Linux-Hardware Digest #590, Volume #12 Sat, 1 Apr 00 11:13:06 EST
Contents:
SuSE 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14, GCC 2.95.2, and no more sound (David Steuber)
ibm thinkpad poweron password? ("Alan Yates")
Re: ibm thinkpad poweron password? ("Stephen J Howard")
Re: scsi timeout problem- ("Stephen J Howard")
Re: Mitsumi CD-R causes system to freeze ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
sblive + audiopci (Andy Ford)
Re: winmodem confusion !! (Thomas Zajic)
Re: Mpeg playback under linux is really bad? (John McKown)
Re: SCSI ID Assigned But No Drive Letters Assigned *** SOLVED *** (mike)
Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to boot Linux
Kernel 2.2.14 ? ("Peter T. Breuer")
don'ts (alexander rauscher)
USB mouse ("Gregson")
Re: Dual processor (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Network routes won't come up on Asus P3V4X running Redhat 6.2 w/3Com cards
("Sean")
Re: Dual processor ("Tom Haeck")
Problems with Iomega Zip Drive (Lukas Geyer)
Canon MultiPASS C3500 ("silkythreads")
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SuSE 6.2, Kernel 2.2.14, GCC 2.95.2, and no more sound
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 11:59:59 GMT
I've been trying to build some packages on a PPro 200 (Gateway 2000
G6-200) that happens to have a Creative Labs Soundblaster 64 AWE Gold
installed. Due to missing files, I tried to fix some things. Well, I
broke my sound in the process. Under a canned kernel, I was using
oss. Oss wouldn't recompile or work for the 2.2.14 kernel. When I
switched back to the 2.2.10 kernel, it would work for that anymore.
When I try to put sound in the kernel, I can get some noise out of the
speakers, but nothing useful.
Here's what I got:
GCC 2.95.2 (from gcc.gun.org)
Kernel 2.2.14 (from ftp.kernel.org)
oss (from the SuSE 6.2 distro)
The sound card is the SB AWE 64 Gold, a PnP ISA bus card.
I need this working. I know it can be made to work. I can't really
afford to buy the professional OSS.
Please help.
Thanks.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.packetphone.org/
Great minds run in great circles.
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From: "Alan Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ibm thinkpad poweron password?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 02:43:29 +0100
i recently bought a somewhat dubious laptop and can't get round the pass
word for power on, i also get errors 161 & 163
any ideas?
tia
al
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From: "Stephen J Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ibm thinkpad poweron password?
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:32:30 +0100
Take it back to the shop you got it from?!?
seriously, what model thinkpad is it, as there are different ways to get
round passwords.
Steve
Alan Yates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8c4hds$7k8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i recently bought a somewhat dubious laptop and can't get round the pass
> word for power on, i also get errors 161 & 163
>
> any ideas?
>
> tia
>
> al
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "Stephen J Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi timeout problem-
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 13:29:37 +0100
Is the new HDD an ultra wide device, and the controller only a wide device?
I've got the same errors on a 4.3gig UW drive connected to a AHA2940W
controller. It works ok, when it finally gets over the errors.
Cheers
Steve
tjm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello. I'm looking for some recommendations to
> narrow down this scsi timeout problem taking place.
> The system is Debian2.1, kernel 2.2.14 with a
> Buslogic BT958 controller. Connected to the 50
> pin port is a Toshiba CD-rom and a Quantum Fireball
> 8.4gig drive terminated at the HDD. Never had a
> problem with just this setup. Now I have added
> a Quantum Atlas III 18.2 gig drive in single
> ended mode on the 68 pin connector using a good cable
> and an active terminator. All drives are recognized
> correctly, it seems. The AtlasIII is able to be
> partitioned and formatted as ext2 without any problems.
> Now, in the process of copying the contents of the
> old drive to the new using cp, timeouts are occurring,
> looking like this in the logs:
>
>
>
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: 0 00 02 00
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: Aborting CCB #202194 to
> Target 0
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to
> timeout : pid 202182, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write
> (10) 00 00 3a be 7a 00 00 02 00
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: Aborting CCB #202195 to
> Target 0
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi : aborting command due to
> timeout : pid 202183, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write
> (10) 00 00 62 fe 7a 00 00 02 00
>
> and
>
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: Aborting CCB #202218 to
> Target 0
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: CCB #202193 to Target 0
> Aborted
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: CCB #202194 to Target 0
> Aborted
>
> and finally
>
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid
> 202203) timed out - trying harder
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host
> 0 channel 0.
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: Resetting BusLogic BT-958
> due to Target 0
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: *** BusLogic BT-958
> Initialized Successfully ***
> Mar 30 17:18:23 td2 kernel: scsi0: Tagged Queuing now active
> for Target 0
> Mar 30 17:18:26 td2 kernel: scsi0: Tagged Queuing now active
> for Target 1
>
> These are only very small excerpts from the logs. The
> logs are filled with this stuff covering a period of
> only about a minute or so.
> The 50 pin drive is Target 0, and the Atlas III (68pin) is
> Target 1.
>
> Any suggestions on where or what to look for would be
> appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> --
> tony mollica
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mitsumi CD-R causes system to freeze
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 12:42:49 GMT
> had the same problem with a yamaha burner. Machine would boot anymore
> unless I entered the scsi bios and then did a warm reboot. But even
then
> it wouldn't work reliably so ...?
> Gerald
I found a solution to my SCSI problem, maybe it will help you.
It seems that the linux SCSI driver can't handle devices that use
synchronous and asynchronous data transfer on the same bus. So goto
your host-adapter bios and set "enable sync negotiation" to "no" for
all devices. good luck. jrfx.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Ford)
Subject: sblive + audiopci
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 06:51:56 -0600
I'm trying to get an AudioPCI and a Sound Blaster live to work
together with the ALSA drivers. Everything seems to work
except for oss sequencer emulation:
trane:/usr/local/src # modprobe snd-seq-oss
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o
failed
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: insmod snd-seq-oss failed
Is it really a hardware/resource conflict or could it be
my choice of alsa modules?
trane:/usr/local/src # lsmod
Module Size Used by
snd-pcm-oss 16520 0 (unused)
snd-pcm-plugin 13128 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-mixer-oss 4084 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-card-emu10k1 2340 0 (unused)
snd-emu10k1 19528 0 [snd-card-emu10k1]
snd-pcm 28952 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1]
snd-timer 7872 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-emux-mem 1488 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-rawmidi 9112 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-ac97-codec 23968 0 [snd-emu10k1]
snd-mixer 23312 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec]
snd-seq-device 3308 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
snd 34464 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1
snd-pcm snd-timer snd-emux-mem snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device]
tulip 31128 1 (autoclean)
dummy0 900 1 (autoclean)
--
yours,
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: winmodem confusion !!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 13:12:19 GMT
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 23:03:41 GMT, Ray wrote:
> anyone out there that can tell me if there is such a thing as a
> winmodem that will work with linux(redhat 6.1 or mandrake 7.0)
> I don't have any spare ISA slots only PCI.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but why don't you just
avoid the risk and hassle, and buy an *external* modem instead?
> Nd which do you feel is better to use for internet publishing.
> Mandrake or RedHat ?
Huh? The distribution doesn't matter at all, it only depends on the
applications you install. Running <insert favorite web publishing
tool(s) here> on MDK or RH shouldn't make any difference.
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: Mpeg playback under linux is really bad?
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 07:01:01 -0600
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:57:25 -0700, Joseph P klitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I run Linux Mandrake 7 and Win95b on the same system different harddrives
>Mpeg
>playback under linux sucks whats up? oh using KDE 1.1.2 is this a
>kde problem
>or linux or both? Windows works fine.
You might want to say exactly what "sucks" means. Do MP3 which play on Windows
totally refuse to play on Linux? Or is the sound quality just not as good?
Or are their "skips" when playing under Linux but not under Windows? Or
other differences in the way the MP3s sound (please be specific). What
hardware are you using (sound card)? What software? Both the MP3 player and
the "driver" for your soundcard.
I am running RedHat 6.0 (plus ad-hoc updates). I use the commercial OSS sound
drivers for my AWE64 gold. I use mpg123 to play MP3s. This is on a 128Meg RAM,
dual P-III 450 system. Everything sounds fine on my setup. I play the exact
same MP3s on my ethernet connected Windows98 system using Real's RealJukebox.
This other system also has a AWE64 Gold. I can't tell the difference in sound.
But I will admit that I'm not an extreme audiophile. Of course a true
audiophile would despise using MP3s on a <shudder> computer anyway <grin>.
Again, perhaps we can help if you would give a bit more detailed info!
luck,
John
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI ID Assigned But No Drive Letters Assigned *** SOLVED ***
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 21:36:26 -0500
Hi,
I wanted to report a solution to the problem that I posed before.
The answer was staring me in the face. It was in setting the
bios in the Zeos Computer to disable "fast boot".
I did not have the doc on the computer and it was not obvious
of the significance of "fast boot".
What fast boot did was to disable the floppy from the booting
operation. Previously, the only way that I could get the system
to boot on the floppy was to disable the scsi function in the bios.
So, that was a Catch 22, situation. I think that that bios could
have been written in a better way with some help built in, at least.
Mike
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to boot
Linux Kernel 2.2.14 ?
Date: 1 Apr 2000 14:42:30 GMT
Michael Aye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> > 5: 256 swap
:> ^^^^^^^^^^
: Please correct me if i am wrong, but i thought, Linux could only
i: handle SWAP
You are wrong, and have been for a long time now. It sounds like you
are running a 2.0.* or earlier kernel.
: partitions with size not bigger as 128MB, or is this only valid for
i: DEBIAN Linux?
It has nothing to do with debian, redhat or any distribution. It has to
do with linux.
Read the docs in The kernel source Documentation directory.
Peter
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From: alexander rauscher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: don'ts
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 16:52:54 +0200
hi!
i am a linux newbie. i want to use suse 6.4. my question is which hardware
i must not use. i hope this question is not too general. but i think its
bett er than asking something like ' i bought the soundcard XYZ. will it
work under linux ?'
regards
alex
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From: "Gregson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB mouse
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 14:54:36 GMT
I have an IntelliMouse Explorer and wish to use it on the USB port under
RH6.1, which I have upgraded to kernel version 2.3.30 and Xfree86 4.0.
Despite having followed the USB guide
(http://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/USB-guide-1.0.5) I haven't had much
success.
I know it isn't really worth the time or effort, but I am stubborn. So if
anybody has a suggestion, please post it.
thanks
Mark
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor
Date: 1 Apr 2000 15:27:44 GMT
D. Stimits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't know of any basic cpu monitors that show dual cpu when there
> (xosview has a patch, but I don't think any dist's use it by default).
> /proc/cpuinfo, however, is straight from the kernel. If it shows cpu 0
> and 1, you are using 2 cpu's. /proc/cpuinfo should be your test for
> SMP/non-SMP support.
RH6.1 has the dual capable xosview by default. It is *always* on my
desktop.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Network routes won't come up on Asus P3V4X running Redhat 6.2 w/3Com cards
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 15:29:16 GMT
I think I'm having a similar problem.
I have an Asante Lan card connected to my cable modem.
I was able to browse the internet normally but was unable to download
files -from a dos prompt found I had no FTP ability at all.
After removing all PCI cards except for the Lan and experimenting with
different slots I found what I thought was normal performance with the card
in slot 1.
I put the system back together like this:
AGP -Hercules Prophet DDR
1. Asante Fast 10/100
2. Adaptec 29160
3. SB Live
4. 1394 dv card
5. empty
6. empty
Working OK except I'm having problems connecting to a certain POP3/FTP
account with intermittent - slow or non-existant results.
I KNOW there is no problem with the server so I'm suspecting the P3V4X-Lan
card configuration again......
----I can connect to this account via USR ext. USB 56k modem------
----I can connect with this Lan card on my old Intel Motherboard-----
I don't know much about routing networks- is this problem similar to what
you're experiencing?
> I've been using a PCI 3Com 3c905 Boomerang card under Redhat v6.1 for
> some time now, and the 3c59x.o module worked just fine. After my old
> Asus motherboard croaked, I moved everything to an Asus P3V4X
> motherboard, and installed an extra PCI 3Com 3c905B Cyclone card in
> addition to the cards already in the system. At this point, whenever
> I rebooted, both cards would come up under the 3c59x.o module, but no
> network routes would come up except the one for the lo0 device. If I
> tried to manually enter the routes, I'd get a "no route to network" or
> some such, and then the whole machine would hang in about a minute.
> This seemed really odd, since you'd normally get at least a route to
> the network each ethernet interface is attached to.
>
> I then tried upgrading to Redhat 6.2, no luck. Then I thought maybe
> I'd messed up the routing information under
> /etc/sysconfig/static-routes, or in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts,
> but it all looked right. I then reinstalled Redhat 6.2 from scratch,
> using only the original PCI 3Com 3c905 Boomerang card, still no joy.
>
> Now I'm wondering if my BIOS settings or the positions of the PCI
> cards in the motherboard are causing the problems. Here's my current
> layout, anyone care to show me what I've done wrong?
>
> AGP slot: Guillermot 3D Prophet GeForce 256 DDR/DVI
> PCI slot 1: PCI 3Com 3c905B Cyclone
> PCI slot 2: PCI 3Com 3c905 Boomerang
> PCI slot 3: empty
> PCI slot 4: empty
> PCI slot 5: Adaptec 29160 SCSI controller
> PCI slot 6: empty
> ISA slot: Soundblaster AWE32
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> +-------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
> | T. Gordon Marler | LSMSA '85 |
> | Unix System Architect | Work: (425) 702-2980 |
> | AT&T Wireless, WLTG | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> +-------------------------------------------+----------------------------+
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From: "Tom Haeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual processor
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2000 17:38:39 +0200
I had to enable the Enhanced RTC in character devices (in make menuconfig)
in order to get the second CPU up and running...
Now I can 'see' my 2 CPU's sweat :-)
Tthank you everybody
"D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Tom Haeck wrote:
> >
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I have a CPU-board with 2 x PIII-500. I installed SUSE 6.2 on it. It was
> > installed, and the CPU monitor in KDE only showed me one CPU. So I
concluded
> > that the basic installation of SUSE doesn't use the 2nd processor (Is
this
> > so?).
> > So, I recompiled my Kernel, but still I can see only 1 CPU in the
> > CPU-monitor. How can I be sure that Linux uses the 2 processors? And
what
> > must I do in order to make them work?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > TH
>
> I don't know of any basic cpu monitors that show dual cpu when there
> (xosview has a patch, but I don't think any dist's use it by default).
> /proc/cpuinfo, however, is straight from the kernel. If it shows cpu 0
> and 1, you are using 2 cpu's. /proc/cpuinfo should be your test for
> SMP/non-SMP support.
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From: Lukas Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Iomega Zip Drive
Date: 1 Apr 2000 15:38:53 GMT
I have a problem with the installation of an Iomega 250 MB Zip drive.
It is an external parallel port device and I managed to install it
successfully on my computer using the imm driver. Now I tried to
install it on a different computer and always got the message
(after modprobe imm or insmod parport; insmod imm)
/lib/modules/2.2.13/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
dmesg gives just the following ouput:
imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
scsi : 0 hosts.
The parport configuration in /etc/conf.modules is
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none
According to the information in /proc/ioports, 0x378 should be free.
The lp module is not loaded, the scsi modules get loaded fine. What
could be the source of the error? What else can I try?
Lukas
--
Lukas Geyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "silkythreads" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon MultiPASS C3500
Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2000 15:44:14 GMT
Mandrake 7.02 correctly identifies my printer during install
but none of the printer options for Canon will print in any mode.
Does anyone know the correct driver package for this printer ?
FYI - this is a printer / scanner / fax machine.
--
Donna Williams
Software Test Engineer
General Dynamics
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