Linux-Hardware Digest #572, Volume #14 Thu, 5 Apr 01 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails (Ronald
Pottol)
Re: Onstream DI30 Tapedrive broken? ("Chris Morton")
Recommended Tape Drive & Software ("Chris Morton")
Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails (Marc
Dejardin)
Linux support for Maxtor Ultra ATA100 PCI card? ("Richard M. Denney")
Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Can=B4t?= find a Printer Driver (Tim)
Help NIC problem ("Ahmad Taufik Jamil")
Re: beeps (Eric P. McCoy)
Please look at this SCSI error... (Dan Smith)
Re: Please look at this SCSI error... (Dan Smith)
Re: Please look at this SCSI error... (Milton)
Re: Abit KT7A and Slackware ("Vigil")
Re: beeps ("Vigil")
Re: Kernel size and modules ("NyQuist")
Guillemot MaxiSound Home Studio 64 ("scott.wilson4")
Re: beeps ("NyQuist")
Re: Kernel size and modules ("Eric en Jolanda")
RAID problems ("Bratislav Predic")
sis900 on silver book PC (Allen Ahoffman)
AIC78xx driver problems in newer kernels ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,osu.sys.linux
Subject: Re: Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails
From: Ronald Pottol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 13:53:39 GMT
You are doomed. I looked around, and decided to go with the OSS pay
drivers, which work just fine.
If you find something else that works, please let me know.
Ron
"Jason Advani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Dell Inspiron 3800 (600Mhz, 192MB RAM, 18GIG, etc) Laptop
> running RedHat 7.0's stndard kernel 2.2.16. For sound it uses the Maestro3,
> but I am unable to get the sound to work. I've tried Zach Brown's maestro3
> drivers and I've tried ALSA drivers which support that chip but havn't had
> any success.
> I am able to compile the drivers just fine, but whenever I insert them
> into the kernel via modprobe, I get about a page worth of unresolved
> symbols. I load soundcore first too.
> Seems like everything wants modversions.h so I grabbed the Linux source
> and turned that on and then did a make oldconfig and make dep which gave me
> the files that it wants. Will this cause a problem when I go to load them
> in? If so does anyone have a kernel config that works well for this Laptop?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
> --
> --
> Jason V. Advani
> The Ohio State University (CpE)
>
>
>
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From: "Chris Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Onstream DI30 Tapedrive broken?
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:11:10 -0400
. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> thanks for the info. that are bad news.... time to buy some tapes.......
>
> the tape is still working if it is connected without any other devices to
a ide
> controller and if no jumper is set. all other configurations leads to an
hang.
>
> after using the scsi emulation within linux the tape still respond and it
is
> working fine.
>
> my question was if the tape is still broken due to the ata issues....
As a general point of information, Onstream seems to be having difficulties,
if not going out of business. Check out their website. There's no more US
based phone support. They appear to be moving to the Netherlands.
I'd switch to something else (which we are), but if you don't, you'd better
stock up on disks.
It's a shame really. They had the best drive for the money on the market.
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From: "Chris Morton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recommended Tape Drive & Software
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:21:19 -0400
I'm setting up a relatively low volume RH 7 mailserver for someone. I'm
interested in users' recommendations regarding compatible tape backup
systems and backup software. Travan, DAT, DLT? Which would you recommend.
I don't want to spend a lot of money, but I want something which will
efficiently back up a moderate amount of data.
As far as backup software goes, I want something relatively easy to use, but
flexible and reliable. The user is experienced with SCO Unix, but doesn't
want to spend all of his time learning and executing commands. I'd like
something that will allow him to easily configure scheduled backups with a
minimum of effort.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommended Tape Drive & Software
Date: 5 Apr 2001 14:38:20 GMT
Chris Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm setting up a relatively low volume RH 7 mailserver for someone. I'm
> interested in users' recommendations regarding compatible tape backup
> systems and backup software. Travan, DAT, DLT? Which would you recommend.
> I don't want to spend a lot of money, but I want something which will
> efficiently back up a moderate amount of data.
What's a "moderate" amount of data? In general, I would recommend against
Travan -- the tapes are expensive, the drives are slow, and they get very
hot. For about $1200 you could get an Exabyte Eliant 820 -- 7GB native on
cheap ($3-4) tapes.
> As far as backup software goes, I want something relatively easy to use, but
> flexible and reliable. The user is experienced with SCO Unix, but doesn't
> want to spend all of his time learning and executing commands. I'd like
> something that will allow him to easily configure scheduled backups with a
> minimum of effort.
I use amanda here. There's some initial work setting it up, but once
you've got it running, you can pretty much forget about it (besides
changing tapes, of course). Beyond that, a cron job and dump is pretty
fire-and-forget as well.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Marc Dejardin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,osu.sys.linux
Subject: Re: Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 16:14:11 +0200
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Ronald Pottol wrote:
> You are doomed. I looked around, and decided to go with the OSS pay
> drivers, which work just fine.
>
> If you find something else that works, please let me know.
>
> Ron
>
>
> "Jason Advani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an Dell Inspiron 3800 (600Mhz, 192MB RAM, 18GIG, etc) Laptop
> > running RedHat 7.0's stndard kernel 2.2.16. For sound it uses the Maestro3,
> > but I am unable to get the sound to work. I've tried Zach Brown's maestro3
> > drivers and I've tried ALSA drivers which support that chip but havn't had
> > any success.
> > I am able to compile the drivers just fine, but whenever I insert them
> > into the kernel via modprobe, I get about a page worth of unresolved
> > symbols. I load soundcore first too.
> > Seems like everything wants modversions.h so I grabbed the Linux source
> > and turned that on and then did a make oldconfig and make dep which gave me
> > the files that it wants. Will this cause a problem when I go to load them
> > in? If so does anyone have a kernel config that works well for this Laptop?
> >
You can try kernel 2.4.x, the maestro3 card is supported in there.
(2.4.3 is what i am running now)
There is perhaps just a problem with the recording.
I don't know for the moment if it is my microphone which is bad or the
maestro3 driver which is not correct. But for listening it is OK
Marc D�jardin
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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 21:38:46 -0500
From: "Richard M. Denney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux support for Maxtor Ultra ATA100 PCI card?
Does anyone know whether ATA100 IDE drives attached to the Maxtor Ultra
ATA 100 PCI card would be recognized under linux? Do these fast drives
provide high speed under linux? The software drivers provided with the
card mention only windows operating systems.
Rick Denney
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Can=B4t?= find a Printer Driver
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 12:34:28 -0400
Hi Klaus,
Don't know much about that particular model, but here is a link that
should help you:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/
Klaus Amereller wrote:
>
> Hi
> i have Linux 7.1 and the Kernal is 2.4
> my Problem is i can�t find a driver for my XEROX DocuPrint C8
> Can you are help me
> Have fun
> Klaus
Good Luck!
Tim
--
Timothy J. Schutte
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: "Ahmad Taufik Jamil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help NIC problem
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:40:24 +0800
Hi,
I'm new in linux. I've install linux in my laptop. However it detect and
recognized my ethernet card wrongly. It recognized it as
"PCMCIA""100base"(using cardctl ident). But my card is actually Compex
linkPort TX16A 10/100 Fast Ethernet. Anybody know how to change it?
TQ.
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Subject: Re: beeps
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 05 Apr 2001 12:58:50 -0400
"Vlad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where on earth do i switch off these irritating system beeps, like when i
> backspace too far, or do something similar. These speaker beeps drive me
> nuts!
Open up your case and unplug the speaker.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Please look at this SCSI error...
Date: 05 Apr 2001 12:02:16 -0400
I have purchased a number of Seagate ST34371WC drives from a company
that took them out of their machine. They are all identical.
These are the fastest drives in my system, so the error I am getting
is not reproducable with other drives. I get an error when I try to
write to them real fast. It says the SCSI bus is being reset for a
synchronous read or something and that the bus state is being changed
from "80 to 80". The error doesn't seem to be fatal. The application
using the drive at the time does not complain, nor does it fail to get
what it wants from the drive.
The SCSI adapter is a Tekram DC390U2W (sym53c8xx). Does it sound like
the drives are screwing up, or is it the controller having trouble?
Is this error ok, or is it a sign of problems to come?
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Please look at this SCSI error...
Date: 05 Apr 2001 12:04:05 -0400
Sorry, here is the exact error I am getting:
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
sym53c8xx_reset: pid=70631 reset_flags=1 serial_number=0 serial_number_at_timeout=0
scsi0: device driver called scsi_done() for a syncronous reset.
sym53c895-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
sym53c895-0: SCSI bus mode change from 80 to 80.
sym53c895-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS.
done.
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: Milton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Please look at this SCSI error...
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 13:36:48 -0400
On 05 Apr 2001 12:02:16 -0400, Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have purchased a number of Seagate ST34371WC drives from a company
>that took them out of their machine. They are all identical.
>
>These are the fastest drives in my system, so the error I am getting
>is not reproducable with other drives. I get an error when I try to
>write to them real fast. It says the SCSI bus is being reset for a
>synchronous read or something and that the bus state is being changed
>from "80 to 80". The error doesn't seem to be fatal. The application
>using the drive at the time does not complain, nor does it fail to get
>what it wants from the drive.
I read you other post, that's not an error.
What error are you getting when you say you are writing to them too
fast?
>The SCSI adapter is a Tekram DC390U2W (sym53c8xx). Does it sound like
>the drives are screwing up, or is it the controller having trouble?
>Is this error ok, or is it a sign of problems to come?
You got the adapter and last drive on cable terminated?
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From: "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit KT7A and Slackware
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:45:08 +0100
No problems with mine.
"Mihai Lazarescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
> I am in the process of upgrading my computer and I would like to
> know how well Slackware
> runs on an Abit KT7A (Via 686 chip). Am I likely to run into troubles? What other
>motherboard would you recommend if the Abit KT7A is not
> well supported?
--
.
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From: "Vigil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: beeps
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:47:38 +0100
If you're using bash, do 'set bell-style none'.
"Vlad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the audacity to claim:
> Where on earth do i switch off these irritating system beeps, like when i backspace
>too far, or do something similar. These speaker beeps
> drive me nuts!
--
.
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From: "NyQuist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel size and modules
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:49:35 +0100
I don't think your doing anything wrong, per se. And i can't be there to see
what things you don't need in your kernel; try selecting *most* things as
modules; nevertheless don't forget you don't need many things to get linux
working correctly; most are defaulted to the right on/off status'; whenevr i
reconfig, i only check a couple of options i *know* i need. Try a reconfig
as you have specified without checking anything; save and exit; make
bzImage; post the size of the kernel; then if it's good enough; we can go on
from there to see what's making your kernel so large; and believe me 1.8Meg
is bloody massive. Good luck
"Alberto Arribas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello!
>
> Thanks a lot for your e-mails the last week. I have been able to reduce
> my kernel from 1800 Kb to 925 Kb, but, unfortunately, it is not small
> enough. I know that less than 810 Kb would be OK, because my old kernel
> has this size. Following your recomendation I run make mrproper, make
> xconfig, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules and make
> modules_install. Then I rename properly the kernel and run lilo.
> Everytime I get "Kernel is too big". xconfig is a great tool, but I have
> removed or changed to module all the components except the really
> needed.
>
> Can I reduce the size of the kernel in other way?
> Can I increase the allowed size of the kernel?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
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From: "scott.wilson4" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Guillemot MaxiSound Home Studio 64
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 19:50:06 +0100
Hello,
Does anyone know how I can get this working with Linux. It is an ISA card
which is supposedly SoundBlaster compatible, but every time I try and
configure it with Lothar, I get a message saying Device or resource busy. I
cannot work out what is happening. I am curremtly using Mandrake 6.
Anybody able to help?
Cheers,
Scott
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From: "NyQuist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: beeps
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:51:28 +0100
There may be a speaker level option in your mixer settings; if not there's
an option to change the beeper (i think) in Kdeconfig (or whatever Gui
you're using)
"Vlad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ahj5j$59cjj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all!
>
> Where on earth do i switch off these irritating system beeps, like when i
> backspace too far, or do something similar. These speaker beeps drive me
> nuts!
>
> Thanks!
>
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel size and modules
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:14:42 +0200
> Thanks a lot for your e-mails the last week. I have been able to reduce
> my kernel from 1800 Kb to 925 Kb, but, unfortunately, it is not small
1800K??
I know my kernels (bz) are a lot smaller
the compressed kernel image is /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage and not
/usr/src/linux/vmlinux
Eric
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From: "Bratislav Predic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID problems
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 18:12:50 +0200
I have Abit KT7A-RAID with disk connected to HPT370 RAID controler
integrated in this board. RedHat7 doesn't see HDD during instalation. Is
there any solution to this?
On redhat.com I saw that there is a driver for HPT370 included on
installation disks but I am completely new to Linux and any form of help to
install RH7 would be greatly appreciated.
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From: Allen Ahoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sis900 on silver book PC
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 5 Apr 2001 14:21:21 -0400
Does anyone know how to get rh7 working with a silver book PC with a
sis900 network onboard?
It does arp but owo't do ip traffic no matter what I've tried so far.
--
Announce Communications Inc
POB 2308
Hyattsville, MD 20784
301-731-5786
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AIC78xx driver problems in newer kernels
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 14:43:19 -0400
Hello group.
I have been using my Adaptec UW2 and U160 cards for a while with no
trouble. Because of security issues, I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.3.
Everything works fine but I can no longer successfully write a CD using
xcdroast. On another similarly configured machine running 2.2.18 also has
the same problem. I can take my CDR over to my print server, which runs
2.2.16, and it burns the CD successfully. I have tried recompiling
cdrecord and xcdroast. Has anyone else experienced this? A log is listed
below.
Thanks a lot,
Seth
p.s. remove foo from my address to mail me.
Calling: /usr/bin/cdrecord dev=1,6,0 fs=1024k -v -useinfo speed=4 -dao -eject -pad
-data "/home/scratch/CDWRITER/backup-01.img" ...
pregap1: -1
Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '1,6,0'
scsibus: 1 target: 6 lun: 0
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 0
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities : SYNC LINKED
Vendor_info : 'MATSHITA'
Identifikation : 'CD-R CW-7502 '
Revision : '4.10'
Device seems to be: Matsushita CW-7502.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 1044288 = 1019 KB
FIFO size : 1048576 = 1024 KB
Track 01: data 392 MB padsize: 30 KB
Total size: 450 MB (44:36.98) = 200774 sectors
Lout start: 450 MB (44:38/74) = 200774 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
Indicated writing power: 5
Is not unrestricted
Is not erasable
ATIP start of lead in: -11324 (97:31/01)
ATIP start of lead out: 336225 (74:45/00)
Disk type: Long strategy type (Cyanine, AZO or similar)
Manuf. index: 22
Manufacturer: Ritek Co.
resid: 2
resid: 2
Blocks total: 336225 Blocks current: 336225 Blocks remaining: 135451
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ...
input buffer ready.
Performing OPC...
Sending CUE sheet...
cdrecord: WARNING: Drive returns wrong startsec (0) using -150
Writing pregap for track 1 at -150
Starting new track at sector: 0
CDB: 2A 00 00 02 76 89 00 00 1F 00
cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
Sense Bytes: F0 00 03 00 02 76 88 0A 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x0C Qual 0x00 (write error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 161416 (valid)
cdrecord: Input/output error. flush cache: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
write track data: error after 330582016 bytes
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 00 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Writing time: 605.211s
Fixating...
CDB: 35 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 0A 00 00 00 00 2C 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x2C Qual 0x00 (command sequence error) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
Trouble flushing the cache
Fixating time: 0.006s
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