Linux-Hardware Digest #829, Volume #14 Sat, 26 May 01 23:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Promise Ultra100TX2 uses 20268 chipset, not supported... :( (saga_s27)
Re: Udma 100 - RH 7.1 ? (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Re: NVidia almost works but not quite! Help! ("Florian Schmidt")
Re: Can't even recognize Promise Ultra100TX2 without kernel params, and can't enable
dma... HELP! (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Re: ps/1 and 286 ... any possibilities for a minimal version of linux? ("Stuart
Cianos")
Resize the swap file? (Liam Watts)
Re: Intel Gigabit ethernet 1000BaseT for Redhat 7.1 ("C. Linus Hicks")
Re: IRQ change (Leonard Evens)
Re: console keyboard failure (SammyTheSnake)
Re: Best Laptop for Linux? (Georg Acher)
Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 (Will DeVries)
Re: ps/1 and 286 ... any possibilities for a minimal version of linux? ("J. P.
Montgomery")
Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI ES4815 (es1371) problem (Neurophyre)
Re: Dell Inspiron 8000 (Will DeVries)
Re: Can Linux rescue an old Mac PowerBook? (Will DeVries)
Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI ES4815 (es1371) problem (Dave Uhring)
Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP! (Stephe Thayer)
Re: Help, I screwed up my display! (Stephe Thayer)
TDK 12/10/32 CD-Rewriter and Mandrake Linux 8.0 ("gobold1y")
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From: saga_s27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100TX2 uses 20268 chipset, not supported... :(
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:14:29 GMT
I think there is a patch available on linux-ide.org
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Arrowwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I went out and bought an Ultra66, plugged it in, and it worked! Both
> the original RedHat kernel and my custom compiled one recognized it
> without a problem, AND enabled DMA...
>
> So, should I try and patch the kernel, or just take the card back? :)
>
> -- John
>
> John Arrowwood wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > roel wrote:
> >
> >> What kernel are you using, my gues is a 2.2 just take a 2.4 kernel
> >> compile it with promise pdc 20265/20267 support and youre drive is up.
> >
> >
> > RedHat 7.1 comes with 2.4.2. When that didn't work, I downloaded 2.4.5.
> > And of course I made sure to include support for Promise cards. If
> > what you say is true, that the kernel should just recognize it, then my
> > guess is that the TX2 comes with a brand-new chipset that isn't
> > recognized by the kernel. ARGH!
> >
> > Any ideas how to know for sure?
> >
> > -- John
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: Udma 100 - RH 7.1 ?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:13:14 GMT
Martin wrote:
> I got exactly the same behavior with redhat 7.0 and the
> 2.2.16-22 kernel from redhat.
>
> After some work with lilo, the hard disks are working, but
> there is no way to enable DMA for the drives.
> The drives on the onboard IDE cannels are using dma without trouble.
> So I'm really nosy what you will find out from the promise guys.
>
> Martin
Stated several times in this group: The 2.2.xx kernels do not natively
see the off board controllers. They must be patched. The 2.4.4 kernel
sees all.
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: "Florian Schmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: NVidia almost works but not quite! Help!
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 23:30:03 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andy Walker"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've loaded XFree86 4.0.1 with Mandrake 7.2 and then installed the
> NVidia driver for my M64 TNT2 AGP graphics card and it seems to work but
> the system keeps coming up with an error about x spawning too fast and
> disabling for 5 minutes. Other than the X display constantly flicking on
> and off during this, it seems to work ok.
> Does anyone have any ideas because after months spent to get this far
> I'm starting to get depressed!
hmm, maybe an upgrade to xfree86 v4.0.3 would be helpful... i don't know.
i once had the nvidia driers working with x version 4.0.2.. never tried
since then..
--
florian schmidt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: Can't even recognize Promise Ultra100TX2 without kernel params, and can't
enable dma... HELP!
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:58:34 GMT
John Arrowwood wrote:
>
>
> roel wrote:
>
>> What kernel are you using, my gues is a 2.2 just take a 2.4 kernel
>> compile it with promise pdc 20265/20267 support and youre drive is up.
>
> RedHat 7.1 comes with 2.4.2. When that didn't work, I downloaded 2.4.5.
> And of course I made sure to include support for Promise cards. If
> what you say is true, that the kernel should just recognize it, then my
> guess is that the TX2 comes with a brand-new chipset that isn't
> recognized by the kernel. ARGH!
>
> Any ideas how to know for sure?
>
> -- John
Take a look at ide.txt in your kernel source tree. Probably in
/Documents/
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: "Stuart Cianos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ps/1 and 286 ... any possibilities for a minimal version of linux?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:06:50 -0700
Dear Mr. Montgomery:
While the Linux kernel itself (at least on an intel platform) will only boot
on a 386, you could of course try loading Minix or ELKS onto the machine. I
don't know how useful it would be, but it would definately be interesting!
- Stu
"J. P. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ep54s$7lg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is there any version of linux that will run on an old IBM PS/1 (286) ... I
> believe this was a10MHz machine with ?? memory (minimal I'm sure). This
> machine has fond memories ... my (then girlfriend) wife was surprised when
I
> proceeded to escape from the shell that IBM supplied and get to a command
> line!
>
> I'm thinking that linux only starts with 386 architectures, so I expect
this
> to be null answer ... but worth a try!
>
> Any good uses ... or just donate it to charity?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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From: Liam Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Resize the swap file?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:11:48 GMT
I've been monitoring my swap file, and it almost never gets over 5%
used.
I have 128 MB RAM and 250 MB swap file. That's a lot of unused HD space
I'd like to get back.
Is there a way to resize that partition and reapply the space to the
root partition? Or at least take a chunk of it as another partition?
Thanks for any assistance!!
Liam
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From: "C. Linus Hicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Gigabit ethernet 1000BaseT for Redhat 7.1
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:28:25 GMT
Drivers can be downloaded from Intel's web site:
Try this URL: http://appsr.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp
Then networking / Adapters for Servers / Intel PRO/1000 Family
cistron wrote:
>
> Can someone tell me whether Intel Gigabit Ethernet 1000BaseT are
> supported on Redhat 7.1
>
> Thanks and Regards
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ change
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:44:33 -0500
alik blochin wrote:
>
> hi folks
> my ethernet and sound card (on board VIA AC'97)
> are sharing one irq 11
> how do i change it?
> do i have to mess with bios setup
> or do it manually in linux ?
Try the other suggestions, but if either is a PNP card, try
man isapnp. Also look in conf.modules (or modules.conf for
RH 7.X).
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SammyTheSnake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: console keyboard failure
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:49:23 +0100
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt
Vanderveer wrote:
>I am having console keyboard problems. I am running Red Hat 6.2. I shut
>down my machine to add additional memory and then rebooted. Upon reboot
>I was able to enter the bios, so the keyboard was working fine at that
>point. I made no changes in the bios. The booted up fine, with no error
>messages on the screen. However, once the system was up, the keyboard no
>longer worked. I am able to get into the machine via ssh. I checked the
>logs and there were no error messages or bott-time failures listed in
>either boot.log or messages. I have tried using different keyboards, but
>none of them work. I don't believe that it is a hardware problem as the
>keyboard worked fine before the reboot and at boot time to access the
>bios. The only thing that changed between shutdown and startup was the
>addition of memory. Any help or pointers you can provide would be much
>appreciated.
have you since re-booted again? do you get the same symptoms again? the only
thing that comes to mind off the top of my head (if that isn't mixing
metaphors ;) is that your keyboard socket or some related part of the mobo
suffered some mysterious hardware failure between BIOS time and using it at
the console...
when you say it "doesn't work" I assume you mean there's no response to the
keyboard at all, right?
Cheers & God bless
SammyTheSnake
--
Sam.Penny @ Ntlworld.com | Looking for a computer related
Linux, Hardware & Juggling specialist :-) | job, if you can help, e-mail me :)
Wheels: bike, 'ickle bike, and unicycle. | /o \/ Working on 5 ball 1/2 shower
Boxen: K6-266@300, dual Celery500 & Nx486 | \__/\ & some 6 / 7 ball exercises
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Acher)
Subject: Re: Best Laptop for Linux?
Date: 27 May 2001 00:30:21 GMT
In article <9eghri$mmi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Hans-Ulrich Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Howdy,
|>
|> I'm in the market for a laptop to use between the home and office, it will
|> need to run Mandrake 8. Can anyone recommend a laptop that would be a good
|> deal and provide the best Linux compatibility. Also, if u know of any
|> "don't buys", let me know too.
|>
|> As I said, it will need to run Mandrake 8 and the only other requirement is
|> a 1024x768 capable screen.
Have a look at the Compaq Armada M300, very small and lightweight. The HW (XGA,
sound, ethernet) is very easy to setup, no special stuff (even the Winmodem
works :-O).
David Plaut made a good summary of the M300 and Linux:
http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut/m300/
--
Georg Acher, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.in.tum.de/~acher/
"Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias
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From: Will DeVries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:31:25 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Jean-Paul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I was wondering a few things about this laptop.
> >
> > I see the Inspirion can run RH7.0 as it can come installed on the
> > system. Can it also run RH6.2 We have our other systems running on 6.2
> > and so would like to keep 6.2.
> >
> > I am mostly worried about the Pentium III and the Graphic Card(ATI
> > Mobility M4 aka ATI Rage 128).
> >
> > The kernel build would be 2.2.14?
> >
> > Any clues?
> >
> > Paul Miller
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> I'm pretty sure you'll need X 4.0.2 or greater for the graphics card.
> I don't think RH 6.2 has that, but you could probably find it
> somewhere?
>
> --
> Eric Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://labejb.lks.agilent.com/
> (425) 335-2495
no you will not need 4.0.2 or greater! I am runing 4.0.1; It works
great. I am not sure if earlier versions will work.
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From: "J. P. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ps/1 and 286 ... any possibilities for a minimal version of linux?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:44:18 -0500
Thanks ... I've heard of Minux but not ELKS ... and you're right ... I don't
know what I'll do with it even if I get a new operating system on it. But
it will be an interesting experiment!
Thanks again.
"Stuart Cianos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9ep9b1$gvnp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear Mr. Montgomery:
>
> While the Linux kernel itself (at least on an intel platform) will only
boot
> on a 386, you could of course try loading Minix or ELKS onto the machine.
I
> don't know how useful it would be, but it would definately be interesting!
>
> - Stu
>
>
> "J. P. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9ep54s$7lg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Is there any version of linux that will run on an old IBM PS/1 (286) ...
I
> > believe this was a10MHz machine with ?? memory (minimal I'm sure). This
> > machine has fond memories ... my (then girlfriend) wife was surprised
when
> I
> > proceeded to escape from the shell that IBM supplied and get to a
command
> > line!
> >
> > I'm thinking that linux only starts with 386 architectures, so I expect
> this
> > to be null answer ... but worth a try!
> >
> > Any good uses ... or just donate it to charity?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neurophyre)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI ES4815 (es1371) problem
Date: 26 May 2001 18:42:27 -0700
Hi, I'm running Debian 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19 on an Asus A7v w/Duron
650. I've got a Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card, on the top of
the box it claims "model ES4815". After a bit of trial and error
getting it to work a couple months ago, I found that the es1371 driver
works with it, so I have it compiled statically into the kernel, not
as a module.
My problem is that the driver seems to have weird issues with queueing
sounds when other sounds are playing, and with freezing for a
noticeable period of time after certain sounds are played, when trying
to play sounds from other programs.
First, the freezing problem. This primarly happens with the console
beep in KDE2's 'konsole' program. I can make the beep in konsole as
many times as I like with no problems, but after a beep has been
played in konsole, the sound driver goes into a weird state for around
30 seconds or more, where if any other program is loaded that tries to
play sounds (xmms, snes9x, rocknes, and so forth) there will either be
an error (rocknes says "Cannot find sound card"), or more commonly,
the program will simply freeze hard for 30 seconds or so, and then
start executing normally as soon as the driver decides it wants to
work again.
Secondly, the queueing problem. A good example of this is xmms +
gaim. When I'm playing mp3s in xmms, if events happen in gaim that
would normally cause a sound effect, I hear nothing... until the
current mp3 is done playing. Then, all the sound effects seem to be
played at once, that were made by gaim during the time the mp3 was
playing! This is, obviously, sub-optimal behavior. Interestingly, if
a console beep was made during mp3 play, it will often be played and
then the driver will freeze just like it does in the above
description, for some period of time, before it 'unfreezes' and xmms
goes to the next file in the playlist.
Any ideas if this is a fixable problem? It was present in 2.2.18 as
well as 2.2.19.
------------------------------
From: Will DeVries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 8000
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:42:47 -0700
Jean-Paul Miller wrote:
>
> I was wondering a few things about this laptop.
>
> I see the Inspirion can run RH7.0 as it can come installed on the
> system. Can it also run RH6.2 We have our other systems running on 6.2
> and so would like to keep 6.2.
>
> I am mostly worried about the Pentium III and the Graphic Card(ATI
> Mobility M4 aka ATI Rage 128).
>
> The kernel build would be 2.2.14?
>
> Any clues?
>
> Paul Miller
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am runing Red Hat 7 on one with no problems. The Pentium III works,
but I don't know if you can change its speed mode with out resetting the
computer. Windows does not give me the option of changing the speed. To
use the X windows you will need to download the XF86Config file from
dell support site(support.dell.com).
RedHat 7 uses kernal 2.2.16 and the update shows a download for
2.2.18. I updated everything but the kernal(too big) on my desktop but
not my laptop yet. you will want to do the same.
------------------------------
From: Will DeVries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Linux rescue an old Mac PowerBook?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:55:14 -0700
Topher Cawlfield wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was desperate to find a laptop computer that I could use for a weekend,
> and was having no luck until I ran across some Mac PowerBook 170 laptops
> that were being thrown out. Well, still maybe no luck. All I really need
> to do is edit some text files (I'm busy writing a thesis with LaTeX), but
> to my dismay, a Macintosh cannot even edit simple text files. SimpleText
> can't open a text file of any respectable size. I suppose I could fight it
> some more and try to fit a BBEdit shareware or some other program on it,
> but it still would not be very useful.
>
> Anyway the thought occured that I just might be able to put Linux on this
> computer, making it semi-useful. Looks like it has a 25MHz 68030 CPU, 8 MB
> RAM, and a 76 MB HD. That's not much to work with! The biggest problem is
> that it has no CD drive, only a floppy drive. I don't have any networking
> cables that work with it, just a modem conector that I can't get working
> (but it's not like I know what I'm doing). So it seems like a very long
> shot to even think about installing Linux on it, and X is probably
> compltetly out of the question.
>
> Does anyone think it's possible to get some sort of Linux running on this
> computer without an extraordinary amount of effort? Even just getting the
> kernel, tcsh, and emacs would be enough for me. Actually, forget emacs, I
> don't think there's room on the HD for it! Pico maybe? I hate vi.
>
> If it is possible, where would I start?
>
> - Topher
I would start will one of the linux dist. for macs. I know yellow dog
is one.
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI ES4815 (es1371) problem
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:19:49 -0500
Neurophyre wrote:
> Hi, I'm running Debian 2.2r3 with kernel 2.2.19 on an Asus A7v w/Duron
> 650. I've got a Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card, on the top of
> the box it claims "model ES4815". After a bit of trial and error
> getting it to work a couple months ago, I found that the es1371 driver
> works with it, so I have it compiled statically into the kernel, not
> as a module.
>
> My problem is that the driver seems to have weird issues with queueing
> sounds when other sounds are playing, and with freezing for a
> noticeable period of time after certain sounds are played, when trying
> to play sounds from other programs.
>
> First, the freezing problem. This primarly happens with the console
> beep in KDE2's 'konsole' program. I can make the beep in konsole as
> many times as I like with no problems, but after a beep has been
> played in konsole, the sound driver goes into a weird state for around
> 30 seconds or more, where if any other program is loaded that tries to
> play sounds (xmms, snes9x, rocknes, and so forth) there will either be
> an error (rocknes says "Cannot find sound card"), or more commonly,
> the program will simply freeze hard for 30 seconds or so, and then
> start executing normally as soon as the driver decides it wants to
> work again.
>
> Secondly, the queueing problem. A good example of this is xmms +
> gaim. When I'm playing mp3s in xmms, if events happen in gaim that
> would normally cause a sound effect, I hear nothing... until the
> current mp3 is done playing. Then, all the sound effects seem to be
> played at once, that were made by gaim during the time the mp3 was
> playing! This is, obviously, sub-optimal behavior. Interestingly, if
> a console beep was made during mp3 play, it will often be played and
> then the driver will freeze just like it does in the above
> description, for some period of time, before it 'unfreezes' and xmms
> goes to the next file in the playlist.
>
> Any ideas if this is a fixable problem? It was present in 2.2.18 as
> well as 2.2.19.
>
Can't help with xmms, but the problem does not lie with the es1371 driver
in the kernel, whether compiled in or loaded as a module. I had the same
problem when I was using the on-board via686a sound chip WRT KDE. Just
wait a few seconds and KDE releases the audio device. BTW, I use a 2.4.4
kernel on one machine and a 2.2.19 on another. Problem exists on both.
Perhaps if you try using Gnome??? Not me, I detest Gnome.
If you question what kind of sound card you have, the best place to
determine that is the big chip on the card. It will be marked with
something like ES1373 as on my card.
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From: Stephe Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:41:35 -0400
Lyrch proclaimed:
> I have a Compaq Presario 12XL310 that I'd like to put redhat linux 7.1
> on. Well, actuall it's already on. One problem. Video in Xwindows.
> I only get the right 1/3 of the screen to display, the rest is black.
>
No idea if this will help but my old 133 thinkpad with some sort of "cyber"
chip was real weird with xfree 4.0. Went back to 3.3 and it works fine....
With 1 meg or video ram and a 133 chip, I don't need any sort of "special"
video anyway.
Stephe
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From: Stephe Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, I screwed up my display!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:48:15 -0400
Andy Walker proclaimed:
>
> Michael Meissner wrote in message ...
>>"Andy Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> I've installed X4.0.1 with NVidia 3D drivers and it was working fine in
>>> 800*600 accelerated mode but when I tried to change the resolution it
> killed
>>> the display and I can't now get any picture. I can't even switch to a
>>> terminal due to the same thing. I'm using Mandrake 7.2 and used
>>> harddrake
> to
>>> change mode.
>>> Any ideas anyone?
>>
>>If you can't get any picture at all, even when booting, I suspect your
> monitor
>>is toast. I've heard really old monitors could be subject to being
> destroyed
>>by feeding it a video signal it couldn't happen, but I hadn't heard of a
> case
>>happening any time recently.
>>
>>If its just a matter that X doesn't work, if you boot via LILO, you can
>>add
> the
>>option 'single' to go into single user mode and reconfigure the X support,
>>bringing it back to 800*600.
>>
>>--
>>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
>
> Thanks for the help. I did what you said and the monitor is fine but now x
> won't start and after the screen mode flicking around it fails with a
> message about no display available. I tried upgrading to XFree86 4.0.2 but
> still no luck. It failed when I did XFree86 -configure with a similar
> error about no display.
>
Did you try "xconfigurator" from a terminal? That should be a text based
setup utility close to the one you used when doing the install. I did
something like that on a laptop and using it fixed it.
Stephe
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From: "gobold1y" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TDK 12/10/32 CD-Rewriter and Mandrake Linux 8.0
Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 02:28:50 GMT
I have a TDK 12/10/32 CD-Rewriter in an otherwise standard system: Asus
P2B-S, Seagate Cheetah SCSI HD, ATI Rage Fury Video card -- a system that
ran Mandrake Linux 7.2 earlier but with a different (and now dead) CD-ROM
drive.
This TDK CD-ROM is installed as an IDE device, not SCSI as is the HD. The
CD-R faq at
from http://www.cdrfaq.org/faq05.html#S5-1-42
tells me that this TDK CD-R is based on the Plextor PX-W1210A, one of the
devices suppported by cdrecord.
My problem is that when I install Mandrake Linux 8.0 it can't use this
CD-ROM, even to just read CDs. It lists the TDK CD-ROM drive as a SCSI drive
on chain 1 (the HD is on chain 0), even though the TDK CD-ROM is an IDE
device.
The cdrecord web site
http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/
problems.html#english
suggests this is to be expected and can be solved if one reconfigures the
linux kernel. Can someone point me to info that tells me how to reconfigure
the kernel, or how to get linux to at least let me read cd-roms (if not
record them)?
The interesting thing is that the Asus MB let's me boot from this TDK CD-ROM
drive and get Mandrake Linux 8.0 installed from the installation CD-ROMS,
but once I boot the installed Mandrake Linux from HD I can no longer access
the CD-ROM drive. Also, if I try to do the install by booting from Mandrake
Linux floppy installation disk, then I can't do the install because the
installation program (DrakeX?) can find but not operate the TDK CD-ROM.
Again, it looks like it thinks the TDK CD-ROM is a SCSI device.
Thanks in adance, Warren Ferguson
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