Linux-Hardware Digest #553, Volume #13 Sun, 10 Sep 00 10:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: # of maximum outstanding disk IO's (Johan Kullstam)
Request for help: Booting from Promise Ultra66 controller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
isa sb awe64 woes (d)
Re: Driver for Iomega Zip100 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Synaptics Touchpad and kernel 2.2.16 (Thomas Thyberg)
Will the real NIC vendor please stand up? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
BIOS setup on an old 386 (Tom Massey)
Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (Peter Rodriguez)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (Wouter Verhelst)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (Peter Rodriguez)
anyone got cdj880.tar.gz? (Carlos Fernandez)
Driver for Geforce2 GTS ("Jon Mell")
Re: Driver for Geforce2 GTS (Dominic Hargreaves)
Re: 70Gb Harddisk (Andries Brouwer)
Re: Newbie with ZIP (Mister Fred)
Re: what's up with Sun? ("Raz A Mattazz")
Re: Compaq P70 monitor: Frequences ? ("Raz A Mattazz")
Re: ATI ALL IN WONDER (noodlez)
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: # of maximum outstanding disk IO's
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 02:55:17 GMT
"Hog Rider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We are doing some performance testing of disk storage on different
> platforms, and I was wondering if Linux has a maximum number of IO's that
> can be outstanding at any given time. Translated, if the storage device is
> busy and the h/w queue is full, how many IO's will Linux queue up waiting
> for the storage device to be available again.
this is usually a limit set by your choice SCSI controller, hard disks
and other devices.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Request for help: Booting from Promise Ultra66 controller
Date: 10 Sep 2000 01:02:19 -0400
I'd like to use a Promise Ultra66 controller as a direct replacement
for my onboard IDE. Has anyone found an easy way to do this?
I have one disk with the partitions (in the original setup):
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda5 (swap)
/dev/hda6 /
Currently I'm using kernel 2.2.16 with the Hendrick's patch.
I tried the following:
1. Compile the kernel with "Boot off-board chipsets first support".
Didn't do anything! It still looked for /dev/hda (onboard controller).
2. Add the lines:
disk=/dev/hde
bios=0x80
to lilo.conf. This is supposed to treat /dev/hde as if it were /dev/hda.
This didn't work either! It booted, but got a kernel panic trying to
find the root filesystem.
Thanks for any help,
Richard
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From: d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: isa sb awe64 woes
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 05:28:46 GMT
i have an isa sb awe64 and ive had it working before. i decided to
reinstall linux and i added an isa modem to my computer . after a little
work i got the modem working, but now i am completely lost as to why my
sound does not work. i ran sndconfig and there were no probs. the cdplayer
works, but i dont have any other sounds(ie. sound events). in windows the
same thing happened. i found that when i wanted to play mp3s it would say
that the device was still in use. in windows the system sounds werent
working too. i think the problem has to do with I/O space and interupts but
i have no idea how to go about solving the problem. i ran isapnp, but i
dont know what to change things in isapnp.conf to.
running cat /proc/ioports tells me:
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0170-0177 : ide1
01f0-01f7 : ide0
0220-022f : soundblaster
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
0376-0376 : ide1
03c0-03df : vga+
03f6-03f6 : ide0
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0620-0623 : sound driver (AWE32)
0a20-0a23 : sound driver (AWE32)
0e20-0e23 : sound driver (AWE32)
and cat/proc/intertupts tells me:
CPU0
0: 164576 XT-PIC timer
1: 6001 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 30936 XT-PIC serial
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
12: 52359 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 22884 XT-PIC ide0
15: 141552 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
im pretty new at this so i dont know how to really go about fixing the
problem.
can anyone please help me solve this problem.
thanks in advance,
d
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for Iomega Zip100
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 05:40:17 GMT
Bob Grimes wrote:
> OS/2 user looking for a driver for a new Caldera 2.4 distro on a
> homemade box. Internal IDE Zip100.
Yes its called:
ide-floppy
This is part of the Kernel. However, it is possible that it is not
enabled in the distribution you have. I started with Red Hat 6.1 and it
did not have this enabled.
If you are building your own Kernel, you should check to see that:
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY
is enabled.
If you have installed your drive, you can exec:
cat /proc/ide/ide1/hdd/driver
or something like that depending on where you installed your ZIP
(/proc/ide/ide?/hd?/driver)
The system should respond:
ide-floppy version x.x
if the driver is enabled.
JRT
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From: Thomas Thyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Synaptics Touchpad and kernel 2.2.16
Date: 10 Sep 2000 08:31:34 +0300
Josh Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> move the mouse but it is very difficult and not really usable. I tried the
> "tpconfig" touchpad driver version 2.2 (a popular driver provided by a third
> party source) but it doesn't seem to do anything... When I was running
When I tried the tpconfig (SuSE6.4/2.2.17) I noticed that it only
seems to work when using the long option names, ie "-p 0" did not
work but "--tapmode=0" did...
I also applied the "touchpad.patch" to the kernel source, found at
<http://www.compass.com/synaptics.html>
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//TT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Will the real NIC vendor please stand up?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 06:19:35 GMT
I recently bought a Compaq Presario 17XL2 ("build your own") laptop. It came
with what they call a Compaq MiniPCI Combo 56k modem and 10/100 ethernet
card. I'm trying to get the NIC to work in Linux (Mandrake 7.1), but it's
not recognized by the kernel. There's no mention of it during bootup or in
dmesg, and /proc/pci says:
Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown
device (rev 8). Vendor id=14f1. Device id=1803. Medium devsel. Fast
back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=160.
Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40. I/O at 0x1400 [0x1401]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory
at 0xf4000000 [0xf4000000].
I cannot figure out exactly what this thing is because I'm getting
conflicting information.
I called Compaq technical support, and the guy I talked to said it was an
Intel product, gave me a couple of part numbers (198721-001 for the NIC,
198720-001 for the modem) and suggested I call Intel to find out what driver
to use. Intel technical support said they didn't know about the product,
it's probably an OEM so I won't find any info about it on their website, but
it might be a Pro 100 so I should try the e100 driver. Well, I downloaded
and compiled the e100 driver, but when I try to load it with insmod it just
says "Device or resource busy", just like every other driver I've tried to
load.
I can't find a single mention on the web or in the newsgroups about anyone
installing Linux on a Presario 1700 series laptop, or trying to get a Compaq
MiniPCI ethernet card to work in Linux. What I did find, though, makes me
suspcious: the vendor id (14f1) matches that reported by Conexant (formerly
Rockwell?) modems. However, I can't find any evidence that Conexant makes a
MiniPCI ethernet card, only modems. So what type of beast is this?
I put in another call to Compaq, but I don't expect an answer for a while.
Is there anyone out there who has gotten ethernet working on a Presario 1700
laptop and/or a Compaq MiniPCI combo card?
Thanks,
Scott
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Before you buy.
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From: Tom Massey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BIOS setup on an old 386
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 17:51:14 +1100
Hi,
I'm trying to ressurect a 386 machine, a 'Reply Model 32/386-33MHz'. I
want to stick Linux on it, probably Small Linux or something similar.
Problem is, it won't boot up at all, ie, on boot it gives me the
messages:
Invalid Configuration
Invalid Chipset Parameters
Please run the setup program
Press <F1> to resume ...
(hitting F1 at this point gives me);
Reply Model 32/386-33MHz
Diskette error - correct problem and press any key to retry
I get this message when there's either no disk, or a non-bootable disk
in the drive. I've tried various DOS boot disks, they get rid of the
'Diskette error' message, but the machine still hangs. Using a Linux
Boot disk, I've got to the 'L' of LILO, and no more. I think this means
that the machine has bad disk parameters set in the BIOS. So,
a) has anybody heard of the Reply Corporation who apparently made this
machine, and are they still around at all?
b) how do you get into BIOS setup on the things? (I've tried all the
usual keys, unplugged the keyboard, held the space bar down etc)
c) anybody have any ideas as regards to bootable BIOS setup disks that
might be useful here?
TIA,
Tom
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 19:00:52 +1200
From: Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
I am running RedHat 6.2 on one machine and 6.0 on another. Both machines
have Zip 100 parallel port drives connected. The RH 6.2 machine has Win
98 on another partition and the RH 6.0 machine has NT 4.0 Workstation on
the other partition.
My problem is that the Zip drives work fine with Win 98, NT 4.0 and
RedHat 6.0, and I have tried swapping the drives from one machine to the
other and the result is the same. Module imm refuses to load on RedHat
6.2 ( Linux Kernel 2.2.14-5.0). I get the same error message whether I
use insmod or modprobe, i.e.:-
"imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
scsi: 0 hosts
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy"
This is all strange territory to me, but does it mean that the wrong
version of imm.o is provided with RedHat 6.2? If so, how do I obtain the
correct version?
Then maybe I have got hold of the wrong end of the stick altogether.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Peter Rodriguez
Auckland, New Zealand
"Give me the bazaar every time"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wouter Verhelst)
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 07:44:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[ZIP module doesn't load correctly]
> This is all strange territory to me, but does it mean that the wrong
> version of imm.o is provided with RedHat 6.2? If so, how do I obtain the
> correct version?
Are you sure that you need imm.o? There are two different kinds of
ZIP-drives (from the software's point of view), so two different
modules as well.
The other module is called ppa.o
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9:42am up 1:08, 2 users, load average: 2.06, 1.95, 1.50
Voor een vertaling van Documentation/Configure.help naar het Nederlands:
http://users.pandora.be/wouter.verhelst/configure.html
Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth.
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 21:27:05 +1200
From: Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Peter Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [ZIP module doesn't load correctly]
>
> > This is all strange territory to me, but does it mean that the wrong
> > version of imm.o is provided with RedHat 6.2? If so, how do I obtain the
> > correct version?
>
> Are you sure that you need imm.o? There are two different kinds of
> ZIP-drives (from the software's point of view), so two different
> modules as well.
> The other module is called ppa.o
>
> --
> 9:42am up 1:08, 2 users, load average: 2.06, 1.95, 1.50
>
> Voor een vertaling van Documentation/Configure.help naar het Nederlands:
> http://users.pandora.be/wouter.verhelst/configure.html
>
> Far duller than a serpent's tooth it is to spend a quiet youth.
Thanks for your interest.
Yes, according to the documentation I have seen, I need to use imm. However,
I have tried to load ppa also, with the same result.
Peter Rodriguez
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From: Carlos Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: anyone got cdj880.tar.gz?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:28:45 GMT
I am looking for the cdj880 file that is missing out of
www.linuxprinting.org. I am desperate to obtain a copy and it is the last
issue I have to resolve with my linux. Apperantly the person(s) who
designed cdj880 changed his web page address and did not care to let anyone
at www.linuxprinting.org know. If anyone has this file I would greatly
appreciate it if you could email it to me or post it at
www.linuxprinting.org. The link they offer through ftp: is forbidden for
some reason.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jon Mell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for Geforce2 GTS
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:41:48 +0100
Where can I get a Linux driver which is compatible with Geforce2 GTS?
Thanks,
Jon
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From: Dominic Hargreaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for Geforce2 GTS
Date: 10 Sep 2000 12:01:59 GMT
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000 12:41:48 +0100 Jon Mell wibbled thus:
> Where can I get a Linux driver which is compatible with Geforce2 GTS?
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html
HTH, HAND.
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You can get my PGP key from my website.
Windows 2000: Designed for the Internet.
The Internet: Designed for UNIX.
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From: Andries Brouwer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70Gb Harddisk
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:27:02 GMT
Dirk Schenkewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: Dick Visser wrote:
:: Be sure to *not* have the 33,8Gb limitation jumper on the drive!!
:: THats meant for OS-es that cant cope with larger drivers, and restricts
:: the size at hardwarelevel to 33,8 Gb....
: I had the same problem with a 60GB maxtor HD - but without the limitation
: jumper the hardware wouldn't run at all! It would even hang when trying the
: HD autodetection of the bios (MoBo: ASUS VX97, newest BIOS update applied).
: (There is some driver stuff available from maxtor which enables you to access
: full capacity of such a HD even if the limitation jumper is set - but only
: for win-95 and such. Since I wanted most of the capacity for linux, this was
: no option and I exchanged the HD into the 30GB version.)
There is also some Linux stuff that may enable you to access
full capacity of such a HD even if the limitation jumper is set.
Andries - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mister Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie with ZIP
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:32:45 GMT
Martin Racette a �crit :
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having a little problem with my SCSI Zip drive, when I have ZIP
> floppies that are FAT I'm OK to r/w on them, but I need to also be able
> to at least read those that are HPFS, an if in the future I format some
> with EXT2, I wold also like to access them withou the need to edit the
> FSTAB and MTAB files
>
> How can I do that so when I mount it it will detect which format to read
> ?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Merci a l'avance
>
> Martin
Isn't it possible to say 'auto' in the fs-type value in fstab ?
--
Hope this helps,
Mister Fred
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From: "Raz A Mattazz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 02:24:04 +0200
"David C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > A queved command advantage that you
: > have no noticable use for in any "normal" computer use.
:
: You and I have very different definitions of "normal".
Maybe I should have said "typical" instead. Clarification; By
"normal" I was referring to everyday home computer activities
like browsing the web, wordprocessing, playing games. Stuff that
wouldn't require any extraordinary performance from the hard
drive/s.
: > SCSI is grossly overhyped.
:
: Yes. But that's no reason to underhype it in response.
I'm a SCSI (only) user myself, but I know that when someone
*asks* if he needs SCSI, it usually means he doesn't really need
it. It's not decent to recommend an overkill solution to someone
who's just a bit in the dark at the moment.
You *can* use a Jaguar for transporting groceries, but a light
truck is usually the more reasonable option.
Raz
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From: "Raz A Mattazz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq P70 monitor: Frequences ?
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 03:45:06 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8p60m2$20c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: I have got a Compaq P70 monitor.
:
: I like to get the frequences (vert & hori) that work best for
it.
Try here:
http://www.monitorworld.com/
http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitor.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (noodlez)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ATI ALL IN WONDER
Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 13:58:43 GMT
i remember seeing all in wonder 128 in the card list.
it seems like you are still using the old config file, don't...
backup your old file and hit 'xf86config'
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 13:50:42 -0400, "Samuel Irlapati"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can someone please send me their Xfree86_config (or whatever the config file
>is called) which they have gotten to work with the ATI ALL IN WONDER 128
>card, which is compatible with XFree86 v4.01? I have tried upgrading to
>v4.01 and the new X server could not read some of the statements in the
>config file. So I hope someone else got it to work and can send me their
>config file.
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