Linux-Hardware Digest #182, Volume #14 Mon, 15 Jan 01 14:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Logitec Trackman Marble FX (John E Garrott Sr)
Re: intel express 100 known to the kernel but can't be identified? (Christian
Tremblay)
Linux support for USB and IEEE 1394 drives? (Andre-John Mas)
Re: Slooow Linux (Julie Brandon)
Lexmark Z42 Printer
Re: SB16 problems ("Matt Ng")
Parallel ZIP 250 + Plextor CD-RW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
No sound in Labtec USB speakers (RH 7.0) (Jon Kvebaek)
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards ("Anthony")
Re: Setting up my CDWriter (Frank Miller)
Re: HELP!!! Can't install RH 6.2! (Craig McCluskey)
Re: RH 7 doesn't work with 3C905? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 PCI 16 MB card solution ("Tommy")
Re: Linux on Sparc foolishness (Seth Heckard)
Re: no joysticks in kernel 2.4.0 (ken pile)
Re: Linux on Sparc foolishness (freedman)
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From: John E Garrott Sr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitec Trackman Marble FX
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 07:36:55 -0800
Keith Dombrowski wrote:
>
> Has anybody gotten a Logitec Trackman Marble FX for work under Red Hat
> 7 (Kernel 2.2.18, PS/2 mouse support compiled in)? X-windows just
> doesn't seem to recognize that mine is even there, no matter what
> settings I choose.
>
> Keith
Try searching on http://dejanews.com
I believe this question has occurred before.
Good luck,
John
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From: Christian Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: intel express 100 known to the kernel but can't be identified?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:36:47 GMT
Hi, I had the same problem, I went to Intel's site, got the driver, compiled and
installed it.
Works fine now.
Chris
Alexander Deztroyer wrote:
> Greeting.
>
> I've attempted to get my on board LAN card to work with Linux but failed.
> The problem is my kernel (2.1.125) has configured to identify my express PRO
> 100, but when I type ifconfig eth0 ..... the system said unknown device!!
>
> The same problem not just only happened to my Debian 2.1, but also RH 5.2.
> Red Hat can't even "auto detect" my LAN card. The Express Pro worked
> perfectly under Windows environment, so I assume it is working fine. Now,
> what should I do in order to solve the problem?
>
> Your help will be appreciated.
>
> Alex
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From: Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux support for USB and IEEE 1394 drives?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:50:35 GMT
Hi,
I have finally got to the point where I have one more hard disk than
I have space in my computer. For this reason I am looking at buying
an external case for my IDE drive, though I am still in the process of
deciding between Firewire and USB solutions. I know that USB is
slower than Firewire, so my choice is going to be made on the
praticality of the solution rather than anything else. To help me,
could someone try answering the following questions:
- Has anyone managed to get the MacAlley USB hard disk enclosure
working with Linux ( it is the only one I can find in my area )?
- Where is IEEE 1394 support with Linux? If there is a beta version
of the driver, has anyone managed to get it working for
firewire hard-drives generally destined for the Mac market
- Does anyone make USB / Firewire enclosures that aren't directed
towards the Mac market?
Thanks
Andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: Slooow Linux
Date: 15 Jan 2001 16:04:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:28:20 +0900, q ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> Problem:
>Apps and GUI seem to run fine, [tho' KDE is a bit sluggish], but when I run
>a game such as Quake 3 or Heavy Gear II it is so incredibly slow,
>it's like watching a slideshow of Great-Great-Grandchildren at a retirement
>home, while overdosing on depressants! But the screen resolution is
>amazing! [dunno]
Sounds like you are using software GL rendering rather than hardware?
Time to check your MesaGL configuration?
Ta-ra,
Julie
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark Z42 Printer
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:30:05 -0000
I seem to like buying printers that do not work with Linux. I now have a
Lexmark Z42. Lexmark itself came out with drivers for the Z32 and Z52
printers, but not for the Z42. Has anyone gotten this printer to work with
Linux? JH
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From: "Matt Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB16 problems
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:30:45 +0500
Hi,
Thanks for the advice. I didn't check the IRQ, but it seems that it's
free (ran cat /proc/interrupts) so there doesn't seem to be a problem
there.
Any other ideas? Or maybe some other situation where an ISA card is not
detected by kudzu, but works in the DOS environment?
In article <93uur9$bmu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Matt,
>
> I had the exact same problem about a month ago with a SB16. In my case
> it was an interrupt conflict. You might cat /proc/interrupts and check
> to see if something else is already using IRQ5 if your haven't already
> done so. BTW: if you've long since lost the manual on the SB (like I
> did), Creative really is very good about keeping documentation on these
> old things around on their website.
>
> Cheers,
> -Devin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Parallel ZIP 250 + Plextor CD-RW
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:07:32 GMT
I just got a Plextor PlexWriter 12x10x32x ATAPI CD-RW drive that I added
to my custom built Linux box. My base install is SuSE 6.3, but it has
several packages that have been upgraded. I recompiled 2.2.18 to include
the SCSI CD-ROM support and disable ATAPI/IDE CD-ROM support. I already
had SCSI emulation built in for my parallel port ZIP 250 drive. Once I
rebooted though, I wound up with my CD-RW (and my ATAPI CD-ROM) working
on SCSI emulation. However, my ZIP drive no longer works. I cannot mount
/dev/sda4, it comes back with a message about the kernel not recognizing
/dev/sda4 as a valid block device. Does anyone have any idea about what
my problem is? Below is a copy of my dmesg output:
=====BEGIN dmesg OUTPUT=====
Linux version 2.2.18 (root@mitch) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #3 Thu Jan 11 21:37:58 CST 2001
Detected 648748 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1294.33 BogoMIPS
Memory: 127980k/131072k available (1112k kernel code, 412k reserved,
1524k data, 44k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K L1 D Cache: 64K
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K
CPU: AMD-K7(tm) Processor stepping 02
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb480
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:00
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.
parport1: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2]
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp1: using parport1 (polling).
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
es1371: version v0.22 time 21:38:52 Jan 11 2001
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x1371 revision 0x07
es1371: found es1371 rev 7 at io 0xe400 irq 10
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor v (0x838476) revision 8 (0x08)
es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
es1371: stereo enhancement: SigmaTel SS3D
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 39, VID=1022, DID=7409
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CREATIVE CD5230E, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DJNA-352030, 19470MB w/1966kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
imm: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
imm: Communication established at 0x378 with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi1 : Iomega VPI2 (imm) interface
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD5230E Rev: 1.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W1210A Rev: 1.05
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 250 Rev: K.47
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi : detected 3 SCSI generics 2 SCSI cdroms total.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13
hda14 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
Adding Swap: 128484k swap-space (priority -1)
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=10 minor=165 tag=$Name:
build-570 $
/dev/vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 166 (vmnet-bridge)
/dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 0 successfully opened
bridge-eth0: peer interface eth0 not found, will wait for it to come up
bridge-eth0: attached
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 177 (vmnet-netifup)
/dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory.
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
/dev/vmnet: open called by PID 189 (vmnet-dhcpd)
/dev/vmnet: port on hub 1 successfully opened
tulip.c:v0.92i 7/31/2000 Written by Donald Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
eth0: ADMtek Comet rev 17 at 0xc882e000, 00:20:78:1F:35:C4, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 786d advertising 01e1.
bridge-eth0: found peer eth0
bridge-eth0: up
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,1)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
=====END dmesg OUTPUT=====
TIA,
Mitch Keller
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Subject: No sound in Labtec USB speakers (RH 7.0)
From: Jon Kvebaek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:25:52 GMT
I'm wondering whether anyone has got a set of Labtec USB speakers
working with RH 7.0 (2.2 Kernel).
After boot, The following modules are loaded on my machine:
lockd 31176 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
3c59x 19844 1 (autoclean)
3c509 5996 1 (autoclean)
agpgart 18600 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19052 0 (unused)
usbcore 42088 1 [usb-uhci]
I have tried 'modprobe audio', which results in this:
ide-cd 23628 0 (autoclean)
audio 36192 0 (unused)
soundcore 2596 2 [audio]
lockd 31176 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 52964 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
3c59x 19844 1 (autoclean)
3c509 5996 1 (autoclean)
agpgart 18600 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 19052 0 (unused)
usbcore 42088 1 [audio usb-uhci]
but no sound.
'usbview' shows the correct config - a Labtec USB Speaker System.
If anyone has a working setup (or know what do), I would like to know.
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 01:32:14 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Chris Lopeman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good raid IDE controller for Linux. Preferably ATA
> 100. We have tried using the Promise controller with limited success. We
> probably want to run 2 controllers in the server (for more speed) with a
> total of 6 drives. 4 of the drives running raid 1+0 and the other 2
> forming a separate mirror. The 2 in the mirror we also want
>
> to boot off of.
>
> If you can't recommend a good one maybe you can let us know your
> experience with the AMI or Escalade cards. We are considering going to
> one of these.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris Lopeman Object Link Inc.
Please becareful and checkout the kernel mailing list: the current ATA
driver with mainboard using VIA chips are having disk corruption problems.
Also, according to the ATA developer, some of the ATA raid cards only
pretend to be hardware raid but in reality it is software only. The guy
didn't say which card though.
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From: Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up my CDWriter
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 17:32:51 GMT
Quintin Roux wrote:
>
> Corel Linux 1st Edition
>
> I Have an HP 8250i IDE CD-Writer. When linux boots up it detects my
> CD-WRiter as a CDROM. I need to set it up so that Linux knows it is a
> CD-Writer as well?
>
> (Wishing to use cdwrite, cdrecord) on this machine but each time it displays
> that /dev/hdd (on which my cdwriter is connected) is read-only. How do I
> resolve this?
>
> Thanks,
> Quintin Roux
I have this CDRW working with Mandrake 7.2 (It also worked with 7.1).
Mine was detected and configured during install. A post to answer your
questions is in one of the posts to your post.
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!!! Can't install RH 6.2!
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:58:59 -0600
"J.Pedro" wrote:
>
> Did you format enough space for the aplications you are installing ?
>
> It's just an idea ....
>
> J.Pedro
Yes, I had 1300 MB available, more than enough for a complete install and
was trying to install only 250 MB.
Craig
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7 doesn't work with 3C905?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:56:21 +0100
Vidar Skjelanger wrote:
> > My guess is that your 3c905 is a 3c905C. Those cards are not usable
> > by the vortex driver in the 2.2.x kernel.
> My NIC works quite well, always has. Here are the relevant lines from
> dmesg:
>
> 3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others
> http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
> eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0x8800, 00:01:02:ab:b8:56, IRQ 5
> This is with my self-compiled 2.2.17 kernel. It also works perfectly
> with the standard kernels in RedHat7.0 and 6.2.
>
> Is my NIC not a 3c905C afterall?
It does seem as you really have a 3c905C and it is being used by the
vortex driver in 2.2.17. So here it seems that we really have a 3c905C
which works with the 2.2.x-kernel.
However, I have also seen other 3c905C cards which were detected as
above, but later useless. They were unable to send any data. (I don't
remember the exact problem, but ifconfig showed bad numbers on TX, RX or
errors).
Is your card really usable and not only detectable? If so, then there is
probably different versions of the 3c905C.
I think that RedHat has also included the 3c90x-driver from 3com with
their kernels. However, if you are using your own downloaded and
compiled 2.2.17 kernel that driver is not included.
regards Henrik
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From: "Tommy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 PCI 16 MB card solution
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:21:00 -0600
I believe there is some info on this at www.concoctedlogic.com also.
"Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:lqn86.7449$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Here's the solution to the ATI All-in-Wonder 128 PCI 16 MB card mystery.
> Run the Xconfigurator as you normally would, which will add "r128" driver
in
> the device section of XF86Config-4 file; I think it's because of graphics
by
> rage.
> Open XF86Config-4 file and add the following line.
> ChipID 0x5246
> No quotes around the number 0x5246.
> Adding the BusID seems to be optional, if you have only one video card.
> This kind of information should be readily available to the public in
ATI's
> support web site. It's surprising that ATI doesn't do more to help its
> customers.
> Shame on you, ATI.
>
> -
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Seth Heckard)
Subject: Re: Linux on Sparc foolishness
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 18:24:48 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:31:53 GMT, Harri Haataja
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>devin-wala wrote:
>>The only minor little problem is that it does not currently have any way
>>of doing any networking. Is there any way to add a network card or
>>other option that is supported by Linux?
>
>A sparc without a network sounds impossible.
>Do you mean that it's just unconfigured or unsupported?
>I would guess there should be a Lance onboard.
The Sparc 2 has onboard AUI ethernet. You will most likely need to get
an AUI-to-RJ45 transceiver to use it on a 10baseT network. These can be
found on ebay among other places for $10 to $20.
Extra network cards are available, but are more expensive than they're
worth in my opinion. Actually, everything Sun is more expensive than
it's worth (but I'm sure there are people to disagree with me on that
one :-)
>>Anybody got one of these things successfully running in this fashion?
>
>I had SS1+ running Linux long ago. Now it runs NetBSD for a change.
I have a Sparc 2 and a Sparc 5, both running Debian. They are great
computers, and as long as you don't expect too much out of them, they'll
suit you fine.
Seth Heckard / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: ken pile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: no joysticks in kernel 2.4.0
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:03:49 +0000
Thanks Christopher. I have since heard that I don't actually need
a 2.4 kernel, from the same support team!!. So I'll stick with
2.2 for now.
Thanks anyway
"Christopher C. Stump" wrote:
>
> Options that are unaccessable during configuration are so because they are
> experimental (i.e. they are not considered stable). If you really want to
> use an experimental option, then you need to change the code maturity
> level during configuration. Check the 'help' under the 'Code Maturity
> Level Options' menu in xconfig for more details.
>
> Good luck!
>
> ken pile wrote:
>
> > I have downloaded kernel 2.4.0 for one reason, for the joystick support
> > on the soundblaster live! soundcard. However, when I came to select the
> > joystick in xconfig, they were all blanked out. Can anyone guide me on
> > this please?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ken Pile
>
> --
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>
> "Computers are like air conditioners...Once you open
> Windows, they stop working correctly" -Unknown Linux User
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (freedman)
Subject: Re: Linux on Sparc foolishness
Date: 15 Jan 2001 18:58:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:13:01 GMT, devin-wala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just purchased a very old Sparcstation 2 running Linux without really
>knowing what I was getting myself into. It was purchased in hopes of
>using it as a local dedicated DNS server.
>
>The only minor little problem is that it does not currently have any way
>of doing any networking. Is there any way to add a network card or
>other option that is supported by Linux?
>
>Anybody got one of these things successfully running in this fashion?
>
>Thanks for you help,
>-Devin
>
>
>
Are you asking how to add a SECOND port? There is an AUI port built-in to your
box. You can buy an AUI to 10base-T adapter pretty cheap on e-bay. If you do
need a second port, those too are avaialable on e-bay. You the S-bus type.
--
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