Linux-Hardware Digest #56, Volume #14 Tue, 19 Dec 00 08:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: adaptech AAA-131 RAID support ("Brett Wilks")
Re: open gl + Nvidia 9-5 + Tnt under Redhat 7 (Daniel)
Re: Installation instructions for RedHat 7 and NVIDIA Geforce2 chipset (Daniel)
Re: Intel Easy PC camera - cannot be supported in Linux! (Kasper Dupont)
Re: Need help with cdrecord error (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Install Problem - Asus CUVX Motherboard (Lew Pitcher)
Re: UPS and tape drive for Linux (Tor Slettnes)
Re: Morrison64 aka Advanced/AL, _not_ MN aka Alladin ("Guennadi V. Liakhovetski")
Hercules 3D Prophet ("Markus Kiener")
Re: Why my creative PCI 128 sound card cant work in Mandrake7.1? (Harri Haataja)
Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1 (Net)
IDE problems with Dell PowerEdge 1400 (Eric R. Jorgensen)
Re: Athlon Optization ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help me choose a motherboard! ("Marc Silling")
Re: Installation instructions for RedHat 7 and NVIDIA Geforce2 chipset
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help me choose a motherboard! ("Adam Short")
Big trouble: Linux + PCI card = *CRASH* ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Setting up modem in Linux ("Adam Short")
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From: "Brett Wilks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adaptech AAA-131 RAID support
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:23:20 +1000
Has ayone no if this is supported I have looked on RH but I hve confiliction
infromation.
Brett Wilks
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: open gl + Nvidia 9-5 + Tnt under Redhat 7
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:30:04 -0000
I did follow the instructions word for work, and they have not worked at
all. I have even gone to a few other websites and followed there
directions and I get the same results. here is the last thing I get in my
error log when I try to startx because when I install the drivers, then I
can't get x to come back up
(==) NV (0): BACKING STORE DISABLED
(==) NV (0): SILKEN MOUSE ENABLED
(II) [GLX]: caling GlxExtensionInit
boom then it crashes. my TNT card is AGP could that be a major problem,
and does anyone have tips for that???
And what card you reccoment that will work easily
A transfinite number of monkeys wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:27:52 GMT,
> Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Save your sanity and get another maker's card. I did.
> : nVidia and their drivers work very rarely and even politically this
> : is a good answer to that. Vote with your feet.
>
> Surely you jest. If you take the time and follow Nvidia's directions,
> which are clearly posted, it just works. It's so easy it only takes
> *maybe* 2 minutes to set it up.
>
> : I had an ASUS TNT board and the best I got was a messed up console
> : after trying all the tricks. Apparently only the newest boards work
> : on those drivers. No new versions are in sight and I hear nVidia
> : doesn't even answer any support mails either.
>
> Those drivers work fine with TNT, TNT2, GeForce and GeForce2 boards, it
> must be an operator condition.
>
> --
> Jason Costomiris <>< | Technologist, geek, human.
> jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Installation instructions for RedHat 7 and NVIDIA Geforce2 chipset
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 06:30:06 -0000
if you could write down exaclty what you did step by step and post it
here, I'll send it out whereever I can and post it whereever, I'm having a
lot of trouble with these drivers too. I'm still unable to get my card to
work, but I will try what you said. thanks.
bigtiny wrote:
>
>
> I've been struggling with this for a couple of weeks and finally got it
to
> work with help from different threads and people on several linux
> newsgroups. Here's what I did (is there some way to have procedures like
> this archived in a FAQ or something) ????
>
> I am using an ASUS v7100 card with the NVIDIA Geforce2 MX chipset.
>
> Either verify that you're running XFree 4.0.1 or later; or download and
> install it. I'm running RedHat 7.0 so that's what came with the
> distribution.
>
> FTP to ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english and download the
> tarballs for the NVIDIA_kernal and NVIDIA_GLX materials (I think they are
> version 0.9-5).
>
> Now untar both sets (tar xvzf 'filename'). Go to the untarred directory
for
> the GLX stuff and look at the README for the M64 chipset (don't ask me
> why...I just know it worked for me) and make the mod it talks about
> (os-registry.c in the NVIDIA_kernel make directory).
>
> Run make in both directories. In the NVIDIA_GLX* make directory you'll
see a
> file called nvidia_drv.o...copy it to /usr/X11R6/lib/drivers/video (you
> should see nv_drv.o in the same directory...it's for the older nvidia
> chipsets).
>
> Your make for the NVIDIA_kernel might have encountered errors trying to
do
> insmod on the NVdriver file. To get around them I did this from the
command
> line:
>
> modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
> modprobe NVdriver
>
> You might have to modprobe the GLX module too....I didn't, but who knows?
>
> Go to /etc/X11 and edit your XF86Config-4 file. In the devices section
> specify 'nvidia' for the driver name.
>
> This worked for me. At the beginning of the XF86Config-4 file there's a
list
> of modules that get loaded. On my system there was a call to load a
module
> called "v41" that didn't exist, so I commented it out.
>
> I also put the modprobe commands in /etc/rc.local at the end so that they
> will get loaded at boot time. I don't boot my system into the X
environment
> initially and this has worked for me. If you boot up directly into X, I
> can't tell you whether doing the modprobes in the rc.local script will
> work...there may boot chronology issues (you may need the modprobes
executed
> before rc.local gets run....) I don't have any experience with this, so I
> don't know.
> If someone does know of a place to archive this procedure and how to do
it,
> please let me know and I'll do it. I installed Linux to learn, and I
learned
> A LOT trying to get this card to work, but I think some of it was
> unnecessarily painful. I think it's just because people are at such
> different levels of experience and certain knowledge is just VERY hard to
> find....anyway, thanks to all who responded various messages and threads
and
> I hope this explanation helps the next person who has to deal with
this...
>
>
>
>
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From: Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Intel Easy PC camera - cannot be supported in Linux!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 07:51:50 +0100
jtnews wrote:
>
> The Intel Easy PC camera is not supported in Linux!
> You can't even write a driver for it!
>
> I got it as a "free" add-on with my new Dell Dimension
> L600cx, but now it seems I made the wrong choice!
>
> Why does a $40 cheapo camera have to be proprietary for
> Intel? I thought Intel made all their money because they make
> huge volumes of flash memory chips over their competitors.
>
> I better choose the Lexmark color printer as a free add on next
> time!
>
Of course it is posible to write a driver for that
camera, but you would have to reverse engineer the
protocols.
Depending on how it is connected you could hook in
a piece of hardware or software to watch the
communication.
I don't understand Intel's policy, a Linux driver
would allow more people to use the camera and then
they could expect to sell more cameras. But
perhaps they have some secret agreement with MS.
--
Kasper Dupont
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with cdrecord error
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:27:41 -0500
Matt Garman wrote:
>
> At what priority level are you burning? Re-nicing the cdrecord process
> might help. I could not get consistently successful burns on my drive
> until I started using it as root with a high priority.
>
> As root, I always execute my cdrecord as in the following:
>
> nice --adjustment=-19 cdrecord [cdrecord_params_here]
>
> -19 is the highest priority a process can have in Linux (for maximum
> confusion, high priority numbers correspond to low priority and low
> priority numbers correspond to high priority).
[snip]
'nice' is supposed to _reduce_ your priority by a given amount, so
nice 2
would be two priority levels lower than your current priority.
This means that to increase your priority, you have to nice by a
negative number (i.e. reduce your priority by a negative amount).
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Install Problem - Asus CUVX Motherboard
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:09:09 -0500
Richard Clough wrote:
>
> Hello, I am having problems istalling Linux on my computer!
>
> - Asus CUV4X motherboard
> - Intel P III 800EB
> - Vodoo 3 3000 16MB Video
> - 128 MB RAM
> - Sound Blaster PCI 128 Sound.
> - LG DVD, HP CDRW
>
> I have tried a few distro's - COREL, RED HAT, MANDRAKE
> 7.0-7.2
>
> they all have the same problem - my sound card and ethernet are not
FWIW, I have a SB PCI128 (Model CT-4750), which uses the Ensoniq ES1371
(Revision 7) chip (according to /proc/pci). This chip/revision isn't
properly supported until Linux kernel 2.2.15, so check which kernel
version you have, and upgrade if necessary.
> working properly. During the install, it sees the card, installs the drivers
> sets up, and sets up the IP address.
>
> When I try to ping 127.0.0.1 - it works
> my local address 1.2.3.4 - works
> another address 1.2.3.5 - network unavailable!
>
> I have tried 3 different cards - 2 same brand, one
> different! they will not properly initialize!
It looks like you haven't set your default route properly. What's your
routing table look like?
> All these componets are working under windows 98. I
> would like to use linux, but without a functioning ethernet
> it is like a 747 without wings!
>
> (The ethernet cards were working in an older compouter)
>
> Thank You
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: UPS and tape drive for Linux
From: Tor Slettnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:37:09 GMT
>>>>> "Jorge" == Jorge JUAN CHICO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jorge> Hi, I'm looking for an UPS and backup tape system for a
Jorge> single Linux server. The UPS must work Linux applications
Jorge> in order to shut the system down if necessary. The tape
Jorge> drive should work with some backup utility. It is a small
Jorge> server so we are looking for cheap devices.
All tape drives work with "tar". (Tar = "Tape Archive").
Do "apt-get install powstatd", then read /usr/doc/powstatd/* for list
of UPSes it supports. (Mostly the CyberPower series, and older APCs).
However, if you get an APC unit, they have their own Linux drivers -
i386 only.
More generally, visit the web site of the manufacturer of your UPS -
they will most likely have Linux information available.
-tor
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From: "Guennadi V. Liakhovetski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Morrison64 aka Advanced/AL, _not_ MN aka Alladin
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 09:38:28 +0000
Sorry, the motherboard is Intel Advanced/AL (_not_ MN), aka Alladin, aka
(NEC's name) Morrison64.
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, Guennadi V. Liakhovetski wrote:
> Hello
>
> Does anybody here have any experience with this (Intel
> Morrison64 aka Advanced/MN - the one with onboard S3-Trio64
> card) motherboard?
>
> Thanks
> Guennadi
> ___
>
> Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
> Department of Applied Mathematics
> University of Sheffield, U.K.
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
___
Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Markus Kiener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hercules 3D Prophet
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 11:05:00 +0100
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Why my creative PCI 128 sound card cant work in Mandrake7.1?
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 10:16:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>It seems all is good , es1371 module is load when system booting.
>But the sound card cant work .
That's not a very good problem description.
There's so many ways in which a sound card can "not work". Please,
be more specific and repeat the data in the subject in the body.
(Have you read the newuser groups? netiquette?)
But anyway, have you adjusted the mixer? It may be set low or muted.
Have you confirmed that the device (speaker, amp, phones..) it is
connected to works, ie can utput the sounds you play?
Is the 1371 card actually found? There are many types of sb pci cards.
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From: Net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I815 can not work under kernel 2.2.16 and XFree86 4.0.1
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:27:33 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Max Lungarella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hi
> >
> > > I install linux on I815 system. The kernel is 2.2.16 which include
> the
> >
> > which distro are you using? rh7.0? graphicscard? i've successfully
> > installed xfree4.0.1 on more than one i815-based machine. everything
> > went fine.
> >
> > > module agpgart.o. The XFree86 is 4.0.1 which support the I810
> chipset. There
> > > is an error "device is busy" when I do "modprobe agpgart" and the
> module is
> > > not loaded.
>
> Hi!
>
> I am the other one that run into the similar trouble. I want to setup
> a GeForce2 card on my Red Hat 7.0 box based on i815 chipset.
>
> % insmod agpgart
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/agpgart.o: init_module: Device or resource b
> usy
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/agpgart.o: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/agpgart.o failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/agpgart.o: insmod agpgart failed
>
> even with try_agp_unsupported=1.
>
Try the device driver provided by Intel for XFree86 3.3.6:
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel815/linuxsoftware.htm
It worked fine for me (RedHat 6.2, kernel 2.2.14, Intel 82815 Graphics
Adapter)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric R. Jorgensen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: IDE problems with Dell PowerEdge 1400
Date: 19 Dec 2000 10:37:52 GMT
Hello,
I've recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 1400 system and am in the
process of bringing up RH7.0 on it. It is mostly SCSI based with an
Adaptec controller, but the CDROM uses an IDE interface. I would like
to do two things:
1. Add a Tecmar Travan NS20 ATAPI tape drive.
2. Add more IDE hard drives with a Siig controller Dell comped me.
My questions are:
1. I want to keep the CDROM and the tape drive on the same IDE
controller, right? That is, I don't want a tape drive and a hard drive
sharing the same controller.
2. When I do an "insmod ide-tape", I get the following error:
Using /lib/modules/2.2.16-22smp/block/ide-tape.o
divide error: 0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<d008a553>]
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: 00200000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00200000 edx: 00000000
esi: 00000034 edi: ce2b6000 ebp: 00000000 esp: cdecbed8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process insmod (pid: 876, process nr: 39, stackpage=cdecb000)
Stack: 00000104 d008b94c 00000000 c029852c ce2b6000 d008bd20 0000001a
c029852c
00000000 c023d0d0 00000000 00000104 c0298506 c02984a0 000081c0
d008a7ff
c029852c ce2b6000 00000000 d0087000 00000000 d0087051 00000000
00000000
Call Trace: [<d008b94c>] [<d008bd20>] [<d008a7ff>] [<d0087000>]
[<d0087051>] [<d008a88d>] [<c01192c7>]
[<d008bb44>] [<d008bd50>] [<d007e000>] [<d0087048>]
[<c010a2e8>]
Code: f7 fb 89 c1 51 8b 7c 24 50 31 c0 66 8b 87 82 13 00 00 89 44
Note: On boot, the kernel does find the tape drive (from dmesg):
hda: CRD-8482B, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdb: TRAVAN NS20, ATAPI TAPE drive
So, is this a hardware problem? Is this a driver issue?
3. The Siig card is a "PCI Bus Dual Channel Ultra ATA Controller",
Model CN2449. It says it "conforms to PCI v2.1 Plug-and-play" Scary!
Anyway, when I install it, I can no longer use the built-in controller
(I get "hda: lost interrupt"). What do I need to do to get this
going? Do I need to put proper probing information into the
conf.modules file?
Thanks for any help.
Eric
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University of Colorado, Boulder http://spot.colorado.edu/~jorgy
"A lot of people may not know this, but I'm pretty famous." -- Sam on Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Athlon Optization
Date: 19 Dec 2000 10:56:45 GMT
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 23:41:01 GMT, "Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> What would be different, if anything, if I was optimizing for a Duron?
If the only diference between the Athlon and Duron is the size of the
L2 cache, then the flags of the compiler should be the same. I don't know
if there are other differences between the Athlon and Duron.
Good Bye
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Valladolid
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From: "Marc Silling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Help me choose a motherboard!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:05:02 GMT
I just built a computer for my son with the A7v. I had no problems really.
I found that booting went faster when I loaded the new Promise IDE drivers,
and I used the latest via chipset drivers... 1.25. It runs rock stable
which is something since he plays many games on it. It comes with the 1004D
bios which I find to be stable.
My 2 cents.
Marc Silling
"Neal Lippman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:1Lz%5.98015$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am about to buy a MB for my first system build. Processor will be an AMD
> Athlon 1.0 GHz. I will be running Mandrake Linux 7.2.
>
> The question is, which MB is likely to give me the best shot at a
trouble -
> free and successful build with a stable system? While there are a ton of
MB
> manufacturers out there, I have pretty much narrowed the field to the Asus
> A7V, the Abit KT7-RAID, and the MSI K7T-Pro2A.
>
> Any input, especially from someone who has used any/all of these boards
with
> Linux, would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Neal
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Installation instructions for RedHat 7 and NVIDIA Geforce2 chipset
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:08:04 GMT
There is a document in http://www.mandrakeuser.org/ ,try it .
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if you could write down exaclty what you did step by step and post it
> here, I'll send it out whereever I can and post it whereever, I'm
having a
> lot of trouble with these drivers too. I'm still unable to get my
card to
> work, but I will try what you said. thanks.
> bigtiny wrote:
> >
> >
> > I've been struggling with this for a couple of weeks and finally
got it
> to
> > work with help from different threads and people on several linux
> > newsgroups. Here's what I did (is there some way to have procedures
like
> > this archived in a FAQ or something) ????
> >
> > I am using an ASUS v7100 card with the NVIDIA Geforce2 MX chipset.
> >
> > Either verify that you're running XFree 4.0.1 or later; or download
and
> > install it. I'm running RedHat 7.0 so that's what came with the
> > distribution.
> >
> > FTP to ftp1.detonator.nvidia.com/pub/drivers/english and download
the
> > tarballs for the NVIDIA_kernal and NVIDIA_GLX materials (I think
they are
> > version 0.9-5).
> >
> > Now untar both sets (tar xvzf 'filename'). Go to the untarred
directory
> for
> > the GLX stuff and look at the README for the M64 chipset (don't ask
me
> > why...I just know it worked for me) and make the mod it talks about
> > (os-registry.c in the NVIDIA_kernel make directory).
> >
> > Run make in both directories. In the NVIDIA_GLX* make directory
you'll
> see a
> > file called nvidia_drv.o...copy it to /usr/X11R6/lib/drivers/video
(you
> > should see nv_drv.o in the same directory...it's for the older
nvidia
> > chipsets).
> >
> > Your make for the NVIDIA_kernel might have encountered errors
trying to
> do
> > insmod on the NVdriver file. To get around them I did this from the
> command
> > line:
> >
> > modprobe agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
> > modprobe NVdriver
> >
> > You might have to modprobe the GLX module too....I didn't, but who
knows?
> >
> > Go to /etc/X11 and edit your XF86Config-4 file. In the devices
section
> > specify 'nvidia' for the driver name.
> >
> > This worked for me. At the beginning of the XF86Config-4 file
there's a
> list
> > of modules that get loaded. On my system there was a call to load a
> module
> > called "v41" that didn't exist, so I commented it out.
> >
> > I also put the modprobe commands in /etc/rc.local at the end so
that they
> > will get loaded at boot time. I don't boot my system into the X
> environment
> > initially and this has worked for me. If you boot up directly into
X, I
> > can't tell you whether doing the modprobes in the rc.local script
will
> > work...there may boot chronology issues (you may need the modprobes
> executed
> > before rc.local gets run....) I don't have any experience with
this, so I
> > don't know.
> > If someone does know of a place to archive this procedure and how
to do
> it,
> > please let me know and I'll do it. I installed Linux to learn, and
I
> learned
> > A LOT trying to get this card to work, but I think some of it was
> > unnecessarily painful. I think it's just because people are at such
> > different levels of experience and certain knowledge is just VERY
hard to
> > find....anyway, thanks to all who responded various messages and
threads
> and
> > I hope this explanation helps the next person who has to deal with
> this...
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Help me choose a motherboard!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:28:52 -0000
If any of those doesn't have a VIA chipset on it, go for that one. The VIA
chipset on mine seems to be causing problems. Linux works, but not as well
as it should. My sound card for instance, won't work correctly, keeps
freezing the machine up. Not good. It seems to be causing problems with my
AGP setup as well. Bloody annoying.
The KT7 is the board I have. I don't know about the others. The VIA chipset
appears to be pretty pants so steer clear.
Given that I don't know what the others have on them I could possibly be
steering you in an even worse direction. Someone here will know.
HTH
Adam
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:1Lz%5.98015$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am about to buy a MB for my first system build. Processor will be an AMD
> Athlon 1.0 GHz. I will be running Mandrake Linux 7.2.
>
> The question is, which MB is likely to give me the best shot at a
trouble -
> free and successful build with a stable system? While there are a ton of
MB
> manufacturers out there, I have pretty much narrowed the field to the Asus
> A7V, the Abit KT7-RAID, and the MSI K7T-Pro2A.
>
> Any input, especially from someone who has used any/all of these boards
with
> Linux, would be very much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
> Neal
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Big trouble: Linux + PCI card = *CRASH*
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:15:57 GMT
I am using SuSE 7.0 with an ELSA Quickstep 1000Pro PCI
as router for my homenet to the world outside.
When I want to test my configuration made in the
SuSE setup & configuration tool YaST, the whole thing
freezes !
The only way out is a hardware reset !
Is it a kernel prob ?
Is it a interrupt conflict ?
Is it a PnP prob ?
Should I buy a new adapter ?
I appreciate any of your suggestions !
Kind Regards,
Benedict.
PS If you need more details - please let me know
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up modem in Linux
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:40:36 -0000
Give isapnp a go. Don't know if it'll work but its worth a go.
The way to do it is this:
At a shell prompt type: pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
then edit /etc/isapnp.conf to reflect your modem settings. It should give
you a choice of IRQs and ports. To find out the port you need to use look at
/proc/ioports, in there you will find 3 serial port configurations. The one
that isn't in there is the one you want to use. The IRQ you need to use will
probably be 3 or 5, if one doesn't work, try the other. After that, if
neither works, take a look in Windows control panel (if you are dual
booting) and see what its set up as in there.
After you've got your /etc/isapnp.conf file set up properly you can then run
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf to activate the configuration.
Once that is done (you'll get a message to the effect of "Enabled OK") you
may need to issue a setserial command. This should be setserial /dev/"your
modem device" irq "the irq you used in isapnp.conf", optionally you might
need to add uart 16550a to the mix.
Hopefully, somewhere in the above jumble of random sounding information
you'll find a way to configure the modem. If you can't make any sense of it
(and reading back through it, I'm not sure if I understand it myself) email
me and I'll see if I can take you through it in a less jumbled and bizarre
way.
HTH
Adam
Cronos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Sorry. I'm kinda new to this sort of thing!
> The model is 5687, ISA.
>
> "Paul Pygeon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:3Xz%5.1235$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Cronos wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings!
> > > I'm using Linux-Mandrake 7.0 Complete Edition. I want to configure my
> > > modem so I can connect to the net in Linux. I have a 3COM US Robotics
> 56K
> > > Internal PnP Faxmodem. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Do you have the 5610 model ? Be more specific about your modem (PCI or
> ISA)?
> >
>
>
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