Linux-Hardware Digest #801, Volume #14 Sun, 20 May 01 03:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Acer 8432A CDRW Problems (Young4ert)
Re: How do I "Kill" Netscape? (Craig McCluskey)
Re: Add IDE CDRW to system with SCSI-host adapter AHA-1542 (Young4ert)
Re: Webcam advice (Young4ert)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 won't recognize my Maxtor 36147H8 60 GB ATA 100 (Noble Pepper)
PCI NICs not networking! =( (Ya!Right!)
RH 7.1 Kernel doesn't like BL-905 SCSI card/drive anymore (Reza Naima)
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon PCI 32MB on LM 8.0 (PR)
Re: Realtek 8139 adapter under RedHat 5.1 (Young4ert)
Re: SGI 1600sw LCD panels on SGI linux 330 system (Dusan)
no playback device for midi? please, help (Minko Markov)
Re: Webcam advice (Frank Miller)
Satiek Joy stick ("Linux Guerilla")
Re: How do I "Kill" Netscape? (Chris Elvidge)
Problems installing new PCMCIA card ("vinayi")
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Acer 8432A CDRW Problems
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 02:01:35 GMT
I have bad experience with CDRW made by Acer. The first one was 6626A. I
replaced it with Acer 8432A mainly because 2x write is way too slow. With
the 6626A, I could only write on CDRW media and sometimes it failed to
verify. Whenever I tried to write on a CDR, the burnt CDR was useless. I
thought Acer made good product thus I launched to get the Acer 8432A and
ended throwing away the product because I got the same problems. Then, I
bought the IOmega 12x10x32 (US$106 after instant and MIR rebates) that has
a Burnt-Proof feature and am happy since then. Now, I can burn CDR/W not
only fater, but never have problems with the burnt CDR/W results. To make
the story even sound better, I have tried to burn data as well as audio on
CDR medias with no problems at all while my machine was compiling Linux
kernel. The only draw back that I noticed while burning a CDR/W while
compiling the Linux kernel is that the burning process takes a longer time
to finish (which makes sense).
So, if I were you, I would throw away the Acer 8432ACDRW and replace it
with an inexpensive and faster CDRW drive that has a built-in Burnt Proof
feature. Certainly, I would like to hear from you should you be able to
get the Acer 8432A CDRW to work under linux.
Good luck.
don keith wrote:
>
> Does anyone out there have an Acer 8432A CDRW drive that they have
> successfully configured to run with Xcdroast or cdrecord ???? I've been
> fighting this problem for days and it's driving me crazy.....From all
> indications the CDRW is being recognized by linux as a SCSI drive using
> the emulation as directed in the Howto's etc.....It reads data and audio
> cd's just fine, however when I try to burn a cd, Xcdroast and / or
> cdrecord go thru the motions and give the appearances that everything is
> working but
> the end result is absolutely nothing on the CD? While "burning" the cd
> the
> red led comes on and it looks like everything is working. When I run
> Xcdroast in the -debug mode, I don't see any outstanding errors either?
>
> Running Suse Linux 7.1 / 2.4.0-GB kernel/ 733 mhz Pentium III/ 384mb
> ram/30gb HD/ cdrecord 1.9 / Xcdroast v 0.98a7
>
> Any help or comments would be appreciated.
>
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How do I "Kill" Netscape?
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 21:18:18 -0500
Lamar Thomas wrote:
>
> I am running RH 7.1 and Netscape 4.76. Every now and then Netscape
> locks up on me and it won't "Close". I have tried "Alt+F4" and "Close"
> and "Exit" from the file menu. The only way I have been able to get out
> of it is to exit and re-start "X Windows" Anyone know how I can "Kill"
> Netscape without having to exit "X Windows"? I am using KDE as my
> desktop. Thanks,
>
> Lamar
My newsgroup server says there is no such group as linux.redhat.install.
Craig
#!/bin/sh
#
# /home/craig/bin/killns
#
# A script to kill orphaned Netscape processes left when Netscape
crashes.
#
# 18 Oct 2000 Craig McCluskey
#
PIDs=`ps -e | grep netscape | awk '{print $1}' | sort -n`
echo " PIDs: $PIDs"
kill -9 $PIDs
rm -rf ~/.netscape/cache
--
/"\
\ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN "Friends don't send friends
X AGAINST HTML MAIL HTML email."
/ \ AND POSTINGS
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Add IDE CDRW to system with SCSI-host adapter AHA-1542
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 02:20:22 GMT
You will need to configure your Linux kernel with SCSI emulation as shown
below:
Under IDE, ATA and ATAPI Block devices:
Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK Support [y]
Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM Support [n] or [m]
Include IDE/ATAPI TAPE Support [n] or [m]
Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY Support [n] or [m]
SCSI emulation support [y]
Then, under SCSI support:
SCSI support [y]
SCSI disk support [y]
SCSI tape support [m]
SCSI CDROM support [y]
SCSI generic support [y]
Then, download, compile, and install the cdrtools-1.9 package from:
ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/cdrtools
and the newest release xdroast package. Read the CDRW-HOWTO to get a
better understanding on how to configure your linux kernel. The above
setup is basically extracted from my linux kernel configure and may/not
work on your machine.
Good luck.
Roger Lindmark wrote:
> Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
>> Roger Lindmark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> RedHat Linux 7.1
>>> Adaptec AHA-1542B SCSI hostadapter ISA, which BIOS is disabled as the
>>> card
>>
>> As far as I recall, RH messed up the scsi on their first release. Get the
>> corrected kernel from their errata.
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but I do not think it will help me, as the
> kernel of RedHat 7.0 had the identical behaviour. In addition, I am now
> using 2.4.4 kernel and my problem is how to get the IDE CDRW also work as
> CDrom.
>
> Sincerely Yours
>
> Roger
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Webcam advice
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 02:26:11 GMT
I have been using the Kensington webcam and it has a driver under linux.
The standard webcam from Kensington is a 400x300 res whereas the defacto
standard that I know is 358x288 res. So, go figure which one is better.
Also, when the room has not enough light, the captured image from the
Kensington webcam does not give the sproradic color dispersion.
max wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm thinking of buying a webcam for my RedHat 7.1 system.
>
> At this point I don't have a particular brand/type in mind, so who can
> share his/her experience with me on what webcam is the best buy for a
> RedHat 7.1 system?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> max
>
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 won't recognize my Maxtor 36147H8 60 GB ATA 100
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 21:57:21 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a Via 503+ motherboard and recently purchased a new harddrive
> to replace my ailing 5 and 4 gig drives. Since the old pc wouldn't
> recognize the harddrive, I tried using the maxblast software. It
> worked fine for windows, but linux didn't know what to do with EZ
> Drive during formatting. SoI bought a new controller also. I bought an
> Ultra ATA/100. The card works much better and the system seems more
> stable as well. Now my problem is that Linux won't see it all during
> the install.
>
> What gives ? Does anyone know if 7.1 supports it or maybe 8.0 ?
>
Well you just don't notice that it did see it.
Try:
http://sweb.uky.edu/~mabran3/linux/hpt/README.rh7.0
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/udma66.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html
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From: Ya!Right! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI NICs not networking! =(
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 23:21:24 -0700
Hi ppl,
Here is the dewal, I have an old P-75 that runs just fine.
I installed a Kingston kne100tx (10/100) NIC, but it doesn't sent nor
receive any packets, I check ifconfig and everyting is fine so is
/proc/iterrupts. The card uses IRQ 11 which makes a lot of sence.
I tried a few different NIC 3com, Kingston and SMC none of them work.
I also tried both PCI slots, but with no luck!
What should I do next?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reza Naima)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: RH 7.1 Kernel doesn't like BL-905 SCSI card/drive anymore
Date: 19 May 2001 20:17:53 -0700
After many extensive hours of debugging, this is what I've found out..
Under a vanilla RedHat 6.2 I have no problems at all.
However, when I try to boot up and install RH 7.1, it
dies. I've been able to reproduce it by waititng 'till
it finds and loads the device diver -- which works find.
It also recognizes the drive and the partitions on the
drive.
So I can get to the prompt before it runs it's install code so
I can do some testing.
I tried to see what fdisk displayed, so I did a
>mknod /dev/sda
>fdisk /dev/sda
and it was a mess. It looked as if it thought the
drive was a DOS drive with 8 partitions, only displaying
a C: and E: partition, borth having a start unit of 1 and
an end unit of 553. It's a mess..
it gets uglier when I try to mount any partition from there..
It starts spitting this out in the various logs :
scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0 scsi 0 channel 0 id 5 lun 0 0x28
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00
scisi0: aborting CCB #34 to Target 5
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
scsi0: Sending Bus Device Reset CCB #35 to Target 5
SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - tryin gharder
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
scsi0: Resetting BusLogic BT-950 due to TArget 5
scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-540 Initialized Successfully ***
(this was typed in as I am writing this post on a different system)
It then starts spewing out the following lines over and
over again and and never returns or does anything productive :
<4> scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-950 Initialized Successfully ***
<4> SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
<4> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
<4> scsi0: Resetting BusLogic BT-950 due to Target 5
They are both running the latest and same version of the
driver for the card in question (2.1.15)
Does anyone have any suggestions or hints on what the
problem could be? I'm inches away from sticking an IDE
drive in there instead, but I'de rather not.
Also, the drive attached is a Segate st34520W on id 5.
It still boots up fine and works great, but it's the
install of RH 7.1 that makes it very unhappy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also, please CC:
me as I don't check the newsgroups very often.
Thanks in adavance,
Reza
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From: PR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon PCI 32MB on LM 8.0
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 03:16:27 GMT
Hi,
Does anybody have ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon PCI 32MB running on LM 8.0?
I am planning to buy one, and I am just checking if LM 8.0 supports it
out-of-the box, without extra tinkering.
Thanks,
Pal
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 adapter under RedHat 5.1
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 03:26:07 GMT
Get the latest Linux kernel. Install, configure, and compile the source
with the RTL8139A driver. On the next boot, your system should be able to
detect the card. At lease mine does.
Jim vh wrote:
> Very frustrating trying to get this adapter to work.
>
> Realtek RTL8139(A) PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
>
> There is a Linux driver on the disk however it is an object file and is
> for the wrong kernel version.
>
> The readme referred me to a Ftp site ; CESDIS ; which in return
> referred me to http://www.scyld.com.
>
> I got the uncompiled drivers for both RTL8139 and Tulip. I can't get
> either of them to compile due to problems with the kern_compat.h file.
>
> Parse error is the first error.
>
> I don't really expect help here, but if you are aware of this issue and
> any resolution I would appreciate it.
>
> I am a semi newbie to Linux and used to support Windows NT for a living.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim vh
>
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From: Dusan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: SGI 1600sw LCD panels on SGI linux 330 system
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 09:41:14 -0700
thanx! i'm almost there now, last thing i'm missing is pci #9
oh i wish i could do this on my o2.
dusan
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Bryan wrote:
> In comp.sys.sgi.graphics Mayte Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have a sgi 330 with 2 vr7 sgi cards and 2 1600 monitors and 2 multilink
> > adapters and just cant get it to work right. I would love to get ahold of
> > your xfree86 config file - it would be a great help
>
> here's the relevant parts:
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "mon1"
> # VendorName "SGI"
> # ModelName "1600sw"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 121.0
> VertRefresh 60-150
> Modeline "1600x1024d32" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 7
>+Hsync +Vsync
> Modeline "1600x1024d16" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 5
>+Hsync +Vsync
> Modeline "1600x1024d08" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 1
>+Hsync +Vsync
> EndSection
>
>
> Section "Monitor"
> Identifier "mon2"
> # VendorName "SGI"
> # ModelName "1600sw"
> HorizSync 31.5 - 121.0
> VertRefresh 60-150
> Modeline "1600x1024d32" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 7
>+Hsync +Vsync
> Modeline "1600x1024d16" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 5
>+Hsync +Vsync
> Modeline "1600x1024d08" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030 HSkew 1
>+Hsync +Vsync
> EndSection
>
>
> # PCI and AGP cards
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "card1"
> Driver "i128"
> BusID "PCI:0:12:0"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "card2"
> Driver "i128"
> BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
> EndSection
>
>
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "screen1"
> Device "card1"
> Monitor "mon1"
> DefaultDepth 24
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1600x1024d16"
> Virtual 1600 1024
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "1600x1024d32"
> Virtual 1600 1024
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1600x1024d32"
> Virtual 1600 1024
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> Identifier "screen2"
> Device "card2"
> Monitor "mon2"
> DefaultDepth 24
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 16
> Modes "1600x1024d16"
> Virtual 1600 1024
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 32
> Modes "1600x1024d32"
> Virtual 1600 1024
> EndSubsection
> Subsection "Display"
> Depth 24
> Modes "1600x1024d32"
> Virtual 1600 1024
> EndSubsection
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
> Identifier "multihead"
> Screen "screen1"
> Screen "screen2" LeftOf "screen1"
> InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
> InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
> EndSection
>
>
> --
> My email addr can be found on my web page: http://www.snmp tools.org/
> Please DON'T send me email when you're posting a follow-up.
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: no playback device for midi? please, help
From: Minko Markov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 04:51:44 GMT
Hi,
This is a small problem, but is driving me crazy.
I have Creative Vibra16X sound card. The initial
Linux installation, RH6.0, had no problems with the
sound after sndconfig, both midi and wav/mp3/etc.
Then I upgraded the kernel and could not play midi
any more. "playmidi foo.mid" aborts with
playmidi: No playback device found.
I can still play the `other' sound: mp3s and so on.
I tried to RTFM, but found no solution, just that
quite a few people are complaining about the
same error. "playmidi -e" does not issue the error
message, but does not produce any sound either.
I have no clue what am I missing - something in /dev,
or a module, or? In /dev I have
35, 0 midi0
14, 2 midi00
14, 18 midi01
14, 34 midi02
14, 50 midi03
35, 1 midi1
35, 2 midi2
35, 3 midi3
14, 0 mixer
14, 16 mixer1
Looks OK, and I compared my /dev/* to that of a friend with
RedHat, the dev files are the same. So, I have not lost
anything with the upgrades.
In /lib/modules/2.2.19/misc I have
ad1848.o adlib_card.o mpu401.o opl3.o opl3sa.o sb.o
sound.o uart401.o v_midi.o
The kernel compile options that are set (the ones that
concern sound) are
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_MPU401=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OPL3SA1=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
As far as I understand, the one about MPU401 is import
for synthesizing?
Thanks very much!
--
Minko Markov
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From: Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Webcam advice
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 05:18:09 GMT
max wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm thinking of buying a webcam for my RedHat 7.1 system.
>
> At this point I don't have a particular brand/type in mind, so who can
> share his/her experience with me on what webcam is the best buy for a
> RedHat 7.1 system?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> max
I have the PC Cam from IBM recognized on the USB Bus. This is on
Mandrake 7.2. Initially, I needed to modprobe ibmcam.
What applications will work with this??
Frank
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From: "Linux Guerilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Satiek Joy stick
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 05:25:17 GMT
I have a Satiek USB Joystick and throttle. It is seen in the boot up and it
assign as the system joystick. How can I test it or use it? I'm running
Redhat 7.1 with kernel 2.4.4-XFS.
Guerilla
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I "Kill" Netscape?
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 09:52:48 +0400
bowman wrote:
>
> "Lamar Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > of it is to exit and re-start "X Windows" Anyone know how I can "Kill"
> > Netscape without having to exit "X Windows"? I am using KDE as my
>
> same as any other program. open a Konsole, do a "ps aux | grep netscape"
> and kill -9 anything that vaguely resembles netscape.
>
> Occasionally, the visual part of Netscape will crash, but a daemon will
> remain. This gives the dialog box saying something like "Another Netscape is
> active. Anything you do won't be saved". Do the same thing in this case,
> then restart Netscape normally.
>
> You could use top if you prefer, though ps etc. is faster.
Or: right click the top lh corner button (of Netscape), and select
Annihilate
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From: "vinayi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems installing new PCMCIA card
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 00:33:32 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Hello
installing Quatech's PCD2-F/PCI PCMCIA card drive.
OS : Linux Redhat 7.1; PC : Dell Precision Workstation 400
While starting pcmcia module .. getting following message :
Starting PCMCIA services: modules cardmgr.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:0a.0. Please try
using pci=biosirq.
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 01:0a.1. Please try
using pci=biosirq.
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta IRQ list 0000, PCI irq0
Socket status: 30000006
When a card is inserted in the socket, system crashes.
lsmod :
Module Size Used by
ds 7280 2
yenta_socket 11440 2
pcmcia_core 43072 0 [ds yenta_socket]
autofs 11264 1 (autoclean)
3c59x 25344 1 (autoclean)
ipchains 38976 0 (unused)
thanks,
-Vinay
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