Linux-Setup Digest #155, Volume #20 Sun, 3 Dec 00 19:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: RH7 and mysql ?? (Adam Weeks)
Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is best?
("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine. (Nick Ruisi)
Problem recompiling kernel (Robert Morelli)
won't do linux on BE6 (timo raty)
Re: won't do linux on BE6 (timo raty)
Building RPM packages: How to find which files to install from source? (Frederic
Faure)
Re: Help! I've lost my OS! (Nikolai Hristov)
Re: Old 2x SB Cdrom drv
Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine. ("Alan Burns")
sound blaster pci128 problems - help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems with Sis 530 and Xfree 4.0.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Booting with 576KB conventional RAM ...or less. ("John D. Peedle")
Re: kvm switch (Reuben Hustler)
Re: sound blaster pci128 problems - help! ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: control/alt/F2-F6 no longer work since installing helix gnome (Norman Levin)
testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Old School (Robert)
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From: Adam Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7 and mysql ??
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 18:26:34 GMT
Bit Twister wrote:
> That 111 socket number looks kinda funny.
> You might check the socket/name file. From my Mandrake distro:
>
> grep 111 /etc/services
> sunrpc 111/tcp portmapper # RPC 4.0 portmapper TCP
> sunrpc 111/udp portmapper # RPC 4.0 portmapper UDP
>
> grep sql /etc/services
> mysql 3306/tcp # MySQL
> mysql 3306/udp # MySQL
>
> >> Adam Weeks schrieb:
> >> > ./mysqladmin: connect to server at 'localhost' failed
> >> > error: 'Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket
> >> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql
> >> > .sock' (111)'
> >> > Check that mysqld is running and that the socket:
> >> > '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' ex
> >> > ists!
> >> >
> >
> >Let's just say, for the sake of argument, that there was the remote
> >possibility that it didn't exist, then what, and how to create it??
> >
>
> --
> The warranty and liability expired as you read this message.
> If the above breaks your system, it's yours and you keep both pieces.
> Practice safe computing. Backup the file before you change it.
> Do a, man command_here or cat command_here, before using it.
I got the exact same feedback doing the same greps -- same numbers and
all..
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: amd k6 i586-compatible? (want to install Mandrake) - or which Linux is
best?
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 19:16:11 +0100
Oliver D. Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Oliver D. Bedford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > Some rpm-i586-packages I downloaded from the contrib-branch
>> > for RedHat did not work with my K6. Someone else pointed
>> > out this shouldn't be the case; well, I suspect this could
>> > be the difference between theory and practise.
>>
>> No, it's impossible. The K6 supports all P5 instructions. Ascribe your
>> failures to other causes.
> This was my point of view, until I tried to run i586-programs
> (the i386-versions always worked).
> From contrib/libc6 (ftp.uni-bayreuth mirror of ftp.redhat.com):
> dr-xrwxr-x 2 0 8192 Sep 19 20:01 i586
> dr-xrwxr-x 2 0 16384 Oct 11 20:01 i686
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 4 Jul 12 13:02 k6 -> i686
A 686 supports all 586 instructions. Mind you, since a 686 does
optimization on the fly, one should compile for 386 when compiling for
686, so as to let it do its thing.
You are likely seeing over-optimization errors in a flaky compiler when
trying to "optimize" for i586. Try again, this time compiling with O2
instead of O6!
Peter
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From: Nick Ruisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine.
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 13:24:11 -0500
MAKE SURE YOU MAKE A LINUX BOOT DISK BEFORE INSTALLING WIN98!
Win 98 will overwrite your MBR and eliminate your LILO prompt. Just boot
back into linux once you set up Win 98 and run /sbin/lilo
Also, make sure win98 doesnt format/fdisk your ext2 partition!
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From: Robert Morelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem recompiling kernel
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 12:14:50 -0700
After rebuilding the kernel (version 2.2.14-5.0 for Red Hat 6.2) and recofiguring lilo,
I got an unbootable system, which hangs with a kernel panic that the root fs can't
be mounted. The system is SCSI based, with an Adaptec 2940W controller and a
Quantum Fireball 4.3 MB hard drive. In xconfig, I set everything pertaining to
SCSI to 'm', except the following parameters
SCSI support: y
SCSI disk support: y
Enable vendor-spcific extensions (for SCSI CDROM): n
Verbose SCSI error reporting: y
SCSI logging facility: y
Enable tagged Command Queueing (TCQ) by default: n
Maximum number of TCQ commands per device: 8
Collect statistics to reprot in /proc: n
Delay in seconds after SCSI bus reset: 5
IBM ServeRAID support: n
AdvanSys SCSI support: n
Omit FlashPoint support: n
enable tagged command queuing: n
enable elevator sorting: n
maximum number of queued commands: 16
EATA-DMA [Obsolete] (DTP, ...) support: n
EATA-PIO (old DPT PM21001, PM2012A) support: n
Future Domain 16xx SCSI/AHA-2920A support: n
Enable NCR53c400 extensions: n
ppa/imm option - Use slow (but safe) EPP-16: n
ppa/imm option - Assume slow parport control register: n
symbios 53c416 SCSI support: n
Simple 53c710 SCSI support (Compq, NCR machines): n
always negotiate synchronous transfers: n
allow FAST-SCSI [10MHZ]: n
allow DISCONNECT: n
defaulte tagged command queue depth: 8
maximum number of queued commands: 32
synchronous transfers fequency in MHZ: 20
enable profiling: n
use normal IO: n
include support for the NCR PQS/PDS SCSI card: n
assume boards are SYMBIOS compatible: n
Qlogic FAS SCSI support: n
Qlogic ISP SCSI support: n
Qlogic ISP FC SCSI support: n
Seagate ST-02 and Future Domain TMC-Bxx SCSI support: n
Tekram DC390(T) and Am53/79C974 SCSI support: n
Trantor T128/T128F/T228 SCSI support: n
enable elevator sorting: n
maximum number of queued commands: 8
I performed the following steps:
1. I built the kernel with make bzImage
2. I copied the file /usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/vmlinux
3. I ran /usr/sbin/rdev on /boot/vmlinux, which output
Root device /dev/sda8
4. I edited /etc/lilo.conf to the following:
boot=/dev/sda8
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinux
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/sda8
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0.old
label=linuxold
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
read-only
root=/dev/sda8
5. I ran /sbin/lilo, which output the following
Added linux *
Added linuxold
6. I rebooted. The boot failed with a kernel panic where the kernel couldn't find
the root fs
The last few lines of output were:
scsi: 0 hosts
scsi: 0 detected total.
Partition check:
request_module[block-main-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:08
kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:08
Any help appreciated
Robert Morelli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: timo raty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: won't do linux on BE6
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 22:29:34 +0200
What is causing this...
I have installed both redhat 6.2 and redhat 7.0 on the following
machine:
Abit BE6 motherboard, PentiumIII/450
64MB of memory
BIOS "LQ"
Matrox G400
external modem
I have tried disk connected to traditional IDE and UDMA66 IDE,
same things.
The system hangs mysteriously, typically when mouse is clicked
but mostly it seems random. Thing just freezes, display stays
but nothing works. Reset produces lots of disk checks and
sometimes requires reinstall.
Question is: is there incompatibilities caused by BIOS or
motherboard that would prevent RH7.0 from running?
Or
Is this typical behaviour when a swap partition contains bad
block?
Or
Bad memory?
Any similar experiences? Any suggestions?
regards,
timo
ps. please mail if possible: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: timo raty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: won't do linux on BE6
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 22:43:18 +0200
timo raty wrote:
>
> What is causing this...
>
> I have installed both redhat 6.2 and redhat 7.0 on the following
> machine:
> Abit BE6 motherboard, PentiumIII/450
> 64MB of memory
> BIOS "LQ"
> Matrox G400
> external modem
>
> I have tried disk connected to traditional IDE and UDMA66 IDE,
> same things.
I actually went on and purchased a new 20GB Maxtor and put that
on. Installed 7.0 and did a simple program that used enough
memory to put some of that on swap. Worked out nicely. The
difference was that the original disk was not connected.
Then I connected both disks, the new one as slave so that
they were as (boot with ide2=0xd800,0xd801)
/dev/hde older disk
/dev/hdf new one
The old disk has previous installation of Linux and its swap
as well. It also has Win98 but I wouldn't count on that having
worked - as good as Win98 does (no mysterious hang-ups, however).
Let my friend (the real owner of the machine, actually) work
with it for a while and BANG it freezes.
>
> The system hangs mysteriously, typically when mouse is clicked
> but mostly it seems random. Thing just freezes, display stays
> but nothing works. Reset produces lots of disk checks and
> sometimes requires reinstall.
>
> Question is: is there incompatibilities caused by BIOS or
> motherboard that would prevent RH7.0 from running?
> Or
> Is this typical behaviour when a swap partition contains bad
> block?
> Or
> Bad memory?
I did try to load new BIOS but it seemed to mess up the PCI
number or something (ide2=0xd800 no longer worked) so I but
back the old one - and linux reported only 16MB of memory.
Great, so add the mem=64M parameter as well.
It freezes. It actually froze so good that it could not
fix disks next time, e2fsck dumps core and next boot dumps
registers... go figure... I'll try next time by dropping
the old disk totally off - and keeping it that way.
Unless there is good ideas from you?
> Any similar experiences? Any suggestions?
>
> regards,
>
> timo
> ps. please mail if possible: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frederic Faure)
Subject: Building RPM packages: How to find which files to install from source?
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 21:03:48 GMT
Hi,
I started taking a look at how to build RPM packages from source
tarballs, and it works fine when installing non-binary stuff (eg.
documentation files.)
Thing is, the %files is supposed to list all the files that the
package must install. I took a look at a Makefile and sub-directories
once I compiled the binary file... but what a mess.
Is the standard way to run "make install", and watch what happens, and
then copy/paste this file list?
Thx
FF.
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From: Nikolai Hristov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,corelsupport.linux.corellinux,corelsupport.linux.install,corelsupport.linux.set_up_config,corelsupport.paradox-dos,dc.org.linux-users,ed.linux,linux.dev.newbie
Subject: Re: Help! I've lost my OS!
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 04:26:02 -0500
To help you, I will first explain the process of booting OS-es:
After the computer has done POST, it checks to see if there is a MBR
(master boot record) on ide0, hard drive 0 - this is your master hard drive
on your first ide.
It loads the MBR and the MBR (usually) loads the boot record of the
partition which is set active. The boot sector then boots the operating
system.
Linux uses LILO (linux loader) to boot itself up. Lilo is the first thing
your computer will load, because LILO (usually) will load from the MBR (you
can make it load from your installed partition, but I do not recommend it).
The OS Loader that comes with NT based OSes sits in the boot record of the
installed partition. It ALWAYS loads after the MBR.
Windows NT installs usually do not mess around with the MBR, this is why
you could load Linux after the installation of NT (NT installation didn't
remove LILO from MBR).
However, 95/98/Me installs DO mess with the MBR, they clean up the MBR and
set it to load the boot record from the partition where you installed
95/98/Me. - You practically lost your LILO, but your Linux is still
there, intact!
To solve the problem, you need to get into your Linux somehow, and from
there to run:
#lilo
This will reinstall LILO on your MBR.
There are different ways of getting into Linux. With RH you have a handly
little tool called loadlin located in the dosutils directory of the CD.
Reply (if you still have the problem, and tell me your distro, whether you
have loadlin, etc.)
Nick
--
=====================
Nikolai Hristov
Slayter Box 1194
Denison University
Granville OH 43023
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Old 2x SB Cdrom drv
Date: 3 Dec 2000 21:01:33 GMT
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 05:39:48 +0800, "John Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> I'm trying to setup my soundblaster 16 along with the 2x CR-563 CDROM
>drive. Seems that sbpcd wouldn't wanna work. Btw, I'm running a 486 with 2
>ethernet card as a gateway, no other fancy stuff inside. Any advices? Thanks
>in advance.
I seem to recall having to manually edit the sbpcd.h header
(/usr/src/linux/drivers/cdrom/sbpcd.h)
in order to fix the port address
(e.g. "#define CDROM_PORT 0x230" instead of "0x340")
and interface type
(e.g. "#define SBPRO 1" instead of "0") .
Then recompile, of course.
Hope that helps.
======================
Steve Czapor
Dept. of Math. & C.S., Laurentian University
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
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From: "Alan Burns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding Win 98 to a linux machine.
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 15:45:03 +0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Create a small boot partition in teh beginning of the drive for Linux,
> then create a partition for Windows and then create a 3rd for Linux, and
> a 4th if u want a swap partition.
Admittedly, I haven't worked with Windows much in the last few years, but
the last time I installed Windows it wanted to be on the first partition
of the first drive. If that's still the case, the above will boot Linux
but not Windows.
You'd have to put a primary partition for Windows first, and then your
/boot or / partition, being sure to keep /boot under the 1024 cylinder
limit. I think the newer versions of lilo have eliminated the 1024
cylinder limit, but not knowing the exact setup involved, I'd say it's
better safe than sorry.
Also, I would put the swap partiton as close to the front of the drive as
possible instead of at the end - on any kind of installation, Linux,
Windows, or otherwise. Disk accesses will be faster closer to the front,
and swapping will slow the system down less.
And as others have pointed out, be sure to have a boot disk because
Windows will overwrite the MBR and wipe out your lilo.
Even if Microsoft has changed something and the other way does work for a
dual-boot setup now, I think this way would cause you a lot less headaches
generally.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,creative.linux
Subject: sound blaster pci128 problems - help!
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 22:18:46 GMT
I've got a sound blaster PCI128 card that I can't seem to get working
with my RH 6.1 system. I've tried a lot of things and made some
progress, but I'm stuck. I've read in numerous places how easy it is
to get this card to work with linux, so I must be missing something.
I would really appreciate some help! Here are some details:
1. I've rebuilt my kernel a few times with ok results. This time, I
rebuilt it to compile the sound stuff as a module and to compile the
es1371 module. lspci -v showed that I have an es1371
00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 07)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1274:8001
Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
I/O ports at d000
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
2. I added this line to /etc/conf.modules
alias sound es1371
3. Recompilation went ok, and when I boot with the new kernel, I see
this in dmesg
es1371: version v0.13 time 00:26:37 Dec 3 2000
es1371: found adapter at io 0xd000 irq 12
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
es1371: codec vendor ^@^@^@ revision 0
es1371: codec features none
es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
4. However, when I now note the following two problems
- klogd is now taking 99% of my CPU. However I don't see lots of
messages being written in /proc/kmsg. I've seen some mail on this,
but nothing conclusive. BTW, my kernel version is 2.2.12-20.
- I can't play anything using mpg123. It just sits there forever.
After I control-C out, and look at /proc/kmsg, I see this
<7>es1371: dma timed out??
I tried to run sndconfig, which correctly identified the es1371, but
that also hung after it tried to play a test sound.
5. Also, I get this
[root@bluemasq robt]# ls -l /dev/sndstat
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 6 May 16 2000 /dev/sndstat
[root@bluemasq robt]# cat /dev/sndstat
cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
[root@bluemasq robt]#
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems with Sis 530 and Xfree 4.0.1
Date: 3 Dec 2000 21:24:03 GMT
Wuilbert Jaramillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi guys, I was upgraded the xfree version on my suse system version 7.0 to
> Xfree 4.0.1 and kde2. That may sound coool, but I have a problem with my
> xserver.
> First of all, there is bad artifacts there, there are this
> vertical lines (4 to be exact) and I cannot make them disapear. It really
> looks crappy because It seems that somebody draw a line with a crayon on
> the screen.
I have a motherboard with a SiS 530 built in to it and got the same
thing with X 4.0.1. I found that if I initalize the video card
with an older 3.3.5 SVGA X (using the old XF86Config file) it clears
up the problem
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA -xf86config /etc/X11/XF86Config.old
Get a slight flicker in the upper right hand corner, tried a different
monitor same thing. Still it isn't much of a problem to me.
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From: "John D. Peedle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Booting with 576KB conventional RAM ...or less.
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2000 23:12:10 -0000
I don't think you have a memory problem here - you have proved that the
system can boot and run a kernel - after all, the installation completed
successfully. Are you sure you installed the right kernel?
--
John D. Peedle
RHCE - so I'm Biased!
Registered Linux User 167460
Juan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.
>
> I've got a problem. A real one.
>
> About three years ago we bought a killer machine (by thoose days), a
> Fujitsu-ICL teamserver M754i, a quad PPro with 512MB RAM . The machine
> has been running OK until the moment we needed to upgrade the OS (that
> was UnixWare 2.1.2.) in order to install Oracle8i. The option were to
> spend lots of money and learning time with Unixware 7 or to install (
> tachannn!) Linux. We took the second option.
>
> I've been installing RedHat for several years, so I took the RedHat 7
> CD-ROMs tha I had on my table, and I have succesfully installed several
> times in dual Pentium machines, and went to install the above mentioned
> machine. Installation went fine, but it was unable to boot the OS after
> finishing. After sometime discarding possible causes of the problem, I
> disabled the SCSI BIOS and got enought memory to boot from the boot disk
> made by the installation procedure. It would have been OK (not fine, but
> OK) except for the fact that the kernell in the floppy disk was a NON
> SMP kernel.
>
> The BIOS told that the conventional memory available was 576 KB, no
> matter what options I enabled or disabled in the BIOS. There was no
> means to disable the system BIOS shadow on RAM, the only option left to
> increase the conventional memory. On the other hand, the kernell, when
> it boots, recognizes all the installed memory. I think the problem is
> with the boot loader that is unable to fit the whole kernel in memory
> due to the low ammount of conventional memory. Do you agree?
>
> From this point on I've tried several booting options :
> - Making a boot disk with the smp kernel installed in the machine.
> - Using syslinux instead of lilo.
> - Compiling lilo with LARGE_EBDA enabled and making a boot disk.
> - Using GRUB instead of lilo
> - Using loadlin from a msdos 6.22 disk instead of lilo.
> In the best cases the machine frozes after printing "OK, booting the
> kernel" in the screen.
>
> In the meantime I've got BootMagic and I'll try it on monday (if I dont
> get any better suggestion).
>
> Oh! Iforgot to tell you, I called Fujitsu support (Fujitsu Customer
> Services) and I was told that there was no way of disabling the system
> BIOS shadowing, that was a feature included in the design of the machine
> and, by the way, Linux was not a supported OS for this machine. Good
> luck and goodbye.
>
> I would appreciate any suggesions, hints or workarounds to solve or
> overcome this problem.
>
> (Crying)
> I've tried to cut my veins with a Windows98 CDROM, but it did not work
> (even for this). Please help me!
> (Serious again)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Juan.
>
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From: Reuben Hustler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kvm switch
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 23:25:09 GMT
Jim McDonald wrote:
> Luke Richards wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > Thanks for reading. I was wondering whether anyone has any problems with kvm
> > switches and linux.
> >
> > I have recently bought a Belkin kvm switch and x now does not want to
> > recognize anything. I have RH 6.2 and I use the utility Xconfigurator and it
> > just keeps coming back with an error that it don't work.
> >
> > I was wondering whether anyone had an suggestions??
> >
>
>
> Look elsewhere; I have 2 Belkin KVM switches(RH6.0/NT4, RH 6.2/NT4) and no problems
>whatsoever.
>
> --
>
> Jim McDonald
I'm using an old Belkin OmniView (F1D064) and I don;t have any problems with setup,
however when I
switch over to my other PC and then back, my mouse no longer works properly and I have
to exit X
(ctrl-alt-backspace) and restart it.
Any ideas anyone ?
Cheers,
Reuben
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,creative.linux
Subject: Re: sound blaster pci128 problems - help!
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 00:13:06 +0100
In comp.os.linux.help [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've got a sound blaster PCI128 card that I can't seem to get working
> with my RH 6.1 system. I've tried a lot of things and made some
> 1. I've rebuilt my kernel a few times with ok results. This time, I
Don't do this. There is no need, and you are very likely to make a mess.
> rebuilt it to compile the sound stuff as a module and to compile the
It was already a module, and the es1371 module (and the es1370) was
already there.
> es1371 module. lspci -v showed that I have an es1371
> 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq ES1371 (rev 07)
Well, probably.
> Subsystem: Unknown device 1274:8001
> Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12
> I/O ports at d000
> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
> 2. I added this line to /etc/conf.modules
> alias sound es1371
Fine in some senses, but not what you want to do to test. Just load the
driver and see what it says. And doesn't the es1371 take some options?
> 3. Recompilation went ok, and when I boot with the new kernel, I see
Please do NOT recompile.
> this in dmesg
> es1371: version v0.13 time 00:26:37 Dec 3 2000
> es1371: found adapter at io 0xd000 irq 12
> es1371: features: joystick 0x0
well, the joystick is a mess. Never mind.
> es1371: codec vendor ^@^@^@ revision 0
Uh huh. You seem to have messed up the compile, or the card is messed
up, or the source is. This is a mess. It should be revision 7, surely?
> es1371: codec features none
> es1371: stereo enhancement: no 3D stereo enhancement
A straight zero from trying to talk to the card. Code wrong, card
wrong, compile wrong, or computer wrong.
> 4. However, when I now note the following two problems
> - klogd is now taking 99% of my CPU. However I don't see lots of
> messages being written in /proc/kmsg. I've seen some mail on this,
kmsg? You mean syslog?
> but nothing conclusive. BTW, my kernel version is 2.2.12-20.
> - I can't play anything using mpg123. It just sits there forever.
Not a test.
> After I control-C out, and look at /proc/kmsg, I see this
Why? Just use dmesg.
> <7>es1371: dma timed out??
Very probably. Your card is not talking over dma, apparently.
Try the alsa drivers. I never had the sensation that the kernel drivers
for the es137x did too much. OTOH I know that the alsa drivers work
fine.
And do not recompile the kernel. There are several indications here
that you are doing it wrong, possibly using the wrong compiler.
Peter
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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 18:33:17 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: control/alt/F2-F6 no longer work since installing helix gnome
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> System is an IBM netvista w/ the dreaded intel I815 video.
>
> I installed helix gnome on it and now when I try control/alt/F2,etc., I get
> a blank screen. Hitting c/a/F7 doesn't restore the desktop. Control/alt/BS
> doesn't work either. The only way to restore the screen is c/a/d/.
>
> I'd like some hints and/or a clue how to debug this.
** the xserver owns the hardware at the xstation which is your keyboard, mouse, tablet
and screen. X can handle CTL/ATL keys or ignore them. Check config file
--
Norman Levin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: testing nvidia 0.9-5 drivers
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 23:40:43 GMT
I have the latest nvidia 0.9-5 tnt2 drivers loaded and XFree86-4.0.1
seems to be running. I am running Mandraxe 7.2 and the install wasn't
too bad.
What are some good ways to test 3D effects, GL support, and hardware
acceleration for video cards / drivers in X?
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From: Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Old School
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 23:49:31 GMT
thought the generic kernel didn support it. i was just referring to
distributions
that contained other non-generic kernels. nice to know of this.
"C. Hilts" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:07:11 GMT, Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >(and learning). If your box has two processors check first if the distro
> >you want supports it, or it'll be running only with one!
>
> Whaaaat? The distribution doesn't support the processors, the kernel
> does. Since all linux distributions by definition use the linux kernel,
> all linux distributions support multiple processors (SMP).
>
> Now, if you're talking about supporting SMP out of the box, that's
> different. But recompiling your kernel is a good thing anyway. Chalk
> it up as a learning experience.
>
> Chris
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