Linux-Hardware Digest #500, Volume #14 Mon, 19 Mar 01 07:13:06 EST
Contents:
PCTV card won't work ("Andy Walker")
Re: PCTV card won't work (Drew Roedersheimer)
SMC EtherEZ is not recognized ("Vladimir")
Lexmark Jumpshot (Stephen Saville)
SB Live Value PCI - No CD Audio? (Keeper of the Key to Time)
Re: Promise FastTrak100 - OK, now what? ("Alan Miles")
Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0 ("Thumper")
Upgrade Kernel & Xfree86 ("Alex")
Re: ATA100 harddisk in Linux ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: Accesing an Ericsson T10 phone from a Linux box (Nick Chalk)
Re: Matrox G450 (Nick Chalk)
Re: VIA82Cxxx Install Probs - MD 7.1 (Malcolm Bebb)
Intel Etherexpress TPE HUB ("Kris Stark")
Re: Help with ESS1788 sound chip (Walter Dnes)
Re: Intellimouse Trackball... (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: Epson 777 and Wordperfect (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . . (Kenneth R�rvik)
Support for AMD-760 ("Harry Overs")
Re: Lexmark Jumpshot ("Roy B")
Re: HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . . (jwk)
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From: "Andy Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCTV card won't work
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:43:08 -0000
I'm running an Athelon 600 and a PCTV Pinnacle card that dual boots with
Win98.
It works fine in Windows but whatever I do in Linux regardless of what
software I use it just locks up my machine.
I'm using Mandrake7.2 which has xawtv and kwintv installed but it makes no
difference which. I get sound (though only static) then the system locks up
and I have to re-boot.
I've tried it on an AMD K6-2 450 and the same problem occurs. The programs
seem to start up ok but thats about it. I've even tried loading new versions
of the software to no avail.
Am I doing something wrong in setting it up and does anyone have any help.
I'm in England so I don't know what tuning data I need, England is PAL
whereas I think Western Europe is SECAM so could this be a factor?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drew Roedersheimer)
Subject: Re: PCTV card won't work
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 01:56:06 GMT
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:43:08 -0000, Andy Walker wrote:
>I'm running an Athelon 600 and a PCTV Pinnacle card that dual boots with
>Win98.
>It works fine in Windows but whatever I do in Linux regardless of what
>software I use it just locks up my machine.
>I'm using Mandrake7.2 which has xawtv and kwintv installed but it makes no
>difference which. I get sound (though only static) then the system locks up
>and I have to re-boot.
>I've tried it on an AMD K6-2 450 and the same problem occurs. The programs
>seem to start up ok but thats about it. I've even tried loading new versions
>of the software to no avail.
>Am I doing something wrong in setting it up and does anyone have any help.
>I'm in England so I don't know what tuning data I need, England is PAL
>whereas I think Western Europe is SECAM so could this be a factor?
>
>
Not sure if it will help, but a few people got the same card (I believe)
working under Linux, and posted here:
http://lhd.zdnet.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?663
HTH
-DR
--
Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it.
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From: "Vladimir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMC EtherEZ is not recognized
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:58:00 -0500
Hi all
When I install linux the linux doesn't recognize my ethernet card (SMC
EtherEZ)
i checked in the /dev folder for eth0 and there wasn't wnything even close
to this
Any advise how can i make the card work?
Oleg M
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stephen Saville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark Jumpshot
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:25:18 +0000
Are there any drivers available for the USB Lexmark Jumpshot
CompactFlash card reader? I got one with a compactflash card, but I
can't decifer how to use it.
-Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://zampire,.darktech.org
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From: Keeper of the Key to Time <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SB Live Value PCI - No CD Audio?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:43:53 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi, everyone...
Ok, I'm sure this is a basic issue for those experienced with audio
hardware, but I have zero experience with modern sound cards. (Previous one
cost $15 and was ESS-based.) Now I have a new system and a new sound card
-- invoice says Sound Blaster Live Value PCI, and the sticker on the card
says CT4830; that's all the info I have, because it was OEM. (Oh yeah, I
got a CD with it that's labeled "Sound Blaster Live 1024", and seems to
contain drivers for various flavors of Windows.)
I'm running Mandrake 7.2, kernel has basic sound modules compiled, plus
support for EMU10K (lsmod shows "soundcore" and "emu10k1" loaded when I'm
playing sounds). HardDrake [chuckle] detected the card and didn't seem to
do much; it works great for playing every type of audio I can think of --
except CDs.
Troubleshooting steps I've followed:
Tried going down to basics -- login as root, use "cdp" to play a CD...
nothing.
Changed owner/permissions on /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp* ...nothing. (My SuSE
laptop has mode 666 for those devices; Mandrake created them as 600, but
neither seems to make a difference.)
Changed audio cable between CD-ROM and sound card (swapped out the cable,
changed it from CD-ROM to CD-RW [BTW, I may never store MP3s on the hard
drive again, since playing 'em from a SCSI-based CD device seems
rock-solid!], flipped it end-for-end, reversed polarities... nothing.
Anyway, have exhausted the on-system documentation and can't seem to find
anything relevant via Google (damn, I miss DejaNews) -- my problem seems to
be the opposite of the one most people have. Any advice would be much
appreciated! :)
Thanks,
--
// Carl Hudkins = reverse("com.bigfoot at keybounce");
//
// "Wake me when it's over, touch my face
// Tell me every word has been erased..." --TMBG
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From: "Alan Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak100 - OK, now what?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 04:12:42 GMT
Larry,
How did you boot? Did you have a lilo bootdisk? If you did, perhaps you
could share that with us - I was able to install my linux, but coannot boot
it, as I am using a lilo bootdisk, but I need the ft.o module
installed in the kernal, just to "see" the root partition, to complete the
boot disk.
I sinstalled, via a boot/root disk pare, and insmod-ed the ft.o module into
the running ramdisk linux kernal from the boot/root disk. That way, I saw my
hardrive as one large scsi drive, to which I could alter the partitions and
install linux.
Alan
"iQXth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:35:23 GMT, Larry Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > After creating a boot partition using the supplied driver disk from
> > Promise I did modify lilo.conf and all is well - booting the stock RH
> > 7 kernel. I would like to move forward and use 2.4.X - any progess
> > getting RAID0 to work with this platform ?
> >
> > Larry
>
>
> I'm sorry, I cannot comment on the 2.4.X kernel. I have not worked
> with it.
>
>
> --- iQXth ---
> Please respond to this thread
> or post with 'ulvfboqj' in the
> subject to get my attention.
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From: "Thumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW with Suse 7.0
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 04:23:46 GMT
It will solve you problem in the short term. Until you, like I, can learn
Linux better to allow us to be able to do the stuff that we want it to do.
--
Thumper
Kill da munge to reply by email.
Registered Linux user #209449 - Machine registration #97328
"Tim Cuthbertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:nx4t6.104$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "Thumper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:Jv2t6.141184$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a similar problem with my Adaptec 39160 under RH 7. For some
reason
> > it flakes out when I try to put a multi-boot setup booting to sda1 and
> sdb1.
> > It will get about 8 dots into the boot sequence and hang. I have a work
> > around. It's not very clean, but it works, and you don't have to worry
> about
> > getting lilo to work with all your OS's and can load different OS's when
> you
> > want.
> >
> > I just checked the specs for the 2940UW, and like the 39160 it has the
> > option to set the boot drive ID. What you need to do is clean up your
> > lilo.conf to reflect just the linux boot drive. You do have to change
the
> > doot ID each time you want to switch, but in my case, it works. I had 2K
> Pro
> > loaded when I loaded Linux. Did not feel like reloading EVERYTHING from
> > scratch and do the OS loads in sequence as suggested. After trying to
get
> > WINE to work with 2K load and getting error messages, I decided to load
> 98.
> > Using the method I described I can boot in and out of each OS without
any
> > problems. Just a minor issue of changing the boot ID in the SCSI
> utilities.
> > Hope this works for you.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thumper
> > Kill da munge to reply by email.
> > Registered Linux user #209449 - Machine registration #97328
> >
>
> Thumper,
>
> That is an interesting idea. If I am reading you correctly, you are saying
> to go into the SCSI adapter setup each time I boot and setting it to boot
> from one hard drive or the other. Then, on the times when I give it the
> Linux disk, it would start lilo, which would be configured to start Linux
> with no other choices.
>
> I still don't think it will help me know how to configure lilo with the
> aic7xxx parameters, which is the crux of my problem. I feel like, if I can
> solve that problem, there will be many possible ways of booting Linux, but
> until I solve it, none of those ways are going to work.
>
> Thanks very much for your input,
> Tim
>
>
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From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,fa.linux.kernel,hk.comp.os.linux,linux.dev.kernel,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,mlist.linux.kernel,muc.lists.linux-kernel,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Upgrade Kernel & Xfree86
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 12:57:20 +0800
How can i upgrade my gentus linux 3.0 to update kernel and Xfree86 4.0?
What files should i need to prepare?
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA100 harddisk in Linux
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:53:00 +0600
Jerry Wong wrote:
> Anybody using an ATA100 harddisk in Linux? Any problem?If you are
> using one, please tell me your harddisk model and Linux distribution &
> version.
Shouldn't be any problem with the 2.4.0 or 2.4.2 kernels. (Stay away
from 2.4.1, because it had a bug that corrupted your disk under certain
circumstances.)
So far as I know, any ATA-100 drive should work with either of those
kernels. I've been running Linux 2.4.0 off a Maxtor ATA 100 drive and
PCI controller for several weeks. I don't know the model numbers, but
they are whatever is on the shelf in all the stores right now. (The
controller actually has "Promise" stenciled on it.)
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: Nick Chalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accesing an Ericsson T10 phone from a Linux box
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 19:53:46 +0000 (UTC)
Francisco Monteagudo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I have an Ericsson T10 mobile phone with the
> cable to connect to the serial port, and I'm
> trying to use it from a Linux box.
> Someone know what are the serial port parameters
> to work with this phone? And the command set?
> (I read that it uses the standard AT command
> set)
I'm a little vague on this, but I believe that it
does use the AT command set. However, most of the
data transfer uses the IRDA protocol.
I'm afraid I can't be much more help than that. I
worked on the design of that phone, but only on
the Radio side. :-)
Nick.
--
Nick Chalk ........................ Radio Designer
Confidence is failing to understand the problem.
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From: Nick Chalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox G450
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:01:59 +0000 (UTC)
M.-Iqbal MARAQA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> can someone tell how can i configuer this dual
> head graphic card in order to have the desktop
> on 2 physical monitors. I'm using suse linux 7.1
> and XFree 4.2 .
I take it you mean v4.0.2 of XFree86...
First thing to do is download the drivers from
Matrox's web site - they're listed alongside the
Windows drivers. The README in the archive gives
fairly good instructions for modifying an existing
installation. There's also some sample XF86Config
files at the end of the README, showing how the
dualhead settings work.
Nick.
--
Nick Chalk ........................ Radio Designer
Confidence is failing to understand the problem.
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From: Malcolm Bebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA82Cxxx Install Probs - MD 7.1
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 14:04:21 +0000
In article <Aubs6.392769$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Me
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Malcolm Bebb"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Make sure it is enabled on the MB, including legacy support, then run
>sndconfig from the console (not in Xwindows)
>It will work, but sounds like crap.
>
:-)
Hmm.. well, I'll give it a go...
It works OK in Windoze
Cheers,
Malcolm
--
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From: "Kris Stark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel Etherexpress TPE HUB
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:50:16 -0500
I've got an Intel Etherexpress TPE Hub, and was wondering if
there might be any support (drivers) for this card... From
a quick search, I didn't see anything relating to it, and
of course, Intel is of no use for something this old...
In case you are wondering, this is a multi-port ethernet
card - one HD connector that is hooked up via a cable to
what Intel calls the harmonica.... Takes the function of an ethernet
connection as well as a hub...
Thanks!
Kris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Dnes)
Subject: Re: Help with ESS1788 sound chip
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:13:21 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 18 Mar 2001 23:55:12 GMT, Dances With Crows, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's not a video card, so XConfigurator would never touch it.
Argh... I meant the "setup" utility, which runs both Xconfigurator and
sound setup. Sorry if I look like a super newbie. I had video on my
mind from my attempts to get RH6.2 to set up X half decently. It saw
the s3 TRIO 64V 1-meg video chip, but gave a crummy 1152x864 8-bit video
with the left half of the screen partially grey. 800X600 was OK, but no
mention of 24-bit resolutions. RH7.0 set up 1152x864 properly and also
gives 800x600 16 bits, and 24 and 32 bits at smaller screens. GNOME is
an absolute resource hog. Unlike Windows, I'm able to dump the desktop
and go with straight FVWM2.
> Then try these commands:
>
> rmmod sb
> modprobe sb irq=5 dma=1 io=0x220 esstype=1788
> modprobe opl3 io=0x388
<ELVIS>
Thank you, thank you, thank you very very much.
</ELVIS>
It works. I've just installed RealPlayer 7 and tuned in to some
oldies on http://netradio.net . I'm still scratching my head
over why RealPlayer 8 complained about it being for "a different
architecture". It's an "i386" RPM, so a Pentium II shouldn't be
problem.
Where do you find out these parameters for modprobe? I did try to
RTFM and didn't see mention of those parameters.
--
Walter Dnes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intellimouse Trackball...
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:23:42 +0000
Don't know if this will help you, but under SuSE 7.1 I had to make sure
(force) the PROTOCOL was set to imps2, and the DEVICE was /dev/psaux.
Otherwise it seemed to go into la-la land when I tried to use the
autodetect. I then had to enable 'buttons', and set the z-axis to
'Negative 4' and 'Positive 5'.
Jim
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson 777 and Wordperfect
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:27:34 +0000
I'm using a Stylus Color 600, and the "Word Perfect Default Printer at
None". IIRC, once your printer is correctly setup you can just use the
default setting like I did.
Jim
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Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . .
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 08:43:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norvell Spearman) wrote in <3AB54479.7D795D13@nts-
online.net>:
>Has anyone successfully installed any distribution of Linux on an ABIT
>KT7A-RAID mainboard, using RAID-1? If I install a 2.2.15 kernel on one
>of the HDDs (on a regular IDE channel), can I then upgrade to 2.2.16,
>adjust /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, run /sbin/lilo, and---oh, how exactly
>to I ensure the modules for the htp370 get loaded before the kernel
>tried mounting partitions---then mirror the drives?
Linux does not support the raid features of the HPT370 yet, you'll be
better off sticking to s/w raid for the time being....
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: "Harry Overs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support for AMD-760
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:08:19 -0000
What is the status of support for the AMD-760 chipset and DDR ram
motherboards by current distributions?
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Reply-To: "Roy B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Roy B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark Jumpshot
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 09:51:48 GMT
Several months ago I searched in vain for a Jumpshot driver. Unless
something has appeared since then we may need to wait. With the better USB
support in the 2.4 kernel, something will appear soon. I've had to resort
to using my wife's laptop running Win ME to upload pix.
RB
"Stephen Saville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Are there any drivers available for the USB Lexmark Jumpshot
> CompactFlash card reader? I got one with a compactflash card, but I
> can't decifer how to use it.
>
> -Steve
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://zampire,.darktech.org
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Subject: Re: HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . .
Date: 19 Mar 2001 11:25:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:27:53 -0600, Norvell Spearman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone successfully installed any distribution of Linux on an ABIT
> KT7A-RAID mainboard, using RAID-1? If I install a 2.2.15 kernel on one
> of the HDDs (on a regular IDE channel), can I then upgrade to 2.2.16,
> adjust /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, run /sbin/lilo, and---oh, how exactly
> to I ensure the modules for the htp370 get loaded before the kernel
> tried mounting partitions---then mirror the drives?
>
You need a boot-disk with hpt370 support to recognize the controller. I
know SuSE 7.1 has it, for older distributions you may have to hunt the
web. Or check dejanews (now google) - there's been tons of posts on
this.
As for the Raid-part: you cannot install Linux on a windows-made raid
partition (since you can't access the windows drivers needed to provide
the raid). You can create raid in linux afterwards. For that, find the
raid-howto that's sure to be somewhere in your package.
Good luck,
Jurriaan
--
BOFH excuse #371:
Incorrectly configured static routes on the corerouters.
GNU/Linux 2.4.2-ac20 SMP/ReiserFS 2x1743 bogomips load av: 0.00 0.00 0.00
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