Linux-Hardware Digest #871, Volume #14 Wed, 6 Jun 01 02:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: cdrecord fails with kernel 2.4.x ("Mark Tyler")
Re: MODEM PCTel HSP56 AMR on PCCHIPS M810 (Kris Stark)
Xawtv - what did I screw up? (Corey Bodzin)
Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug. (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Re: PS2 Mouse problems with Mandrake 8.0 install (Steve)
Drivers to old ISA Dlink 220pct? ("Mikael Frankenberg")
AMD on VIA -- can't shutdown (Simon Green)
Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug. (Bob Chiodini)
Re: 3D Prophet 4000 XT ("bevyn quiding")
Re: Opengl On linux (Dances With Crows)
Re: System clock stops with APM suspend (Dances With Crows)
Re: Why is my IBM DTLA hard disk so slow? (Dances With Crows)
Re: HELP Looking for this board (David Efflandt)
Intel Pro DSL ("wywh")
Re: Drivers to old ISA Dlink 220pct? (John Taylor)
Re: EPSON Colour Stylus 400 problem (John Taylor)
iBCS on SMP kernel. ("Vyacheslav Fedorov")
Re: Linux on RS6000 model 7024 (jeanseb)
Re: HOW-to program for IEEE 1394 (Markus Kossmann)
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From: "Mark Tyler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails with kernel 2.4.x
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:06:41 +0930
"Chris Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am somewhat at my wits end now, as since I've gone to 2.4 my cdrw now
> fails with scsi errors. I have an IDE Traxdata drive that I can see
> through the ide-scsi stuff, as demonstrated below:
>
< stuff snipped >
> I have tried the various versions of cdrecord (1.8, 1.9, and the latest
> beta), I've downloaded the latest version of the kernel and gone from
> 2.4.2 to 2.4.5 and its not made the blindest bit of a difference - any
> ideas now would be gratefully received.
What distribution are you using?
>
> TIA
> --
> Chris.
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From: Kris Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MODEM PCTel HSP56 AMR on PCCHIPS M810
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:51:48 -0400
Hildebrando Rosa Jr. wrote:
> A don't get this device work on mdk with kernel 2.4.3
>
> The modules available claim for unresolved symbols
>
> Someone gets this device working on kernel 2.4.x?
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> [ ]'s
Are the sources available? I can't remember for this particular modem
driver, but if they are - download and recompile the sources - which will
mean recompiling the kernel. That ought to take care of the problem. I
take it that you got the driver from an older version of linux?
Kris
--
Kris Stark -- Remove NO-SPAM from address to reply...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Corey Bodzin)
Subject: Xawtv - what did I screw up?
Date: 5 Jun 2001 16:54:19 -0700
I have been using xawtv with my Hauppage WinTV card under RH 7.1 for
quite some time now with great success. The other day I used
XConfigurator to switch from 1280x1024x24 to 1280x1024x16; when I
switched back I found that xawtv no longer worked correctly.
- In 16bpp color depth it plays all audio but just shows black for
video.
- In 24bpp color depth it does both audio and video, but the video is
outside (above and to the left) of the xawtv window, and it tends to
mess up my display.
I know my hardware is OK because kwintv runs just fine in either mode.
I have tried launching xawtv with various switches (especially -b 16)
but have had no luck.
Anybody have any guesses as to what might be going on?
Vitals:
RH 7.1, 2.4.4 kernel
Voodoo3 16MB video card
Hauppage WinTV tuner
xawtv 3.49, bttv 0.8.5
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rinaldi J. Montessi)
Subject: Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug.
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 00:11:57 GMT
M. Buchenrieder wrote:
> "Kilian A. Foth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> - stop XFree and see whether the system runs stable in console
>>> mode only
>
>>I have tried that, and it does run stable. What does that tell me?
>
> It may be a problem with the graphics card and driver used,
> or a general setup error, which is only revealed by making
> actual use of the graphics card (e.g., a shared IRQ in between
> the AGP slot and the first PCI slot). In text mode, there's no
> IRQ usage on the video card at all.
>
> Check your distribution's website for possible updates,
> or simply stay with the console mode, that's more useful anyways.
>
> Michael
If IRQ sharing is the culprit, there may be in option in BIOS to not
assign IRQ to AGP
Rinaldi
--
We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
--Linus Torvalds
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From: Steve<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PS2 Mouse problems with Mandrake 8.0 install
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 20:24:40 -0400
I finally got around this, by upgrading the kernel from 2.4.3 (shipped
with Mandrake 8.0) to 2.4.5 (latest stable kernel as of this writing).
Somewhere in between, the PS/2 mouse problem was fixed.
-- Steve
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From: "Mikael Frankenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drivers to old ISA Dlink 220pct?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 00:54:20 GMT
Anoyone knowing about a driver for this card or is NE2000 the best choice?
// Mikael
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From: Simon Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD on VIA -- can't shutdown
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:31:56 +1000
Hi all,
Something that's been slightly bugging me for a while: I have an Athlon
system on an A/Open MB (VIA chipset). Windows can shut it down OK, but
Linux seems to have great difficulties. Reboot is OK, but when you try to
halt it it also reboots after the "System has halted" message. Fortunately
my case has a hard power switch on the back so I just reach around and turn
it off, but it's a bit annoying.
I get this whether I use an ACPI or APM kernel 2.4.x (.5 right now, and
also tried the "Use real mode" option to APM). At one point I did notice
that unloading the nVidia driver module (I have a Hercules Prophet II Pro)
seemed to help: I could shutdown successfully about 80% of the time if I
unloaded the module first. However I have since installed their 1.0-1251
build (up from 0.9-769), and while this now lets me use AGP without
crashing the box, it doesn't seem to let me shut down any more!
I also find that the nVidia driver has some sort of nasty interrupt latency
problem that stops me using the serial port at anything over 38400...
possibly an interaction with a cheapo SCSI card which was my previous
suspect since my old computer serial ports went funny when I put the SCSI
card in it. However in this box I have proved by experimentation that with
nvDriver installed and in use (ie, X is running) serial port speed is
limited to 38400 or you get PPP framing errors, meaning characters are
getting lost. Without it, I can get 115200, which gets me about an extra
1kB/s throughput. Not that it matters, I'm getting ADSL on Saturday. ;-)
Has anyone else noticed this (the shutdown prob), and more importantly, did
you manage to fix it?
Cheers
Simon
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From: Bob Chiodini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug.
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 01:27:44 GMT
Try disabling the DRI module in XF86Config-4. Mine looks like this
Section "Module"
# This loads the DBE extension module.
Load "dbe"
Load "glx"
# Load "dri" <-------- This one
# This loads the miscellaneous extensions module, and disables
# initialisation of the XFree86-DGA extension within that module.
SubSection "extmod"
#Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
# This loads the Type1 and FreeType font modules
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
EndSection
With the DRI module loaded the system would hang whenever I accessed my
TV card. I do not think the DRI worked very well for the Rage chipset
in 4.0.3.
Good luck.
Bob...
Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>
>
>>"Kilian A. Foth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>
>>>M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>[...]
>>
>>
>>>>- stop XFree and see whether the system runs stable in console
>>>> mode only
>>>>
>>>I have tried that, and it does run stable. What does that tell me?
>>>
>>It may be a problem with the graphics card and driver used,
>>or a general setup error, which is only revealed by making
>>actual use of the graphics card (e.g., a shared IRQ in between
>>the AGP slot and the first PCI slot). In text mode, there's no
>>IRQ usage on the video card at all.
>>
>>Check your distribution's website for possible updates,
>>or simply stay with the console mode, that's more useful anyways.
>>
>>Michael
>>
>
> If IRQ sharing is the culprit, there may be in option in BIOS to not
> assign IRQ to AGP
>
> Rinaldi
>
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From: "bevyn quiding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: 3D Prophet 4000 XT
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 01:41:19 +0000 (UTC)
xfree86 dosen't support the kyro specifically but it does support vesa
which
should be supported by the 4000xt.
I personally would recommend against the 4000xt as it uses the older kyro I
chip and
wait for a 32mb version of the 4500 as the kyro II is significantly better.
Bevyn
Gregor Legein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<9f6703$14b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
> I plan to buy a 'Hercules 3D Prophet 4000 XT Kyro' video card.
> Does RH 7.0 support this card?
> I work on a PII 266MHz, 32 ram, dual partition 1) win 95, 2) Redhat 7.0
> I also plan to upgrade to 128 M Ram to reduce the memory problems and a
> additional HD with 20Gb (specially for RH). This should be sufficient.
>
> Any advice is welcome,
> Greetings, Greggae.
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Opengl On linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 Jun 2001 02:11:27 GMT
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 13:57:39 GMT, Kenneth Rørvik staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (187) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>requires opengl to work such as Gltron I seriously need help, when I
>>tried 4.0.3, my whole computer Crashed and would not boot in linux,so
>>I had to reformat.Please help
Reformat?! You must be very new to this. That's a Windows solution to
a Linux problem, and is almost never the best way to do things.
>You need to install nVidias own drivers to get 3D acceleration with
>Linux:
>
>http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?PAGE=linux
>
>Read the instructions carefully, and you should have no problems :)
>
>As for the crash after trying 4.0.3, did your computer actually boot,
>but stopped when trying to launch X, or did it refuse to boot *at all*?
>I am guessing it did boot, and when trying to launch X, it could not
>find a valid setup and ended up respawning X with only a few seconds
>intervals. Which, of course, is no good. If you experience further
>problems, your best bet would be to boot into another runlevel (At the
>lilo prompt type linux 3 for textmode), this will allow you to fix any
>problems with the X configuration.
What he said. nVidia's README tells you to set the runlevel to a non-X
runlevel before you try installing the nVidia kernel module/X-server.
Also, one thing they didn't mention in the README is that their kernel
module requires that the graphics card have an IRQ available. If this
isn't the case (wasn't for me--normal X doesn't need an IRQ) then the
module will load perfectly but the X-server will not work. Set "Assign
IRQ for VGA" to "Yes" in the BIOS setup screen.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: System clock stops with APM suspend
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 Jun 2001 02:11:31 GMT
On Tue, 05 Jun 2001 16:43:14 -0400, Binoj Ramesh staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Whenever I use apm -s to put the computer on suspend mode the system
>clock stops.
Yeah, that's what suspend mode does--it stops everything it can! Your
point?
(Hint: /etc/apmd/apmd_proxy , or /usr/sbin/apmd_proxy in SuSE. This is
a shell script that should have a bunch of comments in it. Read the
comments, and do what they suggest.)
>Also whenever I reboot the system clock seems to be slowed by 4 hrs. I
>have set the timezone etc correctly and cannot figure out why this is
>happening .
Do the outputs from "date", "date -u", and "hwclock --show" differ, and
which one of those (if any) is the correct time?
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Why is my IBM DTLA hard disk so slow?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 Jun 2001 02:11:30 GMT
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001 19:19:03 +0100, Ian Pegel staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>> No, not with today's motherboards. They use a specific UDMA socket
>> and IDE cable with 80 wires, but just 40 (or, more precisely, 39) pins.
>> The sockets and the plugs on these cables usually are blue,
>> contrary to the standard IDE interfaces and connectors (black).
>
>So does anyone know what is a reasonable throughput rate for these
>disks?
IBM-DTLA-37045 on /dev/hdd, after hdparm -d1 -u1 -c1 -m16 -X68 gives
roughly 21.9 M/s according to hdparm. Reasonably fast. Without -d1,
the drive gives roughly 6 M/s, without -X68, roughly 12.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm,de.comp.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: HELP Looking for this board
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 02:16:45 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Howard D. Brenner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We are in need of a device that comes close to the specs below, if not
> exact. The only absolute requirments is: Sychronous and with a RS-422
> connector.
>
>
> A. Data Signals: Send Data (SD), Receive Data (RD)
> B. Data Rates: 122 bps to 5.1 Mbps
> C. Format: Digital, Serial Binary, NRZ, 50%+/- 10% duty
> cycle
> D. Interface Spec: TIA/EIA-422-B for 5.1 Mbps
> E. Timing Signals: Terminal Timing In (TT), Receive Timing Out
> (RT)
> F. Frequency: 122 Hz to 5.1 MHz
I don't know too much about this except that RS485 is similar, but can use
higher voltage and go longer distances than RS422.
You might try http:/www.bb-elec.com/ which may be able to help or steer
you somewhere. They have various serial equipment and adapters. They
also donate webspace for our car club http://www.nsscc.com/ (one of our
members works there).
--
David Efflandt (Reply-To is valid) http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/ http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/
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From: "wywh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel Pro DSL
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:04:57 -0500
Does anyone know if it would be possible to share an internet connection
between a windows and linux system, with windows be the host? I have had no
success getting my dsl working in linux, but have no problems in windows.
Would there be a way of seting up a LAN of some type with a shared internet
connection?
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers to old ISA Dlink 220pct?
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 04:21:38 GMT
Mikael Frankenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Anoyone knowing about a driver for this card or is NE2000 the best choice?
: // Mikael
If the NE2000 driver works well, I'd use it. There is the option of trying
*all* drivers to see if one recognizes your card. Go to the net drivers
under /lib/modules/kernel-version and insmod each driver one-by-one. Run
dmesg in between each insmod to see if the kernel found your card.
This way actually does work, too. :-)
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EPSON Colour Stylus 400 problem
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 04:24:51 GMT
Leo McManus, Root DSP Consultant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: The colour and black printing under my Linux is not good. I am running
: SuSE 7.1 on AMD 800.
: If I print under WindowZ there is no problems.
: The print quality looks corrupted, the black sometimes prints OK on 10%
: of the paper, not always the same place, but seems to
be missing parts
: of the print. The colour looks as though it is set to a very low
: resolution.
: Where can I find the settings for the resolution. I have setup the
: driver via the Yast 2 program, but with the same results as using the
: yast 1.
: Any form of help appreciated.
: Thanks
: Leo
The best source of information is on http://www.linuxprinting.org
They also have their own NNTP news server for each printer manufacturer.
--
John Taylor
Reply to:
john
at
giffords dot net
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From: "Vyacheslav Fedorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: iBCS on SMP kernel.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:01:49 +0300
Hi,All!
Somebody will use the module iBCS on SMP kernel ?
I try execute foxpro for SCO and one of processor is
locked in any instant. Another continues to
operate.
Whether there are any ideas ?
Hardware: Compaq Proliant 1600R, P-III 500,
I thank for notice.
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From: jeanseb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on RS6000 model 7024
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 07:16:49 +0200
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if it is an MCA BUS there is no way to install linux coz MCA not
supported yet with ppc port of linux!
Else u can try linuxppc
"Søren Berg Glasius" wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just aquired an older RS6000 model 7024. Now I want Linux installed on
> it. Any recomendations on what distribution to choose?
> I'm trying to boot the system on the current AIX, and it seems to work, but
> since the system previously ran on TokenRing, I can not hook it to my own
> network. How can I monitor the boot process? On the serial port yes, but
> what's the port setup? I've tried to add a graphics adapter, but to no
> avail - it's a standard ET6000 - does it have to be supplied by IBM? Any
> hints greatly appreciated! Please CC your response to me, since I don't get
> around the newsgroups oftent.
>
> Regards,
>
> Søren Ber Glasius
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW-to program for IEEE 1394
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 07:03:28 +0200
Andrey Vlassov wrote:
>
> Hi Penguins,
>
> I am looking for documentation how to program IEEE 1394. In particular I am
>interested in protocol for Firewire harddrives or something like ZIP or Jazz drives.
>I need information about protocol
You know the linux IEEE 1394 subsystem developed at
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/ and included in kernel 2.4 ?
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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