Linux-Hardware Digest #583, Volume #13 Sat, 16 Sep 00 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux and Digital Cameras... (Lee Wee Tiong)
Multiple Adaptec 2940 scsi cards (Melvin Toy)
Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940 scsi cards (sideband)
purchase question (Brad Friedman)
Digital output from Soundblaster Live Value card (Derrick Arthur James Ashby)
Re: ASUS A7V w/ AMD TBird 750 issues (Brad Remedios)
Mylex DCE376 - Any chance? (marcel)
Re: Any compat. S7 mobo. with AV? ("Mark Langsdorf")
Re: Running Internal ATAPI Zip 100 on RH 6.2 (Alan Needleman)
Re: Linksys Etherfast LNE100TX v4.0 (Peter Kelly)
Memory hole problem!! (The Hack)
GeForce 2 and Caldera eDesktop 2.4 installation problems ("Stephen Williams")
Re: serial port server ??? (Jason Green)
Relativistic corrections for my atapi cd-rom drive ("Andrew P. Billyard")
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From: Lee Wee Tiong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and Digital Cameras...
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:54:17 +0900
David Hostetler wrote:
>
> Is there any way I can get the pics out of my Casio QV-11 digital camera
> into my Linux box without having to resort to booting up a windows
> machine?
according to <http://www.gphoto.org/cameras.html>, Casio QV-11 is
supported.
--
LWT
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but
that
he cannot believe anyone else. -George Bernard Shaw
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From: Melvin Toy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple Adaptec 2940 scsi cards
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:11:12 GMT
Hi-
I'm reviving a old server together that is going to have a bunch of
xterms connected to it. I have a dual 200 pentium pro, 512 memory, 2
3c509 nics on a Supertrend Mother board. I got it running with Redhat
6.1 w/ one Adaptec 2940 scsi card, 2 drives and a scsi cdrom. Well I'm
trying to improve performance anyway I can. I added 2 extra 2940 and
add 2 4 gig drives for each scsi card w/ one w/ a cdrom. The last device
for each scsi card is terminated. All drives and cards are seen during
boot. I was able to low level and verify each drive. I installed
RedHat 6.2 and it all went fine. But when I reboot, the server just
hangs after seeing all the drives. It shows the menu of hardware info
and just hangs there. I've tried installing dos by just fdisk, format
c: /s. You can cd to c: but if you reboot, it just hangs. I there
something special you have to do to the scsi cards or the bios if you
use multiple scsi cards?
Melvin
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple Adaptec 2940 scsi cards
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:26:55 -0400
Why only 2 SCSI drives per card? Why not put RAID 5 on the second
2940, with 4 drives thus improving performance?
I honestly don't know what's causing your system hang, there. Perhaps
two of the cards are having a resource conflict? Port address or IRQ?
-SSB
On or about Sat, 16 Sep 2000 06:11:12 GMT, Melvin Toy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, using the forum comp.os.linux.hardware did say:
:Hi-
:
:I'm reviving a old server together that is going to have a bunch of
:xterms connected to it. I have a dual 200 pentium pro, 512 memory, 2
:3c509 nics on a Supertrend Mother board. I got it running with Redhat
:6.1 w/ one Adaptec 2940 scsi card, 2 drives and a scsi cdrom. Well I'm
:trying to improve performance anyway I can. I added 2 extra 2940 and
:add 2 4 gig drives for each scsi card w/ one w/ a cdrom. The last device
:for each scsi card is terminated. All drives and cards are seen during
:boot. I was able to low level and verify each drive. I installed
:RedHat 6.2 and it all went fine. But when I reboot, the server just
:hangs after seeing all the drives. It shows the menu of hardware info
:and just hangs there. I've tried installing dos by just fdisk, format
:c: /s. You can cd to c: but if you reboot, it just hangs. I there
:something special you have to do to the scsi cards or the bios if you
:use multiple scsi cards?
:
:Melvin
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From: Brad Friedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: purchase question
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 02:04:59 -0500
I am a new Linux user and I am thinking of purchasing a new PC. I am
willing to spend around $500 for the whole system, excluding a monitor. I
was referred to www.pricewatch.com where I found a system that I like
offered from Explorer Micro, Inc. I was wondering if anyone had used this
dealer and what they thought, or if anyone had a recommendation for another
dealer to use. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-BF
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From: Derrick Arthur James Ashby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digital output from Soundblaster Live Value card
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:29:03 +1100
My PC has a Soundblaster Live Value card connected to a Boston Acoustics
sub woofer. I can connect the card to the sub woofer via an analog
cable, or a digital cable. When I use the analog cable I have no
problems getting sound in linux. When I use the digital cable, I get no
sound. I'm also running Windows 98 and Windows 2000 on this PC (yes I'm
a glutton for punishment). In Windows 98 the Audio HQ applet allows me
to choose between analog and digital. In Windows 2000 I have to use
digital. In Linux I have to use analog. It's a right pain, having to
swap cables depending on which OS I'm using at the time. I'm fairly new
to linux ... Oh, I'm running Red Hat 6.2 on a Gateway PIII 700 with 128
MB RAM
Derrick Ashby
PS I just spellchecked this, and Netscape suggested I repolace
Soundblaster with Sandblaster. Would this fix my problem?
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From: Brad Remedios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS A7V w/ AMD TBird 750 issues
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 08:30:11 GMT
I have the same problem.
I have a thunderbird 850 with asus a7v motherboard running RH6.2. I
currently have it in the via ide controller but wanted to move it over
to the promise...
I don't know whats up with this as i run a anthlon 700 with an asus k7v
with no problems at all. Even the UDMA66...
Out of curiousity, did you find a fix for this and what motherboard are
you using? Just curious as to how similar our systmes are...
Francesco Spadini wrote:
>
> First of all, forgive me if this issue has been addressed in the
> past. When I boot up the system described in the subject (using RH6.2) it
> fails, printing the following info before it croaks:
>
> CPU: AMD AMD Athlon (tm) Processor Stepping 02
> Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done
> Disabling CPUID Serial number... general protection fault: 0000
> <register dump>
> Process swapper (pid:0, process nr:0, stackpage=c0233000)
> <stack dump>
> <call trace dump>
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task not syncing
>
> I have tried fiddling with BIOS settings, and booting in single
> user mode, to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks
> in advance.
>
> _________________________________________________
> Francesco Spadini
> Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
> http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~spadini
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "Anima Sana In Corpore Sano"
> _________________________________________________
--
Brad Remedios ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (marcel)
Subject: Mylex DCE376 - Any chance?
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 08:36:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
any chance to get my old Mylex DCE376
caching SCSI controller to work with Linux?
It's in the Linux Hardware Compatibility HOWTO
as "in WD emulation mode only". So what does that
mean? Any jumpers to set to make it behave like
a WD controller?
Thanks in advance,
Marcel
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From: "Mark Langsdorf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any compat. S7 mobo. with AV?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:14:53 -0500
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8pt646$k30$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone recommend a GNU/Linux compatible super 7 motherboard which
> has both video (XFree 86 support) and audio support (without expensive
> (in anyway non-free) 3rd party drivers) onboard? It would also be
> preferable if it had onboard an ethernet nic.
The AMD EasyNow! PC design uses a compact (Flex) ATX chassis
with the SIS 630 and SIS 530 chipsets. The Am79C978 PCNet 32
ethernet NIC is built in, and it's designed to use a K6-2 microprocessor.
I've installed SuSE 6.3 on with minimal difficulties, and I wouldn't
expect another modern distribution to give you any difficulties.
AMD is pretty flexible about licensing the design, too.
> I intend to use this to make an in-car computer for which I will release
> all the details and offer to help anyone else build, if I can build one
> for myself.
Good luck!
-Mark Langsdorf
AMD, Inc.
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From: Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running Internal ATAPI Zip 100 on RH 6.2
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 12:37:08 GMT
David Hardy wrote:
>
> I can't for the life of me get my zip 100 internal drive to. I installed it
> after I install RH6.2 and it detected it on bootup, but thats it. I don't
> know where to find out where it is and I can't get the driver that I
> downloaded from Iomega ti install. I am a Newbie so any help needs to be
> step by step please,
If it is an ATAPI drive, it is /dev/hdc4 (master) or /dev/hdd4 (slave)
if it is connected to the secondary IDE controller.
Then, this works for me (no special driver needed):
as root create some directory, eg. /mnt/zip, then
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc4 /mnt/zip
assuming (i) that it is an DOS pre-formatted zip disk and (ii) that the
zip is master on the secondary controller.
That's it.
Hope this helps.
Alan
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From: Peter Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linksys Etherfast LNE100TX v4.0
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:58:21 GMT
On Sat, 09 Sep 2000 09:12:01 -0500, "Robert E. Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
When you say that you have the latest drivers, which drivers are
these? More importantly, which kernel are you using? I had to go to
2.4.0 to get mine to work. Once I did that, however, everything
worked great. Now, if I can just figure out iptables....
Peter
>Has the card been assigned an IRQ? This might indicate that the
>hardware is not getting the resources it needs to function properly.
>Check /proc/pci for details of what the card has latched onto at boot.
>
>Mike Pullen wrote:
>
>> I can not get this network card to be recognized. I am using the
>> latest tulip drivers per the manual and web page. I am receiving the
>> following error:
>>
>> insmod tulip
>>
>> tulip.c: init_mod.c: Device or resouce busy
>>
>> Any ideas?
>> --
>> Mike Pullen
When responding by email, please change the no-spam to disco.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Spam really sucks.
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From: The Hack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory hole problem!!
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:45:24 +0200
Hi !
I've got a ABit KA7-100 main board on which my usually supported,
functional SB CL PCI 128 Ensonic sound card didn't seem to work, until I
found a "solution" on alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit. The solution was
to enable the memory hole between the 15th and 16th mega byte. Which
seemed to work, but everything was slowed down to a crawl (e.g. it takes
approximately 1.5 min. for my XFree86 to load, and I got a Athlon 750
Mhz with 128 MB of RAM and a very fast IBM disk ).
So please help
Any help would be appreciated
T.H.
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From: "Stephen Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GeForce 2 and Caldera eDesktop 2.4 installation problems
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:25:42 +0100
Hi all!
I'm having trouble installing Caldera eDesktop 2.4 version of Linux.
Everything is fine until I get to the xserver configuration screen.
I have an Asus GeForce2 7700 delux graphics card which is unrecognised by
the installation program, as such I am unable to continue with installation
as these details are required.
I have a mitsubishi 900u monitor connected to the card.
Please could someone tell me what settings I can use to install linux
successfully, I'm not too bothered about 3D stuff, I just want to install
and use linux for web development testing.
So, I would be grateful if you could tell me what settings I can chose that
will be compatible with my card.
Settings that I have tried so far result in a corrupted screen, with white
and black corrupt bands.
Thanking you in hope of any help you can provide.
Ste!
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From: Jason Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: serial port server ???
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 15:32:11 +0100
Miguel De Buf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a serial device with only a serial interface attached to it (a blood
> pressure machine). I have to place this equipment in a room far from our
> server, where we have network. So, I want to prevent buying another pc,
> attaching it to the network, and attaching the bp-machine to this pc. I
> wondered if there existed such a small adaptor that acts like a print server
> (you know, that wonderfull small box that acts like lpd).
>
> It would be great if I could connect to some network-adres which would provide
> me with the serial signals from the serial interface without buying another pc
> and without writing this piece of software myself. So, what I need is a black
> box with one serial connector, one network-connector, and if I connect to
> <some-IP>:<some-port>, I can send and receive signals to/from the serial
> device.
Yes you can buy "black boxes" to do this. Connect each to the LAN and
they will transparently provide a RS232 connection across the network.
A cheaper option would be to run a portserver daemon on a Linux box
that will serve up the local COM ports to the LAN. This is good if
you would normally be running a dumb terminal to the RS232 device.
Replace the serial terminal with a remote telnet session.
Sorry, I don't have details of either the above, but they should be
easy to search for if you know they exist. The "black box" solution
is expensive though.
You could also consider running the RS232 directly over the building's
wiring. DB25-RJ45 adaptors are cheap, and you can continue with
whatever existing software setup you have. This assumes:
- The building has UTP wiring, which all goes back to a central point
- You have access to the patch bay
- The distance is not too great for RS232
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Relativistic corrections for my atapi cd-rom drive
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 14:35:00 GMT
Every once in a while, when I try to access my atapi cd-rom drive
(Compact Disc 40X max) after it has been idle, the drive speeds up so
fast that the drive is making a disturbing grinding noise (at this
point, I'm expecting synchrotron radiation to be emitted or a black hole
to form). As I'm about to freak it stops then starts up again at a much
more normal pace. This happened today when I used the "locate" command
and did it a few weeks ago when trying to upgrade my redhat box.
Any suggestions?
--
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