Linux-Hardware Digest #890, Volume #13 Tue, 14 Nov 00 11:13:12 EST
Contents:
Two 3dfx Voodoo 5500 cards and Xinerama (Don Harden)
Two 3dfx Voodoo 5500 cards and Xinerama (Don Harden)
Adaptec RAID ("Roland Scheike")
Re: Linux dies with new Athlon ("Tom")
Re: Need to run fsck on the / partition and need help (Leonard Evens)
Re: Adaptec 1540 SCSI problem ("Brian E. Parker")
Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows (Paul Pygeon)
Re: Linux Helpdesk *NEW* (Eric)
Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows ("Shawn Craver")
web cam on Linux ("Neil Blue")
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From: Don Harden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,3dfx.products.voodoo5
Subject: Two 3dfx Voodoo 5500 cards and Xinerama
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:00:05 GMT
Hello,
I am running RedHat 7.0 on an Intel box that has an AGP 3dfx
Voodoo 5500 card and a PCI 3dfx Voodoo 5500 card. I can get each card
to work independently. However, xinerama doesn't work properly if at
all. In xinerama mode X either dies on startup or soon after it loads
The following errors in the log.
Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display ":0.0".
Resetting FIFO
Has anyone gotten two Voodoo 5500's working together with
xinerama? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for your help. My XF86Config is below
Don
Dr. Don Harden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Chemistry 547 NSC
Georgia State University ph: (404) 651-3580
Atlanta, Ga. 30302 fax: (404) 651-1416
# For 3dfx Voodoo 5 AGP hooked to 21" SONY G500 &
# 3dfx Voodoo 5 PCI hooked to 17" SONY Trinitron
Section "ServerLayout"
# Screen0 --> AGP 21
# Screen1 --> PCI 17
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Module"
# This loads the Double buffer extension, miscellaneous extensions
(XFree86-DGA disabled)
# Type1, FreeType GLX, Direct Rendering modules,
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA
extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "xie"
Load "GLcore"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/SGI/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/SGI/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
# FontPath "unix/:7100"
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbCompat" "default"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "21"
VendorName "SONY"
ModelName "CPD-G500"
HorizSync 30-121
VertRefresh 48-160
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "21"
VendorName "SONY"
ModelName "CPD-G500"
HorizSync 30-121
VertRefresh 48-160
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "17"
VendorName "DELL"
ModelName "D1025TM"
HorizSync 30.0-85.0
VertRefresh 50.0-120.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Voodoo5_AGP"
Driver "tdfx"
VendorName "3Dfx Interactive"
BoardName "Voodoo5"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# Screen 0
# VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
# Option "SWcursor"
# Option "NoAccel"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Voodoo5_PCI"
Driver "tdfx"
VendorName "3Dfx Interactive"
BoardName "Voodoo5"
BusID "PCI:0:14:0"
# Screen 0
# VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
# Option "SWcursor"
# Option "NoAccel"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Voodoo5_AGP"
Monitor "21"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Voodoo5_PCI"
Monitor "17"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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From: Don Harden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,3dfx.products.voodoo5
Subject: Two 3dfx Voodoo 5500 cards and Xinerama
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:02:43 GMT
Hello,
I am running RedHat 7.0 on an Intel box that has an AGP 3dfx
Voodoo 5500 card and a PCI 3dfx Voodoo 5500 card. I can get each card
to work independently. However, xinerama doesn't work properly if at
all. In xinerama mode X either dies on startup or soon after it loads
The following errors in the log.
Xlib: extension "SHAPE" missing on display ":0.0".
Resetting FIFO
Has anyone gotten two Voodoo 5500's working together with
xinerama? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks for your help. My XF86Config is below
Don
Dr. Don Harden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Chemistry 547 NSC
Georgia State University ph: (404) 651-3580
Atlanta, Ga. 30302 fax: (404) 651-1416
# For 3dfx Voodoo 5 AGP hooked to 21" SONY G500 &
# 3dfx Voodoo 5 PCI hooked to 17" SONY Trinitron
Section "ServerLayout"
# Screen0 --> AGP 21
# Screen1 --> PCI 17
Identifier "Simple Layout"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen1" LeftOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Module"
# This loads the Double buffer extension, miscellaneous extensions
(XFree86-DGA disabled)
# Type1, FreeType GLX, Direct Rendering modules,
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga" # don't initialise the DGA
extension
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "pex5"
Load "xie"
Load "GLcore"
Load "record"
Load "dri"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/SGI/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/SGI/misc"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ISO8859-7/misc"
# FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
# FontPath "unix/:7100"
# ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Driver "Keyboard"
Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
Option "XkbCompat" "default"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "21"
VendorName "SONY"
ModelName "CPD-G500"
HorizSync 30-121
VertRefresh 48-160
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "21"
VendorName "SONY"
ModelName "CPD-G500"
HorizSync 30-121
VertRefresh 48-160
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "17"
VendorName "DELL"
ModelName "D1025TM"
HorizSync 30.0-85.0
VertRefresh 50.0-120.0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Voodoo5_AGP"
Driver "tdfx"
VendorName "3Dfx Interactive"
BoardName "Voodoo5"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
# Screen 0
# VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
# Option "SWcursor"
# Option "NoAccel"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Voodoo5_PCI"
Driver "tdfx"
VendorName "3Dfx Interactive"
BoardName "Voodoo5"
BusID "PCI:0:14:0"
# Screen 0
# VideoRam 65536
# Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
# Option "SWcursor"
# Option "NoAccel"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Voodoo5_AGP"
Monitor "21"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1920x1440" "1856x1392" "1792x1344" "1800x1440"
"1800x1350" "1600x1200"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen1"
Device "Voodoo5_PCI"
Monitor "17"
DefaultDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
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From: "Roland Scheike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec RAID
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:06:31 +0100
Hi,
I recently got an Adaptec Raid Controller AAA-131B.
Does anyone know a distribution that supports this
device?
Or is there a "universal" driver for it?
Adaptec says that the device is only supported
by M$ NT4 and Novell NetWare.
Thanks a lot,
Roland
P.S. Please place a CC on [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux dies with new Athlon
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:18:28 GMT
In article <j0VP5.14106$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jim Bonadeo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently built a system consisting of a 900mhz Athlon (Thunderbird)
> with a Abits KT7 motherboard, Voodoo 3 video, and Western Digital HD
> (I heard that WD has some ECC problem but I can't confirm) running
> Mandrake 7.2. All went well with the install, however, every once in
> awhile (3 times in 4 days), the whole computer locks up and I have to
> hit the reset button to reboot. Does any one have any information or
> experiences concerning this problem?
>
Great hardware, BUT, the WD/Mandrake issue is really a i386
(like Red Hat) vs. i586 (like Mandrake) issue. Since Mandrake is
optimized (ie, tighter timings) it sometimes has problems with
other than well matched, quality hardware. I'm afraid VIA and WD
(particularly recent WD's) often don't measure up.
for more on this:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20000821230053
You might also search the Mandrake expert and cooker ML archives
for 'Civileme'. He's the expert on all this, specially AMD.
I'm using a WD AC38400L (1997, 8.4g Caviar, ide0 slave), ReiserFS,
Mandrake 7.2, on a BX chipset board, p3-450 oc'd to 608mhz, with
no problems. IMO, your problems likely are due to your VIA chipset.
It's the main reason I haven't gone back to AMD. In fairness, it's
prob'ly safe to say most think it's HDD/controller issues. Have you
tried setting the WD to ata/33 ? Also, how's your Tbird temps ?
Lockups and re-boots are often caused by overheating. Is it a Alu or
copper Tbird ?
Tom
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need to run fsck on the / partition and need help
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 09:07:03 -0600
"Brian E. Parker" wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> At my previous job, I had a Redhat 6.2 box set up that handled a small
> amount of mail, ran a few majordomo lists, and did some web serving. This
> weekend, the people there unpluged the box on accident and it won't boot
> normally because of some errors on /dev/hda8, which just happens to be the /
> partition.
>
> From what they are tlling me over the phone, this is what is happening.
> They turn the machine on, and it gets to LILO: then tries to boot the
> kernal. It runs the pre-check on /dev/hda8 ( I had him look at the
> /etc/fstab to find out what partition that is, and it's the root / ) and has
> a problem. From what he says, it takes him to a point where he can type in
> the root password and get to a command-line ( a "pwd" showed /root ) and
> tells him he can run fsck manually or hit ^D to kill the shell. I get him
> to the command-line with the root password and we tried running fsck with
> different parameters, but it doesn't seem to fix it because after a reboot,
> it takes him right back to the password prompt after giving the same error
> messages when trying to do the initial fsck on /dev/hda8.
>
> What options should I run on fsck to get it to fix the root partition? If
> this isn't the correct way to approach this problem, what is?
Normally, you should be able to run fsck manually, without even
adding any special parameters, and give the default answers to
all the prompts. That almost always fixes the problem. The last
two times I had to deal with a machine in which it didn't work, the
hard disk had been damaged. You can try reinstalling Linux from
scratch, and if that doesn't work, you will probably have to replace
the hard disk.
>
> None of the data on this machine is real critical, but it would be nice for
> them to get it back up and running the way it was, because noone there has
> the know-how to reinstall and get majordomo running.
>
> Any help is appreciated. I'm not on-site where the machine is, so if it
> takes a couple days to get back to any questions you may have, it's because
> I have to call them and talk them through anything you guys suggest.
>
> TIA,
> -BEP
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Brian E. Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 1540 SCSI problem
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:02:25 -0600
This may seem obvious, but I thought I remembered the 1540 cards having a
jumper for their IRQ, so you may have it on an IRQ that is already taken.
-BEP
Julian Bordas wrote:
> Hello
> I have an old (1994) 2Gb SCSI with an adaptec 1540 controller card.
> When I installed Mandrake 7.2 it was unable to load the scsi module.
> How do I get the scsi working? I have another scsicard that runs a
> scanner could this be part of the problem?
> The PC is an AMD 400 with 128Mb ram and an 8Gb WD HD
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From: Paul Pygeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:48:59 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit:
> Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=12b9. Device id=1008.
> Medium devsel.
> I/O at 0xb000 [0xb001].
>
> # cat /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS4 irq 9 port 0xb000 uart 16550A ^fourport ^auto_irq
> skip_test autoconfig spd_vhi
>
>
> Setup after start:
>
> # setserial /dev/ttyS4
> /dev/ttyS4, UART: 16550A, Port: 0xb000, IRQ: 2, Flags: spd_vhi
>
Hi,
I have exactly the same modem and it works fine for me.
Try to remove /dev/modem with rm -f and
create a new link to ttyS4:
ln -s /dev/ttyS4 /dev/modem
Use: setserial /dev/ttyS4 irq 9 port 0xb000 autoconfig
I've tried all others options (fourport, auto_irq...) without success.
e-mail if it don't works
Bye
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Helpdesk *NEW*
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 16:51:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux4u wrote:
>
> > You can start with teaching people the difference between cross-posting,
> > which is allowed/tolerated on NG's and multiposting, which is considered
> > extremely rude.
> ????????
>
> > And maybe you could read up on netiquette too.
> where Eric?
> Whathave I done wrong here?
> Tom
>
> > Eric
You've multi-posted, that's what you did wrong.
I've encountered the exact message (from you) in comp.os.linux.setup
It's a wast of bandwith, and it's plain annoying. I have better things
to do than read the same postings in several NG's.
So if you want to crosspost to multiple groups, that's OK (How it is
done depends on your newsreader), but don't multi-post.
You can find info on netiquette on the web. Go to google.com and enter
netiquette as keyword and follow the links.....
(I'm sorry, I don't have a direct url for you)
Eric
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From: "Shawn Craver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: USRobotics PCI 56K Modem (5610-rev1) with COM5 in Windows
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:58:31 GMT
I have the USR model 2977, which according to linux (from /proc/pci) is just
the OEM version of the 5610. I tried for several days to get it to work
under 2.2.14 and nothing I did would get it to work (see the above thread:
3com/USR 2977...). I finally broke down and installed 2.4 test10 last night
as a last ditch effort, and it picked it up fine. And so far I haven't
noticed any problems due to the test kernel (it's been up and running for
about 12 hours now). It may be worth it to try this if nothing else works.
By the way, I'm running Mandrake 7.1, stock, except for the kernel.
--Shawn
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From: "Neil Blue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: web cam on Linux
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 11:03:58 -0000
Hello,
Could anyone tell me, if they have been able to use the Creative USB web cam
in linux, or even if it is possilble.
Thanks
Neil Blue
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