From: George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 20:16:37 -0400
Jake wrote:
> try adding the global option
>
> linear
>
> to /etc/lilo.conf
>
> and see if that helps.
>
Ill try that... I assume that I get to that file in the first place
by using a boot disk???
George (clueless)
<<snip>>
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI
Date: 04 Aug 2000 19:27:53 -0500
>> On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 20:16:37 -0400,
>> George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Jake wrote:
>> try adding the global option
>>
>> linear
>>
>> to /etc/lilo.conf
>>
>> and see if that helps.
>>
> Ill try that... I assume that I get to that file in the
> first place by using a boot disk???
"linear" was going to be my next suggestion, assuming you
weren't doing anything weird with the disk's geometry.
Mount the root on /mnt, edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf and do:
# /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
or marginally quicker to type is:
# chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo
(which occurred to me a couple of weeks ago).
hth
t
--
"With $10,000, we'd be millionaires!"
Homer Simpson
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From: George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 21:10:29 -0400
Tony Curtis wrote:
> >> On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 20:16:37 -0400,
> >> George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> > Jake wrote:
>
> >> try adding the global option
> >>
> >> linear
> >>
> >> to /etc/lilo.conf
> >>
> >> and see if that helps.
> >>
>
> > Ill try that... I assume that I get to that file in the
> > first place by using a boot disk???
>
> "linear" was going to be my next suggestion, assuming you
> weren't doing anything weird with the disk's geometry.
>
> Mount the root on /mnt, edit /mnt/etc/lilo.conf and do:
>
> # /mnt/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/etc/lilo.conf
>
> or marginally quicker to type is:
>
> # chroot /mnt /sbin/lilo
>
> (which occurred to me a couple of weeks ago).
>
> hth
> t
<<snip>>
Great... Ill be trying these suggestions right away... I hate having to
give
up on something like this... I prefer the ol' understand and defeat :-)
George
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DEC 21140 Ethernet
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 21:42:54 -0400
Did Intel ship a disk with a configuration utility for the card?
If no IRQ is set, it may need a software config, like some of the Linksys
cards. I'm not sure about this, but it's something to look at... Check
Intel's site to fiind out...
Does ::gasp:: Windows show an IRQ for the card, or is it IRQ-less there, as
well? If it does, it may be a conflict problem, in which case, you need to
find out what IRQ the card is taking in Windows, and then find out what it's
conflicting with on your Linux box...
Hope this helps, some...
-SSB
Jonathan Ashbrook wrote:
> I have a DEC/INTEL 21140 Ethernet card. I can't seem to get it to work
> properly. Although the PCI bus recognizes it and can query it, the card
> does not receive an IRQ. I think this is the problem. The tulip-diag
> program concurs that this is the problem. However, the card works fine
> under (gulp) Windows. Any suggestions on configuring this thing???
>
> I had a token ring card in the machine and it was working beautifully.
> Any input would be appreciated.
>
> Jonathan Ashbrook
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 21:47:08 -0400
Boot a dos floppy with fdisk on it....
then..
fdisk /mbr
then..
reinstall Linux.
If that don't do it, then lowlevel the drive, and reinstall Linux again.
The prior installation of a boot manager could be messing with LILO, as
well. I've run into this before myself.
Hope this helps.
-SSB
George/USA wrote:
> Ive got a Pentium 100 with 64MB of ram, a WD 3.1GB hard drive, a PCI
> video card, and ISA soundcard and modem. Ive installed Debian 2.0 and
> RH 6.0
> and both of them are fine throughout the install, but as soon as I go
> for the final bootup, I end up hung at LI. Are there any suggestions
> before
> I totally give up on Linux???
>
> George
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: detecting my ethernet card?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 21:49:03 -0400
netcfg under RedHat works...
If it's PCI, you can find out what type it is by 'cat /proc/pci'
Tell us what type it is, and we can tell you how to compile the kernel and/or a
module to support it.
-SSB
Peter Bismuti wrote:
> Are there any linux tools for detecting an ethernet card after installation?
> Netconf perhaps?
>
> Thanks
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From: "noone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo 3 drivers for xfree?
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 22:08:12 -0400
Anyone know a site to pick up the best xfree server drivers for a voodoo 3
3k pci card in red hat?
grassy ass.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Castle)
Subject: Re: Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1?
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 20:52:40 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, computer surplus outlet has western digitals in
>stock, and I'd like to buy one. Trouble is, I'm not
>sure they'll work with RedHat 6.1...do I need to
>rebuild kernel for UDMA 66 support?
You don't want to do WD's at ATA66. See Andre Hedrick's comments about why
on any linux-kernel archive (perhaps on deja.com/usenet). Bad combo.
Most likely lose data.
Just do ATA-33. www.linux-ide.org is a good starting place.
mrc
--
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We are all of us living in the shadow of Manhattan. -- Watchmen
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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 22:12:30 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 20.4GB HD, bios limitation, EZ-drive or any other?
Hi,
I have a 4 GB hda for windoze, 4 GB hdb for Debian and just installed a
20.4 GB maxtor HD and also running partition commender's boot manager. I
would like to use this 20.4 gb hdd for debian only.
My bios does not support bigger than 8.4 GB. I got the latest bios
upgrade from gateway2000, but that didn't do anything. I tried setting
the hard disk settings in the bios manually (instead of automatic
configuration) with 39683 cylinder (manufacturer specs says this is the
max cylinder), did not help. I included the 'append = "hdd =
39683,16,63"' in lilo.conf (as suggested by linuxdoc-howto web site),
still can not get more than 8.4 gb. This howto says that linux can
bypass the bios settings, but it didn't or I missed something.
Is there any other way to get the 20.4 gb from this harddrive?
Should I install EZ-Drive software that comes from maxtor? Will this
screw up the things?
Thanks.
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: what is a "segmentation fault"?
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 04:30:57 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hey there,
> i'm running a bare bones linux system on a REALLY OLD piece of
> hardware. it's some kind of a 486 with a 100mhz processor and 8mb of
> RAM. occasionally i get an error message "Segmentation fault" that
> crashes whatever application i'm running. it's not really frequent, but
> can be a pain with a program that takes a long time to run, like an
> installer. does anybody know what a "segmentation fault" is? what piece
> of hardware is causing this?
> -joe
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
"Segmentation fault" means that the program tries to access some area of
memory, which it has no permissions to access, if I'm not mistaken.
Anyway, it's software fault, not hardware-related one.
--
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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Subject: Re: what is a "segmentation fault"?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 02:41:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> hey there,
> i'm running a bare bones linux system on a REALLY OLD piece of
> hardware. it's some kind of a 486 with a 100mhz processor and 8mb of
> RAM. occasionally i get an error message "Segmentation fault" that
> crashes whatever application i'm running. it's not really frequent, but
> can be a pain with a program that takes a long time to run, like an
> installer. does anybody know what a "segmentation fault" is?
It refers to the signal SIGSEGV, which is the Linux catch-all signal
for various CPU exceptions. Typically, segmentation faults result
from one program attempting an operation in a segment for which it
does not have sufficient permission, such as writing to the code
segment or reading from another program's regular data segment.
> what piece
> of hardware is causing this?
Segmentation faults are almost always software problems. If they
occur regularly in software that seems stable on other computers, and
are impossible to reproduce, you may have a bad CPU (since it is what
enforces memory protection).
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"corsair, n. A politician of the seas."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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From: "alexisc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: REQ video acceleration
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 03:43:58 +0100
Hello peeps,
RH6.0, celeron 400 winputer
I wonder if someone could advise me. I tried ages ago to set up xfree86 on
my machine but it just crashed xwindows and threw up all over me - no I lie
it threw horrible error messages at me. Now I understand (another lie, I
probably don't understand at all) that under linux I can improve my video
cards' performance (an unbranded intel 740 win9x blah blah blah pci card),
which works superbly under windows, but gives reduced performance under
linux, like it is in windows with the acceleration turned off. Particularly
annoying when scrolling web pages. So I wonder if someone could guide me in
the right direction setting up xfree86, as my hardware doesn't appear to be
covered very well - ok so I checked out the vid card and it appears to be
pretty obsolete anyway.
Thanks in advance,
Alexis
--
--Scraping by on coins I found in the sofa--
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Subject: Re: It doesnt matter, I still get hung up at LI
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 02:44:48 GMT
George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ive got a Pentium 100 with 64MB of ram, a WD 3.1GB hard drive, a PCI
> video card, and ISA soundcard and modem. Ive installed Debian 2.0 and
> RH 6.0
> and both of them are fine throughout the install, but as soon as I go
> for the final bootup, I end up hung at LI. Are there any suggestions
> before
> I totally give up on Linux???
Somewhat strange, but try starting Linux from a disk (or CD). You can
load the install software, it doesn't matter. Then try rebooting. If
that fixes the problem, then you've encountered the same nagging
incompatability I've had for several years.
Although the error I got was "LI 02 02 02 02 02 02 02" [ad nauseam]
or somesuch.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"rash, n. Insensible to the value of our advice."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim McKean)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dual NICs of same type?
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 03:03:56 GMT
I am trying to do the same thing with 2 LNE100TXs. I have not had
much luck with PCI auto-configuring the NICs and have to put options
statement into conf.modules to get the first one to work. Now I am
lost trying to figure out an io address and irq for the second.
I'd appreciate any advice . . .
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:26:15 -0500, "Clifton T. Sharp Jr."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>L Slade wrote:
>> > 3c905s are PCI cards. PCI cards have their IRQs and I/O addresses
>> > auto-configured by the BIOS so they don't step on each other's I/O
>> > ports, assuming you have the BIOS "I have a PnP OS" option set to NO.
>> > PCI cards can share IRQs as well.
>
>Sort of. I played a lot last week when I installed my second Linksys
>LNE100TX. The only configuration that didn't work was when the BIOS
>assigned the same IRQ to both cards; then eth1 wouldn't work at all.
>
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dump and hardware compression
Date: 5 Aug 2000 03:12:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can anyone tell me whether the Dump command supports
> the hardware compression on my HP C1554A Dat tape drive?
man mt
> would be greatly appreciated! Please reply directly to:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroup responses to newsgroup questions for the benefit of all.
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music,comp.sys.ibm.pc.souncard.tech,alt.periphs.soundcard.pulsar,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc,alt.video.dvd.tech
Subject: Digital Audio out from AV510 soundcard? Any recommendations welcome
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 05:38:30 +0200
Hi
I would like to know if anyone has managed to send a 5.1 digital , or
PCM signal out from this card (AudioExcel AV510 uses a C-Media CMI8338
chip, this is a cheapie card with S/PDif out , see (www.protac.com.tw)
or possibly (www.cmedia.com.tw) for drivers/info.
I would appreciate info from anyone who used any other
soundcard/DVD-Rom/PC combination got it to work satisfactorily .. if
this card (AV510) cannot output digital 5.1 /or audio stream , I would
look at getting a new card which can do it.
I would like to send the audio info from a DVD-ROM(Pioneer DVD-103 via a
software dvd player) , or CD or other source , out to a 48kHz Dolby
Digital decoder via the spdif co-ax connectors .
I have tried various soft-DVD and soft-CD players in combination with
different cmi8338 drivers , so far I've only managed to get analog
output for dvd (instead of the usual nothing) from the soundcard
..analog cd output always worked.
I know there is an output (The C-Media mixer software also says 0,5 V)
from the souncard spdif out ..my Sharp stereo shows "PCM" when the cable
is connected , and "NO" when the cable is disconnected.However ,there is
no "live" digital audio..it's almost like there is an electrical / pcm
connection but no audio info present in the digital signal.
I have also read somewhere on the 'net that C-Media have disabled 48kHz
output with the latest drivers ,but that 44.1 kHz should still work.
Also ,would the Linux/open-source community out there have any answers
to these problems?
Thanks
Anon
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From: Joe Croft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AIC7xxx problems w/ a Dell PowerEdge 1300
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 03:36:00 GMT
Hi Folks,
I'm having trouble writing to my DDS4 DAT tape drive on my DELL PowerEdge 1300
I get back an IO error when I use tar.
The tape drive is a Python DDS4. The system sees it and sets it up on ST0.
Any help I would greatly appreciate.
Thanks,
Joe
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From: "Niklas Krumm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS CUSL2 Solano 2 M/B; Compatible?
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 20:45:46 -0700
Hi,
I was wondering if Linux supports the ASUS CUSL2 Solano 2 M/B and its
special features such as CHR slots? Thanks,
Nik.
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From: larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voodoo 3 drivers for xfree?
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 17:47:18 -1000
noone wrote:
> Anyone know a site to pick up the best xfree server drivers for a voodoo 3
> 3k pci card in red hat?
> grassy ass.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yep, go to http://linux.3dfx.com
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From: "Greg Guillou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 20.4GB HD, bios limitation, EZ-drive or any other?
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 04:35:53 GMT
I just bought a 40 gb drive. I used EZ drive for the bios. I use a boot
disk for linux because the LILO screws up the EZ drive settings.
Everything works well.
GMan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a 4 GB hda for windoze, 4 GB hdb for Debian and just installed a
> 20.4 GB maxtor HD and also running partition commender's boot manager. I
> would like to use this 20.4 gb hdd for debian only.
>
> My bios does not support bigger than 8.4 GB. I got the latest bios
> upgrade from gateway2000, but that didn't do anything. I tried setting
> the hard disk settings in the bios manually (instead of automatic
> configuration) with 39683 cylinder (manufacturer specs says this is the
> max cylinder), did not help. I included the 'append = "hdd =
> 39683,16,63"' in lilo.conf (as suggested by linuxdoc-howto web site),
> still can not get more than 8.4 gb. This howto says that linux can
> bypass the bios settings, but it didn't or I missed something.
>
> Is there any other way to get the 20.4 gb from this harddrive?
> Should I install EZ-Drive software that comes from maxtor? Will this
> screw up the things?
>
> Thanks.
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video card problem
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 14:35:56 +1000
Hi everybody, I bought a SIS6326 8mb PCI video card tonight and am having
problems getting it working.
It displays the colour blue as black, and solid bars under things like
pine/pico/vi as brown. That and when running X i get small vertical lines
appearing on the monitor.
The X problems don't bother me that much, rather it is the colour
switching, and the way the card can put flickery lines over the screen
when I run something like Xconfigurator. Is there any secrets to fixing
this or do I have a busted card? is this normal for the card?
[root@enigma /root]# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems Unknown device (rev 0).
Vendor id=1039. Device id=5517.
Slow devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 1, function 0:
ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems 85C503 (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 1, function 1:
IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems 85C5513 (rev 8).
Fast devsel. Master Capable. No bursts.
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
I/O at 0xe400 [0xe401].
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
I/O at 0xd800 [0xd801].
I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems Unknown device
(rev 11).
Vendor id=1039. Device id=6326.
Medium devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. No bursts. Min Gnt=2.
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb800000 [0xfb800008].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb7e0000 [0xfb7e0000].
I/O at 0xd000 [0xd001].
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Realtek 8139 (rev 16).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master
Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xc800 [0xc801].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfb7d0000 [0xfb7d0000].
I am running a slightly older motherboard (SIS5513/SIS5511) made back in
1995. I am using redhat 6.2 and will be upgrading to the newest lot of X
servers soon to play around with them.
The card detects okay on boot and can be found by Xconfigurator.
thoughts anybody? =)
(huge thanks in advance for any help)
--
Michael Ross
Shard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://shard.cjb.net irc.shadowfire.org
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