Linux-Hardware Digest #708, Volume #14 Mon, 30 Apr 01 17:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Hot-swapping IDE drives (John)
Re: redhat 7.1/mandrake 8.0 screensaver (Toby Haynes)
Re: Boot Error (John Christian)
gimp and xscanimage: cannot find module char-major-81 ("Richard M. Denney")
Re: Newsgroup for embeded linux? (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: start up commands (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I know so
far] ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (Michael Meissner)
Re: About to buy Abit KT7A Raid system - any Linux 2.4 problems? ("Brendan Harte")
Canon IXUS 300 / PS 300 with Linux? ("Tage V. Madsen")
Re: Evidence Eliminating .............10% OFF Instant Download
. 9676 ("KW")
FA: Storage Array ("Jonathon Caywood")
Install freezes on RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0 (Steve Bradtke)
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 18:13:44 +0100
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hot-swapping IDE drives
What's the intended application for this setup?
> : I have 2 hard-drives that I have installed in removable hard-drive racks,
> : and want to be able to hot-swap them while my SuSE 7.1 system is running.
> : Assuming I umount the filesystems that the drives are mounted in before
> : removing the drive, can anyone think of any problems that might be caused
> : because of this? Any advice would be appreciated.
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: redhat 7.1/mandrake 8.0 screensaver
Date: 30 Apr 2001 13:58:03 -0400
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> here is one interesting.. This happens both with Mandrake 8.0 and RedHat
> 7.1 - when I turn on the screen saver it's doesn't work - instead the screen
> just goes blank after the specified time has elapsed (and since I hit
> require password it prompts for a password). I'm trying to use the tux
> screen-saver. If I click on test it looks fine - but setup reveals a blank
> screen. Any ideas?
Are you logged in as root? If so, most screensavers will refuse to start. Read
Jamie Zawinski's site if you want to know why...
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: John Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot Error
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:23:56 -0700
I installed Linux Mandrake 7.2. Windows was already installed on my
computer.
bmw524 wrote:
> John Christian a écrit :
>
> > I just installed Linux on my box and set it up to dual boot into win98.
> > I was able to boot linux and run it fine. I also was able to reboot
> > into windows. However the next time I rebooted out of linux I couldn't
> > boot in to anything. I got an error saying "Stage 1 Hard Drive Error"
> > and then it did nothing. Does anyone know what this is and how to fix
> > it?
>
> Which version of Linux have you installed?
> Win98 was-it the first on your hard disk?
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Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 01:06:12 -0500
From: "Richard M. Denney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: gimp and xscanimage: cannot find module char-major-81
I have a SCSI Microtek 35t slide scanner (connected to an Adaptec 2930
CU card) that I have used with GIMP and xscanimage for two years. I find
it no longer works under Linux. I have recently upgraded to RedHat 7 and
compiled kernel 2.4.1 (from 2.2.17). GIMP, sane and xsane are from the
RedHat 7 package. The other devices on the chain (a Microtek E6 scanner,
a 100 Meg Zip drive and a Yamaha CDROM writer work as before.
Furthermore, the scanner appears to be OK since it will scan properly
under Windows NT. (This is a dual-boot machine using NT boot loader. I
normally run NT in vmware under Linux, but can boot NT independently.)
When I attempt to access the scanner, /var/log/messages acquires the
message:
Apr 30 00:54:45 rdenney modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
char-major-81
Apr 30 00:54:45 rdenney last message repeated 4 times
*****Can anyone tell me how to tell what module char-major-81 is? This
error message does not occur when the other scanner on the chain (the E6
flatbed scanner) is accessed. (The latter works properly.)
I have made several changes to my system recently and only use my slide
scanner occasionally, so I frankly am not sure when this problem cropped
up. But I am ANNOYED!
Rick
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newsgroup for embeded linux?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:09:52 +0000
You might want to go to the Linux Journal website. They're now
publishing an Embedded Linux magazine (for free, I think) and i would
suspect they may have some interesting resources available.
Jim
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: start up commands
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:14:27 +0000
In SuSE it's located in /etc/rc.d/boot.local
This is where you enter commands to run at startup.
If I'm wrong, I'm SURE I'll hear about it here!
Jim
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP, RH7.1 and Intel -- Can't they all just get along? [Update = what I
know so far]
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:17:07 -0600
> Indeed
>
> append="noapic"
> in /etc/lilo works.
Interesting - I didn't have to do that. If I recall, doesn't that give
you a performance hit? Maybe we should compare configs to see if you can
get it to work without the "noapic".
steve
> Second Law of Blissful Ignorance --
> -- Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Apr 2001 15:49:19 -0400
Omar Lakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi folks, I have a Presario 1700 with Linux RH 7.0 on it and everything
> is working just fine besides the network (and modem) connection.
>
> After some reseach I found out that my ethernet nic is a CONEXANT. I
> browsed through many sites looking for some suitable kernel module as a
> driver. No clue...
>
> I have tried many drivers just randomly without success.
>
> Finally (and sadly) I came to the decision that I need to invest in a
> PCMCIA, plug it in and get hooked up to the net. Now I find myself
> drowned in an ocean of information and don't know what to buy exactly. I
> would like to have a combo Ethernet/Modem with the less painul
> installation, not exactlya a plug and play thing, but something that has
> been tested and is guaranteed by experience to work.
I've had no problems with my LinkSys PCMLM56 combination ethernet 10/100 + 56K
modem card. Unlike some cards, it has no dongle cable to lose/break, since the
ethernet and modem ports are built in. Also, unlike the Xircom RealPort it
only takes 1 slot, but it does jut out of the slot, and can only be put in the
top slot if you are using 2 cards. The one downside is the card is not a
cardbus card, which means you will get a some less performance than you would
with a cardbus card.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Please CC me the reply as I rarely have the chance to browse through the
> newsgroups.
Nope, I'm replying only to the newsgroups. If you can't spend a few days
browsing through the newsgroup, obviously getting the information isn't that
important to you.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: "Brendan Harte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About to buy Abit KT7A Raid system - any Linux 2.4 problems?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:52:18 +0100
The raid works perfectly on my Linux box, Abit KT7A raid 2x41gb IBm raid 0,
Suse 7.1 with kernel 2.4
Joel Comeaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:jp3H6.4713$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Garry Heaton wrote:
>
> > I'm about to buy a system with an Abit KT7A Raid FB 266Mhz motherboard.
> > Are there any known problems running Linux 2.4 kernel (Mandrake 8.0)? If
> > so, please advise on a more compatible motherboard. Thanks.
> >
> > Garry Heaton
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Garry,
> I just put together a KT7A, sans the RAID......which, not surprisingly,
> works perfectly. They use the same chipsets, so I'm certain everything
> except the raid will work.......
>
> Joel
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From: "Tage V. Madsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.dcameras
Subject: Canon IXUS 300 / PS 300 with Linux?
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:10:02 +0200
Hi
Has anyone tried using the Canon IXUS 300 digital camera (I believe it
is the same as PowerShot 300 on the US market) with Linux? I know that
gPhoto (www.gphoto.org) supports IXUS, but I don't know if that includes
the newer IXUS 300?
Regards,
Tage V. Madsen
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From: "Jonathon Caywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FA: Storage Array
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:41:52 -0400
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Subject: Install freezes on RH 7.1 and Mandrake 8.0
From: Steve Bradtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 21:03:36 GMT
I have a problem installing either RH 7.1 or Mandrake 8.0.
In either case, installation never really starts. I'm
allowed to choose installation mode, after which the initial
boot system is loaded from the CD ROM and the hardware
system is checked over. However, when it comes time for the
installation utility to come up, the system just hangs. For
example, in Mandrake 8.0 installation, I finally get a
message about drinking eggs and welcome to linux
mandrake. Then the system completely freezes. Selection of
any other installation mode, such as expert or rescue, all
lead to a freeze up at the same point.
I had no problems at all installing RH 7.0 or Mandrake 8.0
on the same system. I`m using an Abit VP6 dual processor
motherboard, with 2 P-III 800`s, 3 HDD`s (windows installed
on 1), a cdrom, and a cd-rw. Using an SB Live sound card,
and an Asus AGP-7100 graphics card.
On the theory that it might be useful, I've appended the dmesg
log from a successful boot into Mandrake 7.2
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Steve
====================================================
Steven Bradtke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Linux version 2.2.17-21mdksmp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3
19991030 (prerelease)) #2 SMP Wed Mar 7 21:18:45 EST 2001
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 2
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000)
Detected 798691 kHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1592.52 BogoMIPS
Memory: 256828k/262080k available (1252k kernel code, 424k reserved, 3064k data, 140k
init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU serial number disabled.
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CPU serial number disabled.
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 49.97 usecs.
CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 798.6781 MHz.
..... system bus clock speed is 133.1128 MHz.
Booting processor 1 eip 2000
Calibrating delay loop... 1595.80 BogoMIPS
CPU serial number disabled.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
OK.
CPU1: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 06
Total of 2 processors activated (3188.33 BogoMIPS).
enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not
connected.
number of MP IRQ sources: 16.
number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
IO APIC #2......
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00178011
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
03 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
04 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
05 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 71
06 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
07 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
08 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
09 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0a 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 99
0b 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A1
0c 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A9
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B1
0f 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B9
10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 2
IRQ1 -> 1
IRQ3 -> 3
IRQ4 -> 4
IRQ5 -> 5
IRQ6 -> 6
IRQ7 -> 7
IRQ8 -> 8
IRQ9 -> 9
IRQ10 -> 10
IRQ11 -> 11
IRQ12 -> 12
IRQ13 -> 13
IRQ14 -> 14
IRQ15 -> 15
.................................... done.
checking TSC synchronization across CPUs: passed.
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
mtrr: probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0, last bus=1
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 262144 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)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
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
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 82C691 Apollo Pro
Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
HPT370: chipset revision 3
HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: WDC WD102BA, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC35100L, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CD-ROM 56X, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9500, ATAPI CDROM drive
hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xd800-0xd807,0xdc02 on irq 11
hda: WDC WD102BA, 9779MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=19870/16/63
hdb: WDC AC35100L, 4924MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=10672/15/63
hde: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=89355/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdc: ATAPI 56X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 4096kB Cache
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
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 1807.083 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 1842.135 MB/sec
8regs : 1387.602 MB/sec
32regs : 818.388 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (1842.135 MB/sec)
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
Partition check:
hda: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hda1
hdb: [PTBL] [627/255/63] hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 hdb6 >
hde: [PTBL] [1027/255/63] hde1
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
fa311.c:v1.51 Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet Driver
word0=200
word1 =9e3
word2 =6dc7
eth0: bus=0 func=88 io=0xd400 irq=10 ver=3.2
eth0: ethernet addr=00:02:e3:09:c7:6d
autodetecting RAID arrays
autorun ...
... autorun DONE.
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
change_root: old root has d_count=1
Trying to unmount old root ... okay
Freeing unused kernel memory: 140k freed
Adding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
eth0: speed=10 duplex=half link=up
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