Linux-Hardware Digest #910, Volume #13 Sat, 18 Nov 00 16:13:05 EST
Contents:
Adaptec 3200S w/ Debian potato (Christian Pernegger)
Re: Problems setting up TV-Card (Jan Oliver Koch)
Re: WCPUID for Linux? (Jelly)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Henry_Barta)
Re: Linksys LNE100tx (Henry_Barta)
solution for stereo video capture (=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Thiem)
Re: newbie problems ("John D. Peedle")
Re: Linux for the 486 ("John D. Peedle")
Want LINUX for tape drive compatibility. Advice sought ("kb")
Re: Linux for the 486 ("Matt Ng")
ISDN problem - "ISDNlink config port 0-8 already in use" ("Bryan K")
Hpt370 udma66/100 chipset loads as hpt366 and still can't boot from it! (Curtis Rey)
multiple drives fail at same time (Peter Bismuti)
Re: TV Card (Olaf Zaplinski)
Re: HP OfficeJet T45 Printer Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: solution for stereo video capture (Stephane Albi)
Re: multiple drives fail at same time ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fax server on linux for windows clients ("Darren and Marla Welson")
Powerdown problems with new kernel 2.4 ("Frank Worsley")
Re: newbie problems ("Frank Worsley")
Re: multiple drives fail at same time (Art Wagner)
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Subject: Adaptec 3200S w/ Debian potato
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Pernegger)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 16:24:03 GMT
Hi!
I own an Adaptec 3200S RAID controller (which I got for a faulty DPT unit).
Adaptec claims Linux support, but all they've got is a RH6.x binary-only
module.
Has anyone managed to get the unit running under something other than RH? Is
there an alternative Free driver?
Thanks
Christian
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From: Jan Oliver Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems setting up TV-Card
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:25:07 +0100
Hi Tim,
I went through the whole bttv mini-howto but
it doesn't work yet. I start to think that it might be a plug and play
problem. There are several PCI devices on int 5 (which is also the one
used by my TV-card).
I keep trying - but thanks a lot for your hint !!!
Oliver
Tim wrote:
>
> I just installed a Pinnacle Studio PCTV card, similar to the Hauppage,
> and I had the exact same problem. Follow the link below, and follow the
> instructions. It will work!
>
> http://www.tls.cena.fr/~jestin/bttv/bttv-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1
>
> Good Luck!
> Tim
>
> --
> Timothy J. Schutte
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
> "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: Jelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WCPUID for Linux?
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 16:45:07 GMT
On 18 Nov 2000 10:43:02 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Jelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Anyone know if there is a program like WCPUID for Linux that
>> can identify the CPU type and how much L1, L2, etc.. cache a machine
>> has and other details such as cache assosiativity, cache latency and
>> block size?
>
>The file /proc/cpuinfo already contains some of that information.
Thanks, but /proc/cpuinfo only lists cache size. I've also tried
looking in /proc/meminfo but it didn't provide the info I was looking
for.
Do you know of any other programs that might give me more details
on cache associativity and latency?
Jelly
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From: Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 18 Nov 2000 17:24:33 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Christopher Friesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is not a driver issue, but rather a configuration issue. I have
> had this exact problem, but for the life of me I can't remember what it
> was.
Please keep racking your brain!
> Some possibilities:
> -DNS isn't working properly and ftp/telnet are blocking on hostname
> lookup
No DNS on my local LAN. (/etc/hosts) In any case, telnet from
other hosts works. Destination is by IP address and works with
the old card and not the new.
> -the extra "lo" interface when comparing the old to the new outputs from
> ifconfig is causing problems
The difference between 'ifconfig' and 'ifconfig eth0', I should
be more consistent.
> -can you telnet to localhost and 127.0.0.1? if not, this further points
> to a configuration problem
Yes, both work.
I put the old card back in to verify that I had not accidentally
changed something in the configuration during the upgrade. It
came up and worked fine, however, it is working with the tulip
driver that came stock with the 2.2.17 kernel. I tried the old
card with the new tulip driver (the one downloaded from Donald
Becker's site) and it did not work. But I suppose that is not
the first time the newer driver did not maintain backward
compatability, since the kernel distro already has three tulip
drivers, including old_tulip.c.
So... I'm still wondering about some sort of 'disconnect'
between the driver and the rest fo the TCP/IP stack. I'm guessing
that ICMP messages are replied to at a lower level and perhaps
even in the driver itself while other messages need to reach
higher levels in the stack. Recall that when I try an outbound
telnet or ftp connection, I see the Rx packet count going up
(and can see corresponding activity on the xmit LEDs on my
hub). It appears as if the target host is trying to respond,
but the response is falling on 'deaf ears'.
thanks,
hank
--
Hank Barta White Oak Software Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Predictable Systems by Design.(tm)
Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois
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From: Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linksys LNE100tx
Date: 18 Nov 2000 17:32:29 GMT
Clifton T. Sharp Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Bridgecom, Inc: Unknown device 0985 (rev 11)
> It doesn't look like you have a 4.1 card. They identify as "ADMtek Comet
> rev. 17", not as "Bridgecom, Inc."
4.1 is what the printing silk screened on the card says.
Anyway, I suspect that Linksys may have put out more than one
variety of LNE100Tx 4.1 card.
A correspondent on the tulip mailing list provided me with
patches for 'tulip-diag' that print more accurate information
for the ADMtek chip based cards:
tulip-diag.c:v2.04 9/26/2000 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
Index #1: Found a ADMtek AL985 Centaur-P adapter at 0xe000.
Port selection is 10mbps half duplex (Link is on)
Transmit started, Receive started, half-duplex.
The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
The transmit threshold is 128.
The Comet MAC registers are ba45ba45 ffffba45 filter 8000000000000000.
EEPROM size is 8.
WARNING: The EEPROM is missing or erased!
Ethernet MAC Station Address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.
Default connection type 'Default'.
PCI IDs Vendor ffff Device ffff Subsystem ffff ffff
PCI min_grant 255 max_latency 255.
CSR18 power-up setting 0xffff****.
So it is an ADMtek Centaur-P ... The PCI code probably just
has not been updated since this card has been released.
--
Hank Barta White Oak Software Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Predictable Systems by Design.(tm)
Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg?= Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.graphics.api.opengl,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.graphics.visualization,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,de.comp.hardware.graphik
Subject: solution for stereo video capture
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:45:36 +0100
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Hello,
I have some questions about real-time video-editing.
Some video-cards, like ASUS DELUXE can capture a PAL-signal and in the
same time showing at the monitor in real-time. This feature is called
PLAYBACK. I want to overlay the video-data with simple objects, like
some lines. At ASUS-web-page I've read something about "video-overlay"
but I don't know if it is this feature.
So following questions have to be considered:
1) Is it possible to manipulate the video-data in real-time in such a
PLAYBACK-Situation?
For that purpose, I think it have to be a real video-capture not only a
pass-trough of the PAL signal and converting into VGA, i.e. the captured
data is somewhere PC-memory.
2) Is the video-data captured and stored or cached into the main
PC'memory or only into graphic-cards memory? First way would take the
PCI-BUS (if it is an PCI-card) very busy.
As I want to do stereo, i.e. I want to capture 2 video-signals (and
overlay both), I would need to have 2 graphic-boards which may produce 2
manipulated VGA-signals. But then, I have to use PCI!!!!
An promising alternative/idea I think about.
Are there frame-grabber card's that one can connect to a graphic-card
directly without using the PCI-BUS???????? Like the connector from the
CD-ROM to the sound-card for audio-data???? Perhaps there exist some
grabber/graphic-card configuration that could to that job, perhaps with
special grabber-manifacturers, like fast or miro????
I know that there exist grabber that could capture 2 signals at the same
time. But I don't know, if they transport the data via PCI-BUS to the
main RAM???
There are a lot of questionmarks :-)
But I hope, someone can help me soon.
On Monday I have to decide which hardware I have to purchase :(
Thanks in advance a lot,
Joerg
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From: "John D. Peedle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie problems
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:09:32 -0000
> Someone told me that the environmental profile my have something to do
with
> it.
You are quite correct - Redhat 7 is broken - it does not give root /sbin in
the path
to prove this, type ifconfig -a - I think you will find that it doesn't
work.
Type export PATH=$PATH:/sbin to cure. Add it to your profile to cure
permanently.
--
John D. Peedle
RHCE - so I'm biased
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From: "John D. Peedle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for the 486
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 18:17:36 -0000
Tim,
XFree86 has been working on i486's for years. Most of the development was
done on that processor... It is far more likely to work on that era of
hardware than more modern kit - Intel 815e as a case in point. What is of
more interest and importance is the video chipset. As long as it isn't some
wierd and esoteric chipset everything should be fine.
Chris, get yourself a copy of whatever distro you fancy - I like SuSE and
Redhat but many people swear by Debian and others. Try it and see what
happens.
--
John D. Peedle
RHCE - so I'm biased
"Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> chrismendes wrote:
> >
> > Is it still possible to get off-the-shelf linux installed on an old 486
?
> > How hard would it be to do this ?
>
> Sure, you could get it to work. You probably could not use X windows,
> but it could do just about anything else, depending on the size of the
> HD and the memory capacity.
>
> Good Luck!
> Tim
>
> --
> Timothy J. Schutte
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
> "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
>
>
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From: "kb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Want LINUX for tape drive compatibility. Advice sought
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:08:17 -0800
Hi all,
I'm glad to find a newsgroup dedicated to linux hardware like this.
I think with this many people in this hobby ...um work. sorry. Somebody
is bound to know the solution for my problem.
I want a external 8mm tape drive , NON SCSU and preferably USB,
and a OS that can read tapes made by "gtar" from a Solaris sun
workstation.
So I'm looking for a boxed Linux version that would fill the need of
a chip design consulting works for both a laptop and desktop - Currently
eyeing a SUSU 7.0 box, and a NON scsio 8mm tape drive that would
work with that Linux version.
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From: "Matt Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for the 486
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 13:32:45 +0500
In article <wLoR5.3566$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"chrismendes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it still possible to get off-the-shelf linux installed on an old 486
> ? How hard would it be to do this ?
For what it's worth I was running RH6.1 on a 486/66 with 32 MB RAM and 4
GB HD. It ran fairly slow, but it was manageable... Mind you Star Office
5.1 took about a minute and a half to load. ;-)
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From: "Bryan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: ISDN problem - "ISDNlink config port 0-8 already in use"
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:06:58 -0000
Reply-To: "Bryan K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've just installed Mandrake 7.2 and have been trying to get my ASUS
ISDNLink card working. As far as I can tell, everything is set up properly,
but Hisax won't load, giving the above error message. I simply haven't got a
clue what this means or how to fix it - any ideas?
--
Bryan Kennerley mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.northwalesindex.co.uk (1827 links and rising)
http://www.midwalesindex.co.uk (965 links and rising)
http://www.westwalesindex.co.uk (840 links and rising)
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From: Curtis Rey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hpt370 udma66/100 chipset loads as hpt366 and still can't boot from it!
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 19:12:55 GMT
I have an Abit BE6-II, rev2.0 Mobo. It has an HPT370 UDMA 66/100 ide
controller. I'm running Mandrake 7.1 (dual boot w/W98SE) and it has
loaded the hpt as the 366 version. I applied the patch and there seems
to be no noticable change (this could be my inablilty to locate or find
any refernces that would tell me about any changes that have
happened). I have followed the HPT 366 mini-HOWTO and edited the
files/conf's as it suggested. It assigns the correct I/O, IRQ values
now, and I've "appended" the LILO conf file also.
Raid was setup as part of the default install process. This may be
part of my problem. I don't need raid right now. I really want to just
boot from the UDMA66/100 channels instead of the default ide
channels (the board has 4 ide interfaces, 2 are standard ide's with UDMA
33, and 2 are controlled by the HPT 370 chipset with UDMA 33/66/100
capablilty, so a total of 8 IDE/ATAPI devices can be used).
Anyone have experience or suggustion in this area? I would really like
to set up the UDMA 66/100 channels as boot channels
Curtis Rey (aka Crusher-1)
P.S. I have also tried various BIOS boot option/setting and have not
been able to figure out if it's a combo of BIOS, LILO, etc,
configurations that need to be matched just so.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: multiple drives fail at same time
Date: 18 Nov 2000 19:14:02 GMT
I had a CDRom and floppy drive fail at exactly the same time. Now I've
replaced both and the new CDRom has already failed. This seems like too
big of a coincidence. What could be causing it?
Thanks
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From: Olaf Zaplinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: TV Card
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:40:55 +0100
"Ernest N. Mamikonyan" wrote:
>
> My friend have and Avermedia BTA848 TV Card and we were trying to get
> it to work under RedHat 7.0 using the bttv.o module. However, we hav
> enot been successfull yet, although very close. We either get a blank
> screen and sound or the one channel and no sound. Does anyone have a
> clue as to what we are doing wrong (or not doing)? By the way, we were
> alble to get all the modules to load without errors.
>
> --
> Thanks in advance!
> Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What worked for me is compiling the bttv stuff *not* as module, but into the
kernel. If you get some error message, edit ~/drivers/char/Makefile:
*** old: ***
ifeq ($(CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848),y)
L_OBJS += bttv.o tuner.o
L_I2C=y
else
ifeq ($(CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848),m)
M_OBJS += bttv.o tuner.o
M_I2C=y
endif
endif
*** new: ***
ifeq ($(CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848),y)
L_OBJS += bttv.o tuner.o msp3400.o
L_I2C=y
else
ifeq ($(CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848),m)
M_OBJS += bttv.o tuner.o msp3400.o
M_I2C=y
endif
endif
Olaf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP OfficeJet T45 Printer Problems
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:02:42 GMT
> The problem is that after printing anything out, either
> from the Linux command line or from Windows via Samba,
> the pages get printed as expected, /but then/....
> an extra page gets ejected, it waits ~20 seconds,
> then the printer beeps a few times, lights its orange
> error LED and displays 'Reconnect PC' on the LCD.
> I then either have to press Enter on the printer front
> panel or reboot the printer to get the printer to do
> anything else.
I have solved my own problem, albeit as a side-effect of
upgrading to RedHat 7.0. It now prints perfectly every
time without extra pages and without error beeps / lights /
messages. Joy.
Marcus
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Stephane Albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.graphics.api.opengl,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,comp.graphics.algorithms,comp.graphics.visualization,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,de.comp.hardware.graphik
Subject: Re: solution for stereo video capture
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 21:12:07 +0100
in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jörg Thiem at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote on 18/11/00 18:45:
> Hello,
>
> I have some questions about real-time video-editing.
> Some video-cards, like ASUS DELUXE can capture a PAL-signal and in the
> same time showing at the monitor in real-time. This feature is called
> PLAYBACK. I want to overlay the video-data with simple objects, like
> some lines. At ASUS-web-page I've read something about "video-overlay"
> but I don't know if it is this feature.
> So following questions have to be considered:
>
> 1) Is it possible to manipulate the video-data in real-time in such a
> PLAYBACK-Situation?
> For that purpose, I think it have to be a real video-capture not only a
> pass-trough of the PAL signal and converting into VGA, i.e. the captured
> data is somewhere PC-memory.
Most of the time, the video is only in video card memory. The cards "knows"
were to overlay the video using some special color.
> grabber/graphic-card configuration that could to that job, perhaps with
> special grabber-manifacturers, like fast or miro????
What about considering something else than a PC ? An sgi O2 can grab two
video streams into memory without any problem. You can use them to map onto
polygons, are display them with stereoscopic rendering in realtime (using
OpenGL).
Stephane Albi
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Subject: Re: multiple drives fail at same time
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Nov 2000 15:19:24 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) writes:
> I had a CDRom and floppy drive fail at exactly the same time. Now I've
> replaced both and the new CDRom has already failed. This seems like too
> big of a coincidence. What could be causing it?
Check the voltage on the power supply pins you've been using.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In one gloss of the cut interstellarly I must immovable protect the
universe.
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From: "Darren and Marla Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.samba
Subject: fax server on linux for windows clients
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:25:16 GMT
I need a fax server package that I can run on my Linux firewall/server that
allows windows clients to access faxes and send faxes. I looked at HylaFAX,
but it is a Linux server and requires an additional package for windows
clients to interact with it. What has anyone used in the past to accomplish
this, or is this a nightmare?
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From: "Frank Worsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Powerdown problems with new kernel 2.4
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:31:35 GMT
Howdy,
I am having some automatic powerdown problems again. I upgraded my kernel
from the RedHat 7 default to 2.4.0-test10. However, now my automatic
powerdown does not work again. Using the 'poweroff' or 'halt -p' commands
the system enters the shutdowns sequence and the message 'Power Down' is
displayed at the very end. However the system never powers off.
Anyone got any ideas? I have APM/ACPI support enabled in the kernel and
my ACPI BIOS is detected when I check the boot messages, it also says
something along the lines: "[acpi] APM is already enabled" during boot.
I also have the apmd running.
Thanks,
Frank
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From: "Frank Worsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie problems
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 20:41:58 GMT
In article <8v6gl0$5r3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John D. Peedle"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Someone told me that the environmental profile my have something to do
> with
>> it.
>
> You are quite correct - Redhat 7 is broken - it does not give root /sbin
> in the path to prove this, type ifconfig -a - I think you will find that
> it doesn't work. Type export PATH=$PATH:/sbin to cure. Add it to your
> profile to cure permanently.
>
That is weird. /sbin is included in the PATH for me if I login as root or
do an su -. The problem for you might be that you did not log in as root
but as a normal user. Then you did an 'su' but not 'su -'. That way the
environment from the previous users shell is maintained and the root
login scripts are not run. You should try using 'su -' for a full root
login.
> --
> John D. Peedle RHCE - so I'm biased
>
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From: Art Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: multiple drives fail at same time
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 14:01:12 -0700
Peter Bismuti wrote:
>
> I had a CDRom and floppy drive fail at exactly the same time. Now I've
> replaced both and the new CDRom has already failed. This seems like too
> big of a coincidence. What could be causing it?
>
> Thanks
Peter,
Check those parts of your system common to all three drives;
1. Power Supply
2. Cables Signal and Power
3. IDE/Scsi Controller(s)
4. Motherboard
Art
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