Linux-Hardware Digest #111, Volume #11 Fri, 27 Aug 99 11:13:43 EDT
Contents:
Matrox G400 (Oskar Berggren)
Dual Pentium II shows as Dual Celeron... (fprintf)
USR Sportster EXT Message Modem (Anwar Al-Awadhi)
U66/UDMA HOWTO not working for me (Chris Mihos)
Re: Compaq Onboard Ethernet ("Walter Harms")
Re: Opps...... (Kai Oderwald)
Re: CDR (Hans Jørgensen)
cost of leased line in notting hill, London England (colin)
Re: Sound in Linux (Andy Johnstone)
Re: Opps...... (Andy Johnstone)
Re: DLink DFE650TX and Linux (David Ripton)
Re: Repeated crashs after CPU fan change (hac)
dittomax ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:39:43 +0200
From: Oskar Berggren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Matrox G400
Hi,
I'm thinking about a new Matrox G400 card. What I wonder is
how well it is supported by X under Linux. Does the the multi monitor
feature work? What about TV-out? Anything else that needs to be taken
into consideration?
TIA
/Oskar
PS: If you would like to send me e-mail, don't forget to remove all
large letters (what are thos caled in English anyway), even the Xs and
Ys. DS.
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From: fprintf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Dual Pentium II shows as Dual Celeron...
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:31:35 GMT
My brand new dual pentium II system shows as Dual Celeron (Covington) in
my /proc/cpuinfo. As requested I am enclosing my cpuinfo and dmesg output
in hopes that someone can help identify a) why my CPUs are being
incorrectly identified and b) why it is showing as having no cache
available.
I have kernel 2.2.7 from the SuSE 6.1 distribution and I have enabled SMP
via a kernel recompile.
Thanks,
Stuart
Cheshire, CT USA
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/proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Celeron (Covington)
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 398.943705
cache size : 0 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
bogomips : 398.13
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 5
model name : Celeron (Covington)
stepping : 2
cpu MHz : 398.943705
cache size : 0 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 mmx osfxsr
bogomips : 398.13
dmesg:
Linux version 2.2.7 (root@dungeon) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314
(egcs-1.1.2 release)) #16 SMP Tue Aug 24 22:05:04 EST 1999
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 2
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000)
Detected 398943705 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 398.13 BogoMIPS
Memory: 128164k/131072k available (880k kernel code, 420k reserved, 1560k
data, 48k init)
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.26 (19981001) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 0.00 usecs.
CPU0: Intel Celeron (Covington) stepping 02
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 398.9229 MHz.
..... system bus clock speed is 99.7304 MHz.
Booting processor 1 eip 2000
Calibrating delay loop... 398.13 BogoMIPS
OK.
CPU1: Intel Celeron (Covington) stepping 02
Total of 2 processors activated (796.26 BogoMIPS).
enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC pin 0, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23 not connected.
number of MP IRQ sources: 21.
number of IO-APIC registers: 24.
testing the IO APIC.......................
.... register #00: 02000000
....... : physical APIC id: 02
.... register #01: 00170011
....... : max redirection entries: 0017
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
03 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
04 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
05 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
06 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
07 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
08 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
09 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0a 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0b 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
0c 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A9
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B1
0f 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B9
10 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
11 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
13 0FF 0F 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 2
IRQ1 -> 1
IRQ3 -> 3
IRQ4 -> 4
IRQ5 -> 5
IRQ6 -> 6
IRQ7 -> 7
IRQ8 -> 8
IRQ9 -> 9
IRQ10 -> 10
IRQ11 -> 11
IRQ12 -> 12
IRQ13 -> 13
IRQ14 -> 14
IRQ15 -> 15
IRQ16 -> 16
IRQ17 -> 17
IRQ19 -> 19
.................................... done.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb1f0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I9,P0) -> 17
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B0,I11,P0) -> 19
PCI->APIC IRQ transform: (B1,I0,P0) -> 16
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
es1370: version v0.20 time 21:06:16 Aug 14 1999
es1370: found adapter at io 0xe400 irq 17
es1370: features: joystick on, line in, mic impedance 0
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: WDC AC310200R, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SAMSUNG SC-140B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC310200R, 9787MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=19885/16/63
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
i2c module initialized.
i2c-proc.o version 2.3.4 (19990616)
i2c: driver i2c-proc dummy driver registered.
isa.o version 2.3.4 (19990616)
i2c: algorithm ISA bus adapter registered.
i2c: adapter ISA main adapter registered.
i2c-isa.o: ISA bus access for i2c modules initialized.
smbus.o version 2.3.4 (19990616)
i2c: algorithm Non-I2C SMBus adapter registered.
smbus.o initialized
sensors.o version 2.3.4 (19990616)
w83781d.o version 2.3.4 (19990616)
i2c: driver W83781D sensor driver registered.
i2c: client [W83781D chip] registered to adapter [ISA main adapter](pos.
0).
Adding Swap: 127508k swap-space (priority -1)
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
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From: Anwar Al-Awadhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.networking.general
Subject: USR Sportster EXT Message Modem
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:31:35 GMT
Hi all
Is there any special strings and/or settings for this modem?
I am using RH Linux 6.0 on PII300
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From: Chris Mihos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: U66/UDMA HOWTO not working for me
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 09:05:05 -0400
So I am one of the legions who have new GW2K's w/ Promise U66
controllers which the linux 2.2 kernel doesn't see. I am trying to
install RH6.0, and of course am told I have no drives (I have 2x27 Gb
drives, hooked up as Master/Slave on the 1st U66 channel).
I tried the trick in the UDMA HOWTO of putting in the "linux
ide2=0x10c0, 0x10b6", and when i do that, it starts to boot, but then
hangs. I see
hdc: Toshiba DVD-ROM...
hdd: R/RW CDROM
hde: QUantum Fireball ATA disk drive
hdf: WDC ATA disk drive
ide1 at0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15
and then it hangs
i also tried saying "linux ide0=etc" but got similar results (drives
appeared on hda & hdb, but the system
still hangs).
One thing is a bit different from the HOWTO instructions. When I do the
"cat /proc/pci" i see:
I/O at 0x10c0 [0x10c1]
etc
where the HOWTO doesn't mention anything about the numbers in the
bracket...
Does this make sense to anyone?
Thanks for any help
Chris Mihos
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From: "Walter Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Compaq Onboard Ethernet
Date: 27 Aug 1999 13:41:20 GMT
Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>There are two common types of onboard NICs on Compaq systems - the
>system I'm sending this on uses the de4x5 driver.
>a) Dec 2114x which can use either the Tulip or de4x5 drivers.
>b) Netelligent adapters which use the tlan driver.
hi tom,
i have a problem with a compaq deskpro XL and sound. Its an ad1847 but
i dont get the driver (ad1848) loaded. Do you have a tip handy ?
walter
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From: Kai Oderwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Opps......
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 15:41:14 +0200
Hi Andy,
are you sure it is an K6-2 not an K6-3 ??? Maybe that's the problem, if
it's an K6-3 check your manual if the motherboard is supporting it.
Kai
Andy Johnstone schrieb:
> Not really a linux question per say (altho the system will be running
> linux) but i'll ask anyway. I built a 2nd computer, and used my k6-2
> 300 in it until i could dig up a 450 k6-2. New system works great, but
> now the old system doesn't ever produce a video sig, and after about
> 30secs it gives one long uninterupted beep, not stopping until i kill
> the power. What does that mean? I'm used to getting beep error codes,
> not a continuos tone. Bios is Award, trio3d video board..but i don't
> even get the card info i used to. Any ideas? Ram not in right, ect?
>
> Please post all replies here...i can't get into my email :( Damn
> school...
>
> andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans Jørgensen)
Subject: Re: CDR
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 16:09:41 +0300
Michael Ravits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What would be the best choice CDR to buy? (and a SCSI controller)
Plextor something and Tekram DC-310U(if your not going to use it for harddisks)
I use a Plextor 4220Ti (20x/4x/2x) and the Tekram-controller on a old
P90 linux-box with 32meg's of ram.
Works like a dream :O)
--
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Homepage -> http://boris.n3.net
.Error 500 - BOFH was here.
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From: colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: cost of leased line in notting hill, London England
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:31:07 GMT
Could someone very kindly tell me if this seems a reasonable price for a
leased line in Notting Hill, London England. Prices are in pounds sterling
£2000 set up
£8700 128k
£12200 256k
£17900 512k
On a copper line. We are buying a 128k line, with scalability up to 1 or
two mb. Are these fair prices? Who is a good carrier company?
Cheers for any advice......:)
Colin
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From: Andy Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sound in Linux
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:09:14 -0400
You'll probably have to get a supported board. My sb64 works fine, i had to
get it b/c there were no drivers for the onboard crap i had.
andy
Ying wrote:
> I have a computer based on IWill's LE370 motherboard with an onboard
>
> Aureal 8820 soundchip. I tried Suse 6.1 and Redhat 6.0 - both runs well
>
> but can't configure sound. E-mail to Iwill and A3D were not replied -
>
> what can I do? - (Worse case - disable the sound chip on board and buy a
>
> compatible soundcard........!!!!!). Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards - YP
>
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From: Andy Johnstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Opps......
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 10:12:42 -0400
Kai,
Yes, i took out the k6-2 450 and put in the k6-2 300 that was in there
previously, and it did the same thing. I found one long beep in award bioses
usually means mem failure, but putting the memory in my other box resulting
in 128mb ram (i had 64mb in there already, plus the 64mb from the old one),
so the chip seems to be ok. Its an AT board, and its a royal pain in the ass
to get the chip latched (168 pin dimm)...maybe its not getting in right? I
usually have to latch one side before the other...
Thanks for any help, again please post here since i can't get to my email
account.
andy
Kai Oderwald wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> are you sure it is an K6-2 not an K6-3 ??? Maybe that's the problem, if
> it's an K6-3 check your manual if the motherboard is supporting it.
>
> Kai
>
> Andy Johnstone schrieb:
>
> > Not really a linux question per say (altho the system will be running
> > linux) but i'll ask anyway. I built a 2nd computer, and used my k6-2
> > 300 in it until i could dig up a 450 k6-2. New system works great, but
> > now the old system doesn't ever produce a video sig, and after about
> > 30secs it gives one long uninterupted beep, not stopping until i kill
> > the power. What does that mean? I'm used to getting beep error codes,
> > not a continuos tone. Bios is Award, trio3d video board..but i don't
> > even get the card info i used to. Any ideas? Ram not in right, ect?
> >
> > Please post all replies here...i can't get into my email :( Damn
> > school...
> >
> > andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: DLink DFE650TX and Linux
Date: 27 Aug 1999 14:38:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7pq4g3$3ee$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dirk Freese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was trying to install a D-Link DFE 650 TX 10/100Mbit network-card under
>SuSE Linux 5.3 (kernel 2.0.35) - unfortunately without success.
>The cardmgr recognizes the card as NE2000 compatible and seems to configure
>it (two high beeps). But if I try to ping another PC in our network, ping
>simply replies:
>
>"PING 192.168.19.3 (192.168.19.3): 56 data bytes"
>
>and nothing happens.
>The /var/log/messages file says that a NE2000 compatible card was found
>using I/O 0x300 and IRQ 11 but it also contains lines like
>"laptop kernel: eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt?"
>
>What I don't understand is: I installed this Linux over the network using
>Yast. So the install-routine found the card - and used it. But: Yast found
>the card on IRQ 3. All tries to force the card to use this IRQ failed.
>("RequestIRQ: Resource busy")
>
>Has anyone ever used this card and knows a way to get it to work??
I have one in my laptop. It's worked fine with Red Hat 5.2 and 6.0 and
various recent versions of the 2.2 kernel and pcmcia tools. It was
easy to install, once I realized that the key with the pcmcia package,
as with the kernel, is to break away from the overcustomized RPMs and
use the standard source tarballs.
I'm not sure how old the pcmcia package included with SuSE 5.3 was, but
you should probably grab the latest, 3.0.14. The HOWTO is included.
The DFE-650TX should use the pcnet_cs driver, not the ne2000 driver.
Check your /etc/pcmcia/config to make sure the mapping is correct.
Mine is also on IRQ3, as shown in /proc/interrupts:
3: 1322 XT-PIC pcnet_cs
Perhaps the card needs to be there, and you need to move whatever's
using IRQ3 (serial mouse?) somewhere else. Perhaps if you reinstall
the pcmcia package it will see that 3 is taken and move to use a free
IRQ.
If you need more help, the pcmcia gurus hang out in .portable.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Repeated crashs after CPU fan change
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:06:14 GMT
Guillaume Filion wrote:
>
> In article <nvs3q7.bsr.ln@localhost>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Guillaume Filion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : I change my CPU fan and my BIOS battery three days ago on my Linux 120 Mhz
> > : server Box, and in three days, I got two crashs (on Linux)... The crashs
> > : were like:
> > : Kernel Panic, or
> > : Complete freeze of tty, or
> > : Impossible to log-in (error was: Too much fragmentation (or something like
> > : that))
> > :
> > : The only way to reboot was to hit the reset button on the Box, and then I
> > : got those kind of errors:
> > : 'Boot sequence corrupted, giving up', or
> > : 'Kernel currupted, impossible to uncompress', or
> > : Not even a LILO boot!
> > :
> > : The solution is relatively easy, I just shut-off the computer for about
> > : half an hour, and start it again: I boot like if nothing had never
> > : hapenned (except for the disk check forced).
> > :
> > : As you can see this is a strange problem, and I'm about sure this is
> > : hardware related, but I don't know what hardware. Could someone point me
> > : what is wrong?
> >
> > I'd start with the new fan. Is it still running? Is it similar to the old
> > one? What about the heat sink - same size or larger than the old one? Heat
> > sink thermal compound between the cpu and the heatsink?
> >
> > What about the fan in the power supply? Is it still running?
>
> Stu,
>
> The new fan is running nice. It is bigger than the older one, it may take
> more power than the old one. The old one was connected serial with the
> hard drive, so in case the new one is taking more power, I connected it
> alone on it's own plug.
>
> The brand is a Cooler Master TP5-5020B. The heatsink is a little bit
> larger than the old one and I didn't put compound between the cpu and the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
A bigger heatsink does no good if the heat doesn't get from the cpu to
the heatsink.
> heatsink.
>
> The power supply's fan is working as good as before...
>
> Can you guess something with this?
> Thanks,
> GFK's
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dittomax
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:08:46 GMT
Does anyone know how to configure a Dittomax tape drive to run on
linux? what device will it be listed as? any suggestions are greatly
appreciated!!!!
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