Linux-Hardware Digest #514, Volume #14 Thu, 22 Mar 01 16:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: SB Live! Value PCI (Ulrich Stosshoff)
Geforce2 Go and Linux? (Karl-Heinz Herrmann)
Re: Geforce 2mx and suse7.1 ("Thomas G.")
Re: Geforce2 Go and Linux? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Disk Block Size (Pjtg0707)
SCSI tape drive under linux: HOWTO (Dan Smith)
Re: Smart Media readers in Linux? ("Doug Dickey")
Re: Help with compiling USB into the kernel correctly.. (Bruce P. Morin)
Re: USB Hard Drive (update) (Bruce P. Morin)
SuSE 7.1 Pro and USB (Bruce P. Morin)
USB Hard Drive (Update) (John Hong)
Re: USB Hard Drive (update) (John Hong)
Re: USB Hard Drive (update) (Bruce P. Morin)
Re: SB Live! Value PCI (Joachim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4fner?=)
Installing Linux ("Tyron Washington")
Re: Installing Linux (Alex Yung)
Re: insert pcmcia card = locks up, hangs. DWL-650 D-Link wireless (Takashi Yoshida)
Re: SCSI tape drive under linux: HOWTO (Joshua Baker-LePain)
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From: Ulrich Stosshoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! Value PCI
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:17:26 +0100
Hello,
"G�rald Valentin" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running kernek 2.2.17 and I can't make my sound card (Sound Blaster
> Live! Value PCI) work correctly.
> Any help would be appreciated :-)
>
> When I make a "cat /usr/X11R6/lib/GNUstep/Apps/WMMail.app/Sounds/NewMail.au
> > /dev/audio" I can hardly hear a very bad quality sound with a lot of
> noise.
>
> Dmesg tells me the following:
>
> Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 13:20:10 Oct 5 2000
> emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x02 found, IO at 0xc400-0c41f, IRQ 10
This IRQ 10 may work under Window$ with IRQ-Sharing,
but not under Linux with different Devices, I suppose.
Try to place the card in another PCI-Slot, where no other devices use the
same IRQ - check IRQ-arrangements of BIOS in startup-messages !!!!
( Slot #2 is mostly the best for this, see IRQ's below )
A PCI-Card like this has nothing to do with this old isapnp-stuff.
isapnp is only for this old ISA-Cards, which you might not have.
If you want to see IRQ 5 (legacy audio - from DOS) used by your Soundcard
and it's not arranged by the BIOS in that way, then go into BIOS-section
PCI/PNP, and set the IRQ's manually for each IRQ-line / PCI-Slot
(#1 = AGP+Slot 1, #2 = Slot 2, #3 = Slots 3+5, #4 = Slots 4(+6) )
Regards, Ulrich
..
..
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Regards, G�rald.
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Geforce2 Go and Linux?
Date: 22 Mar 2001 17:24:51 +0000
Hi,
I hope somebody can give me some hints:
Does anybody know if the nvidia drivers from their website include the
geforce2 Go? Dell seems to switch from the ATI to nvidia right
now.... (at least Inspiron 8000).
And how stable are the nvidia drivers/Xservers? Somebody here dropped
a hint that they are somewhat unstable.
And a last one: Since I would probably install the 2.4.* jkernels,
will the nvidia driver work there? nvidias FAQ siys something about
they will fix problems with 2.3.X kernels soon....
thanks,
K.-H.
--
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Karl-Heinz Herrmann
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Thomas G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Geforce 2mx and suse7.1
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:19:28 +0100
Hello Janez,
would you happen to know with what I have to replace riva with, if I have
the geforce2mx card?
I tried geforce, but I don't know if this is right.
Thom.
"Janez Trenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Thomas G." wrote:
>
> > When the X-server is started, and I try to switch runlevels with the
init
> > command, or kill the x-server with ctrl-alt-f1 or ctrl-alt-backsp, or
logout
> > and select "console mode" at shutdown, my display hangs. I don't get to
see
> > anything of the console, and I don't know if this is working properly
either
> > (sometimes I manage to fill in my username and pwd blindly and then
restart
> > the pc, but most of the times it seems like a complete crash) . My
screen
> > just freezes when I try to do these things, and when I try to
reconfigure it
> > with Sax2 the screen goes black (no signal to minotor) most of the time,
> > when I am ready to test my config.
>
> Had the same problem on SuSE 7.0 with Xfree86 4.0.2 rpms. Found out that
> the culprit is framebuffer support in the kernel. I've put the following
> line in lilo.conf
> append = "video=riva:off"
>
> If you are using vesafb driver, you should replace riva with vesa in
> that line.
>
> Janez
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Subject: Re: Geforce2 Go and Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 17:56:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl-Heinz Herrmann) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>And a last one: Since I would probably install the 2.4.* jkernels,
>will the nvidia driver work there? nvidias FAQ siys something about
>they will fix problems with 2.3.X kernels soon....
Don't know about the Go, but my 2 MX runs just fine on 2.4.2 (nvidia 0.9-
769). So you should be OK with respect to the kernel version.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707)
Subject: Re: Disk Block Size
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 18:01:56 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:59:20 +1100, Rebecca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am trying to write a program that will provide hard disk configuration
>info. What I want to know is how to determine the block size of the disk. In
>the /proc filesystem everything seems to be reported in blocks - ie disk
>size partition size - how can I convert this to MB. I have seen in some
>places that block size is always assumed to be 512bytes - is this correct?
>If not how can I find out what the actual block size is. There is an ioctl
>call -BLKGETSIZE that returns the size of a block device in number of
>sectors - is this always 512 bytes? I found in the lvm library that the
>return value from this call is always divided by 2 to get Kb - Is this a
>valid assumption. Block size for physical disks is usually assumed to be the
>sector size (at least that is what I thought) Is this true?
>
>Thanks alot,
>Rebecca
>
>
Depends on UNIX/Linux versions, bootblock and superblock are 512 bytes,
but the standard block is 1024 bytes. The difficulty comes in when Linux
supports other file systems, which can be anyone's guess.
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI tape drive under linux: HOWTO
Date: 22 Mar 2001 13:41:57 -0500
Can someone point me in the right direction? I need to use a tape drive to do backups
under linux. I haven't bought one yet, so I also need to know which ones to buy
(unless it doesn't matter much)..
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: "Doug Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.photo.digital
Subject: Re: Smart Media readers in Linux?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:02:41 GMT
"Walter Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've been searching around, and I've found that apparently some of the
> Sandisk readers are compatable with Linux, are there any others?
>
> I'm looking specifically at a USB Dane-Elec reader, but I hadn't heard
> of this brand previously so I guess it's unlikely that anyone knows if
> it's supported or not, not sure how to find out though. They use the
> same controllers, or protocols, etc, and all should work with each
> other?
>
> Again, it's a USB, I'm hoping that perhaps they all use the same
> interface.
>
> Appreciate any comments or suggestions on readers that definately will
> work.
>
> --
> Walter Francis
> http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
>
I have an Oly E10 and a PNY USB dual card reader. I wasn't able to get the
reader to work with Linux. As Daniel Pead posted, the camera does
interface.
Not completely satisfied with the USB transfer rates for the card reader,
although much more convenient (and faster) than plugging in the camera
(under Windows), I got a Firewire card (Adaptec AFW-4300 [TI chipset]) and
firewire CF reader (Lexar). These of course work well under Windoze. I
wanted to find out if they would work under Linux. Yes they do! It only
took a kernel patch and building the SBP-2 module.
I think there are also SmartMedia firewire readers, though I haven't looked
for one ( I seldom use the SmartMedia in my camera ).
HTH,
Doug
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From: Bruce P. Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with compiling USB into the kernel correctly..
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:25:34 GMT
Walter,
The problem may be that your modules are not loading. Lilo is still using
the bios to pass keyboard strokes so it doesn't show up until you get past
that point. Do a "lsmod" and check out which ones are there. You should
have:
usbcore
usb-uhci
hid
input
mousedev (if you need mouse support)
If you dont have these, chances are you will have to add them manually to
your start up script (rc.config).
Hope this helps.
Bruce P. Morin
Walter Francis wrote:
> I'm running 2.4.1 and I can't seem to get my USB keyboard working quite
> right.. I turned on the OnChip USB support in the bios, and the
> keyboard acts fine in the bios setup, and the LILO prompt, but then
> Linux doesn't seem to notice the keyboard. I am using a KIA-6100
> motherboard, which has a VIA chipset on it.
>
> I do have normal keyboard support still compiled, do I have to turn that
> off?
>
> Usb options:
>
> support for usb: y
> usb verbose: y
> preliminary usb fs: y
> enforce usb bw allocation: n
> ochi (intel, via...): y
> OHCI support: y
> usb audio: n
> usb bluetooth: n
> usb mass storage: m
> use ms debug: y
> freecom usb/scsi bridge: y
> usb modem: n
> usb printer: y
> usb full HID support: y
> wacom: n
> kodak/mustek options: n
> usb scanner: m
> (rest of the options are n)
>
> I'd like to use my printer (have no USB cable to test the printer right
> now), and a USB SmartMedia reader on the USB, keyboard isn't really a
> deal, but I'm more or less using it to test the USB in the kernel.
>
> I'm trying next turning off the OHCI support.. Any other suggestions
> are appreciated.
>
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From: Bruce P. Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive (update)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:32:05 GMT
John,
Do you have any USB devices working? I went out and purchased S7.1 Pro for
the sole reason they supported this and I cant get my HP6300 Scanner to
work. I even called them, and they said they would send me a work around,
but it never showed.
Thanks,
Bruce P. Morin
John Hong wrote:
>
> I now have bot items (USB hard drive enclosure and SuSE 7.1
> Personal). Neither the stock 2.2.18 or 2.4.0 (pre10) kernels that
> shipped with SuSE 7.1 recognize the device. It is identified properly
> for what it is I think, under USBVIEW it is listed as a "USB to IDE
> Adaptor" which is basically what this is. So far, no luck in getting it
> going. I'll be trying again sometime Tuesday when I can get a hold of
> the newer 2.4.2 kernel from SuSE.
>
>
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From: Bruce P. Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 7.1 Pro and USB
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 19:52:59 GMT
Hello all,
Is anyone having problems with this distro and USB? I purchased the product
on Monday and I have not been able to get my usb scanner (HP
6300-Supported) or my usb modem (Zoom External-Support Unknown) to
function. All the modules are loaded, and when I us usb view, I can see the
UHCI motherboard usb ports.
I find this to be quite odd because I had Red Hat's Wolverine Beta running
on this machine and both of these devices worked!!
Here is what my console spits back at me:
Mar 22 13:48:21 sp01 kernel: usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
Mar 22 13:48:21 sp01 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1060
Mar 22 13:48:21 sp01 kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new
address=2(error=-110)
Mar 22 13:48:21 sp01 kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1400
Mar 22 13:48:21 sp01 kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3
(error=-110).
By the way, the kernel I have loaded is the 2.4.0 version, and I did try
the upgrade to 2.4.2 with the same effect.
Anyone have any ideas??
Thanks,
Bruce P. Morin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: USB Hard Drive (Update)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:06:13 +0000 (UTC)
So far, no luck with SuSE 7.1 with the newest 2.4.2 kernel.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive (update)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:04:30 +0000 (UTC)
Bruce P. Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Do you have any USB devices working? I went out and purchased S7.1 Pro for
>the sole reason they supported this and I cant get my HP6300 Scanner to
>work. I even called them, and they said they would send me a work around,
>but it never showed.
I have a USB Kensington Orbit Trackball mouse, Microsoft USB
Natural Keyboard, and a Belkin Serial-To-USB adapter all working fine
along with the Keyspan USB 4-port hub. I do have a Artec USB scanner but
according to SANE that is not supported. Does SANE have your HP scanner
listed?
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From: Bruce P. Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive (update)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:24:15 GMT
Hello John,
Yes the scanner is supported by SANE, but I don't think that's the issue.
When I had RH Wolverine on the box, the USBViewer would list both the
Scanner and the Modem. Now I fully expected problems with the modem, it
doesn't appear to be listed as a support device but the scanner, that blew
me away.
I called SuSE (between (9-12 EST) and she was looking for a config file
that wasn't on my machine. She then went on to say that there is a
workaround and that once she translated it from German to English, she
would send it to me latter on today. Well it's not here, so I guess I'll
have to put a few more quarters in the phone and give them a call on Friday.
John Hong wrote:
> Bruce P. Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Do you have any USB devices working? I went out and purchased S7.1 Pro for
>>the sole reason they supported this and I cant get my HP6300 Scanner to
>>work. I even called them, and they said they would send me a work around,
>>but it never showed.
>
> I have a USB Kensington Orbit Trackball mouse, Microsoft USB
> Natural Keyboard, and a Belkin Serial-To-USB adapter all working fine
> along with the Keyspan USB 4-port hub. I do have a Artec USB scanner but
> according to SANE that is not supported. Does SANE have your HP scanner
> listed?
>
>
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From: Joachim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4fner?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live! Value PCI
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 21:31:19 +0100
> When I make a "cat
> /usr/X11R6/lib/GNUstep/Apps/WMMail.app/Sounds/NewMail.au
>> /dev/audio" I can hardly hear a very bad quality sound with a lot of
> noise.
I've got the same problem using kernel 2.4.2 with emu10k1 module and a sb
live! player 1024. The strange thing is that the card plays fine sounds
when a program uses KDE's arts-server but a programm like everybuddy which
uses /dev/dsp in a direct way (I think it does) lets me hear this distorted
stuff. Something I have to add: I use two different linux system on my
computer: a selfcompiled one and a SuSE 7.0. They are both playing noisy
sound when doing a cat /path/to/file.au > /dev/dsp. But everybuddy plays
clean sound in SuSE and distorted sound in the selfcompiled one.
I include my interruptlist (I took it from the kcontrol information page)
0: timer
1: keyboard
2: cascade
5: EMU10k1
10: eth0
11: nvidia
12: PS/2 Mouse
14: ide0
15: ide1
Thanks,
Joachim H�fner
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From: "Tyron Washington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:34:27 -0500
I just got a old pc box and want to install Linux on it. The thing is the
previous owner kind of hacked this machine together. The primary (c:\) hard
drive is SCSI and so is the CD-ROM drive. They are connected to the Adaptec
1520B SCSI adpater. Also I believe the CPU is AMD (not sure of its specs).
I couldn't get Red Hat Linux 7 to install on it because I don't think its
compatiable with the SCSI card, even though linux hardware compatibility
list says it is.
What do I do from here? What are my options in terms of getting Linux
running?
Thanks in advance,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux
Date: 22 Mar 2001 20:44:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you specify your SCSI option or you accepted auto-probe? You must
specify SCSI option with your card. The following worked for me:
aha152x=0x340,11,7
It reads as IOaddr 340, IRQ 11 and SCSI ID 7.
Tyron Washington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I just got a old pc box and want to install Linux on it. The thing is the
: previous owner kind of hacked this machine together. The primary (c:\) hard
: drive is SCSI and so is the CD-ROM drive. They are connected to the Adaptec
: 1520B SCSI adpater. Also I believe the CPU is AMD (not sure of its specs).
: I couldn't get Red Hat Linux 7 to install on it because I don't think its
: compatiable with the SCSI card, even though linux hardware compatibility
: list says it is.
: What do I do from here? What are my options in terms of getting Linux
: running?
: Thanks in advance,
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Takashi Yoshida)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: insert pcmcia card = locks up, hangs. DWL-650 D-Link wireless
Date: 22 Mar 2001 20:32:56 GMT
In message <v0Bt6.28$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote.
| In comp.os.linux.portable Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|
| > Info:
| > Redhat 6.2, kernel upgraded 2.2.16
| > pcmcia-cs-3.1.18
|
| > etc/pcmcia/config:
| > device "wvlan_cs"
| > class "network" module "wvlan_cs"
| > card "D-Link DWL-650"
| > manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
| > bind "wvlan_cs
|
| This combination (pcmcia-cs-3.1.18, wvlan_cs with a DWL-650 card) is
| very unlikely to do anything useful. That release did not have
| wvlan_cs support for this card. Try upgrading to 3.1.25 and see if
| the problem persists.
|
| -- Dave
I have Addtron 802.11b card and running under kernel-2.2.18,
pcmcia-cs-3.1.24, linux-wlan-ng-0.1.8-pre5 without problem.
Addtron card is based on Intersil Prism2 which is identical
with D-Link DWL-650 (manfid 0x0156, 0x0002).
Try
http://www.linux-wlan.com
Taka
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive under linux: HOWTO
Date: 22 Mar 2001 21:03:12 GMT
Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can someone point me in the right direction? I need to use a tape drive
> to do backups under linux. I haven't bought one yet, so I also need to
> know which ones to buy (unless it doesn't matter much)..
Err, please keep your columns <78 characters wide. The above was one
line before I edited it.
The first thing you need to know is what your requirements are for the
tape drive. They vary wildly in capacity, quality, and (of course) price.
Are you backing up one machine, or a whole network worth of machines?
How much data? Are you archiving, or rotating the tapes?
Tapes are accessed using the 'st' driver. Your first drive will be
/dev/st0 (rewinding tape device) and /dev/nst0 (non-rewinding).
You control the tape drive via the 'mt' command. For backup software,
there's the Unix standard dump/restore, as well as cpio, afio, tar,
star...
www.backupcentral.com has a page on Free Software for backups. That'd
be a good place to start.
As a data point, I backup a network of 20+ machines using Amanda and
dump/restore (for Linux clients) and tar (for non-Linux clients). My
nightlies are done to an Exabyte Eliant 820 (7 GB native, cheap tapes)
and monthly archival snapshots are done an a Sony SDX-300C (AIT-1, 35GB
native, not so cheap tapes).
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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