Linux-Hardware Digest #996, Volume #13 Thu, 7 Dec 00 10:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: ESS Solo-1 Audio Supported in Linux? (Cristian)
Re: Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG? (Stefan Silberstein)
Re: Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron ("Adam Short")
ALSA or OSS and Aureal products ("Adam Short")
Re: Getting lm_sensors to work with RH7.0 (Joerg Evers)
i2c for riva based cards (Joerg Evers)
Re: RHL 6.2 on a Compaq Prosignia VS?? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Hewlett Packert Cxi990 (marcus rudolph)
Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1 (Harri Haataja)
Re: Intel 810 chips (Harri Haataja)
toshiba satellite 1620cds sound config (root)
Re: Audio System of Dell Inspirion 3200 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG? _ More information ("Axel Juhl")
Re: NTFS mount by Red Hat 7.0 (Glenn Serre)
Re: Adaptec 2930CU - supported? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Realtek RTL8139 Problems (on Sharp PCAX-20) ("Alex Craven")
Re: Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG? _ More information (Stefan
Silberstein)
Re: Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG? _ More information (H Dziardziel)
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From: Cristian <c{ristian}h{umberto}[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ESS Solo-1 Audio Supported in Linux?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 07:41:59 GMT
Luckydaze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the ESS audio chipset or more specifically the ESS Solo-1 PCI sound
> card supported under Linux with no major hassles?
Yes. It is one of the "lucky" chipsets to have native kernel support.
You might need to recompile your kernel to enable it (depending on what
distribution you choose). Recompiling the kernel is very straightforward;
nice graphical menu, so you shouldn't be scared of this. In any case, you
will eventually discover that kernel audio is so-so, and might prefer
the third party ALSA drivers (which hopefully will replace the current
ones in the next stable kernel).
C.
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From: Stefan Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 08:40:57 +0100
A bit more information could be useful!
Did you change the boot-option to "A,C" or something like that?
Are there any error-messages.
What else did you try?
Stony777
Axel wrote:
> I have a Suse 7.0 on hdd, but can't boot from floppy - I suspect the BIOS to
> prevent the loader to access hdd root ? - anyone know this problem?
> Regards Axel
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 09:08:34 GMT
No problems with the board itself and the Athlon TBird 800, VIA chipset is a
little dodgy though, so I'm told. I haven't had any problems that I can
directly attribute to the VIA chipset myself though.
Adam
Oscar Castillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> No problems here with 1GHz Tbird and KT7-RAID. RAID is out of the
question
> right now until I can find support for it. Using RedHat 7.0
>
> "Joachim Backhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to build a system with an AMD Duron processor
> > & an Abit KT 7 motherboard running under linux.
> >
> > Does anyone has some experience wether the Abit KT 7 works under linux?
> >
> > thanx in advance
> > joe
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALSA or OSS and Aureal products
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 09:11:14 GMT
Just wondering if anyone knows if ALSA or OSS were likely to include support
for the Aureal Vortex range anytime soon? I looked at the OSS page and it
just says "unsupported" at the moment.
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From: Joerg Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Getting lm_sensors to work with RH7.0
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:05:57 +0100
Hi,
I'm also trying to get lm_sensors to work. Maybe this can help you:
> necessary modules i2c-viapro and i2c-riva weren't there. I downloaded a
i2c-riva is not part of lm_sensors. It is available at
http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/rivatv.php
Then both for i2c and lm_sensors there are three installation options.
You can patch the kernel, compile the packages seperately or mix the two
options. BUT depending on the way you (i.e. RH packagers) install i2c,
not all options are possible for lm_sensors. So there might be some
difficulties if you mix RH packages and downloaded source. I had some
problems compiling lm_sensors and finally patched both i2c and
lm_sensors to the kernel (2.2.16, i think)
By the way: The i2c_riva backport to 2.2.x-Kernels does not seem to work
without patching the kernel with i2c and lm_sensors anyway. So maybe try
to get all packages, patch a so far unmodified kernel, and recompile.
Good luck!
Joerg
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From: Joerg Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i2c for riva based cards
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 10:37:04 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to speak to my Riva TNT2 using i2c, lm_sensors and the
backport of rivatv for 2.2.x - kernels, each in the newest version.
(http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/,
http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/rivatv.php)
I managed to compile all of them and on calling sensors_detect, my riva
card is detected. It asks me to load i2c-riva and reports success. After
finishing sensors_detect, lsmod shows i2c-dev, i2c-core and i2c-riva.
However, I cannot find device files anywhere in the proc-directory. I
manually modprobed other modules such as i2c-algo-?, i2c-detect, rivatv
to no success.
I also seem to have a problem with the module rivapci, because both
"depmod -a" and modprobing the module complain about unresolved symbols.
Has anyone succeeded in using rivatv?
Thanks,
Joerg
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RHL 6.2 on a Compaq Prosignia VS??
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:42:49 +0100
John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE he said !!!
> ... the kernel does what you tell it to. he said !!
> The procedure in reporting an experiment and your observations of it
> is taught in most secondary schools . he said !!
> Well Peter T. Breuer , maybe its your powers of observation that should be
> reviewed !!
> It turns out the information required to answer this question were included
> in the message I posted.
> Take a look at that thing called a subject line at the top of this posting.
OK. Just wait while I scroll back up the page, or exit this reply.
Oops. I can't.
> It DOES say Compaq Prosignia VS. Doesn't it !!
It most certainly does!
> It DOES say RHL 6.2. Doesn't it !!
It does!
> Well Peter T. Breuer , maybe its you who should make the effort.... to know
> what your talking about before you make an ass of yourself again.
> As it turns out, some Compaq Prosignia VS machines running RHL6.2 don't
> recognize the M in the statement mem=xM. The megabytes must be converted to
Nonsense.
> kilobytes i.e. the statement that corrects this issue
> is mem=xk.
Rubbish lad. The Compaq is not involved. You are talking straight to
the kernel and telling it how much memory you want it to act as though
it had.
So how many Megabytes did you use to tell it you had, and how many
Kilobytes do you now tell it you had? (note the CAPITAL letters at
the front: 1KB = 1024 bytes, 1MB=1024KB). I would guess that, say, you
used to tell it that you had 128MB, and you now tell it that you have
128000KB. Thus giving yourself 2.4% of elbow room to make way for a
scsi bios insert at the top of memory.
If you are interested, here is the relevant excerpt from setup.c in the
kernel source code (about line 312):
for (;;) {
/*
* "mem=nopentium" disables the 4MB page tables.
* "mem=XXX[kKmM]" overrides the BIOS-reported
* memory size
*/
....
if ( *from == 'K' || *from == 'k' ) {
memory_end = memory_end << 10;
from++;
} else if ( *from == 'M' || *from == 'm' ) {
memory_end = memory_end << 20;
from++;
}
As you can see, the only effect of changing between M and K is to alter
the value that the kernel reads by a factor of 2^10, i.e. 1024.
Peter
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From: marcus rudolph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hewlett Packert Cxi990
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 12:02:38 +0100
Does this fairly new Printer work under Linux?
Marcus Rudolph
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 11:07:46 GMT
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>Allen Mcintosh wrote:
>
>> The following worked for me (running kernel 2.2.17, but 2.2.16 should work
>> fine):
>>
>> 1) Install XFree86 3.3.6
>> 2) Obtain server and agpgart.c from the Intel website.
>> 3) Install server and agpgart.o
>>
>> Is there a reason you are using XF86 4.0.1?
>
>The documentation indicates that XF86 4.0.1 is supposed to come with a
>driver "i810":
<snip>
>So, XF86 4.01 should work. But, if not, using 3.x might fix the
>problem.
I've used both. I'm typing right now on DRI'd XF4 (RH7) on i810.
Works like a charm. Only you ddo need to give it the video ram number
because i810 uses your ram for video memory. I use about 10M which gives
me 1152x768@16bpp+DRI.
q3demo deadlocks the mahine hard, though =(
Here's some lines from xdpyinfo:
vendor string: The XFree86 Project, Inc
vendor release number: 4001
GLX
SGI-GLX
XFree86-DGA
XFree86-DRI
screen #0:
dimensions: 1152x864 pixels (390x293 millimeters)
depths (1): 16
And from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4:
Section "Module"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel 810"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Intel 810"
BoardName "Intel 810"
VideoRam 10000
#BusID
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Note that I did not quote full sections (apart from the i810 Device).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Intel 810 chips
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 11:09:27 GMT
Sobh wrote:
>Are i810 graphic and sound chips compatible with RedHat Linux 7.0?
>And do it (RedHat 7.0) detect modems on AMR slot?
I have no idea about the modem but the audio autodetects and works
like a charm (at least 2 boxes here use it).
There's plenty of threads going on about i810. Read those.
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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 00:47:43 +0000
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: toshiba satellite 1620cds sound config
Has anybody setup a satelite 1620 cds on a redhat 7 linux box and have
the sound working ?
thanks in advanced
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Audio System of Dell Inspirion 3200
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 11:16:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Try this:
> modprobe sound dmabuf=1
> modprobe cs4232 irq=5 io=0x534 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
> modprobe opl3 io=0x388
>
> The I/O may be 0x530; try that if 0x534 barfs.
That did the trick! Thanks a lot, finally my laptop is talking
(singing, playing music) to me...!
It's not 100% perfect, though: Before a sound starts playing you can
hear a light "crack". Does anyone know how to "cure" that?
Again, thanks!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Axel Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG? _ More information
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:13:22 +0100
Hi Stefan,
More infomation:
====================
The boot option is A,C
I have a 4GB disk and the BIOS and Linux agrre on the geometry
The disk is one extended partition with a 133 MB swap partition and the rest
as root
I do not violate the 1024 cyinder rule
I see No messages at all, only "01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01"
The resue disk I make under Linux hangs the system when I boot on it (no
information at all)
I have Windows 2000 NTFS on hda
No hdb
hdc is a CD-ROM
I can boot the system using the installation disk and then mounting an
existing installation - every thing works fine
Regards
Axel
Stefan Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> A bit more information could be useful!
> Did you change the boot-option to "A,C" or something like that?
> Are there any error-messages.
> What else did you try?
>
> Stony777
>
> Axel wrote:
>
> > I have a Suse 7.0 on hdd, but can't boot from floppy - I suspect the
BIOS to
> > prevent the loader to access hdd root ? - anyone know this problem?
> > Regards Axel
>
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:01:33 -0800
From: Glenn Serre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NTFS mount by Red Hat 7.0
Good evening,
This doesn't sound like a HW question, but...:
I have successfully mounted my w2k NTFS partition on my RH 7.0. To start with, I had
to compile the ntfs.o module, copy it to the correct place
(/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/fs/ntfs.o on my machine), and then make sure I used the
correct device to mount (/dev/hda2 in my case). The distribution didn't appear to
have ntfs.o.
--Glenn S.
Serial # 19781010 wrote:
>
> i think it can work in the 2.2.14 kernel, but pls mount ro mode. may
> you should re-compile your kernel!
>
> On 18 Nov 2000 04:47:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 17 Nov 2000 20:40:13 +0100, J$)A(9rg Sch?r wrote:
> >>Is NTFS supported by Linux, say in Redhat 7.0?
> >>I tried to mount in read only mode my Win2k NTFS partition.
> >>But it doesn't work. I tried the type hpfs and vfat, but both of them
> >>doesn't work.
> >
> >The NTFS used by 2K and the NTFS used by NT 4.0 are not the same NTFS.
> >(Standards? Backwards combatibility? Riiight.) Work is being done on
> >this, but I believe said work is present only in the 2.4.x kernels.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2930CU - supported?
Date: 7 Dec 2000 13:26:37 GMT
Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have looked in the Hardware-HOWTO's and still can't figure this out.
> Does anyone know if the 2930CU is supported under Linux? I believe it
> is the AIC-7859 (PCI). Under the lists, it is not listed under PCI,
> but under on-board PCI, it lists AIC-785x. I ask because I tried to
> boot to the Debian 2.1 CD and during the install process, it says that
> I have no hard drives attached, though I have three SCSI drives.
It should be supported by the aic7xxx driver...
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Alex Craven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.debian.user
Subject: Realtek RTL8139 Problems (on Sharp PCAX-20)
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 22:19:46 +0800
Hi,
I've recently obtained a new laptop (Sharp PCAX-20), and am attempting to
install Debian (potato). The system contains an internal Realtek RTL8139
NIC, and the Debian distribution I obtained provides a driver for this exact
device. Unfortunately, something seems to be wrong (either a driver problem,
or a conflict somewhere, or something...). The network card is inoperable.
Also, at regular intervals (ie every minute), the following message appears
:
eth0: RTL8139 Interrupt line blocked, status ffff.
eth0: PCI Bus Error 2900007. <repeated 21 times>
eth0: Too much work at interrupt, IntrStatus=0xffdf
Can anyone suggest what might be wrong, and how I should fix this problem?
Has anyone successfully installed linux on this type of machine?
Thanks in advance for any assistance,
Alex.
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From: Stefan Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG? _ More information
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 15:10:40 +0100
Hello again,
please check your with "vim /etc/lilo.conf" if it points to the correct boot
partition. I know it is only a little problem. (I had it too)
In your case it shouldn�t point to the win2000 patition.
Greeting Stefan
Axel Juhl wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
>
> More infomation:
> --------------------
> The boot option is A,C
> I have a 4GB disk and the BIOS and Linux agrre on the geometry
> The disk is one extended partition with a 133 MB swap partition and the rest
> as root
> I do not violate the 1024 cyinder rule
> I see No messages at all, only "01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01"
> The resue disk I make under Linux hangs the system when I boot on it (no
> information at all)
> I have Windows 2000 NTFS on hda
> No hdb
> hdc is a CD-ROM
> I can boot the system using the installation disk and then mounting an
> existing installation - every thing works fine
>
> Regards
> Axel
>
> Stefan Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > A bit more information could be useful!
> > Did you change the boot-option to "A,C" or something like that?
> > Are there any error-messages.
> > What else did you try?
> >
> > Stony777
> >
> > Axel wrote:
> >
> > > I have a Suse 7.0 on hdd, but can't boot from floppy - I suspect the
> BIOS to
> > > prevent the loader to access hdd root ? - anyone know this problem?
> > > Regards Axel
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Subject: Re: Can't boot from floppy with Award Bios V4.51PG? _ More information
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 14:29:02 GMT
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:13:22 +0100, "Axel Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi Stefan,
>
>More infomation:
>--------------------
>The boot option is A,C
>I have a 4GB disk and the BIOS and Linux agrre on the geometry
>The disk is one extended partition with a 133 MB swap partition and the rest
>as root
>I do not violate the 1024 cyinder rule
>I see No messages at all, only "01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01"
>The resue disk I make under Linux hangs the system when I boot on it (no
>information at all)
>I have Windows 2000 NTFS on hda
>No hdb
>hdc is a CD-ROM
>I can boot the system using the installation disk and then mounting an
>existing installation - every thing works fine
>
>Regards
>Axel
>
>Stefan Silberstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> A bit more information could be useful!
>> Did you change the boot-option to "A,C" or something like that?
>> Are there any error-messages.
>> What else did you try?
>>
>> Stony777
>>
>> Axel wrote:
>>
>> > I have a Suse 7.0 on hdd, but can't boot from floppy - I suspect the
>BIOS to
>> > prevent the loader to access hdd root ? - anyone know this problem?
>> > Regards Axel
>>
>
>
There does not seem to be a primary partition to boot lilo from?
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