Linux-Hardware Digest #392, Volume #14 Sat, 24 Feb 01 05:13:09 EST
Contents:
USB Zip disk under Linux 2.2.18? Can't get it to work (Charles Wright)
Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16) (Robert Bunn)
Re: Problem with Serial port if X is running (David Efflandt)
Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, which is an IDE device, and cdrecord.
ide-scsi isn't working properly? (See signature for email address)
Vintech Portable CD-ROM (Nori Kanazawa)
where can I buy a pc that is guaranteed Linux compatible? (summerland)
Shared IRQ problem? (cfeller)
Avance Logic 4000 ("Nikola")
Avance Logic 4000 ("Nikola")
Avance Logic 4000 ("Nikola")
Re: Sound card good buys? (Someone Special)
Re: where can I buy a pc that is guaranteed Linux compatible? (Ralph Miguel Hansen)
Sound Blaster 16 only works as root (Eric Ho)
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (Trevor Hemsley)
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From: Charles Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Zip disk under Linux 2.2.18? Can't get it to work
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 04:38:51 GMT
Hello,
As the subject says, I'm trying to get a USB Iomega Zip 100 drive
working. Here is the setup:
IBM Thinkpad 600X, RedHat 6.2 with kernel upgrade to 2.2.18.
I believe I've followed the correct procedures for setting
up the kernel: modular SCSI support, modular SCSI disk support,
modular USB everything (including mass storage)... I have the
usbdevfs mounted, too.
I'm not sure if I'm loading modules correctly. Following someone's
tips on the Linux USB web page, I did this:
% insmod scsi_mod
% insmod sd_mod
# usbcore - already loaded on boot to have usbdevfs automounted
% insmod usb-uhci # or just the uhci module - it doesn't matter
% insmod usb-storage
There were no complaints until I got to usb-storage. See below for
messages appearing in the system log. So the problem is that neither
fdisk nor mount recognize the drive:
% fdisk /dev/sda
Unable to open /dev/sda
% mount -t msdos /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip
mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device
Any ideas? What's going on? Please someone send me a kernel config
file, /etc/conf.modules file, and maybe the messages in the system log
when the module is loaded. I hope I am not required to upgrade to 2.4.
Thanks for the help,
Charles Wright
>From /var/log/messages, edited somewhat for clarity:
- BEGIN
==================================================================
23:21:19: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
23:21:19: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
23:21:19: scsi : 1 host.
23:21:19: Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 11.V
23:21:19: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI
revision: 02
23:21:19: Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0,
lun 0
23:21:19: usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented
23:21:19: usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented
23:21:24: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
23:21:34: usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented
23:21:34: usb-storage: bus_reset() requested but not implemented
23:21:39: usb-storage: host_reset() requested but not implemented
23:21:49: sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
23:21:49: sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 7, driver = 00
23:21:49: sda : sense not available.
23:21:49: sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
23:21:49: sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
23:21:49: unable to read partition table
23:21:49: USB Mass Storage support registered.
- END ---------------------------------------------------------------
Note that this took 30 whole seconds, whereas the other modules loaded
instantly. There then appeared a process called "(usb-storage-0)",
which is in an uninterruptable sleep (DW), and takes no apparent
resources, except to make the system load look higher.
Here are the pertinant lines from my /etc/conf.modules file:
alias block-major-8 sd_mod
alias usbdevfs usbcore
Here are the pertinant lines from lsmod:
usb-storage 22340 0
uhci 19360 0 (unused)
sd_mod 19164 0 (unused)
scsi_mod 61240 2 [usb-storage sd_mod]
usbcore 50152 1 (autoclean) [usb-storage uhci]
Here is /proc/scsi/scsi:
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: 11.V
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Here is /proc/scsi/usb/0:
Host scsi0: usb-storage
Vendor: Iomega
Product: USB Zip 100
Serial Number: 059B00310800B042
Protocol: Transparent SCSI
Transport: Bulk
GUID: 059b0031059b00310800b042
Here is /proc/bus/usb/devices:
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2
B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0
D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub
S: SerialNumber=4000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1
P: Vendor=059b ProdID=0031 Rev= 1.00
S: Manufacturer=Iomega
S: Product=USB Zip 100
S: SerialNumber=059B00310800B042
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50
Driver=usb-storage
E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 64 Ivl= 0ms
E: Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl= 32ms
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From: Robert Bunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:30:33 +0000
>
>Even if I add those 2 lines, I still have to insmod the modules, right?
Hmm. I think no, for adding lines in modules.conf. You have to modprobe them
instead, because insmod doesn't read modules.conf.
--
Robert Bunn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Problem with Serial port if X is running
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 05:30:55 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:42:37 GMT, Sergey Gribov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I have Dell Inspiron 8000 with Debian linux, kernel 2.4.2.
>I have the following strange problem:
>If I trying to synchronize Pilot using serial port (using pilot-xfer)
>without X running it's working just fine, but if I run X it failes
>in the middle with timeout and 'weird packets' problem.
>
>It seems, that serial port working fine without X and having problems
>when the X is running...
Does X think you have a serial mouse? Check mouse settings in XF86Config.
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller?
Date: 24 Feb 2001 00:13:46 -0500
Dear Linux Hackers,
I've got a motherboard (A7M266) but the VIA disk controller is flakey
(DMA timeouts, etc). Yes, I've tried loading the patches, but it still
fails when DMA is enabled...
I disabled the onboard IDE and put my main disk on a Promise Ultra66
controller. Problem is, I can't get this to boot!
Does anyone know what options (in lilo.conf) I can use to get this
to boot?
Thanks,
Richard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller?
Date: 24 Feb 2001 00:11:59 -0500
Dear Linux Hackers,
I've got a motherboard (A7M266) but the VIA disk controller is flakey
(DMA timeouts, etc). Yes, I've tried loading the patches, but it still
fails when DMA is enabled...
I disabled the onboard IDE and put my main disk on a Promise Ultra66
controller. Problem is, I can't get this to boot!
Does anyone know what options (in lilo.conf) I can use to get this
to boot?
Thanks,
Richard
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From: See signature for email address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, which is an IDE device, and
cdrecord. ide-scsi isn't working properly?
Date: 23 Feb 2001 23:10:44 GMT
Jeff Silverman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So I built a new 2.2.17 kernel with ide-scsi, sg, sr, and st modules.
> The drive works fine as a CD player, but cdrecord can't seem to find it.
> cowiche!root 438# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/t
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
You must still have the IDE driver compiled in the kernel which claims
the CD-Writer before ide-scsi claims it, which is why you see it as
/dev/hdc. You need to compile the kernel without IDE driver and compile
IDE driver as a module. If you do need to load the IDE driver later,
tell it to ignore your CD-Writer in your modules.conf file. All of this
has been explained in CD-Writing HOWTO.
====================================================================
Khalid Aziz Linux Development Laboratory
(970)898-9214 Hewlett-Packard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fort Collins, CO
DISCLAIMER: I express my opinions only. My employers have nothing to do
with my opinions.
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From: Nori Kanazawa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vintech Portable CD-ROM
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 06:58:55 GMT
Hi,
Does somebody know availability of Vintech Portable CD-ROM 24x PCMCIA
on Linux? The manufacture # is vines24t.
Thanks,
--
Nori
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From: summerland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where can I buy a pc that is guaranteed Linux compatible?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 02:34:28 -0800
First off,I checked with dell,and their webpage has
"some" puters listed,but "none" of the ones with
Linux,I kept getting a 404 error code.I tried a few web pages
like(www.linux.org),etc.But all I have seen
is small companies that I have never heard of,I would actually be quiet
content to purchase a pc that is guaranted
to be close to 100%.I recently aqcuired a computer that when I tried to
install Mandrake verion 6(i beleive)
damn near drove me nuts ,seriously,over half of the hardare was
incompatible<gggggrrr>I dont mind a bit of a
challenge but changing 50% of the harware would cost me close to how
much i payed for the computer,(damn
crappy winmodems).....Heh......and you should of had seen my screen
resolution.PLEASE!!any suggestions
would be greatly appreciated ,Thanks allot folks.
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From: cfeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Shared IRQ problem?
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 23:48:00 -0800
My problem is this:
I am running Red Hat 7 currently (I just upgraded from 6.2 last
week). The platform is and Intel 233 MMX CPU running on an Intel VX98
motherboard with 128MB of RAM. The modem is a Zoom 2919 56k flex modem,
although I have tried several other modems only to have the same
problem. (The Zoom modem does work fine under Linux in different
boxes). The problem is this: The modem will only work if the mouse is
moving. Thus, if I want to surf, send or receive files, I have to keep
the mouse slowly moving back and forth. (There is no serial mouse port
on the board, so I have to use a serial mouse.) The mouse is a serial
mouse under ttyS0 (COM 1). The modem is under ttyS2(COM3). So I moved
the serial mouse to ttyS1 (COM2), at which point the modem would not
even respond at all (yes I reassigned the mouse to the new port). I
moved the mouse back to ttyS0, and I still have the original problem. I
was thinking I would move the modem to a different slot, but no matter
which slot I move the modem to, it still shows up as being on ttyS2
(this holds true under DOS too, yet there is no IRQ problem under DOS).
When
Red Hat is loading, I have noticed a message: "Serial Driver 4.27
withMany_Ports_Sharing_Mulitiple_IRQ enabled". Right now this is where
I am at...Currently, anything of any size that I want to download, I
boot into Windows, download it, then I boot back into Linux, and access
the Windows partition. So if you have any insight into any fix I can
try to solve my problem, it would be appreciated.
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From: "Nikola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Avance Logic 4000
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:05:36 +0100
I have problem with setting my Avance Logic 4000 sound card.
I try with Alsa drivers, but I don't know how to set config files.
Can someone help me?
Thanks!
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From: "Nikola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Avance Logic 4000
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:05:36 +0100
I have problem with setting my Avance Logic 4000 sound card.
I try with Alsa drivers, but I don't know how to set config files.
Can someone help me?
Thanks!
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From: "Nikola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Avance Logic 4000
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:06:25 +0100
I have problem with setting my Avance Logic 4000 sound card.
I try with Alsa drivers, but I don't know how to set config files.
Can someone help me?
Thanks!
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From: Someone Special <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Sound card good buys?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 07:51:47 GMT
Guillemot Corporation (Hercules) has an alternative to the
Creative Live Drive, but it's not necessarily a need. It does give you
front face plate access to a whole ton of audio ports if you need that
type of thing. The problem with the Hercules unit is that I'm not sure
how long it'll be before someone releases Linux drivers for it, I'm
not even sure who manufactures the chipset for the thing.
As far as high quality cheap cards go, you could shoot for a
Creative PCI 512. It uses the emu10k1 chip, the same one the Live
uses, though the actual Live cards now have Dolby Digital Surround
sound, so I think the might have switched to a new revision. What the
512 lacks is the software that comes with the Live soundcards, but I
have compiled and used the emu10k1 module on 4 different computers,
all using PCI 512's, and they've all worked fine.
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 08:23:10 +1300, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have been Looking for a sound card most of the computer people can't
>give me the Information I need or want I am using at the moment a OLD
>SB16 non pnp It is too noisy for deasent recording (digitising my Lp
>collection) I have tryed some newer cards (a yahama clone) very
>distorted wave capture couldnt get the thing to work with Linux,
>
>so what I am looking for is a
>
>works with Linux
>
>has good midi sinth (sb16 sounds like the old "beep" in a Sinclare)
>
>good signal to noise say >80dB on the input with out earth loops
>(HUM!!!!) (sb16 is about 57dB S/N)
>
>Is the "Live Drive" as in the Sound Blaster Live a useful addition are
>there any thing else from other manufaturers that would do and
>usefulness?
>
>Thanks for any help
>
>Robert Cooze
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From: Ralph Miguel Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where can I buy a pc that is guaranteed Linux compatible?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 09:18:15 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
summerland wrote:
> First off,I checked with dell,and their webpage has
> "some" puters listed,but "none" of the ones with
> Linux,I kept getting a 404 error code.I tried a few web pages
> like(www.linux.org),etc.But all I have seen
> is small companies that I have never heard of,I would actually be quiet
> content to purchase a pc that is guaranted
> to be close to 100%.I recently aqcuired a computer that when I tried to
> install Mandrake verion 6(i beleive)
> damn near drove me nuts ,seriously,over half of the hardare was
> incompatible<gggggrrr>I dont mind a bit of a
> challenge but changing 50% of the harware would cost me close to how
> much i payed for the computer,(damn
> crappy winmodems).....Heh......and you should of had seen my screen
> resolution.PLEASE!!any suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated ,Thanks allot folks.
>
Pick out a few PC's you woud like to run and have a look at this:
http://www.suse.com/us/support/hardware/index.html . Hardware running with
SuSE runs with almost every flavour of Linux.
Cheers
Ralph Miguel Hansen
Using S.u.S.E. 5.3 and SuSE 7.0
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster 16 only works as root
Date: 24 Feb 2001 09:11:54 GMT
Hi, I have just reinstalled Slackware 7.1, everything is mostly ok,
but my sound blaster 16 card only works as root. There must be some
simple way to fix it ..... please help guys.
I am using 2.2.18 kernel.
Thanks very much.
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: 24 Feb 2001 09:29:17 GMT
On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 03:23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark
Bratcher) wrote:
> >That's not the whole truth (in my opinion:-): these are environments within
> >Linux and OS/2 that allow you to run Windows executables, i.e. _individual_
> >programs. This is pretty different from running a whole operating system, e.g.
> >including task, memory and filesystem management.
> >And the OP was asking how to run Linux, that is not an individual app, on a Unix
> >system.
>
> You're right about the Windows on Linux.
> Windows 3.11 on OS/2 though... hard to tell, you may be right there too.
> I ran OS/2 Warp when it first came out and I could run several program managers
> at once, or pop over to an entire full screen Windows, all while OS/2 was running.
> Sure does a great job fooling the user into believing Windows is really
> running there.
<OT>
That's because it is running there. I think you'll find that OS/2
really does run Windows, not emulate it. There are several versions of
OS/2, some come with an embedded copy of Windows supplied by IBM and
others make runtime patches to the copy of Win3.1 on your hard disk
and run it that way. The patches hit the memory management and DPMI
code and route calls through to the OS/2 memory manager instead of the
Win3.1 one. As far as Windows is concerned, it's actually running.
</OT>
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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