Linux-Hardware Digest #456, Volume #13 Mon, 21 Aug 00 09:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Is it a possible cause? (Sindh)
Re: Whiich ids better Mandrake 7.1 or Slackware 7.1 (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: RedHat 5.0 and Adaptec 1510 SCSI controller (sideband)
Can't locate module sound-service-0-3 (David Shochat)
Re: HELP - Linux reports 16M RAM but I have 128Mb! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is it a possible cause? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SuSE 7.0 + Fritz!X USB? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Kernel says Toshiba HD has no cache!? (Martin Egloff)
Re: BrookTree Video card, no sound (sideband)
Problem: HP Colorado tape drive (Oliver Sinnen)
DFE530TX ("Gerhard Gruber")
Re: Kernel says Toshiba HD has no cache!? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: HELP - Linux reports 16M RAM but I have 128Mb! (Carl Tan)
Re: external moinitor with inspiron 3200? (Nels Tomlinson)
Re: [Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma] (Brendan Glackin)
Linux Boot questions ("Andrew")
Re: SB64 and Slackware. ("Mr. Ozette Brown")
Sound Woes ("ronnie")
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From: Sindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is it a possible cause?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:26:42 GMT
Hi folks
I am using RH6.1, Dual cel Abit board , 128 mb ram and 4mb ATI rage pro
card. Monitor is a AOC 4N 14" 3 year old monitor. I recently bought a
antiglare screen and put it on the monitor. Few days later I can hardly
read the screen. So I removed the antiglare thingy but screen is still
the same. Probably no relation to that screen but monitor display is
completely unreadably. I am typing this on the same monitor, so any
typos wouldnot be my fauls:-)
Main problem with the display is any fonts/ chars of size smaller that ,
say approximately 14 are all oily and hazy. Very large fonts are
reasonably readable. But even the frame borders of windows also hazy.
Text screen is also somewhat oily.
Is it the old age of monitor or something I can salvage?
Also is there a way to enlarge the default font used by X server?
Thanks
sreekant
--
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Subject: Re: Whiich ids better Mandrake 7.1 or Slackware 7.1
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 07:41:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karen Cheer) wrote in
<8nl56i$g0d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Which is better,
>i am a new user and would like to see what linux is about
For new users I'd recommend Mandrake. When you gain experience, go with
slack. Anyway, Mandrake 7.1 was easy to set up on my system - and is highly
recommended for newbies.
Best way to find out is to try both for yourself :) You can easily install
both at the same time if you have enough space on your drive(s).
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.0 and Adaptec 1510 SCSI controller
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 04:15:50 -0400
Paul Fox wrote:
> macrocracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I'm trying to install redhat 5.0 on a vintage compaq 486sx33 circa
> : 1994. The scsi controller is Adaptec's AHA-1510/152x(ISA/VLB)
> : (AIC-6260/6360). Unfortunately that is not one of the choices shown to
> : me during setup to autoprobe.
>
> i'm running an adaptec 1520 on one of my 486's now. it certainly
> worked with the 2.0 kernels. i don't remember if i used it earlier
> than that or not. if they didn't build in support for it in the
> default 5.0 kernel, however, you'll have to boot differently.
>
> paul
> =---------------------
> paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I used a 1515 for several years with no hitches, under 2.0 kernels and since
RedHat 5.0. 5.0 was buggy, though. 6.2 wouldn't be a bad upgrade at all. the
1510/1515/152X all use the same 152x driver, so it should work.
-SSB
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From: David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't locate module sound-service-0-3
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:37:37 GMT
I have a Gateway "Performance" PCI-only machine that came with the
imfamous SB 128 PCI (Ensoniq 1371 Rev 8). I also have RedHat 6.2,
currently with kernel 2.2.16-3 from binary rpm). I have tried many
things (upgrade to 2.2.16, link driver into kernel, OSS, ALSA) but it's
always the same. No error messages, no sound. It works great in Windows
98, so yes the speaker is plugged in. I've noticed that other people
have had this sort of problem, but I have never seen any kind of
definitive answer to how it happens nor any logical troubleshooting
procedure that can be applied. I'm still trying and waiting. Right now
I'm reading Rubini's device driver book in hopes of eventually solving
the problem myself.
But enough ranting. None of that was really the point of this message.
This morning I noticed a new error message (subject line) in my syslog,
and as always, I am hopeful that it might contain some clue. Does anyone
know what sound-service-0-3 is or what it should be aliased to in
conf.modules?
Thanks. -- David
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Subject: Re: HELP - Linux reports 16M RAM but I have 128Mb!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:43:02 GMT
Carl Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i managed to get debian with 2.0.38 installed on an AMD K6-2 450 with
> 128Mb RAM (64MB PC100 DIMM each, one Siemens, the other Kingston).
I've had nasty problems with Debian and 2.0.38 missing parts of
memory. For me, every other run would report the full 128MB; the
others would vary between 32MB and 64MB, often in bizarre increments.
Going to the 2.2.14 kernel solved my problem.
> Questions here:
> 1. Is this a kernel compile option I have to choose?
No. There is if you have more than 1GB of memory, I believe, but
that's all.
> 2. Is there a problem with my BIOS setup?
Do you have a BIOS setting enabling a hole at 15MB (or so)? If
so, shut it off. Any "OS/2 Compatability" options should also be
disabled (strangely, OS/2 doesn't work with this option on).
> 3. Must a use a newer kernel?
Most likely.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"rash, n. Insensible to the value of our advice."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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Subject: Re: Is it a possible cause?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:46:03 GMT
Sindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Main problem with the display is any fonts/ chars of size smaller that ,
> say approximately 14 are all oily and hazy. Very large fonts are
> reasonably readable. But even the frame borders of windows also hazy.
> Text screen is also somewhat oily.
> Is it the old age of monitor or something I can salvage?
Old age or just quality. Considering that 17" monitors cost about
$130 now, you should just get a new one. The cost to repair a monitor
is about $90.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished
from the false and profane writings on which other faiths are based."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SuSE 7.0 + Fritz!X USB?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:54:01 GMT
directly from SuSE:
http://www.suse.de/de/produkte/susesoft/linux/index.html
In article <8np43r$8f3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"James Chew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where do you get SuSe 7.0?
>
> Regards,
> James.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8noep2
$7fj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Is there anybody with a Fritz!X USB external ISDN card running under
> > SuSE (7.0)?
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
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From: Martin Egloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Kernel says Toshiba HD has no cache!?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:32:34 +0200
My laptop is running kernel 2.2.17 and has a Toshiba harddisk.
At boot, the kernel sees the harddisk but it says the harddisk does
have 0Mb cache! However the harddisk does have cache.
The same effect I had with the 2.0.36 kernel. I also tried another
toshiba harddisk which suppose to have cache but the kernel didn't
find any.
Why is this?
Any answers welcome!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BrookTree Video card, no sound
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:52:52 -0400
Justin Hamm wrote:
> I have Debian kernel 2.2.16 with a brooktree video card. I've loaded the
> bttv modules in the kernel, but I am getting no sound. I'm using xwatv
> and the video comes up just perfect, but no sound. I was wondering if
> there are any special sound modules for this card I need installed? Or if
> there is anyone else out there that had this same problem and found a way
> to fix it?
> Thanks!
Well, the one thing that some people overlook on this particular issue (I did,
anyway) is an audio patch cord between the TV card and the sound card. Is one
installed?
If that doesn't work, and if you're using an ATI TV card (With the brooktree
chipset), GATOS works well in all modes, in my experience. You might try a
websearch on it (I forget the URL) and give it a try. It's tailored
specifically for the ATI cards.
Hope this helps.
-SSB
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From: Oliver Sinnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem: HP Colorado tape drive
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:41:24 +0000
Hi!
I have problems with a HP Colorado 14/7GB tape drive.
The first days this IDE drive worked fine in my SuSE 6.3 (kernel 2.2.13)
environment. I was able to make small backups with tar and so I set up a
daily backup with cron. After some days the backup did not work any more
since I got input/output errors, even using different tapes (so the
tapes cannot be the cause). The messages in the log-file were like this:
kernel: hdd: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: hdd: ATAPI reset complete
kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark
kernel: ide-tape: Block location is unknown to the tape
kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1, key = 2, asc = 4, ascq = 1
The tape were connected as slave to the second ide controller together
with a hard-disk as master. Might the chipset be a problem ? (VIA
ApolloPro VT 82Cxxx). There is a kernel option for this chipset, but
apparently this has only to do with the DMA.
For cross-checking (and since the only documentation that comes with the
tape is a windows CD), I used the tape in a NT-box. It worked there fine
in a small test, but the driver recommended to use one ide controller
exclusively for the drive. Does not work an ide-tape drive with other
devices in parallel?
Something else that is strange is the statement in SuSE's hardware
database. They state that the tape is not supported since kernel 2.2.14.
Why?
Thanks for help
Oliver Sinnen , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Gerhard Gruber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DFE530TX
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 18:50:58 +0100
Hello,
Have got problems with new dfe530TX (8DFE530TX2B1).
The old rev A1 which used the Davicom DM9101F chip worked fine with Via
Rhine driver.
The new one, which uses LSI L80255/B, does not work at all.
D-Link has changed the hole stuff without any notice.
Has anyone got the same problem and (or) has even a solution?
Thanks
Gerhard
Gerhard Gruber ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Kernel says Toshiba HD has no cache!?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:05:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Egloff) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>My laptop is running kernel 2.2.17 and has a Toshiba harddisk.
>
>At boot, the kernel sees the harddisk but it says the harddisk does
>have 0Mb cache! However the harddisk does have cache.
>The same effect I had with the 2.0.36 kernel. I also tried another
>toshiba harddisk which suppose to have cache but the kernel didn't
>find any.
>
>Why is this?
Don't know why, but I wouldn't worry too much about it, linux caches much
more than your hard drive does to memory anyway. Have you tried the latest
test-kernel, btw?
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Carl Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP - Linux reports 16M RAM but I have 128Mb!
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:15:04 +0800
Hi Prasanth,
What do you mean by running lilo? I thought a reboot would work then. Is
that right?
Thanks for helping,
Carl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Prasanth A. Kumar" wrote:
> Carl Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> <snip>
> > I was told to put
> >
> > append = "mem=128M"
> >
> > in my etc/lilo.conf. I have done that but it does not seem to have
> > worked.
>
> Did you *run* 'lilo' after you made this change?
>
> >
> > Questions here:
> > 1. Is this a kernel compile option I have to choose?
> > 2. Is there a problem with my BIOS setup?
> > 3. Must a use a newer kernel?
> <snip>
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nels Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: external moinitor with inspiron 3200?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 01:37:32 -0500
Nels Tomlinson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use an external monitor with an Inspiron 3200, running
> Mandrake 6.1. Linux works great on this little box ( better than
> windows), and this is the first problem I've had.
>
> The symptoms are: when I boot, I get the boot messages on the LCD and
> the external monitor, as called for in the BIOS settings. When the
> thing is done booting and switches to X, I loose the signal to the
> external monitor. I am supposed to be able to hit Function F8 to toggle
> between external, LCD, and both. This doesn't seem to be working under
> Linux. I'm guessing that I need to do something to the X86config file,
> but what? Has anyone already solved this?
>
> Thanks,
> Nels Tomlinson
> --
> /\ / _ / _ --- _ / , _ _ _
> / \/ (- / _) / () //) / / / )_) ()/ )
Hi,
I found the answer I was looking for: Need to go into the x86config file
(in /etc) and find a pair of lines like these:
# option internal
#option external
and get rid of the pound signs # to uncomment them. As soon as I
restarted X (Ctrl-Alt-backspace), it worked!
Thanks again,
Nels
--
/\ / _ / _ --- _ / , _ _ _
/ \/ (- / _) / () //) / / / )_) ()/ )
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From: Brendan Glackin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma]
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 11:49:26 GMT
Brian,
I am currently looking around this site for help on what I think may be
your problem, your Trident Blade (or any Trident card for that matter).
Basically, it seems they are not supported very well.
One interesting point: I recently upgraded from the evaluation version
of SuSE to Mandrake 7.0. Since installing Mandrake I am having
tremendous difficulty with X. With SuSE, I didn't have a single problem
with it. Does anyone know if it's possible to get sax (the SuSE X
configurator) working under Mandrake? Would it matter?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
kf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> My recommendation: Don't do business with Explorer Micro
> of Worthington, Ohio.
>
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From: "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Boot questions
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:14:57 GMT
I have a question in regards to the Linux boot process. I recently
converted what was a test Linux box to an NT box. During the NT installation
I deleted the Linux partitions and formatted the drive FAT and installed NT.
I then rebooted.
I know I have to do an FDISK /MBR to get rid of LILO (which worked), but
here is my question:
If I formatted and repartioned the drive, why prior to removing LILO, if I
reboot, do I see the kernel decompress and load? I get a message that the
filesystem can't be found, which is understandable, but where is the kernel
stored that LILO can still load it after the drive has been formatted and
repartioned?
Thanks for any insight,
Andrew
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Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:19:13 -0400
From: "Mr. Ozette Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB64 and Slackware.
Cob,
I have a Soundblaster Awe 64D. For the life of me, I can't get my soundcard
to work. I ran the "pnpdump" and it reported nothing about my soundcard. I
ran the "sndconfig" utility and it had this to report:
"Found PCI Soundcard on your system. Creative Labs | unknown device
1102:0003."
Do you have any idea what this means other than the obvious?
I'm running RedHat 6.2/Windows98. My Win98 says the Soundblaster is on IRQ
11, DMA 3, 0x220.
Can you please help me with this problem?
Thank you.
Ozette
mst wrote:
> Cob wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I used to run Mandrake, but since I got so many rude comments about
> > it from my friends in IRC I switched to Slackware in order to be a
> > good citizen. Now I discover there is no utillity to set up your
> > sound. Sounds very fishy to me.
> >
> > Can anyone list the modules for Sound Blaster 64 for me ?
> >
> > I've tried quite a few, but I keep on crashing my kernel by
> > loading the wrong ones.
> >
> > So far I know I'd need sb.o, sound.o, soundlow.o, the first two
> > won't load because they need something more than just soundlow.o,
> > which does load.
> >
> > Thanks, Conrado.
> >
>
> I have a SB AWE64 working perfectly under Slackware - unfortunately it's
> at home and I'm at work now so I cannot just list the modules here.
> Firstly, since it's a PnP card you have to set it up with the
> isapnptools: as root do a "pnpdump > /tmp/isapnp.conf", then edit the
> file to suit your needs (see the man pages, esp. that of isapnp.conf)
> and put it in /etc/isapnp.conf; do a "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" to set
> the hardware resources on the card (Slack does this automatically at
> boot time). Beware, there are a few ports which are not detected by
> pnpdump (2 i/o addresses of the wavetable). See details in the
> Soundblaster-AWE-mini-HOWTO at:
>
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE
>
> It also contains a very detailed walk-through on setting the SB and
> wavetable, and, IIRC, it's aimed primarily at Slackware users.
>
> MST
--
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Imaginative Creations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A Website Development and Consulting Company.
http://www.imaginative-creations.com
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From: "ronnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Woes
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 08:35:26 -0400
Has anyone made an Maudio Delta44 work under Linux using the Alsa drivers.
Upon installing the card, kudzu found it, and the sound module
ice1712 was loaded (which is the correct driver according to the alsa page).
When booting i can hear a faint click in the speakers as the drivers load.
All the directories are there for the alsa stuff including the stuff in
/proc/asound but I can not get any of the devices to respond. I am running
linux mandrake7.1. I have tried the alsa howto and such. Tried sndconfig
but it sees the card and says that there is no support yet for envy24. I
know it is something really stupid I am missing. Any help would be
appreciated.
Ronnie
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