Linux-Hardware Digest #672, Volume #13 Wed, 4 Oct 00 16:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Microsoft Intellimouse with scroll wheel (Michael Meissner)
Red Hat Linux on Athlon 1000MHz/FIC Motherboard (Craig Schock)
Logitech Optical Mouse ("Doug Farrell")
Re: Best OS ("Adam Short")
kodak DC215 zoom ("Ali")
aureal sound device and compiling kernel (characterZer0)
SCSI Disk problem , diferent cylinders , head and sectors ? ("Miguel Angel")
Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices? (Tristan White)
Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard (Tristan White)
Stylus Color 760 (Tajvidi)
Re: 3com509b problem (Rob van der Putten)
xfree86 4.0 (manny)
CDROM burning (William A. Maniatty)
Re: Asus P2B-DS (William A. Maniatty)
Re: D851EEA network adapter help, please. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3com509b problem (Kresimir Marzic)
CD Writer errors: Hot connecting and removing devices on SCSI bus ("Richard M.
Denney")
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Microsoft Intellimouse with scroll wheel
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 Oct 2000 11:45:01 -0400
"Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Can anyone point me at an appropriate website with full instructions for
> getting this too work. I have read articles on newsgroups but they seem to
> get confusing with regard to changing the config file pointer section e.g
> should it be 5 buttons and also commenting out emulate 3 button mouse all
> somewhat confusing.
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 09:48:18 -0600
From: Craig Schock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat Linux on Athlon 1000MHz/FIC Motherboard
Hi All,
Last night I installed RH Linux 6.1 on my new Athlon 1000MHz system
(the motherboard is an FIC). The install goes just fine. When I try to
boot after the install, however, I get the following error:
Disabling CPUID Serial Number ... General Protection Fault: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0236108>]
EFLAGS: 00010282
[...]
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
in swapper task: not syncing
At this point, the computer just freezes. Does anyone know what the
heck is going on here? It looks to me like the chip is GPFing when the
OS tries to disable the CPU ident. Can I disable/prevent the attempt to
disable the CPU ident?
I'm planning to get RH7 today and try it out as well.
Any information that anyone can provide is greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
Craig
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From: "Doug Farrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logitech Optical Mouse
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 15:50:23 GMT
Hi,
I have a Linux machine connected together with a windows machine through a
KVM switch. I'm using a USB keyboard and Logitech USB optical mouse with the
windows machine. When I'm connected to the Linux box it can't seem to find
the Logitech USB Optical Mouse, but works fine with the USB keyboard. I have
had to plug a regular PS/2 mouse in to use the Linux machine. Anyone have
any ideas how I can get the Linux box to work with the USB mouse?
Thanks in advance,
Doug Farrell
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best OS
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 16:13:15 GMT
I have the same MoBo and processor and I'm running Mandrake 7.1 with no
problems. It has everything you need in the standard installation. Pretty
much any recent dist will do the job though.
Adam
John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I want to hear feedback from the users on this list for their
> > recommendation for the best Linux OS to use.
>
>
> Whatever comes to hand will do the job just fine.
>
> > My main applications will be:
>
> > - scientific programming (mainly using g77)
> > - data visualization (some 3-d visualization which may require
> > programming with OpenGL or Mesa)
> > - use of StarOffice (for word processing, etc...)
>
>
> Which ever distro you get will have gnu compilers; RHL 7
> is just released in the past few days and the software included
> is probably as recent as any.
>
> > The Hardware I will be using:
>
> > -ABIT KT7-Raid (I will not be using the RAID system yet)
> > -AThlon 800 TB
> > - I have not chosen a video card yet for this system. I will ask for
> > input from you in a separate post.
>
> if you want good graphics, Matrox. Otherwise pretty much any
> of the cheapies - S3, S3V, S3 Savage, i740.
>
> btw Consider whether you would benefit from SMP; if you can
> benefit from working two CPUs, the incremental cost isn't that
> great compared with the overall cost of the system.
>
>
> --
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From: "Ali" <cracker@$$$$redhotant.com>
Subject: kodak DC215 zoom
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 17:10:54 +0100
has anyone managed to get a Kodak DC 215 zoom digital camera to work in
linux. What is needed for twain support?
TIA
Ali
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:48:48 -0400
From: characterZer0 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aureal sound device and compiling kernel
I'm running RedHat 7.0 on an x86 machine (P3 500). when running
/usr/sbin/sndconfig, it tells me that i have a 3d aureal sound card
(Turtle Beach Montego II A3D in PCI to be precise) and that the device
is not supported. I downloaded a driver that is supposed to work with
the card (Aureal Vortex Linux Driver)(au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz) and i
uncompressed it and ran followed the instructions (make install20). It
returns errors. The documentation in the tar.gz says to compile my
kernel with sound cards support enabled (built in, not module) if you
get errors.. Upon finding that RedHat didn't include the source in
/usr/src/linux, i went to kernel.org and downloaded the kernel i'm
running now (2.2.16), and the most recent stable one (2.2.17). I
unpacked the one i'm running (2.2.16) into /src/usr/linux/ and typed:
make menuconfig (and enabled sound card support)
make dep
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
When it was compiling the kernel (from make bzImage) there were numerous
(more than 50) lines saying "xxxx.c:###:## warning: pasting would not
give a valid preprocessing token" where xxxx is 3 or 4 letters (i.e.
xprt) and # is a digit. After "make install" i tried to find the
kernel. couldn't find it, unless it replaced the old one. So I started
over with 2.2.17 and got the same errors. Couldn't find the compiled
kernel. /boot/ still had vmlinuz2.2.16-20. Now when i boot, it fails a
bunch of stuff. But nothing seems to work wrong. And when i shut down,
it fails some sound card thing. So i tried to install the sound card
driver again, but i still get the same errors. Any
help/suggestions/ideas would be appreciated, as right now i have a cord
running from the headphone jack in my cdplayer to the rca input on my
amp to play cd's, and i can't listen to my National Public Radio live
webstream.
Stephen Byrne
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Miguel Angel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Disk problem , diferent cylinders , head and sectors ?
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 19:10:08 +0200
I have a Micropolis 2217 SCSI hard disc with 1,7 Gigabytes , I am working
with it for a 7 month ago , but I decide to format it , with a low format
hardware utility , but when I restart the computer , the configuration of
the harddisk changes .
This is the hardware especification:
MICROPOLIS 2217 DISK DRIVE
SPECIFICATIONS
Model Number
Unformatted Capacity: 2217-15
Total Mbytes -------------- 2079 ----------------
Disk Platters ----------------- 8 -----------------
Read/Write Heads ---------------- 15 -----------------
Cylinders -------------- 2372 -----------------
Bytes per track ---------- VARIABLE -----------------
Formatted Capacity
Total Mbytes -------------- 1750 -----------------
Bytes per Sector ---------------- 512 -----------------
Sectors per Track ----------- VARIABLE -----------------
When I restar the computer I can see that at boot:
md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
sim710: Configuring Sim710 (SCSI-ID 7) at 9000, IRQ 11
scsi0: Revision 0x2
scsi0 : Simple 53c710
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: MICROP Model: 2217-15MZ1001905 Rev: HQ30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
Vendor: MICROP Model: 2217-15MZ1001905 Rev: HQ30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 27871-XXX Rev: 1210
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: COMPAQ Model: CD-ROM CR-503BCQ Rev: 1.1c
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total.
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 256 bytes. Sectors= 6162407 [1504 MB] [1.5 GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 256 bytes. Sectors= 6162407 [1504 MB] [1.5 GB]
And fdisk show me that:
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 49 heads, 62 sectors, 1014 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 3038 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help):
More information of Micropolis 2217 here :
http://ghost.rssi.ru/public/hardware/hdd/micropolis/2217.txt
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From: Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices?
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:26:33 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using the a7v by asus with no problem.
Tristan
John Palkovic wrote:
> "Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Tom of tomshardware.com just did a review of 10 boards for the Duron. Here
> > is the link:
> > http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000919/index.html
>
> Tom did not test the FIC AZ-11
> (url http://www.fica.com/products/motherboard/Socket462/AZ11.stm).
>
> I just built a duron system (600 MHz) based on this motherboard. I'm
> quite happy with it. I have booted three different linux kernels (two
> different installers and tomsrtbt) and I have succesfully installed
> debian 2.1 on it. So far so good, but I've only had it up for three
> days. I'm waiting for a debian 2.2 CD set it and plan to install that
> when it arrives.
>
> -John
>
> --
> God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
> - Voltaire
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From: Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:27:18 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
x86_serial_nr=1
Tristan
Brad Remedios wrote:
> Dances With Crows wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:37:37 -0700, Mike Oliver wrote:
> > >pete wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Mike Oliver wrote:
> > >> > Does anyone know if this combo will work? After taking care of
> > >> > the known problem regarding the CPUID, I mean
> > >> > ( see <news:39C7F2F6.4A6175E%40ninewalkers.com> ).
> > >>
> > >> What problems would they be? Please tell.
> > >
> > >I don't know what they would be; I haven't bought the hardware
> > >yet. I was hoping someone could tell me whether I should.
> >
> > FWIW, a friend of mine bought an Athlon 600+SD-11, and SuSE 6.4
> > installed and worked beautifully, autodetecting everything save the
> > Hauppage TV-tuner. Same thing with RedHat 6.2. The Athlons don't have
> > CPUIDs, and I'd hope that the kernel doesn't try to disable the CPUID
> > unless it detects a PIII. (Just to be safe, select "PII" or "Athlon"
> > when compiling a custom kernel for the machine....)
>
> The problem i had is that unde RH6.2 (Haven't tried anything else) it
> installs a kernel that trys to diable the CPUID (with PIII). Under the
> Thunderbird this causes an unrecoverable error (you will be able to boot
> with x86_serial_nr=0 or maybe a 1 I don't remeber then rebuild the
> kernel from there.
>
> I'm not sure if it installed a different kerenel under the anthlon 700,
> but it installed fine anyways (and the first thing that I did was
> rebuild a newer kernel)...
>
> I guess my answer is, there are no real problems. Everything for me
> works nicely.
> --
> Brad Remedios ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Tajvidi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stylus Color 760
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:20:58 +0200
Hi Linux lover!
I've purchased an Epson Stylus Color 760 printer and I use the stcolor device
driver provided by ghostscript. My problem is that I can just print in the
resolution 360x360 dpi. My printer supports higher resolution (up to
1440x720dpi). I've already tried several resolutions (720x720, ...) with the -r
option but no results :( If anybody has a solution....
Thanks in advance
Charles
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com509b problem
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:42:56 +0200
Moguh
Ivan Martinez wrote:
> After reading previous posts I still can't connect to the network with
> my 3com 509b.
Coax? If so, switch of the media type auto detect and set it to BNC.
Regards,
Rob
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From: manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xfree86 4.0
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:58:44 GMT
I have read that the new Xfree86 4.0 has been redesigned. I will not
pretend to understand this new infrastracture. However, I would like to
take advantage of this if it is worth while for my needs. Basically, I
have written some code for analyzing and displaying data. The code was
written on an SGI using its OpenGL library. I don't consider myself a
programmer (I have only picked up enough FORTRAN and C to help me with
data analysis). I basically would like to port this code from the SGI to
my Linux box with little to no recoding. With that in mind, could
someone explain to me how this new Xfree86 structure helps me at all in
accomplishing this? The 3D visualization code I wrote is not graphic
intensive (I am basically visulazing point clusters in a 3-axis
environment). Does Xfree86 come with its own OpenGL library (since SGI
has open sourced it) or is Mesa still used?
The next question is "what kind of video card should I buy which will
take advantage of the new Xfree86"? The box I'm building currently has:
- ABIT kt7-raid mobo
- 800 athlon TB
- 128 MB Corsair RAM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William A. Maniatty)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: CDROM burning
Date: 04 Oct 2000 14:02:03 -0400
Hello All:
I have a PlexWriter RW 4/2/20 CD scsi CD burner on a dual processor
Asus P2BDS motherboard (Dual PIII 500's) and 256 MB of ECC RAM.
I am using mandrake 7.0 from a boxed distribution set, xcdroast might
and its supporting software could have been downloaded from say rpmfind.net
by the guy my vendor had install the cdwriter.
I have 2 possibly related problems:
1) When I go to burn a CD using xcdroast it takes a long time
(about 75 minutes) although xcdroast indicates the write speed is 4x.
2) I've been having difficulty getting my cd burner to do complete burns
(often failing with write errors).
xcdroast's front screeen claims that is is 0.96e and relies on:
cdrecord-1.61
mkisofs-1.12b4
rpm -q, reports:
cdrecord-1.8a29-3mdk
mkisofs-1.12b5-3mdk
xcdroast-0.96e-7mdk
Is there a way to determine if this is due to driver software or a
hardware error on the cd burner?
Thanks:
Bill Maniatty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William A. Maniatty)
Subject: Re: Asus P2B-DS
Date: 04 Oct 2000 13:50:10 -0400
Hello Kees:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have one on my desktop at work and it works like a champ.
They are a bit pricy, but they do a great job. You might want
to consider an ASUS P2B variant with a SCSI controller card,
it might be cheaper, and permit easier upgrading of the SCSI subsystem.
Regards:
Bill Maniatty
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: D851EEA network adapter help, please.
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:00:28 GMT
Hey, it worked! Thanks.
========================================
In article <8rcqmm$nde$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bill Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8rb5t0$hii$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (in part):
> |> Hello,
> |> I have Intel D815EEA motherboard, which came with integrated video,
> |> audio, and LAN.
> |> I have RedHat Linux 7.0 installed.
> |> I'm having trouble with the integrated network adapter.
>
> Use the "e100" module, which is now included with RedHat 7.
>
> |> I need some detailed, step-by-step instructions on installing the
> |> driver.
>
> Just edit /etc/modules.conf, delete any "alias eth0" lines, add a line
> "alias eth0 e100" and reboot. Of course, then you'll have to do the
IP
> config stuff.
>
> --
> Bill Stapleton University of Wisconsin -
Milwaukee
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information & Media
Technologies
> Web Janitor, http://www.uwm.edu/ Technical Solutions
>
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kresimir Marzic)
Subject: Re: 3com509b problem
Date: 4 Oct 2000 19:19:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Moguh
> Ivan Martinez wrote:
> > After reading previous posts I still can't connect to the network with
> > my 3com 509b.
> Coax? If so, switch of the media type auto detect and set it to BNC.
Try it as module. I have in my /etc/modules.conf file:
alias eth0 3c509
options eth0 irq=7
It's working OK (knock-knock).
--
Kresimir Marzic
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 13:53:07 -0500
From: "Richard M. Denney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Writer errors: Hot connecting and removing devices on SCSI bus
Question: Can one add to or remove from a SCSI bus non-busy SCSI
devices? On the basis of the May 1996 SCSI-HOWTO, I have been trying
echo "scsi remove-single-device 0 0 1 0" /proc/scsi/scsi
and
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 1 0" /proc/scsi/scsi
to no avail.
The reason I would like to be able to do this has to do with my
difficulties writing verifiable CDROMS is as follows:
===================================================================
I have a pentium III 450 MHz system with Redhat 6.0 upgraded to kernel
2.2.17. It generally works fine.
On a SCSI bus (aix7xxxdriver) Adaptec 2930CU card, I have a Yamaha
CRW4416SX cd writer (scsi device 1), two microtek scanners (a flatbed E6
as device 4, a 35t slide scanner as device 5), and a zip drive as device
6. All these components work find, with the exception noted below.
Situation 1 (bad CDROMS): Boot Linux with all SCSI devices turned on and
attempt to write a CDROM with cdrecord 1.6. Result: I get write errors:
the writer stops at random times during the write phase.
Situation 2 (some good CDROMS): Boot as in Situation 1 (all SCSI
devices on). Turn off the CD Writer, disconnect the downstream devices
(scanners and zip drive) and turn on termination on writer to "ON".
Result: The writer now writes complete CDROMS and never stops during the
writing phase. However, about one-third of written CDROMS cannot be
"verified" with xcdroast. The failures to verify occur at different
places in different CDROMS, usually somewhere between one-third and
two-thirds of the way through the CDROM. Most files appear to be OK when
such a CDROM is mounted. Thus, there appear to be infrequent, but
troublesome, write errors.
Situation 3 (good CDROMS, at least so far): Boot with only the CD writer
attached to the SCSI card (and termination "ON"). The CD writer seems to
work fine and the resulting CDROMS appear to be verifiable. (At least a
few in a row, which is much better than in situation 2.
Rebooting linux when I need to write a CDROM (a la situation 3) is a
considerable nuisance if I am also scanning images with the SCSI
scanners. As indicated above, attempts to add or remove the downstream
SCSI devices with the the echo commands in the SCSI-HOWTO do not seem to
work in my hands (no change in the /proc/scsi/scsi file.) Perhaps the
problem is that that HOWTO is written for general scsi (sg) devices. The
cdwiter is assigned to scd0 (not sg0). The zip drive is assigned to sd0,
and I am not sure what the scanners are assigned to.
The /proc/scsi/scsi file (with the CDWRITER only):
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0g
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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Any suggestions appreciated.
Rick
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