Linux-Hardware Digest #581, Volume #14 Sat, 7 Apr 01 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? ("James Tonsager")
Re: please help ("G Soft")
Cold start hanging if cdrom installed (Klaus Pieper)
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? (Paul)
Re: Does the remote for Pinnacle PCTVpro work in Linux? (Christoph Bartelmus)
Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2 (Adam)
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? ("Jeffrey Yu")
Re: Serial mouse is detected as PS/2 mouse ("Nguyen")
Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2 (Uwe Bonnes)
Re: Matrox Dual Head video card w/Redhat (John Gotts)
Re: linux parition question (Klaus Pieper)
how to get higher resolution redhat 7 ("tony")
Установка Linux ("TV")
Re: 3 com nic ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Are there Parallel port CF reader drivers for linux? ("eshoe")
Re: TV card? (Niels Gollesch)
Re: USB gives device not accepting address err=-100 (Hamish Marson)
Re: 2 network cards - 1 cannot ping (Vincent Mombarg)
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From: "James Tonsager" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 07:04:50 GMT
>266Mhz DDR memories are
4 times more expensive than
133Mhz SDRAM<
And not that much faster. You'll see it in benchmarks, but subjectively . .
. not. .
--
If you love this world, there are no happy endings.
Ernest Hemingway
"E J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What are you doing with it? If it is for a heavy duty server, sounds
> fine.
> For personal use, I got the A7V133A, because the 266Mhz DDR memories are
> 4 times more expensive than
> 133Mhz SDRAM.
>
> Jeffrey Yu wrote:
>
> > Yes, the question is whether it is worth to have RH7.0 installed on a
> > A7M266 motherboard, the CPU in mind is the 1.33G, and 512MB RAM.
> >
> > The alternative is the A7V133A, any comment at all? TIA.
> >
> > J.
>
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From: "G Soft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: please help
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 02:18:19 -0500
Dario,
If memory serves me right, I believe you have to run Xfree 4 to get the
driver working.
Phil
"dario mendez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:37cz6.12392$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> wehere i can find drivers to install a agp sys 6326 video on
linux(genome),
> please help me
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: Klaus Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cold start hanging if cdrom installed
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:27:03 +0200
After changing a hard disk my system stops booting after displaying
hda: IBM-DTLA-305020, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-540E, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
This usually (not always) happens during a cold start. Soft reboot
always works.
HW setup is
Apr 7 08:59:12 groucho kernel: hda: IBM-DTLA-305020, 19623MB w/380kB
Cache, CHS=39870/16/63
Apr 7 08:59:12 groucho kernel: hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
System is Debian 2.2r2 with the stock kernel 2.2.17.
The problem is related to the cdrom drive. Without the CD or with an old
Liteon anything fine. However, I also swapped the Teac cd-540e with
another one, the drive is ok.
Mobo is an Asus Sp98agp-x with K6-III. I have been using the system,
also with the Teac, for three years.
TIA, Klaus
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From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 08:03:21 GMT
actually thats false its 103.00 USD for Crucial 2100 ddr 256 meg modules
now.
where can u buy 256 megs of pc133 for 25.00??
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?model=A7M266&x=11&y=11
get your facts straight before you spew your semen all over the place boy.
E J wrote:
> What are you doing with it? If it is for a heavy duty server, sounds
> fine.
> For personal use, I got the A7V133A, because the 266Mhz DDR memories are
> 4 times more expensive than
> 133Mhz SDRAM.
>
> Jeffrey Yu wrote:
>
> > Yes, the question is whether it is worth to have RH7.0 installed on a
> > A7M266 motherboard, the CPU in mind is the 1.33G, and 512MB RAM.
> >
> > The alternative is the A7V133A, any comment at all? TIA.
> >
> > J.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: Re: Does the remote for Pinnacle PCTVpro work in Linux?
Date: 07 Apr 2001 09:21:00 GMT
Hi!
Lars Luthman "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> Does it?
Try LIRC: www.lirc.org
Christoph
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From: Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 10:30:04 -0000
What is happening here is that linux 2.4 is reporting APIC errors where
linux 2.2 did not report APIC errors. It was still getting them, just not
reporting them to klogd.
Adam
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From: "Jeffrey Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 10:55:32 GMT
Yes, that was the price I got as well. While they are priced so closely,
that make it even
more difficult to decide which one to get.
"Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> actually thats false its 103.00 USD for Crucial 2100 ddr 256 meg
modules
> now.
> where can u buy 256 megs of pc133 for 25.00??
> http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.asp?model=A7M266&x=11&y=11
> get your facts straight before you spew your semen all over the place boy.
>
> E J wrote:
>
> > What are you doing with it? If it is for a heavy duty server, sounds
> > fine.
> > For personal use, I got the A7V133A, because the 266Mhz DDR memories are
> > 4 times more expensive than
> > 133Mhz SDRAM.
> >
> > Jeffrey Yu wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, the question is whether it is worth to have RH7.0 installed on a
> > > A7M266 motherboard, the CPU in mind is the 1.33G, and 512MB RAM.
> > >
> > > The alternative is the A7V133A, any comment at all? TIA.
> > >
> > > J.
>
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From: "Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial mouse is detected as PS/2 mouse
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 12:57:06 -0700
Dear John,
I tried with "mouseconfig" milion times, but it can't help :)
Thank for answer my message.
N.
John Todd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If your distro has " mouseconfig " you could try that.
>
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 16:52:20 -0700, Nguyen
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I have a serial mouse, but my Mandrake 7.2 always detects it as a PS/2
> >mouse, how come ? (that's why I have trouble sometime with the mouse).
> >Your answer will be appreciated.
> >
> >Steve
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> John E. Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Internet for All!
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From: Uwe Bonnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6/ APIC error with Kernel-2.4.2
Date: 7 Apr 2001 11:24:14 GMT
Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: What is happening here is that linux 2.4 is reporting APIC errors where
: linux 2.2 did not report APIC errors. It was still getting them, just not
: reporting them to klogd.
Are you sure you didn╢t overclock? 2.4 started to log those errors, so with
2.2 these errors might have been present, but not logged. I only had apic
errors while I tried to overclock.
Bye
--
Uwe Bonnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
========= Tel. 06151 162516 ======== Fax. 06151 164321 ==========
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Gotts)
Subject: Re: Matrox Dual Head video card w/Redhat
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 11:41:32 GMT
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:35:04 -0500, Joshua Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Has anyone succesfully gotten a dual head matrox card to work with RedHat
>Linux (6.2 or 7.0)???
Yes, at work I use a dual processor 500 MHz Pentium III machine with 512 MB of
RAM and a G450 with dual 19 inch Trinitron monitors (1600x1200).
XFree86 4.0.2 works, but you will need to install mga_hal_drv.o from the Matrox
web site. I'd also advise you to use Matrox's mga_drv.o or your second display
won't be able to attain maximum specs.
--
John GOTTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://linuxsavvy.com/staff/jgotts
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From: Klaus Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux parition question
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:57:16 +0200
nospam wrote:
> My hard disk has the following layout:
> 1. physical (fat32)
> 2. logical
> 2a. fat32
> 2b. ntfs
> 2c. ntfs
> 2d. linux (/boot)
> 2e. linux (/)
> 2f. linux (swap)
>
> At boot time, I got this message:
> localhost kernel: hda: hda1 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 >
>
> The system mounts /dev/hda8 as /boot, hda9 as / and uses hda10 for swap.
>
> My question is: what's the relationship between the layout and the
> hda[1-10] partitions?
Linux counts logical partitions hdx5 upwards, so your first logical partition
is hda5, /boot is hda8 etc.
You can assign numbers to the primary and extended partitions with fdisk, so
your extended might be hda3 as well.
Klaus
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From: "tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how to get higher resolution redhat 7
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 19:50:41 +0800
Reply-To: "tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My display card is winfast geforce2 mx, monitor is petvision 17'', after
installing redhat7, i can only get 640*480 resolution, what can i do to get
higher resolution?
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From: "TV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Установка Linux
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 14:58:55 +0300
Пожалуйста подскажите что делать?
Ставлю RedHat 6.1.Впервые.
Разбил HDD:
1 primary - hda1(C)-WinMe
2 primary -Swap
3 primary-Boot для LILO
4 extented : -WIN2000
-LINUX
Linux стал нормально,но при загрузке с LILO требует ввести localhost login,а
потом и Password.(И c HDD и с boot-дискеты).
Что вводить? Какие значения? И откуда их брать?
И ещё один вопрос.Если последним ставлю 2000 , то его загрузчик в
упор не видит LUNUX(только 2000 и Me),хотя ведь по идее должен.
Как лучше разделить HDD.Сейчас у меня: -1primary-winMe-C:
-2pri
mary-2000-D:
-3ext
ented-(1 log-E: FAT32; 2 log-LINUX-ext2)
Пока раздел для Swap не делал(где лучше его поставить) и надо ли делать
Boot-раздел?
Чей загрузчик ставить и куда?
В какой очередности ставить OS?
Пожалуйста подскажите что делать? Очень уж хочется попробовать этот
LINUX. Уж намаялся я.
Заранее благодарю за любую помощь и ответ.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3 com nic
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 12:21:39 GMT
yup......and got it working.
thanks for the Help...all of you.
now i can finally sleep.
:-)
Trevor Hemsley wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2001 02:58:24, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I used the 3com software in dos and set the card to isa {non-pnp}
> > and i know the params are 0x300 and irq 10.
> >
> > but still the card fails to initialize, and i cant get it to work.
> > i set up the eth0 in linux conf, basic network settings, but i know i am
> > forgetting the
> > obvious here. how do i get linux to load this card? what am i missing?
>
> Did you also tell your motherboard BIOS that it should not use IRQ 10
> for PCI/PnP? If you don't do that then it's likely that that IRQ will
> be being used for PCI devices and the 3Com cards are not keen on
> sharing IRQs between ISA and PCI ;-)
>
> --
> Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "eshoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Are there Parallel port CF reader drivers for linux?
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 08:20:45 -0400
I've got RH 6.2 and a generic Parallel port CF reader for my digital camera.
I have found Gimp to be a very good photo editor, but now I really need
software that would make my CF reader work.
The reader works with several different drivers from different companies
under Windows, so I would assume a generic driver would work in Linux.
Anyone know of anything like this?
Thanks for any help..
Eric
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From: Niels Gollesch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV card?
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:28:43 +0000
Lars Luthman wrote:
> I've decided that I want a TV card for my computer. I've heard a lot of
> good things about Pinnacle's PCTV family, and I'm thinking of buying
> PCTV Pro. I have a couple of questions:
>
> * Is there anything special I should think about regarding the hardware?
> I have a Asus V7100 graphic card and a Microstar something motherboard.
I wanted to do the same, but I was told that the PCTV Pro doesn't work
together
with a Nvidia TNT or TNT2 chip. I don't know whether this is true or not
but
I took the advice and bought a Hauppage WinTV GO. No problems.
>
>
> * Are there any Linux applications that let me watch teletext in Linux?
>
> * Will the remote work?
>
> * I'm using Mandrake 7.2. Does the distribution include all the drivers
> and other stuff that I need, or do I have to get it from the net?
>
> --ll
Niels
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From: Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USB gives device not accepting address err=-100
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 13:44:11 +0100
Hamish Marson wrote:
> Johann Deneux wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> > Both devices work fine under (yuk) windoze... And both connect ok on a
> > >> > thinkpad.
> > >> Which ms win ? 9x or NT ?
> > >>
> > >
> > > Windoze 98... But that was on the thinkpad... Not on the dual proc (I'm not
> > > sullying that machine with any MS garbage).
> > >
> > > What MB are you using? I'm wondering if it's the USB chipset. The error I get
> > > back seems to be a timeout (If I'm reading usb.c and usb.h correctly, then the
> > > usb codes are direct mapped to (negative) codes from errno.h, and 110 is
> > > ETIMEOUT....
> >
> > My MB is an Asus one (P2BD). I did a search concerning dual procs and USB,
> > and it seems nobody is having trouble. I guess my chipset is really damaged.
> > Unless very few users use USB devices (which are generally oriented to the
> > 'normal' user) with dual procs boxes (which are supposed to be for
> > professionals only).
> >
> > > The rest is speculation of course... I might pop down & buy a PCI USB card
> > > after work & see if that makes any difference...
> > >
> > I was planning to do that also. If it works for you, please tell me.
> > Do you know what is actually the brand and model of your USB chipset ?
> >
>
> It (The USB) runs off the VIA Apollo on the VP6. It's part is 82c866 (Or similiar.
> I'll check at home). FWIW I'm buying a Belkin PCI USB card. Theyc ome in 2 & 4 port
> versions. I'll see what's available on the shelf in about 30 minutes when I get to
> the store...
Well.. More info.
Slough PCWorld (Closest to work) wa sthe place I went past on the way home, and they
only had the Belkin 2 port models. I bought it anyway, got it home, installed it, and
it has the Opti chipset, requiring the usb-ohci module to run it. The works better
than the usb-uhci with the apollo via chipset, and the modem is found & identified,
but the downloads timeout.
After playing with the usb.c, usb-ohci.c, devio.c files & enabling debugging I've
found that the initial transfers to/from the modem go well. But on downloading, the
first few packets to/from the modem are a bit slow (Several seconds delay), then the
BLOCK3 stuff (i.e. the microcode from modem_init) charges through like a trojan, then
it just seems to hang for a bit & then a timeout comes back... I'm not sure what it
was really waiting for there...
I transferred it to my laptop, which uses the usb-uhci module (Intel BX based MB, it's
an IBM Thinkpad A20p), and immediately got the following
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned
device number 2
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 2, frame# 1698
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2
(error=-110)
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned
device number 3
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x6b9/0x4061) is
not claimed by any active driver.
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Alcatel SpeedTouch
USB
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker Speedmgmt[2945]: Alcatel SpeedTouch USB Management daemon
started.
Apr 7 13:27:35 ballbreaker Speedmgmt[2945]: (C) Alcatel 2001
Apr 7 13:27:40 ballbreaker kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Apr 7 13:27:40 ballbreaker kernel: usbdevfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed dev 3 rqt 192 rq
18 len 0 ret -110
Apr 7 13:27:40 ballbreaker kernel: usbdevfs: process 2945 (mgmt) did not claim
interface 0 before use
Apr 7 13:27:54 ballbreaker kernel: usbdevfs: async_completed: status 0 errcount 0
actlen 6 pipe 0xc0008380
Apr 7 13:27:54 ballbreaker Speedmgmt[2945]: Modem initialised at 576 kbit/s
downstream and 288 kbit/s upstream
Still a couple of timeouts, but the modem did initialise... Not sure why... (This was
using the mgmt manager from alcatel, not the opensource modem_init code).
I'm starting to wonder if perhaps the microcode is different that the opensource
driver is downloading. Except for the fact that the developer seems to have his
working...
A bit frustrating... I'm not currently sure whether to return the Belkin card or keep
it... It does get furthe rthan the apollo via stuff, but not to the extent that
anything actually works...
DOes anyone know if the Opti USB chipsets are any good, or should I return the card
& try to find a PCI based one that uses usb-uhci?
Hamish.
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From: Vincent Mombarg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 network cards - 1 cannot ping
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 14:58:13 +0200
Hi,
What IP subnets did you define for the 10/100 mbit networks? Post the
output of 'route' as well.
"ceddz@garage" wrote:
>
> Hi everyone
>
> I have a linux mandrake box with a 10mbits(eth0) etherface acting as a
> router on a hub and another 100mbit(eth1) etherface also on a hub...
> My linuxbox acts as a dhcp server and a lot of other stuff
>
> The Dhcp server is working very well on both networks, but the big problem
> is i can't ping at all on the 100mbit network (both directions) or do
> anything else...
>
> Both cards are working very well
>
> dhcp server logs match everything is okay on both netw...
>
> I've tried a lot of stuff with firewalling, ending with a 'accept all' btw
> both networks
>
> My problem IS NOT i can't link both networks, i just can't reach one of
> them, out of dhcp...\
What do you mean here?
>
> Maybe because it's eth2 ???
>
> Did i forget to enable something like dual networking....?
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