Linux-Hardware Digest #160, Volume #14 Thu, 11 Jan 01 08:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
alpha 164lx board - memory types? (tc lewis)
Re: A Direct Modem-to-Modem Connection (FyreFiend)
Running Linux on Apple Powerbook 190cs ????? ("Hans Meier")
Re: alpha 164lx board - memory types? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can you use msn with linux?? (Tony Hague)
Re: L2-Cache of Pentium2 with Linux ("Ralf Render")
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? ("Len Walter")
Sony DAT drive, please help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cheap MB for a Duron processor? (Alberto BARSELLA)
Re: geforce 2 mx under latest xserver ("yong")
Re: A Direct Modem-to-Modem Connection (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: asus a7v promise controller prob booting ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR ("Woody Green")
Re: Sony DAT drive, please help (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: L2-Cache of Pentium2 with Linux (Jean-David Beyer)
Live video problems with VIA VT82C686A and mouse ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 08:40:34 +0100
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, bjrosen wrote:
> I've just built a 2.4 kernel, it recognizes my 3Com card but not my
> DLink 530TX ethernet card. When ran the configurator the 3Com's card's
> driver was obvious, but the Dlink's driver isn't. What chip does the
> Dlink use?
Assuming, that the card is 530TX and _not_ 530TX+, it uses the via-rhine
module. 530TX+ in contrast uses RTL8139 (8139too module).
Rasmus Bøg Hansen
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- just like the others.
-- Burnin' Red Ivanhoe
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From: tc lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alpha 164lx board - memory types?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 03:25:24 -0500
i've come into possession of an alpha 164lx board + 21164 533mhz proc. it
supports 4 sdram dimm modules up to 512mb, supposedly. however, i have no
manuals. and the web pages on compaq.com seem to have disappeared very
recently. anyone know offhand what memory restrictions this board has?
ecc only or anything along those lines?
i've having odd problems with this where it simple beeps repeatedly
whenever i turn it on. wondering if it might be some sort of memory
problem like that. not sure what else it might be.
any ideas surely appreciated.
thanks!
-tcl.
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From: FyreFiend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Direct Modem-to-Modem Connection
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 03:43:58 -0500
I've seen this question asked by people before and from what I
understood from replies it can't be done. If you can't aford ethernet
then you could try a null modem cable between the two boxes (I've done
it between to DOS boxes but never Linux)
HTH
On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 15:46:52 GMT, Youngert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have two computers with the following configuration:
>
>1. Computer one: is running SuSE 7.0 Pro Linux distro and has a direct
>connection to the Internet through a Cable modem. It is also equipped with
>a 56Kbps modem.
>
>2. Computer two: is running Windows2K Pro and does not have any connection
>to the Internet, except it has a 56Kbps mode.
>
>What I would like to accomplish is to connect computer two to the Internet
>by means of computer one, a.k.a. Modem-to-Modem connection using PPP (an
>alternative way is to add a second ethernet card to computer one and
>another ethernet cat to computer two. Then, establish a PPP connection
>between these two ethernet cards). However, since I am in a tight budget
>and speed is of no importance, I would like to implement a PPP connection
>between the two modems. Does anyone know if this can be done. If so, can
>you please at least help me out? Any reference to this subject is
>certainly appreciated.
>
>TIA.
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From: "Hans Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Running Linux on Apple Powerbook 190cs ?????
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 09:57:41 +0100
Reply-To: "Hans Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hey,
I´ve got a Apple Powerbook 190 cs with 68LC040 and I want to run Linux.
I have informed myself and found out that Linux will not run on that
processor because of a hardware bug.#
But on the other way I read about a patch for that problem.
Is anyone running Linux on a Powerbook 190cs ???
When yes, which distribution?
Thanks in advance,
Jens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: alpha 164lx board - memory types?
Date: 11 Jan 2001 09:18:36 GMT
Hi,
tc lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i've come into possession of an alpha 164lx board + 21164 533mhz proc. it
> supports 4 sdram dimm modules up to 512mb, supposedly. however, i have no
> manuals. and the web pages on compaq.com seem to have disappeared very
> recently. anyone know offhand what memory restrictions this board has?
> ecc only or anything along those lines?
According to the user´s manual (AlphaPC 164LX motherboard) it can hold up to
512 MB of RAM. It needs SDRAM DIMMs PC100 with ECC. The four slots are
subdivided into two banks. So you always need pairs of DIMMs to upgrade RAM.
> i've having odd problems with this where it simple beeps repeatedly
> whenever i turn it on. wondering if it might be some sort of memory
> problem like that. not sure what else it might be.
Excerpt from the user´s manual:
Chapter 8.3 Beep Codes
1-2-3 This sequence represents the fail-safe booter startup
4 No valid header found in RAM; loading entire ROM
5 No memory found.
6 Checksum error detected when image was read back from memory.
========================================================
Hope this helps, it is really a nice machine to work with.
BTW, the AlphaBIOS is constructed to start up WinNT for Alphas and does not
boot from floppy disk. If you use a floppy for booting and installing Linux,
you have to set the path to this device in the AlphaBIOS. If it doesn´t
find a WinNT, it will complain. Just ignore this! It will start up a properly
installed Linux, although the BIOS thinks it is wrong.
Because of the AlphaBIOS, you will need a very small DOS-formatted partition
to put MILO to on your harddisk. But the docs will tell you.
Regards,
Kerstin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony Hague)
Subject: Re: Can you use msn with linux??
Date: 11 Jan 2001 09:34:32 GMT
In article <3a5cefcc_2@anonymous>,
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Then you need to get there DNS.Use your win box and run winipcfg(or what
>ever tool you have that shows your DNS under winblows)
No need to resort to such desperate measures - with a recent pppd,
look at the man page for the 'usepeerdns' option.
Tony.
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From: "Ralf Render" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: L2-Cache of Pentium2 with Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:58:19 +0100
Thanks Henrik,
I think that is the point. My program does not have the cache for itself
because of the multitasking.
Ralf.
Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ralf Render wrote:
> > Yes, my bios is set up to use the L2 Cache.
> > I wrote a small program that runs through an array (512k) and do some
> > calculations. A second version does the same with a loop of 100
> > times.
>
> Your cache is only 512k and some of it is probably also needed for
> instructions. Also remember that Linux is a multitasking OS, a process
> might not have all the cache for itself during the whole loop.
>
> Try to make a new testprogram which uses an array which is much smaller
> but still bigger than your L1 cache. What kind of result do you get
> then?
>
> regards Henrik
> --
> spammer strikeback:
> root@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Len Walter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use?
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:09:32 +1000
Greetings,
there are two possible answers to your question.
The D-Link DFE-530TX uses the via-rhine driver (I have this card and it
works well).
The DE-530TX board uses the Tulip driver. You'll need to check the box to
find out
which one you have. One of the things that makes hardware under Linux so
exciting (not)
is that hardware manufacturers have a nasty tendency to call very different
products
very similar names.
Both drivers are part of the standard kernel distribution. If you build
them, they should
autodetect the card.
The information about ethernet cards comes from Donald Becker's site:
http://www.scyld.com/network/. Check this for more details.
Good luck,
Len
"bjrosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:93jef9$8k1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've just built a 2.4 kernel, it recognizes my 3Com card but not my
> DLink 530TX ethernet card. When ran the configurator the 3Com's card's
> driver was obvious, but the Dlink's driver isn't. What chip does the
> Dlink use?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sony DAT drive, please help
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:32:00 GMT
I have a sony 5000 DAT drive the DDS 1 variety. Running redhat 6.2 kernel
2.2.14. I can do an mt status to it but that is about it. I got this nasty
error message ST0: error with sense data: [valid=0] infofld=0x0, current
st09: 00 sense key illegal request Additional sense indicates invalid field
in cdb
can anybody tell me what this means??
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Alberto BARSELLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cheap MB for a Duron processor?
Date: 11 Jan 2001 11:36:30 +0100
Hi all,
any suggestion for a cheap MB (133Mhz RAM, UDMA66 - not really
need 100) for a Duron? I've seen some neat MB from Asus, but they end
up costing a lot of money (2x the CPU!!). The cheapest one I saw
here is from MSI, any info about it?
Thanks and bye
Alberto
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From: "yong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: geforce 2 mx under latest xserver
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 10:46:46 GMT
Jan
Refer to Tom's Hardware Guide
http://www4.tomshardware.com/graphic/index.html
yong
"Jan Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I've got a Geforce 2 MX graphics card. UNfortunately there are no
> drivers available under Linux for this card. Does anybody know, how to
> get the X-Server running anyway or where to find drivers for this card?
>
> The latest drivers available from Nvidia do not yet support the Geforce
> 2 MX though every other Nvidia board is being supported.
>
> Thx for advice
>
> Jan
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: A Direct Modem-to-Modem Connection
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:16:44 GMT
Juha Laiho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>So, as I described above,
>"ATX0" is something you'll most probably need on both ends - it dumbs down
>the modems so they won't try to sense the telco dial/ring/busy tones, and
>in addition to that, "ATO" (or perhaps "ATD") on one end to originate
>connection, and "ATA" on the other end to make the modem "answer" the call.
>That should be what you need -- unless some other writer here was correct
>about current cheap modems not being able to communicate at all w/out
>the telco connection. I admit my knowledge here is dated.
This will _not_ work
- with standard el-cheapo modems, as these don't support direct
modem-to-modem communication without a Telco in between
- without a separate power supplied to the phone line you're
planning to use. IIRC, that's 5V , but try looking for
specific information on the general layout of a phone line first.
Repeating myself, get two NICs and forget about this hassle.
It's probably not worth wasting your time.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: asus a7v promise controller prob booting
Date: 11 Jan 2001 11:33:12 GMT
I've got a same problem.
In my case, A7V promise controller has been recognized successfully,
In comp.os.linux.hardware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> VP_IDE: chipset revision 16
>> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
>> PDC20265: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 88
>> PDC20265: chipset revision 2
>> PDC20265: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>> PDC20265: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
>>
>> ide2: BM-DMA at 0x8400-0x8407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
>> ide3: BM-DMA at 0x8408-0x840f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
>> hda: YAMAHA CRW8824E, ATAPI CDROM drive
>> hdb: CREATIVE CD5233E, ATAPI CDROM drive
>> hde: IBM-DTLA-307030, ATA DISK drive
>> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>> ide2 at 0x9800-0x9807,0x9402 on irq 10
but boot sequence stops at this point.
Now it works with generic ide driver X-(
CPU: Athlon thunderbird 1.2GHz
Kernel: 2.4.0 (slackware 7.1 base)
ide0: promise Ultra100 (PDC20265)
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct15 07, 7162MB w/418kB Cache, CHS=15522/15/63
hdb: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=5606/255/63
ide2: VIA VT82C686A
hde: MATSHITA CR-594, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdf: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CDROM drive
# /etc/lilo.conf:
image = /vmlinuz.2.4.0
root = /dev/hdb3
label = 2.4.0
append = "x86_serial_nr=1 ide=reverse idebus=33 ide0=dma hda=913/255/63
hdb=5606/255/63 hdc=noprobe hdd=noprobe"
read-only
and I reffered http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/ for setting kernel.
Does anyone know what should I do next?
---
K. Mori
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From: "Woody Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV-PVR
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 04:59:37 +0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hans Wander"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> does someone successful operate the WinTV-PVR under Linux? This is a
> rather new TV card with an onboard mpeg encoder chip. My old WinTV PCI
> card with BT878 chip worked without problems under Linux - I use xawtv.
> The new card is identified as a BT878 based card, but the output is only
> black and white. The second problem is: the sound mixer works wrong; the
> line-in is always forwarded to line-out. Does one of you have an idea?
>
> Hans
Hans,
It sounds like you need to update to the latest bttv drivers.
As per Gerd's FAQ: http://www.strusel007.de/linux/bttv/
----
Q: I´m using kernel 2.2.x with the included driver and I have
problem foobar.
A: Upgrade to driver version 0.7.x. The driver included in the
2.2.x kernel is old. As the current, actively maintained bttv
tree requires the new i2c stack (included in 2.3.34+) the 2.2.x
kernel bttv driver will not be updated. The list of cards known
to the driver is much longer in 0.7.x and a number of known
problems are fixed.
----
The bad (?) side of this is that it will require that you recompile
your kernel. You have to add botht eh bttv update and the i2c
update to your kernel source and then setup and compile a kernel
with the new drivers. The easy out is to get a distribution such as
Mandrake that has applied the updates to their 'default' kernel for
you. Although not bleeding edge current, it may fix your problem.
Alternatively, you could also get a distro that has a 2.4.0-test
series kernel with it (no distro has been issued at this time with
2.4.0 final) and get somewhat current bttv support. Most of the
2.4.0-test series are pretty stable.
I have (with 2.2.17 and the bttv updates) got a WinTV BT878 based
card working in color with sound. The only problem was the tuner
and we solved that by having xawtv startup with A/V input already
choosen and used a TIVO or VCR as a tuner.
You can find all the gory details and bttv at the URL listed above,
good luck,
Woody
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sony DAT drive, please help
Date: 11 Jan 2001 12:43:07 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a sony 5000 DAT drive the DDS 1 variety. Running redhat 6.2 kernel
> 2.2.14. I can do an mt status to it but that is about it. I got this nasty
> error message ST0: error with sense data: [valid=0] infofld=0x0, current
> st09: 00 sense key illegal request Additional sense indicates invalid field
> in cdb
> can anybody tell me what this means??
Not exactly, but the first thing to check with SCSI is *always* your cabling
and termination. Do you have good cables? Is your cable length too long?
Is the chain properly terminated? Have you sacrificed the requisite goats,
or at least given it some of your own blood?
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: L2-Cache of Pentium2 with Linux
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 07:57:17 -0500
Ralf Render wrote:
>
> Thanks Henrik,
>
> I think that is the point. My program does not have the cache for itself
> because of the multitasking.
That might obscure the results slightly, but I noticed little, if any,
such obscuring when yesterday I ran the test Peter posted.
In the little test, the dropoff as I exceeded the size of the L1 and L2
caches was extremely well-pronounced, even though the machine was 0%
idle both before and after the test because I was running two instances
of the SETI@home program in the background (at nice 19). My process
table typically has about 75 to 80 processes running (quite a lot of
daemons), and 3 to 5 (but sometimes more) labelled "running" in top.
So, sure, the process may not have the cache to itself, but it does
while it has control of the CPU, and I believe it can run for 100
microseconds at a clip before the scheduler times it out and (may, but
also may not) assign it to another process. These days, you can run
through a lot of instructions in 100 microseconds. I remember an early
version of the Unix kernel where the timeout part of the scheduler took
2 seconds and CPUs had about a 1 Megahertz clock, and a more recent one
where that interval was around 25 milliseconds. That was when processes
were really swapped (not paged), memories over 128Kilobytes were
unusual, and hard drives ran at 2400 rpm.
>
> Ralf.
>
> Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Ralf Render wrote:
> > > Yes, my bios is set up to use the L2 Cache.
> > > I wrote a small program that runs through an array (512k) and do some
> > > calculations. A second version does the same with a loop of 100
> > > times.
> >
> > Your cache is only 512k and some of it is probably also needed for
> > instructions. Also remember that Linux is a multitasking OS, a process
> > might not have all the cache for itself during the whole loop.
> >
> > Try to make a new testprogram which uses an array which is much smaller
> > but still bigger than your L1 cache. What kind of result do you get
> > then?
> >
> > regards Henrik
> > --
> > spammer strikeback:
> > root@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Live video problems with VIA VT82C686A and mouse
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 12:46:06 GMT
I have an Epox 8KTA motherboard, Duron 700Mhz, 64Mb RAM runnig 2.2.17. I
have DMA turned on and the kernel is configured for the VIA chips set
(VT82C686A). I am using the vesa frambuffer in 24bit mode.
The problem is when transfering video across the PCI bus from a Zoran
36067 AVI PCI chip to a SiS6326 AGP 8Mb graphics card.
I can get a nice 720x540 screen on the console: BUT when I move the PS/2
mouse the video transfer slows down so much that on the top third of the
screen is updated. Leave the mouse and I get full rate video again.
I have tried various motherboards with VIA chipsets and they all have
some sort of problem: Motherboards with ALI chipsets are fine.
I've been told it's something to do with the southbridge and possibly
incorpoating 3 chips in to 2 (the ALI has 3, the extra one is a
Winbond). Apparently VIA fixed it for windows: has anybody else had
similar problems? (and fixed them?)
Sent via Deja.com
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