Linux-Hardware Digest #849, Volume #14 Thu, 31 May 01 08:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: Red Hat 7.1 and Megaraid Problems (Anthony Ewell)
Asus A7M266 supported ("Randy Wisman")
Re: how to determine lan card type (joshua)
IPv6 and PCMCIA ("Eng Soo Guan")
Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling ! (Georges Goncalves)
Re: Asus A7M266 supported (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David)
Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling ! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David)
Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling ! (Georges Goncalves)
Re: SCSI problems (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: How could I make a raw copy of a disk ? (A. GUILLEVIC)
Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling ! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David)
Genius EasyPen tablet (Jiri Dluhos)
Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling ! (Georges Goncalves)
Re: SCSI problems (Eric DESHAYES)
memMXtest 2.0 serial port gotcha :) (Frantisek Rysanek)
Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling ! (faeychyld)
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Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:11:39 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.1 and Megaraid Problems
Hi All,
A gentleman eMailed with a suggestion about
my megaraid bios. So, I upgraded my Megaraid
Express 500's (475) from Version I148 to A159
and it cured the problem.
Thanks to all that helped!
--Tony
Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Help!
>
> I have a Dual PIII-600, BX chipset server with an AMI
> Express 500 (AMI 4751010232A) controller. The
> controller works superbly under Red Hat 7.0
> (I tested it with a full install and several
> networking and X11 tests after it was installed).
>
> But, under Red Hat 7.1, I can not get the
> partition utility (fdisk) to properly read,
> recognize, or write partition tables. It is
> like a ghost table exists: if I go in and out of
> fdisk enough times it will eventually read a
> previous table. But, even if fdisk eventually
> reads the table, when it comes time to format the
> partitions, the format utility can not see the
> partition tables -- shutting down the install utility.
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> p.s. if you are responding, please respond to both the
> newsgroup and my eMail address (nntp problems!) --thanks
--
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I Fish. Therefore, I am.
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From: "Randy Wisman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus A7M266 supported
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 08:16:17 +0200
Like to buy this board.
Only heard some rumours that is was not supported under Linux....
Any experiences?
R.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joshua)
Subject: Re: how to determine lan card type
Date: 31 May 2001 00:31:11 -0700
Thanks for the information,
What about if the NIC is an ISA interface?
This is mostly my case.
Cheers
Joshua
John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<EhUQ6.5161$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Dragan Colak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : joshua wrote:
>
> :> Hi everyone,
> :> For some reason, I can not see my computer's Lan Card chip.
> :> So I don't know what is the card type or vendor.
> :> Is it possible to probe my lan card and report the chip/Vendor
> :> so that I can assign a kernel module for it? Is there such program/tool
> :> (like SuperProbe for Xwindows server/video) or somehow?
> :>
> :> Thanks in advance.
> :>
> :>
> :> Regards
> :> Joshua
>
> : try the command "lspci"
>
> : Dragan
>
> Also:
>
> lspci -v
> lspci -vv
>
> These will give your more information.
>
> Or:
>
> cat /proc/pci
>
> if you do not have lspci installed.
>
> If you still can not figure it out, you can go to your
> /lib/modules/kernel-version/ directory and try to install all of the network
> drivers. After each insmod command, run dmesg, to see if your card was detected.
>
> I would do this only as a very last resort.
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:17:35 +0800
From: "Eng Soo Guan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IPv6 and PCMCIA
Hi!
I tried installing Linux kernel 2.4.2 with RedHat 7.0, and I discover that
my PCMCIA module cannot function properly. Does anyone have similar
experience? Or is there are sites where I can find out more about PCMCIA
package (and their drivers) working with IPv6 stack in Linux?
Thanx in advance.
carpe diem
ESG
Eng Soo Guan
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From: Georges Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling !
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:50:10 +0200
Hi people,
I have a technical question on these topics...
Hardware : AMD Duron 700 @ 950 on Abit KT7, OS Win2K SP2
AMD Duron 700 @ 900 on Abit KT7, OS GNU/Linux (Debian SID)
When the machines are doing NOTHING (Idle) the working temperature is an
average of 55�. On Win2K, I use the HMonitor tool to get temperatures.
It features a "CPU Low Power Mode" option to check (doc says it uses
the HLT command of the CPU to reduce power consumption hence the
temperature drop). It works because a couple of minutes later, the
temperature drops to 39-40�... (a reboot and the BIOS confirms
this temperature). I use LMSensors on Linux to get the temperatures and
it also works at an average temperature of 55� but the temperature
never drops.
What puzzles me is that all modern OSes (WinNT/2K, Linux and others) are
ALREADY meant to use the CPU HLT command when they're Idle, but, the
temperature remains constant (does not drop) HMonitor claims using the
HLT command and the temperature really drops.
Who's right, who's wrong ?
Anyone knows a similar tool on Linux ?
PS: I've recompiled the kernel with APM support "Make Idle CPU calls" or
some
to try the feature but the temperature variation was about a quarter of
a degree.
--
Georges 'Melkor' Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus A7M266 supported
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:58:23 +0200
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Randy Wisman wrote:
>
> Like to buy this board.
> Only heard some rumours that is was not supported under Linux....
>
> Any experiences?
>
> R.
Yes it works.
We have a RH6.2 system with it. No ATA100 problems.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling !
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:57:35 +0200
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Georges Goncalves wrote:
>
> Hi people,
>
> I have a technical question on these topics...
>
> Hardware : AMD Duron 700 @ 950 on Abit KT7, OS Win2K SP2
> AMD Duron 700 @ 900 on Abit KT7, OS GNU/Linux (Debian SID)
>
> When the machines are doing NOTHING (Idle) the working temperature is an
> average of 55�. On Win2K, I use the HMonitor tool to get temperatures.
> It features a "CPU Low Power Mode" option to check (doc says it uses
> the HLT command of the CPU to reduce power consumption hence the
> temperature drop). It works because a couple of minutes later, the
> temperature drops to 39-40�... (a reboot and the BIOS confirms
> this temperature). I use LMSensors on Linux to get the temperatures and
> it also works at an average temperature of 55� but the temperature
> never drops.
>
> What puzzles me is that all modern OSes (WinNT/2K, Linux and others) are
> ALREADY meant to use the CPU HLT command when they're Idle, but, the
> temperature remains constant (does not drop) HMonitor claims using the
> HLT command and the temperature really drops.
>
> Who's right, who's wrong ?
>
Are you really sure that in Linux you don't have some deamon running in
the background?
> Anyone knows a similar tool on Linux ?
>
> PS: I've recompiled the kernel with APM support "Make Idle CPU calls" or
> some
> to try the feature but the temperature variation was about a quarter of
> a degree.
>
> --
> Georges 'Melkor' Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Georges Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling !
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:30:10 +0200
Andr� David wrote:
> > What puzzles me is that all modern OSes (WinNT/2K, Linux and others) are
> > ALREADY meant to use the CPU HLT command when they're Idle, but, the
> > temperature remains constant (does not drop) HMonitor claims using the
> > HLT command and the temperature really drops.
> >
> > Who's right, who's wrong ?
> >
>
> Are you really sure that in Linux you don't have some deamon running in
> the background?
I have lots of them (Apache, ProFTPd, SSH, LDAP, Bind, X, PostgreSQL,
Sensord,
Postfix, SolidPOP3d and Samba) but most of the time, my machine is
between
98.3 and 99.6% Idle with a load of 0.00 :-)
BTW, my Windows machine also have at least one daemon running (SMB for
instance)
but the temperature drops.
--
Georges 'Melkor' Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: 31 May 2001 09:44:15 GMT
On Wed, 30 May 2001 08:50:28, John English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've just installed Red Hat 7.1 on a machine at work which has an
> Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller, to which is attached a Fujitsu M2513A
> 640M magneto-optical drive. I've also got an HP 7100 IDE CD writer,
> which I've got set up for SCSI emulation as per the X-CD-Roast docs.
> I have problems with both devices...
>
> 1) I can mount a disk in the M-O drive, and I can list the contents
> of the directory. As soon as I try to copy to or from the disk,
> I either get a segmentation fault (following a null pointer) or
> sometimes X freezes such that the mouse doesn't move and I can't
> get out.
There's a known problem with FAT formatted media on MO disks (or
anything which uses a 2K sector size) when run with a 2.4.x kernel. I
believe that one of the more recent 2.4.x-ac series kernels has a fix
for this problem included but I do not think it has made its way into
the standard tree yet. Ext2 will work OK with 2.4.x and MO disks, FAT
won't.
> 2) When I try to write a CD, it writes a few meg and then reports
> a recoverable error. It then loops endlessly reading from the
> drive (dunno why).
>
> Has anyone else got this hardware to work? Can anyone tell me what
> the problem is (or what other information I should post here about
> it)?
Since it's an IDE CD, it can't be the normal SCSI solutions of
termination, termination or termination ;-) Have you checked the
quality of the disks you are using? Does the device work with
<shudder> another operating system? Have you tried reducing the speed
at which you are trying to burn? Does it fail when run in -dummy mode
using cdrecord?
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A. GUILLEVIC)
Subject: Re: How could I make a raw copy of a disk ?
Date: 31 May 2001 02:57:41 -0700
Hello,
Before I made my last test, I swtiched disk DMA on, using the following command:
hdparam -d1 -X66 MySourceDisk
hdparam -d1 -X66 MyDestDisk
I ran dd command with 1M block size. This time, copy time dropped dramatically.
Copy was made in a bit less than 45 minutes !
I'll still made one or two tests to check.
Thanks to all for your suggestions.
A. GUILLEVIC
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling !
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:51:30 +0200
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Georges Goncalves wrote:
>
> Andr� David wrote:
>
> > > What puzzles me is that all modern OSes (WinNT/2K, Linux and others) are
> > > ALREADY meant to use the CPU HLT command when they're Idle, but, the
> > > temperature remains constant (does not drop) HMonitor claims using the
> > > HLT command and the temperature really drops.
> > >
> > > Who's right, who's wrong ?
> > >
> >
> > Are you really sure that in Linux you don't have some deamon running in
> > the background?
>
> I have lots of them (Apache, ProFTPd, SSH, LDAP, Bind, X, PostgreSQL,
> Sensord,
> Postfix, SolidPOP3d and Samba) but most of the time, my machine is
> between
> 98.3 and 99.6% Idle with a load of 0.00 :-)
>
> BTW, my Windows machine also have at least one daemon running (SMB for
> instance)
> but the temperature drops.
>
> --
> Georges 'Melkor' Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What kernel are you using? 2.2. or 2.4 ?
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From: Jiri Dluhos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Genius EasyPen tablet
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:50:53 GMT
Hello,
Please, don't you know how to make this thing work on Linux,
or where could I get a similar driver or some information about
how it communicates with the computer?
Have a nice day,
Jiri "BlueBear" Dluhos
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It is really quite easy to imagine a square yard of multidimensional
space, provided that you have seven brains.
Prof. Abdullah Nightingale
(Walter Moers: 13 1/2 lives of Captain Bluebear)
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Jiri "BlueBear" Dluhos
Software Developer, HUMUSOFT s.r.o. (http://www.humusoft.com)
dluhos at humusoft dot com (office)
dluhosj at centrum dot cz (home)
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From: Georges Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling !
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 12:55:40 +0200
Andr� David wrote:
> > > Are you really sure that in Linux you don't have some deamon running in
> > > the background?
> >
> > I have lots of them (Apache, ProFTPd, SSH, LDAP, Bind, X, PostgreSQL,
> > Sensord,
> > Postfix, SolidPOP3d and Samba) but most of the time, my machine is
> > between
> > 98.3 and 99.6% Idle with a load of 0.00 :-)
> >
> > BTW, my Windows machine also have at least one daemon running (SMB for
> > instance)
> > but the temperature drops.
>
> What kernel are you using? 2.2. or 2.4 ?
Sorry, forgot to mention :) 2.4.5
--
Georges 'Melkor' Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Eric DESHAYES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI problems
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 09:30:05 +0200
for writing cd, i have been told that you need the kernel 2.4.5(maybe
2.4.4).
otherwise, you have the pb you described
John English wrote:
> I've just installed Red Hat 7.1 on a machine at work which has an
> Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller, to which is attached a Fujitsu M2513A
> 640M magneto-optical drive. I've also got an HP 7100 IDE CD writer,
> which I've got set up for SCSI emulation as per the X-CD-Roast docs.
> I have problems with both devices...
>
> 1) I can mount a disk in the M-O drive, and I can list the contents
> of the directory. As soon as I try to copy to or from the disk,
> I either get a segmentation fault (following a null pointer) or
> sometimes X freezes such that the mouse doesn't move and I can't
> get out.
>
> 2) When I try to write a CD, it writes a few meg and then reports
> a recoverable error. It then loops endlessly reading from the
> drive (dunno why).
>
> Has anyone else got this hardware to work? Can anyone tell me what
> the problem is (or what other information I should post here about
> it)?
>
> TIA,
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> John English | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je
> Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS **
> University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
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Subject: memMXtest 2.0 serial port gotcha :)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frantisek Rysanek)
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 11:12:07 GMT
[posted to comp.os.linux.hardware and mailed]
Dear everyone,
I had a problem starting memMXtest 2.0 on my Compaq Armada
laptop. Took me a day to find out that the culprit
was the default serial port setting in src/defines.h
- the Armada thing IMO does have COM2 inside,
allocated to a PCMCIA modem. For some reason though,
memMXtest doesn't like it. With this default setting,
it would always lock up on startup, after printing the
initial "memMXtest 2.0" banner.
Once I decided to check out the serial console facility,
just in case there was something wrong with the VGA
compatibility of my ATI video, the whole thing started
to work - I had to recompile with COM1 set for the console
port (COM1 is the external port of the Armada thing).
Just a side note, on my RH6.2 I had to solve some
compile-time undefined references to __inbc(), that
were supposed to be included from asm/io.h.
The "gcc -O2" trick didn't work, so I just rewrote
mtest.c to read inb() instead of __inbc() at the
two occurrences. I hope the explicit (not inlined)
version of the function does not slow things down too
much, to the extent that it would make the tests
toothless.
And a final hail to the author: thanks for coding
this excellent piece of software :)
Frank Rysanek
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:23:45 +1000
From: faeychyld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux, CPU HLT instruction et software cooling !
Georges Goncalves wrote:
>
> Hi people,
>
> I have a technical question on these topics...
>
> Hardware : AMD Duron 700 @ 950 on Abit KT7, OS Win2K SP2
> AMD Duron 700 @ 900 on Abit KT7, OS GNU/Linux (Debian SID)
>
> When the machines are doing NOTHING (Idle) the working temperature is an
> average of 55�. On Win2K, I use the HMonitor tool to get temperatures.
> It features a "CPU Low Power Mode" option to check (doc says it uses
> the HLT command of the CPU to reduce power consumption hence the
> temperature drop). It works because a couple of minutes later, the
> temperature drops to 39-40�... (a reboot and the BIOS confirms
> this temperature). I use LMSensors on Linux to get the temperatures and
> it also works at an average temperature of 55� but the temperature
> never drops.
>
> What puzzles me is that all modern OSes (WinNT/2K, Linux and others) are
> ALREADY meant to use the CPU HLT command when they're Idle, but, the
> temperature remains constant (does not drop) HMonitor claims using the
> HLT command and the temperature really drops.
>
> Who's right, who's wrong ?
>
> Anyone knows a similar tool on Linux ?
>
> PS: I've recompiled the kernel with APM support "Make Idle CPU calls" or
> some
> to try the feature but the temperature variation was about a quarter of
> a degree.
>
> --
> Georges 'Melkor' Goncalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just an observation here, Linux uses sys logging and cron
to perform various housekeeping tasks constantly.
I am not sure if the cpu would be halted and started each time these
functions were accessed. Windows approach is quite different,it will
sit idle for hours with the drive(s) shut down, so why not the CPU?.
--
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Regards F
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