Linux-Hardware Digest #37, Volume #14 Fri, 15 Dec 00 17:13:15 EST
Contents:
Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Trident problems with RH7 and signal 11 with RH ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adaptec 1480 or 1460 pcmcia scsi (Michael Meissner)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Robert Kiesling)
Re: ATI Rage Fury (Robert)
Re: Alpha: 21064 (Marble Head)
Re: ATI Rage Fury (Robert)
Re: How do I test serial ports, find modem? ("Kevin White")
linksys wireless pccard ("Bill Bailey")
ls-120 bad superblock ("scottf")
Re: can i instal linux on this computer? (Robert)
Re: harddrive upgrade (Henrik Carlqvist)
Rage Fury Maxx (Magus)
Modem problems (E-Comm)
Promise Ultra100 help (Dukhat)
Re: What is the command to . . . ? (Juergen Ilse)
Modem versus sound card (Pavel Pinkas)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 vs Abit BE6:s HTP66 controllers
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:38:45 GMT
Well, maybe isn't a UDMA problem after all... I've a KA7-100 with a
Quantum 6.4 (UDMA33) and have lots of problems... RH detects my HD, but
when I try to partition it I get signal 11 and the installation is
aborted (I tried with different memory and lowering the CPU speed and
all goes the same). I've tried disabling UDMA, but get the same error.
BTW my Trident 975 VGA doesn't work well in RH7... it works with black
backgorund (in the installation) without redrawing putting screen over
screen... It's really a mess...
BTW2, gentus linux (came with my mother) directly resets the computer
when I try to partition... and www.gentus.com isn't available for a
while... :o(
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi!
> I have seen that Linux Red Hat does not like the ATA/66 controllers.
> After choosing "Work Station" as the choice to install I get the error
> stating that no devices(hdds) was found in the system.
> I've read some tips on how to work around this but it just does not
work
> for me........
>
> In the gui installer I'm supposed to press ALT+F2 to get to a console.
> And from there read the first and second address(/proc/pci) of the
> ATA/66 controller(s). Then send some commands to the Kernel. No matter
> where I am in the installation procedure ALT+F2 is not bringing up a
> console. Nothing happens... whatsoever,,,,
>
> Am I doomed for having this mobo? Don't wanna move the disks(to
ATA/33).
> I am using HDD Cartridge so I'll keep different OS:s on different
disks.
> Just unlock and pull out/change the disk depending on what OS is the
> flavour of the day. Don't wanna mix them on same disk.
>
> TIA!
>
> Regards
> Jerra
>
> IDE1 (ATA/33) CDROM
> IDE2 (ATA/33) HP CD-Writer
> IDE3 (ATA/66) HDD Cartridge
> IDE4 (ATA/66) Storage Disk
> Motherboard Abit BE6
> PIII 450Mhz / 256 mb Ram
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Trident problems with RH7 and signal 11 with RH
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 18:40:07 GMT
I've a:
Trident 975
Abit KA7-100
K7@750
96Mb
Quantum Fireball EX6.4Gb
Seagate 2.2Gb
HP 9100i CDRW
PCI NE2000 compatible (RT8029)
AWE64
and I get two kinds of problem with RH7:
a) I can't partition the drive: With either DD or FDISK I get a signal
11 when I try to partition and that's all!!
b) My Trident 975 does such a strange thing like don't drawing any
background (I get a black background in the installation procedure
instead the gray). It also doesn't redraw the screen, so I get a black
screen with the hat drawed in the background mixed with some text (in
black!!!) with a line highlited in white, and when I click over the
"next" arrow, it draw over the last screen... It's a mess!!!
I have a) over RH6.2 and RH7. With Gentus Linux (came with the mother)
the machine does something similar (no signal 11, but it reinitialize).
The trident VGA works well with RH6.2, so seems to be a RH7 problem...
Any ideas?
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 1480 or 1460 pcmcia scsi
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Dec 2000 13:55:30 -0500
"Joe Fahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I understand that the 1480 is experimentally supported and that the 1460 is
> supported. Does anyone have any specific success or failures with these
> devices?
I have a 1460 (1460B I think) I bought 1-2 years ago that has worked in the
past (I haven't used it recently). It handled scsi disks and DAT tape drives
well.
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Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
From: Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:00:08 GMT
Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Josef Moellers wrote:
> >
> > Allen Wong wrote:
> > >
> > > In alt.os.linux.slackware Markus Amersdorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > > find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" {} \;
> > >
> > > This works, but it's alot slower than "find . -type f -name '*.txt' -print |
> > > xargs grep "Hello World".
> >
> > These solutions won't tell where they found the match.
> > Markus' solution can be enhanced to do that:
> > find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" {} \; -print
> >
> > --
> > Josef M�llers (Pinguinpfleger bei FSC)
> > If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize (T. Pratchett)
>
> Grep will tell the filenames if there is more than one file.
> If you just want to know the filename and not the actual
> lines use grep -l "Hello World".
>
> --
> Kasper Dupont
A slight elaboration to the "find" solution above: if you type
it on the command line, you must escape the braces with backslashes so
the shell doesn't interpret them:
$ find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" \{\} \; -print
As I remember it, only the semicolon needs to be escaped when command
is run from inside a bash shell script.
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From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:29:34 GMT
PyrO wrote:
>
> In your XF86Config file, go to the Screen section (I believe its the screen
> section) where it shows you the different types of resolution / colour depth
> / etc. Now the first resolution X reads is obviously the first one (in your
> case, 640x480). Delete the one that you dont want and have your default /
> favorite resolution the first one (instead of 640x480, change it to
> 1024x768).
i use the xf86config script and always tell it to set resolution to
800x600
or better (which is the same than doing manually) but startx simply
doesnt work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marble Head)
Subject: Re: Alpha: 21064
Date: 15 Dec 2000 19:26:47 GMT
>I don't know of any distro that *doesn't* support 21064.
>
>Michael
That's right. The 21064 (aka ev4) is an old, but regular, Alpha processor.
Alpha processors were specifically designed to run C code, UNIX, and VMS
well, which makes it comparitively easy to port Linux to alpha.
Every major distribution out there produces an alpha-version.
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From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 19:36:59 GMT
i've tried lots of things on xf86config, perhaps a lower-level
configuration
can solve the problem. and what about the xserver? i'm using the mach64
server
and i've set the card to number 104 in xf86config, does it matter?
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> Robert wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> > anyone been succesful on configuring an ATI Rage Fury under xfree86
> > 4.0.1?
> > i actually can only get 640x480, which is *pathetic*
>
> At the risk of being redundant:
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "Screen 1"
> Device "ATI Rage IIC"
> Monitor "NEC MultiSync3V"
> DefaultDepth 24
>
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1024x768"
> ViewPort 0 0
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> Ad some other Modes if you want, need, and you monitor can support them.
>
> But this isn't enough, you have to have the proper horizontal refresh
> and vertical sync rates. And, don't enter something that your monitor
> won't handle or you may give new meaning to the term "smoke test".
>
> Section "Monitor"
>
> Identifier "NEC MultiSync3V"
>
> HorizSync 31.5 - 48.5
>
> VertRefresh 50-70
>
> EndSection
>
> The above range will support 1024 x 768.
>
> These are copies from my XFree86Config file.
>
> And, I presume that your driver (device) is also correct:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "ATI Rage IIC"
> Driver "ati"
> #VideoRam 4096
> EndSection
>
> The documentation says not to tell it how much VRAM you have unless it
> can't figure it out for itself -- put in the figure, but leave it
> commented out.
>
> JRT
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From: "Kevin White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I test serial ports, find modem?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 13:53:49 +0600
This should work, but it's time consuming unless you write a script for
it..
echo ATZ > /dev/ttys(x)
then cat the same device, you should get "OK"
Otherwise find and try rp3-config if theres a version for your distro,
rh6.2 I'm guessing, it'll search all the ttys's for the modem.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michael Kantor"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to install an ISA modem (USR real modem, real jumpers, has
> worked under linux before). The only way I could avoid BIOS complaints
> of address conflicts was to set the jumpers to allow PnP configuration.
> Now I don't know where the modem is. I have tried pointing minicom at
> ttyS0 through ttyS4. It always claims to be dialing, but the phone line
> remains free.
>
> How can I probe the serial ports to see where the modem is, and send the
> modem commands to see if it's working?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Mike Kantor
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From: "Bill Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: linksys wireless pccard
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:55:10 -0500
has anyone used the linksys wireless pccards under linux ?
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From: "scottf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ls-120 bad superblock
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:07:41 -0000
Does anyone know of a way to enable Suse6.4 to mount a ls120 disk
that is full to its capacity?
I keep getting a bad superblock error after using the command:
mount -t vfat /dev/hdd /mnt
Windows keeps insisting that the disk needs to be formatted before
I can use it again, obvously this would destroy the files I'm trying to
get to!
As I say the disk is full and I need to extract some files before I reformat
it.
Any hints or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Scott.
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From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can i instal linux on this computer?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:24:01 GMT
check if you have a winmodem (i.e. a 'modem' that only works for windoze
because
the vendor didnt accomplish standards making it to only work with vendor
driver
which is only available to windoze) visiting the site
http://start.at/modem
'p wrote:
>
> can i instal linux on this computer:
> MICROSTAR MS-K7T Pro2A
> AMD DURON 650MHz, SocketA
> cooler CromeOrb
> 128 MB SDRAM. PC133 brand name
> 20 gb Maxtor DiamondMax Plus UDMA-100 7200 RPM)
> TEAC CD-W54E CD WRITER IDE 4x/4x/32x,RW
> ATI Rage Fury Pro (VIVO, Video in & out, Rage 128 Pro, 32 MB
> Midi Tower ATX Leadtek
> ((F/M/I 56K PCI ATECH (Lucent HW)
> do exist drivers for these components
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: harddrive upgrade
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 23:45:23 +0100
Lenny Shovsky wrote:
> how do I install the rigth SCSI module for my card and the drives and
> how do I load it on start up?
Load the module with something like "insmod name_of_module", place this
in a startup script like /etc/rc.d/rc.local. Or better, recompile your
kernel to have built in support for your scsi card.
cd /usr/src/linux
make xconfig
(select support for your scsi card and save changes)
make dep
make clean
make bzImage
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /dev/fd0
try to reboot with your new boot floppy and see if it finds your scsi
controller. Then you could install your new kernel with lilo.
regards Henrik
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Subject: Rage Fury Maxx
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magus)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:56:40 GMT
Help !
Has anyone *ever* ! .. got an ATI Rage Fury Maxx to work on any other
distro than SuSE 7 ??
I have tried XFree 4.01 and plenty fiddling about on on Slackware 7, FBSD
4.1 and Mandrake 7.2
I have even installed SuSE 7, kept the XF86config and removed the install ,
in the hope of adapting the config to my preffered distro (slackware)
XFree86 -configure produces a nearly working, crippled 640x400 but
modifications to that onnly seem to get worse..
Does anybody in UK , (South Wales) want a Rage Fury Maxx cheap for Xmas ...
seriously .. ive had enough of the thing ...
"Fury"?? ahhh ATI .. I understand now ...
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From: E-Comm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem problems
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:17:34 GMT
I have an ISA PnP US Robotics Sportster 33600 on P133 running Corel
Linux 1.2. I had it running under the following settings:
port = 0x02E8
irq = 5
uart = 16550A
sttS3
This settings were added to '/etc/isapnp.conf', which reported no
conflicts. These settings were also added to '/etc/rc.boot/0setserial'
with no problems reported. I had been using the modem for more than
three months.
During all this time I have been using Corel Linux, I have been
struggling to get the sound card to work. I got it to work with
Slackware 7. Well, after much tenacity and sleepless nights, with the
help of 'sndconfig' I finally got it to work last night. To day I found
out that the modem was not longer working.
Apparently the settings were no longer accepted by CLOS, so I changed
them to:
port = 0x03e8
irq = 5
and the rest is the same....
Although there are no conflicts, KDE Dial-Up still reports the modem is
busy.
Does anyone have an idea about what is going on?
I am interested in anything you can pitch in, no matter how irrelevant
it might sound to you, you input could trigger a realization.
Thanks in advance.
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From: Dukhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise Ultra100 help
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 21:36:34 GMT
Greetings!
I've come to I point where I might need some help.
Equipment: Old PCI Mac with SCSI, Promise Ultra100 card and one IDE 3.2 GB disk.
I've downloaded the 2.2.18pre21 kernel and the ide-2.2.18-27.*.patch. There was
I single #include <asm/spinlock.h> statement I needed to add to
include/linux/mc146818rtc.h, but then all compiled without any problem.
When I booted this the first time it went belly-up. After less than a screenfull
of boot text it said Kernel panic, dereferenced 00000000 from 00000000 and some
other stuff I didn't bother to write down.
Anyone knows anything about this? Ultra100 on Mac? kernel/ide patch validity?
Any particular information I should have read, but apparently didn't? etc. etc.
etc.
Thanks,
-Dukhat
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From: Juergen Ilse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What is the command to . . . ?
Date: 15 Dec 2000 21:50:00 GMT
Hello,
Robert Kiesling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A slight elaboration to the "find" solution above: if you type
> it on the command line, you must escape the braces with backslashes so
> the shell doesn't interpret them:
> $ find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" \{\} \; -print
No, the shell wouold interpret a single "{" or a single "}" in a special
way, the concatenation of "{" and "}" wthout any whitespace between is
not interpreted in a special way.
> As I remember it, only the semicolon needs to be escaped when command
> is run from inside a bash shell script.
You also don't need to quot the braces in the commandline.
If you don't trust me, try it fuer yourself...
For the Problem with the missing filename before the matching lines:
If grep searches more than one file, it will print the filename in
front of the matching lines, so you can use something like
find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep "Hello World" {} /dev/null \;
to achiev tha (note, that i don't use "-print" anymore!).
The other (faster!) solution:
find . -name '*.txt' -print | xargs grep
seems to avoid this problem, but that is not really true: xargs runs
the command "grep" on several filenamearguments (which were read from
stdin) at once, but what if xargs runs grep with a _single_ filename
the last time? To avoid this problem, you may fill in the additional
filename /dev/null (as used in the above solution) as parameter to grep:
find . -name '*.txt' -print | xargs grep /dev/null
This should work, if there are no filenames with whitespace or newline-
characters in the filename.
If you want it work also with these "unusual" filenames, i would suggest
to use the gnuish versions of "find" and "xargs":
find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 grep /dev/null
I think, there is no more complete and faster solution than this...
;-)
ciao,
Juergen Ilse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Pavel Pinkas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem versus sound card
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:56:05 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good afternoon,
I have following problem I was not able to solve for several weeks and
I'm curious if
somebody can help.
I run SuSE 7.0 on HP 8660 Pavilion and it works nicely except the sound
card.
I have Soundblaster PCI 16 which seems to work with es1371 compiled into
kernel. I could not make it work as a module and soundconf fails to do
it too.
It plays CDs, desktop sounds and mp3 format (which is all I need) but
there
are following problems with it:
+ It disables USB (I'm quite sure that this is because USB tries to get
IRQ5 too)
+ I have an external US Robotics 56k modem on /dev/ttyS0 and when the
sound
card support is compiled into kernel and sound works the modem is much
slower
(about 4 times) and stalls often. Modem in on IRQ4.
+ it also interfers with CD burner (I'm not sure what's the problem
here, because
CD burner does not work with SuSE7.0 but I get different error messages
with and without sound card.
Probably the IRQ conflict is behind all these problems, but there are no
jumpers on sound card and no matter where I plug it, it always appears
on IRQ5.
I do not care much about CD burner now, but I'd like to have sound card
working
without modem being so slow. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Pavel
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