Linux-Hardware Digest #765, Volume #14 Sun, 13 May 01 14:13:17 EDT
Contents:
Re: Nvidia drivers. Can I use RPM? ("Vladimir [AvEnGeR] Mikac")
Re: serious bug in raidtoos (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: HDD does not enter standy mode - how to get a grip on it? (Markku Kolkka)
Re: RAM question ("Wayne Osborn")
Sun Netra 105 Help.. ("Malkevich")
Re: serial ports not working ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: 4GB RAM Problem... (Jerry Kreps)
Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel ("Richard A. Bilonick")
Re: Video Card ????? ("EliteRaven")
SB Vibra 128 vs Live! value (for infamous crackling problem) (Andrew Luke Nesbit)
Re: No sound; Something wrong with mixer. Help (Dave Uhring)
Re: RAM question (Eric P. McCoy)
Genius GM56PCI-L Modem Driver??? ("Vicente y Lorena")
Re: Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel ("Richard A. Bilonick")
Re: Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel
Re: Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel ("Richard A. Bilonick")
Re: 4GB RAM Problem... (Johan Kullstam)
ECI USB Modem ("Shelleu")
mount /dev/fd0 (Me)
Re: mount /dev/fd0 (Tony Curtis)
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From: "Vladimir [AvEnGeR] Mikac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Nvidia drivers. Can I use RPM?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:05:10 +0200
> I have SuSE 7.0 with 2.2.16 kernel. However a patch was downloaded for it
> because of the Promise IDE Controller and Geforce 2 that I have. This was
in
> the form of K_EIDE.RPM. Anyway I've been trying to get the Nvidia drivers
to
> work fine and have been having problems. (the nv driver in Xfree works
> fine). What I wonder first of all is do I need to use the source or tar
from
> Nvidia or can I just use the RPM's they provide. Does the patch I got for
> the kernel from SuSE make the Nvidia RPM's non usable for me? They seem to
> load fine however I can never make it into X. I'll get a black screen with
> no errors in the XFree log. IT only stops after "Write-combining range".
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Also if I installed the Promise/Geforce patch for the kernel did it update
> the header files automatically or do I need to do this?
what, does the promise controller have problems with GeForce?
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: serious bug in raidtoos
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 13:22:44 +0200
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Armin Ollig wrote:
> Kernel 2.4.2 (#5)
This could be your problem. 2.4.2 was known to be buggy and could - IIRC
- result in FS corruption. Upgrade to 2.4.4.
Rasmus
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HDD does not enter standy mode - how to get a grip on it?
Date: 13 May 2001 14:01:25 +0300
"Dominik Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I encounter severe difficulties in shutting down my HDD on SuSe 7.1 if it is
> idle.
Check out noflushd: http://noflushd.sourceforge.net/
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Markku Kolkka
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM question
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:27:34 +0800
In article <9d9vhp$g6c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Connolly"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just bought a new motherboard and processor - Athlon 900. I
> bought 128 RAM to go into it too. I still have the old slower RAM -
> 128SIMM and 2x32DIMM from my old PII233 that will fit in the board -
> (alongside the new 128DIMM).
>
> Can anyone tell me if putting in the old RAM will slow up the system,
> and hence the new RAM won't operate at its maximum speed - or - will the
> system be faster by having lots more memory?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John
>
> ps - I am running Suse6.3
>
Check your mobo documentation, I am about to buy an Abit KT7A that can do
this, it has per RAM slot settings.
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
7:20pm up 22:41, 2 users, load average: 1.02, 1.03, 1.00
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From: "Malkevich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Sun Netra 105 Help..
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 22:11:14 +1000
Hi All,
Just a question that is simple I hope, has anyone installed RH6.2 on a
Netra 105 before ?? I am having problems getting the Ethernet port up.
Anyone assist with driver info ?
Also, anyone know of a "beginners" guide to Sparc kernel compiling and
install methods.. I am very familiar with Intel method, but not Sparc
method.. Me am getting lost..
Malkevich
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
Subject: Re: serial ports not working
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 14:07:15 +0200
In comp.os.linux.hardware M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Did you replace an existing board? If so, did you use the serial
> cables that _came_ with the new (EliteGroup) board as well?
> If not, then that's most likely your problem. The serial cables
> that connect the onboard ports with the external plug are
> not standardized at all. You'll have to find a matching pair of cables
> for your new board.
Yes, well, they are kind of standardized. There are TWO principle
standards, with different lacing. Try the other type.
Nice guess!
Peter
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From: Jerry Kreps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 4GB RAM Problem...
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:37:27 -0500
Have you posted this to SuSE's mail list?
(BTW, do you have 8GB of swap?)
Sipke de Wal wrote:
> Does your MOBO support caching for up to 4GB ???
> If so is it enabled in the BIOS??
>
> Some OS-ses like to allocate RAM from the highest locations downwards so
> they might run into uncached ram very soon if the caching on your MOBO is
> not effective for the top of RAM. And that slows things down dramatically!
>
> Sipke de Wal
> -----------------------------------
> http://xgistor.ath.cx
> -----------------------------------
>
> Michael Sabielny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> 9dbh3v$8ir$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > recently we got a new computer with these features:
> > 2 PIII-CPUs
> > 4 GB ECC-RAM (4 DIMMs)
> > Supermicro 370DL3 Mainboard
> > OS: SuSE Linux 7.1
> > Kernel: SMP-Kernel with Support for more than 4 GB of RAM
> >
> > Wen encountered a strange effect: when we use only 3 Gigs of the RAM
> > (with one DIMM removed) the computer behaves absolutely normal and shows
> > its expected performance.
> >
> > But if we put the fouth DIMM it gets very slow, e.g. needs the double
> > time for a numerical matrix decomposition. Even the bootup time
> > increases dramatically.
> >
> > We tried various different kernels:
> > SuSE precompiled 2.2.18-SMP
> > SuSE precompiled 2.4-SMP
> > selfcompiled 2.4-SMP-4GB
> > selfcompiled 2.4-SMP-64GB
> >
> > But all kernels have the same behavior! In the moment we put the 4. DIMM
> to
> > get the full 4 Gigs we get slow...
> >
> > Has anybody got some experiance with this kind of problem?
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Michael Sabielny
> > Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg
> > Department of Theoretical Electrical Engineering
> > 21071 Hamburg
> > Germany
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Richard A. Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 14:26:00 GMT
How does one remove ide cdrom support from the kernel? I need to use
ide-scsi in order to set up a cd-rw. Using "insmod ide-scsi"doesn't seem
to be enough to get the scsi emulation working. I'm using RH 7.0. There
is an ide hard drive at /dev/hda (master without a slave on the first
ide channel). On the second channel I have a Toshiba SD R1002 (cd,
cd-rw, dvd) at /dev/hdc (master) and the original cdrom as a slave at
/dev/hdd. I can read from both cd drives.
I've looked at the HOWTO but am still scratching my head.
--
Rick Bilonick - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "EliteRaven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Video Card ?????
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 10:56:09 -0400
I would suggest a geforce 2 mx which can be had for under 100 dollars now or
even a radeon althoughI do not know about driver support for the radeon.
Good luck
Lenny M
"X_Factor6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8dnL6.42412$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What's a good video card to get for Linux?? Currently running a ATI 8MB
> Expert. Looking for something with a little for *ummph*, but don;t want
to
> spend a load of money. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
>
>
> X_Factor6
>
>
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Subject: SB Vibra 128 vs Live! value (for infamous crackling problem)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Luke Nesbit)
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 15:14:25 GMT
hi... I'm am completely fed up with my SB Live! (due to sound dropouts
and crackling) and like many others, cannot fix it. Therefore, I'm
going to buy another sound card.
I'm thinking of the Vibra 128 (because I can't afford one of those
nice Turtle Beach Santa Cruz) but I'm not sure if this card suffers
from the same hassles.
Could somebody please shed some light on this for me? Thanks.
-Andrew
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,creative.products.sound_blaster.live
Subject: Re: No sound; Something wrong with mixer. Help
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 10:20:21 -0500
grendel wrote:
>
> I have a soundblaster live value and have followed the directions in the
> article in the SuSE sdb called "ALSA update for SuSE SuSE 6.4/7.0/7.1 and
> do not have sound. After the alsa update my card was recognized by
> alsaconfig. However when it trys to adjust the volumes and change the
> mixer it fails. No asound.conf is created. Here are the error messages. I
> have verified that the sound drivers are loaded. They even say this using
> "alsasound status".
>
> "Could not initialize..."
>
> "No mixer config in the /etc/asounf.conf. You have to unmute your card.
> Mixer 0/0 'open error."
>
>
>
> I've even tryed manually unmuting the mixer and even accessing it via
> amixer but I always get the message about the "Mixer 0/0 ' open error.
> Even when I try different device names this happens. Thanks.
>
>
>
# cat /proc/asound/sndstat
# lsmod
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Subject: Re: RAM question
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 13 May 2001 11:19:43 -0400
"Sir Penguin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As far as I know, you can't use PC133 and PC100 DIMMs in the same box
> without inducing errors or unworkability or something (at least that's what
> the guy who sells RAM told me). You could try it, though, just make sure
> you back everything up :-).
You can do it, but it's very motherboard-dependant. You basically
have to run the PC100 memory at 100MHz. That may mean having to run
the PC133 at 100MHz too. Check your BIOS settings and motherboard
documentation.
You may also be able to run your PC100 memory at 133MHz, but that's
obviously going to depend on the specific chips as well as a host of
other factors. I'm running PC100 at 112MHz with no problems; your
mileage will most certainly vary.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "Vicente y Lorena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Genius GM56PCI-L Modem Driver???
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:20:41 +0200
I'm looking for this driver..........
Thaks.
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From: "Richard A. Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 16:35:42 GMT
I found some info on configuring a new kernel that shows which options
under block devices and scsi support to select/disable. I'm using "make
menuconfig" or "make xconfig" to do this.
http://rdb.linux-help.org/idescsi.php3
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO-4.html
I set up the options as shown in the first web page. I then do a "make dep"
and I don't notice any problems. (After exiting make menuconfig, it says to
do only the "make dep". When the kernel would not compile, I went back,
checked everything and redid the "make dep" and also did a "make clean" to
be sure.)
I then try to do "make bzdisk" hoping that this will only make a compressed
kernel and store it on a boot floppy.
However, it doesn't get very far and it has an error message concerning
"ksyms.o Error 1" and "first_rule Error 2" and "_dir_kernel Error 2". I
would send all the output but for some reason dynamic paste has never
worked on the machine and doing "make bzdisk > filename" doesn't capture
all the screen text.
I'm using RH 7.0. There are no real scsi devices and there is no scsi
adaptor. All I have is an ide hard drive and the two ide cdroms (one of
which is a cdrw).
I'm not sure why I can't compile the kernel.
Any clues?
Rick Bilonick
"Richard A. Bilonick" wrote:
> How does one remove ide cdrom support from the kernel? I need to use
> ide-scsi in order to set up a cd-rw. Using "insmod ide-scsi"doesn't seem
> to be enough to get the scsi emulation working. I'm using RH 7.0. There
> is an ide hard drive at /dev/hda (master without a slave on the first
> ide channel). On the second channel I have a Toshiba SD R1002 (cd,
> cd-rw, dvd) at /dev/hdc (master) and the original cdrom as a slave at
> /dev/hdd. I can read from both cd drives.
>
> I've looked at the HOWTO but am still scratching my head.
>
> --
> Rick Bilonick - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Rick Bilonick - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 16:39:31 GMT
On Sun, 13 May 2001 14:26:00 GMT, Richard A. Bilonick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How does one remove ide cdrom support from the kernel? I need to use
>ide-scsi in order to set up a cd-rw. Using "insmod ide-scsi"doesn't seem
>to be enough to get the scsi emulation working. I'm using RH 7.0. There
>is an ide hard drive at /dev/hda (master without a slave on the first
>ide channel). On the second channel I have a Toshiba SD R1002 (cd,
>cd-rw, dvd) at /dev/hdc (master) and the original cdrom as a slave at
>/dev/hdd. I can read from both cd drives.
>
>I've looked at the HOWTO but am still scratching my head.
>
Add append="hdc=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo.
Example lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux-2.4.4
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label=linux-2.4.2-2
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img
read-only
root=/dev/sdb5
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
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From: "Richard A. Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disabling IDE CDROM Support in the kernel
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:15:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 13 May 2001 14:26:00 GMT, Richard A. Bilonick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >How does one remove ide cdrom support from the kernel? I need to use
> >ide-scsi in order to set up a cd-rw. Using "insmod ide-scsi"doesn't seem
> >to be enough to get the scsi emulation working. I'm using RH 7.0. There
> >is an ide hard drive at /dev/hda (master without a slave on the first
> >ide channel). On the second channel I have a Toshiba SD R1002 (cd,
> >cd-rw, dvd) at /dev/hdc (master) and the original cdrom as a slave at
> >/dev/hdd. I can read from both cd drives.
> >
> >I've looked at the HOWTO but am still scratching my head.
> >
>
> Add append="hdc=ide-scsi" to /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo.
>
> Example lilo.conf:
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> default=linux-2.4.4
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
> label=linux-2.4.2-2
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-2.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/sdb5
> append="hdc=ide-scsi"
Please see my other message about trying to compile a new kernel.
I added back the "append="hdc=ide-scsii"" line in lilo.conf. This time I ran
"lilo" before rebooting. Now when I do "cdrecord -scanbus", the Toshiba drive
appears.
Thanks!
Rick
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Rick Bilonick - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 4GB RAM Problem...
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:53:49 GMT
Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sipke de Wal wrote:
> >
> > Does your MOBO support caching for up to 4GB ???
> > If so is it enabled in the BIOS??
> >
> > Some OS-ses like to allocate RAM from the highest locations downwards so
> > they might run into uncached ram very soon if the caching on your MOBO is
> > not effective for the top of RAM. And that slows things down dramatically!
> >
>
> While this is true e.g. for socket 7, AFAIK with Pentium II and
> above,
pentiumpro (socket 8) cpus can also cache up to 4GB.
> the (L2) cacheable area is no more an issue of the main board, but
> the CPU - and that is 4GB for PII Deschutes and later incl. all
> variations (Celeron Mendocino/Coppermine, various Xeons) IIRC.
> Thus I guess, this is not the problem here.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Shelleu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ECI USB Modem
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:59:42 +0200
Reply-To: "Shelleu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I got an ECI USB Modem and I'm looking for drivers under Linux.
(this is a new modem, I'm in France)
Someone can help me ?
Thanks.
Sebastien.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me)
Subject: mount /dev/fd0
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:02:41 +0000 (UTC)
I have RH 6.2 and I want my user to be able to successfully
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
but it complains that "only root can do that"
The device is owned by root, group is floppy and its perms are brw-rw----.
The fstab entry looks as follows:
/dev/fd0 /mnt auto noauto,users 0 0
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance!
Mike
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount /dev/fd0
Date: 13 May 2001 13:05:13 -0500
>> On Sun, 13 May 2001 18:02:41 +0000 (UTC),
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Me) said:
> I have RH 6.2 and I want my user to be able to
> successfully mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
> but it complains that "only root can do that"
> /dev/fd0 /mnt auto noauto,users 0 0
^^^^^
Try reading the mount man page again :-)
hth
t
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