Linux-Hardware Digest #452, Volume #14 Wed, 7 Mar 01 21:13:05 EST
Contents:
wish to purchase new motherboard and ram - recommendations? (Dan Stromberg)
SCSI terminator (Kevin)
Re: Video Capture Card/TV Tuner (Matan Ziv-Av)
new installation with a geforce MX? ("Mike")
Re: Processor ID (Kaz Kylheku)
PowerWare 5115 and LanSafe3 ("Lutz Lehmann")
Re: Obtaining the MAC address (Manfred Bartz)
ALSA midi synth still doesn't work. ("modinfo" parameters don't help (CYBERYOGI
=CO= Windler)
Can't access NIC under Slackware 7.2 -NEWBIE- (Sam Worf)
WinModem ("David")
Re: ALSA midi synth still doesn't work. ("modinfo" parameters don't help ("J. H.
Brown")
Re: Processor ID (Dave Blake)
Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o (William Daffer)
Re: LILO (Gene Wiggins)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Stromberg)
Subject: wish to purchase new motherboard and ram - recommendations?
Date: 7 Mar 2001 22:58:17 GMT
I have an AMD K6/2 450Mhz system with 64M of ram and an Asus P5A-B
Alladin-V motherboard (I believe "B-AT mb" means it's a baby AT
formfactor), which I bought from a linux vendor that has since gone
out of business. :( Specs on the motherboard are available here:
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?367 .
The system swaps too much when I use java apps (and mozilla is
unusable) due to too little ram, and it crashes once in a while which
I heard is probably because the motherboard has bad AGP support. This
seems plausible because if I use 16 bpp, the machine crashes a lot
less than if I use 32 bpp, though it still crashes too much IMO.
I'd rather not back off to PCI video (I'm spoiled by AGP now), so I'm
thinking seriously about getting a new, noncrashy motherboard and some
more ram, 256M of it in total (so hopefully I'll purchase 192M, but if
I have to buy the full 256M, so be it).
Ideally, I'd like to reuse the same case, power supply, cpu, cards
(including ati agp video, an old PCI symbios scsi adapter I only use
for backups, and a sound card) and maybe even the ram, though I've
heard mixing ram from different vendors can be a problem.
Can anyone recommend an easily-obtained motherboard that might be
suitable? I'll consider getting a new cpu if it means getting a
significantly better buy on the motherboard. Obviously this doesn't
have to be top-performance hardware, I just want something reliable
that's able to run memory-hungry apps.
Can anyone recommend such a motherboard?
Thanks much.
--
Dan Stromberg UCI/NACS/DCS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI terminator
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 23:06:27 GMT
I'm trying to find a place to buy a 68-pin internal active LVD
SCSI terminator. My dying Quantum Atlas IV drive is providing
termination now. My replacement IBM drive does not have this
feature.
Local retailers, including national chains, are not much help on
this. So far I'm finding lots of terminators on the web, but not
this variety.
What can you recommend?
Thanks....
--
Unless otherwise noted, the statements herein reflect my personal
opinions and not those of any organization with which I may be affiliated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matan Ziv-Av)
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card/TV Tuner
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 23:11:35 GMT
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 01:20:47 GMT, Daniel J. Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >I believe my card is based on the Brooktree chipset too. I use a Hauppauge
> >WinTV go card - works flawlessly - and doesn't chew up many CPU cycles
> >either....
>
> What kind of captures can you get with these cards? Can you capture
> full-frame uncompressed 320x240 24bpp 30 fps? 640x480 24bpp 30 fps? What
> speed computer do you have? Is there a performance difference between
> Windows and Linux?
For capturing uncompressed video the limit is not cpu speed, but hard drive
speed. If you capture with btyuv format (1.5 bytes per pixel), 640x480x30
fps takes 13.8 MB/s. YUV 4:2:2 (the highest you would resonably used, since
this is the original format) takes 18.4 MB/s.
For mjpeg compressed video
On a Celleron 366 I can capture at 320x240x25 fps. Takes 90% cpu time with
xawtv or 50% cpu time with mainactor. The 90% means that any other thing
that happens on the system causes skipped frames.
On an Athlon 1000, 640x480x25 takes about 80% with xawtv and about 40% with
mainactor.
--
Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new installation with a geforce MX?
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:21:40 +0100
Hi,
I tried 2 ditributions: RedHat 7 and Caldera. None of them could even go
thru the installation program... it locks when it launches the GUI
installation.
I know the Geforce2 MX is not supported by Xfree and that I shall upgrade it
ot version 4.0.2, though I don't have any clue on how to upgrade it while I
can't even install Linux.
Maybe there is a trick to upgrade the installation cd.
Tnx for reading!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kaz Kylheku)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Processor ID
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 23:19:55 GMT
On 7 Mar 2001 21:45:48 GMT, Dave Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bruce E. Varney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The Pentium III (and the Celeron?) supports a processor ID. Is
>> there a system call in Linux which queries this value?
>
>The linux kernel, being an entity that values YOUR privacy,
>disables access to the CPUid by default.
Why doesn't it disable access to the your ethernet MAC then also?
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From: "Lutz Lehmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PowerWare 5115 and LanSafe3
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 00:40:00 +0100
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Hi, everybody...
I finally got myself a UPS for my box, but I ain't happy at all...
It's a PowerWare 5115 connected to /dev/ttyS0. I got the LanSafe
software running, and it is shutting down my box without problems.
Since I have a windoze machine hanging on the same UPS, I thought
about setting up the Group function and installing LanSafe on it as
well. But - for some unknown reason, it is impossible to get any
status information at all. As far as I can tell I have played with
_every_ setting there is (and that ain't many), but the controller
always shows up with its loopback address, so my windoze machine
can't possibly connect.
If anybody can help me (or maybe even recommend better solutions than
LS3)
Thanx in advance
Lutz
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Obtaining the MAC address
From: Manfred Bartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 23:57:10 GMT
"Bruce E. Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ifconfig and dhcp are obviously able to pull the MAC address from
> the NIC, but I can't seem to isolate the appropriate system call to
> do this in my own program. How do I obtain the MAC address from the
> ethernet card?
Basically:
1. fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP);
2. ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, &ifc);
A while ago, someone else posted a C program to do this.
I can dig it out if you want it; email me privately.
--
Manfred
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ipchainsLogAnalyzer, NetCalc, whois at: <http://logi.cc/linux/>
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From: CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.sound,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.music.midi
Subject: ALSA midi synth still doesn't work. ("modinfo" parameters don't help
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 01:09:47 +0100
Pavan schrieb:
>
> try running
>
> # modinfo -p snd-card-sbawe
>
> This gives the parameters the module takes. I could enable the
> synth device passing parameters to the snd-card-ymfpci. But still
> no midi is playing.
>
> -Pavan
The parameters found this way didn't help yet. Is nobody else here experienced
with ALSA midi synth drivers?
MAY THE SOFTWARE BE WITH YOU!
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From: Sam Worf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't access NIC under Slackware 7.2 -NEWBIE-
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:01:14 -0800
After entering the Linux world just a couple days ago I've hit a snag.
My new install of Slackware 7.2 won't let me use my Kingston KNE110TX
NIC, instead it gives me the following error on boot:
> Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server...
> dhcpcd[70]: dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily
> unavailable
I have set netconfig to connect through DHCP cause that's the way my
hardware is set up, and upon probing my hardware netconfig correctly
identifies my NIC as tulip type.
My hardware, which consists of the NIC, a D-link DI-704 router/switch,
and an Alcatel 1000 ADSL modem, works fine when I dual boot to WinME
(which is where I'm posting this message from), but I can't ping the
router from Linux.
ifconfig output:
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
dmesg section that seems to pertain to the NIC (full dmesg output at
bottom):
> tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xb400, 00:C0:F0:2D:50:DD, IRQ 0.
> eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
lsmod reports that the tulip module is (unused), and
cat /proc/pci lists the card as a LiteOn KNE100TX which it is NOT - it
is actually a KNE110TX.
[please remove spamblock to reply]
Linux version 2.2.18 (root@frop) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #22 SMP Mon Jan 8 15:05:17 PST
2001
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (002c4000)
Detected 704944 kHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1405.74 BogoMIPS
Memory: 516824k/524224k available (1376k kernel code, 424k reserved,
5524k data, 76k init)
Dentry hash table entries: 65536 (order 7, 512k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 524288 (order 9, 2048k)
Page cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
256K L2 cache (8 way)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error
reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
256K L2 cache (8 way)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 50.03 usecs.
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0890
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:48
PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:49
PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:50
PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:50
PCI: 00:20 [1106/0596]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 524288 bhash 65536)
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xd8000000, mapped to 0xe0000000, size 16384k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=9
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:7cc3
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD307AA, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Maxtor 96147U8, ATA DISK drive
hdc: HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-2500, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC WD307AA, 29333MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=3739/255/63
hdb: Maxtor 96147U8, 58623MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=7473/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1024kB Cache
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 > hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 > hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 76k freed
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
operation.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels,
max=256).
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
PPP BSD Compression module registered
tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xb400, 00:C0:F0:2D:50:DD, IRQ 0.
eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.23
kernel build: 2.2.18 #22 SMP Mon Jan 8 15:05:17 PST 2001
options: [pci] [cardbus]
PCI routing table version 1.0 at 0xf0e60
00:09.0 -> irq 9
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
iBCS: socksys registered on character major 30
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WinModem
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:49:52 -0600
Can anyone tell me what to do to get Lucent modem to work. Have Linux
drivers for Lucent. Do not know how to install.
--
David Poston
Poston Software & Development
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
1-800-205-0019
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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:04:01 -0600
From: "J. H. Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.sound,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.music.midi
Subject: Re: ALSA midi synth still doesn't work. ("modinfo" parameters don't help
CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler wrote:
>
> Pavan schrieb:
> >
> > try running
> >
> > # modinfo -p snd-card-sbawe
> >
> > This gives the parameters the module takes. I could enable the
> > synth device passing parameters to the snd-card-ymfpci. But still
> > no midi is playing.
> >
> > -Pavan
>
> The parameters found this way didn't help yet. Is nobody else here experienced
> with ALSA midi synth drivers?
>
There is a thread in alt.os.linux.mandrake from two days ago about your
problem with ALSA. There was no resolution except ALSA must
specifically support the card, and that one guy got it to work with the
latest drivers. Doesn't help much.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Processor ID
Date: 8 Mar 2001 00:40:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kaz Kylheku <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7 Mar 2001 21:45:48 GMT, Dave Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Bruce E. Varney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> The Pentium III (and the Celeron?) supports a processor ID. Is
> >> there a system call in Linux which queries this value?
> >
> >The linux kernel, being an entity that values YOUR privacy,
> >disables access to the CPUid by default.
>
> Why doesn't it disable access to the your ethernet MAC then also?
Don't know.
Presumably because things like flex license manager work
by querying the MAC address. Making the MAC address
inaccessible by default would disable lots of functionality.
I would assume having a queryable MAC address is also part of
network protocols.
In linux there are command line options to fake the MAC address
when you load a module for an ethernet card. So it is really
quite trivial to be whatever MAC address you like, as long as
your network device is loaded as a module.
--
Dave Blake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o
From: William Daffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 01:58:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk) writes:
> On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 05:59:21 GMT, William Daffer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> Did you download, compile and install the latest-and-greatest i2c and
> lm_sensors packages? You may have an older version that doesn't yet have
> the via686a module.
>
My version is 2.5.2-3, the current redhat RPM. There is a later
version (2.5.5) available and I'll download and install it this
weekend.
Thanks for the suggestion.
whd
--
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: Gene Wiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 02:00:25 GMT
I've had such problems in the past. If you can boot any operating system=
=20
by any means, use its FDISK command to activate the linux "/boot"=20
partition (or the root partition if it has /boot in it.)
> I had LILO installed but as I have a windomem I have to use windowz as=
an
> INTERNET os. So my windows just stoped functioning (like it always doe=
s)=20
and
> I had to reinstall it. Unfortunately it re-writed my boot sector and I=
=20
can't
> boot linux. Now I have to reinstall linux and I don;t have a clue how =
to=20
do
> it. I run RedHat 7.0 and I don't have a boot disc...........any ideas?=
??
> Thankyou in advance!!!
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