Linux-Hardware Digest #543, Volume #14 Thu, 29 Mar 01 12:13:09 EST
Contents:
ATI Radeon graphics cards (Melvin Gators)
Onstream DI30 Tapedrive broken? (".")
Adaptec 19160 SCSI card support? (Melvin Gators)
UPS for Linux/Winblows ("Brian McKerr")
UDMA problems and Redhat Linux kernel 3.0.3 ("Richard Gout")
DVD-RAM (LICHTENBERGER Janos)
Trio 3D/2x ("oleg")
Re: Problem: Windows recognizes linux hard drive as floppy ("NyQuist")
Re: Harddisk for Linux (Barry Latter)
Re: Adaptec 19160 SCSI card support? (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Problem: Windows recognizes linux hard drive as floppy (Rod Smith)
Re: where can I find a video driver? ("web")
Re: UPS for Linux/Winblows ("Michael")
Red Hat Installer cant find my CDROM (J.B. STOCKBERGER)
Re: DVD-RAM (Bjorn Lundberg)
ComplactFlash devices for Linux? ("Andrew P. Billyard")
Good smp motherboard ("Bharath Krishnan")
Re: ATI Radeon graphics cards (Craig Kelley)
Re: installing problems redhat 7.0 (Markku Kolkka)
Need USB Video Capture for Linux ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: Kernel too big (Norman Levin)
Re: Kernel too big (James Barwick)
Re: sound modules (James Barwick)
advice needed--on-board video card ("XWookie")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melvin Gators)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ATI Radeon graphics cards
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:25:56 GMT
Do these graphics cards work well under linux? Anyone tried the
Radeon LE cards yet?
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From: "." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: .
Subject: Onstream DI30 Tapedrive broken?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 11:03:38 +0200
I've installed a brand new onstream di30 tape drive on my linux box. the
handbook contains the jumper switches as follows:
pin 1 & 2 = secondary (default)
pin 2 & 3 = master
pin 3 & 4 = cable select
I've tried all these jumpers without success, the tape is not recognized
or the bios detect function hang forever.
after removing all switches the tape is recognized as "slave" and still
detected by suse linux 7.1 (kernel 2.4.0) as hdb device. ht0 exists but
does not responde to any command. the following error messages appears:
" ht0: invalid header identification string
" ht0: failed to find valid ADRL header
"ht0: couldn't read header frame
the valid adrl header info is given because the tape medium is not
formated etc. so this could be the cause of the message. but a
mt -f /dev/ht0 erase
command doesn't work either, so how to init a tape? the process still
hangs during operations and a timeout appears after 1-2 minute and
serveral above error messages.
my question:
1. is the tape still broken (onstream support is very bad... the
quaranteed response time per e-mail via 24 hours is not true, no
response at all during days..... and serveral requests....) or the
manual wrong?
2. anyone around still working with this configuration or does the tape
work at all with linux 2.4.0? (it is in the hardware list for this
version)
thanks at all
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melvin Gators)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Adaptec 19160 SCSI card support?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:51:14 GMT
Do these SCSI cards work well under linux?
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From: "Brian McKerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPS for Linux/Winblows
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 22:18:00 +1000
I'm looking for some advice on which UPS to buy for my Linux server and
win98 games box, If possible, I'd like to have both boxes hooked up to the
UPS at all times.
Anyone have any suggestions ?
Cheers,
Brian.
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From: "Richard Gout" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA problems and Redhat Linux kernel 3.0.3
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:20:36 +0200
Hi,
I am an absolute Linux newbie and I am to stay a newbie for the remainder of
my days unless somebody can help me with the following problem:
I'm trying to install Redhat Linux 7.0 (kernel 3.0.3), Everything seems to
work fine till the point were the actual installing would start: "no valid
devices were found on which to create new filesystems". At first I thought I
would have made an error with partition magic, but after browsing some
newsgroups I found that my problem was more likely the fact that my (only)
HD isn't recognized as I use UDM66 (HPT66).
I the newsgroup I found some solutions, but most of them require too much
Linux knowledge. Can anybody give me a step-by-step walkthrough on how to
have Linux recognize my HD. I doesn't have to be in plain english as I'm not
a computer newbie, just a Linux one.
Please help me get rid of Microsoft and help me solve this! Please respond
to e-mail adres
Richard Gout
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From: LICHTENBERGER Janos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD-RAM
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:09:54 +0200
Hi,
I have a Panasonic LF201 DVD-RAM drive, and I like to use it as scsi disk with a
linux box (2.2.17 kernel, redhat 6.2). The kernel detects it at boot time as scd0,
.i.e a cdrom (though r/w), and not as sdx device. Is it normal or not? If yes,
how can I write directly to it. If no, what is missing? I read that from 2.2.13, kernel
supports the DVD-RAM. and no need to patch it. Is it true?
Thanks
Lityi
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From: "oleg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trio 3D/2x
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:58:54 +0300
Hello ,
which XServer I need to install to
have correct work with S3 Trio3D/2x AGP video
card???
Thanks
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From: "NyQuist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem: Windows recognizes linux hard drive as floppy
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:14:55 +0100
"Ari David Greenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am running Windows 98 and Redhat 7.0 dual-boot on a Pentium-II 233 MHz.
> My primary master hard drive contains windows and my primary slave
> contains linux. I think LILO is also on the slave because when I
> disconnect the slave from my system, the computer freezes on startup just
> after the first "L" of "LILO" has appeared onscreen.
This is probably because you added lilo to the MBR (master boot record) =
bad idea; reinstall and add it to your / directory instead. Adding lilo to
the mbr is dangerous in anycase
>
> My problem is that Windows recognizes the slave as a floppy disk. The
> slave is formatted as a linux hard drive, but it shows up in Windows as
> the A drive. (My real floppy drive is the D drive).
> Any attempt to access the A drive causes the computer to freeze. Simply
> right or left clicking on the A drive logo also causes the computer to
> freeze.
Thus, don't try to access it. Get TweakUI (comes on most Windows install
disks); and find the tab which says which drives windows can see; uncheck A:
and reboot
> I do not know how to get my computer to startup unless both hard drives
> are connected. I don't care if Windows is unable to recognize the linux
> drive, but it does seem concerning to have this fake floppy around.
>
> Any ideas what I can do about this? Please e-mail.
>
> Thanks,
> -Ari
>
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From: Barry Latter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Harddisk for Linux
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:30:03 +0100
Hi,
I've just spend most of last night trying to install Linux (Red Hat 7.0)
on an IBM Teleso 30Gb drive with lots of 'kernel panic' messages (sorry,
didn't note them down).
What I was trying to do was put in the following partions:
16Mb Primary /boot
10Gb Primary (Windoze)
10Gb Primary (/data for win and linux)
10Gb Extended (9.5Gb Linux, .5Gb Linux swap)
The systems seems to partition, format and install linux OK, but on
reboot it causes a kernel panic.
The best I managed was installing linux, rebooting and immediately
trying to install window98 (from CD boot) - this let me format the first
10Gb partion, but complained about the second. Am I having a problem
related to the 1024 cylinder limit? Is lilo not finding the extended
partition? Should I be using the 'Extended Linux' partition rather that
normal 'Extended' one offered in cfdisk?
A number of postings have indicated that there is a new version of Lilo
which doesn't suffer from the 1024 limit. How do you install this
without first having to install Linux with a 16Mb boot partition? Could
I reduce to just the 3x10Gb ones?
One thing I noticed is the BIOS (Award on ABIT KT7A-RAID) auto detects
the hardrive as 30Gb, but says 16 Head. In cfdisk it was saying 255
heads. I tried changing the BIOS to 255 heads and it seemed happy enough
- any idea which I should be using? (I thought the heads refered to the
physical recording heads of the drive...)
Any suggestions more than greatfully recieved (before spending the
weekend repeatedly formatting the hard drive again, and again, and
again!)
Thanks in advance
Baz
David Dorward wrote:
>
> Jerry Wong wrote:
>
> > I want to buy a 30G Harddisk to install Linux (Red Hat 7.0). I heard that
> > Lilo has problem for the harddisk over 1024 cylinder. Has this problem be
> > overcome?
>
> lilo USED to have a problem if the kernel itself was past c 1024, this has
> now been solved and with older distros can be resolved by creating a /boot
> partition of about 10 megs at the start of the drive.
>
> I have Linux running very happily indeed on a 30 gig drive.
--
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec 19160 SCSI card support?
Date: 29 Mar 2001 13:44:09 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Melvin Gators <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do these SCSI cards work well under linux?
I don't have any *direct* experience with 19160s, but I've got about 4
boxes with onboard AIC-7899 based U160 controllers. That should be
the same chip the 19160 uses. They work great with the standard aic7xxx
module. The one caveat is that there seems to be an issue with Quantum
drives which causes them to negotiate at 80MB/s rather than 160. That's
not really a concern unless you've got a bunch of them on the chain.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Problem: Windows recognizes linux hard drive as floppy
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 13:54:51 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ari David Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running Windows 98 and Redhat 7.0 dual-boot on a Pentium-II 233 MHz.
> My primary master hard drive contains windows and my primary slave
> contains linux. I think LILO is also on the slave because when I
> disconnect the slave from my system, the computer freezes on startup just
> after the first "L" of "LILO" has appeared onscreen.
>
> My problem is that Windows recognizes the slave as a floppy disk. The
> slave is formatted as a linux hard drive, but it shows up in Windows as
> the A drive. (My real floppy drive is the D drive).
One idea I have is that Windows is getting confused by LILO on the
second hard drive. I suggest this:
1) Disconnect the first drive and connect the second drive as if it
were the first.
2) Boot a DOS floppy.
3) Type "FDISK /MBR" (without the quotes). This will wipe out LILO,
which you obviously don't need on the second hard disk, and replace
it with a DOS-standard MBR.
4) Restore the original first hard disk, moving the second to its usual
#2 position.
With luck, this will keep Windows from being confused. This will only
work if the root cause is Windows getting confused by LILO on the second
disk, though. If something else is the problem, this won't work. In that
vein, one other possibility is that you've got some bizarre partition
types on the second hard disk. If so, change them using Linux's fdisk
program. Windows should *NOT* be confused by standard Linux (0x82 and
0x83) partition type codes.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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From: "web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where can I find a video driver?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 18:03:59 +0800
the program is an excutable program. i cannot get the source. It was
compiled under kernel 2.2.13.
It is so hard for me to download that XFree86. Does the rh7 disc contain
that?
I have try to iinstall XFree-SVGA..rpm, but failed, since rpm only support
version <=3. What 's that?
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ac294d1$0$42882$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 15:20:43 +0800, web staggered into the Black Sun and
> said:
> >Hi,I have just installed readhat6.1, but it seem doesnot support my
> >video card(TNT2). I have a disc contain redhat7 which support ny video
> >card. But there is a program which cannot run in redhat7, so I have to
> >use redhat6.1. Would you please tell me where can I find a driver from
> >redhat7 disc and how to install the driver in redhat6.1? thanks very
> >much.
>
> Upgrade XFree86 (just XFree86) to 3.3.5 at least.
> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/ and look for RELNOTES.html for
> instructions on doing this. Or use RedHat 6.2, which is more stable
> than either 6.1 or 7.0 in most respects.
>
> What, praytell, won't run on 7.0? Sounds very suspicious to me.
>
> --
> 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: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS for Linux/Winblows
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 08:06:58 -0600
APC is the standard and best supported but more expensive than other brands.
With Windows 2000 I have pretty good luck with the BackUPS 500VA model after
experimenting with serial port input settings.
"Brian McKerr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99v95q$j23$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm looking for some advice on which UPS to buy for my Linux server and
> win98 games box, If possible, I'd like to have both boxes hooked up to the
> UPS at all times.
>
>
> Anyone have any suggestions ?
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Brian.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.B. STOCKBERGER)
Subject: Red Hat Installer cant find my CDROM
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:45:42 GMT
Trying to install red hat from cd rom, it wont find my standard Mistsumi cd
rom.
After 'initialising Cd-ROM' message, it just says not found, what do I do?
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From: Bjorn Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD-RAM
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:45:35 +0200
> Hi,
>
> I have a Panasonic LF201 DVD-RAM drive, and I like to use it as scsi disk with a
>
> linux box (2.2.17 kernel, redhat 6.2). The kernel detects it at boot time as scd0,
>
> .i.e a cdrom (though r/w), and not as sdx device. Is it normal or not? If yes,
>
> how can I write directly to it. If no, what is missing? I read that from 2.2.13,
>kernel
>
> supports the DVD-RAM. and no need to patch it. Is it true?
>
> Thanks
>
> Lityi
I have a Panasonic DVD-RAM on a Linux-server running a 2.2.16-3 kernel.
It is detected as CD-ROM at boot-time but works as a DVD-RAM.
In order to write to it, you first have to make an ext2 filesystem
on it, /sbin/mkfs.ext2 /dev/scd0.
Mount it after that and then you can write as you would to a harddisk.
-It's slow though
I would also recommend getting a UDF filesystem driver as well so
that you can read/write Windows formatted DVD-RAMs and ever format
UDF with the optional UDF-tools. They work great!
It's already installed in a 2.4 kernel, but to install it on a 2.2
kernel, you should get the driver at
http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/index.html
Hope it helps...
/Bj�rn
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ComplactFlash devices for Linux?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:20:20 GMT
I have a Panasonic Palmcorder (PV-L779-K) which comes with a CompactFlash
card for digital stills. After months of unsuccessfully trying to get a
way to get Linux to read the camera (it connects via the serial port), I
have decided to buy a CompactFlash reader. The only place in town that has
any is the one camera shop and they have a San Disk CF External Drive (USB)
and a Data Fab CF Parallel Port Adapter. Any suggestions?
Does anyone know of any readers that have good support in Linux? Are there
any web pages which list such devices?
Andrew
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From: "Bharath Krishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Good smp motherboard
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:50:31 +0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
What would be a good smp motherboard for linux given the following
conditions?
2x1Ghz P3's
2 Gigs of PC133 SDRAM
Thanks,
-bharath
PS: please cc me in the reply.
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI Radeon graphics cards
Date: 29 Mar 2001 08:53:23 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melvin Gators) writes:
> Do these graphics cards work well under linux? Anyone tried the
> Radeon LE cards yet?
2D works fine.
3D does not at all (usually).
--
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: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing problems redhat 7.0
Date: 29 Mar 2001 18:54:44 +0300
Steven Geerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a celeron 433 with 64 sdram, 20 GB HD, savage 4 3d from creative
> with 32 mb ram and a generic 15" screen.
>
> Now when I started the installation, my screen wan't handling well, when
> anaconda started, the screen is ok, but when I scroll or select
> something my screen gets blurred (letters get mixed up, etc...).
See: http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/7.0/gotchas-7-4.html#ss4.7
After installation upgrade to latest version of XFree86, it has this
bug fixed.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need USB Video Capture for Linux
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:06:53 GMT
Any one know where I can find a driver and hardware (manufacturor) for a
USB Video capture device??
Video capture needs to receive RS170 and generate a JPEG file.
Current Linux is 2.2.18 (RedHat).
Been to linux-usb several times and they don't seem to list this. Maybe
I don't know what I am seeing.
Hopefully.....bob
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 10:19:29 -0600
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel too big
Craig Kelley wrote:
>
> Alberto Arribas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello.
> >
> > Apologies if this is a really basic question. I have compiled a new
> > kernel in order to include the drivers of my new CD writer.
> > Unfortunately, when I run lilo to build up the system I get the message
> > "kernel too big". It occurs when I use zImage
** use "make bzImage"
--
Norman Levin
"In 1555, Nostradamus wrote: 'Come the millennium, month 12, in the home of
greatest power, the village idiot will come forth to be acclaimed the
leader.'"
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From: James Barwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel too big
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:46:04 GMT
Alberto Arribas wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Apologies if this is a really basic question. I have compiled a new
> kernel in order to include the drivers of my new CD writer.
> Unfortunately, when I run lilo to build up the system I get the message
> "kernel too big". It occurs when I use zImage to compile the kernel and
> also when I use bzImage. Could you help me to solve this problem?
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Al
bzImage may be too big too.
MODULES MAN, MODULES!!! I simple rule of thumb I live by...Don't
compile drivers into the kernel unless you have to!
Your kernel is "too big" if it's > 640Kb.
James
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From: James Barwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound modules
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 15:53:01 GMT
Peter Z wrote:
> Hi,
> modprobe : modprobe: Can' locate module sound-slot-1
> modprobe : modprobe: Can' locate module sound-slot-service-1-0
>
> Where can I find these modules and in wich dir do i the insmod?
>
> I will be thankful if anybody can help me.
>
> Peter
Don't let anyone tell you to RTFM....I find documentation on sound setup
VERY weak. Keep asking for help.
Here's a couple of things to help you get started:
/etc/modules.conf
# Kernel sound driver character device ID. Look in /dev for devices
# with 14 as their major device id.
alias char-major-14 soundcore
# Identify MY sound card!!...replace es1371 with your sound driver!
alias snd-card-0 es1371
alias snd-slot-0 snd-card-0
# Turn off some anoying messages...I only have 1 sound card!
alias sound-slot-1 off
alias sound-service-1-0 off
GOOD LUCK!
James
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From: "XWookie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: advice needed--on-board video card
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 09:55:52 -0800
For the life of me, I cannot find the exact page at xfree86.org that lists
all video cards compatible with X.
I have even given it to individuals at other news groups in order to solve a
compatibility problem, but I cannot find that page at www.xfree86.org at
all. It's not a paradigm or organization, but I should be able to find it.
Could someone help me out, as I am losing my mind.
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