Linux-Hardware Digest #445, Volume #14 Tue, 6 Mar 01 18:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: Suse 6.3, Where are the scsi bootdisk/kernels? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with nvidia drivers - is it just me? (Peter Petersen)
HP Pavilion N5130 compatible? (Ken Knecht)
Re: Suse 6.3, Where are the scsi bootdisk/kernels? (Michael Heiming)
Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles (Angry Bob)
Re: Latest Adaptec SCSI cards support by kernel 2.0.36-38? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: linux on a A7V133 Asus mobo ("GH")
LS120 drive ("Dennis J. Tuchler")
Re: Mode lines for monitor (jwk)
Re: Diamond speedstar A90 driver ("Bas")
Re: linux on a A7V133 Asus mobo (Jan Richling)
Re: XFree86 4.0.2 Troubles!!! (Toby Haynes)
Re: Cheap PCI sound card supported by Linux and OS/2? (Klaus Staedtler-Przyborski)
Network Interface stops working ("baba")
Re: Suggestion on Epox Mobo and AMD K7 (Harald Radke)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Suse 6.3, Where are the scsi bootdisk/kernels?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 16:46:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I looked there, the best thing I could find was a standard
kernel disk, and a separate disk that contained scsi modules.
After a first installation that perhaps uses floopy disk, I
would like to normally boot using loadlin. How do I extract
the correct scsi driver from the modules disk, combine it with
the standard kernel disk, and then transfer this combined disk
back to dos for use with loadlin?
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:11:13 +0100, Michael Heiming
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> I have Suse 6.3, 6-cd set w/ manual. According to the box,
>> it should support scsi, in the manual it names the directory
>> where you should be able to find scsi bootdisks/kernels, but
>> there are no scsi images there.
>> I need to find the right kernel so I can use rawrite to make
>> a floppy. My pc doesn't support booting from cd.
>> There are also no scsi images at their ftp site, and the docs
>> are missing the traditional (scsi-howto).
>> What's up? Where can I find the a scsi kernel that will work
>> with Suse 6.3? If this can't be, then why do they say it?
>
>Hello,
>
>mount CD 1 and read:
>
>/where_ever_you_mounted_it/disks/README
>
>Good luck
>
>Michael Heiming
>
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From: Peter Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problems with nvidia drivers - is it just me?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 18:59:11 +0100
On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 14:45:09 GMT, Arthur Pedyczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have been having problems with strange memory corruption in 2.4.
>series of kernels. Within 48 hours after reboot I would get an odd
>Oops or fs corruption which would seem completely unrelated to
>video. I tried to figure out the reason. After gathering some
>helpful hints from linux-kernel mailing list I started my testing.
>1. tested hardware (RAM, HD...) - didn't find any problems.
>2. started eliminating modules that are not part of the standard
>kernel tree
> - eliminated oss - no change, system still unstable
> - removed NVdriver and started using nv driver that came with
>XFree86-4.0.1
> (WOW! all of sudden the box is running for ten days and there's
>no corruption!)
> - put NVdriver back, switched to nvdriver form Nvidia - Oops
>within 48 hrs.
>
>So, I have no choice but to believe that NVdriver kernel module (or
>nvdriver binary) is the culprit. Has anybody seen anything similar,
>or is it just me?
Hello!
Yes, I also experienced file system corruption (severe!) under linux (by
the way, about 5 to 6 times now, mostly in the past and with different
computers!). The latest was with a 2.2.16 kernel and using -indeed-
xfree 4.02 and nvidia's drivers (but I don't know whether that's the
reason).
What definitely has to do with nvidia and/or xfree4.02 is:
- I can't use dpms any longer (in spite of a correct option line in my
config file)
- After some minutes of using X, it tends to lock up hard (whether agp
is enabled or not); before that, I experience jumpy movements of the
mouse cursor etc.)
- 0.9.6 was worse than 0.9.5, because the former made it impossible to
switch to a text console without losing the monitor screen (couldn't be
awakened by any means without rebooting).
I am NOT impressed...
Regards
Peter Petersen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: HP Pavilion N5130 compatible?
Date: 6 Mar 2001 17:52:56 GMT
I need a little info please.
I have a refurbished HP N5130 Pavilion notebook coming - 5G,
128M, 550. It has MS ME installed. Can I repartition this and
use a few G for Linux without big problems? I'd hate to go
though the trouble of making space and installing if it's not
likely to work. It's not essential but it would be very
convenient.
If you need any more info just ask.
I looked at http://lhd.datapower.com/ but didn't see the N5130.
Other HP N51XX units listed there were unrated. I looked at the
Redhat hardware compatibility site but nothing there. I tried
http://www.linuxhardware.net/ but I couldn't get it to show any
search results. Evidently it doesn't like my old Netscape
browser. I tried other sites but found no n5130 info there
either.
TIA
Ken
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Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:35:39 +0100
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse 6.3, Where are the scsi bootdisk/kernels?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I looked there, the best thing I could find was a standard
> kernel disk, and a separate disk that contained scsi modules.
>
> After a first installation that perhaps uses floopy disk, I
> would like to normally boot using loadlin. How do I extract
> the correct scsi driver from the modules disk, combine it with
> the standard kernel disk, and then transfer this combined disk
> back to dos for use with loadlin?
You don't need to do this manualy, yast will do this for you during
installation (you can choose a boot kernel), if I remember right it will
install LILO to your MBR, it's the prefered way and you can although
boot winbloze with LILO, loadlin means to start MS-DOS and load then
Linux,
I have no windows on my machine, so I don't use it.
This should be described in the book that came with your distro.
If I remember right there was a SCSI kernel you could choose, but I
seldom
use standart SuSE kernel. as I always like to build my own.
Good luck
>
>
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:11:13 +0100, Michael Heiming
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> I have Suse 6.3, 6-cd set w/ manual. According to the box,
> >> it should support scsi, in the manual it names the directory
> >> where you should be able to find scsi bootdisks/kernels, but
> >> there are no scsi images there.
> >> I need to find the right kernel so I can use rawrite to make
> >> a floppy. My pc doesn't support booting from cd.
> >> There are also no scsi images at their ftp site, and the docs
> >> are missing the traditional (scsi-howto).
> >> What's up? Where can I find the a scsi kernel that will work
> >> with Suse 6.3? If this can't be, then why do they say it?
> >
> >Hello,
> >
> >mount CD 1 and read:
> >
> >/where_ever_you_mounted_it/disks/README
> >
> >Good luck
> >
> >Michael Heiming
> >
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From: Angry Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles
Date: 6 Mar 2001 18:41:10 GMT
What would you like to read? [comp.os.linux.setup or *?]
This is a Alex Weiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scroll! it says:
> 1. Run sndconfig as root and in console mode. While the installation, once
> again, went without problems, this did not solve my problem.
su to root and type:
esd &
--
AngryBob Systems Consultant - http://www.trellisinc.com
The secret to not getting burned out is to play at working hard,
and not taking things too seriously.
-- Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Latest Adaptec SCSI cards support by kernel 2.0.36-38?
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:00:17 +0800
Hi,
Do you think upgrade the aic7xxx SCSI driver exist in 2.0.36 with the
latest one is *possible*? I heard that it can upgrade 2.0.36 to use
5.x.x version driver with many patches, but I don't know which version
have these cards support, or at least support the 2906 and 2930U.
Thanks,
Vincent
"D. Stimits" wrote:
> > We have a client still using kernel 2.0.36 system, can anyone tell us
> > are these new SCSI cards from adaptec (2906, 2930U, 19160, 29160) are
> > supported by this kernel? If not can we get the support by manually
> > replace the SCSI driver to a newer version?
> You need the aic7xxx driver, usually this is best compiled in if you
> need scsi access at boot time (mkinitrd can work for modules). Probably
> it is available by some means for that kernel, but it is very unlikely
> it will support it in 2.0.36. Even if it did support it, u160 didn't
> exist then, and it would be relegated to older protocols. As I recall,
> even the LVD 80 MB/sec drives were only then seeing support added. The
> older kernel is probably a serious handicap.
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From: "GH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.mainboards.asus,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: linux on a A7V133 Asus mobo
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 20:21:10 +0100
If your cdrom is not UATA66 or 100 and connected on the 1st IDE channel (UATA
66/100)
, it hangs...
hope this helps.
GH
hac a �crit dans le message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>optimator wrote:
>>
>> Ok here are the specs,
>>
>> Asus A7V133 Motherboard with latest 1003a BIOS installed
>> AMD T'Bird 850
>> 512M PC133 RAM
>> 30G Maxtor ATA/100 HD
>>
>> I have the 2.4.2 Kernel installed and the system boots but
>> if I have any large disk accesses then the system locks and
>> I have to hard reboot to get it back.
>>
>> I have tried putting the hard drive on the primary IDE(ide0)
>> and on the Promise ATA/100 controller(ide2). Both act the
>> same way.
>>
>> If someone else wants to try this, I am consistantly able to
>> get the system to lock when I run "bonnie++"(a hard drive
>> benchmark utility) http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/
>> Or if would like a graphical version that will lock you up
>> try - http://www.enjoy.ne.jp/~gm/program/hdbench
>>
>> Is anyone else having this problem?
>>
>I have a similar system, and can't reproduce your problem.
>Motherboard and RAM are the same, processor is a T'bird 1GHz, drive is
>a Maxtor 54098U8 40GB ATA/66 on the VIA controller. I've updated to
>2.4.2, and compiled bonnie++. It works.
>
>The difference seems to be ATA/100 vs ATA/66. Try forcing UDMA mode4?
>
>--
>Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dennis J. Tuchler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LS120 drive
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 19:56:33 GMT
My floppy drive is an LS120 drive, and can read from and write to 1.44MB
as well as 120MB diskettes. Unfortunately, my SuSE 7.0 doesn't seem to
be able to mount the drive. The floppy drive icon under KDE 1.n won't
mount the drive. What can I do to see what is wrong and fix it?
Thanks
dj tuchler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Subject: Re: Mode lines for monitor
Date: 6 Mar 2001 20:02:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6 Mar 2001 13:43:56 GMT, Eric Ho
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Could someone give me the mode lines for my 19" MAG DJ800 monitor ?
>I have been using it for about 2-3 years but I couldn't find the
>manual. Recently, I reinstalled Linux and need the modelines for X.
>
create them yourself:
http://www.inria.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines
Good luck,
Jurriaan
--
You aren't going to do anything about it then?
Of course I am.
What?
I'm going to ignore it.
David Eddings - The Sapphire Rose
GNU/Linux 2.4.2-ac12 SMP/ReiserFS 2x1743 bogomips load av: 0.00 0.03 0.02
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From: "Bas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond speedstar A90 driver
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:20:21 +0100
Hi Cristian,
I will try it, thanks for the tip.
Bas
Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Bas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi Bas,
>
> > I have a diamond speedstar A90 videocard and can't get the thing to work
> > with LINUX. Does anybody have an idea how I can get the thing to work?
>
> as far as I know the Diamond A90 is an Savage3-Board, so any XFree3.3.6 or
> later should work fine (w/SVGA-Xserver). I've got the S540 with a Savage4+
> and everything works well with the above mentioned server.
>
> --
> regards,
> Christian mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jan Richling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.periphs.mainboards.asus,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: linux on a A7V133 Asus mobo
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 21:48:17 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Asus A7V133 Motherboard with latest 1003a BIOS installed
> AMD T'Bird 850
> 512M PC133 RAM
> 30G Maxtor ATA/100 HD
My A7V133 runs very stable with Linux 2.2.18 and ide patches from
linux-ide.org. 3 IBM 703045, two @promise, one @via, all three deliver 36
MB/s and are able to run bonnie as long as I want.
Maybe you should try that kernel with that patches...
Jan
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux,de.comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.2 Troubles!!!
Date: 06 Mar 2001 16:00:51 -0500
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Toby!
>
>> > On my Compaq AP200 at work (128MB, ELSA Gloria Synergy 8MB), using XF336,
>> > I have 1280x1024x24bit in ~85kHz. Trying it with XF402, I only get
>> > something around 54Hz. It is not possible to work with this! Any idea how
>> > to tune XF402 to have 1280x1024x24bit in a resonable sync (somewere
>> > >75Hz)?
>>
>> Two possibilities - either there is no suitable mode defined (something
>> which is highly unlikely with 4.0.x as there are a large collection of
>> default modes)
>
> How can I check this? My monitor is a HP A4576A and it is not listed.
Don't worry about the strict monitor definition - the key things are the sync
ranges below. If your monitor supports EDID, then sometimes the monitor will
give misleading information to the driver and things get a little cranky, but
generally it should work ...
>> or you have the wrong monitor refresh rates in the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
>> file. XFree86 picks the best mode it can use with the monitor.
>
>> HorizSync 30.0-100.0
>> VertRefresh 50.0-170.0
>
> Well, it is there, but without ".0" at the end. But this shouldn't matter?
No - the .0 shouldn't matter.
Okay - lets analyze this a little further. Look at the file
/var/log/XFree86.0.log after you start X in this 1280x1024x24bit@54Hz mode -
save it somewhere safe as I suspect you will quickly go insane looking at a
screen at 54Hz.
Look through it for lines like (the driver may be different):
(II) MGA(0): I2C bus "DDC" initialized.
(II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered.
(II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
(II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" registered.
(II) MGA(0): I2C device "DDC:ddc2" removed.
(II) MGA(0): I2C Monitor info: 0x82872a8
(II) MGA(0): Manufacturer: PHL Model: 4109 Serial#: 2565
(II) MGA(0): Year: 1999 Week: 45
(II) MGA(0): EDID Version: 1.1
(II) MGA(0): Analog Display Input, Input Voltage Level: 0.700/0.300 V
(II) MGA(0): Sync: Separate Composite SyncOnGreen
(II) MGA(0): Max H-Image Size [cm]: horiz.: 34 vert.: 25
(II) MGA(0): Gamma: 2.76
and so on.
There should be a list of supported Vesa Modes - I suspect that 1280x1024@75Hz
should be listed. You should also get a pixel clock measurement and an image
size as well, among other details. Then it should tell you what refresh rates
it is going to use, and then it should 'delete' all unsuitable modes. What do
you get for all this, and how does it compare to the specs in the monitor
manual.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: Klaus Staedtler-Przyborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.multimedia
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI sound card supported by Linux and OS/2?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 22:22:11 GMT
Thomas Tonino schrieb:
>
> Klaus Staedtler-Przyborski wrote:
>
> > Other Cards than the SBLive are the Crystal 3.06 Driver based Cards:
> > A-Open AW320 (very cheap and simple) and Terratec DMX X-Fire 1024
> > (similar to SBLive)
>
> I use the Terratec now with Alsa, but Quake3 sound does not work. Tried
> to fix that by enabling mmap support for oss and re-installing, but
> quake then segfaults and a few minutes after the cras the card starts
> producing some sqeeky noises.
>
> Is there a different driver that works for this card then?
>
> Thomas
Sorry don't know that, cause I _use_ Linux only to test if there are
differencies between os/2 ports and their linux originals (naturally I
watch also the growing efforts/success to get linux better). The most
annoying thing (haven't found out how to disable them, but didn't invest
to much - maybe I should delete 'em) is the KDE/2 start sound (which
plays quite fine with the Alsa drivers for the Terratec DMX X-Fire ;-).
For me thats only something like a 'Windows dwarf-copy' (sorry can't
translate it in correct english, but it should be clear what I mean)
Klaus Staedtler
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From: "baba" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network Interface stops working
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 14:23:10 -0800
We have a server which runs Apache 1.3 which we installed of the RH 70 CD.
The server runs fine for a couple of days serving webpages and then the
ethernet interface (eth0) stops responding. When we do ifconfig we see the
eth0 interface is still up. When we try to ping the local host it responds.
When we try to ping our gateway we get "Destination Host Unreachable". When
we view the route table it has an entry for default with the proper gateway.
If we do an ifconfig eth0 down followed by an ifconfig eth0 up the NIC comes
back online and it pings the gateway no problem but there is no entry for
default in the routing table. This has been a tough problem for us to
debug. Can you please help. We have module 3C90X for the NIC running.
Sameer
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From: Harald Radke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suggestion on Epox Mobo and AMD K7
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 23:39:48 +0100
Michael Heiming wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to purchase an Epox EP-8KTA3+ ( I don't need the extra IDE,
> but the one without + is not available).
>
> 1.Is there a real performance difference between Slot-A and Socket-A
> Athlon CPU?
I think the early K7 (Slot-A) didn't have full clock speed on the 2nd level
cache...this changed with the K7 Thunderbird...dunno, if there are Slot A
Thunderbirds, however if there are some, they will be the last, the Slot is
abandoned, Socket A is the future (hopefully AMD doesn't change the socket
again for their new CPUs)
>
> 2.Couldn't find any info if the onboard sound would work?
Well, I think ALSA supports the AC97...you should have a look at
www.alsa-project.org and check it out
Hope that helps,
Harry
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