Linux-Hardware Digest #369, Volume #13 Mon, 7 Aug 00 09:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: isapnp.conf (actually conf.modules) (Marius Andra)
Re: Voodoo3 AGP won't run in XFree 4.n.n ("Mark Tigwell")
Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM (Nicolas Iselin)
Oxygen VX1 and XFree86 4.0.1 (help!!) (Dazza)
Problem with big Hard Disk (axman)
Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: USB under Linux?? (Florian Forster)
Orb drive problem (root)
Re: Digital Audio out from AV510 soundcard? Any recommendations welcome (Rich Hanson)
Slow MO Drive (Tino Keitel)
Re: Cirrus Logic CL-MD5620DT under Linux? (Rob Clark)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Re: Dual processor board? (Chris Rankin)
hard disk on parallel port (rriv)
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:18:51 +0200
From: Marius Andra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: isapnp.conf (actually conf.modules)
OOPS, sorry, i meant conf.modules.
How to put these lines into conf.modules?
So that every time my computer boots up i don't have to type them and they
load automatically.
"D. Stimits" wrote:
> Marius Andra wrote:
> >
> > how to put these lines inside isapnp.conf???
> >
> > insmod parport
> > insmod paride
> > insmod epat
> > insmod pcd
> > insmod pg
> >
> > Can anybody give me a straight answer, not like read the manual...
> >
> > ---
> > m9
>
> Those don't go into isapnp.conf at all. They go in /etc/conf.modules (or
> on some dists, /etc/modules.conf, same thing).
>
> isapnp.conf is used for irq and address setup of plug-n-play hardware in
> ISA slots. conf.modules is used to insert kernel modules, which is what
> that is.
>
> If you are asking about an editor to do this with, there are many text
> editors. Assuming you don't know how to use something not initially user
> friendly, such as emacs or vi, you might use nedit or pico (pico comes
> with pine). There are many other editors as well. You can do a search
> for nedit or others on http://las.978.org
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From: "Mark Tigwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
3dfx.glide.linux,apana.lists.os.linux.x11,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix,linux.dev.x11,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Voodoo3 AGP won't run in XFree 4.n.n
Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 23:50:13 +1000
Thanks Stefan... I'll give this a whirl and report back!
Mark Tigwell
> Hmm - have your tried forcing a higher color depth (say 24 bit)? It seems
> that X has trouble with bit depths other than this, at least on some
models
> of video cards... I forced mine into 24 bit display and it is the only bit
> depth that works - 640x480x8 as you mentioned does NOT work for me. Only
24
> bit.
>
> Stefan Viljoen
> --
> Starwars Forever!!!
>
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
>
>
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:30:44 +0200
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have a truely ancient machine (386DX with 4 meg of RAM and no CD drive). I
> have the RedHat 6 distrib on CD.
I have no experience with that low amount of ram. The 'linux on one floppy'
I know of (tomsrtbt, www.toms.net) needs 8MB to boot. But
this is mainly because all filesystems are held in RAM. I assume that
4 MB would work when there is space for files on disk.
>
> Is it somehow (by some miracle I suppose!) possible to get Linux installed
> on this system? How would I "parcel off" the needed stuff from the CD to get
> a bare bones Linux install running on a system with only a floppy? HDD
> capacity is a truely ancient (as well) 200meg Seagate drive.
I recently installed two old boxes. 200meg is plenty enough (you don't plan
to install X11, don't you ? ;-).
As you won't be able to boot tomsrtbt, I believe the only way to bring
linux onto your machine is the following:
1. Install a CDROM drive (you can take that of when the installation of
linux is complete).
2. Partition the drive for a small dos partition which is bootable and has
the drivers for accessing the CDROM. Leave some space for a linux
kernel (so you can boot with loadlin), about 10MB will do
3. Install using the normal CDs.
All other possibilities (using an Ethernet Card or a serial link with
ppp) to get to the RedHat data need an initial linux boot which (I
believe) is not possible with a single diskette linux with only
4MB RAM. Furthermore, I don't know the Red Hat installation routine,
I am using Debian.
> Or should I just forget it? I want to try and see if I can set up some kind
> of remote terminal thingy with a serial cable - I have some info on getting
> a getty process running on my host system (400mHz Celeron with 256 megs of
> RAM). Or would I do better to leave DOS installed on the 386 and run some
> kinda terminal emulator thingy? Any URL's for such DOS programs?
You can connect over the serial null-modem cable with any Terminal-
Software like Telemate (I used it 10 years ago) and many others. But
you prefer a linux setup, I believe...
Nicolas
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From: Dazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oxygen VX1 and XFree86 4.0.1 (help!!)
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 10:51:08 +0100
Hi,
Has anyone out there got XFree86 configured to run a 3DLabs Oxygen
VX1 - I am not too worried about 3D accell, just getting a decent
resolution (1280x1024) in 32 bit.. If anyone can help or point me in the
direction of some information I would be grateful..
Thanks in advance...
Darren.
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From: axman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with big Hard Disk
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:07:20 +0200
I have a new MAXTOR 96147H8 60GB IDE-Disk. But Linux will not detect the
correkt Disk Size. Also manual Settings of Cylinder, Head & Sektor in
fdisk will not work correkt. What can i do to get the Hard Disk working?
axman
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a really old machine with no CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:07:53 +0200
PJC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:398da9ee$0$713$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Network installation is your best bet. Put a network card in both the
> machines and get yourself a crossovercable. Set up anonymous ftp on the
> machine with the cdrom and then mount it to the ftp subdirectory. Then all
> you need is a boot floppy. With 200MB of space, you won't get much,
> definitely not X, and maybe not even the kernel sources. Also, keep in
mind
> that it will probably take 3 hours to install!
>
> Stefan Viljoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8mji36$fvh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi!
> >
> > I have a truely ancient machine (386DX with 4 meg of RAM and no CD
drive).
Thanks guys! I'll give it all a whirl...
Stefan Viljoen
--
Starwars Forever!!!
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
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From: Florian Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB under Linux??
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 12:14:58 +0200
"Karl A. Byriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I am a linux newbie so forgive the dumb question, does linux support US=
B and
> if so would it support a USB CD-RW drive?
>=20
Hello. Yes it does support USB. But not quit good. Yesterday I tried the =
new
kernel 2.40 Test 5 and it has a lot of new USB supports. But I can't say
if you're writer is supportet. Better go to www.linhardware.com and look =
up
your hardware
Cu
Flo
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Orb drive problem
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 21:23:28 +1000
Hello
How do I find the port address and protocol number for the Orb 2 Gb
disk? This is the parallel port type drive.
Julian
--
Linux Newbie since 1995
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Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:16:34 +0100
From: Rich Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.music,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech,comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc
Subject: Re: Digital Audio out from AV510 soundcard? Any recommendations welcome
anonymous wrote:
>
> 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.
First of all, despite what the CMedia mixer might tell you, you can't
set the SPDIF outptu voltage from software, this option refers to the
CMI8738, the successor to the CMI8338, and has been disabled for the
8338 in the very latest drivers from CMedia - output voltage level is
set to 0.5V by removing jumper J1 on the card itself. Having said that,
it would appear that the signal is getting through to your stereo as it
says it is connected.
You have presumably enabled the SPDIF Out? (Silly question, I know, but
sometimes it is the obvious answer :) I belive the card will output
a digital audio stream in all conditions, but when the SPDIF output is
not selected in the mixer then only digital silence is sent in that
stream.
> 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.
That was probably me whinging! In the drivers release around Christmas,
I could successfully read 48kHz, but with the drivers released last month
I can't.
> Also ,would the Linux/open-source community out there have any answers
> to these problems?
Possibly, but I find very little relating to CMI8338 and 8738 when I look.
There is also a mailing list at egroups for the 8338 which you may like
to try: www.egroups.com/subscribe/cmi833x
--
Rich Hanson, Senior Software Engineer BAE SYSTEMS Avionics, Rochester
These are my own opinions. Appearance of this message on Usenet
does *not* consitute solicitation for e-mail from job agencies.
http://www.plompy.co.uk http://www.nct-medway.org.uk
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From: Tino Keitel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Slow MO Drive
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 13:52:16 +0200
Hi folks,
I use a Philips Galaxy MO 640 with my Tekram DC 390 U (Symbios Logic
53C875E). The problem is that with Linux the MO drive reaches only _one
third_ of the transfer rates it reaches with other OS (WinNT/95/98 on
the same hardware, AmigaOS). Two friends of mine also have that problem
with there drives (Fujitsu drives, Adaptec SCSI Cards). I have used a
few 2.2 kernels. I tried only 640 MB (limdow and non-limdow) MO discs.
Some examples with a limdow disc:
Linux other
read ~700 kb/s ~2,1 mb/s
write ~400 kb/s ~1,1 mb/s
Regards, Tino
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Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic CL-MD5620DT under Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 11:53:41 GMT
In article <CUrj5.5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Francisco Gonz�lez Barrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey, another thing. Does anybody know how to get to work my Cirrus Logic
>CL-MD5620DT (PCI) modem under Linux.
You can try the "Linmodem" driver for Cirrus Logic/Ambient controllerless
modems at http://linmodems.org
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Why is my harddisk so slow?
Date: 7 Aug 2000 12:23:46 GMT
Cliff Pennock ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: hdparm -t /dev/hda gives me on average 8Mb/s (slow!)
: hdparm -T /dev/hda gives me on average 17Mb/s (waaaaaaay to slow!)
: I've tried all I can think off, but it won't go any faster...
: Anyone has any ideas?
Oh! Yours is so fast!!! Look at mine:
AM5x86-133, UMC-8881 chipset with on-board IDE. Harddisk is Maxtor 15G
(5400rpm type, model number forgotten).
Linux 2.2.16(Slackware 7.0 upgraded)
>$ hdparm -t /dev/hdb
(no result, because it's too slow to wait...)
>$ time dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/dev/NULL bs=4096 count=500000
total time: 239m **s .... Oh! My God!
Even older drive gives better result than it!
Quantum Fireball 1.2G: 2-3 MB/s
Any suggestion? I tried to use hdparm to set some flags but of no use.
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Dual processor board?
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 22:46:53 +1000
"D. Stimits" wrote:
>> I don't know if this is fixable, but I doubt a BIOS flash would cover
> it. Possibly it is related to the manner in which the APICs are
> connected, but I don't know. So yes, likely this is a hardwire
> situation.
Nuts!
> Check out, in the kernel source Documentation subdirectory,
> file IO-APIC.txt. I mentioned the problem to Alan Cox, but haven't heard
> of any solutions yet, aside from running with noapic kernel option.
I have received similar advice.
> If I
> knew who "mingo" is from the IO-APIC.txt file, I'd ask him as well.
That I do know; Ingo Molnar (kernel hacker, of course). I've sent him my
PIIIDME bootup logs with a 2.4.0-test5 kernel, but have had no response.
Probably it went into an "Oh no, not another one!" pile.
> I'm
> currently looking at Iwill's DCA200, but it would require dumping
> current ram for rdram, and dumping both cpu's for xeon's, along with
> purchasing a separate scsi controller...which is a bit expensive.
> Initial response from Iwill is that so far as they know, there is no
> APIC problem with their board on linux, but they are checking to make
> sure (no reply back yet). What is unclear is how many i840 boards are
> connected in this manner, ending up with "unexpected IO-APIC".
Well, my mobo is my mobo for the next few years. No cash to change it
now. Just for interest, this is what I get on boot-up:
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok.
...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 3 ... ok.
Synchronizing Arb IDs.
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-18, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23, 3-0, 3-1, 3-2,
3-3, 3-4, 3-5, 3-6, 3-7,
3-8, 3-9, 3-10, 3-11, 3-12, 3-13, 3-14, 3-15, 3-16, 3-17, 3-18, 3-19,
3-20, 3-21, 3-22, 3-23 no
t connected.
..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0
activating NMI Watchdog ... done.
number of MP IRQ sources: 23.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
number of IO-APIC #3 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00170020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
02 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
03 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
04 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
05 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
06 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
07 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
08 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
09 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
0a 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
0b 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
0c 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0f 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
10 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1
11 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IO APIC #3......
.... register #00: 03000000
....... : physical APIC id: 03
.... register #01: 00178020
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : IO APIC version: 0020
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.... register #02: 04000000
....... : arbitration: 04
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
02 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
03 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
04 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
06 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
07 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
08 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0c 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0f 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 2
IRQ1 -> 1
IRQ3 -> 3
IRQ4 -> 4
IRQ5 -> 5
IRQ6 -> 6
IRQ7 -> 7
IRQ8 -> 8
IRQ9 -> 9
IRQ10 -> 10
IRQ11 -> 11
IRQ12 -> 12
IRQ13 -> 13
IRQ14 -> 14
IRQ15 -> 15
IRQ16 -> 16
IRQ17 -> 17
IRQ19 -> 19
.................................... done.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 732.9722 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 133.2675 MHz.
cpu: 0, clocks: 1332675, slice: 444225
CPU0<T0:1332672,T1:888432,D:15,S:444225,C:1332675>
cpu: 1, clocks: 1332675, slice: 444225
CPU1<T0:1332672,T1:444208,D:14,S:444225,C:1332675>
checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
Setting commenced=1, go go go
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91, last bus=4
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P3) -> 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I31,P1) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B4,I0,P0) -> 16
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I8,P0) -> 16
Does yours look the same? But you'd think there'd be a way of setting up
the lines that *do* work correctly, regardles of whether there are a few
bad ones. (The "better than nothing" principle.) My problem is that I
really have no idea what this log is saying, beyond that it seems to be
dynamically allocating IRQs.
Chris
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Subject: hard disk on parallel port
From: rriv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2000 12:56:01 GMT
Hello,
sorry if this is a faq, but after an hour of web browsing I couldn't find
the answer...
Is it possible under Linux to use a parallel port disk drive ?
I'd like to give a try on an old 'plugger' drive, which works under ASPI protocol.
Do I have to install some specific driver ? Or does exist any user-level command to
access such a drive ?
Thanks in advance,
Robert Riviere -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove what needs to be removed :-)
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