Linux-Hardware Digest #501, Volume #13 Wed, 30 Aug 00 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: confused which Adaptec SCSI card works with Red Hat Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linksys LNE100TX weird behavior??? ("Robert E. Blair")
Re: making HD bootable again after removing Linux (H�kon L�vdal)
i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!! (Sindh)
Re: Eicon DIVA 4 bri server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ? ("vierde machine")
Re: Compaq Deskpro: strange problem (Michael Poag)
TELEINT-ISDN-Karte unter RedHat6.1 (Mirjam Broszat)
Re: Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A, is the Burn Proof software or hardware?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!! (D G)
UDMA66 controller (Ralph)
Re: i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!! (Hammer)
Will this computer run Linux???? (Mark)
Re: Iomega ZIP Drive problems... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HSP drivers? (Frederick Artiss)
DGA 2.0 support in XFree86 4.0.1? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: App failues; hardware problem? (Reid Rivenburgh)
Sound card on duel boot computer (zcarnutt)
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Subject: Re: confused which Adaptec SCSI card works with Red Hat Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Aug 2000 12:03:28 -0400
"Kevin Mortimer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone tell me which Adaptec SCSI card for PCI slot works with
> Red Hat Linux 6.2 as I'm building an all SCSI based system for the
> first time & have been researching this project for the last 4
> months in every spare moment of time I have. I've been to Red Hat's
> Hardware Compatibility List & Adaptec's Knowledge Base which refers
> back to Red Hat and it's getting more confusing all the time. I
> compare specific model numbers given by Red Hat to those currently
> being sold at Adaptec and there's 3 different AHA 2940uw and what's
> the difference between the 3 SCSI 2940uw cards or are these the
> same.
Any card based on the AIC-7895 chipset should work fine. There may be
three models of the 2940UW (which uses the 7895, unless I'm seriously
mistaken) because of different port configurations; e.g., different
number and type of internal and external ports.
Actually, I think that Linux supports any card using a 78xx chipset.
> I just want my Linux install to go as smooth as it can without
> wasting a few hundred dollars on hardware not supported & hours of
> precious time. If anyone happens to know which Linux driver goes
> with the specific card suggested, please let me know. I'm wanting to
> use a Plextor SCSI Internal CD-RW and either two 10 GB IBM UltraStar
> or Seagate Cheetah 10K rpm hard disk drives. I know very little
> about Linux even though I've programmed in PERL.
I can tell you that the Tyan S1836DLUAN with an integrated AIC-7895
works out of the box with Linux, using the obvious driver; it's
something like "aic78xx".
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"misfortune, n. The kind of fortune that never misses."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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From: "Robert E. Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Linksys LNE100TX weird behavior???
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:16:22 -0500
I have had a Linksys Etherfast PCI card in my system for a few years
now. It always worked fine - the system is triboot (linux,NT,W95). I
got a cable modem and out of paranoia upgraded the kernel to the latest
version from Redhat (2.2.16-3). Everything is fine BUT the ethernet
card basically went dead. The tulip driver loads fine, but there is no
response to pings to a neighbor machine. The hardware still worked as
verified by boot another OS.
Here's the weird thing. In trying to solve the problem I discovered
that if I ran ntop (the ethernet sniffer) the card suddenlly worked.
Tipped off by that I tried loading the driver, initiating the network
start and did a "/sbin/ifconfig eth0 -promisc" and sure enough the card
works fine! It appears to be very reproducible. Before I put this in
my network startup file, anyone have a similar experience? Anyone have
a clue as to why this might be?
Any hints would be appreciated.
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From: H�kon L�vdal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: making HD bootable again after removing Linux
Date: 30 Aug 2000 18:31:02 +0200
Gary Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I look after several computers and frequently move hardware between
> them. One problem I keep coming up with is getting the hard disks to
> boot again (for Windows 95/95) after removing Linux from them. If the
> drive contained a bootable Linux partition, LILO tries to start, but
> fails. If the drive was not bootable but was formatted for Linux, I get
> I/O errors when it tries to boot.
>
> I've tried using Partition Magic 4 and fdisk. The partitions are Primary
> DOS and are set to active. They are formatted for FAT16 and have the
> system files. I've tried fdisk /mbr. Everything says the partitions
> should be bootable but they won't.
>
> Any suggestions?
Fdisk /mbr only wipes out lilo if it was installed on the master boot
record (i.e /etc/lilo contains "boot=/dev/hda"). If lilo was installed
on a partition, which seems to be the case (i.e /et/lilo.conf
contained "boot=/dev/hdaX"), you actually does not have to remove lilo.
If for example you had linux and lilo installed on /dev/hda2 and now
want to have windows installed on /dev/hda1 (C:) make sure that
only /dev/hda1 is flagged as bootable.
The bootable/active flag can be changed with the active command in
linux fdisk.
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From: Sindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:35:00 GMT
Hi folks
I am trying to install Linux on a system at work. I have no problems
installing the thing. Main problem is the video which is i810. Onboard
video.
I tried intel solution and used the agpgart module. It says AGPIOACQUIRE
ERROR or something very similar and fails. XFCom video server does not
run
complaining the same. Has anybody succeded in making it run. For various
reasons, I can't open the box. [ mainly beacuse of regulations.]
Is there any use in trying different distributions. Redhat and Mandrake
both
do the same. Run at 300x200 resol 8bpp col depth.
If any one of you had success in running it could you tell me how you
managed it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Sreekant
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Eicon DIVA 4 bri server
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 16:51:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Pietro Bandera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I need to know if you evermake this card running on a linux system
> I found out that i need the version 2.0 of the driver in order to use
it ,
> but i can't find it:(
>
> i tried to use the eicom.o driver that i find on my redhat6.2 but it
> always give me this error:
>
> "the hardware is busy"
>
> but when i go reading the system log i found out that it says "the
card is
> not supported!"
>
> if have any advice please let me know
> by e-mail
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> tnx a lot
>
> bye
>
>
Ciao Pietro,
Hai bisogno di un patch per il kernel per fare funzionare questa scheda
con Redhat 6.2. Continuo in inglese cosi' gli altri ci capscono.
The patches can be found at www.melware.de. You're looking for the
latest eiconctrl-xx package & isdn4k-utils package. Together these will
get you going.
Best regards
Nick King
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From: "vierde machine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:03:00 GMT
Thanks, it works fine now.
Great, mercey
Alfred Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
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>
> vierde machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
> lGcq5.50427$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > If you know the answer, please let me know.
> > I've tried the XF86_SVGA, as suggested by XF96Config.
> >
> > Problem is that not all parts of the screen will be updated properly and
> > some squashing of pixels occurs (but not much).
> >
> > Thanks.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
>
> Add these options in your XF86Config file :
> option "no_accel"
> option "no_bitblt"
> I do this for my SiS6326 AGP 3D and it works fine.
>
>
>
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From: Michael Poag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro: strange problem
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 09:33:57 -0500
Sounds like the pc_keyb.c problem I have had... Presario with
USB keyboard in this case.. look in your syslog for keyboard
controller jammed messages... I'm currently trying out a proposed
fix that inserted an mdelay to keep it from hitting on the
keyboard status too quickly.
You shoulg be able to find it with a google.com search on
pc_keyb.c and mdelay
Hope this helps (mine hasn't hung yet), Michael
On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Harvey J. Brant wrote:
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > From: John Mamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I've just installed RH 6.2 on my new 666 mhz Compaq Deskpro EN with
> > a
> > Matrox Millenium Video card. Installation went smoothly, I accepted
> > most of the defaults. The system has been showing strange behavior.
> > When I reboot, the linux OS boots O.K. but the X-server hangs. I
> > type
> > "startx" and the server starts to come up (changes the screen,
> > resolution etc) starts to paint some windows, and then hangs and cuts
> > out the keyboard. I can't even get back to a terminal. I have to
> > power
> > the system down and reboot. Now for the wierd part. If I repeat
> > the
> > power down, reboot cycle a couple of times, eventually the X-server
> > boots. Once booted it seem sto run fine, until I have to bring the
> > system down again.
> >
> > Has anybody experienced anything like this? My suspicion is an
> > x-server
> > config problem. Any advice would be appreciated.
> >
> > thank you
> > john mamer
>
> I don't know if this applies. Caldera Linux hangs on Compaq Deskpro due
> to the USB if you disable it in the BIOS Linux boots ok
>
>
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From: Mirjam Broszat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TELEINT-ISDN-Karte unter RedHat6.1
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:01:45 +0200
Hilfe! Ich bekomme meine TELEINT-ISDN-Karte mit HFC 2BS0-Chip unter RedHat6.1
nicht zum laufen. Zwar bekomme ich mit isdnctrl dial ippp0 eine Verbindung zum
Server, Datentransfer allerdings ist nicht m�glich. Mit ping erhalte ich die
Ausgabe 100% lost. Und DialOnDemand funktioniert �berhaupt nicht. Wer Kann Mir
Helfen?
clemens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A, is the Burn Proof software or hardware?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:23:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Wayne Fallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just bought a new Plexwriter 4/2/20 SCSI II CD Writer and SuSE 6.4
> Linux recognises my NCR53c810 SCSI II card no problem.
> However, I cannot read data from the SCSI Plexwriter. All that
happens
> with the Plexwriter is the ON light continually flashing on and off.
I
> have tried various jumper settings - all to no avail.
Does the drive work with any other operating system? I have the same
CD-writer on an Adaptec 8945 card and it works with Linux; however, when
I first got it it wouldn't work and one of the lights was continually
flashing, which the Plextor tech support people said essentially meant
'someone dropped the box in transit, please send me back for repairs'.
They arranged a free collection and replacement for the CD-writer and
the new one is fine.
I'd suggest contacting Plextor to see if your drive has the same
problem.
Mark
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:58:00 -0700
Sindh wrote:
>
> Hi folks
>
> I am trying to install Linux on a system at work. I have no problems
> installing the thing. Main problem is the video which is i810. Onboard
> video.
>
> I tried intel solution and used the agpgart module. It says AGPIOACQUIRE
> ERROR or something very similar and fails. XFCom video server does not
> run
> complaining the same. Has anybody succeded in making it run. For various
> reasons, I can't open the box. [ mainly beacuse of regulations.]
>
> Is there any use in trying different distributions. Redhat and Mandrake
> both
> do the same. Run at 300x200 resol 8bpp col depth.
>
> If any one of you had success in running it could you tell me how you
> managed it.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
What linux distribution? You need to have agpgart loaded: '/sbin/insmod
agpgart'. If it's not loaded, you will get an AGP or GART error. If
you have a distribution with rpm, get the I810Gtt rpm and do 'rpm
--rebuild I810Gtt*'
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA66 controller
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:03:07 +0100
I'm new to Linux, and I am planning to instal Corel's second version.
My question is:
-will my UDMA66 controler from ABIT, where I have my 2 HDDs connected,
work under Linux?...
I've asked both Corel and Abit and they didn't care to answer!
Thank you.
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 17:58:54 GMT
In article <8ojd3j$nei$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Sindh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I am trying to install Linux on a system at work. I have no problems
> installing the thing. Main problem is the video which is i810. Onboard
> video.
[snip]
>
> If any one of you had success in running it could you tell me how you
> managed it.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
I feel your pain man. I got mine working RH62, but not following
Intel's bogus instructions. Also, another guy here at work got one of
these stupid boxes, and had a Mandrake 7.1 CD, and was up and running
with no troubles... go figure.
Go to Redhat and read their advisory on the i810. My machine is a Dell,
and they had an example XF86Config (which was crap, but a good starting
point) and a working agpgart module. I also had to upgrade the kernel
to .3-16, per RedHat instructions.
Another guy a few weeks ago posted a rather long step-by-step he
followed to make this work. I don't know which NG it was in, would have
been this one, or linux hardware, or alt.os.linux, or something like
that. You might want to have a search at dejanews.
Good luck man. You'll need it. It does work though.
-=hammer
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Will this computer run Linux????
Date: 30 Aug 2000 10:45:37 -0700
I want to buy this computer from Micron and install Windows ME and Linux.
Will I be able to install Linux with these hardware options?
INTEL PENTIUM III PROCESSOR 667MHZ
128MB 133MHZ SDRAM-1 DIMM
15GB ATA 100 7200RPM (ADDITIONAL)
30GB ATA100 HARD DRIVE (7200RPM)
12X40X VARIABLE SPEED DVD ROM WITH HARDWARE DECODER CARD
8X4X32 CDRW W/1 CD-REWRITABLE VALID W/WINME
1.44MB 3.5IN FLOPPY DRIVE
32MB NVIDIA GEFORCE 256 AGP CARD
17IN MICRON TRINITRON DISPLAY (16IN VIEWABLE, .25MM DP)
CREATIVE LABS SOUND BLASTER LIVE VALUE
ALTEC LANSING ACS33/ 3 PIECE SPEAKER SYSTEM
56K V.90 PCI MODEM
3COM 3C905C BROADBAND READY 10/100 PCI NETWORK CARD
MICROSOFT INTELLIMOUSE
MID-SIZE TOWER
MICROSOFT WINDOWS ME
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Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP Drive problems...
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Aug 2000 11:58:31 -0700
Bob Grimes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have the same problem. I had the problem at 2.2.14 as well, I think
> > it was back at 2.2.12 or 2.2.13 that things worked properly. I always
> > use the pre-compiled RedHat kernels, so this didn't get caused by
> > incorrect kernel compile options. I don't have the Zip drive set to
> > be automatically mounted in /etc/fstab.
> >
> > My ZIP drive is an internal IDE ZIP100 drive. It is NOT an ATAPA
> > drive, just an IDE drive. This is what Gateway2000 used for internal
> > ZIP drives before the ATAPA drives were available (back when my
> > PPro200 was the fastest machine they had...).
> >
> > I assume that there are not that many ZIP drives like mine, so maybe
> > the Linux kernel people aren't aware of this problem.
> >
> > If anyone comes up with a solution (other than "keep a zip disk in the
> > drive at all times") I'd be very interested in it.
>
> I have the same older ZIP100, internal. It is shown under OS/2 but not
> under my Caldera OpenLinux 2.4.
Not shown at all? That's differnet than my problem. In my case, I
think the kernel is treating the ZIP drive as a regular IDE hard-disk,
and gets confused (and hangs during bootup!) if there is no media in
it. But if the media is there, it works just fine.
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From: Frederick Artiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HSP drivers?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:11:48 GMT
As I recently had a good old hardware modem break on me, was wondering
if there are Linux drivers to an HSP (ISA) modem I've got in a drawer.
(Before I go out and get another hardware modem).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DGA 2.0 support in XFree86 4.0.1?
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:06:47 GMT
Is there a fix available for the DGA bug in th OpenGL part of nvidia's
driver set for XFree86 4.0.1?
The bug can be best seen in Quake 3, where the mouse moves choppily (I
can't find a better word for it), stopping at short intervals. This does
not occur until you run it for a fec seconds (half a minute or so).
Maybe for people who don't play q3 a lot this does not mater, but for
people like me, who play competitively, it's unacceptable. I have been
trying for some time now, to eliminate Windows from my box, but I always
stop at this point, I have to keep it, ot be able to play Q3.
My box/Softs:
Abit-BE6-II (110mhz FSB)
PIII-660
256mb
TNT2u (Diamond Viper 770)
Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14
XFree86 4.0.1
NVIDIA_kernel 0.94
NVIDIA_GLX 0.94
Quake3 1.17n
Regards
H�gni
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Subject: Re: App failues; hardware problem?
From: Reid Rivenburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Aug 2000 13:25:02 -0600
Alex writes:
> I have the same CPU with Asus P5A motherboard. Do you know what is
> the temperature reading of your CPU and motherboard? If I keep my
> machine running full load for a while and reboot (check the BIOS),
> the temp of my CPU is about 58~61 C... I know it's quite high.
> However, my machine is running very smooth. I have install the
> lm_sensor. The temp reading is about 10 C less then the BIOS
> reading. My kernel version is 2.2.14-50... Just a side note, I
> have three case fans running... And, I am still think about getting
> a *really* good CPU fan. I leave my machine on 24 hours a day and
> run setiathome and some other stuff... It seems to be ok.
I'm not much of a hardware person, so I didn't know about being able
to check the temperature readings. I'll try to get lm_sensor running
so I'll know just how hot it is. Thanks for the suggestion and the
info on how hot yours gets.
Reid
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From: zcarnutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card on duel boot computer
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 19:29:12 GMT
I have a computer with Linux Mandrake 7.0 and Win98 on it. Everything was
just fine until I installed a USB device in Windows. I had to enable USB in
my bios. This has caused my sound card to "disappear" in LINUX. It quit
working and a probe can't even find the card anymore. The card is a SB
AWE64. I have tried to set it up manually and when I test it it says that
the port is busy. Anyone know of a way around this????? I really don't want
to have to change my bios every time I boot into LINUX.
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