Linux-Hardware Digest #800, Volume #12 Thu, 4 May 00 06:13:05 EDT
Contents:
eisa mylex dac960 raid driver ?
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive (Bill Unruh)
Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed ("Frank")
Re: Linux Uses Less Power? (Neil Koozer)
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive (Neil Koozer)
Re: SB Live help. (wayne rattz)
HP Visualize FX6 Video Card (Kouros Owzar)
Playing sound from program (Janos LICHTENBERGER)
Re: eisa mylex dac960 raid driver ? ("Antony Platt")
Re: In need of really cheap modem.. Any recommendations? ("Risto A. Paju")
Re: In need of really cheap modem.. Any recommendations? (Rob Clark)
Re: BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux (Andreas Maunz)
Re: I'm going crazy! help me with my nic! (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Modem again (M. Buchenrieder)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: eisa mylex dac960 raid driver ?
Date: 4 May 2000 06:41:39 GMT
ok, i have done a stupid thing and bought a secondhand server. this big
box is a digital prioris hx 590dp. it contains an adaptec 1542cf scsi
card and a digital branded mylex raid card. as the subject indicates,
this is an eisa card.
naturally i have blown my budget buying this computer, so i don't want to
got out spending any more money. i wish to use the raid card already in
residence.
the adaptec card drives the cd and other external cd drives. the raid
card is driving the hotswap drive bays with two channels - drives 0 -> 2
on one and the remaining 3 -> 6 on another channel. there is a single
2 gig drive at id 0, and a pair of 4gb drives at 1 and 3 i want to use
as a raid 0 array. or at least this is what i have set up in the cards
non-volatile ram.
unfortunately the linux mylex drivers are for pci cards. they do not
recognise the card in my computer.
does anyone know if there are some eisa drivers available that will get
this card going for me ? beta or abandonded code at this stage would
even be considered...
andrew.
--
if linux is like driving with the top down, then windows is like driving
with the wheels off.
mail_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i'd rather be using RiscOS 4. but a reliable old a410/i will have to do.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive
Date: 4 May 2000 06:42:17 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
](3) Try the nuni boot loader (which I wrote:). It avoids bios problems
]by not using the bios. It can boot from anyplace up to 137gb on any IDE
]drive, including drives attached to add-on cards such as ata66 cards.
]It can be downloaded from
]ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/
Interesting. What is its downside? Why is it not the default loader in
Linux?
(And what does nuni stand for? Or for that matter what does lilo stand
for?)
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 00:51:42 -0700
"R. C. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
"M. Buchenrieder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
<snip>
>
> >Correction, from AHA-2940 Hardware Q & A :
>
> >Q: I cannot boot from my NT 4.0 CD-ROM although the BIOS Support for
> >bootable CD-ROM is enabled.
>
> >A: The option was available in the V1.23 BIOS version, but due to changes in the
>standard from Microsoft, the CD would not boot.
>
> Well, the 1.21 version for sure does not support booting off of a CDROM at
> all. I do have one of these here in another machine 2 floors away :)
>
> >This was corrected in the v1.25 BIOS version.
>What controls the booting from ROM? My 1996-vintage AHA-2940 (no suffix) had no
>trouble booting from CD-ROM (DVD-ROM, actually)
with either BIOS v1.21 or v1.23.
>But, hold on. As I was typing that little paragraph, it dawned on me that my Encore
>DVD-ROM is the only IDE device in my system.
So, I'm not booting from a SCSI CD (or DVD) drive. Maybe the 2940 and its BIOS have
nothing to do with it in my case.
The CD boot problem was only with "no-disk" emulation (aka El Torito).
Only certain CD's use this type of emulation, NT4 being one of them.
2940UW bios versions 1.21 & 1.23 work fine with the other two CD
types (hard disk and floppy emulation) but not with El Torito. This was
fixed in bios version 1.25.
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Uses Less Power?
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 00:15:56 -0700
John McKown wrote:
>
> On Mon, 1 May 2000 20:02:47 -0400, Thomas J. Canich
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >it's a funny thing. processor fans are. You don't need them, as long as
> >you are using the processor as intended by the manufacturer (ie, not
> >overclocking it). All of the processors on the market are designed to air
> >cool, using nothing more than a heat sink.
Not so fast, the fans are definitely needed when running at the
prescribed clock speed, but the power will vary a great deal depending
on what code is running.
> I'm curious about the statement about overclocking. I bought a dual P-III 450
> system from a Web merchant. It works wonderfully. It has CPU fans on both of
> the CPUs. Most of the time, this system runs around 46 Celsus. However, when
> I start up the Distributed Net Client (dnetc), within about 3 minutes, the
> temperature (according to LMSensors) has climbed to 55 Celsus. At this point,
> I get a CPU overheat alarm. Does this mean that the seller has overclocked my
> machine to get the 450 Mhz? Or can other things cause this? BTW - the same
> thing happens on a NexStar AMD K6-2 400Mhz system that I bought at Fry's.
> I've been trying to figure out how to keep these systems cooler. I did
> buy a dual fan that takes up a PCI slot, but it appears that this is not
> really helping. This is probably due to the way that the motherboard is
> laid out (SuperMicro P6DGE or DBE - I forget which). The 3.5 inch drive bays
> make one wall and the AGP video card separates the CPU area from the PCI
> slot area. Any suggestions on how to make this thing run cooler? I'm fairly
> good with putting in drives & boards, but I would be scared to try to mess
> with the actual CPUs (I.e. put on a new heatsink or some such).
Higher clock speed will mean more heat, but a 400mhz part clocked at 450
will not get hotter than a 450 part clocked at 450.
I cooked a computer once, and it was because most of the air inlets were
at the back where the warm exhast air gets drawn in instead of fresh
air. Since then I taped-up all the holes at the back of the cabinet. I
also cut a 3-inch hole and mounted a fan in the side panel of the case.
This fan blows directly at the agp card and into the space where the cpu
is located. I used one of those low powered quiet fans.
Another thing you should do is take the heat sink off the cpu and make
sure there is some of that heat-sink compound between the two. You can
get some in a little tube at Radio Shack. Add a little of that and
re-install the heat-sink.
Also turn it on with the case open to make sure all the fans run.
I have one motherboard with a linear regulator and I modified it to work
with 2.2 volt K6's. The regulator gets very hot running Windows and
stays cold running Linux, but I would think there would be some code
that would heat it up.
Neil.
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 00:27:14 -0700
Bill Unruh wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ](3) Try the nuni boot loader (which I wrote:). It avoids bios problems
> ]by not using the bios. It can boot from anyplace up to 137gb on any IDE
> ]drive, including drives attached to add-on cards such as ata66 cards.
> ]It can be downloaded from
> ]ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/loaders/
>
> Interesting. What is its downside? Why is it not the default loader in
> Linux?
It doesn't do scsi. All scsi cards are different and the driver for
each one is a bios patch in rom. In principle, nuni could be done for
scsi by doing a different version for every scsi card and let the
installing utility sense which one to use. However, the programming
details for the scsi cards is not available.
I didn't think that this was so bad because the vast majority of new
users are probably using IDE, and power users who use scsi-only probably
don't need the help. I have 10 linux systems on my machine, most of
which are on hde, which is a 17gb drive connected to an Ultra66 card.
Two of them are on hdd, and on that one I set the bios to 'normal' after
partitioning it in LBA. The one I'm typing on right now is Slack 7.0 on
hde11, which is up around cylinder 2000. Lilo can only boot about two
of these systems, and nuni boots them all.
I tried to interest Slackware and Mandrake in this loader, but they were
not interested. I used the ploy: You can be the first to advertise
"Ours boots above 1024". I also pointed out that Linux claims to fix
things immediately, and the "LI" and "L 01 01..." problems are more than
5 years old. I also said, "What if Window would hang with "WI" instead
of booting, and what if they didn't fix it for over 5 years?"
> (And what does nuni stand for? Or for that matter what does lilo stand
> for?)
lilo stands for linux loader. For my loader I wanted a pronounceable
two-syllable name that doesn't start with 'g' or 'k'. When I was born
(1943), my brother could not pronounce 'neil', and what he came up with
was 'nuni' (or 'noonie"). So that was my name until I was 5 years old.
I just happend to think of that and adopted it as the name for my
program.
Neil.
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From: wayne rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live help.
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 08:30:19 GMT
HELLO:Mandrake 7.0 has built in support for this card.It should auto
detect it at setup.First click on the mixer icon on the panel.If it shows
slide controls that can be moved up and down then your card was
detected.Set these all the way up.Second go into your control panel and
where it says sound click on it.Then at the top left check the box for
activating the system sounds and apply.Then highlight a item from the left
side of the list you see.Then highlight an item from the right side of the
list.Then hit test(top right)If you hear sound its working.If not pull up
a typing console and type (as root)/usr/sbin/sndconfig (hit enter)This
brings up a sound config tool.For more howto's try my site
http://www.geocities.com/wrattz/linux1.html
Click on the howto's(top right side of the page)
Jonathan Bertsch wrote:
>
> I'm having trouble getting my SB Live card to run on Mandrake-Linux
> version 7, I have the driver, but all the support documents are not very
> good. Any advise will be greatly appreciated.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Kouros Owzar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Visualize FX6 Video Card
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 17:28:09 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello:
I am thinking about buying a used HP Kayak Workstation.
I am primarily concerned about the compatibility of its
graphics card (HP FX6 with 18MB SGRAM).
Is this card supported by any version of Linux? Mandrake
and Redhat do not seem to support it.
If you have any info, I would be very appreciative if
you could send it to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take care,
Kouros
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From: Janos LICHTENBERGER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Playing sound from program
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 11:48:32 +0200
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Hi,
I should play sound through sound card from a program (i.e. not using sox or play),
the sound signal is stored in a vector. I tried to open /dev/audio end write the data
directly
to the device, but the result is the same as if I use 'cat qq.wav > /dev/audio'.
This way I can play only mono signal, with 8 bit resulution and with 8 kHz sampling
rate.
How can I set these parameter ( mono/stereo, bit resolution, sampling rate, etc.) from
a program
or even from shell, but making the setting permanent? Can somebody help me?
. Janos Lichtenberger
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<pre>Hi,</pre>
<pre>I should play sound through sound card from a program (i.e. not using sox or
play),</pre>
<pre> the sound signal is stored in a vector. I tried to open /dev/audio end
write the data directly</pre>
<pre>to the device, but the result is the same as if I use 'cat qq.wav >
/dev/audio'.</pre>
<pre> This way I can play only mono signal, with 8 bit resulution and with 8 kHz
sampling rate.</pre>
<pre>How can I set these parameter ( mono/stereo, bit resolution, sampling rate, etc.)
from a program</pre>
<pre>or even from shell, but making the setting permanent? Can somebody help me?</pre>
<p>
<p>. Janos Lichtenberger<br>
<BR></html>
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From: "Antony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eisa mylex dac960 raid driver ?
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 19:09:44 +1000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8er633$bs6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> ok, i have done a stupid thing and bought a secondhand server. this big
> box is a digital prioris hx 590dp. it contains an adaptec 1542cf scsi
> card and a digital branded mylex raid card. as the subject indicates,
> this is an eisa card.
>
> naturally i have blown my budget buying this computer, so i don't want to
> got out spending any more money. i wish to use the raid card already in
> residence.
>
> the adaptec card drives the cd and other external cd drives. the raid
> card is driving the hotswap drive bays with two channels - drives 0 -> 2
> on one and the remaining 3 -> 6 on another channel. there is a single
> 2 gig drive at id 0, and a pair of 4gb drives at 1 and 3 i want to use
> as a raid 0 array. or at least this is what i have set up in the cards
> non-volatile ram.
>
> unfortunately the linux mylex drivers are for pci cards. they do not
> recognise the card in my computer.
>
> does anyone know if there are some eisa drivers available that will get
> this card going for me ? beta or abandonded code at this stage would
> even be considered...
>
> andrew.
Gday Andrew
Have you tried using options for the driver ??
ie on the Compaq Smart array controllers the driver only says PCI
but if you pass
cpqarray eisa=0x7000 as an option then it finds the EISA based cards and
they work.
0x7000 is the slot nomber for EISA >> slot 7 in this case
Tony Platt
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From: "Risto A. Paju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: In need of really cheap modem.. Any recommendations?
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 10:16:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On May 4, 2000, David Bell recycled electrons into the following:
> question remaining :)... Where do I find the Lucent Linmodem driver?
I'm not sure if this is the same modem (if there are more than one kind of
Lucent PCI win/linmodems) but http://linmodems.org/ has a link to the one
driver I've found. Do give it a try anyway.
--
Risto A. Paju
http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
"It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical
author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense."
-- Alfred North Whitehead
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Subject: Re: In need of really cheap modem.. Any recommendations?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:17:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, I may have just found my answer! After looking through the modem
>compatibility database for a few hours, I found the Kye/Genius GM56PCI-L,
>Lucent 1646 chipset. At about $20, it's a great price. Now I have one
>question remaining :)... Where do I find the Lucent Linmodem driver? If
>anyone has any experience with this modem, it would be greatly appreceated.
You are about to make a big mistake. Do not intentially purchase a
winmodem, even if there is a working "linmodem" driver for it. The
existing commercial linmodem driver for the LT Winmodems is buggy and is
specific to the 2.2.x kernels.
If the additional $25 for a real hardware 56K modem is really too much
then consider get a used 33.6K modem instead.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Andreas Maunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 09:21:58 GMT
In article <8em2if$6rl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > But I still have another little problem: is there a possibility to
use
> > Video-IN connector (simple cinch) under Linux (I don't believe
> > kwintv/bttv-driver can do this, am I right?)
>
> Of course. It is possible. I used this possibility to watch video w/o
any
> problem.
>
> --
> Sławomir Siwek.
> Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne SA
> To co przed @ to pułapka na spamerów.
> Linuser #126048
>
Ok, ok, I got it. After I specified the card type in /etc/modules.conf I
was able to use the video-in.
Now I'm still a little bit confused, though :-)
But I won't bug you too much with questions, first let me see if I can
solve it myself... Probably I'm gonna ask some more things in the near
future.
BTW, thanx to all who supported my efforts !!
--
"Vergangenheit und Zukunft sind in Wahrheit nichts weiter als geschickte
Täuschung"
-Albert Einstein
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: I'm going crazy! help me with my nic!
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:48:56 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>:> PnP = Yes - Tells the BIOS that it doesn't need to bother
>:> setting up the PnP devices (including all PCI
>:> devices) because the OS knows how to do it.
>:>
>:> PnP = No - Tells the BIOS that the OS doesn't know how to
>:> set up the PnP devices so the BIOS had better
>:> do it.
Right.
>: I concur with this. This is the way my Asus P2B works. With the
>: BIOS set to "NO", according to RTFM, not only
>: does the BIOS take responsibility for setting resources of the
>: cards, but in fact (at least in my BIOS) the OS is actually
>: prevented from doing so. My triple-boot Linux/Win95/WinNT system
Well, "prevented" might be too strong a word.
If you set the PNP-OS option to Yes, then the BIOS _will_ setup
the PNP devices found with appropriate resources, but allow the OS
to be rearranging them. If it is set to No, then the resources will be
defined by the BIOS and the OS will simply have to accept it.
>This is not the case in most middle-aged bioses,
[...]
Yes, it is. More recent versions, though, slightly changed the
behaviour. Nowadays, the PNP-OS=Yes option will cause the BIOS to
not be assigning _any_ resources to the PCI and ISA cards at all,
which is just plain broken, and one of the reasons why a lot of
Linux users have problems getting their PCI cards to work - they
get error messages like "The BIOS seems to have assigned IRQ 0
to this device", which is exactly what is caused by this silly
change of BIOS behaviour.
If your BIOS allows the successful use of the isapnptools even
without having the PNP-OS set to Yes, then your BIOS is broken as
well, since that's not what was initially meant with PNP at all...
Michael
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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:34:19 GMT
[Please note FollowUp-To: header]
"Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Michael,
>What's the beef, I see almost perfect posts in this thread, the only
I don't.
:)
>exceptions
>being one or two unquoted linebreaks where text came from a HTML file.
...which is even worse, right.
>Most crummy posts I see are from people who HAVE their line limit set at
>say 72 chars per line (because they did not bother to change it or plain
A fixed line length of roughly 72 chars will make sure that your lines
will not be broken up into ugly pieces whenever somebody posts a
followup and cites your message.
>don't
>know how to do it).
>I have mine set at 132 (max)
Urgh.
>and provide my own line breaks (which is how it should
>be anyway).
OK, that's another way to do it, but then, why making it so complicated?
Any real newsreader will do it correctly without manually having to add
the line breaks.
>Problem is that OE wraps automatically and I sometimes forget to check
OE is the problem. It is not a newsreader.
>my post for missed linebreaks (like here) before
>sending. However the only 'problem' that makes is that you get 1 full
>and 2 half full lines.
>Not nearly so annoying as those 1 line
>1 word
>posts that change to those 1 line
>1 word
>1 word
>lines after a few quotes.
Yeah, but that IS the reason for limiting the line length to a
reasonable value that is not the maximum of what the screen width would
allow. And you can't predict on what kind of screen/system the reader
will look at your posting - which is why common sense suggests using
a 70 - 75 char. limit.
[...]
>Posting in HTML has none of these problems but that seems to be NOT DONE.
Posting in HTML is a no-no, and will even get your messages junked by
some servers automatically. Usenet doesn't consist out of sites that
have Internet access and/or a graphical interface.
>Posting using 'quoted printable' also does not suffer from those
>annoying unexpected
QP does nothing have to do with linebreaks at all. It is a way to
encode / display 8-bit characters. Unfortunately, most of today's
newsreaders still don't handle QP correctly at all, which is why I
usually set the transfer-encoding to 8-bit when posting / mailing
within Germany ( we use Umlauts that need to be encoded otherwise) .
[...]
>I'm using a little over half of my screen (20 inch), using a 12
>point character size,
[...]
I'm looking at it on a 15" terminal monitor. So there.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Modem again
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 06:50:18 GMT
"Coutal Fancois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I found this paper about AMR modem. will it be sufficient ?
> ( BW)(PC-TEL-INC) PC-TEL To Provide HSP Modem Solutions For Intel AMR
[...]
It should work with the PCTEL chipset driver for Linux, to be found
at www.linmodems.org .
Michael
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