Linux-Hardware Digest #333, Volume #14 Mon, 12 Feb 01 09:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Asus A7V + Promise ATA100 + patch = :-( (Tim Van Holder)
text app for serial terminal (Jeff Moore)
Serial port interrupt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hdparm -t "reference values" (Alberto BARSELLA)
Plug and Play, BIOS, and Linux ("benh")
Re: 0x3805 (john green)
Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: external modem (M. Buchenrieder)
Recovering QNX and AIX HDs with Linux ("Luigi Cavallo")
Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP (Cuma)
Re: Partition help please ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: 0x3805 (Julie Brandon)
(OT?) UPS Daemon an tty0 stoert mein Modem! (Gunter Lindemann)
Re: Partition help please (Josh Stern)
Tools to modify ext2 partitions on-the-fly? (Tim Van Holder)
Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card? ("ne...")
sound card (AWE32) noise problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP (Harri Haataja)
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From: Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus A7V + Promise ATA100 + patch = :-(
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 09:30:49 GMT
"Jan Kov��" wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I have downloaded the Hendick's patches for ATA100. There were not msg about
> how to use it there. So I have read the manual for patch and tried to use it
> as written in manual. It has said:
> patch: **** strip count num is not a number
> I do not know if it is good or bad or what does it mean. I can see some hde,
> hde1, hde4, hde5 ... hdf, hdf1 ..etc in /dev
>
> I have connected the new disk and after starting the linux I have tried to
> mount the hard drive. It said:
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hde4 as a block device
> (maybe `insmod driver'?)
>
> What does it mean? What should I do?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jan Kovar
Just having /dev/hde* is not good enough - those are probably always
present.
Unless you compiled the promise's driver into the kernel, you'll
probably have
to insmod/modprobe it; not sure what it's called though ('pv1234' or
something
I think; look in /lib/modules/<kernelver>/).
I run SuSE and was fortunate enough to get the Promise controller on my
A7V
to work by simply installing the k_eide kernel :-)
But since I plan to update/recompile my kernel manually (first to
2.2.18, then
maybe to 2.4.1), I hope I can keep it that way...
By the way, do you know if it's safe to enable DMA for drives on the A7V
(I have
2 Maxtor 60gig 7200RPM drives attached (one to the onboard controller
and one
to the onboard Promise controller)?
--
Tim Van Holder - Falcon Software N.V.
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: text app for serial terminal
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 04:03:38 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I need to find a application that can do simple database access and text
file reading, that can be accessed from a serial terminal from a linux
server. I want to be able to read names and telephone numbers, and
simple to do lists from the server. I would also like to be able to
access and change these databases from windows and macintosh clients on
the network with the linux server. A simple text file could be used for
this on the server, but is there a good app for searching the text files
available for access by a serial terminal. I am not too fond of vi and
similar apps, as they do not have very many features. Also I am not
familiar with emacs or similar apps, as I have never had any use for
them. This is a learning experience for me. I have not found any howto
on this subject and I have read the redhat documentation and not found
anything there either. I use RedHat 7.0 at the moment on a Cyrix 200MMX
serving ipchains with port forwarding, dns, squid caching proxy, www,
ftp, news, appletalk filesharing, samba filesharing for windows, printer
sharing, ppp over serial, serial logon for terminal, and cdrom's online.
I am developing systems and software for cross platform use of an isp in
Pakistan currently, and I need this system for the terminal to provide
some little comfort to my wife who says I spend too much time with my
computers. She needs to put her telephone lists and to do lists on the
computer, and I have not told her that I do not know how to do this yet.
Please help me out of my perdicament, so I can work in peace.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jeff Moore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Serial port interrupt
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:08:08 GMT
Hi,
I'm trying to control a device through the serial port, using
interrupts. The device provides an output signal validating the data
(clock).
I don't know which line of the serial port use to connect this clock
signal and which type of interrupt I must program (transmitter holding
register empty interrupt, received data available interrupt...) to
generate an IRQ4 every time the clock signal goes high.
Could anybody help me, please? Thanks a lot.
================================
Jose Luis Ayala
Polytechnic University of Madrid
Spain
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From: Alberto BARSELLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hdparm -t "reference values"
Date: 12 Feb 2001 11:57:09 +0100
hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alberto BARSELLA wrote:
>
> > On the VIA chipset -d1 is instant death (I tried :). It's also in the
> > 2.4.0 config help for the "use DMA" option: it says to stay clear of
> > DMA when using VIA chipsets (the default compile of 2.4.0 dies at boot
> > time on this machine).
> >
> Really? Works fine for me. 2.2.18 with ide.2.2.18.1221.patch.
I've found the answer:
my disk is UDMA 100, and the board is UDMA 100, but apparently the
current via driver does support UDMA only up to 66. At boot time the
bios configures things for UDMA 100, which means that if I turn DMA on
without specifying -X66 it kills the system (incidentally, this means
you CANNOT "use DMA by default" when recompiling the kernel and must
activate DMA later on). There's also a "minor" detail: in 2.4.0 the
"use DMA by default" thingy is *ignored*. I ran a diff between the
two driver source files and they added it only in 2.4.1. I've now
installed 2.4.1, disabled DMA by default and added hdparm -d1 -X66 in
rc.local and everything runs fine.
The values I get for the disks are approx 10 Mb/sec for the (udma33)
fireball and 15-16 Mb/sec for the (udma66) seagate. It's not as good
as the values some people reported, but at least it's not that slow....
A side question: what should I set idebus to? The kernel "guesses" it
at 33 Mhz, telling to override manually if needed. What value should
I use?
Bye and thanks everybody,
Alberto
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From: "benh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plug and Play, BIOS, and Linux
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:08:40 -0000
I want to install Mandrake on an old Dell Optiplex GL5133. According to the
instructions, I'm supposed to
disable plug n play (PnP) OS support so that the BIOS is forced to
handle PnP. However, there's no option to do this in the BIOS SETUP program
(it's
Phoenix 1.10 if that's any help).
Does this mean I don't have to worry about it, or that I need to disable PnP
manually for each device before installing, or that I need to find a less
ancient machine?
In other words, if I just go ahead and install Linux, will it be able to
detect any of the hardware?
Thanks in advance,
Ben
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From: john green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 0x3805
Date: 12 Feb 2001 10:51:11 +0000
"lunatic fringe" <nospam@foryou!.com> writes:
> Special thanks to Julie for getting me this far. It still amazes me that I
> am in Houston, TX, and I had to go all the way to the UK where they say
> things like "pip-pip", "cheeky sod", and "cheerie-o" to find help with my
> install miseries.
Gawd blimey guvnor, wot a stereotype and nah mistake!
;-)
-j
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http://www.arbs.demon.co.uk
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Subject: Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:10:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Braden McDaniel) wrote in
<SrNh6.4179$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I'm wondering what's a decent AGP *1x* video card that will work well with
>XFree86 4. I need something for a somewhat dated motherboard (Intel
>DK440LX) that sucks less than an ATI Xpert 98 (what I'm using now). I
>have a decent monitor, so I want something that can do 1600x1200 @
>24/32bpp at a good refresh rate. Oh, and Nvidia boards are right
>out--this mobo hates 'em.
I've had good experiences with the ATI rage 128 family - with DRI under
XF86 4.0.2 it is actually quite good.
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0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: external modem
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 07:14:55 GMT
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Ok. I broke down and bought an external modem. I made sure it could be
>connected to a serial port before I bought it, unfortunately the cord that
>came with the modem was to big for my serial port, so it is on the parrallel
>port.
[...]
Urgh. You can't use the parallel port for this cord. It is probably
a 25-pin serial connector, not a 9-pin one. You'll have to get a
25->9 pin converter, if your system does only offer a 9-pin plug.
Michael
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From: "Luigi Cavallo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Recovering QNX and AIX HDs with Linux
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:26:15 +0100
Hi,
during a storm, a light crashed a few computers here, and two friends
asked me for some help to try to recover data from a QNX and an AIX 3.2
HD.
As for the qnx, I included the qnx4 fs in the kernel, but when I try to
mount the HD the kernel says that the HD is not QNX. I tried with several
QNX floppies also, with the same results. However, the QNX computer of my
friend is really old, I would say QNX0, and I wonder if the qnx4 fs
supported now will not work on old QNX systems.
As for the AIX HD, I have seen that fdisk includes AIX when I type "l",
but I didn't see any AIX fs support in the kernel. In short, there's a way
to put my hands on the data of the AIX HD, using an Alpha/Linux running RH
6.2 ?
TIA
luigi
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Naples, Italy
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From: Cuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 10:54:24 +0100
Hi,
I�ve got problems with this graphic card under Red Hat 7.0.
Can anyone tell me where to get the drivers and how to install them?
thanx in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Partition help please
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 11:27:23 GMT
In article <3a845995$0$23097$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Stern) wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> I wonder if anybody can offer guidance.
> >>
> >> Long story. I installed RH7 on a Digital Hinote Ultra2000.
Because
> >> the CD I have is not bootable, and the 2000 can only have floppy OR
> >> Cdrom installed, I copied the CD onto a Windows partition, and
> >> installed from there.
> >>
> >> Subsequently I was given a Turbolinux CD which booted ok, and I
let it
> >> auto-configure the partitions, which blew away the win partition.
> >>
> >> I now want to re-install win95, but can't fdisk. It recognises the
> >> primary partition, but tells me it can't delete the secondary
partition
> >> because it has logical drives; when I try to "delete logical
drives" in
> >> the secondary partition it tells me there aren't any.
>
> In recent fdisk man pages, it talks about how recent versions
> of Windows/Dos impose an extra requirement to zero the first
> 512 bytes of a partition on initialization, and gives
> instructions for doing that with the 'dd' command.
> So if you have the first primary partition free, you might
> try setting the file type for Win95 with Linux's fdisk and then
> doing the 'dd' thing. You may then be able to boot
> DOS/Win95 floppy/cdrom and format the unitialized
> partition. Linux's cfdisk has a nicer interface than the
> fdisk, but sometimes refuses to run.
>
> -= Josh
Thanks to both. I've now managed to get some control of the partition
type (I used the cfdisk that came with the Turbo CD.) However, I now
find I've created a bigger problem for myself. When Turbolinux
installed I accepted the *recommended* option of writing LILO to the
MBR. Now, of course, even after I've reinstalled DOS, when I reboot I
get LILO. Any guidance how to get back to where I started? I can't
find any how-to's that cover this.
I guess I need to try and re-write the MBR, but I've no idea how to
start, or what to write, or how!!
Thanks,
Mike
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trouble of thinking
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Subject: Re: Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:02:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cuma) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Hi,
>I�ve got problems with this graphic card under Red Hat 7.0.
>Can anyone tell me where to get the drivers and how to install them?
First of all - you should upgrade to XF86 4.0.2. www.xfree86.org
--
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Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: 0x3805
Date: 12 Feb 2001 12:05:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 12 Feb 2001 10:51:11 +0000, john green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>"lunatic fringe" <nospam@foryou!.com> writes:
>
>> Special thanks to Julie for getting me this far. It still amazes me that I
>> am in Houston, TX, and I had to go all the way to the UK where they say
>> things like "pip-pip", "cheeky sod", and "cheerie-o" to find help with my
>> install miseries.
>
>Gawd blimey guvnor, wot a stereotype and nah mistake!
>
>;-)
Admittedly, I did actually use the term "cheeky sod" at one point...
--
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<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
Homepage now includes a cheap 'n' cheerful pointless LIVE WebCam
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From: Gunter Lindemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (OT?) UPS Daemon an tty0 stoert mein Modem!
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:35:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo Gruppe!
Bin ich hier OT?
Ich kann mein Modem nicht am 1. seriellen Anschlu� (tty0) betreiben,
denn sobald beim Booten die Meldung "UPS Daemon started on tty0",
oder so �hnlich, erscheint (steht komischerweise nicht in
/var/log/boot.msg), wird das Modem irgendwie belegt und kann
nicht mehr �ber das Terminal (oder wie auch immer) angesprochen
werden, geschweige denn eine Internet-Verbindung aufgebaut werden.
Beim Herunterfahren des Rechners blinkt sogar die TxD-Lampe.
Betreibe ich das Modem an tty1 ist alles ok, aber wozu habe ich dann
zwei serielle Ports?
Kann ich die erste serielle Schnittstelle �berhaupt nicht verwenden?
(Damit bin ich wieder bei Hardware ;-) )
Was macht eigentlich dieses UPS Daemon? Wei� jemand eine
L�sung?
Viele Gr��e, Gunter
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Subject: Re: Partition help please
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Stern)
Date: 12 Feb 2001 12:47:45 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks to both. I've now managed to get some control of the partition
>type (I used the cfdisk that came with the Turbo CD.) However, I now
>find I've created a bigger problem for myself. When Turbolinux
>installed I accepted the *recommended* option of writing LILO to the
>MBR. Now, of course, even after I've reinstalled DOS, when I reboot I
>get LILO. Any guidance how to get back to where I started? I can't
>find any how-to's that cover this.
You can remove lilo from the master boot record of first ide hard
drive by either running 'fdisk /mbr' under dos, or
'dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1; sync' under Linux
(don't dare make any typos if you use the latter).
If you want to continue to boot Linux, and also have the option
for booting Dos or Windows then using lilo on the MBR is fine
and what you want to do is add an option in /etc/lilo.conf
and then re-run lilo. The option might be an extra couple
lines looking like this:
other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows
Then when your computer boots, you need to hit the <ctrl> key and <tab>
to get the full menu, otherwise the default boots after a delay.
Options in /etc/lilo.conf control the length of the delay
and which is the default.
It's also possible to put up a splash screen with this menu and make
it look better - Corel Linux, for one, did this. But I don't know
offhand of a good package to recommend for other distros.
-= Josh
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From: Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tools to modify ext2 partitions on-the-fly?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:19:35 GMT
I'm having trouble with some of my Linux partitions (created by
PartitionMagic 6.0). They take forever to mount, and I suspect that
is because they're large (one is 15GB, the other 20GB) and PM6 has
set their block size to 1024.
So what I'd like to know is whether there are (free) tools available
that will allow me to a) resize and b) change the block size of ext2
partitions on-the-fly (i.e. without having to backup/restore all the
files on them) (possibly including the root partition).
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From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card?
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:29:46 GMT
On Feb 11, 2001 at 23:49, Braden McDaniel eloquently wrote:
>I'm wondering what's a decent AGP *1x* video card that will work well with
>XFree86 4. I need something for a somewhat dated motherboard (Intel
>DK440LX) that sucks less than an ATI Xpert 98 (what I'm using now). I
>have a decent monitor, so I want something that can do 1600x1200 @
>24/32bpp at a good refresh rate. Oh, and Nvidia boards are right
>out--this mobo hates 'em.
Matrox G200/G400 series.....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sound card (AWE32) noise problem
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 13:23:09 GMT
I have this Creative Labs AWE 32 and I noticed
noise when the computer works - for example if I
fire X there is a permanent noise (that increases
if I move a window over the desktop), but even in
console mode if I run a command like rpm -qa
The problem doesn't appear in Windows; the sound
is perfect :(
So, this is the configuration:
AMD K6-2 266, VIA MVP3 chipset,
Video card Diamond Stealth 3D 2000(S3Virge),
Soundcard Creative Labs AWE32,
LAN Card Raltek RTL8029
Linux RedHat 6.2 (Upgrade from 6.0)
Anybody has a clue, please?
Thank you very much for help!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harri Haataja)
Subject: Re: Elsa Gladiac Geforce2 MX 32MB AGP
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 14:02:04 GMT
Kenneth R�rvik wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cuma) wrote in
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>Hi,
>>I�ve got problems with this graphic card under Red Hat 7.0.
>>Can anyone tell me where to get the drivers and how to install them?
>
>First of all - you should upgrade to XF86 4.0.2. www.xfree86.org
.. or rawhide.
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