Linux-Hardware Digest #567, Volume #14 Wed, 4 Apr 01 08:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: can't boot after updating kernel to 2.4.0 (Tony Hague)
Wintv, no sound with S-Video/Line-in ("Juergen Seyffer")
Re: Running a GeForce2 MX AGP card with Redhat 6.1 and 6.2 ("j-pip")
Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles ("Ed G")
Hardware prob? ("Alberto Tarantino")
Re: Red Hat 7.0 and Intel 815EEA Chipset (Martti Nikunen)
TwinView on GeForce 2MX / Redhat 7.0 ("O. Mazzier")
tv in -> mpeg/mjpeg out video card wanted (Morten Dreier)
Q: GeForce2MX on i810 MB - howto enable AGP and bypass i810? (Jari
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Sepp=E4l=E4?=)
linux and cray j90 (Dieter Eckhardt)
Re: Win Modems (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Where is my mouse? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Memory problem ("Bastiaan Schaap")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague)
Subject: Re: can't boot after updating kernel to 2.4.0
Date: 4 Apr 2001 08:42:59 GMT
In article <9aek9r$4e1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Loading linux.............
>Uncompressing Linux.........OK,boot the kernel.
>(the system just hang on )
I'd do a 'make menuconfig' and check the options you have selected.
Looks like you might have chosen the wrong CPU type to me.
Tony.
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From: "Juergen Seyffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Wintv, no sound with S-Video/Line-in
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 10:41:01 +0200
Hello everyone
I am currently using Suse 7.1 with Kernel 2.4.0 on some systems. I connect a
Satellite Receiver to a Hauppauge WinTv-Radio and also to a Terratec
TV/Radio+. On both systems comes on the Videosignal without any sound. I
tried either kwintv and xawtv. There is also a terrestric antenna connected
which is working with Video and Sound. Sometimes it happens that when
changing the channel from terrestric program to composite that the sound of
the terrestric channel and the Video of the composite input is mixed
together. Is the TV-Card automatically selecting Line-in of the Tv-card when
I switch to composite1 or 3, or to I have to select any Audio-Input source
in the apps (can't find nothing in xawtv and kwintv's channel setup)? Has
anybody with a recent kernel a working composite video/audio configuration
running ?
At the moment, I use the Mic-In of the Soundcard instead of the line-in of
the TV-card, so its not so urgent. It seems to be a problem of the driver or
of my setup.
For the Hauppauge Card my /etc/modules.conf is having
options bttv pll=1 radio=1 card=10
options tuner type=5
For the Terratec Card
options bttv card=47 pll=2 radio=1
options tuner type=5
options tvaudio tda9873=1
Best regards
Juergen
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From: "j-pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running a GeForce2 MX AGP card with Redhat 6.1 and 6.2
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:39:43 +0800
mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I was wondering if a GeForce2 MX AGP card will easily
> install and run with Redhat 6.1 and 6.2 without having to
> update XFree86 to version 4.0 or higher and download special
> drivers.
> All I would want initially, is to be able to have 1024 x 768
> resolution.
> Thanks
> Mike
>
You will likely have to download special drivers but it's chicken
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html
Following the instructions in the README and Installation Guide on the above
site worked like a dream for me.
Better than on Windows, because IIRC, after installing the RPMs and making
appropriate changes in the XF86Config files as per the instructions, right
after
quitting 'Vim' the graphical X-login came up without my having to reboot
;-)
1024 X 768 @ 85Hz : no problem !
J-Philippe.
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From: "Ed G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ack! Newbie linux sound troubles
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 08:53:15 GMT
Hi, I had similar problems. As far as I could figure the soundcard was
not being loaded with quite the right settings.
Have a look in /etc/modules.conf. You should find something along the
lines of "alias sound-slot-0 sb".
Now try running "modprobe -r sb" and "modprobe -r sound" I forget the
order. This should remove your sound driver from the kernel.
now try running harddrake and setting up your sound card.
If this works and you now have sound (until you reboot) and can set it up
consistently with harddrake (just by using the defaults) then you can try
what I tried. That is to go into your sysvinit (I used ksysv) and remove
the sound loader.
Now you have it set so that harddrake will configure the sound card for
you and it won't be reconfigured by the sound configuration that is doing
it now.
Works perfectly for me.
Hope this helps
Cheers
ERik
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Alex Weiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> Sorry about the last posting, now I REALLY feel like an idiot (just
> kidding of course). Anyway, this is the message I tried sending to
> everybody regarding some mandrake linux installation woes:
>
> Thanks for being patient.
>
> I tried lurking and finding a solution to my problem this way, but that
> didn't seem to do the trick. So, here I am, with a newbie question
> regarding the installation of my sound card in mandrake linux.
>
> What basically happens is as follows:
>
> In KDE, after I first installed linux on my machine, I used DrakConf to
> set up my Vibra Soundblaster 16. I used the same irq and dma values that
> I have in windows and it worked just fine. However, upon rebooting the
> computer, the sound no longer worked. W hen I tried using DrakConf to
> install the card again in KDE I got the following error:
>
> sox: Can't open output file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy
>
> Finally, even stranger, I do not get this error when I attempt to
> install the sound card in gnome, windowmaker, or any of the other
> environments. However, even if I use these other environments to
> configure the sound card, the sound never continues workin g after I
> reboot the machine.
>
> So far I've attempted the following to solve my problem (based mainly on
> reading this newsgroup and others):
>
> 1. Run sndconfig as root and in console mode. While the installation,
> once
> again, went without problems, this did not solve my problem.
>
> 2. I also followed the how-to guide and ran pdpdump which I later
> configured. Once again, this didn't solve the problem.
>
> 3. Finally, I tried to change the permissions of /dev/dsp in case the
> problem had to do with how they were set. Once again, this didn't help,
> but it did lead me to another problem which I think may be related to
> why I cannot get sound.
>
> It seems that after I shutdown or close from the windows, the file
> permissions I set did not stay set in their new configuration. Hence, I
> set the permission to 660 (read and write for user and group) and the
> next thing I knew, it was back to only read a nd write for user.
>
> I used dmesg to see whether there were any warnings and found that there
> was something wrong with my partition table (I am appending the output
> of dmesg to the end of this message).
>
> I suspect that the problem is that the things I've been saving with
> respect to the soundcard are either saved and overwritten or not saved
> at all. This is just a guess mind you, I would appreciate any help in
> fixing this problem since it is distressing.
>
> I'm running Mandrake 7.2 (2.2.17-21) on the following machine: A
> Pentium
> 166 with 64 megs of RAM @ BIOS 13.5 gig harddrive in which windows 95 is
> running on the first partition (around 8 gigs worth) and linux is riding
> on the remainder 5-6 gigs. A matrox mystique graphics card. The
> computer is acting as a personal workstation (I'll probably have
> questions for you folks later when I try to get this thing connected to
> the school's slirp!).
>
> The soundcard is a Vibra SB16 set for IRQ 5, DMAS 0 and 1, and an I/O
> range of 220,330, and 338. The install programs tell me that there are
> no conflicts with these addresses.
>
> Anyway, as promised, here is the output of dmesg.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Alex
>
> Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
> 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000 Detected
> 166586 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay
> loop... 332.60 BogoMIPS Memory: 62788k/65536k available (1136k kernel
> code, 412k reserved, 1072k data, 128k init, 0k bigmem) Dentry hash table
> entries: 8192 (order 4, 64k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536
> (order 6, 256k) Page cache hash table entries: 16384 (order 4, 64k) VFS:
> Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200
> stepping 0c Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16
> error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Intel Pentium with F0
> 0F bug - workaround enabled. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI:
> PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb490, last bus=0 PCI: Using
> configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux
> 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix
> domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash
> 65536 bhash 65536) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port. Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS
> MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.13) Real Time Clock
> Driver v1.09 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 33MHz
> system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx SIS5513: IDE
> controller on PCI bus 00 dev 09 SIS5513: chipset revision 192 SIS5513:
> not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x4000-0x4007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1:
> BM-DMA at 0x4008-0x400f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hda: ST313640A, ATA DISK drive hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:272, ATAPI CDROM
> drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on
> irq 15 hda: ST313640A, 12969MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=26351/16/63 hdc: ATAPI
> 4X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 Floppy
> drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0
> MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> 8regs : 162.687 MB/sec
> 32regs : 125.730 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (162.687 MB/sec) scsi : 0 hosts. scsi :
> detected total. md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096 Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
> autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ...
> ... autorun DONE.
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel
> memory: 128k freed Adding Swap: 255488k swap-space (priority -1)
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2,EPP] parport_probe: failed
> parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present. ppa: Version 2.03 (for Linux
> 2.2.x) ppa: Found device at ID 6, Attempting to use EPP 32 bit ppa:
> Communication established with ID 6 using EPP 32 bit scsi0 : Iomega VPI0
> (ppa) interface scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: L.01 Type:
> Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0 sda :
> READ CAPACITY failed. sda : status = 0, message = 00, host = 0, driver =
> 28 sda : extended sense code = 2 sda : block size assumed to be 512
> bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sda:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 unable to read partition
> table
> PnP: Calling quirk for 02:00 isapnp: Card 'Rockwell V.34 Plug & Play
> Modem' isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16C PnP' isapnp: 2 Plug & Play cards
> detected total isapnp: card 'CTL0070' order 1 not found Soundblaster
> audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 SB 4.13
> detected OK (220) CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University
> of California PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline
> registered. lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
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From: "Alberto Tarantino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hardware prob?
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 11:33:52 +0200
Hello,
I changed the NIC on a HP server and since then I got this message in thw
/var/log/warn file:
Mar 28 00:04:22 xxxxxxx kernel: enable_irq() unbalanced from c01c6334
The NIC works fine and the system is quite stable...
The kernel is 2.2.18 and the NIC is a 3com XL 3c509c.
Thanks for any advice.
Alberto
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martti Nikunen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.0 and Intel 815EEA Chipset
Date: 4 Apr 2001 09:48:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3 Apr 2001 17:57:40 PDT, Manatee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone knows if Red Hat supports the 815 chipset?
>
>I can install RH 7.0 but then get no networking at all.
>
>Any thoughts on what could be causing this problem? thoughts on a
>possible solution? Thank you.
>
>
>--
>
>Manatee
You must get the driver (e100) from Intel, see
ftp://download.intel.com/df-support/2250/ENG/
Get e100-1.5.5a.tar.gz and follow the instructions in e100.txt.
Remember to put the line
alias eth0 e100
in your /etc/modules.conf
Martti Nikunen
Department of Mathematics, University of Helsinki
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "O. Mazzier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TwinView on GeForce 2MX / Redhat 7.0
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:53:31 +0200
Hi all,
Here is my config:
- Athlon 1GHz
- Abit K7T-Raid + 128 MB
- Hercules GeForce 2MX DDV
- Redhat 7.0 / kernel 2.2.16-22
I am trying to enable twinview on TV, but I can't figure
out how.
I have already loaded these drivers : NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6
and NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6 and X is working fine
Any idea ?
Cheers
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Subject: tv in -> mpeg/mjpeg out video card wanted
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morten Dreier)
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 12:52:50 +0200
Are there any video cards that can take a tv signal and convert it into
an mpeg/mjepg file, and has linux drivers?
I have been looking for such a card for some time, but I have not been
able to find one.
Any suggestions?
--
Morten Dreier
http://www.pobox.com/~mdreier/
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From: Jari =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sepp=E4l=E4?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: GeForce2MX on i810 MB - howto enable AGP and bypass i810?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:55:59 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Abit motherboard with integrated i810 AGP display "card".
After getting tired of the low performance I installed GeForce2MX
display card. Now the problem is that AGPGART module does not install
but just complains that it finds only i810 and it is not correct.
In my modules.conf are lines:
alias char-major-10-175 agpgart
options agpgart agp_try_unsupported=1
alias char-major-195 NVdriver
And I am using:
NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-6
NVIDIA_GLX-0.9-6
So the question is how to bypass the i810 detection and use only the
AGP card in AGP slot.
Jari
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*** Jari Seppälä, Research Scientist ***
*** Tampere University of Technology / ACI ***
*** [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.iki.fi/jari.seppala/ ***
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dieter Eckhardt)
Subject: linux and cray j90
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:54:28 GMT
hi all,
i can get a cray j90 supercomputer more or less for free. all i have
to do is to pick it up. its no OS included in the deal and i'm afraid
i cant pay for a licensed version of unicos which goes for about $8k
is anyone having experihences with cray supercomputers here and if
there are any alternatives to unicos? the system has 32 cpus and
something like 4 or 8 gb ram (megawords).
the greatest i can imagine is to run linux on this system, but i'm
afraid it wont work.
happy about all answers. please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cheers
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Subject: Re: Win Modems
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 11:14:22 GMT
Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> > "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com> writes:
> >
> >> It seems as if more and more people using Windows
> >> are very dissapointed over the performance of there Lucent Winmodems. In
> >> the last week I have met 3 people that have taken back there Lucent
> >> Winmodem because it drops out regularly. If your machine is slower 300Mhz
> >> or is running a CPU intensive task in the background you can bet that it
> >> will drop out. Give me a real modem anyday!! By the way real internal
> >> modems are getting hard to source. Does anyone have suggestions for a
> >> Internal Fax Voice Data modem?
> >
> > one word _EXTERNAL_. yes, i know you said internal but why not expand
> > your possibilities? since most mice these days are ps/2 or usb, you
> > probably have nothing on your rs232 ports. why not use it?
> >
> One small point - some people don't use their serial ports
> at all, and intentionally disable them for the IRQs. That could be
> a good reason for not using serial anything.
another small point -- an internal modem will take an IRQ too. so if
you have modem, you lose an IRQ to it. i don't see what difference it
makes whether you use that IRQ on the built-in serial port or if you
use it on the modem card. sharing an IRQ works with many PCI cards so
IRQs are no longer in such short supply.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Where is my mouse?
Date: 04 Apr 2001 14:01:15 +0200
"Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello, One day I lost the mouse, then I try to set up it but I didn't get
> it. So I installed again Linux(Red Hat 6.0) but the mouse didn't go, then I
> tried with Red Hat 5.2.
> The mouse don't go and I see that my HD lose the first partition in the
> second disc, Could the HD controller be broken? (The HD ID Controller is
> embebed in the motherboard)
>
> Thanks.
You seem to have two different problems.
1) Your mouse. What is the type? Brand name, model number, serial,
PS/2, USB?
2) Your harddisk controller is probably fine if you can still read the
partition table and access the drive. The partition table is a
fragile pieve of information stored in the first sector of the
drive.
Dennis van Dok
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From: "Bastiaan Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory problem
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:09:34 +0200
Hi all,
Maybe a stupid question, but I run an Intel PIII 700 with 256MB ram with Red
Hat 6.2. Bios checks and posts 256MB ram. However, when I boot linux and
look at the memory usage with the top command it shows that linux only
'sees' 64MB !!! Is this a common problem? What do I have to check/do in
order to fix this?
TIA,
Bastiaan Schaap
Desyde BV
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel 06 - 51998277
Fax 035 - 5430547
http://www.desyde.nl
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