Linux-Hardware Digest #872, Volume #14 Wed, 6 Jun 01 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
alpha ("Oliver Maller")
Re: VIA KT133 686B Chipset (Kenneth Rørvik)
Pb with a Mac on a Netatalk / Cups printer (Sebastien 'Tito' Cazajous)
Parallel Port under Linux
Re: alpha (Kerstin Hoef-Emden)
Re: Opengl On linux (Kenneth Rørvik)
Troubles with snapscan USB scanner (Federico Ulivi)
Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug. (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!! (M. Buchenrieder)
Pb with RAID Mylex DAC960P ("Tom")
Support for COM1 Platinum PCMCIA card ? ("Tom Kristen sin news konto")
Re: Intel Pro DSL (Christopher)
Problems with winlinux 2000... ("Digital")
Diamond Fire GL 1 doesn't work (Jan Koehnlein)
Re: AMD K6-2 and Linux and Java (James Omura)
Monitor "blues" (Jan Henkins)
Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address? ("Oleg")
serial ports (Marko P. Milosavljevic)
PC Video Cards PCI - Which are better? (jenderka)
Re: System clock stops with APM suspend (Binoj Ramesh)
Re: System clock stops with APM suspend (Binoj Ramesh)
Re: serial ports ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: "Oliver Maller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alpha
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 07:18:10 GMT
hy all!
i want to install redhat 7 on a alpha pc 164lx i have chacked the hardwar
compatiplityand configured milo and i can try to boot the kernel but after
the part for scsi controller and devices kernel stops with message:
uniform cdrom driver revision 3.11
kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d43644
kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d43650
sym53c875-0-<0,*>:wide scsi(16bit) enabled
sym53c875-0-<0,*>: fast20 wide scsi 40.0 mb/s (50ns, offset)
scsi device sda : hdwr sector 512 bytes sectors = 8887200[4339 mb] [4.3gb]
partition check :
sda:sda1
major devicees are :fd(0002)sd(0008)sr(000B)sd(0041)
VFS: Disk change detected on device 11/0
kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d47908
kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d47910
max size 336348 log zone size 2048
first datazone : 28 root inode nummber 57344
MILO: faild to load kernel
pleas send me some solutions for this problem
best regards
oliver
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Subject: Re: VIA KT133 686B Chipset
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik)
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 07:44:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albert) wrote in
<9fjirs$p29$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Kenneth Rørvik wrote:
>
>> The kernel is telling you that UDMA modes 3-5 are disabled (to avoid
>> filesystem corruption). I think a workaround was implemented in 2.4.3
>> or 2.4.4. I'd recommend upgrading the kernel to 2.4.5.
>>
>
>OK. But should I compile the new kernel 2.4.5 with setting ATA(2)
>section??
Not quite sure what you mean - there are a lot of options regarding IDE/ATA
support - you should say yes to the DMA-related ones, plus support for your
chipset (VIA 82cXXXX).
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From: Sebastien 'Tito' Cazajous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pb with a Mac on a Netatalk / Cups printer
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:09:35 GMT
Hi,
I have a linux server running an MDK 7.2, with cups-1.1.6-10.1mdk,
the printer is an Epson 880 USB. The printer is shared in one side
for the Win boxes (with samba), i print directly raw format from
the epson driver to cups by smb. But the printer is shared by
netatalk for the Mac's too. For this i print PS.
The problem is sometimes the job spool on the Mac and go in an
aborted status on serveur side without any explanation restarting
the
mac or changing the document to print solve the problem.
Is someone have this trouble is it the Mac is it Cups ?
Help please
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parallel Port under Linux
Date: 5 Jun 2001 17:27:37 GMT
Hi,
I am interfacing an external device to PC using Parallel port.
The device just dump data to the port without any control code.
I try to use inb() and outb() to access the EPP mode port.
I found that the data are all 0xFF and the Status Register
always return 0x81 or 0xC1 (after masked by 0xC1 for EPP mode
only). The hardware used to work for another machine. After
monitoring pin 14 (Data Strobe, active low), I found it's always
high (inactive). Could anyone help me on this? I am using the
ASUS CUSL2-C mainboard and runing Mk7.2 with kernel 2.2.x.
the source code looks like:
iopl(3); // return > 0, i.e. ok
outb(0x37A, 0xE4); // reset
printf("%0X\n", inb(0x379) & 0xC1); // print status
for (i=0; i<20; i++)
buf[i] = inb(0x37C); // read data
Thanks in advance
---- Brittle
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From: Kerstin Hoef-Emden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alpha
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:02:12 +0000 (UTC)
Hi,
Oliver Maller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i want to install redhat 7 on a alpha pc 164lx i have chacked the hardwar
I always heard that RH 7.0 is troublesome. Perhaps you try to change to RH
7.1 or give SuSE or Debian a chance instead. I've got an AlphaPC 164LX and I
reassure you that GNU/Linux should work on this kind of machine (a very
stable and satisfying Debian 2.2, kernel 2.2.19).
> uniform cdrom driver revision 3.11
> kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d43644
> kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d43650
I am no Guru, but as far as I understood correctly, "unaligned kernel traps"
should not hurt the system, but slow it down. It seems to have something to
do with machine code which cannot be processed by the Alpha processor and
being caught and processed instead by the kernel (be aware this is an
amateur's point of view).
> sym53c875-0-<0,*>:wide scsi(16bit) enabled
> sym53c875-0-<0,*>: fast20 wide scsi 40.0 mb/s (50ns, offset)
> scsi device sda : hdwr sector 512 bytes sectors = 8887200[4339 mb] [4.3gb]
BTW: Binaries for 64-Bit RISC processors are usually larger than those for
Intel architecture. 4.3 GB are pretty enough to install a GNU/Linux
distribution, but an extra CD-burner or a scanner may increase your interest
in additional disk space.
> VFS: Disk change detected on device 11/0
> kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d47908
> kernel unaligned trap at fffffc0000d47910
> max size 336348 log zone size 2048
> first datazone : 28 root inode nummber 57344
> MILO: faild to load kernel
I am not sure what the problem is. I would first try another RH version or
another distribution, instead of wasting a lot of energy with a problematic
distribution version. I may do wrong to RH 7.0, but if a distri is known to
cause troubles on i386, it is usually even more troublesome as Alpha
version, because the 64-Bit addressing stuff and other CPU specific things
add on top.
Regards,
Kerstin
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Subject: Re: Opengl On linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik)
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:16:24 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote in <3b1d914e$0$88180
$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>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.
I'm not, but the original poster might be :) Other than that, you are
entirely correct.
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Kenneth Rørvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Federico Ulivi)
Subject: Troubles with snapscan USB scanner
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:48:57 +0000 (UTC)
Hi everyone,
I'm in a little trouble with my SNAPSCAN 1212U scanner.
It used to work with my old SuSE 6.4 system, but now,
after I moved to Debian linux (or GNU/Linux for purists),
scanimage (SANE's tool for scanning from command line)
is not working anymore. It seems like it can't open
the scanner device or something like that. I did
everything to setup paths (LD_CONFIG_PATH to /usr/lib/sane
& SANE_CONFIG_DIR to /etc/sane.d), configurations
(dll.conf and snapscan.conf) and devices (/dev/usbscanner
soft linked to /dev/usbscanner0 (major 184 and minor 48)).
I suspect that sane-1.0.4 is not compatible with
2.2.19 kernel but I'm not sure about this.
Here is my current configuration:
Agfa Snapscan 1212U (version 2)
Stock 2.2.19 Kernel (with usb-uhci & scanner modules)
Debian 2.2r2 system
sane-backends-1.0.4 with snapscan-20010411 patch applied
Note that I never had to upload new firmware to scanner
to have it work under SuSE. I checked by installing
Windoze software (scanwise) that the firmware file is
not needed (it's not even copied on hard disk).
I will appreciate very much any kind of help.
Thanks in advance,
Federico Ulivi
Milan - Italy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Plz tell me this is not a hardware bug.
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:20:52 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder) writes:
[...]
>Check your distribution's website for possible updates,
>or simply stay with the console mode, that's more useful anyways.
[...]
Thinking about it, it might as well be a memory leak, of course.
Does your Linux system detect all the available RAM and activate
the swapspace?
Michael
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Please help me get WIN98 back!!
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 06:22:34 GMT
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"Somphong K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>When I mentioned I could not boot from Wind98 recover diskette,
>I meant the PC read the floppy for a few seconds, then turn to
>read the C drive (/dev/hda) over and over.
Invalid partition table and/or invalid master boot record.
[...]
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3736 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 * 1 2040 16386268+ b Win95 FAT32
[...]
That should be ID 0C, AFAIK. You might want to give it a try.
In case that doesn't cure it:
The only way out is to overwrite the bootsector of /dev/hda
by using
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
and recreating both the partition table with the values as shown
above, and a proper master boot record (e.g., by using fdisk.exe
with the /mbr option).
WARNING: This will delete the partition table.
If you want to be on the safe side, take out that HD from the system
prior to the aforementioned actions, add it to a working machine
as secondary HD, then backup your
data (the drive should be accessible as long as there is a valid
partition table on it).
Michael
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pb with RAID Mylex DAC960P
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 12:03:35 +0200
Reply-To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I ve got problems wih he installation of the RedHat 7.0 on a IBM Server 704
with a Raid controller Mylex DAC960P. The installation abort when it doesn't
find the disk. If someone can help me !!! Thanks a lot
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From: "Tom Kristen sin news konto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support for COM1 Platinum PCMCIA card ?
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:18:24 +0200
Does anyone use PCMCIA card COM1 Platinum MC233 (Ethernet, ISDN og GSM)
under Linux (I'm specially interested in the ethernet part ) ?
Eventually can anyone give me some recommendation in how to configure this
card in a proper way ?
Some background information about my system;
-Compaq Armada 1750
-RedHat 7.0 (kernel-pcmcia-cs-2.2.16-22)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher)
Subject: Re: Intel Pro DSL
Date: 6 Jun 2001 07:43:12 -0400
In article <p2iT6.1705$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wywh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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?
>
>
the easiest (but not the least expensive) way to do this is to get a
DLS/cable modem router with DHCP (most routers have this). The router
takes your DSL connection and assigns new IP addreses to your other
computers, automatically. the less expensive ones go for arounnd
$75-$99 and you need a hub to distribute the cables. the more expensive
ones generally go for ~$139 and have a hub built into them.
Chris
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From: "Digital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with winlinux 2000...
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:03:47 +0300
Hello all.
I've just installed winlinux 2000 and I'm having problems with my graphics
card. I have a MSI 8815 GeForce 2 GTS. I've completed the install
successfully, but I can't find my card at the list in the configuration
window. Linux starts only if I select "Standard SVGA" at the list. Even
then, when I start Linux the prompt (Ctrl+Alt+F6) is working properly, but
at the KDE environment what I see on the screen is just the center of the
normal screen, zoomed, some icons, the taskbar and nothing else!
Does anyone know what I should do to fix this problem???
Thank you very much!
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From: Jan Koehnlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Diamond Fire GL 1 doesn't work
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:33:37 +0200
Hi there,
did anybody ever get a Diamond Fire GL1 card working under Linux. There
are drivers at www.firegl.com, but they do not work on my system (no
textures, X crashes, etc). I think, it's an OpenGL related problem. I am
using RedHat 7.0 and Xfree 4.0.2
So if there are any hints, please let me know. I do not browse this
newsgroup too often, so please CC to me directly.
Regards
Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Omura)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 and Linux and Java
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 08:49:12 -0400
Les Dunaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Folks,
> I've gotten a statement from the support group of a Java-based product
> that "we don't support AMD processors - they cause really strange bugs
> and flakey operation".
> I've been running Linux and Java on AMD K6-2 for 2+ years - since Java
> was first available for linux and I've never identified or heard of any
> such problems.
> Have I led a sheltered life? Are there know problems such as they
> mention?
Well sort of yes and no. Off hand, I'm not sure about 386
processors, but historically, I remember that there were real bugs
in AMD's earliest 486 processors. But they all got ironed out
long ago. I've used an old AMD486DX/4-100 running various versions
of DOS, Windows and Linux over the past couple of years. There
were no unusual problems.
As for Pentiums, well, I can't remember any problems with the
original AMD Pentiums. I might have missed hearing about them, but
I think they got them right on their first try. On the other hand,
when you get to MMX technology, then there was a licensing problem.
If I recall correctly, the AMD equivalent of MMX wasn't MMX. It
was similar in effect, but actually not the same instruction set.
Something like that. Cyrix had the same problem. But this shouldn't
cause any problems with a Java program. Here's why:
The MMX instruction set is a completely unnecessary add-on as
far as simply getting programs to run "on a Pentium" -- or 386 or
486 processor for that matter, is concerned. All 486 and Pentium
processors run the same instruction set as the older 386. So if a
program is written in pure "386 instruction set", then it should run
on any Cyrix or AMD Pentium or later processors. Moreover, MMX is
purely graphics oriented instructions. Most use of MMX is done at
API/driver level. Only specialty graphics programs like Photoshop
would have any reason to use them internally. And most serious
application companies in those fields will add AMD and Cyrix support
if they include MMX, because AMDs and even Cyrix have been common
enough to warrant it. The Cyrix processor is making a come-back
under a new name. Even if they don't support Cyrix and AMD
extensions, they will provide a "switch" to allow the program to
run in pure 386 instructions.
But this shouldn't have anything to do with a Java application.
The whole point of a Java application is that it is COMPLETELY
processor independent. A Java application doesn't use any processor
level instructions at all. It runs on a "Java virtual machine" -- an
interpreter program. If the company wrote a Java application, and you
are running a working Java interpreter, they can't have a problem
caused by the processor. And here again, Sun has supported Cyrix
and AMD processors completely, so any Sun JVM will run on an AMD
K6-2 -- no doubt about that at all. It's more likely they have a
problem based on:
1. A mismatch of Java versions, since Java has had real changes
over time.
2. A bug in the Java interpreter. In which you should check for
an update of your JVM.
3. A bug in their program. In which case they should fix it.
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From: Jan Henkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor "blues"
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 15:11:17 +0200
Hi all,
I've bought an old PowerMac (7500/100) for an absolute song, and I'm
running Yellow Dog Linux on this machine with wonderful results. Much
faster than MacOs in just about all things. The real question I have is
this: With this Mac I bought an excellent monitor, the Apple Multiple
Sync 17" model. This monitor has a Mac DB15 shell connector, not what
would be standard for PC VGA connections. I can find pin-outs for Mac to
VGA, but nowhere can I find info on how to connect my Linux PC to this
monitor. Has anyone here managed to get to grips with a situation like
this? I could find *some* information (dating circa 1998) regarding Macs
using single frequency monitors that won't work on PC, but AFAIK the
Multiple Sync can do multi. Any ideas or experiences would be welcome.
TIA!
Jan Henkins
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From: "Oleg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:27:03 -0400
How much does your computer show during the memory test on startup? If it
shows only 64M, it might be that your motherboard is too old to recognise
higher density RAM that you used to add new 64M.
"Rajesh Radhakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a 586 processor and motherboard. I previously had 32MB and
> recently added another 64MB RAM but my machine only sees 64MB. I'm
> pretty sure the memory cards are inserted properly.
>
> Could it be my processor can only address 64MB?
>
> Thanks
> Rajesh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marko P. Milosavljevic)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: serial ports
Date: 6 Jun 2001 06:34:41 -0700
hi,
I'm trying to install my ISA USRobotics modem under SuSE 7.0
unsuccesfully. What bothers me now is the fact that for every
setserial query on any of four serial ports i get the reply;
no such device
I saw some outputs from other systems and they were all like;
machine # setserial /dev/ttyS0
/dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
Is the serial port supposed to respond with these informations even if
there is no device connected to it?
thanks,
Marko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jenderka)
Subject: PC Video Cards PCI - Which are better?
Date: 6 Jun 2001 06:47:30 -0700
I am searching for PC Video Cards PCI for Linux and Windows 98.
I have the monitor ADI E66 19". I need 800x600 - 100 Hz.
Thanks. Nice day.
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From: Binoj Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System clock stops with APM suspend
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 09:58:45 -0400
"date" gave the correct time --- Wed Jun 6 09:49:02 EDT 2001
"date -u" was 4 hrs ahead --- Wed Jun 6 13:49:05 UTC 2001
Should the "date -u" be showing the time in GMT. The system loses 4 hrs
while booting
Thanks
Binoj
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> 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?
>
> --
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> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best
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> -----------------------------/ to read. --Groucho Marx
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From: Binoj Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System clock stops with APM suspend
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 10:03:02 -0400
"date" gave the correct time --- Wed Jun 6 09:49:02 EDT 2001
"date -u" was 4 hrs ahead --- Wed Jun 6 13:49:05 UTC 2001
Should the "date -u" be showing the time in GMT. The system loses 4 hrs
while booting
Thanks
Binoj
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> 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: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: serial ports
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 15:49:36 +0200
In comp.os.linux.help Marko P. Milosavljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> machine # setserial /dev/ttyS0
> /dev/ttyS0, Line 0, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
> Is the serial port supposed to respond with these informations even if
What serial port? You talk as if there were one! A "serial port" is a
piece of hardware sticking out the back of the computer, and the
motherboard enables accesses to it via a certain irq and ioport
address, at your bidding. You can tell the kernel driver to connect to
that ioport and irq for a certain "device" (e.g. ttyS2) using
setserial.
> there is no device connected to it?
Apparently you have not told the kernel serial driver to connect to
any realistic ioport and irq. You'd presumably have to park the modem
somewhere like 0x567 and irq7, and then tell the kernel driver to go look
there for its jigs when it accesses ttyS0.
Check out the Serial HOWTO.
Peter
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