Linux-Hardware Digest #663, Volume #13 Tue, 3 Oct 00 02:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Intel CA810EAL video? (Raymond Blum)
Re: Linux on 386? ("William Alexander Segraves")
SB Live! doesn't work under Red Hat 7.0, Please Help ("Paul Kuliniewicz")
Re: SB Live! doesn't work under Red Hat 7.0, Please Help ("Aaron Goldman")
ATI All in Wonder 128 Pro Help with GATOS ("Achal Oza")
Re: Intel CA810EAL video? (Robert Lynch)
Re: multiboot confusion (Alan Jones)
WD 450AA 45 gig drive, only 30g seen, fix url plz ("Gene Heskett")
Re: SB Live! doesn't work under Red Hat 7.0, Please Help ("Paul Kuliniewicz")
Re: linux on HP Pavilion ("larry")
Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system.. (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: Intel 810 MB sound (root)
Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux (root)
Re: Modem problem (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: SYM53C1010 (Markus Kossmann)
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From: Raymond Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Intel CA810EAL video?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 20:44:26 -0400
Hi
I just got a new server with an Intel CA810EAL motherboard. The
machine seems great so far but I am having trouble getting my X
configuration figured out for the on-board video adapter.
I am installing RedHat 6.2 and Xconfigurator makes it's suggestions,
which I take, but when I try to start X I get the msg "/dev/agp..." not
found.
Can anyone tell me a compatible card, etc. setting to use? The machine
will be a server and usually headless so I don't care if the display is
high-color and pretty, I just need 800x600x256 or better.
--
Cheers,
Raymond Blum
VP of System Architecture
Askit.com
212 414-9590
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From: "William Alexander Segraves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on 386?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:10:32 -0500
Reply-To: "William Alexander Segraves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Depends on what you want to do with it. Slackware A, AP, and N disk sets,
plus Perl from disk set D, works fine on my 386DX33 with 8 MB ram.
The only hardware I added to it was a Linksys Ether16 10BaseT LAN card.
Works fine!
Bill Segraves
Auburn, AL
"eric turbide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My father has an old 386 computer with 8 meg RAM (that's been in my
> closet for a number of years!) and i was wondering if it would be
> possible for me to install Linux on it. If so, is there a particular
> version that would suit it the best ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Patrick Turbide
>
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From: "Paul Kuliniewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB Live! doesn't work under Red Hat 7.0, Please Help
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 22:14:44 -0500
I recently installed Red Hat Linux 7.0 on my computer. Like the title of
this post says, I can't get my SB Live! to work.
Here's what's going on. I tried using sndconfig, and it recognizes that I
have a SB Live!. But when it plays a sound sample, I can't hear anything.
No error messages, but no sound either. I tried telling sndconfig that I
had a regular SoundBlaster (thinking maybe there's some
reverse-compatibility in the hardware), but sndconfig dies with a
segmentation fault whenever I lie to it.
No matter what program I try to use, I can't get any sound. Particularly,
mpg123 and xmms are both silent. However, they both seem to *think* they're
playing music. I get no error messages or any other indication that
anything is wrong.
I made sure soundcore and emu10k1 are both loaded. The kernel was compiled
with sound support as a module. When I still had this problem on RH6.2, I
tried both the binary drivers from Creative's web site and the open source
drivers for emu10k1, and neither solved the problem. Again, everything
seemed to work fine (in that no errors whatsoever were reported), but no
sound was played too.
Yes, the speakers are plugged in, turned on, attached to the computer, etc.
The speakers and my SB Live! work perfectly under both Windows 98 and
Windows 2000 (I triple-boot my machine), so I seriously doubt it's some sort
of hardware problem. But I guess I had to say this, in case someone things
I'm *that* clueless about computers. <g>
But seriously, I have no idea what the problem is or how to fix it. I even
managed to stump the Linux Users' Group I'm in, so it must be something
bizarre or erudite. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be the
problem? Even a look in the Sound HOWTO didn't turn up anything, since all
the troubleshooting and FAQs deal with handling error messages.
Thanks to whoever mananges to solve this. It's a pain not being able to
listen to music when I'm booted into Linux. In fact, it's one of the major
reasons I run Win2K most of the time.
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From: "Aaron Goldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! doesn't work under Red Hat 7.0, Please Help
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 03:31:56 GMT
Strange...
I have a Sound Blaster Live! Platinum, and it works great under RH 7.0. I
am not sure if it matters, but what version of the Live! card do you have? I
know there were different models in the value version but am not sure about
others. Also, you may have a IRQ conflict or something of that nature.
Maybe try to manually set up the IRQs in your system..
Aaron Goldman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Paul Kuliniewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8rbj0q$mds$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I recently installed Red Hat Linux 7.0 on my computer. Like the title of
> this post says, I can't get my SB Live! to work.
>
> Here's what's going on. I tried using sndconfig, and it recognizes that I
> have a SB Live!. But when it plays a sound sample, I can't hear anything.
> No error messages, but no sound either. I tried telling sndconfig that I
> had a regular SoundBlaster (thinking maybe there's some
> reverse-compatibility in the hardware), but sndconfig dies with a
> segmentation fault whenever I lie to it.
>
> No matter what program I try to use, I can't get any sound. Particularly,
> mpg123 and xmms are both silent. However, they both seem to *think*
they're
> playing music. I get no error messages or any other indication that
> anything is wrong.
>
> I made sure soundcore and emu10k1 are both loaded. The kernel was
compiled
> with sound support as a module. When I still had this problem on RH6.2, I
> tried both the binary drivers from Creative's web site and the open source
> drivers for emu10k1, and neither solved the problem. Again, everything
> seemed to work fine (in that no errors whatsoever were reported), but no
> sound was played too.
>
> Yes, the speakers are plugged in, turned on, attached to the computer,
etc.
> The speakers and my SB Live! work perfectly under both Windows 98 and
> Windows 2000 (I triple-boot my machine), so I seriously doubt it's some
sort
> of hardware problem. But I guess I had to say this, in case someone
things
> I'm *that* clueless about computers. <g>
>
> But seriously, I have no idea what the problem is or how to fix it. I
even
> managed to stump the Linux Users' Group I'm in, so it must be something
> bizarre or erudite. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be the
> problem? Even a look in the Sound HOWTO didn't turn up anything, since
all
> the troubleshooting and FAQs deal with handling error messages.
>
> Thanks to whoever mananges to solve this. It's a pain not being able to
> listen to music when I'm booted into Linux. In fact, it's one of the
major
> reasons I run Win2K most of the time.
>
>
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From: "Achal Oza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI All in Wonder 128 Pro Help with GATOS
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:36:10 -0700
Howdy,
I have an ATI All in Wonder 128 Pro with 32 megs of RAM and I'm
having a spot of trouble. I installed Red Hat 6.2 and X without any
trouble. I'm trying to get the TV tuner to work. I installed GATOS
(with the ibtos, or something like that). But when I run it I get an
error like "xatitv: gatos_init(): No such device." I read the GATOS faq
and some usenet posts, so I'm getting the idea that GATOS works fine
with the 16 meg card but not the 32 (because the 32 uses the Rage
Theatre chip?). Is that right? But I've seen posts by people where they
mention in passing that they are using the TV tuner on their AIW 128
Pro 32s. So any idea on how to get it to work? Will bttv do the trick?
Thanks,
Achal
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Intel CA810EAL video?
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 20:32:37 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raymond Blum wrote:
>
> Hi
> I just got a new server with an Intel CA810EAL motherboard. The
> machine seems great so far but I am having trouble getting my X
> configuration figured out for the on-board video adapter.
>
> I am installing RedHat 6.2 and Xconfigurator makes it's suggestions,
> which I take, but when I try to start X I get the msg "/dev/agp..." not
> found.
>
> Can anyone tell me a compatible card, etc. setting to use? The machine
> will be a server and usually headless so I don't care if the display is
> high-color and pretty, I just need 800x600x256 or better.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> Raymond Blum
> VP of System Architecture
> Askit.com
>
> 212 414-9590
My system has an 810. If yours is set up like mine then you need
to have/compile the kernel module agpart.o. The device in
XF86Config is:
===
...
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel 810"
VendorName "Intel"
BoardName "810"
# 5-11-00 try adding power saving option
Option "power_saver"
VideoRam 4096
EndSection
...
===
The 3.3.x server is XF86_SVGA
Feel free to contact me by e-mail if this is insufficient.
HTH. Bob
L.
--
Robert Lynch-Berkeley CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: Re: multiboot confusion
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 04:26:41 GMT
On Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:59:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod
Smith) wrote:
>> I installed Mandrake 7.0 with LILO on the 200M drive. All my drives
>> and partitions were recognized, and boot options were created, but
>> only Linux, and DOS on the first disk would actualy boot from LILO.
>
>You haven't described any other bootable partitions.
I'm not certain what is technicaly a bootable partition. I've even
read of logical partitions being bootable. My two small drives have
one primary partition and inlude DOS. The 500M drive has DOS 6.2, but
I have never attempted to boot from it. I bought it used and only
used it as a slave drive. It should boot if connected to ide0.
The IBM drive has 3 primary partitions, each with an OS installed
(except the FAT32 patition that was formatted a WIN98 emergency boot
disk). When the IBM disk was installed as master on the second ide
channel, I expected LILO to be able to boot its DOS partition.
What surprised me was that with the IBM drive on ide0 and booting from
the DOS partition, DOS was unable to see the second logical partition
on the same drive which I had formated FAT16. Perhaps DOS 6.22 cannot
see beyond the first two partitons on a disk? If so, do OpenDOS
(DR-DOS) and FreeDOS share these limitations?
Multiboot managers do some strange things like dynamicaly altering the
MBR and\or partitition tables, hiding some partitions and making one
active while deactivating others. Boot Magic seems to needlessly hide
some partitions, but it can boot some partitions that LILO does not.
I like the ease of use and handy printed manual, but it looks like
I'll have to go back to using LILO.
>I'm actually a bit surprised that DOS boots from the 200MB drive when
>it's /dev/hdc, since DOS normally wants to boot from the first physical
>disk. Presumably BootMagic is doing something to fake the BIOS out
>regarding the drive assignments. My guess is that this is interfering
>with drive assignments for other than the boot disk, hence losing the
>other two disks.
I'd hope that the author of The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook
would be less surprised, and not have to guess. ;)
>Given the capacities of your drives, you may want to just plain ditch
>the 200MB drive, and probably the 500MB drive, too; they're puny and
>probably horribly slow compared to your 13.5GB drive.
Of course, but I want one as a backup in case the good drive fails, or
more likey, I do something stupid to it.
> If I understand
>correctly, you want to boot DOS, Win98, and Linux. That's easily done
>with many boot loaders, including BootMagic and LILO. FAT-32 shouldn't
>cause you any problems, except of course for the fact that plain DOS
>can't read FAT-32. I'd put the DOS partition first, the Windows
>partition(s) second, and the Linux partitions last (with a possible
>exception of a small Linux /boot partition, to keep it under the
>1024-cylinder limit, if that's an issue). If you want something fancier
>than this (like multiple versions of DOS), you may want to look into
>System Commander as a boot loader, since it can keep multiple versions
>of DOS on one partition.
Thanks. Tthat;'s what I had planned to do. I'm not sure about System
Commander. I did want to try OpenDOS. I was thinking that I could
install that into the old 500M drive, or even move Linux to the
extended partition, freeing up the third primary partition on the IBM
drive. It's probably not worth the trouble.
>You can recover your current Linux system, but it may be a bit of a
>nuisance. You'll need to boot using LOADLIN,
Thanks. I forgot about LOADLIN. It won't hurt me to go a few days
with out Linux. I just wanted to let you know that my Linux was not
readily operational, in case you suggested a magical Linux
incantation, and that the Linux boot disk is not as robust as it could
be.
>FWIW, I cover a lot of these issues in my book, _The Multi-Boot
>Configuration Handbook_ (http://www.rodsbooks.com/multiboot/).
IGIIW $39.99. Is this available at brick and mortar stores where
other QUE books are sold, or do I have to order it on line?
One final question. I'd be interested in a low or modestly priced PCI
sound cound with suitable drivers for both SMP Linux, and WIN3.1.
>--
>Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.rodsbooks.com
>Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
Alan Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 2 Oct 2000 22:48:33 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WD 450AA 45 gig drive, only 30g seen, fix url plz
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
As in the subject line. We replaced an 8 gig Maxtor (R.I.P.) with a 45
gig WD today, and I know there is a fix for the 30g limit, its been
discussed here. The question is, where is it?
Cheers & thanks, Gene
--
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From: "Paul Kuliniewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! doesn't work under Red Hat 7.0, Please Help
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 23:39:29 -0500
> I have a Sound Blaster Live! Platinum, and it works great under RH 7.0. I
> am not sure if it matters, but what version of the Live! card do you have?
I
> know there were different models in the value version but am not sure
about
> others. Also, you may have a IRQ conflict or something of that nature.
> Maybe try to manually set up the IRQs in your system..
I'm not entirely sure, since the SB Live! came preinstalled when I bought my
system, and I don't have access right now to any printed materials that may
have (probably did not) come with the system. Anyway, this is what Win2K's
Device Manager says:
Creative SB Live! Value (WDM)
Input/Output Range: DF80 - DF9F
Interrupt Request: 9
For what it's worth, the version numbers of the drivers for the SB Live!
seem to be mainly 4.06, 4.10, or 5.0 (depending on the particular file).
Maybe that will give some indication of the version, although since I bought
the system three months ago, I wouldn't think an obsolete version would be
the problem... maybe too new a version?
When I tried sndconfig, it never gave me any options for IRQs or anything if
I selected the SB Live! option. Maybe some manual tweaking of the config
files is in order?
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From: "larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux on HP Pavilion
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 18:01:44 -1000
I installed Mandrake 7.1 on my HP Pavilion 6645C with no problems at all.
Mandrake recognized all my Hardware except the conexant modem(which I didn't
expect it to)....
Gotta Love Mandrake!
Larry
"Emad Tajkhorshid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for a killer Dual CPU board for a Linux system..
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:02:54 -0700
Tony Hague wrote:
>
>
> 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.
Well, I stuck a couple of P3/800s into mine. Doesn't even boot. I have a fairly
recent version (3.0). New voltage regulator. It seems, jumper positions are
irrelevant (P3s are locked anytway). Whatever I set them to, works the same with
the old P3/450s. Ok, I'll give it one more chance with a BIOS upgrade.
--
Vladimir
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel 810 MB sound
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 12:16:30 -0400
I am using an 820 under Mandrake 7.1 and it's fine. Isn't the sound card the
same on the 810? Anyway... It autodetected my card and installed it... no
sweat.
Kris Doyle wrote:
> Has anyone gotten this sound chip to work with anything other than 4fronts
> driver because id rather not wait until the 2.4 kernel comes out to get USB
> support and if i use the 2.3 kernel 4fronts driver dont work.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA/100 drives with Linux
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2000 12:18:45 -0400
I use an ATA100 drive under linux... Maxtor DiamondMax. I also use an
Intellimouse Explorer and it works fine.
I am using Mandrake 7.1 (2.2.15)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem problem
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2000 22:15:35 -0700
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
>
> Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> 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.
> >>
>
> Pointless. I wrote that you can't share an IRQ between two or
> more ISA devices properly (which means using both of them at the same
> time, of course). And you just have proven my point.
>
No, it's the other way around. You are just not consistent: you said above that
/dev/ttyS3 configured with the same IRQ as /dev/ttyS1 will not work, even though
/dev/ttyS1 is unused (i.e., not generating interrupts). You then suggested
disabling the second serial port in the BIOS which is clearly not needed.
--
Vladimir
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SYM53C1010
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2000 05:48:42 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anybody knows where I can find support for SYM53C1010 symbios
> ultra160 scsi controller.
>
Should be supported by a current version of the sym53C8xx driver. Check
the README.ncr53C8xx (in your kernel sources drivers/scsi directory) to
know , if your version of the driver is new enough.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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