Linux-Hardware Digest #74, Volume #14 Fri, 22 Dec 00 06:13:08 EST
Contents:
APC BackUPS and cable (Henry_Barta)
Iomega HipZip and Dadio (John Randolph Willey)
Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371 (Osvaldo Fornaro)
CD Burner (Jimmy Gagnon)
Re: CD Burner (Bit Twister)
Re: Lynx download problem ("b a g h e e r a")
Re: Problems with promise u 66 (Wolfgang Schmidt)
Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip? ("mpierce")
Re: Mouse Problem RH 7.0 (Steve Sycamore)
Pinnacle soundcard: device in use (Steve Sycamore)
Re: Dual Xeon hangs (James Rose)
Re: CDD2000 with 2.2.14 -> PC deadlock (Ekkard Gerlach)
S3trio3D IBM Pc 300GL problem with Suse 7.0 (JanJaap van Benthem)
Re: SCSI ADAPTER 1505 (Ekkard Gerlach)
Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: APC BackUPS and cable
Date: 22 Dec 2000 05:20:19 GMT
I've got one of those home made cables that use a couple of
4.7K resistors to simulate one of the cables that APC sells
for this unit. I had this working correctly (several Linux
installs ago. Might have been Debian 1.? ;) on this system but
the current version of 'apcupsd' that comes with Debian (3.2.6)
has far more cable options than I can remember. It still includes
a readme (README.cable) that describes this cable, but does
not indicate (that I can figure out, anyhow) what cable type
should be chosen in the apcupsd.conf file. I've tried several
types, but the daemon does not recognize when I pull the plug
on the UPS. It'll still get me through the minor dips that are
common, but I would like something that will shut down the
computer during an extended outage.
Any suggestions on the right cable type or how to better test
this would be most welcomed.
thanks,
hank
--
Hank Barta White Oak Software Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Predictable Systems by Design.(tm)
Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois
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Subject: Iomega HipZip and Dadio
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:21:26 -0500
From: John Randolph Willey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Does anybody have any advice on connecting an Iomega HipZip/PocketZip
(or Clik! drive or whatever Iomega is calling it this week) to an Intel
Linux machine running RH6? FAQ or How-To? It's a USB device, and I
have exactly zero experience trying anything USB on linux.
While I'm on the subject, has anybody out there poked around inside a
HipZip mp3 player? This device seems to be running an embedded
derivative of Redhat called Dadio. (See http://www.iobjects.com for
marketing hype.) It's a flashable OS running on some sort of ARM chip
(Cirrus Logic?) so I'm curious about it. There's supposedly a SDK
coming from RedHat.
Happy Holidays...
John Willey
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From: Osvaldo Fornaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: /dev/sequencer problem es1371
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 16:56:40 -0300
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.
>
the es1371 chipset has not a sequencer (as it has not a synth). You could
reproduce midi files with a midi to wav program, as kmidi or timidity++
Any know if it is possible to emulate a hardware sequencer for these kind a
sound cards?
===============
Osvaldo Fornaro
IFIMAT - UNCPBA
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From: Jimmy Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: CD Burner
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:35:10 -0500
Hi
I would like to know how I could install and use a CD Burner as a CD ROM
like on Windaub?
Thanks :o)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CD Burner
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 07:49:50 GMT
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 02:35:10 -0500, Jimmy Gagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I would like to know how I could install and use a CD Burner as a CD ROM
>like on Windaub?
>
Using the same release as you.
Create your mount point.
place an entry in fstab.
mount the device
Read the cdrom documents.
Todays fishing lession: How to find a file.
Any time you want to find a file you can use locate
If you leave the system up overnight a cron job will create
the locate database.
Anytime you need to update/create the location database, as root, updatedb
You can use locate to find files. Example: locate -i cdrom
You can reduce the results by pipeing it through grep.
locate -i cdrom | grep -i howto.html
/usr/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/CDROM-HOWTO.html
now place the result in netscape's location box and read away
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From: "b a g h e e r a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lynx download problem
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:14:43 +0100
Thanks Etienne,
It worked!
b.
"Etienne von Wettingfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:91t5le$98d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In nl.comp.os.linux.installatie b a g h e e r a
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > When i want to download a file using Lynx it won't download the file as
a
> > file but just as characters on my screen. How do i fix this? It's
> > irritating because i want to d/l some files to make my Geforce 2 work in
> > Suse7.
>
> 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
>
> --
> Etienne [The Netherlands]
>
> + Fax && Voice mail +31 (20) 8835157 Linux 2.2.18
> + I.C.Q. 2559832 (Authorize)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolfgang Schmidt)
Subject: Re: Problems with promise u 66
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:32:41 GMT
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 23:52:30 GMT, "Dan White"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have problems installing a Promise u66 controller in my system
>> (ASUS P2B-S with 2 IDE-Disks, 1 SCSI-CDROM, 1 IDE-CDROM)
>> On the Promise U66 Card installed 2 HD's in order to use software raid.
>>
>> Linux Kernel 2.2.16
>>
>> No problems with a "normal IDE-Kernel". But when I enable DMA using
>> hdparm, after the entire system hangs after some disk accesses.
>>
>> Same effect when using Linux-Kernel with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y:
>> System hangs already during boot phase.
>>
>> Please, help me
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------
>> Wolfgang Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> ----------------------------------------------
>
>Try a newer kernel and/or applying the patch from
>
>http://www.linux-ide.org
>
>- Dan White
thanks for the advise. I tried kernel 2.2.18. No change.
which version do i need?
Wolfgang Schmidt
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From: "mpierce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip?
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:58:58 GMT
Chris,
I been trying to contact LNyT via email w/o success.
Can you tell me how you setup your USB?
What is the correct entry for /etc/fstab, ie, file system type for zip
drive, etc.
I added "none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0" to /etc/fstab
I created /mnt/zip/
When I then try to mount zip, I get error:
[root@localhost /mnt]# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
(maybe `insmod driver'?)
Marvin
--
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris Rankin"
<au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc> wrote:
> 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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From: Steve Sycamore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Problem RH 7.0
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:04:40 +0100
The mouse configuration in the various X86 configuration utilities seems
to be independent from the OS configuration. I'd re-run the X configuration
utility (from yast) and check the mouse settings there.
Mark Richardson wrote:
> 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: Steve Sycamore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pinnacle soundcard: device in use
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:59:18 +0100
I've got a Turtle Beach Multisound Pinnacle card and am trying to
configure it in SuSE 7.0. The two basic sound modules will load
using modprobe and insmod. But when I try to load the multisound
module, messages result saying that the device is in-use.
I've used the isapnp utility to properly set up the card's io ports,
memory location and interrupt. Isapnp reports that everything is
okay. I supply the same information when trying to load the
multisound module.
Can anyone help or point me to a good source of information?
I've gone through the Multisound documentation with a fine-toothed
comb and don't see anything I'm doing wrong.
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Rose)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dual Xeon hangs
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 09:12:26 GMT
>> 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
>
This sounds like a flakey hardware problem. I don't think that it is
Linux related and it may not even be the CPU's but rather a seperate
hardware issue.
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDD2000 with 2.2.14 -> PC deadlock
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:49:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Addendum:
Ekkard Gerlach (me) wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> since my last upgrade 2.2.5 (Suse 6.1) to 2.2.14 (Suse6.4)
> I can't any longer burn CD's. cdrecord invokes a full
> linux-deadlock within about 25 seconds. After keyboard,
> mouse, remote login, .. all is dead! I have to turn off
> my PC by electric current.
> In these 25 seconds I have the chance to logout
> from KDE and reboot, that my hd won't
> damage. Its very funny: in this case I can reach the
> last message of linux shutdown "unmounting /proc"
> - an linux is completely locked. But very often
> the shutdown is stoped by the deadlock before unmounting
> the HD :(( - or I give up shutting down an join the freezing
> PC ...
The fact that PC freezes although all processe were already
terminated proves, that there is a problem of hardware.
With Suse 6.1 and Win95 all works fine proves that the bug
is with drivers / initialisation , right??
thx for help
Ekkard
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Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:20:13 +0100
From: JanJaap van Benthem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3trio3D IBM Pc 300GL problem with Suse 7.0
I've installed suse 7.0 (default installation) on a IBM Pc 300GL.
The graphical adapter is a S3 trio 3D (on the motherboard).
When installing Linux the system hangs after cd nr 4.
Contr. alt backspace or contr.alt delete does not work.
System must be powered off en rebooted.
The suse installation program continues with resolution option. I have
chosen 1024x786 (17 " monitor). The system installation is at his end
and the system seeems too work good, however when choosing shutdown at
the welcome screen en choosing restart the X server the system hangs
completely (not only the X server).
Anyone can help me ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI ADAPTER 1505
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 11:27:37 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
simplemind wrote:
>
> I use a SCSI card only for my scaner. It's a Linux supported ADAPTEC
> AVA-1505 and Adaptec AHA-152x compatible. When I was trying to build a new
> kernel to make it work I read in one of the SCSI LOW LEVEL help items that I
> had to change IRQ and some other values.
> Does anybody know how to do this ?
> I would alos thank any other help about these card. I found nothing in
> LINUXDOC.
>
> THANKS.
Please give your complete Name, like others
if you want answers and further help from me!
You should give an exact subject e.g. "running SCSI Adaptec 1505 "
Your problem:
I have got the same SCSI-Card and an scanner attached, too.
Have you got a pnp-card (Plug&Play) or non-pnp ? - The
non-pnp-card you can switch IRQ and DMA by jumper, the
pnp-card you have to initialise by Kernel-options
at lilo-start. See linux-pnp-tool (attention: isapnp.conf
that is automatically generated is buggy! Delete "CHECK"!).
Which options did you enable in your Kernel? pnp?
SCSI-generic support? ..... What exactly have you
done?
Ekkard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AT LAAAAAAAST !!! YIPPEEEEEEE!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:53:58 GMT
>>>>> "Jerra" == Jerra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jerra> ???? I have got this all wrong.... Oracle apparently does not
Jerra> run on any Red Hat distro other than 6.2EE. Which is not for
Jerra> free. Is this correct? I read it on Oracle Metalink. There
Jerra> were scores of people having problem with Oracle on RH7. I
Jerra> tested an installation yesterday and one library could not be
Jerra> compiled. Don't remember the exact name but think it had to do
Jerra> with the database itself.
I find it _entirely_ unremarkable that people would have serious
problems with "just about anything" on RH7, and Oracle would be a
"serious problem" that I would downright _expect_.
Our LUG has heard of enough problems that we haven't ordered any of
the "cheap RH7 CDs" so that we don't cause people problems.
On The Other Hand, I did an Oracle install a while back on a Just
Plain RH6 system, and while it was quite fiddly, with the instructions
being of as limited usefulness as R/3 install notes used to be noted
for, it wasn't _that_ much of a problem. A Saturday morning and it
was installed and running...
It might well be that the only distribution that Oracle will "certify"
as working is RH6.2EE, and taht could be the only distribution on
which they would be willing to provide you commercial support. That's
another story...
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