Linux-Hardware Digest #506, Volume #13 Thu, 31 Aug 00 12:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Abit KT7 / Asus V6800 Deluxe boot probs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HPT370 (ide controler) with raid support? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill (Murray
Eisenberg)
f=ma NIC (Russ Radke)
f=ma NIC (Russ Radke)
Re: How to boot windoze on an ATA100 drive ? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Abit KT7 / Asus V6800 Deluxe boot probs (Eric Dondelinger)
Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill
myself!!!!!!!!..really!!! ("AGP")
VIA chipset (Bart Friederichs)
Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill (Murray
Eisenberg)
Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux (John Thompson)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Abit KT7 / Asus V6800 Deluxe boot probs
Date: 31 Aug 2000 10:14:25 -0400
Hello.
I just bought a KT7 Raid board and an Elsa Geforce2 AGP graphics card.
I just received it in the mail so I haven't tried to set it up yet.
If you have any tips for me, I would more than appreciate. I don't
want to run into any problems when setting this pc up.
Thanks.
Anthony
> Hi again,
>
> Update:
> The machine boots normally with my old Matrox G200, also
> with the SCSI subsystem, as long as AGP 4x is disabled.
> So the issue really seems to be between the mainboard and
> the GeForce. I was under the impression that power supply
> was an issue solved, and that the manufacturers made sure
> by now that the combination Athlon/GeForce would work?
> Has anyone had this kind of problems with this combination?
> Are there specific BIOS settings to solve this? The manuals
> (mobo and vga) are not very helpful about this.
>
> A Win98 bootdisk hangs after "verifying dmi pool data..." or
> somesuch, I can still hear the drive for a few seconds afterward
> and that's it.
> Sometimes I immediately get disk read errors, yet the diskette
> itself does work (as confirmed when using on a different machine
> or this very same with the G200).
>
> Any help appreciated!
>
> While I'm at it: is there any kind of Linux support for the "Deluxe"
> part of this Asus graphics card, i.e. video in/out? The video
> out controller is supposed to be a "Chrontel 7005" and the video
> in controller is a "Philips SAA7113A". I can dream, can't I ;-)
>
> Greetings, Eric
>
> P.S. ok so this is not an OS issue, but the machine is destined
> to run SuSE Linux ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HPT370 (ide controler) with raid support?
Date: 31 Aug 2000 10:17:34 -0400
I have the HPT370 raid chip on an ABIT KT7. I have a question about
dual booting. The manual for the mobo specifies that I have to install
raid software under Windows to get raid working correctly. I am wondering
if dual booting is going to cause a problem. Do I need to enable raid in
my linux kernel? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Anthony.
> Hi,
>
> I've in my linux box a additional ide controler (Abit Hot Rod 100 Pro) which
> uses the HPT370 chip from HighPoint Techn.
> The ide controler can do raid (no software raid). I patched the kernel
> (2.2.16) with the ide-patch (www.linux-ide.org). I created a raid0-array
> with two IBM hdd's (2x15GB). Under W2k the raid0 system works.
> But Linux can't read the partition table proberly. Please look at the boot
> messages:
>
> ...
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
>
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
>
> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
>
> PIIX4: chipset revision 1
>
> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
>
> HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58
>
> HPT370: chipset revision 3
>
> HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>
> ide2: BM-DMA at 0x9800-0x9807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
>
> ide3: BM-DMA at 0x9808-0x980f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
>
> hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive
>
> hdb: Maxtor 90680D4, ATA DISK drive
>
> hdd: CD-532E-B, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> hde: IBM-DTLA-307015, ATA DISK drive
>
> hdg: IBM-DTLA-307015, ATA DISK drive
>
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>
> ide2 at 0xb000-0xb007,0xa802 on irq 10
>
> ide3 at 0xa400-0xa407,0xa002 on irq 10
>
> hda: Maxtor 90845D4, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA(33)
>
> hdb: Maxtor 90680D4, 6485MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=826/255/63, UDMA(33)
>
> hde: IBM-DTLA-307015, 14649MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=29765/16/63, UDMA(100)
>
> hdg: IBM-DTLA-307015, 14649MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=29765/16/63, UDMA(100)
>
> ...
>
> Partition check:
>
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
>
> hdb: hdb1! hdb2 hdb3 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > < hdb8 hdb9 hdb10 hdb11 hdb12 hdb13
> >
>
> hde: [PTBL] [1867/255/63] hde1
>
> hdg: unknown partition table
>
> ...
>
> Is this problem related to the big hdd? Why can't Linux read this partition
> (the partition is corect because W2k can read and write to it).
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:51:02 -0400
From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill
Can you clarify the installation procedure for ME. I have a boxed Red
Hat 6.2 that I got working working on a 3-year-old, slow PC with an olde
video card. I'm about to buy a modern PC with some variety of an nVidia
GeForce.
Red Hat's web site says they support "GeForce" card but say nothing
about "GeForce 2" or "GeForce 2 GTS". Neither does the nVidia web
site. Dell, from whom I'm buying the PC, doesn't even offer support
Linux on this entire model line (or on most of their lines), so asking
them is pointless. So I cannot even tell whether these GeForce 2 cards
are supported by anybody anyhow.
(Like "AGP", I too am very computer literate -- although a neophyte at
Linux. And I, too, am beginning to understand why so few people are
using Linux. In fact, I am just beginning to realize what a monumental
achievement Microsoft made with Windows in supporting such an incredible
amount of hardware with ease, and often transparently to the person
installing the OS!)
The nVidia web site provides drivers
Jim Broughton wrote:
>
> AGP wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to install TurboLinux 6.0 on my machine
> > but I have a GeForce card and the video probe does
> > not detect my card. i pick SVGA of the X server and then
> > i choose evry resolution but the video test fails on all and
> > then i cant cancel out of it so im just stuck there with no where
> > to go. How can I install the OS if i cant install the video drivers
> > to actually see what im doing. If someone could give me a step
> > by step so that i can get this thing running that would be helpful.
> > I know some stuff about Linux but for the most part im not sure how
> > the install functions. I do have two RPM's from the Nvidia site.
> > one is a GLX and the other is a kernel. not sure what to do with those
> > or how i can incorporate them into the install.
> > PLEASE HELP. Im very computer literate and this stuff just boggles
> > me. im starting to understand why so few people switch or test Linux.
> > anyways,
> > tia
> > AGP
> >
> > send me a direct emnail if possible.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > (remove the no spam to send)
> > thanx
> >
> > --
> >
> > *******************************************************************
> > Please remove the spam killer in my email address before
> > replying to via email.
> > *******************************************************************
>
> I replied to your email to me but I guess you just left out some of this!
> The linux community is in NO way resposible to supply us with drivers
> for everything that is bleeding edge. The geforce 2 is just that. That is the
> resposibility of a manufacturer. Anyway I have a step by step explaination waiting
> in my drafts folder for you. When you get the OS up and running (even if in
> console mode (install but do not configure X)) send me some mail and I will send
> you the step by step instructions (rather lenghty and wordy).
>
> --
> Jim Broughton
> (The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
> If Sense were common everyone would have it!
> Following Air and Water the third most abundant
> thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: Russ Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: f=ma NIC
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:09:53 -0600
Has anyone gotten a f=ma brand NIC working under Linux? I have a PCI
10/100 NIC
that came with my cable modem service, and have no idea which driver to
use etc...
The default kernel with RedHat 6.2 does not recognize it, but when I
slap a 3COM 905
in, RedHat autorecognizes it, and loads drivers.
Anyone know what this card is?
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From: Russ Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: f=ma NIC
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 09:12:51 -0600
Has anyone gotten a f=ma brand NIC working under Linux? I have a PCI
10/100 NIC
that came with my cable modem service, and have no idea which driver to
use etc...
The default kernel with RedHat 6.2 does not recognize it, but when I
slap a 3COM 905
in, RedHat autorecognizes it, and loads drivers.
Anyone know what this card is?
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Subject: Re: How to boot windoze on an ATA100 drive ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:18:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Black Unicorn) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>How, if at all, can I configure LILO to be able to boot the Win2k
>partition ? Any hope that lilo will properly recognize the ATA100 drive
>on startup ? those fancy command line options (ide2=... ) won't do me
>any good here, I'm afraid.
Have you considered using another boot manager? try XOSL, for example,
which might provide a solution.(www.xosl.org).
Anyway, for lilo to find the partitions to boot, I think you must first
make the partition for win2k visible to linux so lilo can fint it's
physical address.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Eric Dondelinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit KT7 / Asus V6800 Deluxe boot probs
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:26:11 +0200
Hi Anthony,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I just bought a KT7 Raid board and an Elsa Geforce2 AGP graphics card.
> I just received it in the mail so I haven't tried to set it up yet.
> If you have any tips for me, I would more than appreciate. I don't
> want to run into any problems when setting this pc up.
>
> Thanks.
> Anthony
Well make sure your PSU (power supply) is up to the task. My 300W
isn't, I'm waiting for a decent replacement and will test a different
300W PSU tonight. You'll find a list of AMD-certified PSUs on their
site (www.amd.com).
IIRC the Geforce2 resolves some of the power problems the original
Geforce has, so maybe no problems there.
Should you run into boot problems: try setting a delay for the power-up
of the hard drive, that might help.
You can look at my progress in a thread in the newsgroup
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Greetings, Eric
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From: "AGP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill
myself!!!!!!!!..really!!!
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:19:40 -0500
sure thing. although my card, as i mentioned is just a plain GeForce,
the Geforce2 is the next generation accelerator, although i think that
the drivers for one should work for the other. im gonna try installing
again with VGA16 and in text mode. i will then ask for more help.
thanx.
--
*******************************************************************
Please remove the spam killer in my email address before
replying to via email.
*******************************************************************
Jim Broughton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>AGP wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to install TurboLinux 6.0 on my machine
>> but I have a GeForce card and the video probe does
>> not detect my card. i pick SVGA of the X server and then
>> i choose evry resolution but the video test fails on all and
>> then i cant cancel out of it so im just stuck there with no where
>> to go. How can I install the OS if i cant install the video drivers
>> to actually see what im doing. If someone could give me a step
>> by step so that i can get this thing running that would be helpful.
>> I know some stuff about Linux but for the most part im not sure how
>> the install functions. I do have two RPM's from the Nvidia site.
>> one is a GLX and the other is a kernel. not sure what to do with those
>> or how i can incorporate them into the install.
>> PLEASE HELP. Im very computer literate and this stuff just boggles
>> me. im starting to understand why so few people switch or test Linux.
>> anyways,
>> tia
>> AGP
>>
>> send me a direct emnail if possible.
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> (remove the no spam to send)
>> thanx
>>
>> --
>>
>> *******************************************************************
>> Please remove the spam killer in my email address before
>> replying to via email.
>> *******************************************************************
>
> I replied to your email to me but I guess you just left out some of this!
> The linux community is in NO way resposible to supply us with drivers
>for everything that is bleeding edge. The geforce 2 is just that. That is
the
>resposibility of a manufacturer. Anyway I have a step by step explaination
waiting
>in my drafts folder for you. When you get the OS up and running (even if in
>console mode (install but do not configure X)) send me some mail and I will
send
>you the step by step instructions (rather lenghty and wordy).
>
>
>--
>Jim Broughton
>(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
>If Sense were common everyone would have it!
>Following Air and Water the third most abundant
>thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
------------------------------
From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA chipset
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 15:25:16 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to get my on-board VIA sound chipset working. I know
the
latest kernel (i am using slack 7.1 with kernel 2.2.16) supports
it,
according to the Sound Howto. Well, I recompiled my kernel with
soundsupport, using 'make xconfig' and 'make bzImage'. After a
reboot,
there still seems no sound support. When I cat /dev/sndstat is
replies
with 'cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device'. How must I compile my
kernel
to get it in there? And... after that, how do I load those VIA
drivers?
The only VIA driver I see in 'make xconfig' is a codec, but lspci
-v
shows the same number, so I guess that's allright.
Plz help, I never had *any* sound in Linux, not even with my old
SB16
card.
TIA
Bart
PS
lspci -v: (partially)
00:07.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc.
VT82C686
[Apollo Super AC97/Audio] (rev 20)
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 4511
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at cc00
I/O ports at d000
I/O ports at d400
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
Further, there are some VIA bridges (PCI, ISA, etc)
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Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:48:34 -0400
From: Murray Eisenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill
I actually just got a Red Hat tech support person to answer my question
by phone (even though my 30-day phone support period had just expired).
He checked and reported that Red Hat Linux does NOT supporting the
GeForce 2 at present (although it does support the GeForce).
Of course, it may still be that nVidia's own drivers do support it. But
there seems to be no way to get to a human at nVidia. There web site
Linux driver tech support page gives links to computer manufacturers, to
whom questions are to be referred!
AGP wrote:
>
> sure thing. although my card, as i mentioned is just a plain GeForce,
> the Geforce2 is the next generation accelerator, although i think that
> the drivers for one should work for the other. im gonna try installing
> again with VGA16 and in text mode. i will then ask for more help.
> thanx.
>
> --
>
> *******************************************************************
> Please remove the spam killer in my email address before
> replying to via email.
> *******************************************************************
>
> Jim Broughton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >AGP wrote:
> >>
> >> I am trying to install TurboLinux 6.0 on my machine
> >> but I have a GeForce card and the video probe does
> >> not detect my card. i pick SVGA of the X server and then
> >> i choose evry resolution but the video test fails on all and
> >> then i cant cancel out of it so im just stuck there with no where
> >> to go. How can I install the OS if i cant install the video drivers
> >> to actually see what im doing. If someone could give me a step
> >> by step so that i can get this thing running that would be helpful.
> >> I know some stuff about Linux but for the most part im not sure how
> >> the install functions. I do have two RPM's from the Nvidia site.
> >> one is a GLX and the other is a kernel. not sure what to do with those
> >> or how i can incorporate them into the install.
> >> PLEASE HELP. Im very computer literate and this stuff just boggles
> >> me. im starting to understand why so few people switch or test Linux.
> >> anyways,
> >> tia
> >> AGP
> >>
> >> send me a direct emnail if possible.
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> (remove the no spam to send)
> >> thanx
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> *******************************************************************
> >> Please remove the spam killer in my email address before
> >> replying to via email.
> >> *******************************************************************
> >
> > I replied to your email to me but I guess you just left out some of this!
> > The linux community is in NO way resposible to supply us with drivers
> >for everything that is bleeding edge. The geforce 2 is just that. That is
> the
> >resposibility of a manufacturer. Anyway I have a step by step explaination
> waiting
> >in my drafts folder for you. When you get the OS up and running (even if in
> >console mode (install but do not configure X)) send me some mail and I will
> send
> >you the step by step instructions (rather lenghty and wordy).
> >
> >
> >--
> >Jim Broughton
> >(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
> >If Sense were common everyone would have it!
> >Following Air and Water the third most abundant
> >thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
--
Murray Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mathematics & Statistics Dept. phone 413 549-1020 (H)
Univ. of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W)
Amherst, MA 01003-4515
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: why lots of bad hardware suddenly discovered upon linux
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:22:42 -0500
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> True, good possibilities, but I still see a lot of postings where lots of
> bad hardware is suddenly discovered upon Linux installations... One would
> wonder why didn't these problems didn't appear before they changed from
> other leading brand OS...
Maybe the "other leading brand OS" doesn't check for these
problems and simply crashes when it runs into them?
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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