Linux-Hardware Digest #377, Volume #14 Tue, 20 Feb 01 21:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16) (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Re: Replicate/Clone RH6.2 Linux ("dofomide")
Re: Lilo scsi problems (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: EZCam II (USB) (Drew Roedersheimer)
Help ("Steven Eccard")
flashing lite-on 8x4x32x ? (dwain)
Re: flashing lite-on 8x4x32x ? (Bora Ugurlu)
Re: ATA cable length ("Net Resident")
Re: PCTV Rave, Savage based chips and crashes (Azotar de Fuerza)
Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16) (Dances With Crows)
Re: ATA cable length (Dances With Crows)
Re: Framebuffer help needed (Dieter Rohlfing)
Re: Joystick in X ("D. Stimits")
SanDisk Compact Flash USB Reader (SDDR-31): WHICH DEVICE? (Darren Enns)
IDE CD-RW installation help needed (Bernie Yoo)
Intel Etherexpress PRO/100VE (Greg Lee)
linux 2.4.1 and pppd ("Larry Sonderling")
PCMCIA NIC Problem (Paul Bailey)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Fonseca-Holt)
Subject: Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:10:32 -0600
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:34:03 -0500, Philippe Massicotte
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:56:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
>> Black Sun and said:
>> >root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> My system:
>> >> Red Hat 7 (2.2.16-22smp)
>> >> Joystick : MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB (I can connect in the
>> >> gameport without the USB adaptor)
>> >> I am able to load joystick.o, but if I try to load the hardware
>> >> specific driver (joy-sidewinder.o), it gives me the following error:
>> >> [root@localhost /root]# insmod joy-sidewinder
>> >> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22smp/misc/joy-sidewinder.o: init_module: Device or
>> >> resource busy
>>
>> Hmm. What's the sound card, and does it detect the joystick port at
>> 0x200? (0x200 is the standard place, IIRC you can load "joystick" if
>> the port isn't initialized but loading joy-gravis or whatnot will then
>> return an error.) I do this with the line
>> options es1371 joystick=0x200
>> in /etc/modules.conf . Do a "dmesg | grep 0x200" and see if you get
>> something like "soundcard: features joystick 0x200" back.
>> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
>
>I tried "dmesg | grep 0x200" but with no result.
>My sound card is a SB Live!
>It can play music, but I guess the gameport is not initialized.
>How can I it? (The gameport's address in Win2000 is E400 - E407)
>I've added the line "options es1371 joystick=0x200" but it didn't change
>anything
>(What the heck is es1371 ??)
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>
I use an SB Live! and I had to put in my /etc/modules.conf:
alias char-major-15 joy-analog
options joy-analog js_an=0xa800,0x0033
The 0xa800 is where the SBLive puts the joystick port, the 0x0033 is the
setting for the joystick, in my case a x-y with two buttons or a Gravis Gamepad
works.
Wyatt.
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From: "dofomide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Replicate/Clone RH6.2 Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:41:59 -0000
> 2) I am Habitually a lazy person :). Is there a way that I can make a
> image of this PC. store it on a central location on the network,
> create a boot disk and have the workstation clone its self from the
> image. Or am really just too lazy :)
looks like you'll just have to use ghost - you can even do them all at once!
if you dont want to use multicast )i.e. do them one at a time) then you
might be able to get
away with using the personal edition - which is (much) cheaper
===== Original Message =====
From: dofomide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.networking
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 10:52 PM
Subject: Re: Replicate/Clone RH6.2 Linux
> Norton ghost supports ext2 partitions - it also has a multicast server
that
> allows you to distribute the same image to multiple clients
simultaneously-
> depending on the speed of your network you could do them all in around
half
> an hour.. only problem is - it costs money ;)
>
>
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Subject: Re: Lilo scsi problems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 20 Feb 2001 17:32:51 -0500
Tywon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> we have a webengines blazer server
> running redhat 6.2
> for some reason when we try and run lilo
> we get the following
> Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb
> Open /dev/sdb: no such file or directory
Did you actually try looking for /dev/sdb? i.e.,
ls -l /dev/sdb
Are you using devfs?
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: EZCam II (USB)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:34:38 GMT
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:46:06 GMT, Young4ert wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just got the EZCam II (USB) from the local CompUSA (free after the
>rebates) and tested on the Linux kernel-2.4.1 to novail. Has anyone had
>ever try this camera? I checked the http://webcam.sourceforge.com and it
>has a CPiA driver that claimed to support this type of camera. I believe
>this CPiA driver is already incorporated as part of the latest Linux 2.4.1
>kernel distro. Am I missing something?
>
>TIA.
>
I haven't gotten a USB camera to work under Linux yet, only because my
camera isn't supported yet. I have, however, successfully gotten my
HP Scanjet 6200c to work with USB. My suggestion is to try the following:
`cat /proc/bus/usb/devices`
If you don't get any output, you probably don't have USB support installed
in your kernel - that or you don't have the correct /proc entries mounted.
I have the following in /etc/fstab:
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
to enable the /proc interface to the USB devices on bootup.
Check out http://www.linux-usb.org/ to get you started. Also, a resource
I found useful was the documentation that comes with the kernel. On my
machine, it's located in /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/Documentation/usb/
The way it sounds though, you may have to patch the kernel, assuming CPiA
hasn't been incorporated in 2.4.* yet. I tried visiting the URL you listed
above, but it looks like the server is down or something similar.
Hope this helps you get started - and best of luck.
-DR
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From: "Steven Eccard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 23:22:33 GMT
I have a abit be62 and wanted to install mandrake 7.1 but what drivers do i
need for the board none they have listed seem to work any ideas. What I
need to know is where i get the Highpoint 370 drivers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (dwain)
Subject: flashing lite-on 8x4x32x ?
Date: 20 Feb 2001 23:48:21 GMT
Hi,
I'm about to buy a lite-on 8432 cdrw. After I've bought it I wanna
flash it using the firmware upgrade for the 12x10x32x cdr, because
the computer then starts treating it as that cdr (adding burnproof
too : )
The firmware upgrade is a X.exe file, so I've to apply the fix while
the burner is installed on a Winbox, and then put the thing in my Linux
comp.
Now under Windows this "upgrade" usually gives no problems, should I
expect different under Linux?
Thanks for your time,
Jurgen
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From: Bora Ugurlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: flashing lite-on 8x4x32x ?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:07:50 +0100
> Now under Windows this "upgrade" usually gives no problems, should I
> expect different under Linux?
>
No you shouldn't, as long as it is a hardware-type upgrade (you're
flashing its BIOS, so it is hardware-type)..
Bora
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From: "Net Resident" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA cable length
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:52:55 -0500
"lewis e. lipkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> The cablle that cane with my plextor cdRW is 18 inches long--not
> quite long enough to reach the 2nd IDE port connector on the mother
> board in my tower case.
>
> Is there an imposed limit on cable length in ATA systems? If not
> are there longer standard cables? If not the only alternative
> seems to be a controller card. Any caveats about that?
>
Yes there is a limit, I don't recall exactly how long though. It is likely
to be that 18". But since it is a CDRW and not a HDD, it might be worth a
shot to hit a computer fair or a local shop that can make you a custom
length cable. They don't cost very much.
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From: Azotar de Fuerza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: PCTV Rave, Savage based chips and crashes
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:02:20 GMT
On 20 Feb 2001 12:00:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aki Zeta 5)
wrote:
> I just did it, but I noticed no change. Both PCTV Vision and xawtv
>still crash at the first mouse click (and sometimes before I do
>anything). >:'(
Bummer! That's a disappointment. Reflashing the Stealth III bios
worked perfectly for me. It was night and day.
> Did you reinstall PCTV Vision after your BIOS update? (With Windows,
>one never knows.) BTW, my PCTV chipset is a bt878...
I had PCTV version 3.0 with a Bt848 capture card. I upgraded to
version 4.02 in the course of troubleshooting this problem. Now the
capture card also works in Windows 2000. I did that before I flashed
the Stealth.
The problem I had was a conflict with the functioning of the capture
card. If I wasn't capturing anything, the Stealth worked fine.
Flashing its bios allowed the capture card to work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16)
Date: 21 Feb 2001 01:10:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:10:32 -0600, Daryl Fonseca-Holt staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:34:03 -0500, Philippe Massicotte
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I tried "dmesg | grep 0x200" but with no result.
>>My sound card is a SB Live!
>>It can play music, but I guess the gameport is not initialized.
>>How can I it? (The gameport's address in Win2000 is E400 - E407)
>>I've added the line "options es1371 joystick=0x200" but it didn't change
>>anything
>>(What the heck is es1371 ??)
es1371 = Ensoniq 1371, a pretty common sound chip. It goes by many
names in the Doze world, among them "Ensoniq AudioPCI", "Crystal Audio
PnP" (sharing a name with the cs4232, though the chips are way
different), "SoundBlaster PCI 512" and the like.
>I use an SB Live! and I had to put in my /etc/modules.conf:
>alias char-major-15 joy-analog
>options joy-analog js_an=0xa800,0x0033
>The 0xa800 is where the SBLive puts the joystick port, the 0x0033 is
>the setting for the joystick, in my case a x-y with two buttons or a
>Gravis Gamepad works.
Try what Philippe said. BTW, 0x0033 is most likely not the best setting
to use. /usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick.txt has info on the
standard settings for various analog joysticks, among them many
Sidewinder models.
--
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ATA cable length
Date: 21 Feb 2001 01:10:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:31:46 -0500, lewis e. lipkin staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Please don't do that. Plain text will suffice; no one wants to read
your message in HTML, and no one cares about "V-Cards".
>The cablle that cane with my plextor cdRW is 18 inches long--not
>quite long enough to reach the 2nd IDE port connector on the mother
>board in my tower case.
>
>Is there an imposed limit on cable length in ATA systems? If not
>are there longer standard cables? If not the only alternative
>seems to be a controller card. Any caveats about that?
Yes. IDE cables are limited to 18 inches for ATA-33 operation, and 12
inches for ATA-100. The longer the cable, the more unreliable the
already unreliable ATA bus becomes, because the bus isn't terminated and
lacks proper grounding. The shorter the cable, the better.
Most IDE controller cards should work in Linux, provided you don't buy the
absolute latest thing, and provided you don't need to boot from a device
on the controller card. For a CD-ROM or two, you can pick up an ATA/33
card for relatively cheap.
--
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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dieter Rohlfing)
Subject: Re: Framebuffer help needed
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:43:26 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 17:55:37 +0100, Matthias wrote:
>In the german Linux Magazin(10/2000) is an article about framebuffer.
Are you sure, it's issue 10.2000? I've looked in the table of content and
couldn't find any framebuffer related article. Can you check it again? TIA.
Dieter Rohlfing
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Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:22:47 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Joystick in X
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Can anyone give me a pointer on how I can check that my joystick workd in X? I
> can get it to be recognised in a terminal but not in X. Is there a program
> that I can use that checks the joystick in X?
>
> Thanks,
>
> L
Go to:
http://wolfpack.twu.net/libjsw/index.html
Compile and install libjsw and jscalibrator, then test the
"jscalibrator" program. Be sure to select a joystick device, very likely
/dev/js0.
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From: Darren Enns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SanDisk Compact Flash USB Reader (SDDR-31): WHICH DEVICE?
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:26:34 GMT
Hello!
I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.1 to get USB support. I can now use the
'photopc' program to talk to my Nikon 880 USB camera on the USB
interface!
I also bought a Sandisk Compactflash USB reader device -- which is
supported in Linux -- and everything 'looks good' in all the places
I look for messages, but when I make an effort to mount /dev/sda
I get the message:
mount: /dev/sda has wrong major or minor number
I have no idea what I may be doing wrong. Here is a small amount of
messages that show that things should be OK:
hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 2
usb.c: kmalloc IF c688b4c0, numif 1
usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=3, SerialNumber=2
usb.c: USB device number 2 default language ID 0x409
Manufacturer: SanDisk Corporation
Product: ImageMate CompactFlash USB
SerialNumber: 000000000002
usb-storage: *** thread sleeping.
Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate II Rev: 1.30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision:
02
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100 Rev: 1.0g
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: SanDisk Model: ImageMate II Rev: 1.30
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host scsi1: usb-storage
Vendor: SanDisk Corporation
Product: ImageMate CompactFlash USB
Serial Number: None
Protocol: Transparent SCSI
Transport: Bulk
GUID: 078100020000000000000000
Currently, I have the following in my /etc/fstab file for this
device:
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0
0
This looks strange to me. I image that instead of 'none' I
should have a valid device name, but every one of the '/dev/sda'
devices don't seem to work.
I am so close to success I can almost taste it!
Any help?
Dare
--
Darren Enns
EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP: members.home.net/dmenns
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From: Bernie Yoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE CD-RW installation help needed
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 17:25:59 -0800
Hi,
I've been having trouble getting an IDE CD-RW drive to work on my system.
I have a Philips CDRW800 on a Storm Linux (based on Debian) system.
I added a /etc/modutils/cdrw file that looks like:
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
alias scd0 sr_mod
pre-install sg modprode ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
bernie@storm:/etc/modutils$
I ran update-modules and verified that these entries were added to
/etc/modules.conf. I added the ' append="hdc=ide-scsi" '
line to the appropriate section of /etc/lilo.conf. The CDRW drive is
on the IDE secondary master (hard drive is primary master, CD-ROM is
secondary slave). I ran /sbin/lilo.
When I check /proc/ide/drivers, all I see is:
ide-disk version 1.08
When I run cdrecord -scanbus, I get:
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
Any help would be appreciated.
TIA
Bernie Yoo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Greg Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel Etherexpress PRO/100VE
Date: 21 Feb 2001 01:32:38 GMT
At least, I guess it's a PRO/100VE (/proc/pci says "... 82820 820
(Camino 2) chipset Ethernet (rev 1)"). It works a little, but
not well enough to use. I've tried the following:
Linux 2.2.13 -- eepro100 module won't load
Linux 2.2.13, using Donald Becker's driver from www.scyld.com -- works for
ftp and telnet, but not copying files from a NSF mounted directory.
Linux 2.4.1, 2.4.1-ac18, 2.4.2-pre4 -- I get a message:
"wait_for_cmd_done timeout!", or else it bombs the system.
Any suggestions? Wait for Donald Becker to release a eepro100 driver
for Linux 2.4?
--
Greg Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Reply-To: "Larry Sonderling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Larry Sonderling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux 2.4.1 and pppd
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:50:43 GMT
I have recently upgraded from kernel 2.2.16 to 2.4.1 and I when I try to
connect to my ISP pppd dies with a syslog message of "ioctl(PPPIOCGFLAGS)
invalid arguement" after successfully connecting. This never occurred under
2.2.16 and I cannot find a clue in the documentation that I have. i am
using pppd 2.1.13. Is there a newer version of pppd that I should use with
kernel 2.4.1 or have I missed something obvious?
thanks,
Larry
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From: Paul Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCMCIA NIC Problem
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:57:44 -0500
I've got a Dell Lattitude CPx laptop with a 3Com FE575 pcmcia ethernet
card. The machine is configured to dual boot Win2K and Redhat 7. It
works fine when running Windoze. It worked fine the last time I ran
Linux on it about 6 weeks ago. Now it seems to have developed an IRQ
conflict with the usb-controller. They both appear to be grabbing irq 11
and now the
ethernet card is reporting irq conflicts.
For the life of me I don't know what I changed but something has taken
me from "no-brainer set-up" to "can't make it work" Whenever I start the
card up it returns the following errors:
eth0: TxRing full, refusing to send buffer.
eth0: transmitter timed ou, tx_status ff, status ffff
eth0: Transmitter encountered 16 collisions -- network cable problem?
eth0: Interrupt posted but not delivered -- IRQ blocked by another
device?
Here's the pcmcia system files:
/etc/sysconfig/pcmcia
PCMCIA=yes
PCIC=i82365
PCIC_OPTS=
CORE_OPTS=
/etc/config.opts contains the default entries, plus:
exclude irq 11
How do I get this thing to take on a different interrupt? Any insight
will be appreciated. Thanks.
Paul Bailey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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