Linux-Hardware Digest #634, Volume #13 Tue, 26 Sep 00 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
HELP!!! i810 chipset (Chris Aminal)
Problem with network card. (zris)
Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII system ("John W. Price")
Re: Linmodem situation ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linmodem situation (Edward Lee)
pcmcia config on siemens scenic510 (dongej)
Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro ("Tudor")
Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Compact Flash Card (Hajo)
Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII system (Paul Tiseo)
Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird ("Michael D. Colasono")
Re: Linux+RAID+Win2k dilemma (Emilio Federici)
Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird (Mike Oliver)
problems with USB Zip drive on Red Hat ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Olivetti M4 Modulo P75 ??? (Pierre)
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From: Chris Aminal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!!! i810 chipset
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:14:12 +0200
Hi to everyone!
I have an IBM Aptiva with the intel i810 chipset. My problem is that the
soundcard makes cracking noise while playing soundfiles. The strange
thing is that this problem does not appear all the time, sometimes it
works great. I have active speakers (is that info nessasery??).
This Problem appeares in Win2k and also when the computer is running
under Linux, so I think that this is not a softwareproblem.
I'll be thankful for any kind of help!
Thanx,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zris)
Subject: Problem with network card.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:17:15 GMT
version: Red Hat 6.2
I am having a problem with a network card.
I have an Intel EtherPro 100/ PCI card which was detected and
installed currectly.
Before I installed this card, I had an old D-Link card which I could
not get to work. I tried to delete this file using control-panel and
kernel configuration utility but the entry always shows up as a kernel
module.
What files do I have to delete to remove this entry from the network
interfaces list.
I edited the sysconfig file and removed it from the kernel modules
list but it still shows up in the network interface card.
When I try to activate my Intel NIC it gives me a delaying
ininitalization and fails?
Any help?
chris
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From: "John W. Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII system
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 12:23:22 -0700
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Rui Pedro Mendes Salgueiro wrote:
>
> [ Since this is about motherboards for use in Linux, I crossposted
> to comp.os.linux.hardware. ]
>
> Sylvain Ferrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I try to make a dual-PIII based linux cluster, but I don't know
> > which moterboard to use.
>
> I am in a similar position. One of the vendors I usually work with
> proposed the Gigabyte GA-6VXD7, which is based in a VIA chipset
> (VT82C694X, VT82C686A). One of the reasons I am still hesitating
> is that I have not yet seen someone saying that he is using it
> and it works well.
>
> http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/gigabyte-web/products/6vxd7.htm
>
> (BTW, this motherboard, along with several other Gigabyte motherboards
> use a Creative CT5880 sound chip, which I think is the same or similar
> to the sound chips used in Sound Blaster boards. Is this supported by
> Linux ?)
>
> Some people in this group (pc.hardware.chips) have praised Serverworks
> chipsets. While searching for dual processor boards on Asus web page,
> I found this one:
> http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/pentiumpro/cur-dls/index.html
>
> It costs more than $700 (pricewatch: $695), so, even considering that
> it integrates a graphics chip (only 4 MB), an ethernet chip and maybe
> a SCSI controller (I am not sure about that), it is a bit expensive.
>
> > I thought to the MSI-6321 (aka 694D pro)
>
> http://www.msicomputer.com/products/detail.asp?ProductID=150
>
> It is also based on the VIA 694X chipset. Most characteristics seem
> similar to the Gigabyte (at a glance, I don't have time now to do
> a point by point comparison, but I already noticed that it doesn't
> have the "Dual BIOS" (or similar feature) that Gigabyte has).
>
> Seems interesting and I could also get one of these, so I would also
> be interested in comments on it. At $150 in Pricewatch the price is
> also interesting.
>
> > but some users report some
> > trouble about this under linux or while making intensive computations.
> > Does some of you try this motherboard?
> > Do you know some good dual PIII motherboad?
> > Which dual-PIII motherboad do you use in yours clusters or workstations?
>
> --
> http://www.mat.uc.pt/~rps/f1/ an half-tifoso until Canada 2000
> Mark Sandman - Morphine, RIP (1952-1999/07/03, Italy)
> .pt is Portugal| `Whom the gods love die young'-Menander (342-292 BC)
> Europe | Villeneuve 50-82, Toivonen 56-86, Senna 60-94
I have been using an ASUS P2B-DS, which supports my two 700 MHz P3s just
fine. It has graphics and SCSI onboard. They have a page at
<http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/Pentiumpro/P2b-ds/index.html>,
which unfortunately is out of date (they don't list P3 capability).
Pricewatch shows a price of $414 for this board as of this writing.
John
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Where there is no solution, there is no problem.
-- John G. Price (my father), ca. 1975.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linmodem situation
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:29:24 GMT
I did link /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS15 and even though I have my irq, i/o
port, and UART configured correctly for that device file, I still have
the "modem is busy" issue. I'm running a much newer kernel so I did
recompile the module to account for that. I probably will never be
able to get it to work, but if I do, I'll let you know. It would be
pretty cool.
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linmodem situation
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 13:12:57 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I did link /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS15 and even though I have my irq, i/o
> port, and UART configured correctly for that device file, I still have
> the "modem is busy" issue. I'm running a much newer kernel so I did
> recompile the module to account for that. I probably will never be
> able to get it to work, but if I do, I'll let you know. It would be
> pretty cool.
>
If you are running kernel newer 2.2.14, you need the matching modules as
well.
Go check out http://linnix.com.
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From: dongej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pcmcia config on siemens scenic510
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 22:22:54 +0100
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i have problems with configering pcmcia on my siemens scenic 510.
part of the output from /var/log/messages are hereby included.
(yes, i have read the PCMCIA HOWTO.)
any suggestions?
thanks johan
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12:58:44 kernel: Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3)
#1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998
blah blah
12:58:46 kernel: Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5
12:58:46 kernel: kernel build: 2.0.36 unknown
12:58:46 kernel: options: [pci] [cardbus]
12:58:46 kernel: Intel PCIC probe:
12:58:46 kernel: O2Micro OZ6832 CardBus at mem 0x68000000, 2 sockets
12:58:46 kernel: host opts [0]: [a ff] [b ff] [c f7] [d bf] [mhpg ff] [fifo ff]
[e fe] [pci irq 9] [lat 168/176] [bus 32/34]
12:58:46 kernel: host opts [1]: [a 38] [b 18] [c 00] [d 28] [mhpg 3c] [fifo 18]
[e 00] [pci irq 9] [lat 168/176] [bus 35/37]
12:58:46 kernel: ISA irqs (default) = 3,4,5,7,10,11,12 status change on irq 11
12:58:47 cardmgr[200]: starting, version is 3.0.5
12:58:48 cardmgr[200]: watching 2 sockets
12:58:48 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding nothing: probe failed.
12:58:48 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f
0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f 0x398-0x39f 0x4d0-0x4d7
12:58:48 kernel: cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
12:58:50 kernel: cs: socket 0 timed out during reset
blah blah
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From: "Tudor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rage Fury Pro/Xpert 2000 Pro
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:18:04 +0300
Hi!
I have this video card with Rage128Pro chip, and I'm not able to set X. I
use RH 6.2.
Can anybody give me a solution? (I'm not very good in hard setings)
-- Tudor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:59:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Now surely I am not alone in having two IDE CD drives on the same
bus,
> > one of which is a RW. What recommendations do you have?
>
> It works for me.
>
> I compiled my kernel with:
> Block Devices - SCSI emulation support
> SCSI Support - SCSI CD-ROM support, SCSI Generic support
>
> I then put:
> append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
> into my lilo.conf
>
Tried that and it only finds one of the two devices :-<
Steve
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From: Hajo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compact Flash Card
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 07:54:32 +0200
Hi
if there a way to read from a compactflash card?
I have tested an SCSI II PCMCIA reader, an USB reader but all won't
work.
I would take the fotos from my casio 3000 to my harddisk without windows
XXXX.
Hajo
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From: Paul Tiseo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII system
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:14:03 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> I have been using an ASUS P2B-DS, which supports my two 700 MHz P3s just
> fine. It has graphics and SCSI onboard. They have a page at
> <http://www.asus.com.tw/products/motherboard/Pentiumpro/P2b-ds/index.html>,
> which unfortunately is out of date (they don't list P3 capability).
> Pricewatch shows a price of $414 for this board as of this writing.
The Asus board is a great board if Slot 1 is fine for the poster.
Also, Tyan makes fine dual boards also, except for their newest VIA-
based board as I mentioned. Those two companies are the ones I usually
turn to for good dual boards that are "server-worthy".
If he is making many systems (as might be interpreted with the
cluster reference.) the ability to use FCPGA and low-height rackmounts
might also be beneficial space-wise, though.
____________________________________________________
Paul Tiseo, Intermediate Systems Programmer
Birdsall 3, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville
4500 San Pablo Rd, FL, 32224
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- (904) 953-8254
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From: "Michael D. Colasono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:40:46 GMT
Mike Oliver wrote:
>
> I'm considering buying an Athlon 850 MHz upgrade kit from Fry's. I
> don't currently have any Linux installed but would like to install
> Linux RH6.2 in a triple-boot with Win95/WinNT, on a new 30.7GB
> UDMA/100 HD. Does anyone see any red flags in that setup?
yes, winders 95. The idiot who specified these computers we're using here at work
specified winders 95 due to reasons only a rank amature would entertain as
being valid reasons. He also put two cds in one reader once -
sounded like it was going to self-destruct! Claimed they were stuck together.
Anyway, when I went out and bought a second win 95 thinking I'd get OSR2,
I found that win 95a was still on the shelves. Overstock, no doubt. We have OSR2
here at work and it crashes much more often than my win98 at home. 98 has more
features and some nice enhancements.
Aside from that, you should be ok. Install 98 first on the 1st primary partition.
Convert it to FAT 32.
NT should go next, since it will overwrite the boot sector and provide a dual boot
deal of its own. you don't want it to mess with a linux boot record - more later.
I used to use system comander for my multi-boot requirments. Somehow it got trashed
and
I've lost confidence - i tried all the fixes I know. Now someone on one of these
linux
forums has praised a boot loader from xosl.org called xosl. I'm going to try it.
It's free, also.
NT can go on a logical partition if you want. Someone recently said that fdisk
couldn't
handle this scheme, but I've done it often enough to know. You can also play with
partitions
using Powerquest Partition Magic. Warning - If, after installing Linux you decide to
resize
partitions and you slide one up to make room for another, or delete one in the
middle
( you can't delete the first primary - you must have a minimum of one unless you go
with
linux only) , causing a drive letter change, all winders shortcuts and registry
entries pointing
to other partitions will be broken -- if you do like I do and keep apps and data on
logical partitions (It makes it easy to restore a trashed os partition from backup
without having to
reload apps and data.) As for linux, the DOS drive letter change cooresponds to a
partition name
change. Linux won't boot all the way and you'll end up in single user (root)
maintainence mode.
If you look at the mtab file, you'll realize that /root was mounted on say, hda6.
But now
there's a new or deleted partition so this could be hda5 or hda7. Just edit the
file. If there's
anything else you can break doing this (re-partitioning) - I don't know. I was lucky
enough to
be able to recover this way.
Now for linux and it's boot record. It's been reommended that the boot record be put
on the linux
/root partition. This is good advice. System commander can be pointed to it from
the
alt-s add/remove selection menu, if memory serves me correctly. I had a prob with SC
finding it
so I used Norton Disk Edit to lift the boot record off /root and paste it to the
MBR - the "real"
MBR of the disk or the 1st sector. SC then detected a new os and hooked me up.
Another
trick i used was to boot from the linux boot disk ( the one made at install time),
shut down,
reboot and add the selection as MBR from file - the file being boot.dat which is how
SC
saves the last os booted (double chk the help files for this file name). The other
way is to
save the boot record to the MBR and SC will detect it and save it. This will be the
only copy
on har disk however and if it gets trashed you'll have to use the MBR from file
trick above
or boot from floppy and rewrite LILO to the MBR.
But as I said, I'm going to try xosl. It looks great from what I saw on the xosl web
site.
I almost forgot - I recommend that you get a small hard drive for the swap partition
and files
you won't access often from linux (winders files?). This will keep your drive heads
from
thrashing back and forth between the linux partitions with progs/data and /swap.
Or you might just use one big disk for winders and /swap and another for linux.
By keeping the secondary IDE drive all linux you won't have any weird drive letter
probs
from dumbass winders 'cause winders is too stupid to see non-winders partition types
(thank GOD - it would probably try to format them)
except maybe OS2. If 98 was on the 1st drive 1st par and NT was on the 2nd drive
1st part you might get some weird stuff. It's all explained in the books for SC and
Part Magic.
Hope you like your new system - it sounds cool to me.
Best Regards,
mike
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From: Emilio Federici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux+RAID+Win2k dilemma
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:42:33 GMT
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>
> Emilio Federici wrote:
> > I've been using loadlin in order to prevent lilo from complaining
> > about the RAID0 not supported and/or the fact that the Windows
> > partition is located two far from the beginning of the HD (I don't
> > remember what cylinder number is the limit).
>
> The limit is 1024 cylinders. There is some other bootloader... Maybe the
> name was numi or something like that. Try a search at freshmeat. That
> one doesn't have the BIOS limitations that LILO has.
>
> > Disk /dev/hde: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19906 cylinders
>
> With LBA you might be able to decrease the number of cylinders.
>
> regards Henrik
I solved the problem of multi-booting the two OSes with xosl
(http://www.xosl.org) a very interesting full-graphic bootloader.
But I still have to complain that LILO isn't able to boot the RAID0
partition giving this error:
Fatal: Only RAID1 devices are supported for boot images
--
Emilio Federici
NUOVO INDIRIZZO-> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <- NUOVO INDIRIZZO
ICQ:27013758
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From: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 14:59:01 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Michael D. Colasono" wrote:
>
> Mike Oliver wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm considering buying an Athlon 850 MHz upgrade kit from Fry's. I
> > don't currently have any Linux installed but would like to install
> > Linux RH6.2 in a triple-boot with Win95/WinNT, on a new 30.7GB
> > UDMA/100 HD. Does anyone see any red flags in that setup?
>
> yes, winders 95. The idiot who specified these computers we're using here at work
> specified winders 95 due to reasons only a rank amature would entertain as
> being valid reasons. He also put two cds in one reader once -
> sounded like it was going to self-destruct! Claimed they were stuck together.
>
> Anyway, when I went out and bought a second win 95 thinking I'd get OSR2,
> I found that win 95a was still on the shelves. Overstock, no doubt.
No. OSR stands for "OEM Service Release". OSR2 was never released
as a retail product; it was available only with a new machine.
> Aside from that, you should be ok. Install 98 first on the 1st primary partition.
> Convert it to FAT 32.
No can do, at least unless I upgrade the NT to Win2K. WinNT 4.0's boot loader
can't read a FAT32 partition. Also, I heard someone say something that
makes me think if your boot partition is FAT32 then you can't boot to
exclusive DOS mode. Do you know if that's true? That would be a
definite downside, mainly because I like to run SCANDISK from exclusive
DOS mode.
>
> (thank GOD - it would probably try to format them)
> except maybe OS2. If 98 was on the 1st drive 1st par and NT was on the 2nd drive
> 1st part you might get some weird stuff. It's all explained in the books for SC and
> Part Magic.
No, my plan is:
1st drive 1st partition -- Win95, or WinME if I upgrade
1st drive 2nd partition -- WinNT
2nd drive -- reserved for Linux
Thanks for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: problems with USB Zip drive on Red Hat
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:46:59 GMT
Hi,
I have 433MHz Celeron laptop with Red Hat 6.2 (and windows) installed.
I upgraded to kernel 2.2.16-22 and have tried unsuccessfully to get my
USB Zip100 drive to work.
I load the following modules:
usbcore.o
usb-uhci.o
usb-storage.o
When I try to mount it using:
mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
I get the following error message:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
I have also tried using sdaX, hddX, sdcX, ... to no avail.
When I look at /var/log/messages, I get the following error:
kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1
kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 2
kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address (error=-110)
It seems strange that it detects 2 ports when I only have one USB
port.
Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks - Joe
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Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:01:46 +0200
From: Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Olivetti M4 Modulo P75 ???
Ok, I'll try that.
But is Trident chipset supported by X ? If not, I won't try anything
further.
Thanks and regards,
Pierre.
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> Pierre wrote:
> > I am quickly stopped. I tried ReadHat 6.1/6.2, Suse 6.3 and Corel and
> > I always got the same display problem very soon during the
> > installation.The display is not updated anymore and nothing is
> > diplayed on the screen while some activity remains on the cdrom ( a
> > few seconds).
>
> Maybe you could try Slackware instead which doesn't try to start X
> during installation.
>
> regards Henrik
> --
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> root@localhost
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