Linux-Hardware Digest #810, Volume #14 Tue, 22 May 01 15:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Installing Mandrake 8.0 ("ch")
Re: Help adding external DLT tape drive (Joshua Baker-LePain)
RS-232 Interfacing (Mike H. Miller)
Installing Mandrake 8.0 ("ch")
grafic-driver for hercules 3D Prophet II MX (GeForce 2) available? ("Thaler Guenter")
SCSI unter Linux mounten ("Dirk Laurenz")
Mouse problem with kernel 2.4.3/4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HPc2490a scsi disk?? ("G Soft")
linux freezing ("alik blochin")
Peripheral controller compatibility (Shriram Ramanathan)
Re: US Robotics 3CP5610A Modem Problem ("tszeto")
Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode! (Zao Yang)
A5000 (Simone)
Re: /dev/hda17 ... (Matan Ziv-Av)
"kill by signal 11" minicom message ("Blando")
Sound Card (Shefali Joshi)
SCSI: aborting command due to timeout (Xiaoqin Qiu)
Re: linux freezing (Kwan Lowe)
Re: SCSI: aborting command due to timeout (Joshua Baker-LePain)
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Reply-To: "ch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "ch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Mandrake 8.0
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:36:53 -0500
I am having an issue getting mandrake linus installed on a new machine.
I built an athalong 800 system
Msi mainboard
SIS video card.
Intel NIC
Promise Fasttrack 100 Raid controller.
4 IBM IDE Hard Drives.
I want to setup the machine so that 2 of the drives are mirrored.
However Mandrake 8.0 will not see the promise raid controller.
I found redhat drivers for the promise controller. However how do
you use these drivers? There is no way to select a different SCSI
controller in
the mandrake install. (promise calls the IDE raid card a scsi device)
And help would be appriciated.
Colin
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help adding external DLT tape drive
Date: 22 May 2001 15:59:21 GMT
Calvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Compaq system running Debian Linux. I have configured the tape
> device using MAKEDEV. It is /dev/st5. I am still unable to access the
> drive using mt or write to it using tar. Please help
Are there 5 other tape drives already on the system? Then it's automatically
setup to be /dev/{n}st0.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike H. Miller)
Subject: RS-232 Interfacing
Date: 22 May 2001 15:56:07 GMT
I'm trying to write some Tcl/Tk code under linux to control display projectors
via an RS-232 port (actually, a RocketPort 16 board), and I'm having (what
seems to me to be) an unusual problem... the projectors will only respond if
I first open the port in minicom (w/o initializing the "modem", i.e.,
minicom -o), and then I quit and send data normally. This needs to be done once
per boot, then it works.. any ideas?
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Reply-To: "ch" <chobbs@qwestinet>
From: "ch" <chobbs@qwestinet>
Subject: Installing Mandrake 8.0
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:36:53 -0500
I am having an issue getting mandrake linus installed on a new machine.
I built an athalong 800 system
Msi mainboard
SIS video card.
Intel NIC
Promise Fasttrack :00 Raid control@er.
4 IBM IDE Hard Drives.
I want to setup the machine so that 2 of the drives are mirrored.
However Mandrake 8.0 will not see the promise raid control@er.
I found redhat drivers for the promise control@er. However how do
you use these drivers? There is no way to select a different SCSI
control@er in
the mandrake install. (promise calls the IDE raid card a scsi device)
And help would be appriciated.
Colin
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From: "Thaler Guenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: grafic-driver for hercules 3D Prophet II MX (GeForce 2) available?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:13:02 +0200
has anyone an idea where i can get a grafic-driver for the
3D Prophet II MX (GeForce 2) 64MB ?
(redhat 7.1, kernel 2.4.x.x)
thx
gue
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From: "Dirk Laurenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ger.pc.hard,ger.pc.linux
Subject: SCSI unter Linux mounten
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:30:59 +0200
Von: "Dirk Laurenz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Betreff: SCSI unter Linux mounten
Datum: Dienstag, 22. Mai 2001 18:27
Hallo,
wie kann ich unter Linux im Laufenden Betrieb
Geräte nach mounten. Beispiel:
An meinem 2940 ist intern HDD (SYSTEM) und CDROM.
Extern ist ein SCSI Gehäuse mit Wechsel und CDROM. Das Gehäuse ist
nicht immer an. Unter Win musste man nur aktualisieren sagen, um die
externen Geräte einzubinden. Wie mache ich das unter Linux?
MFG,
D.Laurenz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mouse problem with kernel 2.4.3/4?
Date: 22 May 2001 16:46:20 GMT
Hi,
I have this strange mouse problem, I somehow suspect is connected
with the 2.4.* kernels.
Symptoms: After some time (minutes to days), I cannot use the
windoe manager functions anumore (moving windows, getting pop-up
menus when clicking on the background, resizing windows,...).
Applications are not impaired. Focus (autoraise,...) still works.
Exit form X and restart X removes the problem.
This happens on two very different machines:
a) pentium III, Asus CUV4X, Matrox G400, serial mouse (logitech MM35)
fvwm2 2.2.4, XFree 3.3.x, kernel 2.4.3
b) Athlon 800, Epox 8kta+, GeForce MX, ps/2 or serial mouse (no difference,
both logitech 3 Button),
fvwm2 2.3.32 (I think), XFree 4.0.3, kernel 2.4.4
Oh, and a) has no gpm running while b) does.
No error messages or the like.
Now, WM and X are pretty different versions, the hardware is different
except for the mice (but excahnging the ps/2 version against the
serial version did not make any difference). After compiling my
own window manager, updating XFree and changing the mouse, I have no
idea what to try next.
Could this be related to the 2.4.3/4 kernels?
Does anybody have similar problems? What software (X,WM,Kernel)
do you use?
I searched the web and deja and didn't find anybody mentioning
such a problem. Nothing in the kernel mailing list archives.
Any hard information?
Unforunately I need a 2.4.x kernel for netfilter and usb, so I cannot
go back to a 2.2.x kernel.
Regards,
Arno
P.S.: If you post a reply, please send me a 'cc'. Thanks!
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Arno Wagner Dipl. Inform. ETH Zuerich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Linux does not solve all the problems. But we are working on it. - Alan Cox
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From: "G Soft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPc2490a scsi disk??
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:49:14 -0500
Marko,
What about a low level format from the scsi card bios?
Phil
"Marko Vuorinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I've searched everywhere to find a clue to solve this.
> I got my hands on a bunch of old HP C2490A scsi disks. All is well exept
> for one thing. I cant get them to work for me. They use to belong to a
> mainframe system and I managed to set the ID but they seem to be
> formated with 514 bite sectors. Linux uses 512 as default as I recal and
> therefor neither fdisk, cfdisk or any other tool can handle the disks.
> BIOS and init finds them but they're just not there. Can you like take a
> knife and partition them by hand or something. =(
>
> My setting are besides ID jumpers 7,10,15,16
> While trying I had a IDE disk (/dev/hda1) and SCSI-ID 0=cdrom 2=disk
> 5=cdrom2
> During boot it sets the scsi disk as /dev/sda
>
> Jumper info on:
>
http://www.hp.com/cgi-bin/cposupport/get_doc.pl?SNI=hpsurestor9696&LC=inform
ation_storage&Tfile=lpg61019
>
> Thanks
>
> Loke
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From: "alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux freezing
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 19:51:08 +0200
Hi
i have a very strange problem:
i recently installed mandrake 8.0 and everything goes alright but every 2-3
hours i get a completely freezed system(only power button helps)
and nothing seems wrong:
all the drivers are installed properly....
The system freezes particulary on screensaver...
has anybody seen this before ?
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From: Shriram Ramanathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Peripheral controller compatibility
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 12:00:41 -0500
Hi,
Can someone tell me if the following hardware is supported in linux
redhat or linux mandrake
1. Integrated ATA-100 Super-I/O Peripheral Controller (PSIPC)
TIA,
ram.
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From: "tszeto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: US Robotics 3CP5610A Modem Problem
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 10:26:26 -0700
Thanks for the help.
"Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you define your name servers? That would explain the 'Server not
Found'
> messages. I havnt used dialup in ages, I am too used to my cable modem
now
> :-) But when I did use it I had to tell linux what the IPs to my ISP's
name
> servers were. Looking at your headers and using atl.mindspring.com as
> reference I find these to be your name servers:
>
> ITCHY.MINDSPRING.NET 207.69.200.210
> SCRATCHY.MINDSPRING.NET 207.69.200.211
> BURDELL.CC.GATECH.EDU 130.207.3.207
>
> To tell linux where these name servers are try this:
>
> cd /etc
>
> Modify the resolv.conf file using whatever text editor you want. And for
> example put this in:
>
> search mindspring.net
> nameserver 207.69.200.210
> nameserver 207.69.200.211
> nameserver 130.207.3.207
>
> Then save the file and try your dialup connection again. This should
> hopefully work for you. You have to use the IP numbers, putting in the
> domain names will not work.
>
> ------------------------
> Beware any philosophy that will fit in this space.
>
>
>
>
> "tszeto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> news:9eclkk$s20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm having some trouble getting online through my modem.
> >
> > I just bought a US Robotics 3CP5610A PCI Modem and used the following
> > command to get it working: "setserial /dev/ttyS1 irq 11 port 0xb400
> > autoconfig"
> >
> > Then I use KPPP to connect to my ISP and it seems like it's working. But
> > when use my browser or my email program to try to connect, I get server
not
> > found.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ted
> >
> >
>
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From: Zao Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode!
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:24:11 GMT
FYI, the brightness/contrast control is done by the 1600sw. it has
nothing to do with the #9 card. the #9 card only provides the i2c
interface to the monitor. the technology for controlling the brightness
and contrast is developed by sgi and the company who makes the glass.
so I don't think sgi can open source it even if they want to..
to your point about no one answered your initial question. I just want
to say that you have uncommon hardware here. no that many people 1600sw,
let along 2 flat panels. and those who have flat panel may not read
news groups every day, if at all..
// zao
Bryan wrote:
>
> In comp.sys.sgi.graphics Jon Leech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >>(now, if the brightness/contrast utility would only exist in opensource for
> >>linux... still not sure why SGI is keeping this proprietary; especially on
> >>monitors they're discontinuing. harumph!)
>
> > First, it takes many lawyer and management cycles to open source
> > code, or release corporate IP. Lawyers and managers are typically
> > overburdened with things that directly affect revenue generation;
> > products that are on the way out are unlikely to generate further
> > revenue.
>
> but here's the funny part. the supreme value is the x-server, itself.
> that's what people use, uhm, to -display- data. if that part is
> opensource (and it clearly is), then why the hell won't sgi release
> the remaining specs so that we can control the friggin brightness!!
> sheesh - its far far less interesting how they do that, but its the
> final 2% of the solution. and since there's NO physical
> brightness/contrast control on the device (bad design, btw), you MUST
> have an interface via software to turn the brightness down (its
> way too bright in its default as-shipped setting, btw).
>
> > Second, there is often IP owned by *other* companies involved in
> > products, and sorting out which IP can safely be released, and which
> > can't, takes both engineering and legal cycles. See above re revenue
> > issues.
>
> uhm, numbernine is OUT OF BUSINESS. what possible gain is there to
> hold back info on a totally unsupported board? did sgi design the
> protocol to 'talk brightness' to the display via the board? why would
> sending display data be non proprietary yet the brightness control be
> 'secret sauce'? there's just no logic that any sane person can see here.
>
> > The bottom line is that there are very real, bottom-line costs
> > associated with doing this sort of stuff, at a time when SGI is fighting
> > hard to turn a profit. We have been generous to the open source and
> > Linux communities, but it's just not realistic to expect all the details
> > of old products to become available.
>
> in fact, its MORE useful to opensource EOL'd items. sgi is clearly
> not interested in supporting the old #9 cards. #9 is not supporting
> them, and so what harm is there to release specs so that the few of us
> customers (there goes the C-word again) can still breathe life into
> stuff we paid real money for. I'm no corporation - spending a few
> kilobucks on monitors was a HUGE decision for me. I didn't mind as
> much since I feel these are the best damn lcd's out there, today. but
> it irks me that I have an incomplete solution that I paid serious
> money for. don't get me wrong, I'm 98% happy, but its SO easy to
> complete that last 2%. come on, sgi ...
>
> I'm not shooting you, the messenger. in fact, I used to work at SGI a
> few years ago, so I know a bit about life inside SGO. I wasn't a
> customer back then, just an employee; but I remember reading endless
> tirades on the internal usenet groups about customers complaining
> about sgi not wanting to even SELL them this or that; much less
> release specs on items. but please, there's just no excuse for
> opensourceing the actual video DRIVER and leaving out the 'control
> panel' part of it. its sheer silliness; lawyers or not ;-(
>
> (and its a joke to have to boot into windows just to change the
> brightness of your monitor. can't the sgi flatpanel monitor group SEE
> THAT??)
>
> --
> My email addr can be found on my web page: http://www.snmptools.org/
> Please DON'T send me email when you're posting a follow-up.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simone)
Subject: A5000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 17:25:48 GMT
Hi,
I would like to use an SparcStorage Array A5000 with my Linux box (
Debian 2.2 - kernel 2.2.19 on Sparc Ultra1 ).
When I try to load the socal module in order to activate the Fibre
Channel interface, I receive this error:
socal.c: SOC+ driver v1.1 9/Feb/99 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port B
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port A
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port B
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port A
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port B
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port A
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port B
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port A
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port B
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port A
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port B
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port A
FC: Cannot enque FLOGI/REPORT_MAP packet on socal0 port B
The Fibre Channel interface is an SBus FC-AL 100 MB host adapter
( SUNW,socal/sf like show prtdiag command ) and it works fine with
Solaris 7 ( i see all the disks in the array ). Any idea ?
Thanks in advance,
Simone
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matan Ziv-Av)
Subject: Re: /dev/hda17 ...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 14:08:44 GMT
On Mon, 21 May 2001 17:50:46 -0500, Justin Mahn wrote:
>
> "R S Prigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > How can I get entries for /dev/hda?? > 16.
> > Is this something that needs to be compiled into kernel, or can i
> > otherwise make with MAKEDEV.ide or such??
>
> I didn't think that was possible, as you can only fit 4 logical partitions
> into each of the 4 extended partitions, but I'm not in any way knowledgeable
> about it. why would you need that many partitions on one drive anyway?
That's wrong. There is no limit on the number of logical partitions, since they
are implemented as a linked list, not as an array (table).
To add the necassary devices (linux supports up to 63 partitions on ide disks):
mknod /dev/hda17 b 3 17
(if you want hdb, hde, etc. - look at the low partition number and you'll see
the pattern.)
--
Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Blando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: "kill by signal 11" minicom message
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 01:48:29 +0800
Hi all
I set up a modem for a pc to connect to another pc, when using minicom,
when entering an application ( pos system writen using PICK BASIC) in
another pc, a message come out : "kill by signal 11" and then disconnected.
what is the cause or what should I do to solve it ?
Thanks
fr kevin
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From: Shefali Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:08:15 GMT
Hey!
I have an ESS 1869 Sound Card, but the current kernel version (2.4.2)
aparently supports only ES1868.
Should I upgrade my kernel or should I just use the driver available
right now?
If I must upgrade my kernel, is it enough just to use newer patches?
thanks.
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From: Xiaoqin Qiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI: aborting command due to timeout
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 11:29:13 -0700
Hi,
Recently we have a PC installed RedHat 6.2 with 2.2.14-5.0smp kernel
experiencing problems with SCSI. We have two SCSI hard disk in this
machine. The problem is sometimes the kernel falls into continuos loop
of messages like
May 22 07:34:49 asap kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 14258, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 31 d8 e0 00 00
10 00
May 22 07:34:49 asap kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 14259, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 31 d8 f8 00 00
70 00
May 22 07:34:49 asap kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 14260, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 24 41 00 00 00
08 00
May 22 07:34:51 asap kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 14259) timed out -
resetting
May 22 07:34:51 asap kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel
0.
May 22 07:34:54 asap kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
May 22 07:35:25 asap kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 14430, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 32 25 58 00 00
80 00
May 22 07:35:25 asap kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 14431, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 32 25 d8 00 00
80 00
May 22 07:35:25 asap kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
pid 14432, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 28 29 e0 00 00
08 00
May 22 07:35:27 asap kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 14431) timed out -
resetting
May 22 07:35:27 asap kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel
0.
May 22 07:35:30 asap kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 20.0
Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
and the machine hangs (it seems it can't do any IO operations anymore).
Is there anyone know the reason for this problem and how to fix it?
Thank you very much!
Xiaoqin
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux freezing
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:51:26 GMT
alik blochin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> i have a very strange problem:
> i recently installed mandrake 8.0 and everything goes alright but every 2-3
> hours i get a completely freezed system(only power button helps)
> and nothing seems wrong:
> all the drivers are installed properly....
> The system freezes particulary on screensaver...
> has anybody seen this before ?
Yes... It happened that whenever my Matrix screensaver kicked in, the machine
would soon lock up. Turned out to be a bad CPU fan. Since Matrix was highly
intensive it would overheat the CPU, causing the failure.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI: aborting command due to timeout
Date: 22 May 2001 18:58:59 GMT
Xiaoqin Qiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Recently we have a PC installed RedHat 6.2 with 2.2.14-5.0smp kernel
> experiencing problems with SCSI. We have two SCSI hard disk in this
> machine. The problem is sometimes the kernel falls into continuos loop
> of messages like
> May 22 07:34:49 asap kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
> pid 14258, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 31 d8 e0 00 00
> 10 00
*snip*
More than likely, the disk at ID1 is dying. There's also the laundry
list of usual suspects -- check your termination, your cable length,
etc. It's also possible that the SCSI controller itself is dying. Test
the system with one drive in, then with the other.
Oh, and backup while you can...
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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