Linux-Hardware Digest #556, Volume #14 Sun, 1 Apr 01 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Framebuffer trouble (Tomasz Jarzynka)
Re: Cheap PCI sound card supported by Linux and OS/2? (Klaus Staedtler-Przyborski)
Re: Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller? (me)
Re: Support for LCD Monitors? (jpajirent)
AMD vs Linux ("Fabrizio")
R: Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller? ("Fabrizio")
CD-RW doesn't work at Redhat 7.0 with 2.2.16-22 ("Choi Kam Hung, Sean")
Re: SBLive Problems ("Geo")
trident cyberblade i1 (51) ("Cyril Demazy")
Question: Anyone got ide2 *and* ide3 working on Promise ata100? (jazbo)
Re: Digital flat-panel LCD (sel_nyc)
Re: VIA AC97 audio (VT82C686 super south) and 2.4.2 kernel.. (Peter Christy)
Re: Support for LCD Monitors? (Nix)
Re: IBM Netvista (Norman Levin)
Re: Trio 3D/2x (Norman Levin)
Random X lockups - nVidia problem?? (Andreas Parsch)
AC97 audio VT82C686 Epox 8KTA3 (Kevin Chu)
Need to get IDE Ultra ATA access under kernel 2.2.x ("Benjamin Scherrey")
Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question ("Jimi Thompson")
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From: Tomasz Jarzynka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Framebuffer trouble
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:32:22 +0200
Hi,
I recently tried to apply the Linux Progress Patch to the kernel
to get the eleet bootup logo ;-). Anyway, the patching went smoothly,
but I have somewhat of a problem with the framebuffer itself. While
using VESA _and_ RIVA or just RIVA (I own a GeForce2 but it is said
to be compatible) drivers, fbset switches modes nicely, but switching
into X-windows (using nvidia.o) causes the display to hang completely.
When using just the VESA driver, evrything works smoothly (the bootup
logo appears, the console works, X does as well), BUT I can not tweak
the settings of the display, which is somewhat normal, since I use
VESA.
At least under DOS, there are ways to convince the card to use higher
refresh rates, ie 85Hz, whilst my Linux box always boots into 60Hz,
an absolute eye-killer. One way to solve this is to set the mode under
DOS and then boot via loadlin, but I wanna stick with LILO.
Okiez, after this short introduction my question is as follows:
How do I convince Linux to set a reasonable refresh rate, ie higher
than the mentioned 60Hz? Or how do I make the RIVA driver not hang
the console? ;)
Thanks in advance for your help, guys.
PS. I'd appreciate a carbon copy to my email address. I rarely read
this group.
PPS. Kernel 2.4.3
NVidia GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR
X-4.0.3 + NVidia drivers
--
Tomasz Jarzynka; [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0601706601
"I am not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally."
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From: Klaus Staedtler-Przyborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.multimedia
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI sound card supported by Linux and OS/2?
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:37:28 GMT
Ron Gibson schrieb:
>
> Klaus Staedtler-Przyborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> stated:
>
> > Other Cards than the SBLive are the Crystal 3.06 Driver based Cards:
> > A-Open AW320 (very cheap and simple) and Terratec DMX X-Fire 1024
> > (similar to SBLive)
>
> Do you know if this particular card will work with Warp 3 (Connect)?
>
It will
Klaus Staedtler
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From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller?
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 15:47:31 GMT
Nader wrote:
> If the kernel doesn't support HPT366 (e.g., 2.2.x), then you'll have to
> pass ide parameters to the kernel during installation. See this web site
> for more info and details on how to determine the parameters and how to
> pass them: http://netllama.ipfox.com/ - select the ULTRA-66 Step by Step
> guide. After you get your system running and stable, you can put the
> parameters in LILO so you don't have to type them each time you boot.
> Alternatively, you can upgrade to the 2.4.2 kernel which can be
> configured to support HPT366 directly.
>
Nader --
Hi, I also have an abit be6-2 motherboard with the hpt366 and I can't get it to
work. The link that you reference doesn't seem to have the step by step guide
anymore. Can you confirm this for me, or provide another link for this
information?
Thanks, Stuart
>
> Aroeira wrote:
>
> > I had a similar problem, the Linux installer don't recognize any HD in my
> > system. All HD's are connected to a Promise ultra 66, and without HD's,
> > there is no bootable devices... I need some help in this matter.
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
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From: jpajirent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Support for LCD Monitors?
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 14:21:21 +0200
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 13:12:19 GMT, "Robert Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Not knowing so much about Linux etc. I am wondering if I will have problems
>using a LCD monitor (precisely the Proview BM568 or the TAXAN Crystalvision
>680) - I am just putting together a system and will want to run some
>distribution of Linux (no preference as yet). Will I need drivers and such -
>since I know that they supply Win9* etc drivers with the product (not sure
>what they do), but they don't have any Linux drivers for download from their
>sites.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Robert.
>
You may have some problems or not depending on your videocard and if
you're using 2D or 3D functions !
I have ADI Microscan 5T LCD monitor which works fine with the standard
drivers for the Nvidia video card and supplied by Mandrake 7.x (2D).
But when I tried to install the optimized drivers from NVidia for 3D
accelaration, then my monitor is not more supported !
I guess you have to test by yourself...
Jean Philippe
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From: "Fabrizio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD vs Linux
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:38:11 +0100
Howdy,
I was browsing this link
http://www2.giga-byte.com/faq/pro_index.htm in which Gigabyte reports this
faq:
---cut and paste from faq--
GA-7DX
Q1. Why can't I boot after installing Red Hat Linux 6.2?
A1. Red Hat Linux 6.2 had some incompatibility issue with Athlon and Duron
cpus. To get around this, please use Red Hat Linux 7.0 or try the solution
on the following website:
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html .
---cut and paste from faq--
Does anyone match a such problem with Suse Linux 6.3?
How does linux suse (6.3) work with AMD products?
Thank you.
Fabrizio.
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From: "Fabrizio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: R: Boot off Promise Ultra66 controller?
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 18:47:09 +0100
Hi,
I got the same problem with abit double processor motherboard.
I installed/compiled the last kernel release from www.kernel.org and now
suse linux 6.3 is able to work with HPT366. Don't forget to select HPT366
in makeconfig.
Finally I can use my HD Quantum 30GB :o)
Fabrizio
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From: "Choi Kam Hung, Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW doesn't work at Redhat 7.0 with 2.2.16-22
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 00:50:01 +0800
Hi all,
I have a IDE CD-RW and the linux kernel reports these error to me:
ATAPI device hdc:
Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
(reserved error code) -- (asc=0x3a, ascq=0x02)
The failed "Read Cd/Dvd Capacity" packet command was:
"25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "
When I want to mount the cdrom and errors occurs:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
Could anyone help me? Thank you very much!
Regards,
Sean
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From: "Geo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SBLive Problems
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 17:06:11 GMT
Use the Alsa drivers and the sound balster live will work well.
n article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"J-Pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "cHip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Well I finally got my SBLive to work with Linux!
>>
>> It wasn't working right until I typed in modprobe each time so I stuck
>> modprobe in a random rc.d file. I tested it with a wav on root...woot
>> it
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From: "Cyril Demazy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trident cyberblade i1 (51)
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 19:38:37 +0200
Reply-To: "Cyril Demazy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I try to install linux mandrake 7.2
on my presario notebook 1600 (16XL256)
included a chipset trident ( cyberblade i1)
thank you
cyril
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From: jazbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question: Anyone got ide2 *and* ide3 working on Promise ata100?
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 14:33:26 -0400
With any IDE devices of any kind?
I have a Promise ATA 100 controller card (not Fasttrack raid) that I
have been trying to use with Mandrake7.2
The main system installation is on IDE0
IDE 0 and IDE1 are onboard ata33 capable busses provided by a Via MVP3
chipset
(board is FIC 503+ )
I have bought a couple of Quantum Fireball AS Plus drives to use in a
software RAID 0 config.
Both seem to be ok individually. But I cannot seem to hook them up
separately to the two channels of the Promise ata100.
If I put them on separate channels (ide2 and ide3) with separate cables,
Linux halts in the bootup right where it should report cyls/heads/sects
for /dev/hde. (right after it does report that info for hda)
I can hook either of them up alone. I am sure that they can be hooked up
to the second IDE channel of the ata100 if nothing is attached to the
first.
I can hook both of them up to IDE2 (the first channel of the Promise
controller) using one cable and setting hde to master and hdf to slave.
But that's where the joy ends.
Has anyone attached IDE devices successfully to both channels of a
Promise ATA 100 card in Linux?
Or is that second IDE header just for show?
Thanks for any reports.
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From: sel_nyc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digital flat-panel LCD
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 18:30:07 -0000
It's been some time since the last post in this thread, so maybe you've
already resolved this problem.
ATI's new Radeon VE has dual monitor support, with one DVI-I and one
standard 15-pin VGA outlet....
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA AC97 audio (VT82C686 super south) and 2.4.2 kernel..
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 20:09:43 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matt Rusnak wrote:
> After some more checking, I found that it's _certain_ audio when played
> with mpg123 that causes scratchy sounds.. The same ones played with xmms
> are no problem. Any ideas..?
Glad to hear the Alsa drivers worked for you! The AC97 audio does seem to
be exceptionally sensitive to configuration. What works on one machine
doesn't always work on another. I've been talking to one guy who swears by
the kernel drivers, which I can't get to work no matter what I try!
I'm afraid I can't help you with mp3s. Its not something I have much to do
with, though I suppose I ought to really! I'm more interested in the midi
side of things.
Cheers,
--
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Support for LCD Monitors?
Date: 01 Apr 2001 19:47:01 +0100
On 31 Mar 2001, Bill Unruh spake:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>]Not knowing so much about Linux etc. I am wondering if I will have problems
>]using a LCD monitor (precisely the Proview BM568 or the TAXAN Crystalvision
>]680) - I am just putting together a system and will want to run some
>]distribution of Linux (no preference as yet). Will I need drivers and such -
>]since I know that they supply Win9* etc drivers with the product (not sure
>]what they do), but they don't have any Linux drivers for download from their
>]sites.
>
> You shouldn't. All X ( which is where the monitor stuff is) needs to
> know are the two refresh rates ( hor and vert cync rates) and perhaps
To be totally pedantic, it needs to know the horizontal and vertical
sync *ranges*; there may be multiple ranges, and so forth.
> the polarity of the sync pulses
It's quite easy to find these out by experiment, though; there are only
four possibilities (two each for h and vsync), after all :)
--
`Fuck, but that was an awful book. It would have ended a
lot sooner if it were possible for the reader to crawl in through the
pages and strangle the protagonist.' --- AdB
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:13:42 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBM Netvista
Kovacs Sandor wrote:
>
> I'am working on $subject. The XFree86 X server is not working correctly.
> The screen is blinking (snowing) when a process use more RAM.
> The video chipset is i815, kernel 2.2.18pre23, XFree86 v. 4.03.
> Help please !
** check on redbooks.ibm.com for info on linux and netvista.
i815 is supported in xfree 4.0 so I dont' know what is happening with you.
--
Norman Levin
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 10:23:57 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Trio 3D/2x
oleg wrote:
>
> Hello ,
> which XServer I need to install to
> have correct work with S3 Trio3D/2x AGP video
> card???
> ** svga **
don't go hog wild on color depth and resolution. This chip is not
well supported in x 3.3.5 or 6?
--
Norman Levin
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From: Andreas Parsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Random X lockups - nVidia problem??
Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 21:33:01 +0200
Hello,
when running X (Kernel 2.4.0, XFree 4.0.2, KDE 2.1.0 on nVidia TNT
graphics board with nvidia 0.9-769 driver), my system randomly locks
up. Mouse/keyboard are dead, and programs doing disk I/O in the
background (e.g. cron-jobs) stop working. Magic-SysRq-b (reboot) does
work, but the -s and -u option (sync, umount) usually don't, so I'll
have to fsck.
The lockups apparently always happen during screen updates (scrolling),
in all kinds of programs, including konsole. Therefore my prime suspect
is the video driver, but I'd like to know if other users had similar
troubles with nvidia drivers.
Thanks for any help!
Andreas
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Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 11:42:53 -0700
From: Kevin Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AC97 audio VT82C686 Epox 8KTA3
Peter Christy wrote:
> However, I have had a lot of success with the Alsa drivers.
I have an Epox EP-8KTA3 motherboard with the VT82C686B bridge on it.
The board also has a SoundBlaster and MPU-401 built in for legacy
applications.
If I compile the kernel (2.2.18) with CONFIG_SOUND_VIA82CXXX,
everything works -- I can cat an .au file to /dev/audio, wavplay
works, I can play audio CDs, etc.. But, whenever I try to run
Sysnaesthesia (http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~pfh/synaesthesia.html) it
can't find the dsp:
[kevin@localhost kevin]$ synaesthesia cd
synaesthesia: Error opening dsp device
(reason for error: No such device)
The strace output is not helpful. I have tried many permutations of
options in both the CMOS settings, kernel .config, and I even tried
installing the ALSA drivers and tried many different options. The
closest I got was the same success as with the 2.2.18 kernel, the
worst I got was no sound working at all. I have tried:
- legacy SoundBlaster on/off
- MPU-401 on/off
- ALSA or no ALSA
- modules or monolithic
Normally I would search DejaNews for the answer to my problems, but
since Google has acquired Deja, the search doesn't seem to come up
with anything useful, so I thought I'd post a message.
Does anyone have the sound working on this board, and are you able to
use synaesthesia?
Thanks,
Kevin
--
Kevin Chu
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Benjamin Scherrey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need to get IDE Ultra ATA access under kernel 2.2.x
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 13:45:41 -0400
I've got a RedHat 6.2 system w/ the kernel upgraded to 2.2.19 but I need
to be able to produce a kernel that can access an IDE drive on an Ultra
ATA controller. Unfortunately, for various reasons, I cannot upgrade to a
2.4.x kernel in this case. Is there a patch for 2.2.x that will get me
going?
thanx & later,
Ben Scherrey
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From: "Jimi Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:40:12 -0600
I am. First of all, 3X32 = 96 GB. Personally, I prefer to run RAID 5 with
4 disks, so that an entire disk can be devoted to the sums. Why would you
want to reduce yourself to 60GB? If this isn't proof that their set up is
off, I don't know what is. You won't have the whole 96 GB to divvy up,
because you will need part of it for the sums for RAID 5. I would suggest
that that you leave 500 MB for the Dell partition (if you want to, it's not
necessary). Otherwise, you have about 80 GB GB to partition for your
system. The rules for partitioning a server are this -
1- 25 MB for boot partition (/boot)
2 - 1 GB for root (/)
3 - whatever is left over for user space (/usr)
4 - suitably sized partitions for /opt and /var (2 Gb each ought to be
sufficient)
5 - 2x the amount of RAM for Swap space (SWAP)
That will give you something that's about as secure since you can set /usr
as a mount point, which will allow you to restrict your users to a single
partition, unless they have rights elsewhere.
HTH,
Jimi
NM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:hztv6.458430$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > You should blow off the Dell configuration and redesign the RAID as
> > a single RAID 5 single logical drive. You can still set up your 60GB
> > partition on the logical drive. The RAID portion should be handled
> "below"
> > the OS level and should be invisible to your OS. I have used the Dell's
> > with the PERC 2's running Red Hat for Linux servers and have not had a
> > problem with it. Getting the initial configuration is a bit tricky as
the
> > utility they give you isn't the best, but once it's there is should be
> > really simple. IMHO Dell does really stupid things with the drive space
> > configuration on the Linux boxes they ship.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Jimi
>
> Ok so you are saying rather than having two separate containers (or
arrays)
> I should have only one.
>
> Right now, I've
> array #0: 4 GB (bootable arrray where I want to install OS)
> array #1: 60 GB (data)
>
> You are suggesting:
> array #0: 64 GB
>
> Dell documentations says array #0 is bootable. So if one of the drive in
the
> array fails, the system will still boot. I've tested this and it works. In
> this case, isn't it worthwile to have a smaller separate dedicated boot
> array?
>
> Another related question:
> Right now I've 3 -32 GB hard drives, if I add another drive later on and
> want to make my data partition larger, do I have to recreate arrrays, and
> backup and resintall everything? That's a pain. Is this why Veritas is
> making money?
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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