Linux-Hardware Digest #561, Volume #14 Tue, 3 Apr 01 00:13:08 EDT
Contents:
webcams support in linux? ("shaark")
Re: Problem with second ethernet card (Dean Thompson)
Diamond Sound Card MX-300 ("Sonny")
Crystal 4232 sound problem
USB Scanner -Scanjet 6200C w SuSE 7.1 (Shreyas)
Re: HELP: Boot linux with Windows 2000!!! ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: USB Hard Drive (Update) (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: hotswap keyboard without reboot? (Dances With Crows)
Are there any other commands to set up soundcard? ("web")
help with installing Voodoo3 3000 agp! (Brady Bonnette)
Re: Crystal 4232 sound problem (Dances With Crows)
Gigabyte 7ZX and Busmastering DMA ("Andrew Cassin")
Re: Question: Anyone got ide2 *and* ide3 working on Promise ata100? (jazbo)
Re: Are there any other commands to set up soundcard? (Dances With Crows)
Dialogic Hardware under Linux ("Dmitry Krasnov")
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From: "shaark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: webcams support in linux?
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:34:27 -0700
I have an IBM PC Camera Pro Max. Does anybody know if there is any support
for this camera, or any general information on how to setup webcams under
linux.
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem with second ethernet card
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 10:49:37 +1000
Hi Bastiaan,
> Sorry I'm replying from another email-address... I'm at a friend's house
> right now ;-)
> I tried to locate the file you mentioned, but I do not have a directory
> called sysconfig in /etc/ ... Do you have slackware?
Actually no, I was thinking more along the lines of you having Redhat or
Mandrake. As for slackware, I can't remember where the files live. I am not
sure whether the file you need to look for is "rc.network". You need to look
through your system configuration directory (starting with /etc) for a
directory which may inditicate where the configuration data is located. Look
for a directory called "init.d" using the locate command or "eth" with the
locate command and this might help you track down the relevant files.
Failing that, you might need to use a configuration utility like "linuxconf",
I am not sure whether it exists in the slackware world and see whether you can
set the cards to boot automatically from there.
> I think the problem maybe is located within my modules.conf. Do you know
> the correct syntax for the option command?
Well the simple way to check whether the modules work correctly, is to see
whether or not you see eth0 and eth1 being recognised when the system boots.
> right now I have:
> option ne2k-pci irq=10,11 io=0x6100,0x6200
I am not sure of the syntax for slackware, you could try something like this:
alias eth0 ne2k-pci irq=10,io=0x6100
alias eth1 ne2k-pci irq=11,io=0x6200
But I am not sure. You should only need to play around with the conf.modules
or modules.conf file if the system doesn't recognise either or both of the
cards.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: "Sonny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Sound Card MX-300
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 11:21:08 +1000
Hi there,
Is anybody know how to set it up on Suse Linux 7.1.. It seem detect the
sound card but does not support...
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Crystal 4232 sound problem
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:30:05 -0000
When I set up my crystal 4232 with sndconfig (RedHat 7), it is able to
auto detect and test succesfully my soundcard, both midi and regular
sound. However, when I go into GNOME, FAILSAFE, or KDE, it does not work.
The XMMS player does not play at all. I click play and nothing happens, no
errors or nothing. When I play a WAV file, my mouse will move and stop,
move and stop over and over. When I hit ctrl - alt - f1(or and f key),
this message continues over the screen:
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
ad1848: Auto calibration timed out(3)
Sometimes however, the first second of audio will play (in any program),
but then I am back where I started. Any reasons why sndconfig would play
my sound but not X11?
System:
RedHat 7.0
2.2.16-22
Celeron 300a
224mb
Diamond 3d Stealth 2000 pro (something like that)
Dual boot with windows
Thanks!
James
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From: Shreyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Scanner -Scanjet 6200C w SuSE 7.1
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:30:09 -0000
SuSE 7.1 has already configured my USB controller and i've already
inserted the kernel 2.4 usb-scanner.o module. Now i try typinng:
# scanimage --device-name=hp:/dev/usbscanner -T
And i get:
Segmentation fault
Have i incorrectly setup sane or is my scanner unsupported?
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Boot linux with Windows 2000!!!
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:44:31 -0500
You might check out http://www.xosl.org which is an excellent free
bootloader.
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Brett I. Holcomb
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AKA Grunt<><
"Rossz Vamos-Wentworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Get Partition Magic, which includes Boot Magic. It handles both Win 2000
and
> Linux. Unfortunately, this is commericial software ($$$). None of the
> freebie programs I came across were as good as this package.
>
>
> "Pedro Rom�o" wrote:
>
> > Seems like Windows 2000 is not like Windows NT and I can't Boot linux
with
> > the Windows 2000 loader.
> >
> > My BOOT.INI is
> >
> > [boot loader]
> > timeout=5
> > default=C:\
> > [operating systems]
> > C:\="Microsoft Windows Millenium"
> > multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(4)\WINNT="Microsoft Windows 2000
> > Professional" /fastdetect
> > C:\BOOTSECT.LNX="SuSE Linux 6.4"
> >
> > and BOOTSECT.LNX was made by linux with the command:
> >
> > # dd if=/dev/hda1 of=BOOTSECT.LNX bs=512 count=1
> >
> > Thanks in advance!!!
>
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Subject: Re: USB Hard Drive (Update)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:58:45 GMT
In article <99dlvl$m8m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong) says:
> So far, no luck with SuSE 7.1 with the newest 2.4.2 kernel.
FWIW, I've been using a USB Zip drive for months with the 2.4.X series of
kernels. Have you loaded usb-storage.o ?
-Kenny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: hotswap keyboard without reboot?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Apr 2001 01:56:40 GMT
On 2 Apr 2001 22:33:54 GMT, Peter Bismuti staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I often change keyboards, it appears that I must reboot everytime. Is
>this correct, or is there some way I can hotswap keyboards? I believe
>that the bios handles the keyboard, is there some way of "sig hupping"
>the bios?
Either get USB keyboard(s), or a PS/2 KVM switch. Due to the way the
PS/2 mouse+keyboard interface was originally designed, hot-plugging a
PS/2 device is usually not a good idea. The specifics of what happens
when you unplug a PS/2 device from a live system are dependent on your
motherboard.
Linux does not use the BIOS for anything once the kernel is loaded;
keyboard handling is done in /usr/src/linux/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c .
It may be possible to put a hack in there to call pckbd_init_hw() at an
appropriate time. USB or a KVM would be a far more elegant solution, I
think....
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: "web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Are there any other commands to set up soundcard?
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:21:53 +0800
I donot know how to let my soundcard(CMI8738 PCI on motherboard) work?
I cannot run "sndcfg" or "sndconfig" in my linux. Are there any other
commands to set up soundcard?
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From: Brady Bonnette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with installing Voodoo3 3000 agp!
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 02:43:04 GMT
Hi all! I have a problem to share with you experts, hope you can help
me out :)
Ok, I installed RH 7.0 (respin discs) a few weeks ago, and now I want to
begin setting up my Voodoo3 3000 agp for gameplay.. Well, this is
harder than it seems. I had a voodoo 1 a long time ago that set up
perfectly, but voodoo3 seems to be a problem.
Anyways, after digging to find the drivers, since linux.3dfx.com is now
down, I finally installed Device3dfx and Glide (for glibc). They both
installed successfully. I dont think I need any other type of driver
(other than mesa) to get it to work since X 4.0 has Voodoo3 support
built in: correct me if I am wrong. Well, time comes to test it:
/usr/local/glide/bin/test3Dfx If I am non-root (which I always
am), glide reports that it cannot find the V3 board. However, if I su
to root then try the test program, it starts to load, but locks up my
machine... no way out, I have to reset it.. gah.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Perhaps some of you have successfully
installed a V3 in RH 7.0. Any help or urls would be greatly
appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Brady
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Crystal 4232 sound problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Apr 2001 02:48:06 GMT
On Tue, 03 Apr 2001 01:30:05 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>When I set up my crystal 4232 with sndconfig (RedHat 7), it is able to
>auto detect and test succesfully my soundcard, both midi and regular
>sound. However, when I go into GNOME, FAILSAFE, or KDE, it does not
>work. The XMMS player does not play at all. I click play and nothing
>happens, no errors or nothing. When I play a WAV file, my mouse will
>move and stop, move and stop over and over. When I hit ctrl - alt -
>f1(or and f key), this message continues over the screen:
>
>Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
>ad1848: Auto calibration timed out(3)
>
>Sometimes however, the first second of audio will play (in any
>program), but then I am back where I started. Any reasons why sndconfig
>would play my sound but not X11?
Is the Enlightenment Sound Daemon (esd) starting? That particular thing
takes over /dev/dsp and refuses to let anything else use it. Either
don't let that start, or configure your sound-outputting programs to use
esd instead of the normal /dev/dsp output device. xmms has an esd
output plugin; don't know about any others since I don't use GNOME.
If that didn't help, check whatever setting sndconfig came up with.
TYpically, the following series of commands works for a cs4232:
modprobe sound dmabuf=1
modprobe cs4232 irq=5 io=0x534 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
modprobe ad1848
modprobe opl3 io=0x388
Note that io= may be 0x530 ; try that if 0x534 doesn't fly.
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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From: "Andrew Cassin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gigabyte 7ZX and Busmastering DMA
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 12:58:24 +1000
Hi,
I am using linux kernel 2.4.3 under RH7 and am having trouble getting bus
mastering dma
to work. It seems the pci module notices the vt8363 chip on the motherboard
and disables
it immediately (amongst other features).
The code in the kernel directory (particularly pci-pc.c) is partially
illuminating,
but why is it disabled? bios incompatibility? some chipset revisions dont
work?
I know my system could perform much better than what is
currently possible (the hard drive used to report up to 22MB/s with another
m/b) so I
thought it worth a shot.
thanks in advance,
Andrew Cassin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jazbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question: Anyone got ide2 *and* ide3 working on Promise ata100?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 00:38:22 -0400
Nader wrote:
> What kernel version are you using?
>
> If the kernel doesn't support HPT366, 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://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm - 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.
Actually I was hoping that someone could confirm that they have *seen* both
channels in use under Linux.
I'm on Mandrake7.2 stock 2.2.17-21MDK kernel which has some support for the
PDC20267 compiled into the kernel.
As I mentioned, I'm able to use one channel of the ATA100 controller
normally. I have partitioned and formatted both my QUantum drives using it.
Currently I am mounting /opt on one of these - that was just an experiment.
The goal ultimately is to make raid 0 devices on them and migrate
/usr/local and /var and /home to them.
I have gone through the pci bus info gathering steps some weeks before,
following a howto expressly for the Promise Ultra ata controller that I read
on mandrake-user. I did that, and found out that Mandrake 7.2 *already* saw
the Promise' memory addresses without boottime option passing on my
part. You can see what Mandrake understands about this card from my post to
this form on March 8, cf "raid 0 question" comp.os.linux.hardware.
What I have is a 2 channel IDE adapter card that I can use one channel of -
you can pick any channel and connect one drive or two if you feel like it,
but you can use ONLY one IDE channel at a time. I need to use them both for
raid.
Today, I did the unthinkable and installed the Promise driver on Windows 98.
Preparing to install, while I was downloading the drivers, I saw a mention
in the tech support area of a problem the Promise card has with my particular
VIA VP-3 board (the FIC 503+) Unless one has a revised BIOS for
that board, there is a "PCI steering problem". Well, I have had the last
available BIOS revision for the board already now for over a year.
I installed the Promise driver and the card is reportedly operating just fine
in Windows - although both of the drives had been partitioned and
formatted for use with Linux. So Windows didn't see the drives at all. But on
the other hand I was able to start Windows with the 2 drives attached to
separate IDE channels with separate cables on the Promise. And it didn't halt
like it always does under Linux. According to the device manager the
card was working ok. According to the notice at Promise tech support, the
error symptom in Windows is a complete failure to load the driver, which
manifests as a yellow exclamation point in device manager. Since that hasn't
happened to me in Windows at all I assume that there's no problem going on
*there*. I was really hoping there was some kind of setup utilty (the driver
download mentioned some kind of utility) to run in Windows that might
cure the problem in Linux, like a NIC setup utility, but so far I haven't
seen evidence of any.
Seems like I'm stuck with yet another "sort of works but really doesn't"
Linux driver for the indefinite future.
I guess I can buy a 3ware raid controller which is guaranteed to work in
Linux (but several times the cost of my already bought Promise (non-raid)
adapter). And I don't think I can wedge it into my system without removing
some other card. It has its IDE headers placed ontop of the card not on
the side-edge like the Promise. :-<
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Are there any other commands to set up soundcard?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Apr 2001 03:41:23 GMT
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 10:21:53 +0800, web staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
>I donot know how to let my soundcard(CMI8738 PCI on motherboard) work?
>I cannot run "sndcfg" or "sndconfig" in my linux. Are there any other
>commands to set up soundcard?
Hmm, from /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/CMI8338 :
(note: this module also supports the CMI8738)
"modprobe cmpci"
That's all you should have to do. If that command returns "device or
resource busy", then we'll need more information, probably starting with
the output of "cat /proc/pci" and the kernel version you're running and the
distro you're using. If that command works, put the line "modprobe
cmpci" into your /sbin/init.d/boot.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.local or
whatever your distro uses as a local boot script. HTH, bonne chance!
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From: "Dmitry Krasnov" <dek@*NOSPAM*dt.amur.ru>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Dialogic Hardware under Linux
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:00:20 +1000
Has anybody ever used any dialogic telephony hardware under Linux?
I'm using Debian 2.2r0. I'd installed Dialogic DNA R5 for Linux from
http://support.dialogic.com. Kernel was changed to RH6.2 kernel-2.2.12-20 as
required by Dialogic. LiS-2.8 was built and installed, kmods was loaded
smoothly and finally two my D/41D cards was correctly found and started and
their firmware was downloaded but any dialogic sample progs in
/usr/dialogic/demos did not work complains "Can not open device. errno =
22'.
What's wrong with drivers? Any suggestions?
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/Dmitry Krasnov, System Engineer, JV DT International
E-mail: dek(at)dt.amur.ru, Mobile: +7-(4162)359002
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