Linux-Hardware Digest #453, Volume #14 Wed, 7 Mar 01 23:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: What modem should I buy? (Dances With Crows)
Re: WinModem (Dances With Crows)
Re: SCSI terminator (Michael Meissner)
Re: SCSI terminator ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: new installation with a geforce MX? ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: SCSI terminator ("Eric Braeden")
Re: Obtaining the MAC address (Floyd Davidson)
Re: What modem should I buy? (Tom Jones)
Re: PCI IRQ Steering under Linux? (Tim Moore)
Re: HPT366 Problem? (Tim Moore)
Re: Processor ID (Chronos Tachyon)
Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles ("Ron Maxey")
Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2 (Tim Moore)
Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card? (Michael Meissner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: What modem should I buy?
Date: 8 Mar 2001 02:11:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:47:02 -0500, Tom Jones staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>For my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop??? There is an internal Winmodem in
>it - and I have read all about this - so I don't even want to deal with
>it. What is the best and easiest modem (PCMCIA) to get ?
Depends on if the internal Losemodem is a Lucent or not. Lucents are
pretty easy to set up now, since some folks over at
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
have provided a free driver that works with any kernel > 2.2.10 . Grab
the tarball from the above URL, extract it, read the 1ST-READ file and
follow its directions, and you're up.
If the built-in modem is not a Lucent, ignore this and do like the other
poster suggested.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: WinModem
Date: 8 Mar 2001 02:11:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:49:52 -0600, David staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>Can anyone tell me what to do to get Lucent modem to work. Have Linux
>drivers for Lucent. Do not know how to install.
Find README for Lucent drivers. Read README. Follow directions.
Better yet, try this URL, which leads to a Lucent Losemodem driver which
will work with any recent 2.2 series kernel, whereas the binary drivers
will only work with 2.2.14 .. 2.2.16.
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
Download the tarball, then
tar xzf ltmodem-5.78e.tar.gz
cd ltmodem-5.78e
less 1ST-READ
[follow the directions; it's foolproof but not damnfoolproof]
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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Subject: Re: SCSI terminator
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Mar 2001 21:14:12 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin) writes:
> 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?
I've used the cablemakers site, but have not used the others:
http://www.cablemakers.com/
http://www.scsi-cables.com/
http://commerce.atecone.net/ultra/
http://www.techcable.com/
The adaptec online store (http://www.adaptecstore.com) used to sell terminators
too, but the site looks broken currently when I select cables.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI terminator
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:22:42 -0600
www.blackbox.com is one place.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft MVP
AKA Grunt<><
"Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:T9zp6.1975$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new installation with a geforce MX?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 20:30:11 -0600
I have an Asus V7700 (Geforce2 GTS) which is not supported until XFree86
4.02 either. I used Caldera eDesktop 2.4. If you check the manual you'll
find you can do a non-graphic install or a lisa install. I ended up using
the lisa because I also had an Initio A100u2w SCSI card and had to tell the
install to install the module for it. Either way will get you installed.
Then the first time you boot Linux you have to modify the boot to go to
runlevel 3 (non-graphic) because it defaults to 5 (graphical). The eDesktop
2.4 uses grub instead of lilo for a booter but either one you can tell to
go to runlevel 3. Once you've logged on as root edit /etc/inittab and set
the default runlevel to 3 so that you won't have to tell lilo or grub what
level to go to each time.
Once you've done that get XFree86 4.02 downloaded to your system. Follow
the instructions and install it. Then configure it.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AKA Grunt<><
"Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3aa6c16e$0$36042$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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: "Eric Braeden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI terminator
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:45:33 -0500
http://www.scsipro.com/
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From: Floyd Davidson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Obtaining the MAC address
Date: 07 Mar 2001 17:08:27 -0900
"Bruce E. Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All,
>
>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?
Here is a demo program that prints out several interface parameters,
including the hardware address. This has been posted a number of times,
and works on at least several varieties of UNIX.
Floyd
/*
* display info about network interfaces
*/
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <net/if_arp.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#define inaddrr(x) (*(struct in_addr *) &ifr->x[sizeof sa.sin_port])
#define IFRSIZE ((int)(size * sizeof (struct ifreq)))
int main(void)
{
unsigned char *u;
int sockfd, size = 1;
struct ifreq *ifr;
struct ifconf ifc;
struct sockaddr_in sa;
if (0 > (sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP))) {
fprintf(stderr, "Cannot open socket.\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
ifc.ifc_len = IFRSIZE;
ifc.ifc_req = NULL;
do {
++size;
/* realloc buffer size until no overflow occurs */
if (NULL == (ifc.ifc_req = realloc(ifc.ifc_req, IFRSIZE))) {
fprintf(stderr, "Out of memory.\n");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
ifc.ifc_len = IFRSIZE;
if (ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFCONF, &ifc)) {
perror("ioctl SIOCFIFCONF");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
} while (IFRSIZE <= ifc.ifc_len);
ifr = ifc.ifc_req;
for (;(char *) ifr < (char *) ifc.ifc_req + ifc.ifc_len; ++ifr) {
if (ifr->ifr_addr.sa_data == (ifr+1)->ifr_addr.sa_data) {
continue; /* duplicate, skip it */
}
if (ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFFLAGS, ifr)) {
continue; /* failed to get flags, skip it */
}
printf("Interface: %s\n", ifr->ifr_name);
printf("IP Address: %s\n", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)));
/*
This won't work on HP-UX 10.20 as there's no SIOCGIFHWADDR ioctl. You'll
need to use DLPI or the NETSTAT ioctl on /dev/lan0, etc (and you'll need
to be root to use the NETSTAT ioctl. Also this is deprecated and doesn't
work on 11.00).
On Digital Unix you can use the SIOCRPHYSADDR ioctl according to an old
utility I have. Also on SGI I think you need to use a raw socket, e.g. s
= socket(PF_RAW, SOCK_RAW, RAWPROTO_SNOOP)
Dave
From: David Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*/
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFHWADDR, ifr)) {
/* Select which hardware types to process.
*
* See list in system include file included from
* /usr/include/net/if_arp.h (For example, on
* Linux see file /usr/include/linux/if_arp.h to
* get the list.)
*/
switch (ifr->ifr_hwaddr.sa_family) {
default:
printf("\n");
continue;
case ARPHRD_NETROM: case ARPHRD_ETHER: case ARPHRD_PPP:
case ARPHRD_EETHER: case ARPHRD_IEEE802: break;
}
u = (unsigned char *) &ifr->ifr_addr.sa_data;
if (u[0] + u[1] + u[2] + u[3] + u[4] + u[5]) {
printf("HW Address: %2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x.%2.2x\n",
u[0], u[1], u[2], u[3], u[4], u[5]);
}
}
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFNETMASK, ifr) &&
strcmp("255.255.255.255", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)))) {
printf("Netmask: %s\n", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)));
}
if (ifr->ifr_flags & IFF_BROADCAST) {
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFBRDADDR, ifr) &&
strcmp("0.0.0.0", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)))) {
printf("Broadcast: %s\n", inet_ntoa(inaddrr(ifr_addr.sa_data)));
}
}
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFMTU, ifr)) {
printf("MTU: %u\n", ifr->ifr_mtu);
}
if (0 == ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFMETRIC, ifr)) {
printf("Metric: %u\n", ifr->ifr_metric);
}
printf("\n");
}
close(sockfd);
return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}
--
Floyd L. Davidson <http://www.ptialaska.net/~floyd>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Jones)
Subject: Re: What modem should I buy?
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:01:29 GMT
This was a WinNT machine - hence the Winmodem. I blew away NT and put
Linux on it. Everything works great, but I have no modem. Thanks for
the input.
On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:25:52 -0500, Armond Perretta
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tom Jones wrote:
>
>> For my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop??? There is an internal Winmodem
>> in it -
>> and I have read all about this - so I don't even want to deal with
>> it. What is the best and easiest modem (PCMCIA) to get ?
>
>I have the same machine running with a Dacom Gold Card pcmcia
>modem. Works fine. I did _not_ equip the machine with the internal
>winmodem. I seem to recall some discussion that having both modems
>in the machine was a problem for some when setting up Linux, but
>that's only a vague recollection. If you look in Google you will
>find quite a few sites that give specifics on setting up Linux on
>this particular machine.
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI IRQ Steering under Linux?
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:02:32 GMT
> The reason I need to know is that my Asus A7V mobo shares the IRQ for
> each PCI slot with things such as the ATA100 controller (and this
> feature seems to be non-negotiable). This means in particular that
> my Netgear FA310 network card and its IRQ (10) is recognised by the
> Linux kernel on boot-up, but the card won't work because of a conflict
> with the ATA100 controller's use of IRQ 10. The only way of getting
> an unshared IRQ for the card is to disable the ATA100 controller, and
> I don't really want to do that. A similar problem would occur on the
> other PCI slots, so there seems to be no point in shuffling the card
> around.
>
> I'm warm-booting to Red Hat 7.0 (kernel 2.2.16) via LOADLIN from DOS
> (don't know if this is relevant). The "PnP OS" BIOS value is set to
> "no".
There's a kernel option for IRQ sharing.
[18:46] abit:~ > grep IRQ /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y
You may have to swap cards and/or adjust BIOS PCI/IRQ assignment options
regardless of CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y. Personally I wouldn't share
disk controller interrupts with anything. Video and network cards seem
to share most of the time.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPT366 Problem?
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:10:28 GMT
"phil b." wrote:
>
> I'm using the onboard HPT366 on an Abit BP6. I have had two drives on the
> first controller on it doing raid0 for months now. I installed another drive
> on secondary controller on it and when doing a mke2fs the system was alive but
> unusable due to high load. Looking at what had happened I got this to start
> ...
> This is on a patched 2.2.17 kernel using Andre Hedrick's ide patch, which
> appears to be the 9/4/2000 one.
I have two of these, V1.1 and V1.0. Both had high disk I/O lockup
problems (with 2.2.14-17 + ide patch) until I upgraded power supplies to
=> 300W and did the well known EC10 Capacitor fix.
This is detailed on the Abit-centric sites, but basically involves
removing the 6.3v, 100uF EC10 capacitor and installing a 6.3v (or
greater) 1500uF capacitor. Any reputable A/V or computer repair place
can do it. I got part at Radio Shack and did it myself. Abit will also
do it.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Chronos Tachyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Processor ID
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:19:23 GMT
On 8 Mar 2001 00:40:55 GMT, Dave Blake wrote:
[Snip]
>
> 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.
>
Actually, it's even easier than that. With the vast majority of Ethernet
drivers, it's as simple as "ifconfig eth0 hw ether 01:23:45:67:89:AB".
Obviously, this never touches the firmware so the "real" MAC is not
permanently altered.
--
Chronos Tachyon
Guardian of Eristic Paraphernalia
Gatekeeper of the Region of Thud
[Reply instructions: My real domain is "echo <address> | cut -d. -f6,7"]
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From: "Ron Maxey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:06:23 GMT
After playing around briefly with Mandrake 7.0 a year or so back, I gave up
on Linux and went back to Windows (I know that's blasphemy in this group,
but that's a discussion for another day.)
Anyway, I still keep an eye on this group and noticed your post. The
following may or may not help:
When I was using Mandrake, I nearly pulled my hair out trying to get the
sound to work. It worked fine in Windows but wouldn't work at all in Linux.
I'd always get the "device or resource busy" message. I finally discovered
that before booting Linux, I needed to go into BIOS and set "Plug and Play
Aware OS" to "no" for Linux. For Windows, I'd set it to "yes." After doing
this, sound always worked fine in Linux.
"Alex Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everybody,
>
> Sorry about the last posting, now I REALLY feel like an idiot (just
> kidding of course). Anyway, this is the message I tried sending to
> everybody regarding some mandrake linux installation woes:
>
> Thanks for being patient.
>
> I tried lurking and finding a solution to my problem this way, but that
> didn't seem to do the trick. So, here I am, with a newbie question
> regarding the installation of my sound card in mandrake linux.
>
> What basically happens is as follows:
>
> In KDE, after I first installed linux on my machine, I used DrakConf to
set
> up my Vibra Soundblaster 16. I used the same irq and dma values that I
have
> in windows and it worked just fine. However, upon rebooting the computer,
> the sound no longer worked. W hen I tried using DrakConf to install the
> card again in KDE I got the following error:
>
> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
>
> Finally, even stranger, I do not get this error when I attempt to install
> the sound card in gnome, windowmaker, or any of the other environments.
> However, even if I use these other environments to configure the sound
> card, the sound never continues workin g after I reboot the machine.
>
> So far I've attempted the following to solve my problem (based mainly on
> reading this newsgroup and others):
>
> 1. Run sndconfig as root and in console mode. While the installation, once
> again, went without problems, this did not solve my problem.
>
> 2. I also followed the how-to guide and ran pdpdump which I later
> configured. Once again, this didn't solve the problem.
>
> 3. Finally, I tried to change the permissions of /dev/dsp in case the
> problem had to do with how they were set. Once again, this didn't help,
but
> it did lead me to another problem which I think may be related to why I
> cannot get sound.
>
> It seems that after I shutdown or close from the windows, the file
> permissions I set did not stay set in their new configuration. Hence, I
set
> the permission to 660 (read and write for user and group) and the next
> thing I knew, it was back to only read a nd write for user.
>
> I used dmesg to see whether there were any warnings and found that there
> was something wrong with my partition table (I am appending the output of
> dmesg to the end of this message).
>
> I suspect that the problem is that the things I've been saving with
respect
> to the soundcard are either saved and overwritten or not saved at all.
This
> is just a guess mind you, I would appreciate any help in fixing this
> problem since it is distressing.
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.17-21) on the following machine: A Pentium
> 166 with 64 megs of RAM @ BIOS 13.5 gig harddrive in which windows 95 is
> running on the first partition (around 8 gigs worth) and linux is riding
on
> the remainder 5-6 gigs. A matrox mystique graphics card. The computer is
> acting as a personal workstation (I'll probably have questions for you
> folks later when I try to get this thing connected to the school's
slirp!).
>
> The soundcard is a Vibra SB16 set for IRQ 5, DMAS 0 and 1, and an I/O
range
> of 220,330, and 338. The install programs tell me that there are no
> conflicts with these addresses.
>
> Anyway, as promised, here is the output of dmesg.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex
>
> Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3
19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000
> Detected 166586 kHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 332.60 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 62788k/65536k available (1136k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1072k
data, 128k init, 0k bigmem)
> Dentry hash table entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb490, last bus=0
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> 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 65536 bhash 65536)
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13)
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
> SIS5513: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09
> SIS5513: chipset revision 192
> SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: ST313640A, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:272, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: ST313640A, 12969MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=26351/16/63
> hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> 8regs : 162.687 MB/sec
> 32regs : 125.730 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (162.687 MB/sec)
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
> autodetecting RAID arrays
> autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 128k freed
> Adding Swap: 255488k swap-space (priority -1)
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
> parport_probe: failed
> parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.2.x)
> ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit
> ppa: Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit
> scsi0 : Iomega VPI0 (ppa) interface
> scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: L.01
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
> sda : READ CAPACITY failed.
> sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
> sda : extended sense code = 2
> sda : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0
> unable to read partition table
> PnP: Calling quirk for 02:00
> isapnp: Card 'Rockwell V.34 Plug & Play Modem'
> isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16C PnP'
> isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards detected total
> isapnp: card 'CTL0070' order 1 not found
> Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
> CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
> PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
> PPP line discipline registered.
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 03:34:30 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.
...
> ACPI: System description tables not found
Is ACPI disabled in BIOS? Looks like an Abit BP6 board.
> APIC error on CPU1: 00(02)
...
There are requirements beyond just the 2.4.2 kernel. See
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/changes.html
You might want to stay with 2.2.x a little longer as 2.4.2 is still very
new. 2.2.18 + ide.2.2.18.1221 patch will work.
ftp://ftp.kernel.org
/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/
/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/
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timothymoore
bigfoot
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Subject: Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Mar 2001 22:37:48 -0500
Hugh Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Rob Komar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> I'm wondering what's a decent AGP *1x* video card that will work well with
> >> XFree86 4...
>
> >> Suggestions appreciated...
>
> > My Matrox G400 works fine with my DK440LX motherboard.
>
> Same here.. I normally run 1280x1024 and it looks good.y
> I tried 1600x1200 and it works on my 20" fancy HP monitor, but it's pushing
> the resolution of the monitor, and the small text gets a little too small.
> The Matrox card works V well, installs easily and you can run it
> at higher AGP speed multiples for further acceleration. The videoDAC
> output looks very clean.. nice crisp edges without 'ringing' or ghosting
> etc..
A note of caution, G400's won't work in some older motherboards. I have a 233Mhz
Pentium-II in a LX motherboard, and the G400 did not work on that processor.
It works fine on my dual processor 500Mhz processor with a BX motherboard. The
documentation for the G400 says it only supports 2x and 4x AGP systems.
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