Linux-Hardware Digest #445, Volume #13 Fri, 18 Aug 00 23:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Cirrus Logic 4630 (Sound) (Mark Thomas)
Re: vertical line on X screen (Marc Andre Selig)
COM port I/O error, modem config problems ("Jim Rohrer")
Re: Linux crash - bad CPU or disk? (Tim Moore)
Re: COM port I/O error, modem config problems (sideband)
Re: Which Linux distribution supports SiS530 chipsets? (sideband)
Re: Upgrading to 2.2.16 with aic7xxx scsi controller (sideband)
Re: Problem with CD ROM Drive? (Tim Moore)
Re: Does cdrecord really work with IDE CD-R?? (Tim Moore)
Modem and Monitor Question. (Prasad Venkata Boddupalli)
IEEE 488 ("Noble Pepper")
Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset.... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which Linux distribution supports SiS530 chipsets? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Trust Soundexpert 128 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Free credit card machine/web site processing for your business (Dave Lugo)
Re: GeForce2 MX supported under Linux? (Tony Spinillo)
Re: USB CD-R Installation? (Tony Spinillo)
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From: Mark Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cirrus Logic 4630 (Sound)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:02:08 +0100
I am searching for drivers for the CS 4630 chipset as used in the Turtle
Beach Santa Cruz.
I have checked Opensound and ALSA but to no avail, does anyone know of any
private projects in progress?
Mark
--
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.warwick.ac.uk/~esuwc
2nd Year Undergraduate
Department of Computer Science and School of Engineering
University of Warwick, UK
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: vertical line on X screen
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Aug 2000 00:12:16 +0200
I wrote:
> On my X screen, I get a vertical stippled line. This line appears
> even if I start the server without any arguments at all, i.e. without
> loading any clients or window managers.
The problem was diagnosed by support to be a hardware failure. The
retailer replaced the card without any hassle. I just hope it does
not develop the same problem... ;)
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From: "Jim Rohrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COM port I/O error, modem config problems
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 17:22:41 -0500
Hi! I'm having problems getting my modem configured in Red Hat linux 6.1. My
modem is a 28.8 ISA modem which I am pretty sure is NOT a winmodem. My
problem occurs when I try to run setserial on ttys3, since my modem is on
COM4 in windows. When I do, it just says /dev/ttys3: Input/Output Error.
Actually, it does this when I run setserial on any of my COM ports. The
modem is on IRQ 5, with and I/O address of 03E8-03EF. Is there anything I
can do to get my COM ports working? I'd appreciate any help! Thanks!
Jim
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux crash - bad CPU or disk?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:48:45 GMT
> I've got a 3 month old installation of Mandrake 7.0 (2.2.14) on a PII
> 233 with an 8.4GB disk. In the last couple of days, the system has
> frozen solid, forcing a hard reboot.
>
> Is this indicative of a bad cpu? Scrolling through Netscape, untaring a
> file, etc. Any event seems to bung it up. I've not added any new
> software or done any system updates in the last three months. I'm
> fearful that it's the disk, as any attempt to copy the contents of my
> home partition (/dev/hdc3) to another disk causes a freeze.
>
> I have Win95 on my first disk, and have been unable to cause it to
> freeze, no matter what.
Assuming linux is on a different disk it could be a failing disk. Try
'dmesg' or manually look through /var/log/messages for errors just
before a freeze. It would be helpful if you posted these.
CPU's and memory errors generally are evident immediately after the
respective hardware is installed, but rarely go 'bad' after. It could
also be an IRQ conflict from something that you changed but don't
remember as significant.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COM port I/O error, modem config problems
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:51:26 -0400
Jim Rohrer wrote:
> Hi! I'm having problems getting my modem configured in Red Hat linux 6.1. My
> modem is a 28.8 ISA modem which I am pretty sure is NOT a winmodem. My
> problem occurs when I try to run setserial on ttys3, since my modem is on
> COM4 in windows. When I do, it just says /dev/ttys3: Input/Output Error.
> Actually, it does this when I run setserial on any of my COM ports. The
> modem is on IRQ 5, with and I/O address of 03E8-03EF. Is there anything I
> can do to get my COM ports working? I'd appreciate any help! Thanks!
>
> Jim
it's a capital S... /dev/ttyS3
HTH
-SSB
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Linux distribution supports SiS530 chipsets?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:52:45 -0400
Marcus Ramirez wrote:
> Does anyone know which Linux distribution will support the SiS530 video
> chipset? Does anyone have an SiS530 onboard chipset?
It's not a question of which dist supports it... It's a question of wether
XFree86 supports it. Sounds like a gneric SVGA interface, so it should
work. If not, you'll have to wait for the X ppl to get support out.
HTH
-SSB
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading to 2.2.16 with aic7xxx scsi controller
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 18:56:18 -0400
"J. Horner" wrote:
> "J. Horner" wrote:
> >
> > I have a working scsi controller in 2.2.14 kernel. Everything
> > works wonderfully.
> >
> > When I try to boot my newly compiled 2.2.16 kernel, my computer
> > sees the scsi card, sees the disks on
> > the scsi card, sees the scsi emulation for my cdwriter, sees my
> > external zip (3 scsi controllers), sees the partitions on my
> > /dev/sda, but when it tries to check them in normal boot, it
> > hangs trying to check /dev/sda1. I am not sure if swap is
> > mounting, but swap is on that drive as well. This partition is
> > my /var partition, so I need it.
> >
> > I tried making a new initrd image using mkinitrd --with=aic7xxx
> > /boot/initrd-2.2.16.img but no luck.
> >
> > I tried using my 2.2.14 initrd image, but no luck.
> >
> > Any ideas? I have aic7xxx support compiled into the kernel (no
> > module), and I believe that is why it sees the card during the
> > boot, and sees the disks and partitions on the disk, but still
> > not sure what is going on.
> >
>
> UPDATE:
>
> My computer mounts my swap partitions fine, which are on
> /dev/sda5 and /dev/sda6, but still
> won't fsck.ext2 -a /dev/sda1 without the process going D.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --
> J. J. Horner
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knoxlug.org
> System has been up: 6 min.
Boot to single user mode and try to fsck -a /dev/sda1
If it dies there, try to boot to your old kernel (2.2.14), and do the
same thing.
If THAT fails, then I don't know.. Maybe the drive failed, maybe not.
Check the connectors, too, make sure everything's happy.
HTH.
-SSB
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with CD ROM Drive?
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:28:34 GMT
I tried a similar copy as you and get no such messages if the disk is
mounted or not. How does your CD show up in dmesg?
You might want to check these:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
http://www.fh-muenchen.de/rz/xcdroast
http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/
/usr/doc/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO
/usr/doc/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO
Also consider using SCSI emulation. I've had less errors/retries for
CD, CD-R and tape compared with ATAPI. Kernel config: select
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI, CONFIG_SCSI, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR,
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS; deselect CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD.
[dmesg]
hdd: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
...
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416E Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
[/dev links - Note that I have only a single CD-R and so point both
/dev/cdrom and /dev/cdr to the actual device. /dev/hdd is invalid under
SCSI emulation.]
> ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 22 00:35 /dev/cdrom ->
sr0
> ls -l /dev/cdr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 22 00:35 /dev/cdr ->
cdrom
> grep cd /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdr /cdr iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0
> I am having trouble using my CD ROM drive to create an image of a CD under
> linux. The problem is about 4 or 5 months old, and has happened to me both
> under Redhat 6.2 and Debian 2.1 (slink). It's happened to me both with a
> regular generic "Cyber Drive" CD ROM unit and my more recent HP 8100i CDRW
> drive.
>
> cp /dev/hdd disk.img (or /dev/cdrom, either one will do the same)
>
> And the unit starts reading. It keeps reading for the normal lapse of time
> it takes to make a 650 Mb image. And at the very end I get the following
> message:
>
> [root@laforge /toaster]# cp /dev/hdd disk.img
> hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdd: command error: error=0x54
> end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 1330352
> ATAPI device hdd:
> Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
> (vendor-specific error) -- (asc=0xc6, ascq=0x02)
> cp: /dev/hdd: Input/output error
> ...
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,mailing.comp.cdwrite
Subject: Re: Does cdrecord really work with IDE CD-R??
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 23:49:44 GMT
Well, the author strongly suggests SCSI emulation which absolutely does
work.
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
Kernel config: select
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI, CONFIG_SCSI, CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR,
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS; deselect CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD.
[dmesg]
hdd: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
...
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416E Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
[/dev links - Note that I have only a single CD-R and so point both
/dev/cdrom and /dev/cdr to the actual device. /dev/hdd is invalid under
SCSI emulation.]
> ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jul 22 00:35 /dev/cdrom ->
sr0
> ls -l /dev/cdr
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Jul 22 00:35 /dev/cdr ->
cdrom
> grep cd /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdr /cdr iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0
Arnold Selby wrote:
>
> I have failed bout 40 timess in succession attempting to write the
> same 7 audio wav files
> to various (memorex and TDK) CDRs.
> After 4 coasters, I shifted to -dummy.
>
> I have tried cdrecord 1.8, 1.9 and 1.10a; and have also upgraded my
> drive to the latest firmware on my mitsumi
>
> the annoyance and frustration is that cdrecord will fail (almost)
> every time, but it will fail writing different
> tracks. Once (only once), it did dummy-write all tracks, but on a
> retest, it failed.
> If it would fail consistantly, i would have given up sooner
> arnold
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Prasad Venkata Boddupalli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem and Monitor Question.
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 16:36:56 -0700
Hello all,
When I asked the DELL folks about modems, compatible with linux and
windows, they suggested, 3Com V.90/56K PCI Telephony modem for sound
option. Can someone please clarify, if it is so ( compatibility with linux
and windows). Or should I go in for any other vendors' ?
Also, has anyone been able to use sony CPD-G200 monitor with linux ?
thanks,
Prasad Boddupalli.
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From: "Noble Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IEEE 488
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 19:12:23 -0600
Anybody have recommendations on software and interface hardware for IEEE-488?
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Subject: Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset....
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:17:30 GMT
John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Recently I posted a request here asking about a SuperMicro Super 370DL3
> / 370DLE motherborad (they are essentially the same board, the only diff
> is that the DL3 has onboard SCSI). The nice thing about these boards is
> that they are dual processor (socket 370) motherboards supporting the
> Intel Pentium III Coppermine with a 133Mhz FSB. Unfortunately I was on
> vacation for 10days and then our news server suffered a disk crash and
> lost all old messages and was down for another week - basically if
> anyone responded to my post, I didn't see it... So I ask again...
It's times like this that Deja is a valuable resource.
> Does anyone know anything about the SuperMicro 370DL3 mother board? Does
> anyone know anything about the performance of the ServerWorks SeverSet
> III LE chipset? I've been looking for benchmarks & reviews of this
> board but I haven't found anything. Any thoughts or suggestions?
If this board has the Intel 840 chipset, then it has APIC problems
with Linux. There is a fairly long and ongoing thread devoted to the
subject. See Deja.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"hand, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and
commonly thrust into somebody's pocket." - Ambrose Bierce
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Subject: Re: Which Linux distribution supports SiS530 chipsets?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 00:19:55 GMT
"Marcus Ramirez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know which Linux distribution will support the SiS530 video
> chipset? Does anyone have an SiS530 onboard chipset?
Distributions have very little to do with hardware support. The
kernel and XF86 are what deal with all of that, and both of those are
mostly the same between distros.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"And what happens? The guy goes and proves himself beyond all doubt
to be just another cookie stamped out of the Dough of Idiocy with the
Cookie-Cutter of Self-Righteousness." - Mike Kozlowski
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Trust Soundexpert 128
Date: 19 Aug 2000 00:46:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000 22:42:45 +0200, Zuidland wrote:
>I have a question, does a driver for the Trust Soundexpert 128??
>If yes please let me know.
Never heard of the card, but there is something you can do: If it's a
PCI card, run "cat /proc/pci" and post the section that looks something
like this:
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 6).
Slow devsel. IRQ 10. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
The "audio controller" part is the part you're looking for. If it's
recognized as one of the chipsets that Linux supports, getting it to
work should be possible.
If this is an ISA card, things get a little trickier. RedHat and
Mandrake have a very useful program called "sndconfig" that can often
help a great deal--run that program as root if you are using one of
those distros. If not, try "pnpdump"...
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 20:50:33 -0400
From: Dave Lugo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Free credit card machine/web site processing for your business
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>
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--
========================================================
Dave Lugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] LC Unit #260 TINLC
Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks.
========================================================
Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins.
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GeForce2 MX supported under Linux?
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 02:23:45 GMT
The MX is supported, there was a bug upon starting X, it gave a blank
screen for about 30 seconds on some confiurations. I think the next release
of the Nvidia driver corrects the problem,
tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is this new entry-level NVidia chip supported under Linux?
> > Not quite clear from reading the XFree86 info whether the
> > existing NVidia drivers will support this latest chip.
>
> Support for the Geforce line of cards *should* be present in XFree86
> 3.3.6 (the current "stable" release), and it is definately supported in
> the 4.01 release. You would need to both upgrade to 4.01 and download
> the appropriate GLX and kernel tarballs in order to make use of its
> OpenGL support (i.e. games).
>
> I've been using this setup for my TNT2 and it works quite well. After
> reading some reviews, I'll be picking up a Geforce2 MX just as soon as I
> can find one.
>
> Go get that sucka.
>
> Brian
> D-side @ #linuxhelp on the Undernet
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USB CD-R Installation?
Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2000 02:24:42 GMT
Try www.linux-usb.org
It is a very useful site.
tony
Glitch wrote:
> Linux doesn't fully support USB right now which will probably hinder
> your progress, at least until 2.4 comes out (whenever that will be). At
> this time the best thing to do is to get USB setup by looking at the
> site that is developing USB for Linux. I can't remember the name but
> doing a search should surely find it. This may get usb setup for your
> current kernel however it may not provide support for the actual cdrw
> drive you are working with.
>
> That's as far as my knowledge goes.
>
> HTH
> Brandon
>
> mpierce wrote:
> >
> > I'm using RH6.2, kernel2.2.16-3.
> > My CD-RW is an HP8200 USB.
> > I've looked at the old posts here and cannot find what I'm looking
> > for.
> > Has anyone configured this hardware setup to work under linux?
> > If so, can you please tell me what I need to do to get the hardware
> > configuration operational?
> >
> > If I can get this working and Samba working, I'll finally be able to
> > leave
> > WIN98 which is what I am trying to do.
> > PS - still a newbie
> > Marvin
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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