Linux-Hardware Digest #461, Volume #13 Tue, 22 Aug 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
the X window (Buju)
disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000 (Chiah Tong Eng)
Re: Not able to add Linux Partitions to New HD (Buju)
Re: the X window (Dances With Crows)
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working (A E Lawrence)
Re: logitech keyboard problem in VI (nico)
Re: XFree86 4.01 in framebuffer mode ("Marc Billiet")
Re: HELP - Linux reports 16M RAM but I have 128Mb! (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Sound Card Genius Sound Maker 3DX2 (Prashant)
Re: disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000 ("TongEng Chiah")
Re: Kernel says Toshiba HD has no cache!? (Peter Steiner)
Re: Installing 2nd hard disk ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: [Fwd: CDRECORD Problem with RH6.1 and Sony CRX145SBK] (Staffan Emren)
DV Capture/IEEE 1394 Card Support (Alex Parfenov)
Re: DV Capture/IEEE 1394 Card Support (Paul Black)
linux kill MBR ("pirlouit")
Recommended SCSI card for Zip Plus drive and RH6.1? (Simon Tomlinson)
Diamond SupraExpress V90 internal modem and RH6.1 (Simon Tomlinson)
HF-3000 MANUAL ?? (386 CPU CARD) (David Ramos =?iso-8859-1?Q?Garc=EDa?=)
Re: BTTV,Video4Linux and Realproducer (Steve Fosdick)
Re: zip module (Eugene Y Lee)
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From: Buju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: the X window
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:24:17 -0700
I've managed to install linux(hooray) except that the X
window won't run(boo). I have a nvidia riva TNT2 M64 4xAGP
graphics card and a Dell ultrascan p991. I can't find out
what chipset my graphics card has, does anyone know. Also
what server it runs on...there's something about a server
right? The horizontal sync for my monitor is something else
I can't find. Can anyone give me any hints on configuring
redhat 6.0 to my monitor and graphics card or is it simply
immpossible to do?
Should I try another linux program?
tHANKs
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From: Chiah Tong Eng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:51:23 +0800
i just installed RH linux on my computer running on AMD Duron 700
on bootup, the above error message was displayed.
anyone got any idea what went wrong?
thanks
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From: Buju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not able to add Linux Partitions to New HD
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:48:36 -0700
The reason it says your partition is too big it because disk
druid dosen't know any better that your going to use a
floppy to boot.
If you use fdisk it will work perfectly fine. THats what I
did. My linux program starts on the 2201 cylinder, and I can
easily boot it from a floppy. Just use fdisk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: the X window
Date: 22 Aug 2000 05:19:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:24:17 -0700, Buju wrote:
>I've managed to install linux(hooray) except that the X window won't
>run(boo). I have a nvidia riva TNT2 M64 4xAGP graphics card and a Dell
>ultrascan p991. I can't find out what chipset my graphics card has,
>does anyone know. Also what server it runs on...there's something about
>a server right? The horizontal sync for my monitor is something else I
>can't find. Can anyone give me any hints on configuring redhat 6.0 to
>my monitor and graphics card or is it simply immpossible to do?
RedHat 6.0 shipped with Xfree86 3.3.3.1, which doesn't support the TNT2.
Support for the TNT2 was added in Xfree86 3.3.4 and pretty much
perfected for 2D in 3.3.5 (shipped with RH 6.1, SuSE 6.2, Mandrake 6.5,
and many other distros.) If you wish to get things working, you can
check out the directions posted at the URLs below:
http://xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html
--
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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From: A E Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:57:00 +0100
"David N. Haney" wrote:
>
> I also have the FA311. I tried the fa311.c provided by Netgear without
> success.
As I said, no problems here with fa311.c version v1.04.
[snip]
> I have no problem with
> errors or speed. My system has the following configuration:
> Compaq 7260 (AMD K6-2) and Netgear 311. The Netgear connects
> to a 10BT HUB which is connected to the rest of my small network
> via thinnet. Thus it is clearly running at the 10BT speed.
I had very little problem at 10Mb/s.
>I dont
> know what would happen if you tell it to run at 100BT, but I am
> very happy with it so far.
So you may yet encounter the difficulties :-)
Thanks for the information.
ael
--
Dr A E Lawrence (from home with apologies for spam enhanced reply
address)
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From: nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: logitech keyboard problem in VI
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:51:49 -0700
i actually, realized that it had nothing to do with vi, but with xterm.
so i jsut use a different terminal now. i will try to conteact the
people behind xterm to ask them.
thanks
--
The young (who always want more and have no game to protect),
the artists (who always hunger for the ecstatic moment),
and the alienated (the wise slaves and noble minority groups watching
from the periphery of the society). "High Priest," -- Timothy Leary
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From: "Marc Billiet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.01 in framebuffer mode
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:55:26 +0200
Reply-To: "Marc Billiet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Jim Broughton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>If Sense were common everyone would have it!
>Following Air and Water the third most abundant
>thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
I think the amount of Air and Water is diminishing in favour of (and caused
by) the Human Stupidity, but this is off-topic of course.
Marc
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP - Linux reports 16M RAM but I have 128Mb!
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 17:54:35 -0400
Carl Tan wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> This message was posted previsously in .setup, but maybe someone here
> mught have a similar experience as me.
>
> 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 am running nicely in X and enlightenment now.
>
> However, whenever I check xosview or dmesg I get a report of ONLY 13MB
> RAM! How do I get Linux to recognise all of my DIMM memory? The hard
> disk seems to be swapping a whole lot. That is understandable, given
> that the RAM used was only 16 Mb.
>
> 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.
>
> Questions here:
> 1. Is this a kernel compile option I have to choose?
No
> 2. Is there a problem with my BIOS setup?
Yes
> 3. Must a use a newer kernel?
No
Boot into your BIOS setup, and _disable_ the "Enable memory hole at
15-16M" option.
Save the new config and reboot.
All will be well after that.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Prashant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Card Genius Sound Maker 3DX2
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 06:29:27 GMT
Dear user i m using it & its really good ...
just now i m searching ofr its driver please send me one if u have ..
Sound card is really good using from last 1 yr without any problem
bye bye
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Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:21:48 +0800
From: "TongEng Chiah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: disabling CPUID Serial Number , general protection error 0000
RH 6.2
system specs are
Asus A7V Duron Motherboard
128 MB twinmos pc133 sdram
maxtor 10.2 GB ATA/66
Chiah Tong Eng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i just installed RH linux on my computer running on AMD Duron 700
> on bootup, the above error message was displayed.
>
> anyone got any idea what went wrong?
>
> thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Steiner)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Kernel says Toshiba HD has no cache!?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 09:40:48 +0200
Martin Egloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At boot, the kernel sees the harddisk but it says the harddisk does
>have 0Mb cache!
0MB just means that the drive doesn't tell the driver how much cache it
has.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Installing 2nd hard disk
Date: 22 Aug 2000 08:58:29 GMT
In comp.os.linux.help Stewart Honsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On 21 Aug 2000 23:52:37 GMT, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
:>: I agree with Stewart. If the drive is BRAND-SPANKING new, there
:>: shouldn't need a reboot after you partition and mkfs on it. I am
:>
:>This has nothing to do with the state of the disk.
: It has everything to do with the state of the disk. Your argument supporting
: re-booting after using fdisk was based on having a mounted partition on the
: drive.
Which has nothing to do with the disk, and everything to do with the
person mounting the disk! He's making the partitions precisely in
order to mount them in the future. I wasn't going to spend time telling
him when in the future he could and could not mount them.
:>quote of a bottom quote, but am going to cut the rest entirely, so
:>people can just guess whatever it is you are talking about while seeing
:>perfectly well what *I* am talking about. Geez .. what is it with
:>peoples writing and editing skills?
: While I agree with you, I have to ask - was the fecetiousness really
: neccesary?
No, it was gratuitous. I didn't charge :-).
Peter
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From: Staffan Emren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Fwd: CDRECORD Problem with RH6.1 and Sony CRX145SBK]
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:20:49 +0200
Shyam Govardhan wrote:
>
> PS: I am using Tekram DC-315U SCSI Card
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject: CDRECORD Problem with RH6.1 and Sony CRX145SBK
> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 21:16:37 +1000
> From: Shyam Govardhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi there,
>
> I am trying to get CDRECORD to work the a Sony CRX145XBK CD-RW. The
> following message is produced while doing a dummy write:
>
> Writing time: 382.103s
> Fixating...
> WARNING: Some drives don't like fixation in dummy mode.
> Fixating time: 0.012s
> cdrecord: fifo had 3677 puts and 3677 gets.
> cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 3567 times full, min fill was 93%.
>
> I am using X-CD-Roast Version 0.96x. X-CD-Roast just displays a message
> saying:
>
> "Some error occured. Please check process-output"
>
> I have attached the process output for your perusal.
>
> CDRECORD Version 1.9 produced the same message.
>
> I would greately appreciate it, if you could shed some light into this
> problem.
>
> Thanks
>
> - Shyam
-snip the rest-
This looks rather normal to me. The error message from cdrecord just
indicates that some drives may have troubles with fixating in dummy
mode. I guess the error message from X-CDroast arises from this warning,
and could be ignored. This is however only an educated guess, I have not
checked the docs or the source or anything like that.
My sugestion is that you try to write a cd for real, and see if it
works. After all, a CD-R disc today isn't much more than a dollar...
:-) If it works OK, you can safely ignore the error message.
Best regards
Staffan Emren
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From: Alex Parfenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DV Capture/IEEE 1394 Card Support
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 07:05:52 -0400
Hello,
I want to connect my digital camcorder to my linux box. The camcorder
supports DV1394 interface (next generation of USB, as I understand,
400Mbit/sec). Does anyone know if this is part of latest kernel or
perhaps there is a standalone driver?
Also, since we are on the DV subject, I am also looking for
video-editing software for Linux.
Thanks,
Alex
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From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DV Capture/IEEE 1394 Card Support
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:41:10 +0000
Alex Parfenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I want to connect my digital camcorder to my linux box. The camcorder
> supports DV1394 interface (next generation of USB, as I understand,
> 400Mbit/sec).
1394 & USB are not related.
> Does anyone know if this is part of latest kernel or
> perhaps there is a standalone driver?
The in-development 2.4 has some 1394 support. I don't know how good it
is although I do know it doesn't contain SBP2 support. The code can be
compiled as modules and can be downloaded from
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/
Paul
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From: "pirlouit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux kill MBR
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:48:43 +0200
Hi friends,
I installed a RH 6.2 and after one month I decided to reinstall form
scratch.
Here comes the trouble, after a successful installation I reboot the machine
and I get a black screen with
LI
that's it.
Any idea?
thanks a lot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Tomlinson)
Subject: Recommended SCSI card for Zip Plus drive and RH6.1?
Date: 22 Aug 2000 12:57:46 GMT
I currently run my Zip Plus drive connected to my PC parallel port
using RH6.1. However I can't use my printer off the same port. I have
considered putting in a second parallel port but would rather add a
Linux compatible SCSI card and run the zip plus off that. What is the
best (ie cheap and win9x RH6.1 Zip compatible) PCI SCSI card to use?
Any suggestions
Thanks
Simon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Tomlinson)
Subject: Diamond SupraExpress V90 internal modem and RH6.1
Date: 22 Aug 2000 13:02:37 GMT
Has anyone had success getting this modem to work with RH6.1? I've
seen it listed as a winmodem and so don't hold out much hope.
Simon
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,alt.es.hackers.hardware,es.comp.hardware.misc
Subject: HF-3000 MANUAL ?? (386 CPU CARD)
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 15:05:38 +0200
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BTTV,Video4Linux and Realproducer
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:45:10 +0000
In article <8nlcjf$1ro$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> hello,
>
> I have a bt848 compatible card(PCTV Rave) and I have installed the
> drivers and it's working under redhat6.2 ....
>
> I have realproducer 8 for linux and I want to capture from composite1.
> real producer needs two device number one for Audio and one for
> video... after testing many numbers I found 4 for video device and 2
> for audio input... this numbers are the only working ones and I have
> found them after many tests.... ok problem lies here! It captures from
> tuner last tuned channel and not composite1...I use bttv and it's
> video4linux compatible... should I change the /dev/video sy,link from
> /dev/video0 to another thing?!(it not worked!) should I send a string
> or any thing to the device first or should I run a program before
> realproducer... Please help me...
The Bt848 chip can capture from a number of different ports and a
typical TV/Capture card connects one of those ports to the TV
tuner and brings another port out the back as the composite
input.
As far as the kernel is concerned, one Bt848 capture card is a
single video device and will therefore use only one of the
/dev/video files rather than one file per port. Which port gets
captured is a parameter that gets set by the application that
is going to the capture, just like brightness levels etc.
In the version of realproducer I have (unfortunately not on the PC
I'm writing from) the option as to which port (TV or Composite) to
capture appears in one of the dialog boxes somewhere so try
checking out all the menus and config options within realproducer.
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From: Eugene Y Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zip module
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:09:45 -0400
Yes, my zip is on the
IDE bus. I agree with you that it is likely that the kernel is
unloading the
module because I am not using it. when I run lsmod it says autoclean
next to
the ide-scsi module which furthres my suspicions. However I was under
the
impression that the kernel would also autoload the module once i needed
it
again. Does anyone know?
Also it is not possible for me to write a astartup script as you
suggested, since my machine is setup as a RDIST server and is a template
for all the other computers at my facility. Is it possible to write a
startup script for one user, ie in my home directory?
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