Linux-Hardware Digest #71, Volume #14 Thu, 21 Dec 00 16:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Lynx download problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CPU temp (ekk)
Dual Xeon hangs (ekk)
Re: What's needed for the SB Live in Linux? (Scott C Parillo)
CD-Writer on RH6.0 ("Yi Fang")
Re: What's needed for the SB Live in Linux? ("Greg S. Trouw")
Re: I810 and Slackware 7.1 ("Jason Byrne")
Mixer does nothing (Jasper Spit)
Re: 802.11b isa or pci support? (Georg Acher)
Re: Linux SCSI card is not configured at boot up (Paul Hughett)
Re: ATAPI device hdd error (Christian Wuethrich)
HP 100VG EISA NIC not recongnized by RH6.2 ("Gus Ferotte")
Mouse Problem RH 7.0 ("Mark Richardson")
Feedback invited: Hardware monitor driver (Gareth Randall)
HP Netserver LX Pro (Jeff Moore)
Mandrake 6.1 Help Please with Video Card & Monitor (Harry Broom)
RS6000 Topology (Jeff Moore)
SupraMax 56k 2260 PCI Is it a winmodem? (mike)
Stty questions for serial port modem ("Scott M. Navarre")
support for NIC: http://www.3com.com/mobile/pccards/3cn3ac1556b.html ? (Walter Tautz)
Installing a network printer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lynx download problem
Date: 21 Dec 2000 15:59:41 -0000
In nl.comp.os.linux.installatie Etienne von Wettingfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When browsing: d - download
> Or when using Lynx to download the file directly this *might* also work:
> lynx -source http://a.nice.url/woppa.exe > woppa.exe
but the problem most of the time is that you'll only know it;'s garbage
at the screen when you've started the d/l.
anyways, if that happens you also could use the printing options and at
that place save to a local fine. will work just fine.
--
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CPU temp
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:33:52 -0500
Hello
I have a dual Xeon 550 machine that hangs often, somewhat randomly when
I'm doing some CPU intensive stuff. In the most recent crash, I was
heavily using only one CPU, It doesn't seem to be CPU temp related,
becuase just before it crashed, the temp was 45.5 deg. C. I'm running
RH 6.1, kernel 2.2.14 - configured pretty much the same way as another
dual 650 Pentium III which has no trouble. /var/log/messages contains
little helpful info. I am running all the same daemons as the 650.
Anyone know what's going on? In the meantime, I'm going to put 2.2.16
on there to see if that helps.
Ken
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Dual Xeon hangs
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:36:43 -0500
Sorry for the duplicate post - I noticed I hadn't changed the subject
line.
ekk wrote:
> Hello
> I have a dual Xeon 550 machine that hangs often, somewhat randomly when
> I'm doing some CPU intensive stuff. In the most recent crash, I was
> heavily using only one CPU, It doesn't seem to be CPU temp related,
> becuase just before it crashed, the temp was 45.5 deg. C. I'm running
> RH 6.1, kernel 2.2.14 - configured pretty much the same way as another
> dual 650 Pentium III which has no trouble. /var/log/messages contains
> little helpful info. I am running all the same daemons as the 650.
> Anyone know what's going on? In the meantime, I'm going to put 2.2.16
> on there to see if that helps.
> Ken
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From: Scott C Parillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's needed for the SB Live in Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 09:02:34 -0800
Greg,
All you need to do is download the Alsa drivers.....The other snag,
however, is setting up the post-configuration file.....
I suggest you go to
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/
There is a link that shows you how to setup the configuration file (albeit,
for a different sound card...but you can use the info they provide).
Scott
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From: "Yi Fang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-Writer on RH6.0
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:29:36 -0600
HI, all:
I have a Philips CDD4201 CD-Writer on my Gateway E-5200 desktop.
I tried to get it running so I read the CD-writing-HOWTO on
www.linuxdoc.org. and downloaded the latest cdrecord binary version 1.9.
When I use "cdrecord -scanbus" to test the system, I was told it can not be
performed unless I logged in as root. Actually, I did it as root.
Can anybody give me suggestions on it.
Thanks a lot for your kind help.
Yi
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From: "Greg S. Trouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's needed for the SB Live in Linux?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 11:03:18 -0700
THX man. I'll give it a look see. The only snags I've got left for
the moment is this and getting the video setup, neither of which was
important when we had the linux servers to setup in the networking lab
last year. (Of course, with servers, one only cares about servicing
clients, not sound or video.)
>Greg,
>All you need to do is download the Alsa drivers.....The other snag,
>however, is setting up the post-configuration file.....
>I suggest you go to
>http://www.linuxnewbie.org/
>There is a link that shows you how to setup the configuration file
(albeit,
>for a different sound card...but you can use the info they provide).
>Scott
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I810 and Slackware 7.1
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:15:21 -0800
"b�dy�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I can't run Xwindows under Slackware 7.1. I've Intel 810.
> Anybody can help me?
> I've module agpgart.o and somethin is wrong:((
Did you check out the Intel site for help? There is a nice .pdf file with a
bunch of details to get it working...
I have a machine at work running Slackware 7.1 with i810 video - I'll try to
remember to send you my XF86Config file to give you more hints.
I also recompiled the Xfree86-3.3.6 tree with the patch provided... but it
would be easier to tell you 'exactly' what I did when I go to work again ;-)
- Jason
> --
> Bodyn W lewo? W prawo?
>
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From: Jasper Spit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mixer does nothing
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:25:53 +0100
Hi,
I have a SBLive platinum card in my system, and just did a fresh install of
Debian. I'm using the Creative SBLive module for my soundcard. This works
fine, except for the mixer : I am able to adjust the volumes, but it
doesn't have any effect on the actual volume. Sound itself is OK, so this
does not seem like a driver problem.
I also tried the Alsa driver, but that didn't help.
I've tried aumix and kmix, but both don't work. /dev/mixer exists and
permissions are set properly.
Any idea ?
Thanks,
Jasper
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Acher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 802.11b isa or pci support?
Date: 21 Dec 2000 18:48:37 GMT
In article <iXp06.19407$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Bill Northlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Are there any drivers for any known (3com/lucent/cisco/linksys...) wireless
|> cards in 2.2 or 2.4? Thnx
The Lucent Orinoco cards are supported in the current pcmcia-cs-package (and are
included in 2.4). The driver works very well.
The various cards with the Prism-chipset by Intersil/Harris also have a driver,
but I have problems when running it with a Compaq WLAN100 card, it suddenly
looses the link and stays dead...
--
Georg Acher, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.in.tum.de/~acher/
"Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias
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From: Paul Hughett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux SCSI card is not configured at boot up
Date: 21 Dec 2000 18:52:02 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: My SCSI card(Adaptec 2930U) is not "detected" at boot up. During the
: bootup stage I see a message that says SCSI hosts 0. Using the
: /sbin/modprobe command after boot up I am able to get the card
: configured and detected. I checked for the "alias scsi_hostadapter
: aic7xxx" line in the "/etc/conf.modules" file and it is there. What do
: I have to do to get the machine to detect/configure the SCSI card at
: boot up.
You also need to run "mkinitrd image version" to create an initial RAM
disk (which is the mechanism that Linux uses to get modules that must
be loaded at boot time) and add a line "initrd=image" to your lilo.conf,
and rerun lilo. See the appropriate man pages for the details.
Paul Hughett
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From: Christian Wuethrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI device hdd error
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:57:33 +0100
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dumon wrote:
>
> I got the same problem but I noticed that the error doesn't occur when a CD
> is inserted into the concidered drive :)
It is because in your X-server (Gnome for example) you enabled the
auto-mount of the CD-ROM, thus, as long as it does not see the CD in the
tray it keeps trying and sending error message.
Disable the automount option in the X-server and it will be fine.
Christian Wuethrich
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From: "Gus Ferotte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 100VG EISA NIC not recongnized by RH6.2
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:17:43 GMT
I can not get RH6.2 to find my HP 100VG EISA NIC during instal or post using
the hp100 module.
Any suggestions?
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From: "Mark Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse Problem RH 7.0
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:25:20 -0600
I have installed RedHat 7.0 and during install my serial MS Intellimouse
works fine. I let install select MS mouse option and finished. After reboot
into Gnome, the mouse doesn't work. I reinstalled and choose Generic 2
button and still no mouse. This is a serial 2 button & scrolling wheel
mouse. Any ideas????
Thanks in advance,
Mark
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Feedback invited: Hardware monitor driver
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:31:00 +0000
Dear All,
I am currently writing a driver for the hardware monitor chips which appear on all
modern motherboards. The driver is a kernel module and can currently read and
interpret several of the sensors on the Winbond W83781D chip.
Basically I'd like some feedback about what interface people would like for this.
Technical things only - I'm not interested in what you'd like to see in the GUI - that
sort of thing should not be involved in the kernel.
I'm looking for comments mostly on the data formats. Should the data be read and
written as structs? Should we be able to seek to get to the Nth sensor? How about
supporting future, as yet unknown, features? What device names should I use? How
should I define the minor numbers? Do you want text mode output ala /proc/interrupts
or defined data formats? Bear in mind that serious data interpretation should be left
to user mode.
Of course, I have my own opinions on these things! What I want is to get some sort of
discussion going so that I have something to work to. There's nothing like some
feedback to motivate further work...
Please note that I've heard of another project for such a driver but when I checked it
was closed source (binary only). I'm not interested in that sort of thing. I'm going
to give you something GPL which you can all use and see the source code.
This is the plan that I have sent to H Peter Anvin. (No reply yet but I guess he's
busy.) Of course, this may yet be rejected...
? char Hardware monitoring devices
0 = /dev/hwmon0 First hardware monitor device
1 = /dev/hwmon1 Second hardware monitor device
...
15 = /dev/hwmon15 Sixteenth hardware monitor device
16 = /dev/temperature0 First temperature sensor
17 = /dev/temperature1 Second temperature sensor
...
31 = /dev/temperature15 Sixteenth temperature sensor
32 = /dev/fan0 First fan speed sensor
33 = /dev/fan1 Second fan speed sensor
...
47 = /dev/fan15 Fifteenth fan speed sensor
48 = /dev/voltage0 First voltage sensor
49 = /dev/voltage1 Second voltage sensor
...
63 = /dev/voltage15 Sixteenth voltage sensor
64 = /dev/chassis0 First mechanical chassis sensor
65 = /dev/chassis1 Second mechanical chassis sensor
...
79 = /dev/chassis15 Sixteenth mechanical chassis sensor
Design principles:
1. Specific sensors can be accessed separately, rather than having one device which
controls everything. Division into chunks of 16 allows addition of other sensor types
in the future.
2. Where specific details of a device need to be controlled (e.g. interrupt status)
then the device itself can be addressed using /dev/hwmonXX.
Go for it! Tell me what you think!
Yours,
======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Netserver LX Pro
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 13:57:55 -0600
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Anyone ever installed Linux on an HP Netserver LX Pro single cpu?
How about SMP with 2,3,4,5, or 6 cpu?
Jeff Moore
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From: Harry Broom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Mandrake 6.1 Help Please with Video Card & Monitor
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 19:58:23 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Everyone
I'm very much a newbie, but I'm trying to move away from the MS
Windoze and I just got my hands a copy of the above Mandrake version.
The install seems to have gone OK after a couple of problems but the
lats re-installation seems to have gone OK. I just want to get X
Windows going now. However I have a problem.
I have a VideoLogic Grafixstar 670 with the S3 Savage4 3D video
chipset on a PCI card and a Taxan ErgoVision 730 TCO95-S Monitor.
Now according to the stuff on VideoLogics' site the card does work
with Linux but I can find nothing to give me any further clues. I'v
tried numerous attempts with Xconfigurator & xf86config giving what I
believe to be the correct information from my manuals etc but when I
run startx it all fails awfully.
If anyone can help or point me in the right direction that'd be great.
I'm using Win98 to do this and it would be really good if I could
Linux going (graphically at least) to explore more of it's potential.
__________
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights"
John Paul Getty 1892 - 1976
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc
Subject: RS6000 Topology
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:07:27 -0600
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My battery in my RS6000 MCA has died.
I replaced the battery and now I cannot set the topology.
I run the diagnostics and set the VPD and Topology but it does not
remember any of this.
Is there a way to reset the topology so that it will work now that the
new battery is in?
Jeff Moore
BTW: IBM wanted to charge me $500 to answer this question.
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SupraMax 56k 2260 PCI Is it a winmodem?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:22:46 -0500
Hi,
I inherited this SupraMax 56k 2260 PCI modem. I would
like to know if it is a winmodem and if so how to use it for
Linux.
Thanks
Mike
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From: "Scott M. Navarre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Stty questions for serial port modem
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:31:22 GMT
Hello,
I have a modem connected to a serial port and need to suppress the EOT
(End Of Transmission) signal. Under SCO OpenServer, you could use the
command 'stty' on the port with the option 'raw' which would take care of
this. Linux (at least RH7) does not seem to define 'raw' the same way for
'stty'?
I want the modem to stay connected after the transmission. We are using
the modem to print to a remote printer connected directly to a modem at the
remote site. When we print to the serial port (through the modems to the
printer) it works... but as soon as the program that is doing the printing
ends, the modem hangs up regardless of whether it finished printing
everything in it's buffer. We are using BASIS Pro5 program to do the
printing, which we have done successfully in the past under SCO
OpenServer...
Thanks for any help or tips,
Scott Navarre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Tautz)
Subject: support for NIC: http://www.3com.com/mobile/pccards/3cn3ac1556b.html ?
Date: 21 Dec 2000 20:12:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
just wondering if 2.2 kernel can handle this? any special
irq/io settings that are critical. This is for an ibm
thinkpad laptop.
-walter
please cc me also if you follow up to this
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Installing a network printer
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:49:22 GMT
I'm running Red Hat 6.0 on a Windows NT based network (the only user on
the network running something other than Windows 98). We have a network
print "server" set up running Windows 95 (long story - all I can say is
"It wasn't me" :-)). Anyway, I want to connect to the printer over the
network using my NT account and would like to be able to do this without
having to type my username and password in every time I want to print.
The printer is an NEC SuperScript 860.
Any advice/help would be much appreciated.
d0minick
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