Linux-Hardware Digest #680, Volume #13 Thu, 5 Oct 00 23:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Dell Dimension video config (Andrew Lanczi)
Re: Stylus Color 760 (Grant Taylor)
Re: Linux on Compaq Deskpro 6000 MP System ("bluster")
Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart ("Folkert Rienstra")
Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart ("Folkert Rienstra")
IBM DecStar (Davis Eric)
Re: aureal sound device and compiling kernel (J Wendel)
Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart (David_C)
Re: IBM DecStar ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NIC recommendation ("Typhon")
Re: AAAAaaaaarrrgggggghhhhh ("Typhon")
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From: Andrew Lanczi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Dimension video config
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 00:43:02 GMT
I have installed redhat Linux 6.X on my Dell Dimension L667r with an
M780 17" graphics display. The install program did not recognize the
graphics card (default installed at Dell). I have tried several custom
configs and the result is that X displays in large, pixels that provide
a crude appearance.
If someone has this configuration and has given Linux a graphics config
that displayed X sessions in a proper manner, I would appreciate the
values you used for the graphics card and M780 display. You can email
to me at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Thanks in advance,
Andrew
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stylus Color 760
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 00:46:13 GMT
KC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I used the pdq-o-matic tool to generate a settings script for the
> Epson Stylus Color 760. I appended the generated script info to my
> /etc/pdq/printrc file. I downloaded and used gimp-print v3.1.9 to
Version 3.1.9 of gimp-print is the problem; the current foomatic data
matches version 4.0b2, which was released yesterday. (It would
probably also work with 4.0b1).
The newer gimp-print works a whole lot better, anyway, so I suggest
that you run a newer 4.0ish version like this latest beta.
--
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: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq Deskpro 6000 MP System
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:47:33 -0400
hi,
Matt Fuerst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted in comp.os.linux.hardware
> I just won an auction for a machine that is described as a Compaq 6000.
> It has a Pentium Pro 200 MHz chip installed, along with various other
The ProLient 6000 is a 200MHz Pentium Pro smp machine, takes up to
4 cpus.
> I haven't been
> able to find much good information on this unit thus far but wil llikely
Try Compaq.
http://www5.compaq.com/products/servers/ProLiant6000/questionandanswer.html
> Has anyone tried setting up Linux on such a machine?
Compaq shipped lots of these units with RedHat linux pre-installed!
The Compaq page with RedHat linux drivers for these units is:
http://www5.compaq.com/support/files/server/us/locate/35_1107.html
IIRC Compaq has a devel program with RedHat to support Compaq servers.
Looks like you picked a winner.
Bluster
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From: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:21:46 +0200
| Don't trust auto-termination - it sometimes messes up.
| Forcing the hard drive to SE mode shouldn't change anything - it should
| auto detect an SE bus and run in that mode on its own.
|
Hmm, you trust the controller to have a grounded diffsens pin but you distrust a drive
to have a grounded termination sense pin?
--
Folkert Rienstra
(don't email me please, reply to the group)
visit Gary Field's SCSI Info Central at www.scsifaq.org
SCSI Parallel Interface - 4 (SPI-4) can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/spi4/spi4r00.pdf
The 'Technical Committee T13 AT Attachment'
( or IDE for short) is found at http://www.t13.org/
A new ATA/ATAPI-6 draft is out!
"David_C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| >
| > I have an IBM DRVS 18Gb 10Krpm LVD wide SCSI. It is connected to an
| > Adaptec 2940UW controller and has had no problems.
|
| Is the card a 2940UW or a 2940U2W?
|
| The UW is not an LVD card. The drive will still work, but it will run
| as an UltraWide (non-LVD) drive.
|
| Most LVD drives don't have on-board termination. Make sure your cable
| has a terminator at the end, near the drive. A single-ended active
| terminator will be sufficient, but you should get a multimode (LVD/SE),
| so it will work if/when you choose to upgrade your UltraWide card to an
| LVD (Ultra2 or Ultra160) card.
|
| (If your card is really a U2W, then the drive will be running in LVD
| mode, and a multimode terminator should be used.)
|
| > I connected my HP CD Rewriter on the 50way connector with active
| > termination and now my IBM hard drive does not start.
|
| Here are some things to check:
|
| - If you are using the internal 50-pin connector and the internal 68-pin
| connector, you can not use the external connector. If you have any
| external devices, you will have to attach the CDRW drive to the 68-pin
| cable with via a non-terminating adapter instead of the 50-pin connector.
|
| - If there is no external device, then using both internal connectors is
| OK, but the card must terminate the upper half of the SCSI bus. Don't
| trust auto-termination - it sometimes messes up. Use SCSISelect
| (CTRL-A at POST time) to manually set the termination this way.
|
| - The CDRW should have termination turned on. Or it should be on a
| cable with an active terminator on it.
|
| - If the card is really a U2W, keep in mind that a single ended device
| (like the CDRW) will cause the bus to run in SE mode. This will
| result in shorter cable length limits and will change your termination
| requirements. If your LVD terminator is actually dual-mode, you won't
| have a problem with this. In terms of cabling, UltraWide has a 3m
| limit if all your cables have proper impedance, but there are a lot of
| cheap cables out there - which will reduce your effective length limit
| to about 1.5m.
|
| > 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.
|
| Are you sure the CDRW is OK? Have you tried it without the hard drive?
| Does it work this way?
|
| Forcing the hard drive to SE mode shouldn't change anything - it should
| atuo detect an SE bus and run in that mode on its own.
|
| -- David
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From: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 20:21:59 +0200
Try this:
http://www.scsifaq.org/scsifaq.html#SENSE_DATA_DECODING
www.nu2.nu/scsitool/#links
--
Folkert Rienstra
(don't email me please, reply to the group)
visit Gary Field's SCSI Info Central at www.scsifaq.org
SCSI Parallel Interface - 4 (SPI-4) can be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/spi4/spi4r00.pdf
The 'Technical Committee T13 AT Attachment'
( or IDE for short) is found at http://www.t13.org/
A new ATA/ATAPI-6 draft is out!
"McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| I have removed the CDRewriter and reverted back to the original setup which
| has worked for 1.5 years, but it does not work. Also I have noted that it does
| not get warm, so suspect something a bit more 'terminal'!
|
| Unless yous have some more suggestions, then pls relpy.
|
| Note the CDRewriter is fine, I have had no problems burning my first CD.
|
| Thanks for your help.
|
| Leo
|
|
|
| David_C wrote:
|
| > McManus Leo Root DSP Consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| > >
| > > I have an IBM DRVS 18Gb 10Krpm LVD wide SCSI. It is connected to an
| > > Adaptec 2940UW controller and has had no problems.
| >
| > Is the card a 2940UW or a 2940U2W?
| >
| > The UW is not an LVD card. The drive will still work, but it will run
| > as an UltraWide (non-LVD) drive.
| >
| > Most LVD drives don't have on-board termination. Make sure your cable
| > has a terminator at the end, near the drive. A single-ended active
| > terminator will be sufficient, but you should get a multimode (LVD/SE),
| > so it will work if/when you choose to upgrade your UltraWide card to an
| > LVD (Ultra2 or Ultra160) card.
| >
| > (If your card is really a U2W, then the drive will be running in LVD
| > mode, and a multimode terminator should be used.)
| >
| > > I connected my HP CD Rewriter on the 50way connector with active
| > > termination and now my IBM hard drive does not start.
| >
| > Here are some things to check:
| >
| > - If you are using the internal 50-pin connector and the internal 68-pin
| > connector, you can not use the external connector. If you have any
| > external devices, you will have to attach the CDRW drive to the 68-pin
| > cable with via a non-terminating adapter instead of the 50-pin connector.
| >
| > - If there is no external device, then using both internal connectors is
| > OK, but the card must terminate the upper half of the SCSI bus. Don't
| > trust auto-termination - it sometimes messes up. Use SCSISelect
| > (CTRL-A at POST time) to manually set the termination this way.
| >
| > - The CDRW should have termination turned on. Or it should be on a
| > cable with an active terminator on it.
| >
| > - If the card is really a U2W, keep in mind that a single ended device
| > (like the CDRW) will cause the bus to run in SE mode. This will
| > result in shorter cable length limits and will change your termination
| > requirements. If your LVD terminator is actually dual-mode, you won't
| > have a problem with this. In terms of cabling, UltraWide has a 3m
| > limit if all your cables have proper impedance, but there are a lot of
| > cheap cables out there - which will reduce your effective length limit
| > to about 1.5m.
| >
| > > 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.
| >
| > Are you sure the CDRW is OK? Have you tried it without the hard drive?
| > Does it work this way?
| >
| > Forcing the hard drive to SE mode shouldn't change anything - it should
| > atuo detect an SE bus and run in that mode on its own.
| >
| > -- David
|
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From: Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM DecStar
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 01:48:46 GMT
Hi, there,
Is there anybody knows whether IBM DecStar hard disk (10G) works under
RH Linux?
Thanks
Davis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Wendel)
Subject: Re: aureal sound device and compiling kernel
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 02:29:14 GMT
1. Go to sourceforge and get the newest au88xx(1.1.0 I think) and the
patches. It worked for me. Just do a search for "aureal".
2. Sorry I can't help with the kernel compile, I'm running
2.4.0-test9. You might want to give it a try, it works pretty well on
my system. If you do, you must get the latest modutils package (see
freshmeat.net).
After you run "make install" you should find the new kernel in /boot
and the previous kernel renamed to <kernelname>.old
Make sure you're using a good compiler. There are some problems
compiling the newest kernels with gcc 2.95.x.The latest redhat
requires that you use "kgcc" for making kernels ( I think it is really
egcs1.1.2 ). You can download kgcc from the redhat ftp site.
Good luck,
John
On Wed, 04 Oct 2000 12:48:48 -0400, characterZer0
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: David_C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: IBM SCSI does not autostart
Date: 05 Oct 2000 22:29:24 -0400
"Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Don't trust auto-termination - it sometimes messes up.
>>
>> Forcing the hard drive to SE mode shouldn't change anything - it should
>> auto detect an SE bus and run in that mode on its own.
>
> Hmm, you trust the controller to have a grounded diffsens pin but you
> distrust a drive to have a grounded termination sense pin?
I have personally experienced configurations where auto-termination has
guessed wrong - making the entire bus useless.
As for "termination sense pin", where is this defined?
There is no standard way for auto-detecting termination. Different
controllers use different algorithms, and none of them are standardized
or foolproof.
Please read the SCSI FAQ from your own sig file:
http://www.scsifaq.org/scsifaq.html#Host_Adapter1
As for the divvsens pin - no I don't implicitly trust it. But this is a
standardized feature. Unless proven otherwise, I presume that a drive
will comply to the standard.
This is different from auto-termination, where there is no such
standard, and I have personally witnessed its failure on busses where
nothing is broken.
-- David
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Subject: Re: IBM DecStar
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 05 Oct 2000 22:38:54 -0400
Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, there,
>
> Is there anybody knows whether IBM DecStar hard disk (10G) works under
> RH Linux?
I assume you mean "DeskStar." In any case, Linux supports all hard
disks; the only thing it might not support are the hard disk
controllers. Since DeskStars are regular IDE drives, the answer is
"yes."
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: NIC recommendation
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 03:00:56 GMT
Well, I can say that RH6.2 recognizes and supports my 3Com 3c900 TPO 10Mbps
NIC. No problems at all. Hope this is helpful.
Eric
"wm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:losC5.2288$C9.186287@news...
> Hi all,
>
> I recently purchased a NetGear NIC model FX-310 that I discovering is NOT
> the best choice for my Cyrix P150 Linux (RH 5.2) box. Could anyone make a
> recommendation for a more appropriate card??
>
> Thanks,
> Walt
>
>
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From: "Typhon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AAAAaaaaarrrgggggghhhhh
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 03:09:21 GMT
Hi, Bernhard,
It might be possible to assign the interrupts manually, but I for one do not
know how to do so. (Sorry.) My opinion is, start from the start. Go back to
a system configuration that you know was stable. Maybe reinstall RH7.0
afresh, from scratch. Make sure the system is stable without the Arla client
and the 100Mbps NIC. Then, add components one by one, and test thoroughly
before adding new ones. Maybe you will be able to isolate the component that
causes system freezes.
Make sure you're using the latest BIOS for that MSI 6167 mobo, too. That's
very important.
You might also try sprinkling the computer with holy water. =)
Good luck.
Eric
"Bernhard Mogens Ege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >>>>> "Typhon" == Typhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 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
>
> Thank you for trying to help me, but I cannot remember quite exactly
> what I did when the first freeze occured, but I think I upgraded the
> Arla client. This however might have clashed with the upgrade to
> 100mbit/sec network (not me upgrading, but my network interface
> autonegotiated up to 100mbit/sec instead of normal 10mbit(/sec). Soon
> thereafter I messed around with X4.0 (soon after 4.0.1), nvidia driver
> didn't add much to instability (execpt when using kernel 2.2.17).
>
> I have now had it running (console 1 (non X), but X was active on
> console 7), and this morning, it hadn't crashed on me (thats a
> first). I disabled USB in the bios (nvidia doesn't share interrupt
> with USB now).
>
> Is it possible to place the interrupts myself? I can't move the USB
> interface (motherboard based) and the graphicscard is AGP (hence
> unmoveable).
>
> regards,
>
> Bernhard Ege
>
>
> > "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
>
>
>
> --
> Bernhard Mogens Ege, M.Sc.E.E. E-mail:
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