Linux-Hardware Digest #63, Volume #14 Wed, 20 Dec 00 07:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: lm_sensors and a ASUS A7V (Bharath Krishnan)
Re: open gl + Nvidia 9-5 + Tnt under Redhat 7 (Bharath Krishnan)
hda: lost interrupt and eth0: Transmit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
systime variance in asus dual board ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371 ("Jason Byrne")
Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE! (Jerra)
Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE! (Jerra)
Re: Help me choose a motherboard! ("Thomas")
Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371 (glitch)
Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371 (Harri Haataja)
Re: Who is happy with their linux/X hardware? (Harri Haataja)
Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE! (him self)
avermedia tv card (Hilkiah Lavinier)
Re: linux & USB (Michael Andreas Kleer)
Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip? (Chris Rankin)
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:14:26 -0500
From: Bharath Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lm_sensors and a ASUS A7V
Yes, I did.
Sometime ago. It was one of the 2.4 test(8?) kernels if I remember
correctly.
It is possible.
But I don't remember the exact steps. I do remember that I had to use
the
lm_sensors patch and there was no great difficulty in getting it to work
#lm_sensors
# I2C adapter drivers
#modprobe i2c-viapro
#modprobe i2c-isa
# I2C chip drivers
#modprobe w83781d
#modprobe via686a
This is something I had leftover from that kernel. So you will have
some idea of what modules to compile.
I don't think that all the 4 modules were used though.
At present I run a test12 with no lm_sensors.
-bharath
Nathan Hollingsworth wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> Has anyone got lm_sensors to work with an ASUS A7V? I can't seem to get
> it to work at all. I am trying to get it to work with a 2.4.0-test12
> kernel.
>
> Nathan
--
So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
Guns. Lots of guns.
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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 03:17:35 -0500
From: Bharath Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: open gl + Nvidia 9-5 + Tnt under Redhat 7
I have a Ge2MX which works fine with these drivers.
Do a clean install of the nvidia stuff using the tgz files rather than
the rpms. Use the shell script which you can get at #nvidia on
irc.openprojects.net
to check your system.
Then things should be fine.
-bharath
Don Ward wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Daniel"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Yeah I did remove all the Mesa files that they had listed. Did you use the
> > latest drivers? the 0.9-5? I will try rem out that line though and see what
> > happens.
> >
> >
>
> Yep, I am using the 0.9-5 drivers.
>
> > Don Ward wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> BIG SNIP
>
> --
> Don Ward
> dwarthogatbresnanlin.knet
> Caldera e2.4 KDE2 Xfree401
--
So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
Guns. Lots of guns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: hda: lost interrupt and eth0: Transmit
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 08:41:30 GMT
I bought a brand new Intel Celeron 566 on a Amptron 133MHz MB. I
successfully installed Redhat 7.0. I tested out FTP into the system and
began to see errors occur. hda: lost interrupt and eth0: Transmit timed
out: Status 7048... then the system would hang. I could also do it with
Telnet. I never did anything but look.
I thought I could be the hard drive cable, so I switched it. I thought
it could be bad sectors, so I reinstalled checking for them. I thought
it was the IDE hard drive, so I got a new one. I thought, perhaps 7.0
doesn't like the Celeron, so I installed 6.2 and ... each time I got
the same problem. I'm at the end of my rope.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: systime variance in asus dual board
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:44:38 GMT
I have a dual asus mobo with onboard adaptec scsi running a pair of PIII
550's. Gettimeofday() is oscillating wildly by up to 5s shorterm. Sampling
every 5s at least, I can sometimes go backwards! Averaged out over
30s or so, it's OK. The hardware clock (hwclock -r) is fine and steady.
Running kernel 2.2.18pre18 compiled SMP.
Does anyone recognize these symptoms and remember what to do about them?
I've briefly scanned for mtrr or smp spec compliance in the bios and on
the newsgroups, but not found anything.
Peter
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 01:14:44 -0800
"Scott Rainaldo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9nX%5.14792$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
>
> My soundblaster PCI 64 (es1371) works fine so far for playing CDs, mp3s,
> and wavs (all PCM output?). However, whenever I try to play midi files or
> even open any program which uses /dev/sequencer I get an error.
>
>
> Example:
>
> $ kmid
> KMid 2.0 Copyright (C) 1997,98,99,2000 Antonio Larrosa Jimenez.
Malaga
> (Spain)
> KMid comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details view file
COPYING
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions
> ERROR: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer to get some information
>
>
> Here is what my /etc/modules.conf looks like:
>
> alias char-major-107 3dfx
> pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> alias usb-interface usb-uhci
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
> alias eth0 3c59x
> options es1371 joystick=0x200
> alias sound-slot-0 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-1 es1371
>
hmmm.... I don't see specific options to enable midi, etc... in the driver
notes for that card (INSTALL file in alsa-driver-0.5.10 source)
You might want to try adding a few more things for 'oss' emulation...
For example... I have a cmedia-8738 card with the following
/etc/modules.conf
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-cmipci
alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd-card-cmipci snd_enable_midi=1 snd_enable_fm=1
---
Then in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (I'm running Slackware)
I load some of the extra modules manually here because just a
'/sbin/modproble snd-card-cmipci' doesn't get all the necessary stuff going.
# alsa stuff for C-Media 8738 PCI sound
/sbin/modprobe snd-card-cmipci
/sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-seq-midi
Hopefully you might be able to get some generic midi support from one of the
other Alsa modules.
Also related... you might want to check out the 'Timidity as ALSA sequencer
client' notes at
http://www.alsa-project.org/~iwai/alsa.html
In particular... when you run configure for alsa-driver, it mentions
./configure --enable-audio=alsa --enable-alsaseq
(and read the other notes in the same section about timidity, etc... in
conjunction with the alsa sequencer support)
I don't actually have any keyboards or real midi devices to hook up to my
computer, but I can play around with vkeybd, jazz, and the tk707 programs to
get a 'virtual' setup and actually record some midi stuff via the sequencer
in jazz.
I'm not sure if this is much help ;-) but it might be good for something...
- Jason
>
> Can anyone tell me what I am missing or doing wrong? Thank you!
>
>
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From: Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE!
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:09:04 +0200
????
I have got this all wrong.... Oracle apparently does not run on any Red Hat
distro other than 6.2EE. Which is not for free.
Is this correct? I read it on Oracle Metalink. There were scores of people
having problem with Oracle on RH7.
I tested an installation yesterday and one library could not be compiled. Don't
remember the exact name but think it had to do with the database itself.
);
Jerra
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:57:11 +0200, Jerra staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
> >Hope Oracle is as easy to setup as on Solaris..... That will be very
> >interesting to see.
>
> No, it isn't. The install can be classified as "interesting", though.
> Here's a tip: Make sure that $ORA_NLS33 is set to
> $ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data as the install script tends to mess
> that up royally. Avoid the automated configuration assistants like the
> plague; they truly show the "Write Once, Debug Everywhere" side of Java.
> The config files you'll need to edit are in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
> and there are sample configs (well-codumented) in the "samples" subdir
> of that directory. Most distros have patches that you can apply to the
> Oracle tarball; read their READMEs and apply the patches! HTH,
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE!
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:09:35 +0200
????
I have got this all wrong.... Oracle apparently does not run on any Red Hat
distro other than 6.2EE. Which is not for free.
Is this correct? I read it on Oracle Metalink. There were scores of people
having problem with Oracle on RH7.
I tested an installation yesterday and one library could not be compiled. Don't
remember the exact name but think it had to do with the database itself.
);
Jerra
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Dec 2000 22:57:11 +0200, Jerra staggered into the Black Sun
> and said:
> >Hope Oracle is as easy to setup as on Solaris..... That will be very
> >interesting to see.
>
> No, it isn't. The install can be classified as "interesting", though.
> Here's a tip: Make sure that $ORA_NLS33 is set to
> $ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data as the install script tends to mess
> that up royally. Avoid the automated configuration assistants like the
> plague; they truly show the "Write Once, Debug Everywhere" side of Java.
> The config files you'll need to edit are in $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
> and there are sample configs (well-codumented) in the "samples" subdir
> of that directory. Most distros have patches that you can apply to the
> Oracle tarball; read their READMEs and apply the patches! HTH,
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Help me choose a motherboard!
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:50:33 +0100
They all have the VIA KT-133 chipset... Not much choice in this field...
Thomas.
"Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:StI%5.38405$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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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Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:16:28 -0500
From: glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371
Looks like u are using ALSA. Read the ALSA INSTALL file which explains
information concerning sequencer support
Scott Rainaldo wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> My soundblaster PCI 64 (es1371) works fine so far for playing CDs, mp3s,
> and wavs (all PCM output?). However, whenever I try to play midi files or
> even open any program which uses /dev/sequencer I get an error.
>
> Example:
>
> $ kmid
> KMid 2.0 Copyright (C) 1997,98,99,2000 Antonio Larrosa Jimenez. Malaga
> (Spain)
> KMid comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details view file COPYING
> This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
> under certain conditions
> ERROR: Couldn't open /dev/sequencer to get some information
>
> Here is what my /etc/modules.conf looks like:
>
> alias char-major-107 3dfx
> pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> alias usb-interface usb-uhci
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
> alias eth0 3c59x
> options es1371 joystick=0x200
> alias sound-slot-0 es1371
> alias sound-service-0-1 es1371
>
> Can anyone tell me what I am missing or doing wrong? Thank you!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:12:06 GMT
Scott Rainaldo wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>My soundblaster PCI 64 (es1371) works fine so far for playing CDs, mp3s,
>and wavs (all PCM output?). However, whenever I try to play midi files or
>even open any program which uses /dev/sequencer I get an error.
It is well known that these cards do not have a hardware sequencer.
You will need to use a virtual one (Timidity seems popular).
You may see in the mixer a channel called pcm2 in which case you should
have another pcm DSP which you can use to play out the midi's on their
own channel instead of using the main DSP.
There's plenty of talk on this subject, so some searches.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Who is happy with their linux/X hardware?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:19:02 GMT
Dan Hull wrote:
>I'd like to run linux with xwindows, possibly a multi-monitor setup. Is
>there anyone with a fairly recent mass-market, mainly off-the-shelf pc which
>they are happy with as a platform for this software? Do you do dual boot or
>pure linux?
I personally have a computer wrapped up of misc parts.
Asus and PIII@500, Millennium G200 8M, 128M, 20G...
Works great, only 8M is not very nice on a 21" because you can't do decent res
with GL.
Only Linux, ofcourse.
Right here I have some dozen i810 based Compaq DP machines which all work just
great with either XF3.3 and Intel drivers or XF4.0.1. RH7 autoprobes the
whole kit, monitor included.
There's also some IBM PC300GL boxes with similiar configs and they work fine,
too.
They're not very nice machines but I can say they do work.
>Any advice about an readily available, fairly trouble-free linux platform,
>especially one that can be extended to multi-monitor mode, I'd much
>appreciate.
They say Matrox cards are easiest to get into multihead (fb?) but I hear
just about any cards will work. I strongly suggest using XF4.
Most things with standard parts will work and the (outdated) Hardware howto
at http://linuxdoc.org will tell you a list of things that have been
working for ages and probably are doing good still. There's a lot of other
nice documents there, too. =)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (him self)
Subject: Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE!
Date: 20 Dec 2000 11:22:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:09:04 +0200, Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have got this all wrong.... Oracle apparently does not run on any Red Hat
> distro other than 6.2EE. Which is not for free.
> Is this correct?
No.
Oracle 8i runs on RH6.
RH 7 is a mistake.
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From: Hilkiah Lavinier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: avermedia tv card
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 11:23:46 +0000
Hi all, I've been looking at deja in this group and have seen a post to
the effect that someone has gotten the avermedia tv phone card to work.
Can anyone tell me where I can get the drivers for this card and any
experiences they may have had with it.
Regards
Hilkiah
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From: Michael Andreas Kleer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux & USB
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:04:57 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> does anybody know if a
> silicom usb ethernet adaptor model U2E
> can work in linux
> thank you
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Take a look at:
http://www.linux-usb.org/
Your question should be answerd there
Andreas
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 22:55:02 +1100
LNyT wrote:
> Actually, I got mine to work with the 2.2.18 kernel :)
I have finally managed to test a 250 MB USB ZIP drive with 2.2.18, and
it looks like the FAQ is right after all. Linux correctly identified the
USB driver to use, and loaded all the right modules. However, all hell
broke loose when I tried to actually mount a ZIP disk:
Dec 20 22:30:07 wellhouse kernel: Detected scsi removable disk sda at
scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Dec 20 22:30:09 wellhouse kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512
bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
Dec 20 22:30:09 wellhouse kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Dec 20 22:30:10 wellhouse kernel: sda: sda1
Dec 20 22:30:20 wellhouse kernel: usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but
not implemented
Dec 20 22:30:20 wellhouse kernel: usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but
not implemented
Dec 20 22:30:25 wellhouse kernel: usb-storage: host_reset() requested
but not implemented
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: SCSI disk error : host 0 channel 0 id
0 lun 0 return code = 8070000
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: Info fld=0xffffffff, FMK EOM ILI
Invalid sd08:01: sense key Key=15
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
81926
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
2
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 5,
block_bitmap = 40963
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
98306
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 6,
block_bitmap = 49153
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
114694
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 7,
block_bitmap = 57347
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
131074
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 8,
block_bitmap = 65537
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
147462
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 9,
block_bitmap = 73731
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
163842
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 10,
block_bitmap = 81921
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
180226
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_block_bitmap: Cannot read block bitmap - block_group = 11,
block_bitmap = 90113
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
ext2_check_blocks_bitmap: Wrong free blocks count in super block, stored
= 19758, counted = 2
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
8
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_inode_bitmap: Cannot read inode bitmap - block_group = 0,
inode_bitmap = 4
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
16392
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
read_inode_bit ....
...
Dec 20 22:30:35 wellhouse kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,1)):
ext2_check_inodes_bitmap: Wrong free inodes count in super block, stored
= 23441, counted = 0
Dec 20 22:30:41 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
2
Dec 20 22:31:44 wellhouse kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector
2
The "bus_reset() requested but not implemented" and "host_reset()
requested but not implemented" messages worry me in particular.
Chris
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