Linux-Hardware Digest #655, Volume #13 Sun, 1 Oct 00 07:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: linux on HP Pavilion ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Intellieye Explorer in linux ("John Smith")
ATA/100 drives with Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux doesn't shows my ram (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system.. (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: Modem problem (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII linux system? ("Jay Norwood")
Help with scsi!.. (Walter Wickersham)
Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install ("Stig S�rensen")
need help to get creative card work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system.. (Trent Piepho)
Lost Partition(s) ("Christopher Howard")
Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3 (Arne Schmitz)
Roland SCC-1 (Arne Schmitz)
Re: Promise Ultra66 Driver (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install ("visor-palm John")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux on HP Pavilion
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 04:31:11 GMT
I was successful in installing linux on my parents HP Pavilion. I
believe it was a 5000 series. Initially, I tried using red hat 6.2 but
had trouble installing extra kernel modules, etc. in order to get the
intel i810 mobo integrated video capabilities working and run KDE
and/or Gnome. What I ended up using is suse 6.4. The installation was
almost flawless. The only issue I had to contend with was configuring
the sound card. that was easily solved by correcting some driver
issues. As for the modem, I don't know if you have a winmodem, my
parents did so using it was out of the question. What I would
recommend is buying Suse linux 7.0. If you have a Best Buy store in
your area, its on sale there for only 24.99. I heard slackware has
worked pretty good on an HP but I can only speak from my experience
with Suse, so that's what i suggest.
Have fun
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Emad Tajkhorshid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an HP Pvilion series 8755 PC. I would like to run linux on
> it, and keep the possibility of occasionally booting in Windows. I
> get several problems installing red-Hat 6.2 on the machine. Has
> anybody successfully installed Linux on these machines. I appreciate
> the response.
>
> --
> Emad
> ------------------
> Emad Tajkhorshid http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~emad
> Theoretical Biophysics Group
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> 405 N. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801
> Tel: (217)244-5042 Fax: (217)244-6078 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intellieye Explorer in linux
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 00:36:49 -0400
I am running the lates version of debian. I can't get my mouse to work...
is there anything special that i have to do
to get it to work...
i am using the usb to ps/2 converter becuase i beleive the stable version of
the kernel won't support usb...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATA/100 drives with Linux
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 06:02:28 GMT
I'm considering the purchase of an ATA/100 IDE drive in the near
future. I was wondering if I am going to have any problems installing
Linux on the drive, or if there was anything special I had to do to get
it to work as it should. Also, can anyone suggest a good drive to get?
Also, as a side thought, does or XFree86 (or Linux in general) have any
trouble with the MS Intellimouse Explorer? And does anyone out there
like/use optical mice (other brands)?
Thanks in advance,
Nick
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux doesn't shows my ram
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:09:49 -0400
Chris Animal wrote:
>
> Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 20:36:00 +0200, Chris Animal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >Hello!
> > >
> > >I've just bought 64 MB ram for my computr and installed it. When I'm
> > >running win2000 the system knows that I've got 128MB (64+64) now.
> >
> > Ahhh, yes, grasshopper.
> >
> > Your BIOS lies to both LILO (Linux) and Win2000 and tells them both
> > that there is only 64M in your system. Win2000 doesn't believe it and
> > checks itself, but LILO, on the other hand, trusts the BIOS and
> > accepts this figure.
>
> I'm not sure if that is really the reason because I looked in my BIOS -
> settings and it said that I have 128MB ram.
> But I think I'll try to get the newest LILO anyway.
INT 12H (Get Memory Size service) returns the amount of memory (in
Kbytes) in AX. This is a 16bit value that can range from 0 to 65535,
and represents memory range from 1K to 65536K (or 64M).
INT 12H is used by external programs to query the BIOS about the
amount of memory, and the BIOS returns a value within the range
described, showing 64M even when the system actually has more memory.
This is not the service the BIOS uses internally when you enter it's
maintenance mode.
As I said, when the BIOS is asked how much memory is in the system
(INT 12H), it lies.
Programs are now learning not to trust this figure, and are either
calling the extended BIOS routine that returns the proper value (not
present in all BIOS'), or are computing the value themselves. The most
current version of LILO no longer trusts the value returned by INT
12H; I don't know how it determines the actual size of memory in the
absence of INT 12H, but I'd guess that it calls the extended BIOS
interrupt instead.
[rest of post snipped]
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system..
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:29:27 -0700
"Richard F. Jr." wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I will soon be building a new box and would like to make it SMP.
> But am having trouble picking a board, any help ? I have used the
> Supermicro P6DBE, 440BX board before, but I get conflicting reports on
> it's max speed, some say it's a max at 450, others 700 or even 800MHz...
They are all wrong. It's 600 MHz, actually. Haven't you read the manual? But no
coppermines, of course, you would have to get old Katmai P3s.
> I love this board and use it in a Dual PII 400MHz NT Workstation, any one
> have a board like this for P2 / P3, with IDE ATA66 / 100 ???
>
> Socket 1 or 370 is fine... I just need a reliable Linux board !
> And I hate built in stuff...! (Sound / Video / NIC)
>
There are a couple of VIA chipset boards (Tyan, MSI) that have what you are
looking for. Not sure about Linux, but Solaris seems to be running well.
--
Vladimir
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem problem
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 23:47:21 -0700
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I have an old 14.4kbs modem attached to my serial port. I got the card
> >> off a friend who has had it working under linux (so it's not a
> >> winmodem). The card works fine on my dual boot machine under the Evil
> >> Empire (98 edition) but not under linux.
> >>
> >> The card is attached to COM4, with irq of 3, port address of 0x02e8 and
> >> uart of 16550A according to Windoze.
>
> Two things:
>
> a) Classical IRQ problem. You have configured a /dev/ttyS3 port with
> the IRQ of /dev/ttyS1, which will most probably not work (unless
> you disabled the secondary onboard port in the system's BIOS).
> Set the port's IRQ to something unused, like e.g. IRQ 5, if there's
> a jumper on the card to do that.
>
I can surely attest that this is not the case. For example, I have 3 modems: ISA
PnP, PCI and external. They all work, even though two of them (external on ttyS1
and ISA on ttyS3) share IRQ3. No, they don't work at the same time, of course,
but if I relink /dev/modem I can dial out with any of them. There's no need to
disable any ports in the BIOS.
/dev/ttyS0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4 (mouse)
/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3 (ext)
/dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xe400, IRQ: 11 (PCI)
/dev/ttyS3, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3 (ISA)
> b) Just adding the card is not enough. You'll have to use the
> "setserial" command to tell Linux about the actual settings
> of the serial port. See "man setserial" for details.
>
--
Vladimir
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From: "Jay Norwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which motherboad for a dual-PIII linux system?
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 07:21:16 GMT
Have you actually tried an S2510?
Jay
"Mark Slicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qtoff$l0m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would recommend Tyan S2510. On this page
> http://www.compute-aid.com/rack1u.html, there is
> a link about that board.
>
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From: Walter Wickersham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with scsi!..
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 07:26:08 GMT
Hi, i'm using a adaptec aha1542cf with a 800mb seagate scsi drive,
trying to add it to a mostly ide system.... i can load the scsi module,
and the one for the 1542, and it loads fine, even spits out a blurb
about the drive's model number.... but how do i fdisk it?.. i've tried
fdisk /dev/sda and it says 'cannot access /dev/sda' (same message you
get as if there's nothing there)
Can anyone point me in a direction on this?...
-Walter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Stig S�rensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,cz.comp.linux.redhat-cz
Subject: Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 09:56:28 +0200
-Run the installer in textmode.
-Try RH7.0.
/Stig
"visor-palm John" <j$ohn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8r5uqv$k5t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sony VAIO PCG-F580: Pentium III 650Mhz, 256Mb RAM, 6Mb video memory, 12 G
> hard-drive
> Display Adapter: NeoMagic MagicMedia256XL+ (v016)
> Display: 15" XGA TFT
>
> RedHat 6.1 CD's
>
> The machine has Win98 on 2 partitions and there are 3 GB left to install
> Linux.
>
> However, when I boot to the CD (or floppy) I first get the entry screen
> which asks what type of install I want to do...Install RedHat Linux (this
is
> the DOS-ish text window with the "boot:" prompt).
> Then I press <enter> to do an install...the system goes through its image
> loading (vmlinux...) and then it says something like "unrecognized
> card"...and it croaks...to the point where it says, system is safe to
> reboot.
>
> Here is the output (that can be viewed)
>
> Fatal server error:
> No valid modes found.
>
> When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full
> server output, not jst the last messages
>
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> Traceback (innermost last):
> File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 144, in ?
> from gui import InstallInterface
> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gui.py", line 9, in ?
> from gtk import *
> File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 29, in ?
> _gtk.gtk.init()
> RuntimeError: cannot open display
> install exited abnormally
> sending termination signals...done
> sending kill signals...done
> unmounting filesystems...
> /mnt/source
> /dev/pts
> /proc
> you may safely reboot your system
>
> I have taken all network cards out of the system and it still does not
allow
> me to continue with the installation.
> I have already checked out the stuff on
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ and
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/vaioF-series.html but it did not help.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: need help to get creative card work
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 08:08:43 GMT
I got a Yamaha & a Creative sound card, without linux driver, but be
recognized by LM 7.2 beta 3. During start up, I can see the sound
drivers loads fail, I am a newbie to Linux and does not know what to do,
if anyone knows, drop me a clue, very appreciate. Thanx.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Piepho)
Subject: Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system..
Date: 1 Oct 2000 01:06:24 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Richard F. Jr." wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> I will soon be building a new box and would like to make it SMP.
>> But am having trouble picking a board, any help ? I have used the
>> Supermicro P6DBE, 440BX board before, but I get conflicting reports on
>> it's max speed, some say it's a max at 450, others 700 or even 800MHz...
>
>They are all wrong. It's 600 MHz, actually. Haven't you read the manual? But no
>coppermines, of course, you would have to get old Katmai P3s.
Supermicro's web page doesn't agree, they say up to 700 Mhz. I think part of
the confusion is that when the board was released and the manual printed,
these faster CPUs didn't exist. They can't really say it's going to support
700 Mhz when the chip didn't exist. So they say something like 233-450
because at the time that's all there was. They've got jumper settings for
multipliers up to 9.5x on the web page
This board can work with coppermines, you don't need Katmai chips. Some of
the older revisions had a voltage regulator that won't work, but the newer
ones do. Supermicro tells you on their web page how to tell which one you
have.
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From: "Christopher Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lost Partition(s)
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 04:06:32 -0500
The drive was 750mb, now it's 500mb. I think they were lost when I redid
the MBR. The lost space doesn't apeer on fdisk. How do I get all that
space back? 750mb is the largist that will fit in that machine. I don't
want to replace it.
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From: Arne Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:10:28 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got an ATi XPert 2000 and had XFree 4.0.1 running -- with 3D acceleration!
However it is not very easy at this time to install XFree 4, because you have
to fetch some recent CVS snapshot from dri.sourceforge.net, the site where the
3D drivers are developed. So if you are not keen enough to compile your own
X-Server, just wait a few months for a *working* RPM from SuSE... Or mail to
ATi and kick their stupid a55, for not being able to provide some drivers, like
nVidia or even 3dfx...
Arne
Stephen wrote:
> Dumb-ass question, but.. Everything points to getting XF86 v. 4.0.1 to
> solve my video card problem. (ATI Rage Fury 128) However..... when visiting
> http://www.xfree86.org/ , I was kinda expecting one, neat rpm file to
> pick-up. It does not seem to be the case . It looks like I have to pick up
> 10, plus potentially another 10 more (depending on what the Installer script
> reports after running it! ). Can't I just pick up 1 rpm, install and then
> run SAX and let bloody Linux (oups.. ) figure it out..?
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From: Arne Schmitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Roland SCC-1
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 11:14:23 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After my harddisk crashed and I reinstalled my SuSE 7, my Roland SCC-1
soundcard does not work anymore. I've loaded the mpu401 module with
"io=0x330 irq=5" which works perfectly under DOS, but now the
/dev/sequencer device does not work! Anyone got an idea? See also the
lsmod and sndstat output below.
Arne
avatar@the-shire:~ > /sbin/lsmod
Module Size Used by
agpgart 17792 0 (unused)
r128 54832 0
tuner 2952 1 (autoclean)
bttv 48064 0 (autoclean)
kcompat24 3552 0 (autoclean) [bttv]
i2c-algo-bit 7656 1 (autoclean) [bttv]
i2c-core 10716 0 (autoclean) [tuner bttv i2c-algo-bit]
videodev 2688 2 (autoclean) [bttv]
ne 6508 1 (autoclean)
8390 6260 0 (autoclean) [ne]
memstat 1476 0 (unused)
joy-analog 5192 0 (unused)
joystick 5756 0 [joy-analog]
mpu401 19184 0 (unused)
sound 57496 0 [mpu401]
soundlow 344 0 [sound]
es1371 24640 0
soundcore 2564 8 [sound es1371]
serial 42484 0 (autoclean)
dc395x_trm 48200 0 (unused)
avatar@the-shire:~ > cat /dev/sndstat
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux the-shire 2.2.16 #1 Wed Aug 2 20:22:26 GMT 2000 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
Midi devices:
1: MPU-401 1.5U Midi interface #1
Timers:
0: System clock
1: MPU-401 Timer
Mixers:
avatar@the-shire:~ > cat /windows/C/scc/demo1.mid > /dev/sequencer
cat: write error: Device not configured
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 Driver
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 10:25:24 GMT
Ian Ellis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got a Promise Ultra66 off-board IDE controller.
>
> The Linux drivers that came with it only work with kernel 2.2.5. I'm
> currently running 2.2.16.
>
> I've looked through the kernel documentation, and the 'make menuconfig'
> options, but I can't get any close as to how to get the board to work (if
> it's possible with this version of the kernel/at all).
>
> Please drop me an e-mail if you know how to do it, or have any bright ideas
> (on the subject).
>
> Cheers
>
> Ian
You need to down load the ide patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.16.all/ide.2.2.16.all.20000825.patch.gz
patch your Kernel tree, configure the new options, make and install.
You also need the global parameter "linear" in your "lilo.conf" file.
JRT
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From: "visor-palm John" <j$ohn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,cz.comp.linux.redhat-cz
Subject: Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 03:51:06 -0700
How do you tell it to run in text mode? (i.e. instead of non-textmode?)
"Stig S�rensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:39d6eda3$0$1769$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> -Run the installer in textmode.
> -Try RH7.0.
>
> /Stig
>
> "visor-palm John" <j$ohn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8r5uqv$k5t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Sony VAIO PCG-F580: Pentium III 650Mhz, 256Mb RAM, 6Mb video memory, 12
G
> > hard-drive
> > Display Adapter: NeoMagic MagicMedia256XL+ (v016)
> > Display: 15" XGA TFT
> >
> > RedHat 6.1 CD's
> >
> > The machine has Win98 on 2 partitions and there are 3 GB left to install
> > Linux.
> >
> > However, when I boot to the CD (or floppy) I first get the entry screen
> > which asks what type of install I want to do...Install RedHat Linux
(this
> is
> > the DOS-ish text window with the "boot:" prompt).
> > Then I press <enter> to do an install...the system goes through its
image
> > loading (vmlinux...) and then it says something like "unrecognized
> > card"...and it croaks...to the point where it says, system is safe to
> > reboot.
> >
> > Here is the output (that can be viewed)
> >
> > Fatal server error:
> > No valid modes found.
> >
> > When reporting a problem related to a server crash, please send the full
> > server output, not jst the last messages
> >
> > _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> > Traceback (innermost last):
> > File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 144, in ?
> > from gui import InstallInterface
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gui.py", line 9, in ?
> > from gtk import *
> > File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 29, in ?
> > _gtk.gtk.init()
> > RuntimeError: cannot open display
> > install exited abnormally
> > sending termination signals...done
> > sending kill signals...done
> > unmounting filesystems...
> > /mnt/source
> > /dev/pts
> > /proc
> > you may safely reboot your system
> >
> > I have taken all network cards out of the system and it still does not
> allow
> > me to continue with the installation.
> > I have already checked out the stuff on
> > http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ and
> > http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~and1000/vaioF-series.html but it did not help.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > John
> >
> >
>
>
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