Linux-Hardware Digest #646, Volume #13 Thu, 28 Sep 00 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Epson 610 scanner and SuSE 7 (Dirk Busche)
asus p3vx4 wont load linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: sym8751SPE - low performance (Johan Kullstam)
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card ("Winston Kriger")
Re: What platforms can linux run? (Christopher Browne)
Re: CANON LBP-4i (Christopher Browne)
Re: Video and Sound card suggestions? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Q: VIA-KT133 VGA interrupt not listed (Dances With Crows)
SCSI/CD-Writer problems (Jan Kreft)
CANNON LBP-910 ("chenxq")
Re: ATI Xpert (Rage 128, AGP) - RedHat 7 ("Brian")
Re: HELP!!! i810 chipset audio chipmunks (Andrew Donkin)
Re: soundcard of inteli810? (Russell Perkins)
Re: SCSI/CD-Writer problems (Joshua Baker-LePain)
CPU or Motherboard more likely to crash system? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Aureal Sound Cards ("Mox Fulder")
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From: Dirk Busche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson 610 scanner and SuSE 7
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:31:30 +0200
Hi all,
my USB-Scanner Epson 610 doesn't work with sane from SuSE7. The
USB-module
recognized the scanner correctly, and xscaneimage and xsane are starting
up
to the preview window. During startup a message appears on the
commandline.
(not exactly, but nearly)
[epson] unknown type R or level K, using B3
If I try to scan the program causes an error. What's the cause?
yours Dirk
PS: I edited the modules.conf and /etc/sane.d/epson.conf as described by
Karl Heinz Kremer. The kernelmodul-stuff seems to work fine. But sane
does not.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: asus p3vx4 wont load linux
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 21:26:08 GMT
i have a asus p3vx4 motherboard with a 866 mhz
intel chip. win98 loads and runs no problems.
redhat 6.2, suse 6.4 and the new caldera 2.4
kernel developers release all bomb on
installation. redhat reboots or hangs as it
copies files to the disk. suse hangs copying
files. caldera hangs in the post configuration
phase. the p3vx4 has a via vt82c694 system core
chip. any thoughts or help? thanks.
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Before you buy.
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Subject: Re: sym8751SPE - low performance
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 22:27:51 GMT
Tom Assmuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks Johan 4 answering :-)
>
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
>
> > ok this looks good.
>
> yes indeed it _was_ good :-(
here is what i've got set wrt my sym8751sp card
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PQS_PDS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT=y
you might want to set symbios compatibility since you aren't running
an old ncr chipset. this will enable some minor improvements and new
capabilities of the 53c875 over an old revision of 53c810.
> > > for the new kernel i took the followng switches:
> > >
> > >
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400=y
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_MEM is not set
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_INITIO=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_INIA100=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_IMM=m
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_EPP16 is not set
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_IZIP_SLOW_CTR is not set
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_SIM710=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync=y
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST is not set
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT=y
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX is not set
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=8
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=64
> > > CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=40
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PROFILE is not set
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_IOMAPPED is not set
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_PQS_PDS is not set
> > > # CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT is not set
say yes to CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYMBIOS_COMPAT
> > 40 MB/sec is FAST-20 plus 16 bit WIDE transfers. FAST-40 is the
> > newer LVD standard. afaik there are no 8 bit LVD FAST-40 devices.
> > hence FAST-40 in practice implies WIDE and thus 80 MB/sec.
>
> ok, i see, one or two of the DNES are lvd, but they work here in
> the normal way
yes.
> > btw are you using RAID5? RAID5 involves a fair amount of traffic on
> > the SCSI bus since it's sending/reading stuff from many disks at
> > once. that's why hardware raid controllers have multiple scsi
> > channels.
>
> no only raid0 (i do not need redundancy but high performance
> instead)
what are you using to measure performance? hdparm, bonnie, bonnie++?
have you checked the disk system performance in the usual, non-md mode?
--
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: "Winston Kriger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:34:28 -0500
"Andrew Werden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:d6Jy5.7061$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've just loaded Redhat 6.2 on an old Gateway 166 previously running NT
4.0.
> Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO).
It
> neither starts the ethernet adaptor, nor recognizes any interrupts for it.
>
> Any idea how I can get my network card working?
I have RedHat 6.2 running on an old Zeos 486 Mobo with Etherlink IIIB Combo
card.
I first installed it with the WIN-95B OS and disabled the PNP mode using the
3COM
utility. Then, when I did the Text install of LINUX, I was prompted to
install 2 devices
that were not configured. One was the SCSI adapter (Adaptec 1520B) and the
other was the Etherlink III. While I had to manually configure the SCSI
parms, LINUX
figured out the PORT and IRQ for the Etherlink III all by itself. It worked
without any
problems--including figuring-out that I was using the 10-base-2 Coax mode.
Winston K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: What platforms can linux run?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:52:48 GMT
In our last episode (Wed, 27 Sep 2000 18:06:19 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Lew Pitcher said:
>On 27 Sep 2000 16:30:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Acher) wrote:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Holy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>|> What platforms can linux run? (besides the x86-based platforms such as
>>|> PIII, notebook)
>>
>>>ls /usr/src/linux/arch/
>>
>>alpha/ i386/ m68k/ mips64/ s390/ sparc/
>>arm/ ia64/ mips/ ppc/ sh/ sparc64/
>>
>>sh is the Hitachi SuperH RISC CPU, the remaining should be fairly
>>known...
>
>and s390 is IBM's S/390 mainframe architecture (yes Linux can run a
>real mainframe <g>)
... And this doesn't include the "less-well-known" ports to the HP
PA-RISC architecture (apparently now working) as well as a version
that is running on some "earlier-than-80386" processors (ELKS). Most
unusual is a project to attempt a port to the IBM AS/400 platform,
which is heavily modified PPC...
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@" "hex.net")
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/linux.html>
Rules of the Evil Overlord #58. "If it becomes necessary to escape, I
will never stop to pose dramatically and toss off a one-liner."
<http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: CANON LBP-4i
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:53:08 GMT
In our last episode (Wed, 27 Sep 2000 00:10:31 +0200),
the artist formerly known as Tajvidi said:
>I'm looking for a driver for my Canon LBP-4i printer
Have you consulted the Ghostscript Printer Compatibility Page?
<http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html>
That is the usual place to look when asking such questions.
If it doesn't exist, the source code for Ghostscript is available, and
I'm sure others would appreciate it if you implemented the driver.
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@" "hex.net")
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/printing.html>
Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Video and Sound card suggestions?
Date: 29 Sep 2000 01:25:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 18:18:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am going to be building myself a new Linux box and I'm going to be
>getting a new video card and sound card. Do any of you have any
>personal experience with good quality cards (no problems, impressive
>output) with Linux and XFree86? I'm looking for any suggestions as to
>what I should buy.
>I am especially interested in vendors that are willing to release a lot
>of programming information for their products (or especially those that
>have voiced support for Linux).
"Impressive output" is hard to qualify with things that are as
subjective as sound and graphics. However, a friend of mine bought a
Matrox G400 to put in his new system, and he's been loving it. 3D
performance is not quite as sharp as the latest greatest GeeWhizPhorce
3000, but 2D is extremely fast, colors are great, and Matrox is pretty
friendly to the Xfree86 people.
I'm not an audiophile, but I like the Ensoniq AudioPCI cards for sound.
They're cheap, deliver decent sound, and I've never had any problems
getting them to work under Linux. You may be happier with a
SoundBlaster Live/128/whatever they're selling now.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Q: VIA-KT133 VGA interrupt not listed
Date: 29 Sep 2000 01:25:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 17:44:06 +0200, Bernhard K�pper wrote:
>Mainboard MSI K7T-Pro (VIA KT133 chipset)
>AMD Thunderbird 800 MHz
>Graphiccard ELSA GloriaII (nVidia Quadro)
>SuSE Linux 7.0 Prof. (kernel 2.2.16)
>
>The output from 'cat /proc/pci' shows that the VGA card has the IRQ 11.
>But 'cat /proc/interrupts' does not show IRQ 11 at all. I'm not sure if
>this can lead to a problem but I like to exclude any configuration
>error before complaining the brand new EIZO F980 monitor.
^^^^^^^^^^^
?? Ich nicht sprechen Deutsch, is this an idiom I've managed to miss?
Anyway, video cards do not use interrupts under Linux. The video card
has an interrupt to enable a number of things that Xfree86 does not use,
or at least that's what I read somewhere. Besides, PCI (and AGP) cards
can share IRQs with other PCI cards, so if you were to throw in an
Ethernet card that wanted IRQ 11, you'd still be OK.
If the monitor isn't in the database of monitors you see with your X
configuration program (SaX, Xconfigurator, XF86Setup, etc.) then you can
get it to work fine--just look in the monitor's manual for the Hsync and
Vsync ranges, and enter those (usually in the "advanced" dialog box of
the program you're using.)
>VIAs driver set inludes an IRQ routing miniport driver, is this
>something I need for Linux too or is it already in the kernel?
I've heard of several people using that board, and they didn't report
problems. WinXX and Linux handle IRQs a bit differently, so there's no
need to assume that what's needed under WinXX is needed in Linux.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Kreft)
Subject: SCSI/CD-Writer problems
Date: 28 Sep 2000 15:49:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at cardiff.ac.uk
I bought an Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI card and an external Plextor CD-R
PX-W124TS and just can't get them to work.
I have already updated all software that I can think of, to no avail.
Updated firmware of SCSI card and CD-R,
compiled latest kernel 2.4.0-test8, cdrecord 1.9.
I can occasionally mount a normal CDROM in the CD-R,
but most of the time this fails.
If it does succeed, I can copy the stuff on the cd
onto the harddisk without problems.
So I guess the hardware should be OK?
Also, I can write onto CD-RW in -dummy mode of cdrecord, but it fails
when fixating. Trying the same without -dummy mode,
it fails at the beginning of the
write procedure.
I'm absolutely at my wits end. What can be wrong?
Thanks, Jan.
--
Jan Kreft
Cardiff University
Kreft at cardiff.ac.uk
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From: "chenxq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CANNON LBP-910
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 10:51:50 +0900
I am looking for the driver for CANNON LBP-910 printer. I have tried some
other drivers, but all of them failed.
Can anyone help me?
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert (Rage 128, AGP) - RedHat 7
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:02:53 GMT
> Are you sure that you actually run XFree 4.0.1?
Well I guess I don't know... I thought that was what RedHat 7 used by
default... Well then, I wonder why the video card isn't working properly...
hmmm....
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Subject: Re: HELP!!! i810 chipset audio chipmunks
From: Andrew Donkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 29 Sep 2000 14:29:43 +1200
Chris Aminal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an IBM Aptiva with the intel i810 chipset. My problem is that the
> soundcard makes cracking noise [sometimes]
I haven't got that far. The i810_audio driver in the kernel is no good
for me; sounds come out extremely quietly and massively garbled. So I
turned to the ALSA project.
The ALSA intel-8x0 driver *nearly* works, but it plays samples 15% fast:
droids.au: Sun/NeXT audio data: 8-bit ISDN u-law, mono, 8000 Hz
tbirds2.au: Sun/NeXT audio data: 8-bit ISDN u-law, mono, 8012 Hz
Timings from "cat > /dev/audio"
Normally Intel audio
droids.au 0m32.073s 0m27.469s
tbirds2.au 0m54.047s 0m46.308s
If you have any tips on that, please let me know. My next test will be
to replace pgcc with gcc-2.95.2 and rebuild everything.
Here is what I have so far:
Module Size Used by
snd-pcm-oss 18792 0 (autoclean)
snd-pcm-plugin 13192 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss 4500 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-card-intel8x0 2368 0 (autoclean)
snd-intel8x0 7984 0 [snd-card-intel8x0]
snd-pcm 36952 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-intel8x0]
snd-timer 10752 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 27008 0 [snd-intel8x0]
snd-mixer 29584 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ac97-codec]
snd 44652 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin ... ]
soundcore 2788 2 [snd]
e100 26231 1 (autoclean)
# cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [card1 ]: ICH - Intel ICH 82801BA
Intel ICH 82801BA at 0x2000, irq 11
# cat /proc/asound/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.9c emulation code)
Kernel: Linux 2.2.17 #12 Thu Sep 28 14:40:24 NZST 2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
Intel ICH 82801BA at 0x2000, irq 11
Audio devices:
0: Intel ICH (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: Analog Devices (60)
Slackware 7.1, pgcc-2.95.2.
--
_________________________________________________________________________
Andrew Donkin Waikato University, Hamilton, New Zealand
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From: Russell Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundcard of inteli810?
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:44:36 -0700
Don't know what i810 mb IBM uses, I have an i810 mb that uses the
Ensonic es1371 driver. Works fine.
Chris Animal wrote:
>
> Hi to everyone!
>
> My problem is that my Soundcard (Alsaconf calls itIntel Corporation 82801AA
> 82810 AC'97 (rev 02); the driver is snd-card-intel8x0) does not work really
> fine. Sometimes it workes good, but sometimes it makes cracking noise
> (esecially at high volume parts of the sound) while playing sounds. This
> Problem also apeares in the same way when I run it under Win2000.
> I heared something about an intern volume button? on the motherboard, but I
> did't dare to change anythin inside of my computer.
> My computeri s an IBM APTIVA 433Mhz (maybe htis information helps).
>
> I'll be thankful for any kind of help.
>
> Thanx,
> Chris
> --
--
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI/CD-Writer problems
Date: 29 Sep 2000 02:54:19 GMT
Jan Kreft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I bought an Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI card and an external Plextor CD-R
> PX-W124TS and just can't get them to work.
> I have already updated all software that I can think of, to no avail.
> Updated firmware of SCSI card and CD-R,
> compiled latest kernel 2.4.0-test8, cdrecord 1.9.
1) Is termination enabled on the burner? If it's the last device on
the chain, it must be terminated.
2) Does the cable/adapter going from the card to the burner actively
terminate the high bit? This is essential in going from the Wide
card to the narrow device.
3) Did you sacrifice the appropriate goat(s) to your SCSI chain?
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CPU or Motherboard more likely to crash system?
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:48:56 GMT
My system crashes about once a month or so and I've narrowed it down
to either the motherboard or cpu. Does anyone know which of the two
are more likely to crash the system? I have an AMD 333mhz CPU and a
rather generic motherboard - but both are pretty new.
The system merely freezes for no apparent reason, and when it does
this the screen sort of dims a bit with a greenish hue accompanying
it as if losing colors, and Ctrl-alt-del does NOT work to reboot.
When checking out the motherboard and cup prices at a local computer
shop the guys laughed when I told them how often it crahsed "once a
month?!". I told them that might be very common for windows users but
I run linux ;)
-Tony
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Before you buy.
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From: "Mox Fulder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Aureal Sound Cards
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:04:49 -0500
I've been trying without success to get my Aureal AudioPCI sound card
working under Linux for a couple of months. I've tried all of the
versions of the drivers provided by linux.aureal.com, but none have
worked. When I install the drivers, they compile correctly and the
modules are installed, and XMMS ceases to complain that the sound card is
incorrectly configured. However, I can't get any sound at all, in any
program. I've noticed one weird thing:
My CDROM drive has a "Play" button on the front. Under Windoze, this
button will play a music CD through the sound card without any software
intervention. However, this does not work under Linux with the aureal
drivers installed.
Does anybody have experience getting this card to work or any additional
insight? I've heard other people say it was a breeze ... not so for me.
Just for reference, I'm running Red Hat 6.2 with 2.2.17 kernel, but I've
also tried installing the drivers under 2.2.14
Thanks in advance!
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