Linux-Hardware Digest #437, Volume #14 Mon, 5 Mar 01 02:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Help!!! weird beeping noises and other oddities (Tim Moore)
Re: RedHat 6.2 rescue mode and tape drives (Tim Moore)
Re: Developing a FAT/ New to Linux (Tim Moore)
Re: batch files to access Windows files (Tim Moore)
Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2 (Tim Moore)
Odd harddrive problems (Matthew Borkowski)
Re: CDROM on ide1 not seen ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MODEMS and SETSERIAL problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IDE CDRWs and slow CPUs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DYMO serial printer and lpd: how? (Noble Pepper)
What the heck is this processor? (Ian Pilcher)
Re: My own mother!!! (The Real Bev)
(Beginner) Modem for Windows AND Linux avaialble? ("Garry Heaton")
Re: Linux Modem (Matt)
Video Capture Card/TV Tuner (Daniel J. Peng)
A7V, LNE100TX, SuSE 7.1 resolution (Mike McCann)
lm_sensors, via686a.o (William Daffer)
Re: Linux partitioning question (Daniel J. Peng)
Re: What the heck is this processor? ("D. Stimits")
Re: Linux partitioning question (Daniel J. Peng)
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Help!!! weird beeping noises and other oddities
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:24:24 GMT
Lionel Hutz wrote:
>
> ok, here is the situation, i recently managed to upgrade my cpu and mobo
> (p3 866/asus cuv4x-e,and new case,cdrom,floppy) my computer runs mandrake
> 7.2 and win2000, (7.2 installed over 7.0 today)
> since the new hardware change linux has behaved somewhat oddly, the system
What was your old cpu/mobo/cdrom etc? also post dmesg output
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 rescue mode and tape drives
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:31:48 GMT
> Coming from the Tru64 UNIX world, I would like to have the ability to
> boot from the RedHat 6.2 CD into rescue mode, create the tape device
> special files, mount the partitions of the system and then back them
> up. I attempted this once and even though I was able to create the
> SCSI tape devices listed in the st man pages, when I attempted to
> access it, I got an error complaining that it was not a valid tape
> device. Any suggestions, or should I just stick with single-user mode
> backups?
1. What's the difference between rescue and single user? Stick with
init 1.
2. If you need tape in rescue mode, check the dmesg output just after a
normal boot. That should tell you the tape devices, for example:
...scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: HP Model: COLORADO 20GB Rev: 4.01
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
...
In rescue mode I would create st0 & nst0 (norewind).
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timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Developing a FAT/ New to Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:36:32 GMT
http://www.orbits.com/Palm/
ftp://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/pub/PalmOS/
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timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: batch files to access Windows files
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:41:12 GMT
If a Windows partition were /dev/hda9 and you created a mount point /C
and put the following in your /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda9 /C vfat noauto,suid,user,defaults,rw 0 0
an ordinary user can mount, unmount and write to the partition.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 02:46:17 GMT
> I just upgraded to Kernel-2.4.2 from Kernel-2.2.14.
> The new kernel-2.4.2 runs fine. Well, I saw APIC related error message in
> /var/log/messages.
post dmesg output.
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timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 22:04:38 -0500
From: Matthew Borkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Odd harddrive problems
I install BestLinux on a hard drive with one partition of about 4 and a
half GB. However, when I ran KDE (that was install with BestLinux) it
ran very slowly and was similar to what Windows did when out of space or
memory. So I checked system information. I'm not sure if this is normal
or not, but system info showed that there were two partition (I guess
they were) were mounted to / and /home. The sizes were 2393 mb and 2293
mb respectively. The thing that confused me is that it showed that the
first was 87% full and the second was 94%. I did do full install on
BestLinux, but the install was 1.4 GB (estimated) and, as I said before,
my harddrive was over 4 and a half GB. Also, it said each filesystem was
of type ext2 (not sure if that matters or not). Can anyone help?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDROM on ide1 not seen
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:07:42 GMT
Stefano Ghirlanda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> If the IDE cable and the cdrom function correctly in
:> another system, then your secondary IDE channel
:> controller on the motherboard is blown.
: That's probably the case: I switched cdrom and hd and booted
: from a floppy, and now the cdrom is seen but the hd not... I will just
: have to buy a longer cable then I can set the cdrom as slave on the
: first ide channle, right?
Maybe I just ask the obvious. But...
Did you check your BIOS setup, if the second disk controller is
simply disabled?
Also some chipsets require a kernel bootup parameter to
enable the second controller.
Regards,
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
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Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MODEMS and SETSERIAL problems
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:13:02 GMT
george.piponidou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: I'm trying to get connected to the web using my Linux Redhat 6.1 system
: and unfortunately having some pretty basic problems.
[snip]
Use minicom for testing your ports and the modem.
Regards,
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IDE CDRWs and slow CPUs
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 13:19:35 GMT
Foolproofing Lab Test Subject <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: What's the slowest CPU that anyone has successfully used to burn a CDRW on an
: IDE burner? What was your CPU utilization while it was in progress?
An 486/66 did fine here.
No problems up to speed=2.
Speed=4 did not work reliably.
Speed=3 was not supported by the burner.
Regards,
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DYMO serial printer and lpd: how?
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:18:28 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bennett C. Baker wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've been trying to get my Dymo LabelWriter EL60 working with lpd for
> the better part of a day, with no luck. The Red Hat Hardware
> Compatibility list says it's compatible, so *somebody* must have gotten
> this sucker working with this configuration somewhere. If you are one
> of that lucky few, I would greatly appreciate a glimpse of your printcap
> file (or whatever stty magic you invoke).
>
> If, on the other hand, you have experience with serial printers other
> than this particular one and you believe you can help, the relevant
> stats are: 19200bps, no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit, hardware
> handshake.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> BCB
> --
> ==================================================
> Bennett C. Baker
> B::Ware
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.bware.com
>
>
>
Take a look at www.linuxprinting.org
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From: Ian Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What the heck is this processor?
Date: 05 Mar 2001 04:43:09 GMT
This is one of those "help me, I'm a moron posts".
I inheritted what I thought was a 550 MHz Pentium III, installed it in
my Tyan S1854 motherboard (replacing a PII/350) and got quite a
surprise.
This motherboard autodetects the processor's "bus speed", and it
absolutely insists that this cpu has a 133 MHz bus. Of course 133 x 5.5
is a lot higher than 550, so the system wouldn't do anything until I
lowered the multiplier. With a multiplier of 4, however, the system has
been rock solid for several days at 533 MHz (including two 12+ hour
periods of looping kernel compiles).
/proc/cpu info reports:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 7
model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 533.159
cache size : 512 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
bogomips : 1061.68
So does this tell anyone what the heck this thing is? (I didn't think
that there was such a thing as a 533 MHz Katmai.)
Thanks!
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Ian Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: The Real Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My own mother!!!
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 20:44:54 -0800
Phlip wrote:
>
> Linucists:
>
> This is humiliating, but my >own mother< gave my daughter a NickClick toy
> e-camera.
For a more serious appearance, cover it with duct tape. Comes in colors
too, if she'd prefer something a little girlier.
> She did this >after< I told her I had erased MS Windows from every computer
> in the house.
>
> Of course there's no technical web site for this thing, and of course the
> "users manual" is buried in a bunch of compressed DAT files on the CD.
>
> I suspect (due to the advertized 640x480 image size, and certain list
> server posts) it's a Epson PhotoPC 500 "classic".
>
> The two relevant programs are gPhoto and photopc. One's the GNOME project's
> main camera program, and uses a nice long list of drivers. Each did not
> work. The other is a quicky command-line interface to the Epson PhotoPC
> chipset.
>
> When I point photopc at /dev/ttyS0 it gives me a bunch of back-talk (yes, I
> enabled the port for read/write).
>
> When I point gphoto at /dev/ttyS0, gphoto emits no error messages, but
> returns nothing for every command, as if there were no communication.
Hrm. Both worked for the serial connection to my Nikon 800. Here's my
photopc command line:
photopc -z -t -f %Y%m%d-%H%M%S.jpg image all /nikon/new
which uploads (slowly, of course) everything into /nikon/new, changing the
filename to whatever the code specified. I stopped using it when I got a
Lexar Jumpshot (fast!), but it did the job. I preferred it to gphoto
because it will format the date more attractively.
The man page indicates that it looks in /dev/photopc rather than
/dev/ttySx, although you can specify it. Is there a chance that it looks
in /dev/photopc (a symlink) anyway, even if you specify something else, and
burps if it isn't there? Stranger things have happened.
I seem to remember that, unlike gphoto, photopc was really easy to set up,
even for me.
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Cheers,
Bev
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"If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared
not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I
ever said it." -- T. Lehrer
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From: "Garry Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (Beginner) Modem for Windows AND Linux avaialble?
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 22:02:34 -0000
I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 on a 3rd partition with Win98 on the
primary DOS and Win2000 on the extended. Soon discovered Linux doesn't like
my modem (Diamond Supra SST 56i Pro DF). Neither does Win2000 what it's
worth. I then read somewhere that it's "windmodems" for Windows and "real"
modems with "real chips" for Linux.
Big question is whether anyone has produced a modem which is compatible with
Windows and Linux.
Regards
Garry Heaton
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Modem
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 22:25:12 +0000
Thankyou all very much for your help.
Matt.
http://freespace.virgin.net/matthew.planchant/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Peng)
Subject: Video Capture Card/TV Tuner
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:48:18 GMT
I'd like to get a TV tuner/video capture card that's compatible with
Linux, but I can't seem to find any list of what's compatible. Is
there a definite website for video capture under Linux?
I'd like to be able to watch TV on screen and capture 640x480 true color
at 30 fps on a Pentium II-300 running RedHat 7.0. What would be the best
choice for this application?
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From: Mike McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: A7V, LNE100TX, SuSE 7.1 resolution
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:55:05 GMT
Hi folks
I'm happy to say that I've finally got the A7V network system working.
I'm taking some time to write this to share what worked for me and
hopefully this will help some other Linux venturers.
I'm not quite done with this installation andif there is anyone whom can
help
me I would appreciate your help.
My system
A7V motherboard
1GHz Thunderbird Athlon
384MBRam
Radeon all-in-wonder
guillemot maxi-sound Fortissimo
Cottin-picken Linksys LNE100TX (actually it wasn't the problem)
Suse 7.1 2.2.18
40G Maxtor 7200rpm (currently sitting on the ata66 ide port
dvd/cd-rom toshiba
cd-r/w ricoh
The symptoms were the nic card and sound card were not configurable. On
further investigation I saw that the VIA bridge controllers and such
were not
properly discovered. After I had successfully loaded RH7 on a dos
partition
using information from http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html, I
had
decided to install Suse just released 7.1. I had no luck installing
kernel
2.4, so then I tried to install 2.2.18. I then could not get any other
device
to work. I tried Ashley's method for the nic card,
www.suse.com/~ashley,
however it didn't work. I followed Linksys methods, it didn't work.
(mostly,
because it didn't seem to have lx_suse package.
So, as often when one puts together thier own torture machine, computer,
I
went and checked the drivers and bios. Asus still has the same version
as
they did in January. But if you haven't done that, go to the site, look
up the A7V motherboard, from there the driver hot-links are available.
I did find a great little site called http://www.amdmb.com, it has the
latest AMD bios update.
I did notice that there were four devices loaded on IRQ # 5. Using KDE
System Control -- Device Manager one can easily view what's not properly
configured. One question on that, I have the nic card running however
the Device Manager still says that some of the motherboard controllers
are unresolved. If someone can confirm whether this is acceptable and a
short coming of the software, I would appreciate it.
After reading the manual on A7V, I found that the bios assigns the IRQ
by the slot position. So, I moved the card to the slot 3 instead of slot
5. And found that in Windows 98 that all the IRQs redistribute, and
this time more evenly.
So a couple of you helpfuls out there suggested using the Suse 7.0 eide
boot
disk. I down loaded it, wrote it to a floppy and re-installed 7.1. It
didn't work for kernel 2.4. It sorted of worked for 2.2.18. Sort
of --- what does sort of mean??????????
Well, as-is, it didn't let me add the nic card. So I checked dmesg and
/var/messages. I found that everything was looking in
/lib/modules/2.2.16/.... . Well, since I was loading 2.2.18 and I used
a promise eide boot disk from Suse 7.0, something in it's little brain
processes due to the boot disk was trying to point everything to the
/lib/modules/2.2.16/.... directories. So I took a simple gamble,
created a /lib/modules/2.2.16 directory and copied the
/lib/modules/2.2.18 subdirectories to the 2.2.16 directory. It worked.
So what was the actual problem here. I bet Suse 7.1 set needs to have a
promise/eide boot disk.
Now if someone can help me upgrade to 2.4.X kernel I would appreciate
it. I tried that and the boot process said edba too big or something
like that.
resources
http://comp.os.linux.hardware
http://comp.os.linux.networking
http://alt.linux.suse
http://www.amdmb.com (great site for AMD and motherboard talk)
http://www.suse.com/~ashley
http://www.scyld.com/diag
http://www.suse.com (use thier support knowledge database)
http://www.asus.com products - motherboards - slot A - a7v
http://www.promise.com
http://www.linksys.com
So, I'll keep plugging away. Hope this helps
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: lm_sensors, via686a.o
From: William Daffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:59:21 GMT
I just changed my motherboards from an abit bp6 to an asus A7V and
I'm trying to get lm_sensors working again. I ran sensor-detect and
it gives me the information to put in the rc.local and
modules.conf. The problem is that it wants to load a module
(via686a) which it, and I, can't seem to find.
I don't mess with the modules all that much, so I'm pretty much a
clueless newbee. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
William Daffer
--
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read
-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Peng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:30:31 GMT
On 26 Feb 2001 01:24:30 GMT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Never had a sudden power failure that caused one of your filesystems to
>get completely scribbled? (NOTE: The first time I typed this sentence,
Odd, I've only seen that happen with Linux, and I've been using Linux for
a third the time I've been using DOS. Is there some characteristic of
ext2 that makes it more easily corruptible?
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Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 23:37:40 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What the heck is this processor?
I think the "Katmai" just refers to a variation of PIII. The Katmai
instruction set is the SIMD set added in PIII, that PII did not have. My
coppermine versions say coppermine, my PII versions say "Deschutes". If
I recall correctly (which I might not), the PIIIE is a coppermine PIII
with 100MHz bus, while a PIIIEB is a coppermine with 133MHz bus. I don't
know if there is such a thing as a non-coppermine with 133MHz bus, but
that might be what you have. In any case, Katmai indicates SIMD
instruction set, which is introduced with PIII.
Ian Pilcher wrote:
>
> This is one of those "help me, I'm a moron posts".
>
> I inheritted what I thought was a 550 MHz Pentium III, installed it in
> my Tyan S1854 motherboard (replacing a PII/350) and got quite a
> surprise.
>
> This motherboard autodetects the processor's "bus speed", and it
> absolutely insists that this cpu has a 133 MHz bus. Of course 133 x 5.5
> is a lot higher than 550, so the system wouldn't do anything until I
> lowered the multiplier. With a multiplier of 4, however, the system has
> been rock solid for several days at 533 MHz (including two 12+ hour
> periods of looping kernel compiles).
>
> /proc/cpu info reports:
>
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 7
> model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
> stepping : 2
> cpu MHz : 533.159
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca
> cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
> bogomips : 1061.68
>
> So does this tell anyone what the heck this thing is? (I didn't think
> that there was such a thing as a 533 MHz Katmai.)
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> ========================================================================
> Ian Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ========================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Peng)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 06:54:47 GMT
On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:42:48 GMT, Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> created automatically when I do the install?? (Im a newbie)
Well, this is just /tmp, right? Nothing is guaranteed to stay in there.
Why not...
init 1
rm -Rf /tmp
rm -Rf /var/tmp
rm -Rf /usr/tmp
mkdir /var/tmp
ln -s /var/tmp /tmp
ln -s /var/tmp /usr/tmp
init 6
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