Linux-Hardware Digest #525, Volume #13 Mon, 4 Sep 00 11:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Red Hat 6.1 and Quantum Fireball 20GB ATA66 (patrick Lottier)
Re: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281-CM embedded sound chip... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Q: Samsung Notebooks supported? (Jan Buckow)
Re: Lexmark Z12 Inkjet Printer ("Noble Pepper")
Re: Moved modem to ttyS2 - now dead. (Carl Paul)
Can't get Xwindows screen large enough (mike)
KENNEDY tape drive not writing tape-marks in Linux with AHA-2940W/AHA-2940UW.
(Jonathan Amery)
Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs? (Stephen Bridges)
Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy? (Andrew Higgs)
Re: Moved modem to ttyS2 - now dead. (Andrew Higgs)
Re: Need help configuring soundcard (Andrew Higgs)
Re: Can't get Xwindows screen large enough (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: aic7890 scsi bus resets ("Larry K. Brown")
SiS 6326 and XFree86 4.0.0 ("D. D. Brierton")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: i810 Anyone succeded ? Please Help !!!
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 11:52:17 GMT
Hi Sindh,
I've got it running under Redhat 6.1 . Go to the intel site and do
EXACTLY what they say. Their instructions worked for me up until the
point where I tried to start the X server. Then... no go. I had to run
some program to generate an XF86Config (xf86config?). Only after the
i810 was seen and working did it generate a good file (the original
installation config was completely bogus because the i810 was not
recognized and it put no monitors in the file, either). Then, I had to
go in and modify it to use the modes my monitor supports, and to set the
screens up with the correct default monitor resolutions. Finally,
I had to install drivers for the sound and for the network card
It does work!.
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.
>
> 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
>
> --
> A man needs to sleep for 36 hours a day atleast.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: patrick Lottier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.1 and Quantum Fireball 20GB ATA66
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:03:03 +0200
Leonardo Vasconcelos Alves wrote:
> Hi you all!
>
> I have got a new HD to my PC, but, when I start to install RH6.1,
> it says that the boot partition is too big, even I create a 1MB
> partition!!! My old harddisk was perfect, but it was a Samsung ATA33
> running on a pcchips (duh!) motherboad without ATA66 support. The new disk
> (a Quantum Fireball 20GB with ATA66 feature) simply doesn't work with
> RH6.1... Any help?
>
> Thanx!
>
> Sorry, I have a poor english!
> Leo.
Try to put your HD in C/H/S geometry in your BIOS and as linear during
installation. (and *not* LBA).
You'll also need to type the C/H/S parameters.
Linux won't trust BIOS info and will use the disk correctly.
Also, a 16 MB boot partition should be enough.
Regards
patrick Lottier
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Administrator
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic Crystal CS4281-CM embedded sound chip...
Date: 4 Sep 2000 12:20:35 GMT
MrVic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: My IBM ThinkPad 380ED did and I installed RedHat on top of it. For the
: next week, I tried fruitlesly to get the sound working. Until I decided
My TP 380ED has sound working fine. Always has. It's a crystal sound
card. Runs in native mode or in SB emulation mode. It's a no-brainer ..
particularly once you've pinched the ioports from the windows hardware
settings.
: to try something else. I fdisked the baby and got it to Windows
: once more. I was greated by Windows "Ta Taaan" sound. I headed for the
: control panel, and copied down how to configure the device (System,
: Device Manager, I beleive, don�t remember). Then I reinstalled RedHat,
Aha, well done. Yes, you need to know the ioports.
: and put all the data I had written down with sndconfig. Success on
: first try!
: I do not know what the command would be for Mandrake, but sndconfig is
: just a nice interface to /etc/conf.modules. In the worst case, put your
I don't see what one would need an interface for!
: config there or do it by replacing the addresses, irqs, dmas, etc into
: the different modprobe lines.
: Also note that my ThinkPad came with a CS4236 (wich is really a CS4232)
Indeed, crystal sound 4232.
: configured as was told to you by the previous poster, so I cannot tell
: you what
Peter
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From: Jan Buckow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Samsung Notebooks supported?
Date: 04 Sep 2000 14:43:47 +0200
Hi,
I want to buy the Samsung 7600 XT notebook. I'd like to know if somebody ever
tried to use such a notebook with Linux. Especially: Is the soundcard
(integrated controller chip set ESS 1978-PCI) and the graphics chip (8 MB ATI
Rage LT Pro 64 Bit AGP) supported under Linux.
Any help is much appreciated.
Jan
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From: "Noble Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark Z12 Inkjet Printer
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 07:59:34 -0600
Have you looked at www.linuxprinting.com? If your printer is listed there
it will have info on getting it to work, if not you got a problem.
"Jur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to find whatever information I can on the Lexmark Z12 Inkjet
> Printer, and a driver if possible...I have scoured the internet and I am
> unable to find anything about it. If anyone has any information, such
> as whether it is PCL, Postscript, etc., please let me know.
>
> I tried the Lexmark 5000 driver, all I could get the printer to do was
> spit out a sheet of paper, lock up lpd, and it never did anything else
> after that.
>
>
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From: Carl Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved modem to ttyS2 - now dead.
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:20:51 -0400
You probably need to run setserial to initialize the port properly. By
default, in most distributions, only COM1 and COM2 are set up. Check
man setserial
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get Xwindows screen large enough
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 09:18:48 -0400
Hi,
in my experience I have never been able to get the X windows screen
to fill the maximum size that my monitors can display. I have installed
various versions of Linux and have used different video cards and
monitors.
I have used xvidtune to try to expand the screen both horizontally
and
vertically, and it does get a bit larger, but when I try to expand it to
the full extent of the screen, it says that is using illegal values and
can't use those values.
Thanks
Mike
P.S. When I have installed Windows on the same computer(s) hardware,
I have never had any problems of getting a full screen size display, so
I
would assume that it isn't a problem of the hardwares capabilities.
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From: Jonathan Amery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: KENNEDY tape drive not writing tape-marks in Linux with AHA-2940W/AHA-2940UW.
Date: 04 Sep 2000 11:16:51 +0100 (BST)
We're using a KENNEDY 9-track tape drive, with an Adaptec AHA-2940UW or
AHA-2940W card in Linux with a 2.2.13 kernel and the aic7xxx kernel support.
Everything works fine, except that no tape-marks are written to the tape
when we write tapes.
Everything works fine with different cards, different tape drives (DAT),
different OSes (Windows NT).
Any help, pointers, solutions (but not flames) appreciated.
Jonathan Amery, Petrologic Ltd. (part of the Ilex Group).
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Bridges)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2000 14:26:14
Subject: Duron, LILO, RedHat 6.2 probs?
I put together a computer with a socket A motherboard and a Duron 700MHz
CPU. After trials and tribulations Windows was installed (an unfortunate
necessity ;) ) and that worked.
I then installed Red Hat. And that did not work. If I turn my computer on
now the lilo prompt is for some reason getting stuck on LI. The boot disk
works, but only has a linux record in it.
This sounds like the lilo probs with large disks from other posts on here
and i can probably deal; with it eventually. But I also have another
problem.
The new linux partition doesn't boot. After loading the kernel in, it boots
and finds the Duron processor . . . .
CPU: AMD AMD Duron(tm) Processor stepping 00
Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done.
Disabling CPUID Serial number...general protection fault: 0000
Then lots of numbers and Stack numbers are printed in hex which i can copy
if they help. This all finishes with a kernel panic and the whole thing
hangs.
Any help would be REALLY appreciated. I am sorry for the crosspost but I
honestly didn't know where the problem is.
Widget
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From: Andrew Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cant mount cdrom and floppy?
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:35:59 +0200
1) A guess would be that running 'mkdir /mnt/cdrom' would fix this
problem.
2) You probably need to run 'modprobe fat; modprobe vfat' to insert
modules which have not been loaded. I am assuming the modules are there
however.
Hope this helps...
Kind regards
Andrew Higgs
"@" wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Two questions to ask:
>
> 1)I'm using Slackware3.0(kernel 2.0.0), but cant mount /mnt/cdrom and
> /mnt/floppy. I can see my cdrom using dmesg command like-- hdd:CS-R38 ATAPI
> CD-ROM Drive, also under /dev--i can see cdrom--->dev/hdd, then when i use
> mount /mnt/cdrom commnad, it respond " mount:mount point /mnt/cdrom does not
> exit"(my setting in /etc/fstab---/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauot,owner 0
> 0).
>
> 2)when i exec mount /fd0/floppy, system respond "fs type vfat not supported
> by kernel". Is modfying kernel a only way to deal with, if so where can i
> get better sources to do so('cause i read some HOWTOs but dont explain
> clearly to deal wiht my problems)
>
> thanks
>
> sean
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From: Andrew Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Moved modem to ttyS2 - now dead.
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:40:14 +0200
Have you tried a more standard approach (ie setting your modem to com3
irq4 or com4 irq3). Not sure if this will help.
You are a little vague in what you tell us. I am not sure wether you
are able to sometimes connect or not. Can you connect at all? Is this
only an occasional thing?
Hope this is of some vague use to you.
Kind regards
Andrew Higgs
Dave Critelli wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I had to move my modem to serial port ttyS2 (from ttyS1) to free up com
> 2 for my new hotsync cable (It's a long story why I did this but lets
> say it was to get my hotsync working with the other MS OS). Anyway, I
> moved the jumper settings on modem card to com3, IRQ 5. I then fixed up
> my ppp-on script and changed my pppd to use /dev/ttyS2. The modem works
> without a problem when running it with OS/2 but it kinda hangs there in
> S.u.S.E.
>
> The clip from the messages log looks like this;
>
> Sep 3 13:42:43 titan pppd[271]: pppd 2.3.10 started by root, uid 0
> Sep 3 13:42:44 titan chat[274]: send (ATZ^M)
> Sep 3 13:42:44 titan chat[274]: expect (OK)
> Sep 3 13:43:28 titan su: (to root) root on /dev/pts/2
> Sep 3 13:43:29 titan chat[274]: alarm
> Sep 3 13:43:29 titan chat[274]: Failed
> Sep 3 13:43:29 titan pppd[271]: Connect script failed
> Sep 3 13:43:30 titan pppd[271]: Exit.
>
> Note: this message doesn't always show up. Also it seems like I don't
> get any response from the modem on additional attempts after the initial
> fail. It almost seems like the hardware locks or hangs.
>
> Boy, I sure would love some advise on this one. I'd like to go back to
> surfing on my Linux soon.
> Thanks.
> Dave C.
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From: Andrew Higgs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need help configuring soundcard
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:44:17 +0200
Hi,
I am not sure exactly where Mandrake would store it's start up scripts
but look for the one which sets up either all your modules or one which
sets up your sound card. Play around with the module parameters and see
what comes out (or set it to what you know it should be).
Unfortunately, I don't know Mandrake and have no experience with the
Sound blaster Live.
Best of luck.
Kind regards
Andrew Higgs
Mike wrote:
>
> Im running Linux-Mandrake 7.1 and have a SoundBlaster Live! Value soundcard.
> harddrake and sndconfig find it but I cant hear anything when i do a Test.
> What can I do to get sound?
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Subject: Re: Can't get Xwindows screen large enough
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 14:08:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hi,
> in my experience I have never been able to get the X windows screen
>to fill the maximum size that my monitors can display. I have installed
>various versions of Linux and have used different video cards and
>monitors.
> I have used xvidtune to try to expand the screen both horizontally
>and
>vertically, and it does get a bit larger, but when I try to expand it to
>
>the full extent of the screen, it says that is using illegal values and
>can't use those values.
You should try some different modelines - the vstart/hstart values may be a
little off. KDE has a nice tool for making custom modelines, but I can't
remember it's name on the fly... anyone?
Anyway, if you are of the adventurous type, try XFree86 4.0.1, which has
the standard VESA modelines "built-in". These should be the same that win9x
uses.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 07:12:35 -0500
From: "Larry K. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: aic7890 scsi bus resets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have just upgraded my motherboard bios (Supermicro P6DGU) which has
> the aic7890 U2W SCSI onboard. The scsi bios is 2.57 and is dated 2000.
>
> The linux 2.2.16 kernel I have repeatedly resets the scsi bus when the
> driver tries to initialise itself.
>
> Anyone else have this problem & solved it?
>
> For the record:
>
> Slackware 7.0 (with elements of 7.1)
> Supermicro P6DGU (GX with aic7890 U2W)
> 512Mb SDRAM
> 9Gb U2W scsi id 0 (IBM Ultrastar 9ES)
> 4.5Gb UW scsi id 1 (IBM Ultrastar 2ES)
> CD-RW scsi id 4 (Yamaha CDRW2260)
> DDS3 DAT scsi id 5 (Seagate)
> DVD-ROM scsi 6 (Pioneer U3103)
> 18Gb U2W scsi id 8 (IBM Ultrastar 18ES)
>
> All the cables are short (1m) with active terminators
>
> I have had no problems in 18 months before with cables/termination.
>
> --
> Ben Baylis ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
See the previous 2 series on this same problem.
scsi bus resets with aic7xxx Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:17:54
Re: yet another scsi problem (YASP) Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:47:23
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From: "D. D. Brierton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS 6326 and XFree86 4.0.0
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 15:43:29 +0100
I can't seem to get XFree86 4.0.0 to work with my onboard SiS 6326. This
isn't an urgent problem as XFree86 3.3.6 works okay, and Mandrake 7.1
installs both 3.3.6 and 4.0.0. However, I'm curious to see if
performance is better with 4.0.0 and according to the docs the SiS
driver was written specifically for the 6326 chip, so I'm puzzled as to
why I can't get it to work. I suspect that there is a simple solution,
but unfortunately I don't know what it is! I read the docs concerning
SiS cards that came with XFree86 4.0.0 and the docs regarding the new
format of XF86Config, and then hand wrote one using my XFree86 3.3.6
XF86Config as a reference. I don't know what the problem is, but
judging from /var/log/XFree86.0.log startx aborts after very nearly
succesfully loading. It seems to barf on loading module ddc:
(II) LoadModule: "ddc"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libddc.a
(II) Module ddc: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.0, module version = 1.0.0
ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.1
(--) SIS(0): No DDC signal
Symbol XAAInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is
unresolved!
Symbol XAACreateInfoRec from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol XAAInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is
unresolved!
Symbol XAACreateInfoRec from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol XAACopyROP from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
is unresolved!
Symbol XAACopyROP from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
is unresolved!
Symbol XAAHelpPatternROP from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol XAACopyROP from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
is unresolved!
Symbol XAACopyROP from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
is unresolved!
Symbol XAACopyROP from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
is unresolved!
Symbol XAACopyROP from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o
is unresolved!
Symbol XAAInit from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is
unresolved!
Symbol XAACreateInfoRec from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is unresolved!
Symbol XAADestroyInfoRec from module
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/sis_drv.o is unresolved!
(==) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
(II) do I need RAC? No, I don't.
(II) resource ranges after preInit:
[0] 0 0xe7ef0000 - 0xe7efffff (0x10000) MXB
[1] 0 0xe7000000 - 0xe77fffff (0x800000) MXB
[2] -1 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MXB(B)
[3] -1 0xfee00000 - 0xfeefffff (0x100000) MXB(B)
[4] -1 0xfec00000 - 0xfecfffff (0x100000) MXB(B)
[5] -1 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MXBE(B)
[6] -1 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MXB
[7] -1 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MXB
[8] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MXB
[9] -1 0xec000000 - 0xefffffff (0x4000000) MXBE
[10] -1 0xe7ee0000 - 0xe7eeffff (0x10000) MXB(B)
[11] -1 0xe7ef0000 - 0xe7efffff (0x10000) MXB(B)
[12] -1 0xe7000000 - 0xe77fffff (0x800000) MXB(B)
[13] 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MSB
[14] 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MSB
[15] 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MSB
[16] 0 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc7f (0x80) IXB
[17] -1 0x00000000 - 0x0000016f (0x170) IXBE
[18] -1 0x0000ffa0 - 0x0000ffbf (0x20) IXBE
[19] -1 0x00000374 - 0x00000377 (0x4) IXBE
[20] -1 0x00000170 - 0x0000017f (0x10) IXBE
[21] -1 0x000003f4 - 0x000003f7 (0x4) IXBE
[22] -1 0x000001f0 - 0x000001ff (0x10) IXBE
[23] -1 0x0000cc00 - 0x0000cc7f (0x80) IXB(B)
[24] 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) ISB
[25] 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) ISB
(==) SIS(0): Write-combining range (0xe7000000,0x400000)
Fatal server error:
AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0
I would be more than happy to send anyone my XF86Config and the full
text of /var/log/XFree86.0.log if anyone feels that they might know how
to help me out with this one.
Thanks in advance,
Darren
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~ddb
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