Linux-Hardware Digest #767
Linux-Hardware Digest #767, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 09:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: RAM question (Dan Smith)
Re: 3com 3c574-TX drivers needed. (Dances With Crows)
Re: newbie help: Backpack CD-RW support + other hardware problems (Dances With Crows)
video for linux ("James")
Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question ("Jason Luther")
SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Soltek M/B w/ integrated video (species)
Re: RAM question (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: RAM question (Juergen Pfann)
boot problem with aic7xxx module ("Chris")
Scanner: Umax Astra 2100U ("Jeff Strunk")
Problem with ATA100 disk ("Pierre-Yves Morgantini")
Re: serial ports not working (Tim Grant)
Re: newbie help: Backpack CD-RW support + other hardware problems
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: File system problem, Fujitsu HD, BP6 ("The Snowman")
AVA-1505AE not working under 2.4? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Re: RAM question
From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 May 2001 22:19:26 -0400
Sorry.. I must've hit post instead of reply...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: 3com 3c574-TX drivers needed.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 May 2001 02:42:34 GMT
On Sun, 13 May 2001 23:26:48 GMT, John Niedermeyer staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Anyone have or know of where to get drivers for the 3com Fast Etherlink
>16-Bit PC Card?
/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION/pcmcia/3c574_cs.o ?
The 3Com 574 has been supported for quite some time. pcmcia-cs
3.1.24 certainly supports it, and the pcmcia-cs that was current over a
year ago supports it. If pcmcia-cs is installed and the cardmgr daemon
is running, plugging the card into a PCMCIA socket should result in two
high beeps as the appropriate module is loaded and the actions specified
in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts are taken.
If these things don't happen, then a report on the error messages that
do get generated would be useful. pcmcia-cs is actively developed on
http://sourceforge.net/ , search for "pcmcia-cs" and make use of the
forums and documentation there. HTH,
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=/I hit a seg fault
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: newbie help: Backpack CD-RW support + other hardware problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 May 2001 02:42:37 GMT
On Mon, 14 May 2001 00:41:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
staggered into the Black Sun and said:
>I'm at the point now where I'm ready to switch to linux, but I have
>some concerns.
>
>Has anybody been able to get a MicroSolutions Backpack CD-RW to work on
>linux? I don't see it on any compatiblity list. I know you're not
>supposed to be able to get software driven hardware (which I think it
>may be) such as WinModems to work in Linux, but I know of people who
>have gotten WinModems to work so I'm hoping something similar can be
>done with my Backpack.
modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc
modprobe lp
modprobe paride
modprobe bpck
modprobe pcd
modprobe pg
...at least, that's how it worked when I tried an HP parport CD-RW with
my laptop, though it used "epat" instead of "bpck". The Backpack
protocol has been available under Linux for over 2 years, is well
understood, and works... though I would not recommend using a parport
CD-RW; you just can't push data over a parport fast enough to burn at a
reasonable speed.
>Also, I have no idea what some of my hardware is. Some of it is pretty
>old. Any tips in determining just what some of them are?
Look at the names and numbers on the parts. "cat /proc/pci" works for
PCI hardware. If you have unknown ISA stuff, isapnp may help, or it may
not. If you have unknown MCA/VLB stuff, you may be up a creek. If you
are truly concerned, post the names/numbers of the parts you're
suspicious of to this NG, and someone will probably get back to you.
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=/I hit a seg fault
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From: "James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video for linux
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 03:10:13 GMT
Whats good setup for video on linux. WinTV cards? Any good video on linux
sites out there?
james
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From: "Jason Luther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 20:36:10 -0700
It's not possible with any of the Linux drivers that are available. You'd
need
Linux-Hardware Digest #768
Linux-Hardware Digest #768, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Hercules Game Theatre XP
Net2Phone Yap Handset (Youngert)
Re: SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X (Dances With Crows)
Re: Help with Ftape / T3000 drive (Allan R. Batteiger)
Re: Soundblaster Live vs. XFree86 v4.0.3 - an irq conflict? (HELP!!!) - further
details (Andrew Markebo)
Re: RAM question (SammyTheSnake)
Re: Recommend sound card for Linux? (Kenneth Rørvik)
Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question (Ralph Metzler)
Re: Compaq Smartstation SCSI contoller (LTE ELITE) (freedman)
Intel Fayettville motherboard ("Jorgen")
No IRQ found ? (Vinay Iyengar)
Re: Video Card ? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Stupid D-Link DFE-530+, how to fix in RH 7.1? (Adriel Michaud)
Re: No IRQ found ? (Dean Thompson)
Re: sis 6215c (Adhikarla Ravi Siddharth)
Re: RAM question (Eric P. McCoy)
HP PhotoSmart 215 ("Robert A. Knop Jr.")
pci irq sharing problem ("Anotonio Pasciarella")
Re: Wavelan2_cs driver with Mandrake 2.4 (2.4.3-20) (Michael Meissner)
Re: SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X (John Thompson)
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hercules Game Theatre XP
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:10:18 GMT
I am very seriously considering buying one of these cards because I am completely fed
up with my SB Live! and the unresolvable crackling problem. (I am choosing this one
over the SonicFury or Santa Cruz because
of the cool breakout box that it comes with.)
Can anybody verify that this card works properly under Linux? Are any of its features
lacking in support?
Thankyou.
-Andrew Nesbit
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From: Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Net2Phone Yap Handset
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 13:15:14 GMT
Hi,
I have been using the Net2Phone Yap Handset on a Windows platform for years
and it turns out the device is excellent for what it is supposed to do.
However, I am fed up with the creepy Windows OS that crashes a lot of time.
I am wondering if there is any support for this device under Linux that
anyone knows of. As far as the device concerns, I am open to any
suggestion that may get the device working under Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: SiS video card 6236: mouse cursor is white square in X
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 May 2001 13:43:27 GMT
On Mon, 14 May 2001 04:53:12 GMT, Jonadab the Unsightly One staggered
into the Black Sun and said:
>I have a SiS video card which I think[1] is an 8MB model 6236 with 3D
>Accelerator and 8MB SDRAM. It plugs into the AGP slot. (Motherboard
>is Via chipset, BioStar M7VKB 2.0.) When I was configuring X (while
>installing Mandrake 7.2) I selected SiS 6236 and selected my monitor
>(PGS EO70), and everything works great *except* the mouse cursor, which
>is a white square (or nearly square rectangle). Positioning the white
>square over a place where the mouse cursor would normally change (such
>as over the edge of a window where a resize-double-arrow would normally
>occur) causes the white square to shift position a little, but it's
>still a white square. It *functions* properly, in that I can resize
[snippage]
In /etc/X11/XF86Config or /etc/XF86Config or wherever Debian keeps the
XF86Config file, find the line that says
Section "Device"
and put the following line below it:
Option "sw_cursor"
HTH,
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=/I hit a seg fault
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Subject: Re: Help with Ftape / T3000 drive
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allan R. Batteiger)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:03:37 GMT
Cerberus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The cable I have has a female 40pin header on one end for the
tape drive. On the other end it has a male 40 pin header to fit
the floppy cable. I do not think you actually need it if your
floppy cable can reach the tape drive and floppy drive. My cable
is a "straight cable", no twist or split wires.
>Ahhh Could you describe this splitter cable in more
>detail. Maybe where I could get one, if you know? I just
>picked up a T 3000 and was trying to get it to work on the
>"B" connector of the floppy cable. No wonder it won't work if
>it's not designed to go there.
>
--
Allan R. Batteiger
Real-Time Services Inc.
2530 Tarpley #600
Carrollton Tx. 75006
972-245-4239
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Live vs. XFree86 v4.0.3 - an irq conflict? (HELP!!!) -
further details
From: Andrew Markebo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001
Linux-Hardware Digest #769
Linux-Hardware Digest #769, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 14:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Hercules Game Theatre XP (Stuffed Crust)
RH 7, 2.4 Kernel Adaptec aha152x ("Michael J. Doyle")
Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help ("SilentNight")
Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel) ("David Hawkins")
SCSI errorr (Pieter Ekkebus)
Re: promise ultra66 problems ("Jason Luther")
From: Stuffed Crust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hercules Game Theatre XP
Date: 14 May 2001 16:22:50 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am very seriously considering buying one of these cards because I am completely
>fed up with my SB Live! and the unresolvable crackling problem. (I am choosing this
>one over the SonicFury or Santa Cruz because
> of the cool breakout box that it comes with.)
> Can anybody verify that this card works properly under Linux? Are any of its
>features lacking in support?
You'll need a bleeding-edge kernel (and I do mean bleeding-edge:
2.4.4ac4 or newer) to get intelligable output from it.
I'm not sure how well anything other than 2-channel waveout/wavein is
supported though.. I have one in one of my dual boot boxen right now,
but that machine has severe stability (hardware) issues, so I don't use
it much.
As far as Linux support is concerned, the best (modern) card to get is
the SBLive. The GTXP should only get better, but it'll be a while
before you can take advantage of its fancier features. And Philips
hasn't released any specs at all. :)
- Pizza
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Solomon PeachypizzaATfucktheusers.org
I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent.
Patience comes to those who wait.
...It's not "Beanbag Love", it's a "Transanimate Relationship"...
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From: "Michael J. Doyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 7, 2.4 Kernel Adaptec aha152x
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 11:47:47 -0500
If this is better answered in comp.os.linux.setup, please forgive me for
cross-posting in the future.
Newbie linux install.
In Expert mode, trying to load module aha152x to use my cd-rom connected
to a SB16 scsi card(Adaptec 6360 chipset). I've been to the RH site and
read their faq about scsi card installs and used parameters:
aha152x=0x340,11,1,1 where 1 is the scsi id and I assume the extra 1 is
for parity.
I've tried different scsi id's on drive(jumper settings) and different
adaptec drivers, even no parity, or 0 in place of one, but I always get:
"failed to insert aha152x module"
Do you gurus suppose this is a problem with my parameters, or could there
be something else I'm missing. I created disks with rawrite using the
boot.img and drivers.img from the RH cd on an old IBM pc350(p133) with
96mb ram, and a 1.2gb ide hd. NT loads their aha152 driver, so I know
driver and scsi card work, but if I was happy with NT, I wouldn't be here.
Mike
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "SilentNight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 02:06:39 +0900
"Harvey Braun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would look forward to any info. I seem to be luckier that you in that
> everything works fine except that I do not get the 4x AGP that I was
> hoping to get when I did my upgrade.
>
> Thanks
> Harvey
>
>
>
> In article <9dlgum$ab6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bluesky"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a GeForce 2 AGP card and just found few days ago that RH 7.0 /
> > 7.1 appears to have some problem in installation.
> >
> > RH 7.0 hangs after formating partition preparing for installation, while
> > RH 7.1 goes smoothly until the end but at the first boot up, it also
> > hangs. Since I have only one cd-rom, one hard disk, one sound card, one
> > network card, all those are OK in other motherboard, the only one left
> > is the video card.
> >
> > I plan to see next week if that video card is the source of the problem
> > or not.
> >
> > Will return with result when I have it.
> >
> > Hope somebody will give a positive answer, though I personally think the
> > GeForce 2 should not have problem, because RH 7.1 recognizes it anyway.
> >
> > SN
> >
Sorry to be late in posting here new info.
Here it is:
my overclocking P3-700mhz FC-PGA to 895mhz prevents RH 7.1 running.
After taking out all cards, except the video and check, RH does not run.
Putting an old PCI video, an old TNT, 1st generation, these two run
perfectly
in Asus P3B-F, RH still hangs. I am at my wit's end. Have a break, coffee,
think,
and finally, that is the last possibility, which shows that RH may not like
overclocking ?
The Asus CUSL2 mobo + GeForce2 run perfectly with RH, not the video card.
Cheers,
SN
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From: "David Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel)
Date: Mon, 14
Linux-Hardware Digest #770
Linux-Hardware Digest #770, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 18:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Adaptec 2930CU, RH6.2 and BRU backup questions (William N Moore)
Re: Intel Fayettville motherboard (David Miller)
lm_sensors giving very little information (Ian Pilcher)
Re: RH7.1 kernel fails on dual Asus motherboard ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: LinkSys NIC (Thomas Corriher)
Re: that PCMCIA question (Linksys PCMPC100 V2/Dell Inspiron 4000) (Edward Ned Harvey)
Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with ATA100 disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Keyboard acting up in X (Scott Weber)
CD-Rom drive slow ("Winston Smith")
Subject: Adaptec 2930CU, RH6.2 and BRU backup questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William N Moore)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:12:24 GMT
Hi,
We have RH6.2 installed on a DELL Poweredge 2300. We have an Adaptec
2930CU SCSI card installed into this machine which runs the Seagate Travan
tape drive. BRU is used for our backups. For some reason, the backups
keep working, then not working, they work for about a day or two then quit
working out of the blue. If you try to issue a tapestat or tapeinfo, it
won't even be able to communicate with the tape drive. Once a reboot is
forced though, we will be able to issue tapestat and tapeinfo commands even
though the backup may or may not work for that night. It is very
inconsistant which is the hardest part about solving the problem. ANYways,
we decided to post to see if anyone was running close to the same
configuration and was/was not having this same problem. Any information
you can provide to me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick Moore
Literati Information Technology
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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Fayettville motherboard
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 14:16:18 -0400
check out lhd.zdnet.com under motherboards.
-DM
Jorgen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am about to buy the Intel Fayetteville motherboard for use with the Suse
> 7.1 -have any of you tried this combination?
> -if yes, what are your experiences? -I'm thinking in terms of graphics, nic
> and sound system compatibility issues, if any. I plan on using this
> motherboards capabilities, and don't want to buy additional hardware for
> graphics/network/sound capabilities.
>
> There's going to be an X-server, ftp+http server running on it -any problems
> with that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jørgen
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From: Ian Pilcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lm_sensors giving very little information
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:43:03 GMT
I'm trying to get lm_sensors set up on my desktop system:
* Tyan S1854 "Trinity 400" w/ VIA Apollo Pro 133A
* Matrox Millenium G200
* 128MB PC100 SDRAM
* 1GHz Pentium III
* Red Hat Linux 7.1
I've run sensors-detect, and it successfully installed a bunch of
modules:
eeprom 3216 0 (unused)
sensors 6480 0 [eeprom]
i2c-matroxfb3952 0 (unused)
i2c-algo-bit7328 0 [i2c-matroxfb]
matroxfb_base 18768 0 [i2c-matroxfb]
matroxfb_Ti3026 5904 0 [matroxfb_base]
matroxfb_DAC10647392 0 [matroxfb_base]
matroxfb_accel 8832 0 [matroxfb_base matroxfb_Ti3026
matroxfb_DAC1064]
matroxfb_misc 5520 0 [i2c-matroxfb matroxfb_base
matroxfb_Ti3026
matroxfb_DAC1064 matroxfb_accel]
i2c-viapro 4432 0 (unused)
i2c-core 13408 0 [eeprom sensors i2c-algo-bit
i2c-viapro]
parport_pc 17968 1 (autoclean)
lp 5168 0 (autoclean)
parport25952 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
ne2k-pci5088 1 (autoclean)
83906816 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci]
ipchains 38976 0 (unused)
nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4384 1 (autoclean)
vfat9392 1 (autoclean)
fat32672 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
raid1 13088 1 (autoclean)
sb 7856 0
sb_lib 36016 0 [sb]
uart401 6768 0 [sb_lib]
sound 62688 0 [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 4464 5 [sb_lib sound]
usb-uhci 20720 0 (unused)
usbcore49664 1 [usb-uhci]
I've also added the suggested line, 'alias char-major-89 i2c-dev' to
/etc/modules.conf. I have the following files:
crw---1 root root 89, 0 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c0
crw---1 root root 89, 0 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c-0
crw---1 root root 89, 1 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c1
crw---1 root root 89, 1 Mar 23 22:37 /dev/i2c-1
Despite all this, the 'sensors' command prints very little information:
eeprom-
Linux-Hardware Digest #771
Linux-Hardware Digest #771, Volume #14 Mon, 14 May 01 20:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question (Dan Smith)
newbie question: winmodem install information on the web?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Compiling of hpoj-0.7 package fails (Heinz Ruffieux)
Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9 ("You Know Who ~")
Re: Problem with ATA100 disk (Dave Uhring)
Re: Recommend sound card for Linux? (David J Bush)
Re: CD-Rom drive slow ("You Know Who ~")
hard disk, raid... (Me)
Re: CD-Rom drive slow (BoB)
Re: hard disk, raid... (Dan Smith)
Re: hard disk, raid... (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: CD-Rom drive slow ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: CD-Rom drive slow ("Boris")
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ORiNOCO Wavelan Question
From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 May 2001 18:17:31 -0400
Can you give me instructions on how to enable/set encryption on the
ORiNOCO card?
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: newbie question: winmodem install information on the web?
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:25:05 GMT
Can anyone point me to a good "installing winmodems on linux for
dummies" type page on the internet?
I have heard that is more than possible now to get winmodems working
on linux, and I want to make sure I try everything with my modem first
before I try buying a new one.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.geocities.com/sugapablo
(To email me, remove "Sugapablo-" from my email address)
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From: Heinz Ruffieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compiling of hpoj-0.7 package fails
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:30:07 -
Hi,
I would like to install the hpoj-0.7 printer package on my RH7.1 box
(2.4.2 kernel).
Now make fails with strange errors. Checking the INSTALL script downloaded
with the package I find the following (see bug section):
=
If during "make" or "make install" you get an error trying to create a
symbolic link, then you are probably compiling and/or installing on a
file system that doesn't support symlinks, such as MSDOS or VFAT. Try
compiling and installing on a native Linux ext2 filesystem.
FEATURE: The kernel drivers require at least kernel 2.2, due to the
"parport" functionality they rely on.
BUG: The kernel drivers currently fail to compile under kernel 2.4.
They also do not work with SMP (any kernel version). These two problems
are being worked on.
==
The same INSTALL file from http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/hpoj/INSTALL does
not have this BUG section.
Question: Does anybody know, if this package may be compiled under the
2.4.2 kernel? If not, are there any workarounds?
Thanks for your help.
Heinz
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Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Reply-To: "You Know Who ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "You Know Who ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: IBM Technical Support Center Request #110-389-699-9
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 22:41:48 GMT
You expect us to read all of this?
--
You Know Who~
Windows Help andTour Purgatory Chasm:
http://home.att.net/~You_know_Who/
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
possible worlds, and the pessimist fears that this is true.
-- James Branch Cabell, 1879-1958
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
|
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
|
| > Dear Sir,
| >
| > Thankyou for your email.
| >
| > The results you received from DFT, and the details in your email, have
been
| > seen in similar configurations.
| >
| > Windows 98 shuts down faster than the drive has had time to write from
the
| > cache to the disks, resulting in a bad write. On reboot you will have
| > problems booting the drive, and the drive will make a noise as it
performs
| > error recovery.
| >
| > The only solution is to run DFT (you will get 0x70) and then to erase
the
| > disk.
| >
| > To ensure this does not happen again, you can obtain a fix now from
| > Microsoft, which deals with this issue.
| >
| > On a second note, please ensure you have the latest bios for your
| > motherboard. I believe Asus may have released a further bios to your
level.
| >
| > Regards
| > -- In Response To --
| >
| > Subject: two harddisks crashed and third one expected
| > Dear Internet friends,
| >
| > I have a big problem: IBM DTLA 305020 harddisk (20GB) of 6 months old
| > crashed and IBM DTLA 305040 ( new 40GB of one week old) crashed also. I
| > expect the new maxtor DiamondMax 40GB 7200rpm shall also crash soon.
| >
| > Can anybody make a suggestion to solve this problem? I really need some
| > help. The system configuration is as follows: asus a7v KT133 (rev 1.01,
| > 5 pci slots), tbir
Linux-Hardware Digest #772
Linux-Hardware Digest #772, Volume #14 Tue, 15 May 01 01:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: newbie question: winmodem install information on the web? (Mark Bratcher)
Linux X goes away??? ("JT")
Disk errors with kernel 2.4.2 ("Vladimir Florinski")
Re: Blank Screen (Rage 128 Pro) ("Allen")
help choosing modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Disk errors with kernel 2.4.2 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Disk errors with kernel 2.4.2 (Dave Uhring)
Running Linux with a Micron Millenium with BIOS S4EB2X0.05A.0003.P02 ("Felix Tilley")
Re: how to setup usb quickcam ("Joseph C. Kopec")
Sony SDT5000 drivers needed (Jon Fullmer)
Re: Linux X goes away??? (Ya!Right!)
Re: No IRQ found ? (Joseph Meier)
Re: Compaq Smartstation SCSI contoller (LTE ELITE) (Johnson's)
Re: Boot without VGA (Ya!Right!)
Re: Running Linux with a Micron Millenium with BIOS S4EB2X0.05A.0003.P02 (Michael
Meissner)
Re: RAM question ("Snowdog")
Anyone selling basic cheap Linux boxes? (the softrat)
Re: help choosing modem ("Stephe")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: newbie question: winmodem install information on the web?
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:21:17 GMT
On Mon, 14 May 2001 22:25:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> took up his/her discourse and spake:
>Can anyone point me to a good "installing winmodems on linux for
>dummies" type page on the internet?
>
>I have heard that is more than possible now to get winmodems working
>on linux, and I want to make sure I try everything with my modem first
>before I try buying a new one.
>
http://www.linmodems.org
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Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "JT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Linux X goes away???
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:29:00 GMT
Running RH7.0. I never can be assured if Linux is going to come up in X.
Sometimes it does and somethings its just a blank black screen. When it
doesn't I have to re-install the who OS over again. Running Matrox Millenium
G200 8mgs ram.
What confuses me, why would it work sometimes and sometimes not?
Confused and looking for answers.
Thanks for your help.
JT
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From: "Vladimir Florinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Disk errors with kernel 2.4.2
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 18:15:52 -0700
I installed RedHat 7.1 on a new IBM IDE disk a few days ago and am having
nasty disk errors ever since. They happen every few hours and mess up
filesystems a lot. So far I was able to recover by forcing e2fsck on the
/usr partition in single user mode, and reinstalling the damaged packages.
But it's only a matter of time until glibc gets damaged and then it's all
over.
Now this is definitely not the state of events I would like them to be. My
old RedHat 6.1 worked fine on this machine on an old Seagate hard drive.
It seems therefore that either the 2.4.2 kernel is broken or the new disk
is defective. The log file would occasionally have this message:
hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: drive not ready for command
The disk is a brand new 40GB IBM 60GXP series (ATA-100), using dma
transfers (up to 33MB/s, I presume, since this is a BX chipset)
/dev/hda:
Model=IC35L040AVER07-0, FwRev=ER4OA41A, SerialNo=SX0SXLL6552 Config={
HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs } RawCHS=16383/16/63,
TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache,
BuffSize=1916kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=4047/16/255,
CurSects=-217054981, LBA=yes, LBAsects=80418240 IORDY=on/off,
tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1
pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5
hdb is a 24x cdrom, hdc an ORB drive and hdd is a 20x dvd-rom drive.
So, I would really appreciate some help from those who are familiar with
IDE drivers or had similar experiences. My system is not usable at this
point and I need to know whether to replace the disk or the OS.
Thanks in advance,
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Vladimir
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From: "Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Blank Screen (Rage 128 Pro)
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 01:18:04 GMT
Unplug the video out and reboot.
"Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:eafL6.45505$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro (Rage 128 Pro) and Linux-Mandrake 8.0
> box and when I boot into X my monitor gives me an out of range error.
> Realizing that it must be the refresh rates, I opened up XF86Config, set
> them to my monitor's specs, and tried again... no luck. Any ideas?
>
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