Linux-Hardware Digest #659, Volume #13 Mon, 2 Oct 00 06:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Linux-support for old-fashioned TV-card ? Miro 10t/20t (or so)? (Stony777)
Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install (Brian)
Re: UDMA-Driver (IDE) 4 ASUS K7M (Kenneth R�rvik)
Asus P2B-DS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
suse 7.0 and onboard promise ata 100 ("J. Fischer")
Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux ("Adam Short")
Re: Sndconfig utiltiy ("Adam Short")
Re: Strange keyboard problem in Enlightenment ("Adam Short")
AXIS 560 Network Print Server (Chris Sherlock)
Re: _Help needed_ with COM5 modem ("Adam Short")
Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system.. ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: ati rage fury pro 128 ("Adam Short")
3com509b problem (Ivan Martinez)
parallel port scanners status ("Adam Short")
Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system.. (Tony Hague)
Re: Q: VIA-KT133 VGA interrupt not listed ("Francois Paulhiac")
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From: Stony777 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux-support for old-fashioned TV-card ? Miro 10t/20t (or so)?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 09:12:47 +0200
Hey I bought a old TV-card on the market and am wondering if it is
supported by Linux? (I guess it doesn�t have this Bt878 chip or so)
I have SuSE 7.0.
Any help of info?
Stony
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From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: sony vaio F580 Notebook unable to install
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:17:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
One other thing to look out for. I'm running it on F-560 and had
everything working great. I'm using framebuffer mode, figured I'd play
around with it. Now lilo boots my win 98 in what looks like a
framebuffer mode. I know it not. But my screen is now only displaying in
640X480 when booting lilo when I go to linux no problems but win98 is
another creature. I can't get the thing out of 640X480 and it only in
the center of my display.
Even changing the lilo boot paramater now does no good.
if anyone else has suggestions please post.
Brian
Ming Kee =?big5?B?qfqwTw==?= in Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have similar problem when installing RH 6.1/CLE 0.9-2
> choose text mode, type "text" on welcome screen
>
> visor-palm John wrote:
>
> > 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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Subject: Re: UDMA-Driver (IDE) 4 ASUS K7M
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:42:18 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Richard Tyrer) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
p://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
>
>You might want to go to Kernel v. 2.2.16 or newer as well.
Yup. If you're not afraid of devel kernels, try 2.4.0-test8. Got my HPT366
running.... :)
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Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Asus P2B-DS
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 07:51:01 GMT
Hi there,
I'm planning to use an Asus P2B-DS in a web-server because of the
onboard SCSI. Can anyone tell me if this is a good and stable board?
..and is the onboard SCSI (U2W) based on Adaptec AIC-7890 fully
supported by Linux? (...i'm thinking of using RH7.0)
Thanks in advance,
Kees.
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From: "J. Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: suse 7.0 and onboard promise ata 100
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:59:42 +0200
I have an asus a7v mainboard with an onboard promise ata 100 udma controler.
I installed suse 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16) on a standard ide drive (I tried this
on a UDMA-drive
and it works on the ide-connector). After installation I couldn't mount any
Harddisk, connected to the promise controler. The standard suse-kernel
should work with udma-drives. But how can I use my drives, connected to the
promise controler?
thanks, jfi
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:10:32 +0100
An ATA/100 drive shouldn't pose a problem. Mine is ATA/100 (although
admittedly it is currently sitting on an older IDE channel which doesn't
support the improvements). I'm going to try it on one of the RAID channels
on my machine (which do support ATA/100). I'll let you know how it goes.
Adam
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8r6k1i$3o6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Sndconfig utiltiy
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:20:58 +0100
Are the sound modules being loaded on bootup? Try dmesg. It'll print up a
list of what happened when you booted the computer. If you don't find any
reference to your sound configuration then it isn't being loaded. If this is
the case try typing "modprobe sound" at the shell prompt. This should
attempt to load the drivers. Write down any error messages you get or
alternatively enjoy your newfound sound! If "modprobe" works, the easiest
way to get it to continue to work is to add it to your bootup sequence. The
files that control bootup are in /etc/rc.d I'm not entirely sure which file
you should put it in. dmesg should tell you which file comes last in the
queue (just look for commands that seem to be producing the output that
comes at the end of the boot sequence) it is probably safest to put it in
there at the end.
To be honest I am amazed you got that chipset to work at all! I had a
motherboard with that chipset on board for a while and the damn thing
wouldn't work at all unless I used the commercial drivers for it. Good luck
getting it to work properly. I think the above should solve your problem. If
not then try checking you have compiled loadable module support into your
kernel.
Adam
Ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8r5icd$gplb3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Tony Hoyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:Fv7B5.4034$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <8r2vn7$gt394$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ali"
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > I ran the sndconfig utility on my mandrake 7.0 distro to try and
> > > configure my CMI8330 onboard sound card. I managed to do this and got
it
> > > to play a sound. Also when restarting x I have sound on the desktop
and
> > > when playing quake3. The only problem is that when I reboot the PC I
> > > lose the sound, well all I get is faint beeps from the speakers. Is
> > > there something I am suppose to do after I have configured the sound.
It
> > > obviously works but just can`t save the configuration I think ( Doh!).
> > > Any info greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Try loading the audio mixer (in the programs/multimedia menu I think)
and
> > playing with the settings. It possibly
>
> Never accomplished anything when playing about with the settings. I
presume
> that since I managed to get it to play sound that I don`t need to install
> new drivers or anything just suss out how to get it load the config?
>
> Ali
>
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange keyboard problem in Enlightenment
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:24:06 +0100
I've tried it with all my other window managers and they all work fine. I'll
try checking the shortcuts when I get home (I'm currently at work running
Windows Ugh!)
Adam
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Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 19:22:46 +1000
From: Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: AXIS 560 Network Print Server
Hi all,
I have an Axis 560 Network Print Server that I was lent some time back
by a mate, and before I give it back I would very much like to get it up
and running.
I have the axinstall script, but when I run it gives me ": command not
found" numerous times and then:
'xinstall: syntax error near unexpected token `in
'xinstall: axinstall: line 65: ` case $1 in
The shell script itself is quite lengthy, so if you want to view it just
go to
http://www.axis.com/ftp/pub_soft/prt_srv/utility/axinstall/latest/axinstall
Has anyone else successfully setup this device? It looks pretty much
what I need so any help would be much appreciated!
Chris
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: _Help needed_ with COM5 modem
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:33:51 +0100
I've found that it makes absolutely no difference where Windows thinks my
modem is. As long as I use the same IRQ in both operating systems I seem to
be able to get it to work fine. What seems to happen is this: there is
always one serial port on my system that is not set up at boot time. This is
the port to use (in my case it is usually /dev/ttyS3). I just set it up with
isapnp (its an ISA modem), and then run setserial to configure the port.
Therefore I would advise you to check which port is not configured in
/proc/ioports and try to set it up with the correct parameters with
setserial. I suspect it probably won't like the IRQ being 12. Try it and
see. If not then try to force Windows to use it on a lower IRQ (try 3, 4 or
5). If that doesn't work, check your bios. It may be that some IRQs are
blocked or incorrectly set. Failing that, I'm at a bit of a loss.
Adam
Ignacio Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've got an USR 56k internal modem (NO winmodem) installed and running
> in W98 an Linux (Redhat 6.1 and SuSe 6.0).
> The same problem happened an first time (for my PC) under Windows.
> Just "force" the installation in a lower COM port (ie 3) under Windows
> (dont let W98 make auto-configuration)
> It works fine
>
> Ignacio
>
> James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >
> > Natalia Sarv wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've got a US Robotics 56k modem which *is* hardware. The problem is
that
> > > Windoz98 defined that it's set up on COM5 (?) and uses IRQ12. And I've
got
> > > no way to change it (CMOS setup, hardware settings, ...) My Linux
RH6.2 has
> > > no more than 4 ports as usually and can't see COM5.
> > >
> > > How could I get COM5 and make it work properly? Will be grateful much
for
> > > your help.
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Natalia
> >
> > Its being on COM5 only applies to MS-Windows. Do you have 4 serial
> > ports in
> > you system? Are you using them?
> >
> > You didn't mention the model number of the modem or whether it was a PCI
> > modem. I will guess that it is PCI.
> >
> > Currently, the easiest way to use a PCI modem is to down load the new
> > serial
> > driver from:
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/serial/
> >
> > Install it and reboot.
> >
> > If you aren't using COM3 and COM4 disable them. If you don't have them,
> > see
> > what happens. In the unlikely event that you can't do anything about
> > this,
> > you will need to make "/dev/ttyS4".
> >
> > If you want to make sure that the OS has found your modem, execute the
> > command: cat /proc/pci"
> >
> > JRT
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system..
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 02:33:06 -0600
> > 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.
Wrong. I have a bunch of them in various servers, running PIII 650
Coppermines.
They only have a 100 MHz FSB. Since the multiplier on the chips is
locked, any 100 MHz FSB chip will work in them.
steve
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ati rage fury pro 128
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:42:29 +0100
You are unlikely to be able to use the VIVO features of this card properly
without considerable tweaking. I have the Xpert 2000 which is essentially
the same card. When I boot into Linux with the TV connected, I get the
picture on the TV screen but X refuses to work. I think it probably needs a
lower res, I haven't tried it yet. As for Video In, I don't know what
chipset the card uses for that. If its a standard Brooktree 848 then you may
be able to get it to work with the bttv driver. I'm going to test this
myself but I haven't got around to it yet.
I have a feeling getting it to work properly may be a nightmare but its
possible it won't be. I'm going to try it this week sometime. I will post
the results here.
Adam
Darius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8qtoc7$no0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Which server do you use for ati rage fury pro 128 for VIVO ????
> And is video capture possible by this card ?
> Can you send my some url where is possible to find infos ?
> Please help me.... I would like to port my whole jobs under Linux
>
>
> thx
> Darius
>
>
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From: Ivan Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3com509b problem
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 08:47:00 GMT
Hello all:
After reading previous posts I still can't connect to the network with
my 3com 509b.
Linux seems to detect the card and not to find any conflict.
dmesg output is:
eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 a0 24 0a 54 95, IRQ
10.
cat /proc/interrupts is:
CPU0 CPU1
0: 140890 697547 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 534 717 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
10: 0 0 XT-PIC eth0
12: 6433 6400 IO-APIC-edge PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
14: 6197 5457 IO-APIC-edge ide0
15: 4 5 IO-APIC-edge ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
ifconfing is:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:A0:24:0A:54:95
inet addr:192.38.66.220 Bcast:192.38.66.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
The problem is pings to any other computer fail. It works fine with
Windows 98 SE. My old computer with the same network card, the same
kernel, the same network plug and the same network cofiguration also
works fine. Can you think wath the problem is?.
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: parallel port scanners status
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:01:55 +0100
Is there support for parallel port scanners yet (or will there ever be)? I
know of the sane project but last I heard it only supported scsi scanners.
Also does anyone know if there is support for IDE CD writers? I just
installed Mandrake 7.1 and there appears to be support (I was allowed to set
up my CD writer in XCDRoast without the usual kernel recompile). I haven't
tested it yet because I don't want to mess anything up.
Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague)
Subject: Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system..
Date: 2 Oct 2000 09:15:31 GMT
In article <YQXB5.1430$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Wrong. I have a bunch of them in various servers, running PIII 650
>Coppermines.
He might well have read the manual - but which one. Not all P6DBE's are
created equal, neither are the manuals. The max clock speeds cited for
motherboards often just relate to what is the fastest processor currently
available, not what the jumpers can be set to. In fact, the P6DBE can be
set up to 800MHz - according to the manual revision 3.3. This seems to
apply to earlier releases of the motherboard too, even though revision
2.1 of the manual says 600 MHz.
Note that earlier versions of the P6DBE did NOT support the Coppermines,
because the CPU core voltage regulators could not go down to 1.6v - they
might work for a short time though ! Current versions of course do support
them.
All of this can be figured out (with patience) from the Supermicro web site.
Tony.
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From: "Francois Paulhiac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: VIA-KT133 VGA interrupt not listed
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 17:38:39 +0800
> This is not a problem. The settings are well-known. I couldn't
> get a sharp image on the monitor at higher resolutions/refresh
> rates. But I tested it with windows and the correct drivers, same
> bad image.
Many NVidia cards are said to have a very bad picture quality at high
resolutions (above 1152x864), because of the low quality of the
radio-frequency filters on the card. Have a look at the newsgroup
"comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video". There have been several posts about this
subject recently.
Before exchanging your monitor, you should try it with another graphic card.
For example, a Voodoo 3 or 5 or, even better, a Matrox G200 or G400. These
ones are said to have a much better image quality.
By the way, I happen to have the same motherboard than you (MSI K7T Pro).
Did you encounter any other problem under Linux? I plan to install it soon,
but I already have some problems under Windows 98 and 2k (cannot make the
Ultra-DMA mode of my DVD-Rom works).
Thanks.
Fran�ois.
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