Linux-Hardware Digest #338, Volume #14 Tue, 13 Feb 01 12:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: CD ROM problem (Alan Claunch)
Hayes Accura Lucent modem tantalizingly close ("Peter Walker")
Re: hedrick's ide patch for 2.2.14 (Ekkard Gerlach)
Sound card ALS 4000 ("Jeroen de Graaf")
a cordless logitech wheelmouse ("Jeroen de Graaf")
Re: Hayes Accura Lucent modem tantalizingly close ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux motherboard support ("hanhan")
Mandrake 7.2 and a second ethernet card ("Ken")
Re: Getting a faster IDE controller ("Martin Eriksson")
Sound - MediaGX - CX5530 ("Karl Palsson")
Linux Driver for Lexmark Z12 printer (troubadour)
ide-scsi on ata 100 hd, safe ??? (roel)
Kenwood ide 72x hangs with msi 694d (roel)
Re: Install hangs computer (roel)
Linux on MPC860: OK? Or asking for trouble? (Pete Wilson)
Re: Can't delete file (Eric Ho)
What's good for MIDI? (Peter B. Steiger)
Creative SB AudioPCI 128 (Michal Bozon)
Re: ide-scsi on ata 100 hd, safe ??? (Frank Stulle)
Re: Update: Install hangs computer (Marc Ulrich)
Re: cd-rom won't boot (mesc)
Re: CD ROM problem (Bill Grzanich)
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From: Alan Claunch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD ROM problem
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 06:38:19 -0500
H.Bruijn wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 19:07:00 -0500, Alan Claunch allegedly wrote:
> >
> >I'm running SuSE 7.0 with KDE2 and kernel 2.4.0. I have a Matshita DVD
> >and a Ricoh 7040A CD-R/RW. Both are ATAPI and when the kernel is compiled
> >for
> >IDE CDROM support, both will play CDs and are readable/mountable.
> >However, CD writing requires SCSI emulation and the only way I have been
> >able to implement that is by not compiling in IDE CDROM support in the
> >kernel and enabling SCSI emulation. Now my drives are seen as SCSI
> >devices, they will configure under XCDRoast (haven't gotten to burning a
> >CD yet) but I cannot get CDs to play using kscd. The player just sits
> >there and none of the controls work. Do I need a different player or is
> >something else wrong with the configuration?
>
> Most cd-player use the symbolic link /dev/cdrom to locate the cd-player.
> Now that you are using the scsi-ide driver you need to change the link
> from /dev/hdc to /dev/scd0 or whatever is the correct device.
> rm /dev/cdrom
> ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
> Good luck.
I've already done that- it still doesn't work.
Alan
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From: "Peter Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hayes Accura Lucent modem tantalizingly close
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 11:44:21 -0000
Imagine this.
Your 2nd division team is drawing 1 all with Arsenal in the FA cup, it's 5
seconds to full time and your teams striker put's the ball into the Arsenal
goal. You jump in the air screaming but when you land on your feet, the
linesman screams off-side to the ref!
How do you put that feeling into an email?
Because that's how I feel!
So the problem is this.
1) I have a Dell Precision w/s with dual PIII 500 cpu's and 384Mb ram
running RedHat v7.0.
2) I have a Hayes Accura V.90 PCI modem, which has a Lucent chipset.
3) I have compiled the Lucent lt modem driver and installed it.
This is what happens.
1) The first time I ran minicom I successfully dialed my mobile phone.
Yeah, it actually worked. Then when I came out of minicom I saw the
following message "Kernel timer added twice at d8100e01".
2) When I tried to run my pppd scripts, it did not connect. Looking in
/var/log/messages everything is fine with pppd except that it states that
there is no dial tone!
Now whenever I run minicom I get the same message, that there is no dial
tone. PPPD never connects. Neither kkkp or gnome-ppp get a dial tone.
That's the closest I got. I have done nothing to the system since I managed
to dial my mobile phone and I am using ttyLT0 as the modem.
Minicom does talk to the modem successfully as whenever I go into it, it
sends the initialization to the modem and displays the OK response. Also I
can send the dial command to the modem and it displays the no dial tone
message.
The modem definitely works, as I am using it in windows 2000 right now. I
would really like to get to the stage where I don't have to fire up windows
to get to the internet.
One last piece of information, the data from /proc/pci shows the dice on irq
17 and port 0xecd8.
Any one got any suggestions?
BTW.
The scenario at the top of this email is purely fictional, as although QPR
will get relegated tho division 2 this season and stay there, they will
never get to the FA cup final.
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hedrick's ide patch for 2.2.14
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:33:55 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ekkard Gerlach wrote:
>
> Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > somebody knows where I can get the ide-patch
> > > (for AliV-Chipset support) for Kernel 2.2.14 ? In
> >
> > My experience was that you should buy a new motherboard -- I made the
> > mistake of getting two AladdinV motherboards (Gigabyte GA-5AX) to run
> > with AMD K6 processors. One wound up in a Windows environment, one in
> > Linux. Neither I on the Linux side, nor my wife on the Windows side,
> > was ever able to get either one of them to run reliably.
>
> Hmmm .. I was working with Aladdin IV+ before AladdinV mainboard.
> And I was working with 2.2.14. All (except
> SCSI-Adapter aha1505) was working stable for 1 year.
> (BTW: without patch aha1505 freezes the PC eihter ... tested
> with 2.2.14-2.2.18. 2.2.18 is very bad because it freezes my
> PC, too when dialing with CREATIX ISDN S0 PNP, too ... it's a long
> story, I'll buy anther host adapter. BTW2: Win95 works fine with
> aha1505 ! ). Is there a big difference between IV+ an V ?
>
> >
...
>
> I can hope , hope and hope! Okay last try with 2.4.0 .
good has heared my wishes. With 2.4.0 AladdinV
is supported appearently stable,
aha1505 and CREATIX ISDN-Cards are no longer freezing the PC.
Wonder, o wonder .
thank you all
Ekkard
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From: "Jeroen de Graaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card ALS 4000
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:24:33 GMT
Hi there,
im having an Avance Logic Inc. ALS 4000 Audio Chipset in my computer but it
wont work with SuSE Linux 7.0/kernel 2.2.16
I havent got any experience with other linux distro's so if somebody with
SuSE 7.0 knows the answer. please tell me.
Alsa and OSS wont recognize it. At least OSS not but Alsa tells me that it
is not supported in the kernel. Who knows the answer?
Greetz,
Jeroen de Graaf
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From: "Jeroen de Graaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a cordless logitech wheelmouse
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 12:27:46 GMT
Hi,
Im having a cordless.... but after all the things people told me to the
wheel is still not working, ive dloaded the program IMWheel but that didnt
work.
With SaX i added some lines to "pointer" but it will still not work. Please
give me some advice.
Jeroen.
(SuSE 7.0/kernel 2.2.16/KDE 2.0, etc.)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hayes Accura Lucent modem tantalizingly close
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:17:41 +0100
Peter Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) The first time I ran minicom I successfully dialed my mobile phone.
> Yeah, it actually worked. Then when I came out of minicom I saw the
> following message "Kernel timer added twice at d8100e01".
Congratulations. You've found out why internal modems are a pain. To reset them you
have to reboot the computer .. cold.
Take it back.
peter
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From: "hanhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux motherboard support
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:40:14 +0800
I use Tekram i815E motherboard with network card interface. However the
onboard network card is not supported by RedHat 7.0
"Mark Bratcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <966p3r$ebg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >This is probably a REALLY stupid question but I will ask it anyway...
> >
> >I am looking at building myself a nice new computer with an AMD
> >Thunderbird and a Tyan motherboard. Does linux support this? Is that
> >even a factor (will linux care?)? All information is appreciated.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >DNAC
> >
> >
>
> You might find some useful info on www.linhardware.com.
>
> --
> Mark Bratcher
> To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
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From: "Ken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.2 and a second ethernet card
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 13:48:01 GMT
I've been trying to set up my second ethernet card, but have been unable to
get things working.
What I have
Abit BP6 Motherboard with 2x366 Celerons
128M Ram
Voodoo 3 Video card
SB Live Value
Realtek RTL 8139 (eth0)
3Com Etherlink III ISA 3C509 (eth1)
USR 33.6 PnP modem
The 3Com ethernet card is the one giving me the trouble. When I first
installed Linux, everything was identified in HardDrake, but I couldn't set
up anything on either of my PnP devices (modem and 3Com ethernet card).
After reading a few bits and pieces of info, I decided to change the
ethernet card to legecy mode and set the i/o and interrupt manually. That
went fine, but now it didn't appear in HardDrake, so I went in and tried
setting this device up in the module.conf file. That got me one step closer,
I could see that it was trying to start the device on boot. However, during
startup, it failed and said something like 'delaying start of eth1' (not
sure that's it exactly).
I'm fairly new to linux and I'm not sure how to check a few things
out...like i/o and interrupts in use to see if I have a conflict.
I'm also having trouble getting my modem to work.....but it's still in PnP
mode. I tried to change it, but then I had trouble in Win2000 and since I do
need it in Win2000 right now, I thought I'd better leave it and see if I
could solve the issue in Linux. First things first though. I'm more
concerned about the network card issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Ken Silverthorne
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From: "Martin Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting a faster IDE controller
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:01:53 +0100
Before you consider that, do a
hdparm -d1 -c1 -u1 -m16 /dev/hdx
And tell me if your speeds increase. I have two CRAPPY disks here and I get
8.49 MB/sec with those parameters. "Standard" settings gives me 2.23
MB/sec...
"Eric P. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm thinking about getting a new IDE controller, probably ATA/100, so
> I don't have to use the sucky onboard controller. But I'm sort of new
> to the world of IDE, so I have some questions.
>
> But before we go any further, this is the setup:
>
> Linux 2.4.0-smp
> Intel PR440FX motherboard
> 2 PPro-200 (256k) CPUs
> 2 32MB 60ns EDO/ECC DIMMs
> 2 Maxtor 7200rpm 30GB ATA/66 disks
>
> First concern is whether I'm going to notice a difference. From
> hdparm:
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 3.24 seconds = 39.51 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 11.80 seconds = 5.42 MB/sec
>
> Which is not really great. The part that vaguely concerns me is the
> buffer-cache figure; shouldn't that be, oh, about three times higher?
> It was when I ran the disks on my other computer.
>
> Second, as you can probably guess, I need to be able to boot off these
> drives. I have no idea if my BIOS even supports booting from
> off-board controllers, nor do I know how I'd find out.
>
> If I can get past these two problems: Any recommendations for what
> controllers work, and work well? I'd rather pay 50% more for a
> controller than risk getting corrupted data.
>
> --
> Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> "Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
> absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
> spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "Karl Palsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound - MediaGX - CX5530
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:03:43 +0100
Hi,
I'm having a hard time getting sound to work on my MediaGX based CPU board.
I have compiled the kernel with 100% SoundBlaster compatible support, IRQ5,
I/O Base 0x220, DMA=1, DMA16=5. When booting the kernel I get the following
message: "Too much work in interrupt on uart401 (0x330). UART jabbering ??.
uart401: bad devc". I can see no IRQ, DMA or address conflicts in /proc.
According to /dev/sndstat the SoundBlaster is detected correctly.
Trying to play a file gives a couple of seconds of sound and then the CPU
dies.
Does anyone have a clue?
--
Karl
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From: troubadour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Driver for Lexmark Z12 printer
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 23:01:48 +0800
Does anyone know if there's a suitable driver for LEXMARK's Z12 model?
I'm using Linux Mandrake 7.1 and need desperately to get my new lexmark
printer to work
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From: roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ide-scsi on ata 100 hd, safe ???
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:25:26 +0100
Hello
Trying to boot direct from ata 100 disk, will not work because lilo will
only go to hda and not to hde.
What if I put in lilo append="hde=ide-scsi".
My gues is Linux will see the ide disk as scsi and therefore lilo will
write to the mbr of sda.
fstab will have to be rewritten or symlinking sda to hde might be even
simpler.
Is this safe to do or really dangerous.
Roel
System info, main components
SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.4test12
Dual p3 667
msi 694d onboard fasttrack, firewire
384 MB int
maxtor 40 gig 2X
matrox g400-tv
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From: roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kenwood ide 72x hangs with msi 694d
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:25:29 +0100
Hello
If I mount the kenwood as hdb and transfer data to hd the msi system
almost hangs.
Compiled a new kernel to make the Plextor 32x12x10 ide work (ide-scsi).
The kenwood still hangs.
Tried the kenwood on another Linux box (scsi only, epox ep-mvp3c mobo)
with a standard bios,
it works fine.
connected a sony 52x ide instead of the kenwood to the msi system, works
also fine.
Jumpers master/slave are set correctly.
With the new ide-scsi kernel the system always sees the cdrom's as scsi.
whether I put the append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi" in lilo or not.
Error message if kenwood connected as ide-scsi:
scsi aborting due to timeout
hdb lost interrupt
sr0 cdrom cioctl reports illegal request
hdb dma disabled
Error message if kenwood connected as ide:
hdb lost interrupt.
Msi and kenwood don't seem to like one and another.
Does anybody know what goes wrong here.
Any help is welcome
Roel
System info, main components
SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.4test12
Dual p3 667
msi 694d onboard fasttrack, firewire
384 MB int
maxtor 40 gig 2X
matrox g400-tv
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From: roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Install hangs computer
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:30:10 +0100
Hello
Just go to promise.com download the bootdisk and of you go.
The promise controller is not supported by rh 7.0. gues 7.1 with kernel
2.4 will be out soon, which does support promise 20265/20267.
Roel
Marc Ulrich wrote:
>
> I have a new computer that will not install linux RedHat 7.0. Here's the
> deal:
>
> When the boot (from CDRom) reaches the spot: "PCI: probing PCI
> hardware", the system freezes. Not even Crtl-Alt-Del to shutdown &
> reboot will work. I tried using the expert mode because it said that
> will bypass the PCI autoprobing. It does exactly the same thing.
>
> Here's what I think the problem is: The harddrive is using a Promise
> Ultra100 harddrive controller (so that the HDD can use ATA100 instead of
> ATA66 which is the max available via the motherboard). I would try just
> attaching the harddrive to the motherboard controller, install linux &
> then put it back on the Promise controller except that the PCI probing
> is done everytime linux boots.
>
> Can anyone help me out?
> Thanks,
> Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Wilson)
Subject: Linux on MPC860: OK? Or asking for trouble?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 15:57:41 GMT
We're making a commercial, highly-available embedded system
from scratch. We're going to install Linux as the real-time
OS on the main board. We're now choosing the CPU to put on
that board. The obvious choice is an x86-class machine. But
we prefer to use a Power PC: an MPC860.
We have ZERO Linux internals experience. We have Red Hat
Release 7 running on one single PC, and that's it.
Question 1: Are there readily-available, supported incarnations
of Linux already installed on the MPC860? If not, then how
much trouble are we getting ourselves into by undertaking to
do this installation from scratch? Is it suicide? Or is it
pretty straightforward?
Question 2: What kinds of development environments can you
suggest to run on NT 4.0 or Linux platforms; and with target
machines MPC860 or x86?
Thanks so much, and sorry for the newbie question.
Pete Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't delete file
Date: 13 Feb 2001 16:06:39 GMT
bash-2.03# ls -l plusnode.gif
ls: plusnode.gif: Value too large for defined data type
bash-2.03# file plusnode.gif
plusnode.gif: can't stat `plusnode.gif' (Value too large for defined data type).
bash-2.03# uname -a
Linux bbs 2.4.1 #38 Wed Feb 7 15:15:35 CST 2001 i586 unknown
bash-2.03#
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
Paul Colquhoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 13 Feb 2001 09:43:36 GMT, Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> |Hi,
> |
> |I am trying to delete a file, but got this error :
> |bash-2.03# rm plusnode.gif
> |rm: cannot remove `plusnode.gif': Value too large for defined data type
> |bash-2.03#
> |
> |Can someone tell me how to delete it ?
> Care to post the output for:
> ls -l plusnode.gif
> file plusnode.gif
> uname -a
> This will give people a little nore info to work with in spotting
> the potential cause of the problem.
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter B. Steiger)
Subject: What's good for MIDI?
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:11:51 GMT
RH 7.0 supports my PAS16 fine as far as audio files go - with no
effort at all I can hear Linus' melodious voice telling us how to
pronounce "Linux". Alas, it doesn't seem to believe that the
card plays MIDI; all midi-related applications gripe that they
can't find a midi device. I think I have all the right modules
loaded; lsmod shows pas2, sound (which says [pas2] in the
"used by" column), soundcore, and soundlow.
I guess I have two questions:
1) Has anyone else gotten a PAS16 to play MIDI files in Linux?
B) If not, can you recommend a cheap ($15-$30 US) card
with MIDI functions supported by Linux?
I don't need support for an external MIDI device; I just want
to be able to play MIDI files through the card's synthesizer
and edit them with a software editor. And while we're on
the subject, are there any drag-and-drop notation composers
out there?
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY
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Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:55:39 +0100
From: Michal Bozon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative SB AudioPCI 128
Hi.
Is there (nearly) full support for
Creative Sound Blaster AudioPCI 128
sound card?
RedHat 6.2 detected (sndconfig) that it is CT5880
(/proc/pci also shows 5880, NOT 4810, why?)
and installed moudule es1371 (and soundcore).
I cannot play MIDI, use 3D sound, effects...
Whot shuld I do if I want to use all card's features?
Thanks
- - - - - - - - -
Michal Bozon
Faculty of Chemical Technology, Prague (student)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frank Stulle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ide-scsi on ata 100 hd, safe ???
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:34:51 +0100
>
> Hello
>
> Trying to boot direct from ata 100 disk, will not work because lilo will
> only go to hda and not to hde.
> What if I put in lilo append="hde=ide-scsi".
> My gues is Linux will see the ide disk as scsi and therefore lilo will
> write to the mbr of sda.
> fstab will have to be rewritten or symlinking sda to hde might be even
> simpler.
> Is this safe to do or really dangerous.
>
> Roel
>
> System info, main components
>
> SuSE 7.0 kernel 2.4test12
> Dual p3 667
> msi 694d onboard fasttrack, firewire
> 384 MB int
> maxtor 40 gig 2X
> matrox g400-tv
i don't think this is recommended. and i also think it is
unnecessary because lilo should install to hde and boot from
there if everything is setup correct. but as you seem to
have two ide-controllers in your computer try the
kernel parameter pci=reverse. then the fasttrack controller
will be hda-hdd and the normal controller hde-hdh.
frank
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From: Marc Ulrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Update: Install hangs computer
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 08:11:53 -0500
It hadn't even gotten past text mode.
When it first boots off an installation CD, it is all text - white text
above with explanations of various things and a line of purple text
below: [F1-general] .. [F3-expert] ... and the "boot:" prompt below
that. There I type 'linux' or 'expert' and it starts loading what I
suppose is the boot image:
initrd.img .................
vmlinuz ..............
..
bunch of text
..
last three lines of this text before it hangs are:
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: probing PCI hardware
after which the computer hangs.
The current computer hardware is the following:
It's a Gateway E-5400 with all PCI cards (such as the netcard)
temporarily removed:
PIII 800MHz
133MHZ Motherboard with #s: 4000695 & QAN-5751404
(ie: i don't know exactly what kind it is)
AGP Matrox G400 video card
various IDE devices (harddrive, CDRom, Zip drive)
128MB RAM.
Any ideas or guidance as to where I can get help is appreciated. This
system was bought to run linux, but, if it can't be installed. . .
Thanks,
Marc
"D. Stimits" wrote:
>
> Marc Ulrich wrote:
> >
> > Nope, it isn't the PCI hardware causing the trouble. I've removed all
> > PCI cards, and put the HDD on the Motherboard's IDE controller. The only
> > expansion card in the system is a Matrox G400 AGP video card.
> >
> > Does anyone know what causes this?
> > Marc
> >
> > Marc Ulrich wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a new computer that will not install linux RedHat 7.0. Here's the
> > > deal:
> > >
> > > When the boot (from CDRom) reaches the spot: "PCI: probing PCI
> > > hardware", the system freezes. Not even Crtl-Alt-Del to shutdown &
> > > reboot will work. I tried using the expert mode because it said that
> > > will bypass the PCI autoprobing. It does exactly the same thing.
> > >
> > > Here's what I think the problem is: The harddrive is using a Promise
> > > Ultra100 harddrive controller (so that the HDD can use ATA100 instead of
> > > ATA66 which is the max available via the motherboard). I would try just
> > > attaching the harddrive to the motherboard controller, install linux &
> > > then put it back on the Promise controller except that the PCI probing
> > > is done everytime linux boots.
> > >
> > > Can anyone help me out?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Marc
>
> Try text mode. There is a reasonably strong chance the graphics mode
> will find conflicts easier than text mode will.
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From: mesc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cd-rom won't boot
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:06:13 GMT
I stumbled across the answer while messing around in my bios.I have the
cd-rom as the 1st boot device,the hardisk the 2nd and the floppy the 3rd.I
don't know how correct that is but the cd-rom boots ....shrug :)
mesc
mesc wrote:
> A few days ago I burned a debian ISO to disk and I tested it to see if
> it would boot up after I was done,it booted up just fine and started the
> install program.Now 2 days later when I'm ready to install it won't
> boot.The cd-rom is still set to boot in the bios.I was going to make a
> boot floppy then but the disk didn't have the boot.img or rescue.img on
> it.Might I have a corrupt iso and even then why would it boot once?
> Anyone else ever come across this?
>
> Thank you,mesc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Grzanich)
Subject: Re: CD ROM problem
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 17:09:18 GMT
In article <3a887a92$0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Claunch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I'm running SuSE 7.0 with KDE2 and kernel 2.4.0. I have a Matshita DVD and
>a Ricoh 7040A CD-R/RW. Both are ATAPI and when the kernel is compiled for
>IDE CDROM support, both will play CDs and are readable/mountable. However,
>CD writing requires SCSI emulation and the only way I have been able to
>implement that is by not compiling in IDE CDROM support in the kernel and
>enabling SCSI emulation. Now my drives are seen as SCSI devices, they will
>configure under XCDRoast (haven't gotten to burning a CD yet) but I cannot
>get CDs to play using kscd. The player just sits there and none of the
>controls work. Do I need a different player or is something else wrong with
>the configuration?
>
Hi, Alan.
Just a guess: check the device /dev/cdrom . Usually this is a link to the
actual device, and it may still be pointing to /dev/hdc (or something like
that) which is the IDE device. Delete the link and recreate it, but now
pointing to /dev/sg? where sg? is whatever SCSI-emulated device that your
CDROM is now. Often, the CD player and other utilities simply look at the
common /dev/cdrom link.
Hope this helps.
-Bill
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