Linux-Hardware Digest #590, Volume #13 Sun, 17 Sep 00 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
cdrom not recognised as block device??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Epson 880 (Stylus color) (Skip Gribbin)
Re: no floppy - it gets weirder (Alan Needleman)
d2Mac on sparc with redhat 6.2 ("Marabiloso")
Linux WILL boot with T-Bird (Lou Grinzo)
Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work? (Michael Perry)
Re: MotherBoard Integrated Sound Card --supported??? ("Team KMart")
dma_intr errors (UDMA) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux/SMC EtherEZ IRQ conflict hell.. (Melanie)
Re: Stylus COLOR 600 Gamma Correction - GhostScript/Uniprint Settings ("Gene
Heskett")
Re: UDMA blues ("Bill Piety")
rpm --rebuild doesnt work... (Eric)
Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color) (James Franklin)
Re: RAID and Linux?? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Swap/memory problem? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: RAID Controller w/Ultra160 -Suggestion (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Linux and Digital Cameras... (Steve Gage)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cdrom not recognised as block device???
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:27:44 GMT
Hi
I removed my cdrom from my computer running linux when I returned it
and tried to mount the cdrom there was the following message:
mount: the kernal does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
(maybe �insmod driver�?)
Do you know how I can get it working again?
Thanks
Lisa
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From: Skip Gribbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson 880 (Stylus color)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:00:34 -0400
I checked the compatability list before I bought this printer
(yesterday)and this is supposed to work "perfectly" yet I can't get it
to do a test page with the standard Epson color driver which is supposed
? to work? Please help me find and install a driver?
Thanks!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no floppy - it gets weirder
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 13:16:47 GMT
> On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:21:37 GMT, Alan Needleman wrote:
> >
> >> Linux no longer recognizes my floppy. I don't think it is a hardware
> >> problem because I have no trouble if I try to access it under windows.
> >
> >Also, I just found out I can boot from a floppy (made with mkbootdisk)
> >and when I did so, I can access the floppy. But not when I boot from the
> >hard disk.
>
> Also, sometimes the autodetection screws up... Try inserting a 1.4M
> formatted floppy and doing "mount /dev/fd0h1440 /mnt/floppy".
The autodetection may be it. After the successful boot from the floppy,
I rebooted from the hard disk (same kernel) and the floppy now works.
Maybe it was a glitch, maybe it is a symptom of something about to fail.
I guess I'll find out soon enough.
Thanks for the information.
Alan
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From: "Marabiloso" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: d2Mac on sparc with redhat 6.2
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:35:12 +0200
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lou Grinzo)
Subject: Linux WILL boot with T-Bird
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:14:35 GMT
Someone else pointed out that the solution to the
"Linux won't boot with an Athlon/T-Bird chip" mess
was to use the Linux boot parameter "x86_serial_nr=0".
This does indeed work, but who wants to type that
in at every boot? The solution is to add this
to your lilo.conf file. Edit that file, and
add the following line in the "stanza" for every
Linux boot image. (Meaning once per kernel, NOT
at the common section at the beginning of lilo,conf.)
append="x86_srial_nr=0"
After you save the file, you run the lilo command
(normally /sbin/lilo), and you should be set, and
Linux will use the parameter automagically on
ensuing boots.
Lou
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ethernet gaurenteed to work?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 06:29:47 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 17 Sep 2000 05:45:57 GMT, Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Hi, are there any reccomendations for a moderately priced ethernet
>card that is gauranteed to be detected by RH6.? and not require any
>configuration, loading of kernel modules, etc. etc?
>
>Thanks
I have had good luck with RedHat 6.x finding Intel EtherExpress 100+ cards
but that card is found by most every distro I have tried. With debian I
just load the module when I do a floppy installation and it finds it.
Irregardless of how it "detects" it, it will still place a kernel module in
use for the card.
I run two of the Intel cards here for my firewall/NAT box, and all my
desktops with the exception of a prebuilt run the eepro. My redhat box
actually runs a davicom ethernet card.
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From: "Team KMart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MotherBoard Integrated Sound Card --supported???
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 08:32:51 -0700
Cool, Linux is getting very adaptable.
Not like the days ,92' , when I would download it to 25 floppies or more
off a ftp server, then spend 8-16 hours, installing,reinstalling and
configuring
it and X until I learned the routine.
Jason Byrne wrote in message ...
>you might laugh at this one...
>
>I have three identical motherboards (PCChips M748LMRT) in three PC's...
100%
>integrated components... all working with Linux
>
>10/100 fast ethernet (Davicom 9102)
>onboard sound (C-Media 8738)
>onboard video (SiS 620)
>onboard winmodem (PCTel HSP56 Micromodem - yes... even this works)
>
>running SuSE 6.4 - nice way to put together some cheap boxes.
>
>bought the first one almost on a *dare* from a guy that swore it would
never
>work with Linux... and then built two more identical systems after I got
>everything working.
>
>on another note - I am more likely to buy *interesting* hardware than pay
>through the nose for something *popular* - 3com, Intel, US Robotics, Asus,
>HP, etc...
>
>"Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8aOw5.154$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > Hi, I ordered a new system
>> > which I picked up yesterday.
>> > Prior, and During the Whole Process I insisted on
>> > a motherboard that did not have integrated video and sound cards.
>> >
>> > However, much to my dismay, this morning, I find that its sound card
>> > is an integrated part of the motherboard.
>> >
>> > Are there issues with integrated 'on the motherboard' soundcards???
>>
>> It all depends on the card. Some will work just fine, some won't. We
>> recently bought some "book pc's" to use as demo units at a trade show,
and
>I
>> set one up wth Linux as a NAT router / firewall, and the Redhat 6.2
>> installation found the sound card and installed the correct module. When
>I
>> recompiled the 2.2.16 kernel, I found the appropriate driver in the
kernel
>> tree. That's the ideal situation, however....
>>
>> steve
>>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dma_intr errors (UDMA)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:19:50 GMT
I just installed Redhat 2.2.16, recompiled the kernel to 2.2.17 and
patched it with the latest ide patch from linux-ide.org
My system is a PII400, 256 MB, ABIT HOTROD100 (HPT370 controller),
Maxtor 20GB ATA100 & IBM 30GB ATA100 drives. After finishing with all
the installation i boot fine (with pci=reverse) so that my hardisks are
on /dev/hda & /dev/hdc respectively. Everything seems to be okay but I
get sporadic errors in between the boot messages and when I get to the
login prompt, I enter my login and get the following errors :
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
ide0: reset: success
I enter my password and from then on everything seems to be fine. My
questions are what do those errors mean and how can they be fixed if
that's possible.
Second thing is, how do I know if my drives are actually running at
UDMA5 or not (i'm quite to new to linux, i'm surprised i got this far)?
I tried the "hdparm -tT /dev/hda" command which gave me :
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.33 seconds = 96.24 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.23 seconds = 28.70 MB/sec
Any ideas? I appreciate the help, thanx !
-Firas
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From: Melanie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux/SMC EtherEZ IRQ conflict hell..
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 15:28:31 GMT
Right.. so, I installed a SMC EtherEZ card into my Mandrake 6 PC. It
worked, after sticking it in a DOS computer and setting it up. It's happy
on IRQ 3 and I/O port 0x340h, and the driver works. But my modem also wants
IRQ 3, and it's on /dev/ttyS1. I've tried setting the ethernet card to use
IRQ 5, which would be convenient, but it insists on using 3. I've passed
the "ether=5,0x340,0,0,eth0" to the kernel at boot. Which is ignored.
So, should I pursue twiddling with a working ethernet card, or tell my
modem to use a different IRQ? Oh.. and.. how? <g> (Tried using setserial to
change the IRQ of my modem, but I just get 'device busy'.)
Any help appreciated..
Melanie.
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Date: 17 Sep 2000 11:4:42 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stylus COLOR 600 Gamma Correction - GhostScript/Uniprint Settings
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Kevin Adams;
KA> Hello,
KA> I've checked local and online documentation (FAQs, HOWTOs, READMEs, etc.)
KA> for both GhostScript and APSFilter, but I still haven't found the
KA> information I need...
KA> I have an Epson Stylus COLOR 600 on LPT1 (/dev/lp0).
KA> My system is running the following:
KA> SuSE Linux 6.4
KA> GhostScript 5.50
KA> (looks like a fairly standard implementation)
KA> APSFilter 4.9
KA> (as near as I can tell; the APSFilter implementation
KA> that comes with SuSE 6.4 has been somewhat modified
KA> as far as installation scripts go)
KA> I am using the Uniprint driver for this printer:
KA> Printer = Stylus COLOR 600
KA> Resolution = 360x360
KA> Paper Size = Letter
KA> Paper Type = Plain Paper
KA> The printer works great; output is properly scaled, formatted, etc...
KA> EXCEPT that I don't get enough "red" in my printouts. For example, on my
KA> system, if you use Netscape Communicator under Xfree86/KDE at 65536
KA> colors, go to
This particular driver.upp, stc600pl.upp, is only a low color config
file. 5 bits per color. If you want more colors, use the stc600ih.upp
variation with its 21 bits of color per color controls, which also runs
the printer at maximum its resolution and will be *considerably* slower.
There is, within all these .upp drivers, a lookup table that is used to
translate the colors. This table deals in ink colors, magenta, yellow,
cyan and black, not primaries as most people think in. This makes
adjusting the color difficult for me, and I do have color negative
darkroom experience. In your case, I think I'd attack the entries for
magenta with a calculator, multiplying each value in that line of the
file by 1.1. If thats in the right direction, do it again until its
obvious that this isn't the right color to be playing with. At some
point, you'll want to back up one step in the magenta entries, and
switch to the yellow entries to fine tune it.
Obviously one should make a copy of it for recovery purposes before
editing it, and another when its better each time.
Cheers Kevin, Gene
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From: "Bill Piety" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA blues
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 11:07:37 -0500
In article <8q21pq$39$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Sindh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I have a udma66 drive and udma66 onboard controller hpt366. The mandrake
> 7.1 recognises the hd as hde and installs and works fine except if I
> choose to use the harddisk optimisations it dies.[just hangs]
>
> Redhat installation does not recognise it. However the following are
> given by hdparm.
>
> Mandrake 7.1 , via UDMA66 interface.
>
> cache reads: 71.51 mb/sec disk reads: 2.41mb/sec
>
> RedHat 6.2 via UDMA33 interface.
>
> /dev/hda:
> multcount = 0 (off) I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit) unmaskirq
> = 0 (off) using_dma = 0 (off) keepsettings = 0 (off) nowerr
> = 0 (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry
> = 3322/255/63, sectors = 53369568, start = 0
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 19.24 seconds = 3.33 MB/sec
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.95 seconds = 65.64 MB/sec
>
> Does it look ok to you guys. Mandrake was recognisably slow on the
> udma66. That is why I fell back to Redhat.
>
> Thanks Sreekant
They both seem slow - what processor & hd do you have? I'm running
UDMA66, Thunderbird processor, with a slow HD (5400rpms) at approx
17.5MB/sec on disk reads. I'm using hdparm with the -c1d1 options.
Prior to optimizing I was at ~4 MB/sec. Under Mandrake 7.1.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric)
Subject: rpm --rebuild doesnt work...
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:15:14 GMT
Hi,
When I try the command:
rpm --rebuild netdriver-2.0.src.rpm, I have the following error
message at the end:
....
...
...
+ cd /usr/src/RPM/BUILD
+ cd netdriver-2.0
++ uname -r
+ mkdir -p /tmp/scyld/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/pcmcia
++ uname -r
+ mkdir -p /tmp/scyld/lib/modules/2.2.15-4mdk/net
+ make install PREFIX=/tmp/scyld
install -m 444 pci-scan.o 3c59x.o eepro100.o epic100.o hamachi
.o natsemi.o rtl8139.o starfire.o starfire.o sundance.o tulip.
o via-rhine.o winbond-840.o yellowfin.o /tmp/scyld/lib/modules
/`uname -r`/net/
*** Run '/sbin/depmod -a' to update the module database.
+ /usr/share/spec-helper/spec-helper
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30133: /usr/share/spec-helper/spec-helper: No
such file or directory
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.30133 (%install) <----?????
And of course, the binary package is not built...
I tried with another source rpm (Device3Dfx-2.2-3.src.rpm) and I have
the same problem.
I'm using Mandrake 7.1. How can I fix this?
Thank you.
Eric.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Franklin)
Subject: Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Sep 2000 11:48:11 -0600
On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 09:00:34 -0400, Skip Gribbin wrote:
>I checked the compatability list before I bought this printer
>(yesterday)and this is supposed to work "perfectly" yet I can't get it
>to do a test page with the standard Epson color driver which is supposed
>? to work? Please help me find and install a driver?
>Thanks!
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I suggest you offer more information on your current setup or responses to your
request for help will not be to the point. I found that printtool worked best
for me (forget Kudzu) using Mandrake 7.0. I also used a hacked stp driver for
my Epson Stylus Color 740.
Your distro, configuration file, etc. would assist others in helping you.
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID and Linux??
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:29:44 +0200
Luckydaze wrote:
> I want to set up Raid on an Abit KT7 mobo. I also wish to run Linux,
> Win98 and 2K plus the BeOS. What should I set the stripping too? 16?
>From the md_FAQ:
Q: How does the chunk size influence the speed of my raid device ?
A: The chunk size is the amount of data contiguous on the virtual device
that is also contiguous on the physical device. Depending on your
workload, the best is to let the chunk size match the size of your
requests, so two requests have chances to be on different disks, and to
be run the same time. This suppose a lot of testing with different chunk
sizes to match the average request size, and to have the best
performances.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap/memory problem?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:07:29 +0200
Craig Jones wrote:
> The interesting thing is in gtop, the third bar along shows the swap
> that is being used. When I run a very large job in Matlab the swap
> get's allocated (according to the length of the bar). This is fine
> (I guess), but when I exit Matlab, I would have expected the swap to
> be released and therefore the length of the red bar go back down.
If your HD were constantly working swapping in and out data when using
matlab, then it would probably stop when you exit your big matlab job.
You would probably also see the red bar go back down.
However, the situation is probably that some processes like a
web-server, the print-server lpd and other stuff which isn't used has
been swapped out. To swap them in again when you get free memory would
only be a waste of resources. That memory could come to better use for
some new processes or for caching the disk.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID Controller w/Ultra160 -Suggestion
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 16:33:35 +0200
Cokey de Percin wrote:
> > >I'm looking for a SCSI Ultra160 RAID Controller 1 or 2 channel
> > > (PCI32) that is compatible with RedHat 6.2 right out of the box.
> Mylex 352 (or 1100...), very nice dual channel 160 LVD controller
> with RAID. Note that 64 bit PCI devices will work in 32 bit PCI
> slots.
Maybe it should be worth to mention that a 32 bit PCI slot with a
bandwith of 132 MB/s will become a bottleneck in such a system.
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From: Steve Gage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Digital Cameras...
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 17:09:31 GMT
David Hostetler wrote:
>
> Is there any way I can get the pics out of my Casio QV-11 digital camera
> into my Linux box without having to resort to booting up a windows
> machine?
gphoto works great with my ol' Casio QV-30.
- Steve
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