Linux-Hardware Digest #861, Volume #14 Sun, 3 Jun 01 17:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: natural microsystems corp model vbx601 (Robert Heiling)
Re: Can't get disk DMA with PIIX (mr_roget)
Re: sb16 config problems ("Greg H.")
hard drive failure - help (Dave Marotti)
Re: Bad A7V133 MB ("Steven M Black")
Re: hard drive failure - help
problems with hda ("J-Pip")
Re: usb modem/driver help (Dances With Crows)
ATI Xpert and Soundblaster under linux (lameth)
Re: Does xawtv work under XFree86 4.0.1? ("Andy Walker")
ATA100 Card (John L. Sielke)
Lpr Printer Error: No Spool Queue (Robert Parnes)
need scsi card suggestion (Anthony Ewell)
usb: visor + printer? (Christopher Cobb)
Re: problems with hda (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: Bad A7V133 MB ("Chris Croome")
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From: Robert Heiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: natural microsystems corp model vbx601
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 10:12:15 -0700
Chad Pauli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to track down some info and maybe drivers for a dialer
> card. This works with the phones and runs under the PICK environment.
>
> Made by Natural Microsystems Corp, around 1997,
> it is their Model VBX601 Rev D
>
> Any info would be appreciated.
Have you looked at their webpage?
http://www.nmss.com/NMS/nmssweb.nsf/Pages/HomePage
HTH
Bob
> Chad Pauli
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mr_roget)
Subject: Re: Can't get disk DMA with PIIX
Date: 3 Jun 2001 10:26:00 -0700
> Does your controller support dma? Judging
> from cpu 100MHz it's an old system and
> I doubt that you can have dma on old systems.
Yes, it does. The PIIX supports bus master DMA on both channels. In
fact, there are options in kernel make config (2.2.19) with specific
drivers for it (once Andre's patch is applied).
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From: "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sb16 config problems
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 17:55:46 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative ViBRA16C
> PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 7, dma 1, 5
I have this card. Try IRQ 5 instead of 7.
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Marotti)
Subject: hard drive failure - help
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:14:15 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
First off - what I'm looking for are the most likely possibilities for what is
causing the problem I'm having.
I've recently changed from one distro to another. Previously I had a 30 gig
drive paritioned with several partitions only for linux (/usr, /home, /, /boot,
etc).
When I changed distros, I reserved 5 gigs of space for windows at the end of
the drive and formatted it to windows fat32. I then booted to windows,
installed some games/apps onto it and played the games. The next time I booted
into Linux, I started getting hard drive errors. For example, if I were to
type "cd /usr/X11R6/lib", I would get an I/O Error. I also had been messing
around with my previous boot to linux with nvidia drivers which locked my
computer up hard and required a cold boot. I figured that this might have been
screwing up my HD for one reason or another so I reinstalled the distro and
again left 5 gigs for windows.
I hadn't formatted or even set the partition type to fat32 of the 5 gigs I left
for windows for a while. I continued to use the drive as basically linux only.
And it worked fine for about 2 weeks.
Yesterday I decided to install a few games on my computer but needed more space
to do so. The 5 gigs seemed like a likely candidate. I booted linux, fdisked
the drive, set the partition to Windows FAT32. I followed the man page for
fdisk about dd'ing the first portion of the drive to 0. I rebooted to windows,
formatted the drive and installed/played the games. Everything seemed to be
ok.
I sat down this morning, booted to linux and everything came up ok.
Just for fun to see if everything was ok, I did:
cd /
find 2> ~/errors.txt
errors.txt is now filled with several I/O Errors for files and directories.
While doing this, I received errors like ext2_readdir failure etc etc....
My question is: What is the most likely candidate for my problems? Is my
harddrive dying? (It's less than a year old and is *NOT* on 24/7). Is windows
not playing nicely with the rest of the partitions when I format it?
What else could be going wrong?
I'd appreciate any help I could get on the matter - this has put a serious stop
to any software development I'd been hoping to continue now and I'd like to get
back to it.
-dave
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| Dave Marotti | Looking for a Visio alternative for *nix? |
| lndshark ! speakeasy net | Kivio : http://thekompany.com/projects/kivio |
+-----------------------------+----------------------------------------------+
| I just don't trust anything | I suppose that in a few more hours I will |
| that bleeds for 5 days and | sober up. That's such a sad thought. I think |
| doesn't die. - Mr. Garrison | I'll have a few more drinks to prepare myself|
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From: "Steven M Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: Bad A7V133 MB
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:50:01 GMT
maybe its that shiot linux program thats not compatible with your mobo
"Chris Croome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I'm having _really bad_ problems with tha A7V133 and RedHat 7.1 qnd I'm on
the
> verge of taking it back to the place I brought it from and asking for it
to be
> swapped for another board.
>
> In article <QRkP6.12300$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "cadaver"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] remove periods in user name to reply!> wrote:
>
> > The BIOS for the A7V133 is NOT 1007 IT IS 1004
>
> 1005 is out now:
>
>
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_A/VIA_Chipset/Apollo_KT133A/A7V
133/
>
> But it's not helped my situation.
>
> This is what I have (the only new items are the Soundblaster and Nvidia,
all
> the other comopnents have been in use in different boxes over the years):
>
> - ASUS A7V133 with onboard Promise IDE RAID controller and onboard sound
>
> - AMD Duron 600Mhz
>
> - Two 256Mb 100Mhz DIMM's
>
> - ELSA Nvidia Geforce 200MX 64Mb RAM AGP
>
> - IDE 1 (not the Promise IDE RAID controller)
> Primary - Maxtor 91728D8 16Gb UDMA 33 (AFIK)
> Secondary - Quantum Fireball EX6.4A 6Gb UDMA 33 (AFIK)
>
> - IDE 2 - Primary - Creative CD2423E
>
> - Ethernet 1 Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
>
> - Ethernet 2 NetVin NV5000SC
>
> - Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000
>
> The first time I installed the RedHat X11 installer looked up when trying
to
> select the time zone. I didn't save the python error messages.
>
> A search on Google resulted in be finding someone else reporting that the
text
> mode install worked with this motherboard.
>
> The second, text-mode install went OK. However I had problems copying
large
> numbers of files onto the machine, both with SCP and NFS, each time
copying the
> files failed with errors (again I didn't save the error messages). With
SCP I
> had a error message that Google couldn't find. The net cards were in PCI
slots
> 3 and 4.
>
> I tried a third install. This seemed stable for a while however I had
terrible
> sound quality from the onboard audio (this was before I brought the
> Soundblaster card). I tried turning on and off the Soundblaster emulation,
I
> compiled alsa-project.org dirvers, it still sucked. I also had intermitent
seg
> faults and core dumps, some from doing something as trivial as a ls -la |
less.
>
> Doing some more searching on Gooogle I discovered that several of the PCI
slots
> share IRQ's with other things, like the AGP port and the promise
controller. I
> then spent a day removing and swapping PCI cards around and chqnging IRQ
> assignments in the BIOS trying to get the onboard sound to work properly.
I
> used mpg123 and Q3A for testing (my old vid card was a banshee... ;-). I
> discovered that in the screen section of the X config file I had to
disable AGP
> to stop Q3 locking up. Whatever combination I tried the sound was choppy.
The
> next day I brought the Soundblaster.
>
> I was still getting quite a few seg faults and NFS problems so I decided
to do
> a new install with the new soundcard. This time the install would not
complete.
> More searching on Google. I discovered the latest BIOS which came out a
few
> days ago. I installed it and restored the bios defaults.
>
> The RedHat 7.1 installer was still failing. I put the hard disk in another
box
> and installed on that. Kudzu worked perfectly, it detected all the PCI
cards
> when I put the HD back in the A7V133. However I'm still getting seg
faults.
>
> Anyone have andy suggestions to save me from abandoning this board?
>
> Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: hard drive failure - help
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:54:56 GMT
On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 18:14:15 -0000, Dave Marotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>errors.txt is now filled with several I/O Errors for files and directories.
>While doing this, I received errors like ext2_readdir failure etc etc....
>
>My question is: What is the most likely candidate for my problems? Is my
>harddrive dying? (It's less than a year old and is *NOT* on 24/7). Is windows
>not playing nicely with the rest of the partitions when I format it?
I wouldn't put it past MS to randomly corrupt any partitions that aren't
recognized.
I certainly noticed a huge increase in reliability for my os/2 system when I
quit dual booting to windoze.
If you have to run windoze, I'd suggest using a separate PC, or a vmware
virtual box.
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Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 02:44:22 +0800
From: "J-Pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problems with hda
my /var/log/messages has got those lines all over the place:
hda: dma_intr: status = 0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
hda: dma_intr: status = 0x84 {DriveStatusError BadCRC}
apparently in pairs ordered as above.
Could someone tell me what is going on? Is my hard disk damaged ?
Thanks,
J-Philippe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: usb modem/driver help
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Jun 2001 19:28:18 GMT
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:52:18 +0800, Zappp staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I've got an acer USB modem, i'm hoping someone can and will help me get
>it working in Mandrake Linux 8.
>When i load linux, it says something about usb failing, check io, irq
>details in file. im a complete newbie to linux, i hope someone can
>tell me how to change the details i need to/point me to a good webpage.
There's a web page at http://linux-usb.org/ , a bunch of documentation in
file:/usr/share/doc/ , another web page at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/ ,
a set of guides at http://linuxnewbie.org/ , etcetera.
What is the exact text of the USB error messages you are receiving?
"something about usb failing" is not nearly enough information. You
will find that people on NGs and mailing lists can and will help a lot
more if you give complete information. What is the output of "lsmod"?
What is the output of "dmesg | grep -i usb"? Do you have an OHCI or
UHCI USB controller? What is the output of "uname -a"?
If the message is "IRQ not found for USB device XXX, enable it?" then
you need to go into the BIOS Setup on your machine and set "Enable IRQ
for USB" to "YES". Also set "Plug-and-Pray OS" to "NO" while you're at
it.
Also, this might be useless as some USB modems are not Real Modems but
LoseModems. The linux-usb site mentioned above can help you determine
whether the modem is Real or not. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
http://www.brainbench.com / friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark
=============================/ to read. ==Groucho Marx
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From: lameth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Xpert and Soundblaster under linux
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 15:28:40 -0400
Hello and thank you for taking the time to read this.
I have an old IBM Aptiva M71 with a NEC XV15 monitor that I am going to
upgrade for use with linux, preferably the Debian Distribution. This means
maxing out the RAM to 128 and getting rid of the mwave sound/modem card and
installing a new video card.
The cards I'm considering to replace the mwave are the ATI Xpert 128 pci
card for video and the Soundblaster AWE64 ISA card for sound(or any
reasonably priced sb card). I've read the documentation for the cards
currently supported by the latest release of Debian, both cards are
supported. What I am looking for is a person who actually has either of
these cards in their system or has experience installing them under linux.
I would like to find out if they are happy with how the cards performed
with linux, if the cards were a pain in the butt to get to work properly,
that sort of thing.
The functions this PC will be performing when it is up and running will be
to play games (the ones included with linux) and web browsing. I know,
light weight and trivial jobs for a linux box but I need something that
won't crash every five minutes and that kids can't accidentally delete an
important system file and make the computer unusable.
P.S.
Price of the cards is a major issue, although I'm sure their are cards out
there that give better performance and work better under linux. Also, the
aptiva does have both ISA and PCI expansion slots. I know PCI cards have
better performance but which of the two tend to work better under linux?
Thanks in advance for any advice
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From: "Andy Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does xawtv work under XFree86 4.0.1?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 20:50:04 -0000
pete wrote in message ...
Hello Andy,
I've jts been through the runaround with getting my TV card to work under a
RH7.1 distro - XFree86 4.0.3 and (updated) kernel 2.4.4.
Here is the guts of the post I made about what I did to get xawtv working.
--
1. added 'Load "v4l"' to the Module section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
2. bttv options are card=10 tuner=1 pll=1 (though lots of cards work okay
it seems, and the pll=1 option specifies a PAL local oscillator frequency,
relvant for Australian TV standards)
So, the relevant part of my modules.conf file looks like
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=10 tuner=1 pll=1
HOWEVER, I can only get xawtv to work, which is fine, but I cannot get
kwintv to work. I still get the smearing I described before. It may have
something to do with the way /dev/video has been changed under the 2.4.x
kenels (at least in the RH distro).
--
Perhaps the first point is relavant to your problem?
Good luck.
peter
> I've just loaded XFree86 4.0.1 to my Mandrake7.2 box and cannot now get my
> Pinnacle PCTV card to work. It worked fine under my old X3 setup but now I
> cannot get a signal. I've checked the modules bttv, i2c and i2c-core are
> loaded and no problems there as far as I can tell but when I run the
> tuning wizard on kwintv it comes up with nothing as channels found. I've
> also tried xawtv and the same problem there so I think it must be X that
> is causing the problem as everything seems to be installed ok. I also have
> the new NVidia drivers loaded but I can't see that being the problem.
> Has anyone got it to work under X4.0.1 and how did you do it? Any help
> would be most appreciated.
> Thanks
>
>
Thanks for the help, I'll give it another go when I get the time.
Looks like the kwintv wizard needs to learn a bit more magic!
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From: John L. Sielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: ATA100 Card
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 16:03:09 -0400
OK, I decided I needed a bigger HSD, so I got a Quantum 40GB drive. My old PII
300Mhz had an onboard IDE interface, which wouldn't work with the new drive, so
I go aSIIG UltraATA100 PCI card. Everything works in Windows, but Linux doesn't
see the card or drive. I have been running Linux 6.2, (kernel 2.2.5) but tried
installing RH 7.0 with the new HD, but it still didn't see it. Any suggestions
please?
John
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From: Robert Parnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Lpr Printer Error: No Spool Queue
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 16:22:38 -0400
Using printtool and setting up a postscript printer, I get the following
error
message when running a test:
Status Information:
sending job 'bp@sam+962' to lp0@localhost
connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
connected to 'localhost'
requesting printer lp0@localhost
job 'bp@sam+962' transfer to lp0@localhost failed
error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL'
sending str '^Blp0' to lp0@localhost
error msg: 'lp0: no spool queue'
Printtool set up /etc/printcap as follows:
lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter:
I verified that lpd is running and that the spool directory and filter
exist. Running
lpq states, "Queue: no printable jobs in queue." I also tried to run a
print job,
lpr -Plp0 <test file>
and received the same error message. In addition, I ran checkpc -fpV. It
didn't
report any problems.
Thanks for any help.
--
Bob Parnes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 13:39:52 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: need scsi card suggestion
Hi,
Anyone have a favorite SCSI-U2 (80 MB/s) card that
will get along with:
Red Hat 7.1 (new kernel dislikes old SCSI card bios'es)
Megaraid Express 500
dual PIII-600 processors
MSI MS-6120 motherboard (BX chipset)?
I have tried the Advansys 3940u2w, but it will only
work with RH7.1's single processor kernel (linux.up) and
times out on the dual kernel. (I have upgraded the bios
on the 3940u2w to v3.2w with no effect. Also, be aware
if you are downloading the 3940u2w's v3.2w bios from connectcom's
web site, it is actually v3.2r -- tech support will eMail you
the correct one.)
Did Adaptec and the Linux community ever make up with
each other? (Are their drivers finally reliable?)
Many thanks,
--Tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I Fish. Therefore, I am.
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From: Christopher Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: usb: visor + printer?
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 20:37:50 GMT
I have a visor which works perfectly via my USB port. However I am
having problems getting a USB printer working. I have the printer on
/dev/ttyUSB0 but I get (as root):
# echo "hello" > /dev/ttyUSB0
su: /dev/ttyUSB0: No such device
The log file has this:
--- kern.log ---
Jun 3 15:47:54 cseg kernel: hub.c: port 1 connection change
Jun 3 15:47:54 cseg kernel: hub.c: port 1, portstatus 101, change 1, 12
Mb/s
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: hub.c: port 1, portstatus 103, change 0, 12
Mb/s
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1,
assigned device number 12
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: usb.c: kmalloc IF c295f2a0, numif 1
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: usb.c: new device strings: Mfr=1,
Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: usb.c: USB device number 12 default
language ID 0x409
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: Product: DeskJet 880C
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: SerialNumber: MX92I1S0TFFA
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: usbserial.c: none matched
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: printer.c: Disabling reads from problem
bidirectional printer on usblp0
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Unidirectional
printer dev 12 if 0 alt 1
Jun 3 15:47:55 cseg kernel: usb.c: usblp driver claimed interface
c295f2a0
Jun 3 15:51:13 cseg kernel: usbserial.c: serial_open
Jun 3 15:51:13 cseg kernel: usb-serial.h: serial_open - serial == NULL
--- kern.log ---
lsmod produces (among other things):
--- lsmod output ---
Module Size Used by
printer 4992 0 (unused)
visor 8800 0
usbserial 18320 0 [visor]
usb-uhci 22864 0 (unused)
usbcore 51856 0 [printer visor usbserial usb-uhci]
--- lsmod output ---
Notice that the printer module is unused.
Here are my USB devices:
crwxrwxr-- 1 root palm 188, 0 Mar 25 01:50 /dev/ttyUSB0
crwxrwxr-- 1 root palm 188, 1 Jun 3 15:43 /dev/ttyUSB1
Distribution: Debian potato (actually, Libranet)
Kernel: 2.4.2
Like I mentioned, my Visor works great, attached to /dev/ttyUSB1.
However, I can't even access /dev/ttyUSB0, even as root.
Any suggestions?
cc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: problems with hda
Date: 03 Jun 2001 21:00:12 GMT
On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 18:44:22, "J-Pip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my /var/log/messages has got those lines all over the place:
>
> hda: dma_intr: status = 0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hda: dma_intr: status = 0x84 {DriveStatusError BadCRC}
>
> apparently in pairs ordered as above.
> Could someone tell me what is going on? Is my hard disk damaged ?
Alan Cox's standard reply to anyone getting the BadCRC message is that
their cable is bad.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Chris Croome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bad A7V133 MB
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 21:08:47 GMT
In article <tFvS6.11308$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steven M
Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> maybe its that shiot linux program thats not compatible with your mobo
Rather ironically you seem to be right -- I have just got the latest
rawhide kernel (search for kernel on rpmfind.net) and it seems to be a
lot better.
At least I can do ls -la | less without getting seg faults :-)
Chris
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