Linux-Hardware Digest #588, Volume #14 Sun, 8 Apr 01 16:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sharing Files. (Dean Thompson)
Re: Linux on Xbox? (Hermann Samso)
Re: Linux and Emachines (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Re: Promise ata100 (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Partitioning problem (Neeraj - Khandelwal)
How to make more partitions. ("tthave")
pdc 202xx not in kernel still hde present (roel)
Modules (roel)
Re: Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails (Iain Lea)
Re: Disk Block Size (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Modules ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux ("Jali")
Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux ("Jali")
Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux ("Jali")
Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux ("Jali")
Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux ("Jali")
Re: OR840 - "CMOS battery failure detected"? Any clues? ("Dr. Mueller")
Re: Experience with KVM switches? ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Safe hdparm settings? (James K. Wiggs)
this is very weird!!!!!!!!! ("P�man Malekzadeh")
HP Pavilion Sound and Redhat ("Charlie Bailey")
Re: Safe hdparm settings? (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Re: Parport problem (Gunnar)
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Sharing Files.
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:26:36 +1000
Hi!,
> I would like to share files with my Windows 98 and Redhat Linux 7.0
> computer. How would I do this?
You might like to take a look at the program called "SAMBA". You can find out
more information by reading the HOWTO's at http://www.linuxdoc.org or by going
to their home site at http://www.samba.org.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: Hermann Samso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Xbox?
Date: 8 Apr 2001 15:12:00 GMT
>> Has anyone an idea if linux will/won't run on
>> Microsoft's Xbox game console?
Electrode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> answered:
> I think the OS on the Xbox (and pretty much all consoles) is held on a ROM
> chip, which is fused to the motherboard. Maybe if any Linux obsessives out
> there have some silicon laying around, they could put together a Linux chip
> and penguinize an Xbox. :)
Shouldn't be a problem overriding/ignoring the ROM OS, just
like the BIOS of a normal PC, or the existant ROM OS of some
other Linux boxes, like Atari 68030 models.
>> BTW, does this machine have any ports for keyboard,
>> mouse, etc?
> I think M$ will be selling Xbox keyboards and mice, but they will plug into
> the gamepad ports on the front, which I doubt will be anything like the ones
> on the back of a PC soundcard.
Well, that means writing new drivers...
So noone finds interesting to see such a powerful and cheap
system running Linux?
Saludos,
SoLo2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: Linux and Emachines
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 15:15:24 GMT
Tom Roberts wrote:
> Robert wrote:
>> Has anybody successfully installed Mandrake Linux on these boxes? If so,
>> what are your experiences with it. I am interested in getting a 633is.
>
> I have have rather bad experience with eMachines. They are quite cheap,
> and IMHO overpriced.
>
>
> Tom Roberts
Ymmv. I have two of them running WinME with no problems; but that wasn't
the question, was it :-) It is not a bad thing to run msconfig and shut off
all the crap.
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: Promise ata100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 15:18:35 GMT
mryucky wrote:
> Someone please tell me that there is a driver for the promise ata100
> harddrive controller......
Ok. There is. Requires a kernel patch for 2.2xx and below kernel. Go to
your favorite kernel ftp source and see /people/hedrick. The last patch I'm
aware of is the Dec 21 patch and it's been working quite well here.
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: Neeraj - Khandelwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Partitioning problem
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 10:33:32 -0500
Hi all,
I am trying to install linux mandrake 7.1 on my machine. I am running
a Windows Me system.
When I try to partition my hard drive using fips it reports the following
:
*****
FIPS has detected that the 'physical' start or end sector (head/cylinder/
sector) do not match with the 'logical' start/end sector. This is not
an error since the 'physical' values are redundant and not used anyway.
There are many configurations where the values differ. This message is
meant only to inform you that FIPS has adapted the 'physical' values
according to the current drive geometry.
*****
and then it prints the following and then dies:
****
Checking boot sector ...
Error: Invalid jump instruction in boot sector: 00 00 00
The first three bytes of the boot sector must be a 3-byte jump (E9 xx xx)
or a 2-byte jump (EB xx 90). Perhaps the partition is not yet formatted.
FIPS can only split DOS-formatted partitions.
****
I then tried to partition the drive using the mandrake instal partition
program. It refuses to partition and gives the following error:
Invalid signature for a MS -based filesystem.
I also tried using fdisk /mbr under dos. even that hasnt help. I am
clueless , please help.
thanks
Neeraj.
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From: "tthave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make more partitions.
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 16:02:25 GMT
Hi All
I am running Redhat6.2 with an External raid array, Now I have add another
raid array with same system. it's 550GB with 0+1. everything went good, I
made the slices like this in my second array.
cfdisk 2.10f
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
Size: 581389254656 bytes
Heads: 64 Sectors per Track: 32 Cylinders:
554456
Name Flags Part Type FS Type
[Label] Size (MB)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
====================================
sda1 Primary Linux swap
4195.36
sda5 Logical Linux ext2
240000.18
sda6 Logical Linux ext2
299999.70
Pri/Log Free Space
37194.04
Now I have to make one more partation with the free space , When I trying to
make either logical or primary
it won't let me do it. all the time if I make the new partition it's gibe
the Fs Type only Linux not Linux ext2
If I change the type of file system with the t flag & 83 it does not accept
that. It's remain in Linux.
Then I am trying to make the file system it's gives me an error calle no
block device.
Please help. Is there is any way I could make the new partition without
deleting the exisiting one
Please advice, Thanks in Advsnce
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From: roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pdc 202xx not in kernel still hde present
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 18:26:16 +0200
Hello everbody
Been working on the ft.o module in order to use this module my gues is
that the pdc202xx should not be active in the kernel. Did compile a new
kernel with NO support for pdc202xx after reboot the system still can
see /dev/hde. If hde is present and insmod the new ft.o module the
system crashes instantly. Does anyone know how to disable the pdc202xx
in a kernel 2.4.2
Best regards
Roel
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From: roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modules
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 18:26:18 +0200
Hello everybody
Compiled, installed a new kernel and modules. After rebooting the
system, I tried to use some modules but get this message:
bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o
/lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: couldn't find the
kernel version the module was compiled for
bash-2.04#
Does anyone know how to fix this
Best regards
Roel
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From: Iain Lea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,osu.sys.linux
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 16:41:16 GMT
Install kernel 2.4.3 as it supports the Maestro3 audio soundcard :)
I have it running here... neat... the only thing that does not work
is the Fn-Vol+/- keys have no effect... anyone have a fix for that ?
Iain
In comp.os.linux.portable Ronald Pottol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> Jason V. Advani
>> The Ohio State University (CpE)
>>
>>
>>
> --
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We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.
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Subject: Re: Disk Block Size
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 08 Apr 2001 13:02:18 -0400
"Going, gone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As far as I know (that's not saying much), the
> sector size is always 512 bytes and the standard
> block size is 1024 (i.e. 2 sectors).
On hard disks, the sector size is almost always 512 bytes. On other
devices, like WORM devices, it may be larger. SunSparc CD-ROMs, for
example, use a 2KB sector size, IIRC.
> Larger block sizes may be used by a filesystem such as say 4096
> bytes but I haven't heard of block sizes equal to sector size (maybe
> there are some).
Small filesystems. FAT12 will use a 512-byte cluster/block size on a
disk.
> I would try running a scripted output of fdisk
> with the -u switch to get at starting and ending
> sectors instead of cylinders. Total partition
> sectors/2 = kb's.
That's a bad, bad idea. mke2fs seems to give preference to 4KB block
sizes now, which will give you a very wrong figure.
> Without the -u switch the fdisk output header
> will give you units as 16965 * 512 bytes
> in the case of one of my drives i.e. more or
> less 8,432 kb's or 8.4gb's.
Your math is screwed up.
--
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: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modules
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 19:09:38 +0200
roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everybody
> Compiled, installed a new kernel and modules. After rebooting the
> system, I tried to use some modules but get this message:
> bash-2.04# /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o
> /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: couldn't find the
> kernel version the module was compiled for
> bash-2.04#
> Does anyone know how to fix this
Did you read the instructions in the Changes file?
Peter
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From: "Jali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:39:50 +0100
I have found a kernel driver for the Sun Type 5 Keyboard. It's part of a
larger project providing drivers for several exotic hardware, like
Playstation Controllers or the Amiga Mouse. :-) It also has a a plan for
building the adapter needed to connect the keyboard to the serial port.
You find it at http://www.suse.cz/development/input/index.html.
I am currently building the adapter. I'll keep you updated, if I succeed.
regards, Alex
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From: "Jali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:40:31 +0100
I have found a kernel driver for the Sun Type 5 Keyboard. It's part of a
larger project providing drivers for several exotic hardware, like
Playstation Controllers or the Amiga Mouse. :-) It also has a a plan for
building the adapter needed to connect the keyboard to the serial port.
You find it at http://www.suse.cz/development/input/index.html.
I am currently building the adapter. I'll keep you updated, if I succeed.
regards, Alex
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From: "Jali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:40:11 +0100
I have found a kernel driver for the Sun Type 5 Keyboard. It's part of a
larger project providing drivers for several exotic hardware, like
Playstation Controllers or the Amiga Mouse. :-) It also has a a plan for
building the adapter needed to connect the keyboard to the serial port.
You find it at http://www.suse.cz/development/input/index.html.
I am currently building the adapter. I'll keep you updated, if I succeed.
regards, Alex
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From: "Jali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:40:52 +0100
I have found a kernel driver for the Sun Type 5 Keyboard. It's part of a
larger project providing drivers for several exotic hardware, like
Playstation Controllers or the Amiga Mouse. :-) It also has a a plan for
building the adapter needed to connect the keyboard to the serial port.
You find it at http://www.suse.cz/development/input/index.html.
I am currently building the adapter. I'll keep you updated, if I succeed.
regards, Alex
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From: "Jali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Keyboard on Linux
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:41:13 +0100
I have found a kernel driver for the Sun Type 5 Keyboard. It's part of a
larger project providing drivers for several exotic hardware, like
Playstation Controllers or the Amiga Mouse. :-) It also has a a plan for
building the adapter needed to connect the keyboard to the serial port.
You find it at http://www.suse.cz/development/input/index.html.
I am currently building the adapter. I'll keep you updated, if I succeed.
regards, Alex
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From: "Dr. Mueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: OR840 - "CMOS battery failure detected"? Any clues?
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 18:01:10 GMT
Glad your board is working fine. The manual I refer to is the printed one.
I had to send the board back to the online vendor I got it from, they
apparently tested it and gave me an "updated" manual. They also told me to
to update the BIOS from the floppy disk, wait until it's finished (3 sets of
beeps), switch the computer off, move the jumper to pins 2-3, computer on,
setup the BIOS, computer off, then on again. Yet, I've just downloaded the
PDF from Intel and like you say, it mentions nothing about touching that
jumper.
As for the splash screen, I never turned it off. The vendor return it to me
that way after testing, so to try and get into the BIOS again to turn it
back on, I had to move the jumper, that's when I had these problems.
If this jumper shouldn't be moved in normal operation, even BIOS upgrades, I
suggest you don't touch it. I'm not saying you'll have problems, but it's
been a head-ache for me. Intel hasn't even heard of this error message and
yet I can re-produce it time after time.
Thanks.
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Experience with KVM switches?
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 13:46:11 -0500
I've used the Servswitch plus 2 and 4 port and the Servswitch multi and been
very, very happy with them. I've used BlackBox products for many, many
years and found them to be excellent products with excellent support.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Microsoft MVP
AKA Grunt<><
"TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Which models have used?
>
> TJ
>
> > From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Organization: Holcomb & Associates
> > Newsgroups:
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comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.p
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> > Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:09:09 -0500
> > Subject: Re: Experience with KVM switches?
> >
> > You can't go wrong with BlackBox (www.blackbox.com) products. Check out
> > their web site and the specs.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Brett I. Holcomb
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > AKA Grunt<><
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James K. Wiggs)
Subject: Safe hdparm settings?
Date: 8 Apr 2001 19:20:37 GMT
Folks,
I've got an older ASUS P2L97 motherboard with an IBM 13 GB
IDE drive model IBM-DJNA-371350. The question I'm trying to find
an answer for is simple: Is it *safe* to use the -u1 parameter
to hdparm for this disk/MB combination? I've spent the last 2
and a half hours trying to find some documentation somewhere to
tell me if that motherboard has one of the buggy IDE interfaces
mentioned in Documentation/ide.txt. The ASUS website doesn't
say. The ASUS motherboard manuals don't say. I can't find a
pertinent posting on any newsgroup using groups.google.com or
in any archived mailing list I can track down. Can *anyone*
give me a straight answer on this one?
many thanks,
Jim Wiggs
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From: "P�man Malekzadeh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: this is very weird!!!!!!!!!
Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 15:29:43 -0400
I am looking for the driver for the Hercules 3D Prophet II MX video card for linux. I
am running mandrake 7 , I do not have XF86 4.
if anyone can help I greatly appreciate it.
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From: "Charlie Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Pavilion Sound and Redhat
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:31:00 GMT
Has anyone had any luck getting Redhat to recognize the HP onboard sound?
>From what it looks like, it is not on the list of supported sound hardware.
Thanks.
Charlie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: Safe hdparm settings?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 19:36:39 GMT
James K. Wiggs wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've got an older ASUS P2L97 motherboard with an IBM 13 GB
> IDE drive model IBM-DJNA-371350. The question I'm trying to find
> an answer for is simple: Is it *safe* to use the -u1 parameter
> to hdparm for this disk/MB combination? I've spent the last 2
> and a half hours trying to find some documentation somewhere to
> tell me if that motherboard has one of the buggy IDE interfaces
> mentioned in Documentation/ide.txt. The ASUS website doesn't
> say. The ASUS motherboard manuals don't say. I can't find a
> pertinent posting on any newsgroup using groups.google.com or
> in any archived mailing list I can track down. Can *anyone*
> give me a straight answer on this one?
>
> many thanks,
> Jim Wiggs
I have an acceptable chipset (Intel 440xx) and acceptable drives, but only
notice a small increase in speed with the -u1 setting. What you're doing
with -u1 is not shutting down other interrupts when there is disk activity.
Is the extra 5 to 6 (ymmv) mb/s worth the risk? Here that's only =< 6%
The defaults seem adequate here. What is the output of hdparm /dev/hdx ?
And what does hdparm -Tt /dev/hdx show?
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: Gunnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parport problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 20:02:14 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
> everything modern should work with the ECP/EPP settings.
Thanks, I'll choose the ECP.
>>k62:~# cat adsf > /dev/lp0
>>su: /dev/lp0: No such device
> Is the "lp" module loaded, and does "ls -l /dev/lp0" return the
> following?
> crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Jul 29 2000 /dev/lp0
Here's my output:
k62:~# ls -l /dev/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Nov 30 16:23 /dev/lp2
> You must have the "lp" module loaded to get any output from the printer.
> If it doesn't exist in /lib/modules/$VERSION/misc/ , then you need to
> compile it.
The only modules I see is parport.o and parport_pc.o
> When you tried to access /dev/lp0, the kernel module loader
> should've loaded the module automatically. Put the following line in
> /etc/modules.conf if it isn't there already:
> alias char-major-6 lp
A cat to /dev/lp0 does not load any module.
I'm not a module person so could you shortly tell me what
alias char -major -6 lp
would do.
What if I compile it into the kernel (I have tried that too, but it didn't
work).
> The hardware is there; just get that lp module loaded and you should be
> in business. If you wish to use interrupt-driven mode for printing,
> which might help performance, try doing "tunelp /dev/lp0 -T on". HTH
I'm glad the hardware is there, this box is not that "upgradeable"...
Gunnar the still confused...
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