Linux-Hardware Digest #568, Volume #14 Wed, 4 Apr 01 12:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: GeForce2MX on i810 MB - howto enable AGP and bypass i810? ("Geek Mystique")
Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective (Stephen Rank)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Anthony Hill)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (chrisv)
Re: Where is my mouse? ("Alexander")
Re: can't boot after updating kernel to 2.4.0 (Kenneth Rørvik)
Re: does anyone know vmware? ("Barry L. Kline")
Re: Memory problem ("Michael Schmidtlein")
Re: Memory problem ("Bastiaan Schaap")
Kernel-2.4.2 & network card stopped! transmit timed out (Hun)
Re: linux and cray j90 (Karl-Heinz Herrmann)
32MB I/O MagicVideo TNT2 AGP (Young4ert)
Re: linux and cray j90 ("Bastiaan Schaap")
Re: K7V133A & RH7.0 ("KW")
Re: Crackling/Static caused by Ensoniq + Esd? (Mike Moran)
Re: Athlon processor compatibility with SuSe (jpajirent)
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From: "Geek Mystique" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GeForce2MX on i810 MB - howto enable AGP and bypass i810?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:14:20 GMT
I have no personal experience with the motherboard you're talking about, but
i think there should be a bios option or jumper setting to disable the intel
video-chipset. Check your manual
"Jari Seppälä" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[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
> --
> *** Jari Seppälä, Research Scientist ***
> *** Tampere University of Technology / ACI ***
> *** [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.iki.fi/jari.seppala/ ***
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From: Stephen Rank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Memory pb : 384M real, 64M effective
Date: 04 Apr 2001 13:23:28 +0100
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Pantalacci Christophe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've got this kind of problem : Linux only sees 64M of RAM. When I
> > modify lilo.conf by adding
>
> There's no problem with that.
>
> > append="mem=384M" and executing lilo, my whole system crashes at
> > reboot with segmentation faults everywhere, and i must reinstall.
[ replying to a reply, as the parent post has gone AWOL ]
You don't need to reinstall: just pass the `mem=xxxM' to the kernel
via the Lilo prompt when you boot (e.g., ``Linux mem=300M''). Once
your system boots, you can adjust your lilo.conf appropriately and
then run lilo.
HTH,
Stephen
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From: Anthony Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:31:13 GMT
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 00:54:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith R.
Williams) wrote:
>> Even when I just have to reboot into
>> safe mode to change a messed up setting or have load up new video
>> drivers that kill my video settings, those few minutes of flicker
>> really do not agree with me.
>
>Safe mode? You still using toys?
Only Win2K. It doesn't require a boot into Safe Mode TOO often, only
when I REALLY screw things up! :>
> WinNT and Win2K will
>allow changing the video mode without re-booting. I thought
>Win98 would too, but I don't do toys (not that I consider
>anything from M$ much above a toy).
Win98 (and most revisions of Win95) do allow changing video mode
without rebooting, I'm just talking about the minute or two between
when the system comes up and when I can actually get into the display
properties, switch to the right tab, go to the advanced properties,
switch tabs again and then chose a higher refresh rate up to a more
reasonable level.
>> 75Hz and I'm
>> fine, 85Hz and I'm happy. Unfortunately my new video card and my
>> monitor don't agree at all at anything higher then 75Hz, anything
>> higher and my screen starts to warble just slightly.
>
>Send 'em back! 85Hz should be easy with today's cards. I'm
>using a Matrox Mystique B/220 here at 1280x1024@85Hz. THis
>is a two-year old IBM G94 (a damned good one). This antique
>hardware works quite well.
I don't know quite where the problem is. Monitor worked fine when I
got it with my old Matrox card, and my current video cards work fine
on other monitors, but put the two together and they aren't too happy.
At 1280x1024@85Hz they're fine though, it's only 1024x768 at anything
higher then 75Hz. I'm testing it out at 1152x864@85Hz as we speak.
Anything higher than that and I can't read stuff without really
cranking the font size up.
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Tony Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:38:03 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Time to go for lcd flatscreens.
Yuck. None for me, thanks. They're fine if you only use the one
native resolution, otherwise, not so good.
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From: "Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my mouse?
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 14:59:38 +0200
Thank, I have a serial mouse.
If I create a primary partition, I lose it. I tried with only one primary
partition (100%) and I lost too. But if I did:
1 primary partition 1M: FAT 32
2 extended partition: FAT32
3 Linux native partition
4 Linux swap partition
I get
1 non dos partition
2 extended partition: FAT32
3 Linux native partition
4 Linux swap partition
Everytime I lose the first partition. Always The first partition becomes a
non Dos partition.
I can use the mouse from the win95, but I don't want use wX.
Thanks
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "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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Subject: Re: can't boot after updating kernel to 2.4.0
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik)
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 13:35:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (stephen) wrote in <9aek9r$4e1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>reboot after after updating kernel to 2.4.0 from 2.2.16(redhat7.0)
>, I can't get the redhat 7.0 boot. The error state is as blow while
>I reboot my notebook:
>1.copy linux2.4.0.gz to /usr/src
>2.tar zvxf linux2.4.0.gz
>3.cd /usr/src/linux/ then "make mrproper"
>4.make oldconfig
There are known problems with 2.4 and some notebooks, other than that, you
should make sure you do not unpack the 2.4 sources on top of an old
sourcetree, which usually recides in /usr/src/linux. Rename /usr/src/linux
before unpacking the source, and try again.
--
Kenneth Rørvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: "Barry L. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: does anyone know vmware?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 09:48:13 -0400
Dan wrote:
>
> hi all,
>
> I run redhat 7.0 on SMP, and I'm having some sort of trouble with the
> vmware-config.pl working with my autoconf.h, I was told that I can
> comment out few lines with SMP on it in vmware-config.pl, but I forgot
> what those lines are.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> -dan
I use VMWare and NT on my RH 7.0 SMP box with no trouble. Did you check
out their website for assistance?
Barry
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From: "Michael Schmidtlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory problem
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 15:49:25 +0200
hi
try the param "mem=256M" at the lilo boot promt
if that works, ad:
append = "mem=256M"
in your lilo.conf
michael.schmidtlein
> 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
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From: "Bastiaan Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory problem
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:06:51 +0200
Thanx Michael,
I'll try that! But guess what? I put in a bootable disk with windows 95 (I
know.....) and run mem from the prompt. It shows: 64MB (!). So I guess it's
not linux that's causing the problem... I'll try your solution, if it
doesn't work I'll put in new mobo...
Cheers,
--
Bastiaan Schaap
Desyde BV
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel 06 - 51998277
Fax 035 - 5430547
http://www.desyde.nl
________________________________
Everybody should believe in something: I believe I'll have another drink.
"Michael Schmidtlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9af8pl$339$04$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hi
> try the param "mem=256M" at the lilo boot promt
>
> if that works, ad:
> append = "mem=256M"
> in your lilo.conf
>
> michael.schmidtlein
>
> > 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
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hun)
Subject: Kernel-2.4.2 & network card stopped! transmit timed out
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:06:55 GMT
Hello,
My SMP box has two Celeron CPUs, after I upraded the BIOS
I have greate improvement of stability. 9 days without crash system!
Do I have to upgrade kernel 2.4.3? I already patched kernel 2.4.2-ac20.
In addition, this Linux box can not send data to local ftp server. Only to this
server. The data trasmission just stop while making a lot of packet collisions! I
posted this stuff a weeks ago but nobody answered. :(
This box send and receives with other computers, local computer either public ftp
server I've tested many times, without no problem.
Thanks in advance.
Here is the Network device information:
Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.13a (January 20, 2001)
eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC rev 37 at 0xc800, 00:80:C6:F9:7B:26, IRQ 16.
The below is the log messages.
Apr 4 06:42:04 hanixsmp kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Apr 4 06:42:04 hanixsmp kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status e46980c5, CSR12 00
0050ca, resetting..
.
Apr 4 06:42:12 hanixsmp kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Apr 4 06:42:12 hanixsmp kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status e46980c7, CSR12 00
0050ca, resetting..
.
Apr 4 06:42:20 hanixsmp kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
Apr 4 06:42:20 hanixsmp kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status e46980c7, CSR12 00
0050ca, resetting..
P.S. To fix system problems in Linux is slow but, it becomes better.
Maybe I want too much expectation for this low-end SMP box though.
--
Registered Linux user #207121
http://counter.li.org
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From: Karl-Heinz Herrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux and cray j90
Date: 04 Apr 2001 16:04:02 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dieter Eckhardt) writes:
> 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.
Do you know which CPU's are in there? Cray T3E are Dec Alpha
Processors and could maybe work (Alpha Linux).
K.-H.
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Karl-Heinz Herrmann
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 32MB I/O MagicVideo TNT2 AGP
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:02:28 GMT
Hi,
I just purchased an I/OMagic 32MB TNT2 2/3D Video Graphics Accelerator AGP
(Part #:DR-DA600) card and am wondering if this card is ully supported
under Linux. On the box, it has an nVIDIA logo. I certainly would like to
hear from anyone who is using this card under Linux in term of 3D
performance and acceleration.
TIA.
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From: "Bastiaan Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux and cray j90
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:27:13 +0200
Hi Dieter,
(Unfortunately) I do not have any experience with Cray's, but as I can
recall from some specs I saw, the Cray has special 'backbone' hardware to
'tie' up the CPU-boards.... I'm afraid you'll need special drivers.. Isn't
there more info on the Cray website?
cheers,
--
Bastiaan Schaap
Desyde BV
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel 06 - 51998277
Fax 035 - 5430547
http://www.desyde.nl
________________________________
'First things first -- but not necessarily in that order' -- Dr Who
"Dieter Eckhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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 $8k
>
> is anyone having experihences with cray supercomputers here and if
> there are any alternatives to unicos? the system has 32 cpus and
> something like 4 or 8 gb ram (megawords).
>
> the greatest i can imagine is to run linux on this system, but i'm
> afraid it wont work.
>
> happy about all answers. please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> cheers
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From: "KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: K7V133A & RH7.0
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 10:45:20 -0500
Jeff...
My KT133A based board loves it...(Abit KT7A). Be sure to leave SMP turned off
though... I had trouble compiling 2.4.2 kernel with it turned on... I
figure since it's basically the same chipset they should get along about
as well...
In article <2Qsy6.118698$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jeffrey Yu"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, just want to find out if anyone has installed RH7.0 on an ASUS
> K7V133A mboard, and would like to know of your opinion of such a
> combination. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jeff
>
>
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From: Mike Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Crackling/Static caused by Ensoniq + Esd?
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 17:01:50 +0100
I'm forwarding a reply on behalf of Gerry (thanks!) who kindly replied
many months after my first query. I haven't had a chance to try the fix
out yet, but here it is for anyone else.
Gerry OConnor wrote:
>
> >Hi. I've just recompiled my 2.2.17 kernel with support for my
>
> >Creative Ensoniq (ES1371, I think) sound card. When I use
> >freeamp or mpg123 to play the sounds via the esd sound daemon
> I
> >get background crackling and static, not too dissimilar in
> >sound to radio interference. It still occurs when the monitor
>
> >is off so I doubt it is that. Everything seems fine when I log
>
> >out back to gdm and then run mpg123 from the console.
>
> >From a spot of initial listening this morning the interference
>
> >seems to correspond to system activity, as viewed via a panel
>
> >applet. It is not very loud, but is very noticable.
>
> Hi mike, I'm not running linux 2.2.17 but win2k, and am havign
> the same problem.
>
> But after a 10 min call to Creative Tech support... I managed
> to get the answer...
>
> Whatever your PCI Latency is (mine was 0), increase it by 32 or
> decrease it, ie, putting it from 0 to 32, and then rebooting,
> took my crackles away! Really simple eh!
>
> If your PCI latency is 32 (it actually gets multipliesd by 10,
> thereby giving 320ms, or 640ms or 0ms latency), increasing it
> to 64, or lowering it to 0 is also a fix, depending on the origonal
> setting.
>
> Not sure if there was something wrong with my setting, the MB
> manual has it set at 32 for default, but have no idea why it got
> set yo 0.. Cannot remember setting it to 0, but hey, sleepwalking
> has been knows to do wierd and wonderful things!!!
>
> Now, I thought i'd pass this ont you as you were so good to post
> the problem in the first place, i've not gotten news service up
> and running on my win2k box yet so I cannot pist, so if you wouldn't
> mind posting a reply detailing the solution, would be a great
> boon for others who hve this es1371 sound card...
>
> it's not really a bad sound card, cheap, was gonna have to possibly
> go and get a sb live value if things didn't fix themselves..
>
> See ya
>
> --
> Gerry O'Connor
>
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From: jpajirent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Athlon processor compatibility with SuSe
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 18:01:51 +0200
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:53:11 -0700, Allen Blackburn
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there:
>
>I'm really new to Linux (but not Unix), and I'm gearing up to set up my
>own PC with Linux. I was thinking about buying a new 1.1 GHz AMD 761
>Athlon chip with 266 MHz bus, with a Gigabyte GA7DX motherboard. I also
>wanted to load SuSe 7.1. However, these hardware choices are not on
>their website in their hardware compatiblity list. My questions are: Is
>it a bad idea to go ahead and try to make it work, or would anyone out
>there recommend a different set of hardware and/or Linux distribution?
>
>Thank you very much in advance!
Athlon won't be a problem. The problem may come from the other
extension cards...
On my system, I had no problem since Suse 7.0 which works fine with
all my hardware, except my Elsa Gladiac II MX. But with Suse 7.1, I
had much much more problems. Mandrake 7.2 is the sole distro which
install without any problem and which support all my hardware (even
the Elsa Gladiac II MX videocard and Tekram DC395 scsi card)
The best thing to do is to download the eval iso and get a try !!!
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