Linux-Hardware Digest #102, Volume #14 Sat, 30 Dec 00 00:13:05 EST
Contents:
IBM PC Server 330 (William D. Atkinson)
Re: "COM 5"? ("D. Stimits")
Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment? ("D. Stimits")
Re: Strange Reporting of Free Space on the HDD ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Nvidia driver w/ 2.4 (Tony Spinillo)
Re: Linux and ATI Radeon DDR 32M Card (Tony Spinillo)
Re: HP ScanJet 4200C (Tony Spinillo)
Re: CDR Compatability - MMC? (Tony Spinillo)
Re: ASUS A7V ATA 100 problems (eander)
Re: ASUS A7V UDMA installation problems (Bharath Krishnan)
Snap Server 2000 on eBay ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Xircom 10/100 + 56K Modem ("Eric")
Re: please help me get my modem working ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Can I use more than 4 IDE devices? ("Jason Byrne")
Re: snd-card-sb16.o for SUSE Linux 7.0 with a kernel recompiled to 2.2.18 ("Jason
Byrne")
Re: Help me choose a motherboard! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Creative Labs PCI 128 (William Murphy)
ATI Rage Fury MAXX issues? (Ambitious Wench)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William D. Atkinson)
Subject: IBM PC Server 330
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 02:10:27 GMT
I have an IBM PC Server 330 with an on-board AIC-7880 SCSI
controller, and an IBM ServeRaid card driving six hard drives. As the
system starts up, it warns that the card does not support SCSI
CD-ROMS.
When trying to install RedHat 6.2, the system finds and
installs a drive for the on-board AIX-7880 controller, but not the
ServerRaid card where the hard drives and CD-ROM are hooked up, thus I
cannot finish the install, because linux can't find a CD-ROM
driver.....
If I connect the CD-ROM to the on-board AIC-7880 controller,
the system will not even boot, as it says there is a problem with how
the drives are configured.
Anyone have experience with one of these machines and
Linux???? I'd really like to get it up and running on my network....
-Bill
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:36:33 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "COM 5"?
Glitch wrote:
>
> "D. Stimits" wrote:
> >
> > Glitch wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Maybe I've missed something but how was it that the original poster of
> > > this thread got his modem to work off of COM 5? That's what my modem is
> >
> > Under windows.
> >
> > > on and considering there are only 4 available in Linux I don't see how
> > > I'm supposed to get it to work. It has worked before (it's the actiontec
> >
> > Create a /dev/ node for it, and set it to the right irq/address. If
> > there is actually a serial port device there, it will work, no matter
> > what you label it. There are however, published "standard" values for a
> > given com number (or ttySx).
> >
> > > modem) but it was on another IRQ back then and I got the cards in my
> > > motherboard situated about the only way they will work so I don't think
> > > I can switch PCI slots to get another IRQ.
> >
> > If the bios is set to "o/s not plug-n-play aware" it will assign irq and
> > address of slots based on its own algorithm. It is also possible on most
> > bioses to tell it to assign them in reverse order. Think of PCI as ISA
> > pnp with a built in conf program in the bios, that is able to ask the
> > PCI card what it is. "setpci" and "lspci" for setting and listing pci
> > device settings. You should be able to pick any valid irq or address of
> > a given slot, provided it isn't in conflict with some other hardware.
> >
> > >
> > > Can u point me to any URLs or give any personal advice on how to get the
> > > modem working on COM5?
> >
> > He didn't get his working yet as far as I know, but somewhere is a list
> > of official major/minor numbers for /dev/ special files. In it the
> > serial ports (such as those of modems) will be character special files,
> > they will have a given major number, and the particular ttySx will have
> > its own unique minor number. Use mknod to create /dev/ttyS4 (or
> > /dev/ttyS9 if you really wanted that many), then use some combination of
> > setserial on the ttyS4 and/or setpci on the pci card to make them match
> > irq and base address. Simpler is to reassign an existing ttySx to the
> > modem with setserial, or to set the modem to the ttySx via setpci (as
> > opposed to creating a new node with mknod).
> >
>
> well i was able to get my modem to switch to COM3 in Windows however it
> doesn't work in linux yet. I posted a message in col.misc if you want to
> take a look at it. Basically i'm giving setserial the same parameters i
> gave it a year ago when I first had Linux on this machine but for some
> reason now Linux doesn't wwant to communicate with my modem. Any and all
> com ports I use setserial on tell me there is no modem attached. So what
> gives?
I'm not subscribed to col.misc.
I have had a modem do this before (not one I currently have), and it was
a matter of some other options to setserial keeping it from breaking.
Basically this line:
setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 9 spd_normal
skip_test
The "skip_test" allowed it to work in one case where it did not without
it. Another time failing to specify the uart as 16550A, instead not at
all or as just 16550, caused failure. So far I haven't had any modems
that failed like this if I used these three together:
uart 16550A
spd_normal
skip_test
I also do not know if order will matter. I know the sample order above
does work on several modems. If these are set properly and it still
cannot find the modem, and lspci -v says the modem is there, I wouldn't
know what to say. But in every case where something like device not
ready has been seen on modems I've worked with, either the serial port,
or the modem hardware itself, was not initialized. Take for example a
sound card; it can be detected and reported at bootup, but if it is not
initialized as well, you can't insmod the module due to device not ready
(and this happens if for example register setup is incorrect).
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 19:44:45 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment?
Julie Brandon wrote:
>
> On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:18:52 -0700, D. Stimits ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> >Instead try setting the serial port to match the current PCI card
> >values. E.G.:
> >setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 9 spd_normal
> >skip_test
> >OR
> >setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 17 spd_normal
> >skip_test
> >
> >Depending on how I boot up, I use one of those two, since the two
> >configurations set up the modem differently. Instead of fighting the PCI
> >slot I set COM3/ttyS2 to match the modem.
>
> A bit dangerous, as if anything with your PCI configuration changes I would
> imagine that the IO addresses and possibly the IRQs chould change?
Not at all dangerous. It is due to whether I leave the IO-APIC
(redirects irqs between multiple cpu's) active or not. The cards
themselves are not rearranged, and they will be given the exact same
setting for one of the two config's. The IO-APIC on the i840 chipset is
broken (SMP thing), and it is more stable without it, but I sometimes
want to test with the APIC active. I let the PCI devices choose their
own spot, and matching a serial port that is not used in either config
to the particular card is in no way dangerous. Setting any PCI device or
serial port to a valid address/irq that is unused is exactly what they
are meant to do. No hardware changes are detected by the RH hardware
setup, since the cards and their identities remain in the same slot.
>
> A neater solution might be to use the latest serial driver from
> serial.sourceforge.net (which is what I did in the end, after initially just
> using the above type of technique)?
The serial driver is fine in this case, as well as the PCI
setup...nothing is broken there. Sadly, I can't say the same thing about
Intel i840 chipsets.
>
> Ta-ra,
>
> --
> Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
> <URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
>
> +++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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Subject: Re: Strange Reporting of Free Space on the HDD
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:09:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon) writes:
> On 28 Dec 2000 23:59:18 GMT, Dances With Crows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> >benefit from the reserved blocks with "tune2fs". "man tune2fs" and
> >remember to mount the partition read-only before you tune2fs it. HTH,
> Ah yes, that begs a question -- so *is* it actually fairly safe to use a
> tune2fs on a partition that is mounted, but has remounted read-only?
It does no such thing.
"Begging the question" is a technical term for a logical fallacy
otherwise known as "circular reasoning."
You mean to say "suggests" or "implies the question."
Sorry, this is a peeve of mine.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Luckily I have the fashion sense of a colorblind street pimp
freebasing cocaine through a gunpowder funnel, so it all works out."
- Something Awful, 12/19/2000
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nvidia driver w/ 2.4
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:14:03 GMT
J,
Try the unofficial nvidia irc channel at nvidia#irc.openprojects.net
They have a patch for the 2.4 kernels.
good luck
tony
JH wrote:
>
> I'm trying to compile the NVidia video card kernel drivers under the
> 2.4.0-test12 kernel, and it seems to do fine except that insmod gives a
> bunch of unresolved symbols errors
>
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 387725 26944 40 414709 653f5 NVdriver
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
> mem_map_inc_count
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
> mem_map_dec_count
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
> put_module_symbol
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
> get_module_symbol
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: insmod
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver failed
> /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: insmod NVdriver failed
> make: *** [package-install] Error 255
>
> Is this just me not upgrading to the kernel properly, or is the module just
> not going to work period?
>
> - Josh
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and ATI Radeon DDR 32M Card
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:17:54 GMT
I believe Radeon support is in the latest release of X - 4.02.
Check www.xfree86.org for details.
Good luck
Tony
A7V wrote:
>
> I installed RedHat 7.0 on my computer with ATI Radeon DDR 32M card and
> Xconfigurator can not detect the video card and use VGA_16. The graphic is
> very bad. What driver shall work? I try Mach64 et. al, but does not work.
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4200C
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:20:56 GMT
S,
Check linux-usb.sourceforge.net
Good luck,
Tony
Schlurchi wrote:
>
> Hi,
> how can I install the usb scanner device under linux? Everytime I start
> xsane linux doesn't do anything or tells me that no device was chosen.
> But how can I choose a scanner? And does Linux support my scanner?
>
> Thanks anyway.
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From: Tony Spinillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDR Compatability - MMC?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:23:29 GMT
Hans,
Try:
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/cdrecord.html
Good luck,
Tony
Hans Russell-Egbert wrote:
>
> I'm considering buying a CDR, but have some compatability concerns (I
> don't want to have to return the damn thing...). So, anyway, the
> CDR-Howto states that any MMC-compliant CDRs will work. Does anyone
> know what this means? Or how I might check?
>
> Thanks
> Hans
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From: eander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS A7V ATA 100 problems
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:30:05 -0000
If you're getting a Kernel Panic, the problem is caused by the AMD
processor. Athlons and Durons do not have CPU IDs, which causes the
lockup. Bypass the problem at boot by typing (at the LILO prompt): linux
x86_serial_nr=1. When you run the install, type that same command in the
kernel arguments textbox near the end of the install, and it will ignore
the CPU ID from that point on.
Ben Holmes wrote:
>
>
> In article <91kbhf$r4b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jacob Hooysma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Suse provides a special bootdisk for the Asus A7V motherboard
> > you can download it form there ftp site....just type A7V in their
> > search field in the help database
> >
> > Let me know if it works.....I tried it, it know recognises my disk
> > but after that the system hangs.
>
> Ditto... any answers anyone?
>
> > Probably caused by my second ATA disc a seagate..
> >
> > Grtx Jacob
>
>
>
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:54:19 -0500
From: Bharath Krishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS A7V UDMA installation problems
Check out the suggestions on this website.
http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html
-bharath
Vladimir Danishevsky wrote:
>
> I have problems to install Linux (RedHat 7.0) on ASUS A7V motherboard with
> Promise UDMA controller on board. Installation program does not see hard
> drive and installation does not go through. I installed using onboard IDE
> controller but did not find way to make it work with UDMA. Any suggestions?
> Also does anybody knows about Solaris 8.0 support for PROMISE UDMA?
> Vladimir
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
So what do you need? Besides a miracle.
Guns. Lots of guns.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Snap Server 2000 on eBay
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 03:55:54 GMT
brand new, unopened box.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1204775126
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Xircom 10/100 + 56K Modem
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 04:15:23 GMT
I'm a newbie and have tackled Linux many times
over the past few years always to find I didn't have
the right hardware.
Well Christmas left with a spare gift certificate to B
Daltons and I picked up Linux 7 for Dummies which
came w/ Redhat 7.0.
I tried to install it on my Soyo 6BA+100 MB w/ dual
IBM 15 gig drives setup in Raid 0 until I found out that
RAID was not supported in this config.
So, against my better judgement I tackled my laptop
instead. Its a Dell Latitude CPi, 233Mhz P5 w/ Intel's
TX chipset.
I run a cable modem and have been trying to get this
damned Ethernet card to work. I follow the directions
for the Gnome desktop util and the Xircom card is not
shown. I put in the IRQ and such but it still fails to initialize
the card.
During some reading I found /etc/pcmcia/config. In that config
file I found a listing for the card I have, however I assume there
is another util for config'ing this card somewhere outside of X
that I am not aware of.
Anyone have some good instructions on where to begin?
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please help me get my modem working
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:17:45 -0800
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:92j3vs$48e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> << previous � next in search >>
>
> Hi, I'm a linux newbie (there's always one, isn't there?) trying to get
> his modem
> up and running. I've figured out the serial port number, set up minicom
> at pretty
> standard settings, but when I go to the main terminal screen I don't
> seem to be
> able to type anything, including AT. The keyboard hasn't frozen, and
> neither has
> the program-I can still get the help screens up, but still I cant get
> the damn thing
> to respond. I've tried Gnome-PPP as well, and again there seems to be
> no
> response from my modem (Diamond Multimedia SupraExpress 56e/i Pro)-no
> dial tones or anything. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks
I don't want to ignore a more 'traditional' approach for solving the
problem... but you might like a program called 'wvdial' (do a search for it
on http://freshmeat.net)
download the source, unzip/untar, cd to the source directory and run 'make'
and 'make install' to compile and install.
after this... if you run 'wvdial /etc/wvdial.conf' - the program scans all
of your serial ports, tries to find your modem, and sets up the appropriate
settings, etc...
(edit the resulting /etc/wvdial.conf and replace username, password, etc...
with the settings for your isp)
- Jason
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use more than 4 IDE devices?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:27:18 -0800
"Phillip Deackes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:17f4.3a4c5d1c.bc0cd@scgf...
> I am using the 2.2.18 kernel and currently have two hard drives on the
> first IDE controller and a CDRW and CDROM on the second. I also have an
> internal zip drive I would like to use. Is there any way I can connect
> it to my system without losing any of the other devices?
>
> My system has a Soltek SL75-KV2X motherboard with VIA chipset. I have
> applied the IDE patch to my kernel and Linux is happily using UDMA 66
> with the hard drives.
>
> I have scoured around for documents but cannot find a definitive answer
> to my question.
I had a machine with two ide hard-drives, internal zip, cd-rom, and cd-rw...
with the internal zip attached to the IDE controller of an old isa SB16
card... and it worked great - on RedHat 5.1 with a 2.0.34 kernel no less ;-)
As I recall... the internal zip actually showed up at /dev/hdg rather than
/dev/hde (/dev/hde and /dev/hdef were skipped after /dev/hda - /dev/hdd)
I assume the equivalent setup with an add-on IDE controller card will work
without a hitch... but I've never tried it personally (don't have a list of
'working' cards)
- Jason
>
> Many thanks.
>
> --
> Phillip Deackes
> Using Storm Linux 2000
>
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: snd-card-sb16.o for SUSE Linux 7.0 with a kernel recompiled to 2.2.18
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:32:17 -0800
"cash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:DBQ26.2479$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I am trying to recompile the 2.2.16 kernel to 2.2.18 within the SUSE 7.0
> Distro. I have been suscessful in getting everything to work so far. But I
> am unable to run either ALSA or OSS to get the soundcard working.
>
> After attempting to run ALSA, the alsaconf program complains that
> snd-card-sb16.o cannot be found. Lo and behold, this object file didn't
get
> compiled within my modules for 2.2.18, although they were for 2.2.16.
Which
> setting do I need to make within the .config file the kernel to get all
the
> snd-card*.o files created? Thanks. You can respond to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] after removing the underscores. Thanks.
The snd-card*.o modules are part of Alsa (just happened to be installed on
your SuSE configuration).
You can grab the source for the latest versions of alsa-drive, alsa-libs,
and alsa-utils from http://www.alsa-project.org and the modules should be
added to the correct (/lib/modules/2.2.18/misc) location after you compile
and install everything.
btw... pay close attention to the INSTALL file in the alsa-driver source if
you have any problems...
- Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Help me choose a motherboard!
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 04:38:41 GMT
If you intend on migrating any cards from your current system be sure
the mobo in question has a slot for them. I was also looking at an
Asus A7v but them realized no ISA slot and my sound card is an ISA
card. Got the Abit KT7-RAID and have been very happy.
Just a thought
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 02:30:21 GMT, "Neal Lippman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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] (William Murphy)
Subject: Re: Creative Labs PCI 128
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 04:46:58 GMT
On 29 Dec 2000 03:52:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
wrote:
<snip>
>Creative PCIxx cards are usually repackaged Ensoniq cards under the
>hood. It's very likely that the card is an ES1371 or ES1370, both of
>which work under Linux just fine.
The Creative PCI128 card I have has a ES1373 chip and is resisting my
efforts. I have been trapped into dual booting and the card also
resists windowsME.
If you have some tips on getting this card to perform, please share.
William
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ambitious Wench)
Subject: ATI Rage Fury MAXX issues?
Reply-To: Addy is munged, don't bother
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 05:07:04 GMT
Well, good friends and neighbors, after drooling over the flexibility
of Red Hat 7.0 on my SO's machine (dual boot), I finally screwed up my
courage to the sticking point and installed same in mine.
now, I'll admit to being an educated end user of Win98 (don't *go*
there!), but I don't know didly about Linux Red Hat. I want to break
free of the M$ hedgemony but it seems that the config won't recognise
my Maxx video card.
According to my more Linux-literate SO, the MAXX takes up two IRQ's,
and this may be causing the config issues. We've tried ALL set-up
options available.
Has anybody gotten around this prob?
The Ambitious Wench
"Barkeep--what is that gentleman on the floor having?"
"A Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster."
"Good. Gimme one."
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