Linux-Hardware Digest #305, Volume #14 Tue, 6 Feb 01 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD (Rod Smith)
Oxygen GVX1 graphics card ("a. j. greenwood")
Re: Linux-SMP on FastTrack 100? ("電腦文盲")
Autoloading sound drivers ("Guennadi V. Liakhovetski")
Reading from a soundcard into C/C++ ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IBM Deskstar Troubles (Philip Armstrong)
Re: smc-ultra network card (Andrew Hately)
Urgent Asuscom + Kppp ("Tor Harald Thorland")
Re: How to debug hardware? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD (Mark Bratcher)
Re: PartPort Problem (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Hardware differences??? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux (IceDragon)
partitioning problem (Holo)
Re: Using old PC's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux-SMP on FastTrack 100? (Roel)
ide dma timeout. lost irq, indefinite hang (Andrew Hately)
PCI: "the same IRQ is used by device" problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: partitioning problem (Mark Bratcher)
Re: ide dma timeout. lost irq, indefinite hang (Mark Bratcher)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:16:52 GMT
In article <3a7fd6ff$0$36194$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeroen de Vries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Georg Hasen鐬rl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>
>> Can I partition my harddisk as following?
>>
>> 10 MB boot partition for linux (in the first 1024 cylinders)
>> 8 GB for windows 98 (C:) (must I divide the windows partition because
>> of the 1024 cylinders?)
>> 6 GB for linux
>
> You are on right track.
> Before I continue NOTE that if you change your partitions you need to
> re-install W98. Because you are creating a new partition which you ant as
> the very first partition, your W98 partition automatically changes from
> C-drive to D-drive.
This is only true under certain circumstances, which aren't met here.
Specifically, the Win98 partition will shift from C: to D: *IF* that
partition is a logical partition (which it can't be) and *IF* the Linux
/boot partition is FAT (which I don't think would work, because LILO
would wipe out necessary FAT data structures). In fact, the proposed
setup will *NOT* change C: to D:.
One other comment, though: The Linux /boot and 8GB Win98 C: partitions
should be primary, and the remaining partitions should be
extended/logical.
> If you want to keep your current W98 installation you could do the
> following:
> F. clean your W98 disk, empty temp dirs and your recycle bin
> G. defrag your disk so all data is moved to the front of your disk.
> H. Check your total disk usage and decide at which level you can split your
> disk.
> I. Use fips (comes with most Linux distributions somewhere in \dosutils READ
> THE FIPS HOWTO!) to split your disk.
> J. proceed with point C.
The original poster said he had PartitionMagic. As such, this is all
unnecessary. PM is *MUCH* more flexible than is FIPS.
> This is my partitioning of my 12Gb Harddisk:
>
> Tabel:
> Name type W9x NT Linux Amount
> W98 p FAT32 C: C: /dev/hda1 3012 Mb
>
> Extended 4369 Mb
> INSTALL e FAT32 D: D: 988 Mb
> swap e linux swap - - swap 256 Mb
> boot e linux native - - 16 Mb
> root e linux native - - 300 Mb
> home e linux native - - 300 Mb
> usr e linux native - - 1559 Mb (rest)
> var e linux native - - 200 Mb
> lfs e linux native - - 750 Mb
This is not atypical for a system administered by somebody who's
familiar with Linux, but for a newbie, it's *WAY* too many partitions,
IMHO. For instance, you've got just 300MB (note I'm assuming that's
what you mean, not 300 megabits) for / (root), but if a newbie were to
try this and then install a big package that tries to go in /opt, it'd
be insufficient. There are workarounds to such problems, but IMHO it's
best for newbies to stick with something simple, like /, /boot, /home,
and swap, until they're more familiar with Linux and their own
installation's disk space needs.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "a. j. greenwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oxygen GVX1 graphics card
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 07:13:39 -0800
I am running RedHat 7.0 on a two processor Intel PIII 800 MHz PC with the
following hardware.
500 Mbytes memory
CDROM
CDR
3 1/2 floppy
9 GB SCSI Drive
18 GB SCSI Drive
Oxygen GVX1 graphics card
I am having no success in configuring the X window system.
Running Xconfigurator the PCI Probe found a:
PCI Entry: 3Dlabs|Glint R3
X Server: Xf86_3DLAB
Xfree4 driver: glint
I set up a custom monitor at 1280x1024 resolution @60Hz.
The Horizontal Sync was set to 30-69 KHz and the Vertical
Sync was set to 50-120 Hz as per the spec sheet.
Card memory was set to 32 Mb and the ClockChip setting
was set to no clockchip setting.
A 1280x1024 resolution @24 bit color was selected for the default display.
X was tested. On startup the screen flickered and failed with the message
problem with X configuration.
I am not sure how to proceed. Has anyone installed an Oxygen GVX1 graphics
card?
Anyone suggestions on how to proceed would be appreciated.
Best regards,
Aaron
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From: "電腦文盲" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux-SMP on FastTrack 100?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:39:45 GMT
I using dual CPU and SCSI Hard Drive was no problem. The problem is the
FastTrack 100. Please found the update driver or contact them.
"Jong-chih Chien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 撰寫於郵件
news:95nsbm$apg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Anybody has experience setting up SMP linux for Redhat 7.0
>
> with PromiseTechnology's FastTrack 100 driver?
>
> My system failed to boot to SMP mode, UP was OK. Any fix around
>
> this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> JC
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From: "Guennadi V. Liakhovetski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Autoloading sound drivers
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 15:27:39 +0000
Hi
I can't get the sound drivers to autoload. OSS/Free, CS4232, SuSE6.3,
2.4.0 with upgraded modutils. I can issue just one modprobe command and
all the drivers get loaded just fine. But I don't want to put it in a
start-up script - I want it load / unload automatically. I included
alias char-major-14 cs4232
pre-install cs4232 sound
options...
in modules.conf (writing from memory), ran depmod -a (BTW, it produces
some strange errors about lstat... for all modules - but everything works,
except sound)...
Any ideas
Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Reading from a soundcard into C/C++
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 15:48:24 GMT
Hi
for a project I am doing I (and my lab partner)
are trying to read in from a sound card into an
array using c++
we ahve opend the device with an
open(...) command - and set several paramaterse wtih
ioctl(...) calls - all execute and report no errors
however, when we try and read with the command
read(audio_dev, &myWaveArray, 8192);
where myWaveArray is a 4096 element signed short
int array
(I know this is not stricly correct - but we are
usign intel architecture so it sould work fine)
we get some very odd behaviour. It seems that
approximatly 50% of the time the call will put
data into myWave array, and the rest of the time
it leaves it blank - this is on multiple runs of
the program - at the moment each run just attempts
one read from the soundcard
any advice or help?
Laurie (and Will)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Armstrong)
Subject: Re: IBM Deskstar Troubles
Date: 6 Feb 2001 16:00:27 GMT
In article <95mp8n$5uu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Our school recently purchased a 75gig IBM desktstar drive (model
>DTLA-307075). Unfortunately when I put it in our linux file server and
> partitioned it, I cannot get it to appear larger than roughly 9 gigs,
>and, considering the use of this drive as a fileserver for out
>multimedia class,
> which deals mostly with large video files, getting this drive to
>appear to be its actual size is essential.
>
> When I run cfdisk, it tells me that there are 16 heads, 63 sectors per
>track, but only 17873 cylinders, as where the disks documentation
>ensures
> that there are 27724 cylinders.
>
> Any help with this would be appreciated. As of now, I suspect the
>problem to be the bios of the Dell OptiPlex, which the drive is in.
Its possible that the bios is at fault; however, one other possibility
is that the drive has been shipped with the jumpers set so that it
lies about how big it is (for reasons of compatability with old
bioses). This happened to us with a cluster of machines + we had to
open them all up and switch all the jumpers over :(
Phil
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From: Andrew Hately <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: smc-ultra network card
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:04:30 GMT
> I'm trying to run a smc-ultra network card, the modprobe command on
> the jumper configured card (io=0x300, irq=10) works without error messages
> and the modules:
> smc-ultra
> 8390 [used by smc-ultra]
try loading module wd after 8390
I believe smc took over wd's networking operations; some cards marked smc need
the wd driver.
Note also these cards use the same dma as a certain adaptec 15xx scsi
controller, which can cause problems. I forget the details.
rather fog brained
Andrew
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From: "Tor Harald Thorland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Urgent Asuscom + Kppp
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:08:24 GMT
Hi,
I have a problem with my Asuscom ISDN card, and kppp (In mandrake 7.2
When i try to dialup my ISP i get the following in my kppp log window.
OK
ATM1L1
OK
ATDT21312064
NO MSN/EAZ
How can i set the MSN in my isdn card?
Many Tnx.
Linux Newbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: How to debug hardware?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:12:35 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel wrote:
>Hi, I have RedHat7 on AMD-K6 and the system reboots without any message,
>just like as
>someone pressed the reset button, generaly 10-20 minutes after booting
>(typically when X is running, but also happened in md). I tried RedHat 6.2
>and the same happens. I have 128M RAM and tried with each of the 64M only,
>but the nasty rebooting comes again. Syslog says nothing. The oddest
>thing is that I also have w2k installed, and it never happened with that,
>so I suspect there is nothing wrong with the electric supply. Does anyone
>know how to check each piece of the hardware to trace it back what goes
>wrong? Any comments are warmly welcome. Thanks a lot.
>Daniel
>
Daniel,
You could check /var/log/messags to see if there are any clues in
there about a failure.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:25:27 GMT
In article <EzUf6.322273$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rod Smith wrote:
>In article <3a7fd6ff$0$36194$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jeroen de Vries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[snip]
>One other comment, though: The Linux /boot and 8GB Win98 C: partitions
>should be primary, and the remaining partitions should be
>extended/logical.
Does /boot really need to be on a primary partition? I believe that
mine is not. Only my Win98 is. My Linux is all in the extended
partition, including the /boot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: PartPort Problem
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:27:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Florent Nolot wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On kernel 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, when I make a insmod parport_pc, I have the
>message:
>
>0x378 IRQ conflict possible.
>
>Even with this message, the modprobe ppa (for my Zip Drive) works fine
>but with a parallel port configuration either PS/2 or SPP and so a very
>bad transfert rate.
>
>On a kernel 2.2.17 and 2.2.18, I have not this IRQ conflict message and
>my parport is install on EPP 32bit.
>
>Help me please, thanks.
>
What kind of I/O cards are in your system, and are the PCI or ISA?
Anyway, you can look at /proc/irq, etc, to see wassap with interrupts.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware differences???
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:35:11 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What is the main difference between a sun workstation runnning sunOS
> and a desktopPC running Linux?
a) price
b) performance
> Are there huge benefits for using one or the other?
Yes. And too many variables to even begin to discuss. Among them,
WHICH Sun, WHICH PC, WHICH SunOS (solaris), WHICH Linux (distro),
and WHAT you want to do with it.
If you want to pass me a quad ultrasparc, that would do nicely,
thanks.
Peter
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From: IceDragon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID and Linux
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:50:26 +0100
I have the same problem and have try any I have found and nothing will work ...
at this time Linux does not supporting the Raid of the hpt370 (or hpt368). And
Gentus-Linux is SHITT !! Abit tell us gentus will work, but this is wrong ...
They support onle the Chip (hpt366/368/370) not the Raid and at this time the
software-raid is incompatible ... try it in some months ...
Dalon wrote:
> linux does not support the hpt370 raid feature at this time.
>
> http://www.icrontic.com/faqs/kt7faq/kt7faq.htm
>
> Jason Kircher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:Xzqf6.20150$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > The short is, can I use my existing RAID-0 setup that was configured by
> the
> > HPT370 BIOS under Linux? I've been doing some reading here and there, and
> I
> > read about Software RAID under Linux, but I don't know if this will work
> > since it's already been setup and works fine under Win98. (I've played
> with
> > Linux before, and I like Slackware. Don't ask why, but it works fine for
> > me, and I've been using Slack for some time, and I'm comfortable with it.
> > Those who go to war over different distributions should consider the final
> > point there...)
> >
> > Here's the internal setup: (All have 1 partition at this time)
> >
> > IDE1: WD75 7.5G HD (Master) hda C: WIN98C
> > NECR 7500 CDRW (Slave) hdb F: CD-ROM (Historical reasons)
> > IDE2: Empty
> >
> > IDE3: WD26400 6.4G HD (Master) hde RAID-0 D: RAID D
> > WD36400 6.4G HD (Slave) hdf RAID-0 D:
> > IDE4: Empty
> >
> > (I know, I know, I should put the drives in the RAID on their own IDE
> > channel, but what's done is done, I may change it to get a speed boost.
> > It's still logically a 12G drive!)
> > My plan is to resize hda1 and make some Linux partitions in the resulting
> > space. My question is, is it possible for me to access the RAID already
> > present in Linux? Do I need any special drivers for it, or would the
> > Software RAID in Linux do the job? I'm just a touch leery about playing
> > around w/o knowing the facts.
> >
> > Any/all information/advice would be appreciated.
> >
> >
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From: Holo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: partitioning problem
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 01:19:40 +0800
I've a harddisk with 2 windows partitions and two linux partitions. I
wanted to remove the linux partitions so that I can install windows on
the harddisk for my friend. After I used dos fdisk to remove all the
partitions, the dos fdisk shows that there is no partition defined, so I
rebooted the harddisk and tried to create a single dos partition but
wasn't able to format the partition created. What should I do so that I
can create a single dos partition on the harddisk.
Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks
Regards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using old PC's
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:14:38 GMT
Let me explain my idea a bit more...
Once everything is installed on the basic pc the graphics card,
keyboard, mouse and monitor would be removed.
I basically want to be able to use the basic pc's:
1) Harddrives
2) To run applications on (Using it's processor only)
3) To use it's devices (serial ports + any extra pci cards)
The overall system:
The main pc would run windows98/NT (With Dual boot Linux if
needed?).
The basic pc's would run linux only.
The main pc would then use exceed (or similar) to login to any of the
other basic pc's and from one to the other (rlogin?).
The main pc would then have the harddrives of the basic pc's mapped
under windows explorer.
The basic pc's could then ideally have applications installed via the
main pc, using the floppy and CDROM etc and then ftp the data onto the
basic pc before installing it.
The idea is that each basic pc would have add-on devices that would all
be accessable via the main pc via ethernet.
Is this all configurable under linux/windows or is there some big
problem in my theory?
Many thanks for any info
Rich_ard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rainer Lehrig wrote:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it possible to have say 3 pc's, where only one has a graphics,
sound
> > > card, cdrom, floppy, and Monitor. They all have an ethernet card,
> > > harddrive, motherboard, and processor.
> > I think the old PC's should have a keyboard also
> > I don't know how to install your old pc's without graphics card.
> > After installation you can remove the monitor
> > > Could you then install linux
> > > onto all of the pc's but use one pc (the one with the grpahics
card
> > > etc) to interact with the others. i.e. with the one teminal you
can
> > > comminucate via exceed with all pc's linux OS's.
> > You only need exceed when you want to access the linux boxes from
> > windows
> > On Linux you can use:
> > telnet old-pc
> > or
> > xhost +
> > telnet old-pc
> > export DISPLAY=pc-with-monitor:0
> > then you can start any x-windows application (the same way as you
would
> > do with exceed)
>
> Or you could use VNC http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/
>
> MST
>
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From: Roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux-SMP on FastTrack 100?
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:24:41 +0100
Hello
My SuSE 7.0 with kernel 2.4 test12 works yust fine, what messages do you
get when boot failes.
Roel
Jong-chih Chien wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Anybody has experience setting up SMP linux for Redhat 7.0
>
> with PromiseTechnology's FastTrack 100 driver?
>
> My system failed to boot to SMP mode, UP was OK. Any fix around
>
> this problem?
>
> Thanks,
> JC
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From: Andrew Hately <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ide dma timeout. lost irq, indefinite hang
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:34:45 GMT
On three different machines with 2.2.17 kernels I get ide dma timeout errors
reported.
On two of them I have also had the machine stop responding all together when
heavy disc access occurs.
Is this a know problem?
Is there a workaround?
Have I done something wrong when building the kernel?
Andrew
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: PCI: "the same IRQ is used by device" problem
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:28:56 GMT
Hello,
My PCI subsystem (kernel 2.4.1) issues "the same IRQ is used
by device..." message when I try to use, for example, my network
card running the adsl-start script. The IRQ in question is 9 and
it's shared by my network card (3Com 3c905B "Cyclone"), the sound
card (SB 256 Live!) and the USB controller (VIA chipset); my
motherboard is Asus A7V.
Any suggestions how to get the PCI working? Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: partitioning problem
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 17:58:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Holo wrote:
>I've a harddisk with 2 windows partitions and two linux partitions. I
>wanted to remove the linux partitions so that I can install windows on
>the harddisk for my friend. After I used dos fdisk to remove all the
>partitions, the dos fdisk shows that there is no partition defined, so I
>rebooted the harddisk and tried to create a single dos partition but
>wasn't able to format the partition created. What should I do so that I
>can create a single dos partition on the harddisk.
>Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks
>
What Windows version are you running? 95? 95OSR2? 98? 98SE?
When you created the DOS partition, how did you create it (what steps)?
What is the capacity of each of your partitions?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: ide dma timeout. lost irq, indefinite hang
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 18:05:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Hately wrote:
>On three different machines with 2.2.17 kernels I get ide dma timeout errors
>reported.
>On two of them I have also had the machine stop responding all together when
>heavy disc access occurs.
>
>Is this a know problem?
>
I've been running 2.2.17 since it came out with no problems.
So I'm not aware of a known problem in this area.
>Is there a workaround?
NA, if above is true.
>
>Have I done something wrong when building the kernel?
Perhaps. For example, you can configure the kernel to use DMA by default,
and maybe the drives you have are unhappy with that. You didn't say
whether you had any other IDE devices other than hard drive (eg, CD
or tape or zip...) so one of these other devices may be a problem with
DMA mode.
Check if your kernel has DMA mode on by default, and if so, turn it off
and rebuild the kernel. If that makes the problem go away,
but you want DMA on the hard drive only, for example, then you can do
that with hdparm.
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