Linux-Hardware Digest #592, Volume #13 Sun, 17 Sep 00 21:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Unable to run XWindows (Rana Shoaib Ahmad)
HELP: Can't detect my ethernet card! (Eric)
Unable to run XWindows (Rana Shoaib Ahmad)
Re: Elsa Synergy II, Sony GDM-W900 and Linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Parallel port and Linux (Peter Keller)
Anybody got a TV capturing solution to be happy with? (Michael Burian)
Re: HELP: Can't detect my ethernet card! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ethernet Really Slow in Linux (Bjarne Nygaard)
Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color) (Grant Taylor)
Re: Anybody got a TV capturing solution to be happy with? (Grant Taylor)
Re: Problems with my modem (James Richard Tyrer)
Ditto 2GB constantly despooling in Ditto Max Pro Drive (Thomas Hamm)
PCChips BKMVP4, XFree86,Trident Blade3D chipset ("ttfn35")
Installin linux redhat 6.2 on wester digiatal wd153aa drive
Re: Installin linux redhat 6.2 on wester digiatal wd153aa drive (sideband)
Re: UDMA blues (James Richard Tyrer)
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From: Rana Shoaib Ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
Subject: Unable to run XWindows
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:58:16 GMT
Previously I was using RedHat 6.2 and Windows 98 on my system, and I
was able to run XWindows and Windows 98. Now I reinstalled every thing
on my system. When I installed RedHat, I had to do it in text mode
otherwise the system will just hang up. So after installing it, I
configured XWindows, but still was unable to run it. The system just
hangs there after displaying the usual text mesages and then the screen
goes blank. I cannot use CTL+ALT+DEL or CTL+ALT+BKSPC to exit Linux or
XWindows. One other thing that I noticed was that Windows 98 detected
the display card as standard PCI VGA, but when I installed the Matrox
display drivers, it worked fine.
So what could be wrong here.
Thnaks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric)
Subject: HELP: Can't detect my ethernet card!
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:13:31 GMT
Hello,
My card is: Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet Adapter (NC100 v2).
1- I went to http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html#rpm
and downloaded the file "netdriver-2.0.src.rpm".
2-I followed these steps:
# Transfer the Scyld PCI Netdriver package
rpm -i ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.0.src.rpm
# Build the binary version for your kernel
cd /usr/src/{redhat,TurboLinux}/
rpm -bb SPECS/netdriver.spec
# Now install it your newly built package.
rpm -i --force RPMS/i386/netdriver-2.0-*.i386.rpm
3- Then, reboot my machine and still no ethernet card found!!!
Do I have to do something else??
Here is what I get from some commands:
[root@localhost /root]# modprobe tulip
[print nothing]
[root@localhost /root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
tulip 33324 0 (unused)
pci-scan 2712 0 [tulip]
ppp 21292 0 (autoclean)
slhc 4572 0 (autoclean) [ppp]
autofs 9604 1 (autoclean)
opl3 14120 0
sb 37108 0
uart401 6704 0 [sb]
sound 64408 0 [opl3 sb uart401]
soundlow 420 0 [sound]
soundcore 3748 6 [sb sound]
nls_iso8859-1 2276 2 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3784 2 (autoclean)
vfat 11164 2 (autoclean)
fat 32864 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 15112 2 (autoclean)
[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 0, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel 82437VX Triton II (rev 2).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=32.
Bus 0, device 7, function 0:
ISA bridge: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA (rev 1).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capab
le. No bursts.
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: Intel 82371SB PIIX3 IDE (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capab
le. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xffa0 [0xffa1].
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: 3Dfx Unknown device (rev 1).
Vendor id=121a. Device id=5.
Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfc000000 [0xfc000000
].
Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000008].
I/O at 0x7c00 [0x7c01].
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17
).
Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Mast
er Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
I/O at 0x7800 [0x7801].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xffaefc00 [0xffaefc00
].
[root@localhost /root]# cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 31894 XT-PIC timer
1: 223 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 3169 XT-PIC serial
5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 5 XT-PIC ide3
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 18657 XT-PIC ide0
15: 14 XT-PIC ide1
Thank you.
Eric.
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From: Rana Shoaib Ahmad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to run XWindows
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:08:04 GMT
Previously I was using RedHat 6.2 and Windows 98 on my system, and I
was able to run XWindows and Windows 98. Now I reinstalled every thing
on my system. When I installed RedHat, I had to do it in text mode
otherwise the system will just hang up. So after installing it, I
configured XWindows, but still was unable to run it. The system just
hangs there after displaying the usual text mesages and then the screen
goes blank. I cannot use CTL+ALT+DEL or CTL+ALT+BKSPC to exit Linux or
XWindows. One other thing that I noticed was that Windows 98 detected
the display card as standard PCI VGA, but when I installed the Matrox
display drivers, it worked fine.
So what could be wrong here.
Thnaks.
--
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Elsa Synergy II, Sony GDM-W900 and Linux
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 21:27:53 GMT
W.Gdanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I intend to install Linux but I couldn't find any info as to whether there
> is support for my Elsa Synergy II graphic card and special wide screen
That's for you to research. Does xfree86 have a driver for it? If not,
try xig or whoever elese in the commercial world.
> resolutions of my Sony GDM-W900 24" wide screen monitor (I use 1600x1000 at
You can specify whatever kind of resolution, doorstep, flyback time,
etc. etc. etc. that you care to under X. Whether your card and monitor
approve is another matter. There's also the little matter of whether
the driver for the card supports the colur depth you want, or the
acceleration modes you want.
> 85 Hz). All inputs will be appreciated.
Peter
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From: Peter Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parallel port and Linux
Date: 17 Sep 2000 22:11:27 GMT
Hello,
I have some questions concerning the Parallel Port under the 2.4 kernel.
I am building a hardware device to connect to the parport of my computer
and I would like to use EPP mode. However, when I compile the parport
and "PC-Style" and "foreign hardware" options in, the parport is only
detected to be in PCSPP and TRISTATE mode. kernel 2.2.17 can detect the
EPP mode, however. I am forced to use 2.4 because some PCI cards I have
are only supported on 2.4.
Also, when I manually set the parallel port's ioport to 0x378 instead
of letting the bios do it, one of my PCI net cards gets an irq of zero
and refuses to work. *boggle*. The irqs should be different(and they are
specifically different in my kernel init args), I am at a complete loss
for why this happens.
I'm using parport=0x378,5 in my kernel arguments(along with some other
stuff for initializing of the two ether cards I have).
Could someone please recommend me some sites where I could find out
how to write software to interface to the parport? I'm not looking to
write kernel level drivers here...
I have some test programs that must run as root and use outb and inb,
but there must be a better way of doing it.
Thank you.
--
-pete
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From: Michael Burian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anybody got a TV capturing solution to be happy with?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:38:58 +0200
To make it short, I've got a 433Mhz Celeron
and wanna watch TV, hear FM, record both on
Harddisk and put out Video to a vanilla VCR.
quality should be VHS or better, Diskspace for
an hour should be less than 3GB.
So far I've figured 2 possibilities:
1. TV tuner card and Software compression.
Problems: no tuner found with TV out and reasonable hardware
compression.
2. Tuner card + video editting board,
Problems: Buying a professional video editting board would be
a) an overkill, b) too expensive
3. USB Tuner box -> [tv2firewire converter box] -> firewire input
(Anybody tried something like that?, read this in de.comp.tv+video)
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Subject: Re: HELP: Can't detect my ethernet card!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 17 Sep 2000 18:45:32 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric) writes:
> [root@localhost /root]# modprobe tulip
> [root@localhost /root]# lsmod
> Module Size Used by
> tulip 33324 0 (unused)
Also check the output of `ifconfig', e.g., what does `ifconfig eth0'
say? Can you bring the interface up manually? It might be that some
important networking components weren't installed when the card wasn't
detected at install-time.
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Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Bjarne Nygaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ethernet Really Slow in Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:55:42 +0200
Thomas I think you suggest wrong medicine. See below.
Thomas Corriher wrote:
>
> On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 02:57:03 -0600
> Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Okay, I've noticed a large bottleneck on my linux box;
> > I have a Linux box with a 3com 100/10mbit card connected
> > to a D-Link 100mbit switch. Three computers are connected
> > to this switch, the Linux Box, and two winblows boxes.
> > Transfer rates from Linux Box <=> Winblows boxes tops out
> > at transfer rates of 2meg/s ... transfer rates from Winblows
> > <=> Winblows tops out at about 7meg/s. Why are my transfer
> > rates terribly slow from the Linux box.
>
> This could be caused by NFS, if you are using NFS. (It seems
> very likely.) NFS has a reputation of being a notoriously
> slow file sharing service. I have noticed that the speed of
> NFS transfers are greatly effected by the program being used
> to make file copies. I have seen that the common utilities
> such as "cp" and "rsync" are very slow at making NFS
> transfers.
>
Just reconfigure your NFS (in 'fstab') connection to use 'large' blocks:
mix: /mnt/mix nfs rsize=8192,wsize=8192,noauto,timeo=14,intr,user,exec
Substitute as needed for your machine(s).
I still use old cheaper net and is getting close to 1 MByte/s. Usually
between 800-950 kByte/s.
> I have been able to do very fast and massive file transfers
> using the "mirrordir" program.
>
> It could be caused by the combination of NFS and whatever
> other program you are using. You may have to experiment
> to see which program gives the best performance.
>
> --
> From the desk of Thomas Corriher
>
> The real email address is:
> corriher at bellsouth.
> net
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color)
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:24:46 GMT
Skip Gribbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
The 880 will work fine (in fact, extraordinarily well) with the stp
driver from the gimp-print project. You'll need a version after
4.0a3, as this is when 880 and 980 support was added.
To obtain the stp/gimp-print driver, visit http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
Beyond that, we'll need to know which spooler and perhaps which
distribution you use.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I offer consulting services; innovative Linux use a specialty
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anybody got a TV capturing solution to be happy with?
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:30:19 GMT
Michael Burian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> To make it short, I've got a 433Mhz Celeron and wanna watch TV, hear
> FM, record both on Harddisk and put out Video to a vanilla VCR.
Quite. I've got my own "build-a-tivo" style project queued up waiting
for my next burst of free time.
> quality should be VHS or better, Diskspace for an hour should be
> less than 3GB.
This requirement equates to full hardware mpeg support. Last time I
looked, the best that could be done was hardware m-jpeg support, which
takes twice or so this space, albeit with a delightfully offloaded
CPU.
If mjpeg will do, the DC10 (DC10plus?) was an entirely suitable card,
for very little money. There are doubtless others; the DC10 driver
author suggests getting another brand, since the DC10 people were
unhelpful. But then, nothing really equivalent jumped up and found
me when I went looking.
> 1. TV tuner card and Software compression.
> 2. Tuner card + video editting board,
> 3. USB Tuner box -> [tv2firewire converter box] -> firewire input
My cable system is partly scrambled, so this won't work. I'll be
using a consumer IR transmitter dongle to control a standard cable
box, instead of a tuner.
There are also a number of ~$100 serial-to-video-overlay boxes that
might be useful for this sort of project.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I offer consulting services; innovative Linux use a specialty
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: Problems with my modem
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:00:30 GMT
Jonas Strandberg wrote:
> I'm having some problems with my internal modem. It seems to be there but I
> always get this message: "Sorry, modem is busy". I have a "high speed
> faxmodem", internal pci. If I have understood everything correctly, the
> modem is supposed to be configured on /dev/cua01. Is this correct? Another
> problem is that I'm not able to choose that device when I'm configuring
> ppp...
>
> I'm in desperate need of assistance
>
> /Jonas Strandberg
FAQ repository PLEASE!
Standard method for PCI modem (I know nothing about your modem)
As root execute:
lspci -v | less
Find your modem in the output. This should give you:
I/O ports at <ioport>
IRQ <irnumber>
Then execute:
setserial /dev/ttyS2 port <ioport> irq <irnumber> autoconfig
If this works, put this instruction in your rc.serial script.
or, get the driver:
serial-5.04.tar.gz from SourceForge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/serial/
Move to "/usr/src" (as root) and unpack and install in the usual manner.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Hamm)
Subject: Ditto 2GB constantly despooling in Ditto Max Pro Drive
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 01:31:29 +0000
Hi All!
i've got a Ditto Max Pro running with Ftape here on my Linux box.
Normal 5GB tapes can be read just fine, but now, all of my old Ditto 2GB
tapes get constantly despooled.
Some time ago, they could also be read without problems, but now none of
them works.
I don't know where the problem can be. The sensors of the drive are clean,
and the ftape software shouldn't play any role in this.
suggestions? :)
! hamm^frozen^tgdt
-+- http://www.frozenproductions.com
-+- GoldED/LNX 3.0.1-dam2 - the best.
* Origin: [none defined] (2:2471/1445)
.. sang!
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From: "ttfn35" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: PCChips BKMVP4, XFree86,Trident Blade3D chipset
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 01:12:43 +0100
Does XFree86 3.3.x support the TV output
from the onboard Trident Blade3D to be found
on the PCChips BKMVP4 motherboard..
http://www.amptron.com/html/bkmvp4s.html
The chipset is supported according to
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#Blade3D
Amptron has a binary file
http://www.amptron.com/Drivers/VGA/Via/Blade3D/Linux/xf86_svga.gz
Although I'm not sure what running the
binary is supposed to achieve?
Eliminating the donkey work of running xf86config?
At the moment, X is just generating
scrolling kaleidoscopic patterns, albeit
pretty ones.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installin linux redhat 6.2 on wester digiatal wd153aa drive
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:30:06 -0000
I am new to linux and am having hard time installing redhat 6.2 on my hard
drive linux does not see the drive or \tmp\hda. Please help.
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installin linux redhat 6.2 on wester digiatal wd153aa drive
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 20:36:32 -0400
It'd be / not \
and
/dev/hda
if it's on one of the promise controllers, it's probably
/dev/hde
But without knowing more about your system, we can't really be THAT
much of a help.
-SSB
On or about Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:30:06 -0000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
using the forum comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
:I am new to linux and am having hard time installing redhat 6.2 on my hard
:drive linux does not see the drive or \tmp\hda. Please help.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA blues
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:36:17 GMT
Sindh 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
>
What Kernel version do you have? To use DMA66, you need to have v. 2.2.1x
or latter with the ide patch.
Mandrake's web site says they support DMA66 but doesn't say which chip
sets. They say that they only have Kernel v. 2.2.15. There are patches
for v. 2.2.15 and it may have come with it installed, but it is still
possible that your chip set is not supported.
I really don't know for sure about Mandrake, but Red Hat will need new
Kernel and the patch to support DMA66. I have v. 2.2.16 with:
ide.2.2.16.all.20000805.patch" running on my (originally Red Had 6.1)
system.
/dev/hde:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.21 seconds = 20.51 MB/sec
/dev/hde:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.82 seconds = 70.33 MB/sec
Which seems to be an imporvement over DMA33.
JRT
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