Linux-Hardware Digest #386, Volume #14 Fri, 23 Feb 01 08:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Losing My Mind Over Hardware Conflict (Nader)
carroll touch driver (daniel siegenthaler)
Tweaking BIOS for no keyboard? ("Daniel Lenski")
Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7 ("syco")
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? ("Martin Eriksson")
Re: UDMA100 on VP6 ("Martin Eriksson")
Re: new scsi drive woes (Walter van der Schee)
Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama (Walter van der Schee)
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (John Thompson)
Re: Netgear FA311 and nvidia drivers ("Alim")
how to run windows apps on linux (Mohammed Khalid Ansari)
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (Colin Watson)
Re: how to run windows apps on linux (Ken Morris Jr)
relation between device driver and device file (Mohammed Khalid Ansari)
Re: relation between device driver and device file ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Losing My Mind Over Hardware Conflict
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 23:19:23 -0800
I agree with Roy's assessment. I had a conflict with my modem and my HPT366
controller that kept my modem 'busy'. Although the PCI IRQ architecture is
designed to be shared, my linux drivers weren't supportive.
I resolved it (after much aggravation), by moving from 2.2.10 to 2.2.16.
I patched and configured the 2.2.16 kernel following the instructions on the
UDMA66 How-To and upgraded the serial driver from 4.27 to 5.05. After that not
only did everything work perfectly, but I could automatically boot from the
UDMA66 controller without passing parameters to the kernel (e.g., ide=0x400,
0x802).
I suggest that, if you don't want to try moving hardware around (you probably
will end up with other devices sharing PCI IRQs), you find the Promise ATA 100
How-To and upgrade and configure your kernel so that it will allow
PCI IRQ sharing because the driver recognizes your device.
Let me know if you need more details.
Roy B wrote:
> After studying the info you sent - it appears that the Ensonique audio
> controller and the 'unknown mass storage controller" are both trying to park
> on interrupt 10.
>
> So perhaps as soon as you try to access the SCSI controller the O.S.
> responds by branching to the audio driver code and everything goes downhill
> from there in a hurry? I don't know the kernel internals or dev driver
> API's but perhaps (probably) interrupt sharing is frowned on.
>
> Does your motherboard support manual BIOS assignment of interrupts to PCI
> slots? If so perhaps you could re-assign either the audio or the SCSI
> controller to interrupt 9 or 11?
>
> Hope this helps or leads to something else that helps.
>
> Incidentally - in case you aren't aware, most BIOS's sort of flash a screen
> at you for 3 microseconds during the boot process that tells you which
> devices are on what interrupts. It might be interesting to freeze that
> (with the 'Pause' key) and see if what it says agrees with what Linux thinks
> is happening (in /proc/interrupts).
>
> Let us know how you do.
>
> "Robert Redelmeier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Tim Little wrote:
> > >
> > > PROBLEM: System lockups requiring hard shutdown after
> > > accessing a SCSI device.
> > [...]
> > > The SCSI controller runs a CD-RW and a DAT drive, both of which
> > > ran well until they were installed on the new mainboard.
> >
> > Could you have a bus topology [cabling] or termination problem?
> > The SCSI card might be happier in a different PCI slot.
> >
> > -- Robert author `cpuburn` http://users.ev1.net/~redelm
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From: daniel siegenthaler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: carroll touch driver
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:46:52 -0500
Hello,
i have a carroll touch screen on a VGA flat panel and plan to use it on a
linux mnachine. I wonder if there's some free available or customizable
driver
around, since carroll itself doesn't supply one.
Daniel
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From: "Daniel Lenski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tweaking BIOS for no keyboard?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 02:37:10 +0500
Hi,
I have a NAT firewall/router/web server in my house so that me and my two
housemates can all be online at the same time. I would like to be able
to reboot it when I need to without having to plug a keyboard into it.
The trouble is that the BIOS (it's Award BIOS) demands that a keyboard be
plugged in in order to boot.
Are there any Linux utilities for changing BIOS settings or rewriting the
BIOS with flash rom? Does anyone have any experience modifying their
BIOS in this way?
Thanks in advance for your help!
--
Dan Lenski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us."
--Calvin and Hobbes
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From: "syco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI discs with SUSE 7
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:43:09 +0100
[...]
> Yes, it works.
> using : modprobe aha1542 aha1542=0x230
> ( that is the syntax I needed, indeed )
>
> Now, I have to find an automatic way to make it when Linux start :-(
As I wrote:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt
describes howto do this...
Michael Heiming
>
>
> >man modprobe for more info
> >
> >Read /usr/src/linux/Documentation/modules.txt (comes with every kernel
> tarball)
> >
> >gives some info how loadable modules work/setup.
> >
[...]
I've been searching a while, but sources are not installed on my disk
because of space ), and on distrib are only archives.
Is it an existing Documentation "on line" somewhere ?
SYCO.
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From: "Martin Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:42:13 +0100
I guess you mean "to run Linux on a pre-installed Unix system such as SGI or
Sun". If you mean that, yes it is possible.
"Mun Sing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Linux.... and I am wondering if it is possible Linux on a
> Unix System??
> I know it does not make much of a scene... but this question just pop
> into my head...
> If anyone has tried it or have some knowledge of it.
>
> Thanx,
> Mun
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From: "Martin Eriksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: UDMA100 on VP6
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:49:25 +0100
Primarily use the VIA interface... because I STILL think the HPT is flaky.
24MB /sec sounds OK... depends where you read from on the hard disk. With my
46GB IBM I get MAX 44MB/sec (in the beginning of the HD, ie. farthest out on
the platter) and about 22MB/sec closest to the center of the HD. This is
with HDTach in Windows 2k.
Remember, the ATA spec defines how fast your HD transfers it's buffer
contents to the IDE controller, not how fast the actual data rate is.
"Hamish Marson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Are all IDE interfaces on the VP6 capable of UDMA100? Or are some more
> equal than others? I currently have a 30GB IBM 75GXP attached as master
> on ide0, and am seeing 24MB/sec read (measured by hdparm -t /dev/hda on
> Linux Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.4.1).
>
> DMA mode was set using hdparm -X65 /dev/hda, which I believe is udma-2
> (?)
>
> Question is, should I be seeing more throughput than that? And what
> should be the preferred setting for hdparm on this drive, kernel & MB
> combination?
>
>
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From: Walter van der Schee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new scsi drive woes
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:53:35 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paul Repacholi wrote:
>
> Bernd Huebenett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > don't think that your new drive is the problem, but how about your
> > cables and the termination ??
>
> And the CD. Pull it off the bus, try again. Also try a single SHORT
> cable to the drive, with the drive terminating. The drive reports
> what it can do. If the cables etc can't handle the signal rate, it
The CD-ROM is probably not on the ultra2 channel but on the Fast-SCSI
(50pin) channel.
The Harddrive should be on the ultra2 channel with a ultra2-LVD cable,
with a special ultra2-LVD active terminator attached.
My understanding and experience with my adaptec 2930U2 and an
Quantum Atlas IV 9,1 is that the harddrive should NOT terminate,
but an active ultra2-LVD terminator should be used.
Then 80MB/s should be able to be obtained from ALL devices in
auto-negotiate
mode in the SCSI-BIOS.
Good luck.
Walter
--
ing. Walter van der Schee
TrienniuM B.V.
System Engineer
UNIX/TIBCO Support for KBC Brussels
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"Go go gadget linux." Zoomm!
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From: Walter van der Schee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:52:17 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris Nelson wrote:
>
> Hello: This weekend I finally got a working config file for using 2
> monitors on a g400 max.
>
> My problem however is that right now my etc/inittab file has me going to
> only run level 3. if I change this value to 5, the systems takes me to a
> graphical logon..but with only one monitor. My guess is that the system
> is still strying to run startx as opposed to startx -- +xinerama. Where
> do I need to make a change so this can be automoated? Any advice is
> # Screen "Screen 1"
> Screen "Screen 1" LeftOf "Screen 2" Screen "Screen 2"
>
> # Each InputDevice line specifies an InputDevice section name and
> # optionally some options to specify the way the device is to be
> # used. Those options include "CorePointer", "CoreKeyboard" and
> # "SendCoreEvents".
>
> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
>
> EndSection
The solution I found was simpler than any of the others I've seen
until now.
In your XF86Config file in the ServerLayout section put the layout like
this:
Section "ServerLayout"
Indentifier "Simple Layout"
Screen "Screen 1" LeftOf "Screen 2"
Screen "Screen 2"
Option "Xinerama"
EndSection
This should start X by default in Xinerama mode, regardless.
As for kdm starting instead of gdm, you can ofcourse
edit inittab to start kdm at runlevel 5, instead of gdm/xdm.
Walter
--
ing. Walter van der Schee
TrienniuM B.V.
System Engineer
UNIX/TIBCO Support for KBC Brussels
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"Go go gadget linux." Zoomm!
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 19:37:34 -0600
Mun Sing wrote:
> I am new to Linux.... and I am wondering if it is possible Linux on a
> Unix System??
> I know it does not make much of a scene... but this question just pop
> into my head...
> If anyone has tried it or have some knowledge of it.
There was an article on freshmeat recently about SCO Unixware
being used to run linux apps on Unix to allow linux apps to take
advantage of Unix scalabilty. Is this what you're thinking of?
Try a search on http://www.freshmeat.net for "Unixware."
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 and nvidia drivers
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:17:04 -0000
Well what I haven't tried yet is the drivers for the panasonic chipset on
the card. Using 2.2 I didn't try. I put 2.4 on straight away so that I could
use my ATA100 disks! The drivers I'm talking about are at www.scyld.com ,
but I don't remember what page it was.
"Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Were you able to get your fa311 to work properly in the 2.2 kernel? I
> have tried and tried, recompiled and recompiled, and all I get is errors.
> What did you do to make the downloaded driver work?
> Thanks,
> Simon.
> aflinsch wrote:
> >
> > Alim wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there
> > >
> > > Does anybody know how to get the Netgear FA311 fast ethernet card up
> and
> > > running using the 2.4 kernel?
> > >
> >
> > Not with the 2.4 kernel, but to get it working with the 2.2 kernel i
> > needed to snag the updated driver source (downloadable from netgear,
> > and probably elsewhere) & recompile.
> >
> > The driver & source provided with the card seem to have been for a 2.0
> > kernel...
>
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to run windows apps on linux
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 10:59:53 GMT
Can anybody tell me how do I run windows applications on Linux? Where do I
get the required software or libraries?
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On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Mark Bratcher wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Someone Special wrote:
> >On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 00:20:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark
> >Bratcher) wrote:
> >
> >>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Windgassen wrote:
> >>>On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Mun Sing wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Unix and linux are operating systems that run on a hardware platform, i.e.
> >>>NOT on another operating system.
> >>>
> >>>For example:
> >>>- Linux can run on Intel machines (x86)
> >>>- Windows can run on intel machines too
> >>
> >>And Windows can run on Linux. (eg, Lin4win) :-)
> >>And Windows 3.11 can run on OS/2.
> >
> >
> > Nope, Windows can't run on Linux, there are programs and
> >libraries that emulate the Win32/Win16 API's so that you can run
> >Windows software in Linux, but you can't run Windows itself. Keep in
> >mind, that even if you were to run explorer.exe and get the /real/
> >Windows interface, desktop and all, that you're still not running
> >Windows.
>
> Well, that's what I meant. Windows of course does not run directly on it,
> but you can get a library to do it for you. It's all just software.
>
> > Same thing with OS/2, it supported Win16 software and even
> >some Win16 device drivers, but it couldn't actually run Windows in one
> >of it's Windows.
>
> Ditto my above comment.
>
> --
> Mark Bratcher
> To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Watson)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: 23 Feb 2001 12:13:08 GMT
Ron Wigmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Do you mean running both at the same time?
>
>Closest to what you may be asking for is "vmware". It'll let you run
>multiple Intel based O/S's concurrently. eg. Windows and Linux or
>Caldera Linux and Turbolinux - you could even create a whole network of
>virtual Linux's running on a single PC (if your hardware was powerful
>enough) to simulate your real network configuration.
There's also a free project, Plex86 (www.plex86.org), which I think can
boot Windows among other operating systems; it's not complete yet,
though.
>The software for UNIX like Solaris and AIX will not run on Intel
>(hardware) systems.
Actually, Solaris have an x86 build.
--
Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Oh baby you're the only thing in this whole world / That's pure and
good and bright / And wherever you are and wherever you go / There's
always gonna be some light" - Meat Loaf, "Bat Out Of Hell"
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From: Ken Morris Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: how to run windows apps on linux
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:42:52 GMT
This month's issue of Maximum Linux (also publish MaximumPC) has a good article on
this. Just bought the issue this am and have yet to fully read it. Also comes with a
cd.
Do a search for WINE (Wine Is Not Emulation) at www.google and it should find
something for you.
This is a little beyond my skill set as I'm still trying to grasp all the info on
basic things in Linux, but I will stick with it.
Cheers
Kenmo
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From: Mohammed Khalid Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: relation between device driver and device file
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 12:29:45 GMT
Hello freinds,
I am wondering on the following points.
1) What is the relation between the device file and the device driver?
2) If we install a new hardware and boot the machines, windows tries to
detect it and install the corresponding driver(if it has) otherwise
user is supposed to install it and the new hardware starts worknig, while
in Linux, the driver has to be compiled in the kernel and I think we can
not install the correponding driver from the manufacturer (I dont know
properly). What is the correct scenario, will anyone please explain me.
3) There are many types of say sound cards, is it necessary that if I
install a sound card from some manufacturer, then the corresponding driver
must be compiled in the kernel? OR some standard driver is there in the
kernel for all types of sounde cards?
Please reply to the above queries as I am very musch confused?
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Visiting Software Engineer (off) : 0091-022-2024641
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: relation between device driver and device file
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 13:06:33 GMT
Mohammed Khalid Ansari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) What is the relation between the device file and the device driver?
Accesses to the device file are passed to the driver. The driver is
free to interpret them as it wants, but usually it does standard
things, such as take writes and pass tehm to the hardware ...
> 2) If we install a new hardware and boot the machines, windows tries to
> detect it and install the corresponding driver(if it has) otherwise
> user is supposed to install it and the new hardware starts worknig, while
> in Linux, the driver has to be compiled in the kernel and I think we can
No it doesn't. You can load it anytime as a module. That's the point.
> not install the correponding driver from the manufacturer (I dont know
There isn't one. At least not usually!
> properly). What is the correct scenario, will anyone please explain me.
No.
> 3) There are many types of say sound cards, is it necessary that if I
> install a sound card from some manufacturer, then the corresponding driver
> must be compiled in the kernel? OR some standard driver is there in the
> kernel for all types of sounde cards?
What is this fixation you have on compiling? Please read the modules
HOWTO.
Peter
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