Linux-Hardware Digest #2, Volume #14 Fri, 8 Dec 00 12:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Need help installing Nvidia drivers under Redhat 7.0 (Burkhard Plaum)
Re: Is an AHA-152X Bootable? (John Thompson)
Re: SCSI tape problem (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Linux RH6.0 Not detecting Keyboard and Mouse ("Brent Borg")
Re: Hard Drive Accessed every few seconds with KDE & Gnome, not Afterstep (David
Simpson)
Re: Overlapping IRQs (Dances With Crows)
Re: Adaptec 2930CU - supported? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Pioneer DRM-1804x and Linux - How do I get it working? (Ross Scanlon)
Re: write SCSI DAT ... ("Gene Heskett")
Tyan Tomcat S2420 and Linux (Tom Davis)
Activating the Multimedia keys (Istvan Zsolt Kovacs)
Any video cards with TV out supported in Linux ("Paradigm")
Re: ECC RAM supported by Linux? (Carlos)
bug-report with missing ide-bm-dma on 82371FB (triton) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: TV-OUTput from video card under Linux? (Scott Alfter)
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From: Burkhard Plaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help installing Nvidia drivers under Redhat 7.0
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 11:20:57 +0100
Hi,
Try loading the agpgart module with the option "agp_try_unsupported=1"
(man insmod) before you load the nvidia kernel driver.
You can also put this option in /etc/modules.conf
Burkhard Plaum
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is an AHA-152X Bootable?
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 20:48:36 -0600
Wayne Watson wrote:
> Yes, that's the question. Is that adaptek SCSI device bootable.
> I am unable to boot at start up from the RH 6.2 CD-ROM regardless
> of how I set the device choices. I can boot up on another machine
> with an IDE drive.
The AHA-152x HBAs can boot HD devices but not CDROMs. You can
use "dd" from linux or "rawrite.exe" from DOS/Windows to create a
bootable floppy disk from the boot.img file on the CD. Once
booted, the install routine will continue running from the CD to
complete the linux installation.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: SCSI tape problem
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 07:53:51 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David McCracken) writes:
>Hello,
>I have 2 questions/problems with an Exabyte 8505XL 8mm tape drive. It is
>mounted internally, and is 1 of 7 devices (full load) on an Adaptec 2940U
>All devices work fully in Win98 and Win2000. I leave the power turned
>off the tape drive and 2 external devices except when I want to use them.
[...]
Your problem is the result of the AHA2940U . Ultra-SCSI has very strict
limitations as far as cable-length and termination are concerned.
With internal and external devices attached, you're rapidly approaching
the maximum length for the cable. In addition to that, you'll need
active termination of the external chain , which may not work if
the device is turned off.
See comp.periphs.scsi for details.
Michael
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From: "Brent Borg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux RH6.0 Not detecting Keyboard and Mouse
Date: 8 Dec 2000 11:58:56 GMT
man Xconfigurator et al...
In article <Hc0Y5.516600$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have installed RH6.0 with dual boot with Win98. It's working fine on
> the command prompt. But when I use startx to go into Graphical
> Interface, it is not able to detect keyboard and mouse. Please
> recommend..The monitor settings and resolution are fine. Its taking me
> in Gnome Window Manager but I am not able to interact with the computer.
> I have MS Natural Keyboard
> and a serial mouse
>
> Thanks Ashish
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From: David Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Accessed every few seconds with KDE & Gnome, not Afterstep
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 23:00:15 +1030
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:43:35 GMT, "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> I just noticed my hard drive being accessed every few seconds in
>> Gnome and KDE, but not Afterstep. It does not happen if I just
>> run the shell. I don't think that this was happening before. It is not
>> only annoying, but it puts wear on the hard drive. I am using a P166
>> with 80 megs of ram and a few GB of hard drive space. The
>> system is Redhat 6.1.
>
>Gnome and KDE require a lot of memory, so you're probably swapping to
>the drive like crazy. Also, they are destop environments that sit on
>top of whatever window manager you decide to use. In short, you need
>more RAM if you want to use Gnome or KDE and prolong the life of your
>drive.
>
Sorry Greg but I've got to disagree on this. I only have 64 Meg of RAM
and have no swapping going on with either KDE or Gnome. I admit I do
not run any large apps other than Netscape or Star Office at the same
time but still have absolutely no use of the 70 Meg swap file
If he has 80 Meg then something else must be utilizing the swap space.
Regards
David Simpson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Overlapping IRQs
Date: 8 Dec 2000 12:46:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 08 Dec 2000 02:30:06 GMT, Christopher Wong staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>I am concerned that my system (BC133KT Duron 700 with Red Hat 7) may not
>be to healthy in its current configuration. This is the content of
>/proc/interrupts:
>
> CPU0
> 0: 7693018 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 3462 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 10: 19013 XT-PIC VIA 82C686A, eth0
> 11: 1 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci, eth1
> 12: 122578 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 425589 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 139988 XT-PIC ide1
>NMI: 0
>
>It looks like my two ethernet (Netgear PCI) cards are sharing interrupts
>with the sound and USB hardware respectively. I would expect PCI
>hardware to auto-configure themselves correctly. Should I be concerned
>that interrupts are being shared here? Thanks.
The only IRQs that are free here are 5 and 9. 3 and 4 are reserved for
serial ports, 6 for the floppy, 7 for the parallel port. The
motherboard may be reserving 5 for an ISA card, since older sound
hardware likes to be on that IRQ. Anyway, PCI cards can easily share
interrupts. The only problem is that when IRQ 11 is triggered here, the
device drivers must figre out whether the ethernet card or the USB ports
need attention. This extra step takes a very small amount of time, and
is only noticable if you have two (or more!) devices that generate a lot
of interrupts (100Mbit ethernet, fast-SCSI cards, etc) on the same IRQ.
You might be able to muck around in the BIOS and "correct" the problem,
or you can try moving one of the Ethernet cards to a different PCI slot,
but don't bother if you aren't experiencing any Ethernet performance
problems. Like they say, if it ain't broke, fix it until it is^W^W^W^W^W
don't mess with it.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2930CU - supported?
Date: 8 Dec 2000 12:50:16 GMT
Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, RH6.1 hangs on the boot before I can do anything. I'd rather
> have Debian though.
I have no experience with Debian. Sorry.
>> HDs hanging off of Adaptec cards. THe first thing I would check is
>> your SCSI chain. Do you have proper termination? Are your cables good?
>> How about cable length? Did you use an appropriate goat to bless the chain?
> My chain is fine AFAIK. I have loaded DOS 6.22, Win95, and NT 4.0 and
> all work fine.
For M$ values of "fine." ;)
Well, the best I can tell you is that I *know* the card is supported, and
by the aic7xxx module. So I wish you luck.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 22:53:52 +1000
From: Ross Scanlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Pioneer DRM-1804x and Linux - How do I get it working?
Hi All,
I'm trying to get a Pioneer DRM-1804x to work with Linux.
Using Kernel 2.2.13
I have probe all LUNs compiled in and the changer is recognised at boot.
When I try to mount a CD using
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom1
I get
/dev/sr0 has invalid major or minor number
/dev/sr0 is set with major = 11 minor = 0
If any one has one of these working with Linux I would greatly
appreciate a full rundown on how to get it running.
TIA
Ross
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Date: 8 Dec 2000 5:21:40 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: write SCSI DAT ...
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to guyaux ;
> Salut,
> I run redHat 6.2 with an inboard SCSI card (adaptec 160M). 2 disks
> are connected on this card and linux boot on one of them (sda). I
> add another SCSI card (IDE adaptec 160M) to connect external devices
> (zip
> 250 and Dat).
> Linux reconize all (see below):
> scsi : 2 hosts.
> (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 160.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31.
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39236LW Rev: 0004
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Detected scsi
> disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> (scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 160.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 31.
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST39236LW Rev: 0004
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03
> Detected scsi
> disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> (scsi0:0:6:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 16.
> Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-6401TA Rev: 1001
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi
> CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> (scsi1:0:5:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 32.
> Vendor: HP Model: C5683A Rev: C908
> Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor:
> IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: H.41
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi
Your Dat drive was not properly detected as shown in the above list. It
must be turned on at boot time. What shows above is the pair of Seagate
internal disks, a cdrom at address 2 and the zip, stuck at address 6
IIRC.
This looks a bit doofy to me. ISTR an HP C5683A is a tape drive, not a
cdrom to be detected as a writer, the 'sr0'. This list shows 3 devices
connected to the first controller (scsi0), and 1 to the second (scsi1)
controllers. And the last item listed is (to me) an incompleted list,
there should be additional info above the last 'Vendor' line, like what
address etc it was detected at. On my system, with an advansys card AND
the scsi emulation going, it has a line above the last 'Vendor' line
above, saying:
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, address 6, lun 0
Thats from dmesg on my system.
Unforch, I'm not familiar with that particular adaptec
product, or exactly how 2 of them would be handled.
You do have scsi tape support compiled in the kernel or as a module I
assume, if not, please do so.
> My problem:
> when I want to write on Tape (tar cf /dev/st0 usr) the command
> respond "Inpout/output ERROR". Look at msg:
> st0 Error with sense data:[valid=0] Info fld=0x0,current st0 sense
> key Aborted Command espace Kernel: Additional sense indicate Data
> phase error
> I don't understand what the problem come from.
> Thanks to help me.
> Guyaux
Thats my best shot, maybe someone else has a better idea, or more
specific questions to ask.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 09:15:57 -0500
From: Tom Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tyan Tomcat S2420 and Linux
We are trying to run a Tomcat 810ef with Redhat and not
having much luck even loading the OS.
In researching all the info we can find, there are known
issues with the 810e chipset - basically 3 issues, video,
sound and possibly memory recognition. Everything I have
found leads me to believe that the install should go well,
but to do graphics you need the proper driver and memory
issues can be handled with directives.
We see random reboots during the install. Sometimes there
seems to be a pattern of a reboot when the IP address is
entered.
We have gotten it loaded once, but then during boot up it
fails at random points - usually at fsck (spends the most
time there after the random reboots corrupt the disks).
Even using the memory directives it will not boot
consistently.
Questions;
1. has anyone had the same experience - suggestions ??
2. is anybody successfully using the 810 or 810e chipset
with redhat?
3. does anyone know of a good board for a 1u server - socket
370 -800mhz - with 133 fsb
Appreciate any help / info
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
From: Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Activating the Multimedia keys
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 14:25:41 GMT
Hi!
I have a multimedia keyboard (microsoft internetlike/clone) with:
Sleep,Suspend, WWW, MsDos, MyDoc,Menu and the Play/Stop/Ffwd
etc buttons. There are also 2 additional LEDs.
Does anybody know how to activate these keys in Linux? I'm using kernel
2.2-15 with RH6.0 and XFree86 4.0.1.
These keys DO NOT generate any scancodes (checked with showkeys and xev)!
I know the scancodes it supposed to generate
(http://www.win.tue.nl/math/dw/personalpages/aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html)
and I know how to map them under XFree86 4.0.1
but so far I didn't find a patch (kernel,keyboard driver) to activate the
keys.
Any input is much appreciated!
Istvan
PS: I read one message from somebody having similar problems with an
IBM extended keyboard but I can't remember his name!?
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From: "Paradigm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any video cards with TV out supported in Linux
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 08:59:02 -0800
Hi,
Are there any video cards that have TV out supported in Linux?
I would like to get resolution of about 640x480 from a linux machine on a
television.
I am open to any suggestions, thank you.
-davidu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos)
Subject: Re: ECC RAM supported by Linux?
Date: 8 Dec 2000 08:58:22 -0600
>Suppose the memory that holds the kernel segment that responds to memory
>errors goes bad? ("Kernel panic: Error in error handler!") When you
>set up a system to report faults, it is best to make sure the faults
>being detected can't bugger the reporting system--which means in this
>case, putting the ECC error handler in ROM.
Well, that is certainly a possible way to detect errors ;-)
Now, ECC memory can detect and CORRECT a number of bits (I think that on
64bits it could correct 2 erroneous bits and detect 4, but don't quote me
on this...). Lets say that a chip has one bad bit (or a bad "row" of
bits not in the same word) then it could detect and correct the problem
(so that there is no kernel panic) but still report it to root so that
he/she knows that there is a bad chip...
Carlos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: bug-report with missing ide-bm-dma on 82371FB (triton)
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:26:09 GMT
Seems that the new ide-subsystem introduced in >=2.2 kernels has broken some
bm-dma capabilities.
Pentium I-120 MHz, 430FX Chipset, 82371FB Triton I, Seagate ST34321A
1. it does work with a 2.0.35 kernel automatically without forcing
2. it does not work with a 2.2.14-17 kernel, not even forced for any DMA-mode
3. it still does not work with 2.4.test-10
the problem is that pci_read_config_byte() in pci-ide.c, reports the
interface not enabled, if this is ignored (by hacking) the dmabase is
reported to 0x0 later. It seems the 82371FB is not correctly initialised,
there is a lot of mlist traffic on these topic, but i could not find any
solution to this.
boot.msg shows something like this (but only with >=2.2 kernels):
...
<6>Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
<4>ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
<4>PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38
<4>PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4>PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
<4>hda: ST34321A, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: CD-ROM CDR-S1G, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>hda: ST34321A, 4103MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=555/240/63
<4>hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
<6>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
...
with old 2.0.35 kernels this looks:
...
<4>loop: registered device at major 7
<4>ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7
<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf
<4>hda: ST34321A, 4103MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=555/240/63, DMA
<4>hdc: CD-ROM CDR-S1G, ATAPI CDROM drive
<4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
<4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
<6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
..
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: TV-OUTput from video card under Linux?
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 16:47:59 -0000
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
B'ichela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 26 Nov 2000 18:33:48 GMT, Michal Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have Linux RH6.2 on a PC equipped with Riva Ultra TNT2 Vanta card.
>>[...]
>>Under Linux, it works strange. Without any special action, the TV screen
>>shows something which is surely the copy of monitor screen (I can
>>recognize the colors of my xterm windows etc), but screwed up as if it
>>had no sync.
>
> Sounds like your can try setting your card to CGA sync rates.
>You can also try setting your card for 640x480 mode.
One other thing to try is to unplug your monitor so that only the TV-out
jack is connected. On my Riva 128-based card (an old STB Velocity 128), it
automatically spits out video at the correct refresh rates for a TV. Since
the only display for the computer in which this card resides is a TV, this
has worked out nicely, at least for text mode. (Attempts at running X
haven't been as successful.)
Given that the hardware supports simultaneous display to a monitor and a TV
(the Win9x driver supports this), there has to be something that can be set
to do this. AFAIK, no software for Linux enables this capability, though.
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