Linux-Hardware Digest #674, Volume #13 Thu, 5 Oct 00 01:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Hauppauge WinTV model 401 (Vladimir Florinski)
AC '97 Sound on Linux (Ragnar Thomsen)
[Q] Decent PCI 10/100 Mbps ethernet card selection (Anton Tropashko)
Installing on HPT370/KT7! (The Smoking Man)
Re: tar but no dump - help? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: [Q] Decent PCI 10/100 Mbps ethernet card selection ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model (Adam Shrader)
Re: Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model (Adam Shrader)
IBM Turbo-Tokenring-Card (Konstantinos Agouros)
can someone suggest a network hub? ("Typhon")
Re: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff (Mark Post)
Re: AAAAaaaaarrrgggggghhhhh ("Typhon")
Serial Prot Programming ("Ray Tang")
Re: can someone suggest a network hub? (Mark Post)
Re: Asus P2B-DS (Bill Maniatty)
Sparc/Solaris vs Intel/Linux: Webserver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart (Dirk Hufnagel)
Re: Stylus Color 760 (kevin filer)
Intellimouse Explorer Causing Probs (dsmith)
Re: Stylus Color 760 (Grant Taylor)
Compaq Proliant ("G Soft")
Promise UltraATA/100 ("Frank")
Re: adding a scsi disk to an ide system (David_C)
Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart (David_C)
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV model 401
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 17:17:14 -0700
Alan Burns wrote:
>
> #bttv
> alias char-major-81 videodev
> alias char-major-81-0 bttv
> options bttv card=10 radio=1
> options tuner debug=1
>
Xawtv recommends the following in conf.modules:
alias char-major-81 bttv
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner
options tuner type=<number>
where number must correspond to your tuner type, as described in the xawtv
manual. You shouldn't specify a card type.
>
> So I decide to try xawtv instead. It compiles and starts without a
> problem, but the picture is AWFUL - black & white, grainy, severe
> ghosting, and rolling - and there is no sound.
>
Tuner mismatch, most likely.
--
Vladimir
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From: Ragnar Thomsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AC '97 Sound on Linux
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 01:52:55 +0100
I just purchased a Aopen AK33 motherboard with an AC '97 sound chip, but I
can't get the sound to work.
I've tried to enable soundblaster compatibility in the bios, and then
loaded the sb.o module in the kernel(v2.2.17), but it doesn't work.
Any help appreciated.
Thanx.
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From: Anton Tropashko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] Decent PCI 10/100 Mbps ethernet card selection
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 18:15:06 -0700
Hello there. What would be my choices for a network card that does most of the
processing onboard
and has a fairly simple (least buggy) driver?
If it's relevant I have
Intel Cubx motherboard
Matrox G400 Max
PCI2000A SCSI RAID card
Advanced Gravis UltraSound MAX PnP
Hollywood something DVD mpeg decoder card.
Would a network card interfere with a sound card (that is reduce the sound quality)?
Any suggestion in what order to stack the PCI cards? (there is only one ISA slot taken
by gus max)
What should I replace my mpeg card with?
Thank you.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Smoking Man)
Subject: Installing on HPT370/KT7!
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 01:31:05 GMT
Hi all, I'd like to install RedHat to a 30gb IBM 75GXP connected to
HPT370 controller... RedHat 6.2 doesn't recognize the hpt370 during
installation...
Is there any way for Redhat 6.2 to detect the hpt370?
If not, does RH 7.0 support HPT370 out of the box?
Thanks guys.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc,linux.scsi
Subject: Re: tar but no dump - help?
Date: 5 Oct 2000 01:41:31 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware ekkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all,
^^^
No kidding. Followups trimmed -- pick a group, please.
> I'm having a problem backing up a file system to tape using "dump". I can
> tar to the device (read and write) so I know there's nothing wrong
> with the hardware or drivers... can anyone help point me ine right
> direction?
First, make sure you get the latest version from dump.sourceforge.net.
dump/restore has been undergoing rapid development and bug-fixing of late.
> root@beowulf:/root # dump -0u -f /dev/st0 /home/ftp/mp3z
dump has no idea how big your tape is. The newer version has a '-a' flag
which tells it to write until it hits EOT.
> p.s. please e-mail so I don't have to keep coming back to the newsgroup,
Posted here for the benfit of all.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Q] Decent PCI 10/100 Mbps ethernet card selection
Date: 04 Oct 2000 21:26:08 -0400
Netgear FA310TX
It is a DEC Tulip clone, works well with Linux, and is cheap.
Don't get the FA311, though! This is another chipset!
Richard
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From: Adam Shrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 21:54:47 -0400
Can anybody tell me why I keep getting an abnormal installation error
either when I try to partition my hard drive w/ disk druid or fdisk or
when the RPM's are installing. Would a more up to date version of
RedHat solve this? Any suggestions would be helpful.
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From: Adam Shrader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 22:01:15 -0400
Adam Shrader wrote:
> Can anybody tell me why I keep getting an abnormal installation error
> either when I try to partition my hard drive w/ disk druid or fdisk or
> when the RPM's are installing. Would a more up to date version of
> RedHat solve this? Any suggestions would be helpful.
Forgot to add that it receives a signal 11 error and sends the termination
signal to everything and shuts itself down.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: IBM Turbo-Tokenring-Card
Date: 4 Oct 2000 21:26:14 +0200
Hi,
today I tried to get a IBM Tokenring ISA 16/4-Card to work in a PII-System.
It seems to be exactly the card that the howto talks about where one has to set
a certain parameter to get it to be recognized by linux.
The problem is, that the IBM-Software on the landisk just fails with an error
by our good friend General Protection.
Is there a way to get this to run 'just under linux'?
Konstnatin
--
Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
============================================================================
"Captain, this ship will not sustain the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres
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From: "Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: can someone suggest a network hub?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:46:07 GMT
I want to network my Win2000 box and my RH7.0 box.
Has anyone ever done this? Can you give me some pointers?
Specifically, I am wondering what network hubs are useful for networking
computers with these disparate operating systems.
Very grateful for any ideas.
Kind regards,
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:48:54 GMT
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 14:51:32 GMT, Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>>>>>> "Bernhard" == Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
-snip oops info-
>Any suggestions?
Bernhard,
Submit the decoded oops to the linux kernel developers mailing list. The
mailing list is at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: "Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AAAAaaaaarrrgggggghhhhh
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:49:20 GMT
This seems an obvious question but I'll ask anyway. Did the freezes begin
after you installed RH7.0?
Did any other aspect of your system change before you first noticed the
freezes?
Something must have changed.
Maybe trying installing RH7.0 fresh. Format your drives and start over.
My two cents. Good luck.
Eric
"Bernhard Mogens Ege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ahh, needed some air.
>
> My system keeps freezing on me. Has been running stable for 9 month
> and now it freezes at least once a day.
>
> The problem might be:
>
> Arla client (free AFS client). No running anymore.
> Net speed upped to 100Mbit/Sec.
> XFree86-4.0 (previous 3.3.5).
> Machine relocation (moved it a bit).
> Upgrade from RedHat 6.0 to 7.0 (in parts, but inbetween a complete
reinstall
> to rh70beta occured).
> MTRR is being used by Xserver.
> I dont know what!
>
> System:
>
> AMD Athlon 500
> MSI 6167 (AMD750/AMD7409 chipset)
> 128Mb PC100 RAM
> Western Digital 18Gb disc
> Yamaha YMF724 soundcard.
> TNT2
> 3Com 3c905b NIC.
>
> I have switched to the following hardware:
>
> New mainboard (same as old) -> no difference.
> GeForce2MX -> no difference.
> RealTek 8139 NIC -> no difference.
>
> I have disabled APM (as much as the bios allows).
>
> Software:
>
> RedHat 7.0, upgraded from RedHat 7.0 beta. This worked for several
> Intel machines I have installed/upgraded (P3-500 to P3-800, via
> chipset, TNT2 and GeForce2GTS, 3Com 3c905C).
>
> Disabling OSS sound driver does not help.
> AGP disabled (for nvidia driver).
> Compiled kernel myself (redhat kernel 2.2.16-22). Precompiled kernel
> doesn't help.
> No DMA on HD (chipset not recognised by kernel).
> USB is running (USB hub attached, no other devices attached).
> NTP is running (stopping doesn't help).
>
> RH70 beta installation was more stable than RH70 final.
> Syslog never contains any errors that cannot be explained.
>
> Windows98SE is very stable. It really is.
>
> I wish Linux was able to store information somewhere in memory/on
> disc/floppy/non-volatile memory about a kernel crash.
>
> Running X doesn't let you see anything on the console.
>
> I have obviously missed something, since the system keeps being this
> unstable, but I have no idea what.
>
> regards,
>
> Bernhard Ege
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From: "Ray Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial Prot Programming
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 21:58:11 -0500
Hi,
I am new to Linux, and I am trying to program a serial port to send and
receive messages via RF (radio frequency). I have the RF part working and I
am able to connect the RF board to the serial port, but I don't know how to
program it. I read through a lot of FAQ and other documents on serial port
programming on the internet, and I tried many of them, and not many of them
were helpful. Basically, all I need is to be able to send out a data pack
on TXD pin and receive data pack from the RXD pin. Can anyone point me to a
good direction (a book, may be)?
Thanks.
--
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: can someone suggest a network hub?
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:55:21 GMT
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:46:07 GMT, "Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to network my Win2000 box and my RH7.0 box.
>Has anyone ever done this? Can you give me some pointers?
>Specifically, I am wondering what network hubs are useful for networking
>computers with these disparate operating systems.
Eric,
_Any_ ethernet hub will work just fine. For my home systems, I bought a
Wisecom 5-port 10Mb ethernet hub, and hooked up three systems to it, Windows
98, Windows NT, and Slackware Linux. The hub (less cables) cost me about
$25.00
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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Subject: Re: Asus P2B-DS
From: Bill Maniatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:52:12 GMT
Forgot to mention, I've mostly been running Mandrake 7.0 (boxed set) for
about a 8 or 9 months or so. I have also installed FreeBSD 4.0 successfully
and some redhat 6.1/6.2 on it as well.
Regards:
Bill Maniatty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware;
Subject: Sparc/Solaris vs Intel/Linux: Webserver
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 02:51:20 GMT
Hi everyone,
There's a very interesting discussion going on in
comp.sys.sun.hardware on sparc v intel (luckily no-one's swearing at
each other yet).
I was wondering if there was anyone around who had compared
sparc/solaris and intel/linux specifically as webservers? I'm looking
at the following systems to use as webserver:
1. Compaq DL360 pIII 550 w/ 256 MB running Linux/Apache
2. Sun Netra t1 105 1 proc w/ 256 MB running Solaris/Apache
The workload is going to be mostly dynamic pages, so the Web server
really is just going to be proxying requests to the appserver
(WebLogic). So basically I think it boils down to: "Which h/w OS combo
can create, fork and destroy processes faster?"
Any thoughts?
Regards,
SC
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Dirk Hufnagel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 23:21:31 -0400
McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant wrote:
>
> I have an IBM DRVS 18Gb 10Krpm LVD wide SCSI. It is connected to an
> Adaptec 2940UW controller and has had no problems. I connected my HP CD
> Rewriter on the 50way connector with active termination and now my IBM
> hard drive does not start.
>
> I have tried the IBM, again, on it's own, with and with the auto start.
> I have tried SE with active termination, but it will not start up. The
> CD Rewriter is OK.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Leo
Do you have an active wide SCSI terminator connected behind
the IBM drive ? It's an LVD drive and doesn't have onboard
termination, so you need to terminate the bus. With the disk
as the only device it might have worked w/o termination.
Dirk
PS: If you need to buy a terminator, I would recommend a
multimode (eg. SE/LVD) terminator.
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From: kevin filer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stylus Color 760
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 03:31:05 GMT
You've gotten farther than I have. I downloaded gimp-print, then followed the
instructions to create the stp driver for Ghostscript (copied some .c and .h files
to Ghostscipt's src dir, modified some makefiles, recompiled Ghostscript,
reran PDQ printer installer, and still nothing.
How did you get your stcolor device to work?
Thanks
Kevin
Tajvidi wrote:
> 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: dsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intellimouse Explorer Causing Probs
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 19:30:34 -0400
I have an Intellimouse Explorer (running PS/2) connected to a KVM switch
for two linux boxes. Every once in a while (like once every two hours)
the mouse will lock up and/or go nuts. If I switch to the other box,
it's ok, but if I switch back, it's still screwed up. If I click and
move and roll the mouse enough, it will usually come back after about 20
seconds. Sometimes, I have to restart the X server and sometimes I have
to do that a few times before it will come back.
I am running Linux Mandrake 7.1. The XF86Config file has the protocol
set to IMPS/2 and if I run mouseconfig for the command prompt, I select
Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2.
What am I doing wrong and how do I fix it??!?!!?
Thanks!
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stylus Color 760
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 03:35:56 GMT
kevin filer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You've gotten farther than I have. I downloaded gimp-print, then
> followed the instructions to create the stp driver for Ghostscript
> (copied some .c and .h files to Ghostscipt's src dir, modified some
> makefiles, recompiled Ghostscript, reran PDQ printer installer, and
> still nothing.
Odd. Which PDQ driver declaration are you using? Which version of
gimp-print?
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor<at>picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
News, Discussion Forums, Support Database, Software, and more...
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From: "G Soft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Proliant
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2000 22:42:27 -0500
Hi,
Anybody seen any links or info on installing any linux or bsd on older
Compaq Proliant servers? Running into problems with the array controller
and hoping that someone has possibly found their way through. Thanks in
advance.
Phil Schilling
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise UltraATA/100
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 04:07:01 GMT
Hi everyone,
I want to install Redhat 7 on my brand spanking new machine which has an
Asus A7V mobo and my HDD is hooked up to the Promise UltraATA100 connectors.
Does RedHat 7 support this offhand? And If not where can I download drivers
so that I can install it?
Thanks,
Frank
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding a scsi disk to an ide system
Date: 05 Oct 2000 00:55:02 -0400
Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Make an initial RAM disk (via mkinitrd), put this in /boot, and tell
>> LILO to use it (add an "initrd=" line in /etc/lilo.conf, then run lilo).
>>
>> This should do it.
>
> I had one but I didn't redo it after adding the scsi device and, of
> course, it didn't know about it.
Once you have a working initrd file, you should regenerate your boot
floppy as well. This way you can access the SCSI drive from a floppy
boot. Use mkbootdisk to do this.
-- David
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From: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart
Date: 05 Oct 2000 01:01:20 -0400
"The Everettes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> You have an LVD drive connected to a non LVD controller. Is that supported?
This shouldn't matter. All LVD drives that conform to the current SCSI
specs should detect this and run in SE mode. When they do, however,
they will run as UltraWide - which will impose a rather short cable
length limit.
-- David
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