Linux-Hardware Digest #535, Volume #14 Tue, 27 Mar 01 22:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y' (Craig Kelley)
Re: A7V and onboard Sound with RedHat 7 (Chad Everett)
Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2) ("Gary Hallock")
Re: Mysterious HDD noise ("Taavi Hein")
Re: EZ-Bios & Big Disk (Trevor Hemsley)
GA-7ZXR and using Promise ATA/100 IDE3/4 (Mark Aitchison)
Re: support for adaptec 2100s under RH7.0? ("Kelledin")
11M wireless Driver can't work under redhat7.0 ?? ("stephen")
Drive test/benchmark program? (Dan Smith)
HELP ME!: Aiptek WEBCAM controls dont't work under Linux (OV511+/OV7620 (CYBERYOGI
=CO= Windler)
Re: My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore : PLEASE HELP ("bill lang")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Keith R. Williams)
Slackware runs on Yopy, the first Linux PDA in the world. ("jina")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Keith R. Williams)
Re: Hardware support (E J)
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y'
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:16:03 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen) writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | >>>>> "Tony" == Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> |
> | Tony> "Character Devices", about 3/4 of the way down.
> |
> |
> | Thanks, I plowed ahead and did it manually in .config but I'll
> | remember this one for next time.
> |
> | Incidentally, my system did not freeze on the NMI Watchdog after this
> | change.
>
> Gklad you got it going. I generally use menuconfig for kernels.
>
> Question for guru attention: why is this an option? Is there any time
> when you don't want enhanced real time clock? I've been saying yes for
> ages out of habit (I have many SMP systems), but even on decades-old
> 386SX16 systems it works fine. I assume there's a reason to "not want"
> the feature.
>
> bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
> At LinuxExpo Sun was showing Linux applications running on Solaris.
> They don't get it, the arrow points the other way. There's a reason why
> there's no SolarisExpo, Solaris is a tool; Linux is a philosophy, a
> religion, a way of life, and only incidentally an operating system.
Guru answer: the default kernel config is the way Linus has his
setup. You can watch his hardware change with time. ;)
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Everett)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: A7V and onboard Sound with RedHat 7
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:45:37 GMT
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 07:21:05 -0500, Larry Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having one heck of a time getting my Asus A7V133 to support onboard
>audio using the onboard audio chip set. Can anyone provide any pointers in
>this area?
>
>Also, I'm able to boot with the onboard Promise FASTRACK RAIO0 controller
>using the stock RedHat 7.0 kernel (using the ft.o driver supplied by
>Promise) but not with any other kernel. (Wolverine, Fisher, 2.4.2, etc.).
>Any ideas or suggestions in this area?
>
>
In order to help, could you tell us what you've tried to get your audio to
work and what, if any, error messages you've seen when you've tried?
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From: "Gary Hallock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse vs RH/Mandrake ? (or what's so great about 7.2)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:13:34 +0500
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"GreyCloud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aye! I've got Lotus Smart Suite also and came bundled with my IBM. Very
> Good package. The one program I really like is the Day Planner. Yes, it
> would be nice... hmmmmm.... I wonder, since IBM is supporting Linux and
> pretty much supports Lotus and the $2billion investments, do you suppose
> that that is happening???
Unfortunately, Lotus seems to have no interest in porting Smart Suite to
Linux. I'd be happy if it would run under Wine. I use Lotus Notes
every day under Wine andit works quite well now. If I only had some
free time I'd take a look at it myself. I have gotten Wordpro and 123 to
come up under Wine, but not much works.
Gary
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From: "Taavi Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mysterious HDD noise
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 00:39:22 +0300
"J Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99ji4j$7b9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: The hard drive is probably dying. Linux is very heroic in using the hard
: ware. I had bad RAM and it worked only in Linux.
<snip>
: The best bet is to get a new hard drive.
I already bought a new hard drive (the old one I've had since '97 IIRC), the
new HDD is Quantum 20GB fireball smth (in addition to Q 10GB fireball smth),
old one is W-D Caviar 2GB smth. I was going to give it to my brother anyway,
he wanted a "floppy-replacement" of about that size. Just wanted to know, if
I should warn him not to keep any vitally important data on it, as it may
give up working.
"Piotrek Szyma�ski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ac0df5d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: I don't think so. FindFast is one thing, but I had a similar problem and
my
: disk finally died.
: Being dead, the disk could still be read under Linux. Shortly after
starting
: Windows the disk begins making the noise and the system hangs.
In win the system doesn't crash (not due to that factor at least - probably
not just _yet_), the disk just makes these rather periodic "click-clack"-s.
It began about a month and a half or maybe two months ago.
--
Taavi Hein - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Registered Linux user #209546
Registered Linux machine #97395
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: EZ-Bios & Big Disk
Date: 27 Mar 2001 23:26:26 GMT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 18:38:41, "Piotrek Szyma�ski"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an old BIOS that can't detect my IBM Deskstar 45 GB hdd (it hangs
> when trying to detect it).
> I've installed EZ-Bios to get around the BIOS problem, but now Linux also
> sees the disk to be 33 GB and not the full size. Passing the correct CHS
> geometry to the kernel doesn't help - the geometry changes but the size
> stays the same.
>
> Is there a way to switch the disk back to 45 GB in Linux ?
There is a jumper setting on the drive that forces it into 32GB mode.
Make sure it's not set ;-)
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Aitchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GA-7ZXR and using Promise ATA/100 IDE3/4
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:33:24 +1200
Any experience using the GA-7ZXR (rev 1.0) motherboard
with linux, and especially with using (booting from??)
the Promise IDE controller's IDE3 and IDE4 when using
the "original" VIA IDE1 and IDE2 as well?
And any any comments on their RAID 1 vs software RAID
in Linux??
ADVthanksANCE,
Mark Aitchison
--
phone:(064)3-364-5888 /\/\ _/\ /\
fax: (064)3-364-5835 _/ \/ ^ \/\,__
System Administrator at: Plain Communications
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From: "Kelledin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.raid
Subject: Re: support for adaptec 2100s under RH7.0?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 01:02:22 GMT
There was supposed to be a RH7.0 driver at linux.adaptec.com a few weeks
back, but it hasn't been posted. What this means to me is that there's
probably some issues that came up before the release.
The official maintainer of the driver was, at last census, Deanna Bonds
([EMAIL PROTECTED]). She occasionally posts on linux.dev.raid; her
last message said to e-mail her if you need the driver. She would also
probably appreciate receiving bug reports (minus flaming, of course). I
e-mailed her a few days ago, but she hasn't replied yet.
Adaptec's tech support isn't much help, although they do make an honest
effort; my guess is that they haven't actually received much Linux training.
Some of them don't seem to know any more than to point you to
http://linux.adaptec.com
> I've seen that some of the 6.x's are supported. But there seems to be
> know way that I can find to get 7.0 to recognize the card at boot time.
> This is important because I would like to install to the primary raid
> device. Has anyone seen any support for this and/or know of a work
> around?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> -B
>
>
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From: "stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 11M wireless Driver can't work under redhat7.0 ??
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:52:35 +0800
My notebook( redhat7.0/kernel 2.2.16/ pcmcia 3.1.19), I install
the linux driver from manufacture by the readme that provided by
the manufacture(After Making config/all/install and restarting
pcmcia service, only prism2ap_cs.o and prism2sta_cs.o is produced
,and prism2_cs.o is not produced. So I CAN'T drive the 11M pcmcia
card nic.
At the same notebook (but under "redhat6.2/kernel 2.2.14/ pcmcia 3.1.8")
the driver works fine for my 11M pcmcia nic.I install the linux
driver from manufacture by the readme that provided by
the manufacture(After Making config/all/install and restarting
pcmcia service, the 3 *.o "prism2ap_cs.o, prism2sta_cs.o and prism2_cs.o are
all produced. So I CAN drive the 11M pcmcia nic to connect to my local
lan, even more the internet.
Does anyone what to do with this problem? Or does anyone have such
experience and kown what't wrong with it?
Are there still some bugs between redhat7.0's 2.2.16 kernel and pcmcia
3.1.19?
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drive test/benchmark program?
Date: 27 Mar 2001 21:04:50 -0500
Is there any software out there that will give me basic benchmark
tests on a drive, and possibly a test mode that makes it work hard to
be sure everything is in order?
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.debian.user,redhat.config
Subject: HELP ME!: Aiptek WEBCAM controls dont't work under Linux (OV511+/OV7620
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 04:20:40 +0200
I need to run 2 Aiptek "HyperVcam Mobile" USB webcams under Debian Linux 2.2
with kernel 2.4.1 on a PC with a DFI P5BV3+ Mainboard(rev.B2),an AMD K6 300MHz
CPU, 128MB RAM and a Venus Virge 2MB graphics card.
I am student of software-techniques and for my thesis I plan to develop a
sing- and gesture controlled music synthesizer with a 3D/VR user interface,
therefore I urgently need to get the cameras working.My problem is that the
webcam picture controls (brightness,contrast,hue etc.) in programs like
"xawtv" and "gqcam" seem to be completely ignored by the webcam driver and I
only get a framerate of about 2..4 fps. Sometimes the USB driver seems to
crash with results in pixel rubish spread all over the picture.
At the beginning also under Windoze98 I got tons of colourful pixel rubbish;
after some experiments with my USB port I discovered that connecting a Zobel
network (capacitor in series to resistor) as a terminator from pin "data+" to
GND removed the rubbish. Capacitors much >2nF(?) prevented the correct detec-
tion of the camera (only an "unknown USB device" was found); ones <100pf were
too small to get rid of all the rubbish. I don't remember well whether the
control sliders ever worked in Windoze before, but actually I have soldered
150pf in series to 560Ohm as well from "data+" to GND as from "data-" to GND
- the latter because I hoped it could fix the controls problem under linux,
but it didn't. The Windows ones work now,alsthough the automatic brightness
and aperture settings seem to re-activate themself sometimes spontaneously.
(After powerup the camera often needs to be re-plugged to be recognized cor-
rectly - I guess this is just a power supply problem which prevents the camera
from resetting well while all drive motors start spinning during power on.
The power supply is a 300W AT one of the brand "Fortron".)
When I start "xawtv" or "gqcam" under Linux, I just get a dim picture which is
slowly fading brighter and more colourful to a quite pale webcam picture,but
the picture control sliders don't work. In xawtv sometimes blue/green snow
appears during motion of its sliders, and afterwards the picture fades from
dim to bright again (because the webcam is resetted?), but the slider values
have no effect. After some time (or some program restarts?) the picture stopps
responding on slider movement at all. In gqcam when the automatic brightness
setting is on I can see the brightness slider move left and right,but the
framerate drops to 2 fps or so and the output picture is chopped by many pure-
ly white frames flickering through it. When I turn the automatic brightness
setting off, the white flickering is not present and manual slider operation
either restarts that dim-to-bright fading or does nothing.
Generally the outputted values for contrast,brightness etc. in the "camera
info" window stay the same and don't match the values set by the sliders,which
lets me conclude that the ov511 driver either never gets or ignores the values
sent from the sliders. When automatic brightness in gqcam is on, the webcam
picture seems to stay at a fixed brightness(without fading),but possibly this
rather happens because this option continuesly resets the webcam by the suc-
cessless attempt of sending brightness values to it than because it reponds to
the brighness commands properly. When the automatic brightness setting of the
ov511 driver module is turned off manually from the insmod command line, the
fading dim-to-bright effect doesn't occure,but the slider values remain ig-
nored.
When I set the picture size in gqcam to "quater", I get instead of a downsized
picture in 160x120(?) resolution just the upper left quater of the 320x240(?)
picture.Astonishingly this mode is displayed at a reasonable framerate, but
otherwise it is now in b/w while the blue colour bitplane(?) is scrolling/fli-
ckering through it like a poor TV reception interference of 2 mixing TV sta-
tion images.In the source code of the "ov511.c" driver in my kernel sources
2.4.1 I found for this mode the comment "FIXME",though this is likely a known
bug.
The Aiptek "HyperVcam Mobile" is reported by "gqcam" to be a OV511+ with a
OV7620 CCD chip. In the source code of the kernel's ov511 driver the controls
settings section of the OV7620 chip looks quite strange;apparently the value
of a multiplexed register is read, then a portion of its old value is added to
the new one and the result is written back to it or something like that. The
code from the OV7610(?) looks much more straight-forward. May the OV7620 code
be buggy or incomplete? Does anybody know why the camera sometimes makes pixel
rubbish under linux while it other times runs well for hours? Unloading and
re-inserting the ov511 kernel module doesn't help - only rebooting. (The rea-
son for the lousy framerate is likely my Virge graphics card,which higher
functions seem to be not supported by the Xfree86 driver.I will anyway re-
place that slow card soon because also its RAM seems to be a little faulty and
causes other kinds of pixel rubbish in certain situations.)
PLEASE tell me if the non-working camera controls in Linux are a bug in the
ov511 driver and if there is a fix for it. I urgently need to get these ca-
meras to work in a stabile way for the programming project of my thesis.
MAY THE SOFTWARE BE WITH YOU!
*============================================================================*
I CYBERYOGI Christian Oliver(=CO=) Windler I
I (teachmaster of LOGOLOGIE - the first cyberage-religion!) I
I ! I
*=============================ABANDON=THE=BRUTALITY==========================*
{http://www.informatik.fh-hamburg.de/~windle_c/e_index.html}
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From: "bill lang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore : PLEASE HELP
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:24:02 GMT
In article <99o89g$nvl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ken Laird"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My cdrom drive doesn't boot anymore.Any idea where the problem might be
> ? I tried a few bootable cd RH7,Mandrake,Caldera,W95,W98 , but it says
> boot failure and goes on to the hard disk. I enabled booting first cdrom
> in the bios. Put it nearly in every position
> (master,slave,primary,secondary) but to no avail.
> A week ago it booted alright.But there was something odd, it booted only
> on RH or Mandrake ?!? Now it can't boot even on those.
>
> Ken Laird
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had a HP CDRW that did the same thing. Sorry to say I had t0 buy a new
one. It seemed to me that the motor drive went bad.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:50:42 GMT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 01:44:32, Lew Pitcher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "B.Y." wrote:
> >
> > Dear People:
> >
> > I have several machines and a shortage of space for keyboard,
> > mice and so on. I would also like to use the same monitor for more
> > than one machine. Can I use the same set for both machines through a
> > switch-box that I see sold in computer stores, one that has mice/KB/
> > video forking switches? My concern is that while I understand video
> > connectors to be relatively benign as far as being unplugged "hot" is
> > concerned, I have heard that hot-unplugging PS/2 peripherals can and
> > have been known to cause catastrophic failures.
>
> FWIW, I can attest to 'catastrophic failures' in hot-plugging PS/2 mice.
> On the mobo of the IBM machines at my work, IBM shared some power and
> signal lines between the PS/2 mouse port and the keyboard port. The
> manuals insist that you power down before unplugging the mouse or
> keyboard, but I neglected to do that one day, and fried the mobo circuit
> that runs both. IBM replaced the mobo (under warrantee, thank goodness),
> and I didn't do that again.
UL/CSA require fuses on ports that require power above a
certain amount. Short a mouse (they my be current limited
now) or keyboard and you blow a fuse. These things are SMTs
and hard to replace (though not hard to short out ;-).
----
Keith
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From: "jina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Slackware runs on Yopy, the first Linux PDA in the world.
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:59:12 +0900
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R. Williams)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:59:45 GMT
On Tue, 27 Mar 2001 20:13:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Franc Zabkar) wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 01:04:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R.
> Williams) put finger to keyboard and composed:
>
> >On Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:55:24, "B.Y." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Dear People:
> >>
> >> I have several machines and a shortage of space for keyboard,
> >> mice and so on. I would also like to use the same monitor for more
> >> than one machine. Can I use the same set for both machines through a
> >> switch-box that I see sold in computer stores, one that has mice/KB/
> >> video forking switches? My concern is that while I understand video
> >> connectors to be relatively benign as far as being unplugged "hot" is
> >> concerned, I have heard that hot-unplugging PS/2 peripherals can and
> >> have been known to cause catastrophic failures. Note that this is a
> >> mechanical switch, not an electronic one ...
> >
> >Yes, though the problems aren't exactly as you state. Hot
> >plugging anythign is risky. PS/2 devices and their
> >controllers get confused.
> >
> >Anyway, if you wnat to see what the pro's use:
> >http://www.blackbox.com/ BlackBox makes good stuff, but
> >you're not going to like the price. Cheaper stuff is, well
> >cheap. The stuff sold in "computer stores" is just junk.
>
> Is BlackBox a manufacturer, or merely a rebrander?
Likely both. They've ben around since I have though. (and
that's as long as ol' Sol, at least some people would have
you believe).
> BTW, the product code for their "economical", interface-powered PS/2
> KVM is SW613A.
> Due to price considerations, I've chosen to use "junk" for my KVM. I
> can't relate any experiences with PS/2 peripherals, but my clone
> keyboard has withstood hot plugging for almost a year without any
> adverse effects. That is not to say that there aren't any problems.
> For example, switching causes the keyboard to lose its repeat rate
> setting, and on the odd occasion the keyboard hangs.
That's about what I would expect.
> I work around the
> former problem with a BAT file, while the latter is usually fixed by
> another switching cycle.
Depends. Sometimes it refuses to come back without a
reboot. For home use these solutions may be tollerable.
They certainly wouldn't be for any business.
> I'm told that both problems can be avoided by
> placing two diodes and/or an electrolytic capacitor in the +5V power
> feed to the KVM. This ensures that the keyboard is continuously
> powered, albeit at a slightly lower voltage. I've also thought about
> wiring a momentary switch to the reset pin of the keyboard's CPU. One
> day I'll get around to it ...
Maybe. Though keyboards and their controllers communiate
more than this, locks and all.
> One bonus with my mechanical KVM is that there are three spare sets of
> contacts, just enough for a speaker switch.
Ick. Not that I have speakers hooked to more than one
machine.
However, how is your video fidelity? Any degradation? Can
you do 1600x1200 @ 85Hz? I really wanna know, because
that's what I need, and the BlackBox says it'll do it.
----
Keith
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Hardware support
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 02:53:39 GMT
>From the complaints of linux user there is now a ADSL Modem
driver:) http://www.alcatel.com/consumer/dsl/dvrreg_lx.htm
(You Europeans are getting ripped off by paying three times for a network ADSL
Modem
over an USB ADSL Modem)
The other parts does not seem to give a problem.
What sound chip does your motherboard have?
Apollo Hoogland wrote:
> Where can I find a list of all hardware that is supported by linux?
>
> If there isn't such a list please what hardware can gives conflicts:
>
> - Alcatel USB Modem
> - Epson Stylus Color 400
> - HP 8200 Cd-rewriter
> - Lite-on 12x DVD-Rom
> - Geforce Pro from Hercules (Guillemot)
> - Abit mobo (with on-board sound)
> - Realtek 10/100 (Level One)
> - Matrox HD (30Gb)
> - Seagate HD (45 Gb)
>
> I'm the most affraid from the ADSL Modem, the soundcard on the mobo and the
> network card. I'm not capable to write my own drivers (I can program in C
> but not SO good)
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