Linux-Hardware Digest #362, Volume #14 Sat, 17 Feb 01 16:13:05 EST
Contents:
Problems installing Linux with a Motherboard VIA FA13 - anybody could help? ("Zack")
Re: Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash (William A. Maniatty)
Re: What's a good website to find out?? (hihihi)
Re: What's a good website to find out?? (hihihi)
Re: Problem with display adapter in X Windows ("T-roy")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Paul Repacholi)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Paul Repacholi)
new hard drive woes during linux installation (Matt Garman)
Zip 250 as easy as Zip 100? ("Jorge Alvarez")
Sound card in Slackware 7.1 ("Torstein Finnbakk")
Re: Fresh Newbie - Sound Card & Hardware Problems - Help! (Michael Wyatt)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("Folkert Rienstra")
Newbie with Sound Card Problem - Does not last! (Michael Wyatt)
Framebuffer help needed ("Eric Wertman")
Re: Video Problem (bullwinkle)
linux drives for ambient HaM modem ("Chulengo")
ALS 200 sound support (Trent Sams)
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From: "Zack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems installing Linux with a Motherboard VIA FA13 - anybody could help?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 16:47:42 -0000
I'm trying to install Mandrake Linux 7.2 on a computer like:
- Motherboard VIA FA13
- Celeron III 700Mh
- HD Samsung 20 G
- S3 Trio 3D AGP card
- Monitor Shamrock Model C502L
- CDRom AZTECH 10X
- Network Card Realteck
During the install, when it starts formatting the disk, it hangs up
suddenly.
Changed the HardDisk and the video card to another computer (Pentium III)
and the instalation was successfull.
So I think there is something with the motherboard or the HD controller.
Is there some incompatibility or is it dammaged?
Does anybody have the same motherboard working well?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William A. Maniatty)
Subject: Re: Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash
Date: 17 Feb 2001 12:23:34 -0500
Oz Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an ABIT BP6 dual celeron 433Mhz.
> 384MB RAM
> 3950U2B SCSI controller. with 2 18 GB WD disk (lvd) and 9.2 IBM (lvd)
>
> I have installed RH 7.0 with 2.2.18 SMP kernel.
>
> the system was working fine for 1 week non stop.
>
> then today it crashed. twice within 2 hours. there was no warning
> message. The
> system was essentially idle. no large jobs where running.
While this may not be your problem, there is a considerable amount
of folk lore on the web (which I think might be true) that some
revisions of the Abit BP6 motherboard have a manufacturing/design defect
where a weak power supply capacitor is installed on the motherboard.
I suspect that I have that problem (but my symptom is lockups,
not loss of power). I think I have some of these boards, as per
http://bp6.gamesquad.net/Q6fix.phtml
and http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~doylep/linux-bp6/
The symptom I get is usually during O/S install, when both CD ROM and
Disk drives are churning durnig data transfer, I get the lockup.
I'm getting ready to have the vendor RMA the boards (since they are under
warranty).
> Is there a way to find out why s system that was essentially stable
> crashes with no
> warring. How can I debug that.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Oz Dror ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> Please Also reply by email ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Regards:
Bill Maniatty
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:44:44 +0100
From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: What's a good website to find out??
fimafeng wrote:
> I'm tring to use a G400 MAX on Red Hat 7.0 Linux machine. Where can I
> find out about how-to upgrade the X server used by default in RH 7.0?
Try http://forum.matrox.com
There is a special linux forum, where people seem to know a lot...
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:46:38 +0100
From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: What's a good website to find out??
fimafeng wrote:
> I'm tring to use a G400 MAX on Red Hat 7.0 Linux machine. Where can I
> find out about how-to upgrade the X server used by default in RH 7.0?
Try http://forum.matrox.com/cgi-bin/mgaforum/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro
There is a special linux forum, where people seem to know a lot...
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From: "T-roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,jaring.os.linux,linux.dev.svgalib,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with display adapter in X Windows
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:55:43 -0800
If you are running X, you can see from the following list that your card is
not supported: http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html . I had headaches to no
end with my display adapter. I had an NVidia Vanta. Best thing I ever did
was spend $50.00 on a new ATI Xpert card. Now my headaches are gone and I
am Linuxgrooven.
--troy
Ping ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently using RedHat Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2x. I can only get 16 colors
> in X Windows because the X configuration can't detect my display adapter.
My
> display adapter is Macronix 86251MX (Voodoo Rush by Atrend Technology
> Taiwan). Please email me [EMAIL PROTECTED] if any of you have solution.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
From: Paul Repacholi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Feb 2001 02:25:19 +0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter) writes:
> Indeed...a 29160 sounds like severe overkill for a scanner and a
> tape drive. (We have one in a machine at work...it drives a Seagate
> Cheetah X15.) The least-expensive PCI (or even ISA) SCSI card you
> can get ought to be sufficient. I have a ScanJet 4p hooked up to an
> AVA-1502 that originally came with an internal SCSI Zip drive (the
> Zip drive mostly gets shared with my IIGS and my Mac nowadays).
And the older stuff will slow re-arbitration of the bus. Put the
scaner, CDs and the Exabyte on there own controller. Or on their own
bus, if you have a multi channel controller.
--
Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
+61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
West Australia 6076
Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
From: Paul Repacholi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Feb 2001 02:20:57 +0800
"Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wanks:
> Clueless, most do not.
> > I can only think of the Ultra10 at the moment, and most buyers of
> >those throw the IDE drive out and buy SCSI drive anyways.
> Nope.
Note, he does not list any that don't.
> >In other words, think before you open your mouth.
> You got one thing right in this post now do it.
Fuck off Ron.
--
Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
+61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
West Australia 6076
Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Garman)
Subject: new hard drive woes during linux installation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 18:47:42 GMT
I posted earlier about a warning that my SCSI controller reports on boot
in regards to a new hard drive. Now I'm experiencing definite problems,
adn I don't know if it's related to the controller warning or not.
Anyway, what I ultimately want to do is have the new drive be the drive
from which I boot. Currently the new drive is /dev/sdb and the old drive
is /dev/sda.
I was trying to install Debian on my new drive, and I first had trouble
installing lilo. When it tried to install lilo, it said it failed because
my installation occurred past the 1024th cylinder. So I went back an
repartitioned my drive, but this time I included a 10 MB /boot partition
to satisfy lilo's needs. (That alone seemed like a work around: my first
paritioning scheme had my / (root) partition on a 512 MB partition; this
is where the kernel image would have gone, and I don't think 512 is too
big).
But when I made the 10 MB /boot partition, I was able to complete the
install. Again I made a 512 MB / (root) partition. The root partition
was on /dev/sdb3 (my third partition; /dev/sdb2 was my swap partition and
/dev/sdb1 was /boot). But when I rebooted, trying to test out the new
system (the one I just installed), fsck reported that /dev/sdb3 was quite
messed up. It wouldn't finish the boot process until I manually ran fsck.
I gave up and rebooted into my old system. I manually ran fsck on
/dev/sdb3 and it had *tons* of errors. Where do all these errors come
from on a freshly partitioned/formatted drive? How do they come up during
the *installation* process?
And does one think this has something to do with the controller's error
message on boot, the one that goes something like this:
Warning! 255 heads, 63 sectors parameter expected. There will be problem
under OS other than DOS.
Could I have a termination problem?
Thanks,
Matt
--
Matt Garman, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer."
from _Dune_ by Frank Herbert
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From: "Jorge Alvarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zip 250 as easy as Zip 100?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:09:13 -0600
Hi there,
I know how to use my current Iomega Zip drive (100 MB) on my Linux system. I
have plans to upgrade to a newer Zip 250 in the near future. Can the later
be used in such an easy way as the Zip 100?
Thanks in advance,
Jorge.
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From: "Torstein Finnbakk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card in Slackware 7.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:18:44 +0100
How do I install my sound card in Slackware 71. Can't find any setup
program (like that in RedHat)
Torstein Finnbakk
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From: Michael Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fresh Newbie - Sound Card & Hardware Problems - Help!
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:31:39 -0600
Yes! That was it, I was missing a 1. Thank you so much.
I can't get the sound up, so I'm going to post a more detailed message.
Thank you.
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:11:50 GMT, Mark Bratcher staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Wyatt wrote:
> >> I also cannot get any of my FAT32 drives to mount. This is probably
> >>the wrong command line but here's what I've tried.
> >>
> >>[root@linux root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/win
> >>
> >>I've tried msdos and umsdos too. That will fire up the drive and give me
> >>a wrong file system error.
> >>(Does it have to mount to / ?)
> >
> >Your mount command looks correct. Are you sure you have VFAT file system
> >capability built into the kernel? What error messsage do you get when
> >you perform the mount command?
>
> It is unlikely that you want to mount /dev/hdc. /dev/hdc is the entire
> IDE secondary master disk, while /dev/hdc1 is the first primary
> partition on that disk. The default for DOS is one large partition on
> /dev/hdX1 ; if there are other DOS partitions on the disk, they get put
> into logical partitions starting with /dev/hdX5. (Yeah, I know, but
> that's Unix for you.) vfat is the correct partition type for mounting
> all DOS disks and partitions these days.
>
> WRT the ESS 1888, a quick grep through /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/
> seems to indicate it's supported in kernel 2.2.15 with the sb module.
> Hmm, have you tried passing sb.o the "esstype=1888" parameter?
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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Reply-To: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:18:08 +0100
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
"Bodo Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:96lu8i$lf9cj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:
: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
: news:tynj6.10682$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: >
: > Donovan Rebbechi wrote in message ...
: > >
: > >If you're willing to spend an awful lot of money on performance, then SCSI
: > >is worth considering. It really depends on how important I/O performance
: > >is to you. If you need a lot of reliable storage space, and performance is
: > >not so important,
: >
: >
: > Performance with IDE RAID 0 is tops.
:
: Learn to read, Ron
:
: Donovan spoke of " a lot of reliable storage space, and performance is not
: so important.
:
: With that kind of reliability raid 0 is out of the question, regardless if
: IDE or SCSI.
Why? Raid0 is only marginally less reliable.
Granted, forgetting the stripe-size can be lethal but so was forgetting CHS
settings in the old days. And you can write it down, can't you?
: and I know of no ide 64 bit pci raid soluotion , therefore all present ide
: Raids are limitted by the pci bus to about 80 MB/s.
: and the maximum number of IDE Disks ( With internal ide raid solutions) is
: so far limited to 8 disks. With small random IOs the mechanics of the disks
: is the limiting factor, only to use more disks can increase preformance
: here. With SCSI up to 15 disks per channel are possible, controllers have up
: to 6 U160 Channels ( ICP-Vortex GDT7x63RN),with multichannel Fibere channel
: controllers even more disks per controllers are necessary.
:
: For sequential applications with an bandwidth of up to 40 MB/s sustained ide
: raid soulutions are a viable solutione ( Please remember, that in most
: applications the data has to move two times over the PCI bus, first from the
: source ( i.e.video grabber cards) to memory and from memory to disk, or from
: disk to memory and form memory to VGA Card. Therefore only halve of the PCI
: Bandwidth is usable for storage. This is only a limitation of the 33 MHz 32
: Bit PCI bus,not a limitation of IDE.
:
: For exessive performance like one needs in large data bank applications SCSI
: or fibre channel is still the technology of choice.
: >
: > > you will get a lot more disk for your dollar with an IDE RAID.
: > >If performance (especially asynchronous I/O) is important then SCSI may
: > >be useful.
: >
: >
: > No, EIDE RAID 0 does very well.
:
: He did not exclude IDE, just stated that under these conditions scsi might
: be the better choice ;-)
:
:
: -Bodo
:
:
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From: Michael Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie with Sound Card Problem - Does not last!
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:49:19 -0600
OK, I have a ESS 1888 on board sound card @ io=0x220,330,388 dma=1,5 and
irq=5.
I've used SNDCONFIG to setup my modules.conf file. Here is what it looks
like:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias eth0 ne
options ne io=0x300 irq=10
alias sound-slot-0 sb
options sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 mpu_io=0x330
This one was setup using the ESS 1868 driver from sndconfig. I've tried
it with the sb driver and they look almost identical.
In boot up the everything loads but I gets a IRQ confilct error. Here is
the dmesg
SB audio dirver Copy.........
SB 3.01 detected ok (220)
ESS Chip 1888 detected
YM3812 and OPL3 driver Copy.....
SB: Interrupt test on IRQ 5 Failed - Probable IRQ Confilct.
My BIOS is a Compaq wich sucks. But the only thing I have on 5 or 7 is
the LPT1 which is on 7.
In sndconfig and X the sound starts than cuts out. It will last about a
half a second.
When you exit X you'll see errors that are:
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error.
Couldn't load Sound File /****/****.wav as sample gnome/warning <---
This is after using the Gnome control panel to test wav's.
I also found a few web sites about the 1888 sound card, but I'm so new
to Linux that I don't know what to do.
(Ex.
http://www.kernelnotes.org/v23patch/patch-2.3.4/linux_drivers_sound_sb_ess.c.html
)
Any information that could point me in the right direction would me most
appreciated.
BTW: I have 2.2.16-22
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From: "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Framebuffer help needed
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 14:53:13 -0500
Hello-
Could anyone point me to a good source of information on framebuffer support
besides the current HOWTO? I've tried what is outlined there without luck.
I'm trying to get a 800x600 or 1024x768 @16bpp on an ATI Rage mobility and
compaq monitor. I know it works because I had mandrake installed for a
short period of time and it was configured automatically, but I can seem to
set it up myself. none of the modes that I have tried work (the ones in the
HOWTO and the ones listed with vga=ask.)
Any help greatly apprecieated. Thanks!
Eric Wertman
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From: bullwinkle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Problem
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:30:08 -0000
atlantis191 wrote:
>
> I just installed Caldera edesktop 2.4 using the "Lizard" installation. I
> had to use the VESA setting in order to get the screen to work problem. I
> installed it just fine, and I was able to load into the KDE desktop. When
> I restarted, my screen displays all these wierd screens and then the
> monitor goes onto standby. I know that the computer works, just not the
> video.
>
> My system is:
>
> Celeron 300a
> SiS chipset
> SiS 6326 8mb video card
Greeting from Bullwinkle
>> The SiS 6326 chipset will probably need changes made to the
>> XF86Config file. You may never get the full functionality
>> from this chipset, but you may be able to get a good display.
>> See http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/SiS.html for more information.
>> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/SiS3.html#3 shows options to add.
>> I added options "no_accel" and "no_imageblt" to my XF86Config file.
>> This produced good results running redhat with a Diamond Speedstar A50+
>> video card. Different video cards with the SiS6326 may need different
>> options added.
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "Chulengo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux drives for ambient HaM modem
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:30:33 -0300
Where can I find this driver? www.ambient.com redirects to a intel page.
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From: Trent Sams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ALS 200 sound support
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 20:43:29 GMT
(sorry for cross posting, but I received no replies under redhat.misc.)
I've found in messages that the ALS 200 can work under Linux. I'm new
at this and don't understand the instructions. Can someone please
explain what steps I need to follow to accomplish the following:
> To use an ALS sound card under Linux, enable the following options in
the
> sound configuration section of the kernel config:
> - 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support
> - FM synthesizer (YM3812/OPL-3) support
> Since the ALS-007/100/200 are PnP cards, ISAPnP support should
probably be
> compiled in.
>
What file & where is it that needs to be modified. Is there a HOWTO
that would help me?
Thanks,
Trent
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