Linux-Hardware Digest #192, Volume #14 Wed, 17 Jan 01 07:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Asus A7V (Bernd Riedel)
Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ? (Vincent Deverre)
Re: 2nd CPU for Dell PowerEdge ("D. Stimits")
Re: SCSI Adaptec 2940u2w question ("D. Stimits")
Re: SB Live IRQ problem (Craig Barel)
Re: Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ? ("jacob navia")
Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed ("D. Stimits")
Deskpro XL HowTo?? ("TransAlp rider")
Re: Replaced harddrive, need to copy system over - how? (Chris Elvidge)
Re: Instalation APC Smart-UPS (Harri Haataja)
Porting linux to MS-5000 car navigation system? (The Pluisman)
Re: Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ? ("Rakotomalala Renaud")
Re: Replaced harddrive, need to copy system over - how? (Thorsten Gunkel)
Re: SB Live IRQ problem ("Craig Barel")
Nvidia Geforce 2MX ("Stefano Citterio")
Printing (Frank)
Re: Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ? ("Robert Lambden")
LINUX in IBM PS2 MCA (=?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnter?= Weisz)
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From: Bernd Riedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus A7V
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:35:28 +0100
Hi,
I have an a7v and an ibm hdd attached to the ata100 controller. it works just
fine with suse 7.0 and the updated eide bootdisk:
ftp://ftp.rz.uni-wuerzburg.de/pub/linux/MIRROR.suse/update/7.0/kernel/promise/
regs
Bernd
Drew wrote:
> I'm a Linux newbie who just built a new box with an Asus A7V and Duron CPU.
> My IBM drive is on the ATA100 connector on the mobo and the Linux install
> can't see it (Mandrake 7.1). It sees only the drive on my primary IDE
> channel. Are there any new Linux distros that will see the ATA100
> controller on the A7V right out of the box? Failing that, are there any
> step by step procedures for a newbie (who has yet to experience compiling a
> kernal) that will enable me to get my system loaded with Linux on the ATA100
> channel of the motherboard?
>
> I have found several bits and pieces of info on several websites, but still
> have alot of holes in my knowledge. For instance, one site said put the
> Linux drive on the primary IDE channel, upgrade it to kernal 2.4.x,,
> configure the kernal for Promise ATA100 controller, make some lilo.conf
> changes and move the Linux drive back to the ATA100 channel. But I don't
> know if the Promise driver is in the 2.4 kernal, or if it is in another RPM
> I must add.
>
> I'm anxious to learn but need help. Has anyone succeeded with an A7V?
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From: Vincent Deverre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: fr.reseaux.telecoms.adsl,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:37:33 +0100
Este ce qu'il existe un driver sous LINUX pour les modem USB Alcatel
fourni dans le Pack Wanadoo ?
--
+===========================================+
Vincent Deverre - Futur ADSLien
+===========================================+
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:41:57 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2nd CPU for Dell PowerEdge
Clem Pryke wrote:
>
> I just bought a couple of Dell PowerEdge 1400 machines. Dell wants
> +$620 for a second PIII 800MHz CPU while the going rate is <$250.
> So I ordered with single CPU intending to buy and install 2nd CPUs
> myself. Now they are here I see that the motherboard
> requires a plug in voltage regulator module for each CPU.
> I suspect this is because different clk rate CPU's need different
> voltages? Are the modules standard, or do I have to try and buy them
> from Dell? (Who will presumably offer me a complete 2nd CPU kit,
> including regulator for $600+)
>
> --
> **********************************************************************
> Clem Pryke - Research Scientist
> University of Chicago,
> Room 226, LASR, 933 East 56th Street, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
> Tel: 773 702-7853 Fax: 773 834-1891 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> **********************************************************************
On a pair of non-Dell SMP machines I have access to, using slot 1
PIII's, there is no power or regulator module such as you describe.
There are different cpu's that use different voltages though, often
depending on their core size and speed. You shouldn't install two cpu's
that differ in speed, and their stepping should also be close together.
I've heard something like stepping within 1, and others have gotten away
with stepping differences of 3, but you might find quirks if you do
that. Best to match them completely, right down to stepping. Probably
you will have to pay Dell lots of money, and they'll only sell those
regulators with a pair of cpu's. I guess you could ask them.
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:45:19 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI Adaptec 2940u2w question
alice wrote:
>
> I am running Redhat 6.2 with the updated kernel (2.2.16-3smp) on my
> machine.
Since you mention an SMP kernel, is the motherboard by any chance using
the i840 chipset? If so, you are probably running into its broken
IO-APIC. If not, ignore this, since most chipsets work fine with SMP. In
the case of an i840 chipset, you'll need to boot with kernel option
"noapic".
> I have an adaptec 2940u2w SCSI card which has an internal bus to 3
> internal disks
> which run at 80 MB/second. Recently I tried to connect an external 74GB
>
> seagate cheetah
> drive which has SCSI ultra160. The computer recognizes the external
> disk and
> seems to successfully initialize the SCSI bus but when it comes to the
> point in the
> boot process where the autorun is done and it tries to mount the root
> file system
> (which is on target 0, one of the internal 80 Mb/s disks) it fails and
> says it must reinitialize the SCSI bus.
> If a smaller external disk is attached which only has SCSI ultra wide it
>
> will run fine.
> Also the Adaptec internal diagnostic program indicates the 74GB disk is
> fine.
> Also if an Adaptec 2940uw (as opposed to u2w) card is used with the 74GB
>
> ultra160
> disk it will work.
>
> any suggestions?
>
> thank you
> Alice
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From: Craig Barel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:55:40 +1000
Craig Jackson wrote:
> Try sndconfig. It should be installed as part of your distribution. Just
> type "sndconfig". Don't be shy ;)
>
sndconfig returned the following error......
Sound Configuration Utility 0.55 (C) 1999 Red Hat Software
??????????????????????? modprobe error ????????????????????????
? ?
? The following error occurred running the modprobe program: ?
? ?
? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: init_module: ?
? Device or resource busy ?
? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: insmod ?
? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o failed ?
? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: insmod ?
? sound-slot-0 failed ?
? ?
? ?????? ?
? ? Ok ? ?
? ?????? ?
? ?
? ?
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
<Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements | Use <Enter> to edit a selection
this is basically the same thing I get thru drakconf
and here is the contents of modules.conf afterwards........
alias net-pf-4 ipx
pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter
pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
alias scsi_hostadapter imm
alias usb-interface usb-ohci
alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
I just can't figure it out! Btw my motherboard is a ASUS P55-VM I think.
It's a bugger of a thing!
Craig.
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From: "jacob navia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: fr.reseaux.telecoms.adsl,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 08:03:04 -0800
J'utilise l'adsl sous RedHat avec noyau 2.2.17
Tu peut me telephoner au
01.48.23.51.44
"Vincent Deverre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Este ce qu'il existe un driver sous LINUX pour les modem USB Alcatel
> fourni dans le Pack Wanadoo ?
>
> --
> +===========================================+
> Vincent Deverre - Futur ADSLien
> +===========================================+
>
>
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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 02:03:53 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed
Blaise Canzian wrote:
>
> I would like to RAID a terabyte of disk storage with a linux box. The basic
> idea is to take fifteen 72GB nominal hard disks, put them in enclosures
> with SCSI Ultra-160 connections, and attach to a RAID controller card. I want
> RAID 5.
>
> What is the preferred way to do this? Is it better to use an Intel-based
> box or an Alpha-based box? Does a 2-cpu Intel board work for this, and is the
> performance boost worth it? What RAID controller card do you recommend?
> Is a 3-channel RAID controller board preferable? Is SCSI Ultra-160 available
> on the RAID controller card, or just fast ultra wide SCSI-2? Thanks for the
> advice.
>
> -- Blaise Canzian
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ultra-160 is outstanding. Dual cpu helps a lot on such a machine. But if
you get a motherboard with the Intel i840 chipset, you'll be buying
broken merchandise. The i840 has IO-APIC problems, and has to be run
with the IO-APIC disabled. Consider the newer Intel chipsets for SMP to
be non-Linux products, they are out of the market for high-end servers
(ServerWorks seems to be filling the role as the better chipset; they're
also much easier to contact and ask about chipset problems, Intel
completely sucks on this if you aren't a huge developer of their
products).
You will want a 64 bit PCI bus to handle the data levels you are talking
about, at the very least a dual channel controller (the third channel
you mention could be useful). I haven't used any of the recent Ultra-160
RAID products, but I have used Ultra-160 a lot, and have heard the RAID
products can be outstanding. The nice thing is that the drives
themselves really aren't much more expensive than the ultra2. For single
36 gig 10k rpm drives, I'm seeing average throughput just over 34
Mbyte/sec on each drive, and a burst of over 140 Mbyte/sec. The 72 Gbyte
drives will be in excess of that by quite a bit, and you'll saturate a
160 Mbyte/sec bus with probably 3 to 4 drives on a channel; the PCI bus
itself will be hurting from all the throughput, even with 64 bit.
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From: "TransAlp rider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,casema.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.config
Subject: Deskpro XL HowTo??
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:18:04 +0100
Hi,
Does anyone know where i can find the Compaq DeskPro XL HowTo? the former
link: http://www-c724.uibk.ac.at/XL/ does not exist anymore. Maybe someone
can point me to a mirror.
Thnx in advance,
Erik
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Replaced harddrive, need to copy system over - how?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:33:34 +0400
Brian wrote:
>
> I installed a new 20 gig drive to replace my 1.2 gig. What's the best way
> to move the existing system to the new drive? I don't have a tape drive for
> backup. I've already fdisk'ed it and created the same partitions that exist
> on the old drive. I tried to use Gnome's file manager but it's not copying
> everything. If I create filesystems and mount them, then use "cp -R -p /*
> /new_root/" it gets into a loop copying /new_root recursively and eventually
> would fill the entire 20 gig.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Brian
"tar" could help. You can give it an --exclude-file(s) parameter. Copy
into an archive and then extract to a different place.
Alternatively keep yhe old disc and split the new disk into several
partitions for /usr /var etc. (not the /etc directory). Then copy the
contents of /usr to the relevant partition mounted on /mnt. Unmount from
/mnt and remount on /usr. The same for the rest.
HIH
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Instalation APC Smart-UPS
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:34:21 GMT
Marek Novotn� wrote:
>
>I`ve tried installing daemon for APC Smart-UPS, but installation script of
>Powerchute (SW) ends with error. Have anyone experience with installation of
>Powerchute?
There is another UPD utility that supports APC I think.
Check freshmeat.
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From: The Pluisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Porting linux to MS-5000 car navigation system?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:22:14 GMT
Hi!
Would it be possible to port linux to a car navigation system like VDO
Daytons' MS-5000 ?
Since this system runs on a 32 bit RISC Processor, has 16 mb flashRom,
16 mb Ram, a 240x400 tft (colour) screen, a cd-rom-drive, a rs-232
interface and an audio-out, it seems to me that all ingredients for an
embedded linux system is there.
Anyone knows if this has been done before? Anyone has more technical
details?
Best Regards,
Rea
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Rakotomalala Renaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: fr.reseaux.telecoms.adsl,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 09:54:18 GMT
"jacob navia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message news:
943n38$gjo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> J'utilise l'adsl sous RedHat avec noyau 2.2.17
> Tu peut me telephoner au
> 01.48.23.51.44
>
tu as fum� ou quoi ?
il n'y a pas de driver
--
__________________________________
RAKOTOMALALA RENAUD
Chief Technical Officer softbynet.com
TEL: +44 (0) 794 165 2804
"La force humaine reside dans sa capacit� � se depasser"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thorsten Gunkel)
Subject: Re: Replaced harddrive, need to copy system over - how?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:59:00 +0100
Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Brian,
>I installed a new 20 gig drive to replace my 1.2 gig. What's the best way
>to move the existing system to the new drive? I don't have a tape drive for
>backup. I've already fdisk'ed it and created the same partitions that exist
>on the old drive. I tried to use Gnome's file manager but it's not copying
there is a special HOWTO about this where various methods are
explained and discoussed. AFAIK it's called Hard Disk Upgrade Mini
Howto.
>everything. If I create filesystems and mount them, then use "cp -R -p /*
>/new_root/" it gets into a loop copying /new_root recursively and eventually
>would fill the entire 20 gig.
Maybe <cp -ax / /new_root> will do it, but you'll better read the howto.
>Any help is appreciated.
HTH
>Brian
Thorsten
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\ /
X The sticker on the side of the box said "Supported Platforms: Win 95,
/ \ Win NT 4.0 or better", so clearly Linux was a supported platform.
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From: "Craig Barel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 20:44:09 +1000
Do you mean that it is an unfixable problem?
Because i have an all in one board i thought that it might be that i haven't
disabled the onboard audio - so i checked it out but unfortunately it is
disabled so back to the drawing board i guess.
I am wondering if i can pin down the IRQ settings for the PCI card but I'm
not sure if it is possible - does anyone have any advice on this also???
Craig.
"Ben Jannedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:943pj9$bpe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have exactly the same problem but I own an Asus A7v and a SBLive!
> Seems to be a common Problem...
>
> Ben
>
> Craig Barel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Craig Jackson wrote:
>
> >> Try sndconfig. It should be installed as part of your distribution.
Just
> >> type "sndconfig". Don't be shy ;)
> >>
>
> > sndconfig returned the following error......
>
> > Sound Configuration Utility 0.55 (C) 1999 Red Hat
Software
>
>
> > ??????????????????????? modprobe error ????????????????????????
> > ? ?
> > ? The following error occurred running the modprobe program: ?
> > ? ?
> > ? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: init_module: ?
> > ? Device or resource busy ?
> > ? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: insmod ?
> > ? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o failed ?
> > ? /lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/misc/emu10k1.o: insmod ?
> > ? sound-slot-0 failed ?
> > ? ?
> > ? ?????? ?
> > ? ? Ok ? ?
> > ? ?????? ?
> > ? ?
> > ? ?
> > ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
>
>
>
> > <Tab>/<Alt-Tab> between elements | Use <Enter> to edit a selection
>
>
> > this is basically the same thing I get thru drakconf
>
> > and here is the contents of modules.conf afterwards........
>
> > alias net-pf-4 ipx
> > pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > alias block-major-11 scsi_hostadapter
> > pre-install plip modprobe parport_pc ; echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
> > alias scsi_hostadapter imm
> > alias usb-interface usb-ohci
> > alias sound-slot-0 emu10k1
>
>
>
> > I just can't figure it out! Btw my motherboard is a ASUS P55-VM I think.
>
> > It's a bugger of a thing!
>
> > Craig.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> ISION Internet AG Benjamin Jannedy
> Harburger Schlossstr. 1 I-Systems & Administration
> D-21079 Hamburg - Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ision.net/ fon: +49 40 77175 581, fax: -519
>
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From: "Stefano Citterio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Nvidia Geforce 2MX
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:21:09 +0100
Hi all,
I got problems in starting X with my Nvidia Geforce2 MX using RH7.0.
I got 'Cant'find any display driver' message.
Anybody can help?
Thanks all.
Bye
Citty
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From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 12:45:43 +0100
Hello.
We are using cups for printing on a HPLaserJet P6.
The printer is at a printserver, which is spooled by a WindowsNt-Server.
Printing is ok.
But,
when we print out of our Application, which works inside a database, we
are using our own ANSI-ESC-sequences.
That is not working!!
Printing with lpr -Pprinter
is printing the ESC-sequences on the paper.
Printing with lpr -oraw -Pprinter
is printing a single line.
So no LineFeed!?
What to do?
Thanx a lot
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From: "Robert Lambden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: fr.reseaux.telecoms.adsl,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Driver USB sous Linux pour Modem Alcatel ?
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:29:36 -0000
Excusez moi, je suis Anglais et ma francais n'est pas tres fort.
In the UK we have ADSL using Alcatel USB speedtouch modem. I am trying to
get the Linux USB drivers for this modem, but I can't get to the website.
If you manage to find them please let me know where you got them so I can
get hold of them to.
The link I have is:
http://kapu.name.daemon.xs4all.be:8080/Projects/
You will need USB support in your Linux Kernel. I had to upgrade to
2.2.16-3 and then apply a patch for improved USB. 2.2.3.x and 2.2.4 should
not need USB patches.
Bon Chance !
"Vincent Deverre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Este ce qu'il existe un driver sous LINUX pour les modem USB Alcatel
> fourni dans le Pack Wanadoo ?
>
> --
> +===========================================+
> Vincent Deverre - Futur ADSLien
> +===========================================+
>
>
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnter?= Weisz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUX in IBM PS2 MCA
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 13:05:55 +0100
Is any experience around in this group how to get LINUX installed on a
PS2 MCA machine?
G�nter
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