Antwort: [Cooker] USB cpia video cam modules for 7.2?
Hoyt [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 28.11.2000 03:54:29 Bitte antworten an [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: (Blindkopie: Nigel Webber/RSD) Thema:[Cooker] USB cpia video cam modules for 7.2? USB cpia video cam modules for 7.2? Has anyone compiled the cpia_usb.o and cpia.o modules for the 2.2.17-21mdk kernel from Mandrake 7.2? I can get the cpia.o and cpia_pp.o (parallel port) modules to compile, but not the USB module which is the one I need. This works fine for my Creative Webcam 2. I rebuilt the kernel, included the approptiate drivers as modules, insmodded them, and the camera responds with pics. I dont beleive that it was nessesary to rebuild the kernel though - should have worked out of the box. If you rebuild the kernel, make sure that the 'show experimental drivers' option is switched on, select Video for linux, and then the USB CPIA module. Once booted, do an insmod cpia (this loads the cpia_usb as well). Then install and run gqcam to get a pic. The only problem that I have is getting the modules to autostart. I have tried putting them in /etc/modules, in which case they get loaded, but gqcam gives me a /dev/video does not exist. I have also put them in modules.conf as a dependancy of all the USB stuff, but I get the same error (even though the modules load without errors). Also, removing and inserting the camera's USB cable results in an error 'unknown device' in the logs. I have taken to insmodding them manually after boot in which case there are no problems - the camera can be seen as recognised on console 12. Regards Nigel
Antwort: Re: [Cooker] Amd and linux
I have an AMD Athlon 1.1G, Asus A7V Motherboard, Tekram U160 SCSI controller, IBM U160 SCSI drive with Elsa Gladiac Geforce2GTS and MDK7.2. It all works fine far less problems than when trying to get same combination running on W2K (which required me to download loads of driver updates). BIOS's on AMD motherboards / Geforce graphics cards seem to be in a state of flux - download the updates before installing MDK. Oh... and AMD seem to be getting such good yields, that a 700/800 MHz Thunderbird can easily be pushed to 1G / 1.1G using standard voltage settings and heatsink for a 1G processor. Just get a graphite pen and short out the L2 links on the top of the processor before you plug it in (same goes for Durons, 700MHz durons run well at 1G). See www.tomshardware.com for info. I guess it is IBM 486SLC40, no? It was very nice, enhanced 386SLC which at some time IBM decided to rename to 486SLC (as performance was comparable to 486sx level, it had extra cahe comparing to 486sx) My second PC!! Complete with two (2!) MB of ram and an ISA graphics card - friends used to come around and marvel at its speed!!! Nigel
[Cooker] Nvidia closed source drivers and the time they have cost me!
Hi I am about ready to give up on Nvidia and go and get a supported card after the hassles that I have had with their drivers I did a default, recomended mandrake 7.2 install, and after installing the Nvidia drivers, I get the following errors when starting X (using startx after having re-linked): AUDIT:Fri Nov 10 01:26:12 2000 1571 X: client2 rejected from local host That repeats 8 times, and is then followed by: waiting for x server to shutdown. It is **Really** winding me up! X Starts, and I see the standard Mandrake desktop, and the KDE Startup window, then it drops back to the shell with the above errors. I have tried re-installing and going through the process again **to the letter of the nvidia instructions** to no avail. Any idea's Nigel
[Cooker] 7.2 default to XFree4.01
Hi I selected 4.01 when prompted, but xfree defaulted to 3.3.6 - not sure why?? I have an Nvidia Geforce2 GTS graphics controller, I thought that perhaps the OpenSource support for 4.01 did not exist and that was why? Anyway, how can I make it such that 'startx' starts 401? Nigel
[Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 with Mixed SCSI / IDE also: Monitor Problems
Hi I installed MDK7.2 on the following sys: SCSI boot disk on a Tekram U160 controller SCSI CD-ROM on same controller IDE Harddisk (used as cheap storage) Athlon on Asus A7V Motherboard The install process worked brilliantly, it detected the symbios 1010 SCSI controller and the devices attatched to it, disk drake let me set up the partitions (I formated /home as reiser). 7.1 failed to detect the scsi controller, so this was a big improvement The problem came when the system rebooted, and I got a 'li' with no 'lo'. I have had this before and so know what causes it. For some reason, Linux always assumes that an IDE disk is the first disk, and the scsi one the second (even if I use the 'boot offboard chipsets first' option in the kernel, and compile support for my scsi contoller into the kernel). When running /sbin/lilo with this config, it goes wrong saying that -dev/sda is not the first drive in the system. The only way that I know around it is to unplug the IDE drive, boot linux from a boot floppy, run /sbin/lilo, and then restart with the IDE drive plugged back in. This is a pain cause I tend to play around with Kernels, and for every kernel install, I need to remove the IDE drive so that lilo doesn't bugger up!! Is there any way to solve this?? maybe for 7.3/8.0 ?? -- Also, I am not sure that the modlines for my Monitor are correct - it is a Ilyama VM Pro 410, which I selected from the list, but I am unable to resize the image to fill the whole screen horizontally it sits about 0.5 ins off each screen edge with the monitor controls at their max. This is at 1024x768, 32bit with 100Hz refresh. - Also, how do I tell what version of XFree is running, I did the Advanced install (the middle one) with a workstation class, but was not asked which version of xfree I wanted to use - just wondered which version I had. Regards Nigel
[Cooker] Diskdrake Win2K
Hi On install of mdk 7.2 (final?), Diskdrake ate my Windows 2000 partition - any suggestions? I did an expert install on a 13GB drive where Windows occupied the first half of the drive. When I got to diskdrake, I created a swap and a "/" partition in my free space and chose only to format those two partitions. An error message popped up (nothing discriptive) and then all my partitions were gone. Its not a general problem anyway, I have a tripple boot, Win2K / Win98 / Mandrake. With Win98 / Win2K installed and 'working', I started 7.2 installk, deleted my old 7.1 partitions with disk-drake, then marked up the mount points, formated and installed 7.2. Config: 20GB SCSI HD: Prim1: Win2K NTFS (2GB) Prim2: Win98 FAT32 (1GB) Prim3: Linux /boot ext2 (30MB) Extended1: Win2K NTFS (4GB) Extended2: Linux / ext2 (1GB) Extended3: Linux /usr ReiserFS (8GB) Extended4: Linux /home ReiserFS (2GB) Extended5: Shared Files Drive (FAT32) (2GB) Win2K and 98 still work afterwards. Nigel
Antwort: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 with Mixed SCSI / IDE also: Monitor Problems
choose grub, it should work! I never got a choice at install time, it just gave me Lilo... Will try changing it manually Nigel
Antwort: Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 with Mixed SCSI / IDE also: Monitor Problems
This is NOT 'going wrong', it is a simple warning message that is of no consequence whatever. Lilo works just fine off all drives and is not limited to just the first drive (it used to be a long time ago). Well it doesn't work until I unplug the IDE drive and then re-run lilo. If I then plug the IDE drive back in, and re-run lilo, I just get the 'Li' and not the Lo again. I have rtfm'ed, to no avail. Seems like its 'going wrong' to me! It did *exactly* the same using 7.1, and 7.2beta1 I will try grub... Nigel
Re: [Cooker] Mandrake 7.2 with Mixed SCSI / IDE also: Monitor Problems
You don't have to unplug the IDE drive, btw. Just don't enable it in the BIOS and everything works fine. But you'll still be able to access the IDE in Linux, because it doesn't care about the bios settings once booting is done. Tried that too, still finds it during boot as the first device. Will do the 0x80 stuff. PS: Doesn't Lotus Notes suck? It's even incapable of adding the necessary headers so that threading works fine. We call it Slowtus notes here and yep, its naff Regards Nigel
Antwort: [Cooker] CRC-Error -- System Halted!!!!
I've just installed 7.2 (beta?) on a Pentium III - 600 MHz, 20GB of HD, 256 MB of RAM... When I tryed to boot up the system, just after the prompt "Lilo Boot:", I can see: Sounds like your compressed kernel image has become corrupt, so it fails the CRC check while being decompressed. I think this is more like a freak occurance, dodgy CD, glitch etc etc. Try re-installing, or if you can boot from your floppy, re-install the default mandrake kernel again. Regards Nigel
[Cooker] SCSI Performance (was Ram Management)
Hi I have a linux box with a IBM Deskstar 75XP (one of the faster IDE HD's) on ATA66 bus together with a Seagate X15 U160 SCSI HD on a Tekram SCSI Controller. To get Linux on the scsi HD I had to first install it on the IDE HD (so I could patch the kernel to support the SCSI Controller. The same system using SCSI is *Much* faster than using IDE. This shows itsself in the kernel compile of 2.2.16 which takes 5 mins with linux running on the IDE drive and 3.5 mins on the SCSI drive. (Using Athlon 1.1G. The same is true in windows where copying a file between 2 partitions on scsi is 25% faster than copying a file between 2 partitions on the IDE drive (even with the IDE drive on an ATA-100 bus - which made hardly any difference to performance over connecting it to an ATA-66 bus!). Having said that, in terms of capacity, the SCSI drive cost 4 times as much as the IDE one, but is no where near 4 times the speed :-( Sustained Transfer rates from my SCSI drive (i.e copying a 650MB ISO image to another partition) totals some 39MBytes/sec while the IDE drive manages only 23MB/Sec. Speed is not the only advantage of SCSI - for terminal expanders it works well too, buy a drive, and plug it in - Modern scsi controllers sort out the SCSI ID for you. None of this IDE business of connecting a CD-ROM drive to a channel, and thus slowing down the HD to the same rate as the CD (though you cant mix non ultra 2 or 3 stuff like this). Also, 40 speed SCSI CDroms are more likely to be 40 speed cause the SCSI controller its-self handles the data transfer leaving the processor to do more important stuff. The choice in DVD / CDROM /Writers for SCSI though is naff - with the faster, more modern writers being IDE - I cant for example find a 12x10x32 CDwriter for SCSI, the re-write is invarably only 4 times (but you need special (expensive) cdrw disks to do more than 4x anyway). DVD drives for a SCSI bus?? - You'll be lucky! SCSI writers are top under linux though cause none of the hotch-botch IDE-SCSI emulation is required. CD-writing with a SCSI HD or CD-ROM drive to a SCSI writer is *really* reliable, and fast, and it works no matter how busy you make your system during the copy. SCSI, while a server solution (due to cost) is not crude like IDE, and makes for a high performance (high expense) workstation. Though you need an IDE bus for a cheap, massive IDE HD, and for an IDE DVD drive. Nigel
[Cooker] What is devpts ??
Hi I can an error during mandrake 7.2 boot (I have messed with it) saying that devpts cant be mounted cause the filetype is unknown. There is an entry in fstab that causes this error. What is devpts ?? I assume that I am missing it in my kernel, but dont know what option to include to get devpts - and ... what does it do (do I need it?) Nigel
Antwort: Re: [Cooker] harddrake and disk
When clicking on 'configure' in harddrake-disk, the partition tool comes up. I think a way of setting DMA, 32bit access and so on for a disk would also be nice (I have to put my hdparm tuning parameters into rc.local, unless I missed another better way ? ). I have had problems with HD tuning on a laptop - it didn't boot after so if this is done, a few warnings about ,making a boot floppy first would be in order! Also - best make it a post install option rather than somthing that is setup during install. Nigel
[Cooker] How to replace Stock Mandrake Kernel With Custom Kernel After Install
Hi I have installed Mandrake using a custom kernel, install went fine, but how the heck to I replace the custom kernel with my kernel so I can boot from my otherwise unsupported SCSI controller?? I had hoped that I could get to a console post install, mount the floppy and copy the new kernel over the old one - but nope, not possible. So here's how I did it: Install an IDE drive (borrowed from work) Boot Win2K, copy Mandrake CD's to partition on IDE drive Make boot disk from hd.img boot, and install to IDE drive using install files from IDE drive. Set IDE drive as the master Boot Linux Patch Stock Kernel, config and install. Reboot from IDE drive (now finds SCSI devices) Mount /boot on scsi drive Copy new kernel (from IDE drive) over kernel on scsi drive Switch off, disconnect IDE drive, set SCSI as master. Boot linux from SCSI drive (loads of module errors) - but at least it boots... There must be an easier way??? I thought of a mini distro on a floppy, but I cant compile the kernel with this? - Next, I recompiled the kernel on the SCSI drive, adding the SCSI patch for my hardware. Made and installed the modules, and new kernel and editited /etc/lilo.conf to add an entry for my new kernel. Next, I ran /sbin/lilo and got a warning: 'scd1 is not the first hard disk on the system'. I rebooted anyway, and now I get LI, but no LO meaning that it cant execute the second stage boot loader Anyone. Basically I am back to square 1... Why would lilo say that the HD it was installing to was not the first HD in the system when it is the **ONLY** HD in the system?? It seems that it was close to working, but then one little /sbin/lilo has buggered it up again... I am about ready to give up now, and go any buy an IDE drive... but having seen the difference in Kernel compile time (30% quicker with my SCSI drive for the same config), I would rather get the SCSI solution working. Regards Nigel
[Cooker] Custom Mandrake Install Disk + Custom Kernel
Hi I have created a mandrake custom install disk using blank.img, and a kernel I have built with patches to support my SCSI hardware. Does anyone know what features I should have in this ?? The problem that I was having the other day (Kernel Panic after boot disk found scsi controllers) was due to my not having included initd or ramdisk support in the kernel. I have rectified this, and can now install mandrake but I never put the module support in there so every time it tries to add a module it complains. I shall rebuild with the module support, but am I missing anything else. Also, my custom kernel is 2.2.16, 7.1 shipped with 2.2.15 and I assume the default mandrake boot kernel is also 2.2.15 - will by 2.2.16 boot kernel play ball with the modules from 2.2.15 ?? Also, once I have installed, I need to get a full version of my new kernel onto the box, as the MD default kernel has no scsi support (and certainly not the SCSI support for my 2.2.18 supported SCSI controller). What should I do?? can I build the new kernel, switch to another console (right after install) and copy it over the stock mandrake kernel, then hopefully reboot with the system picking up my new kernel?? And... 1 last question. I am building these kernels on my laptop, the boot drive for which is partition 9 (on an IDE drive) Hence before it links bzImage 3,9 gets shoved in the code as being the boot drive (which of course it wont be when it gets onto my new machine) I thought lilo was what identified the /boot drive, not having 3,9 hard-coded into the kernel? Regards Nigel
[Cooker] Tekram DC390U3W SCSI Adapter with sym53c1010 Chipset
Hi people I have been trying to install Mandrake (7.1 and 7.2) onto a system with a Tekram DC390U3W SCSI adapter. The system is Athlon Thunderbird based with 2 a single U160 IBM SCSI hard disk. The card uses the sym53c1010 chipset for which support is not included in the kernel, but it will apparently be included in kernel 2.2.18 (within the existing sym53c89 driver). In the meantime, it was time for a custom install disk. I downloaded the sources and patched 2.1.17 before building it as a minimal kernel, including the SCSI support I wanted. I build a bzImage, but sure if this was correct. I Raw-Writed Mandrakes 'blank.img' disk-image file to a floppy, and copied the new kernel across as vmlinuz. Booting from the disk, my scsi controller is found, and scanned and all the devices (CDROM and HD) are listed. I then get the following error: Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 etc request_module[block-major-3]: Root fs not mounted. VFS Cant open root device 09:09 Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:09 Has anyone got any idea's cause I have run out of them! I would imaging that I have missed somthing fundemental from the kernel, but what? And what exactly is it trying to mount, this is a blank hard-disk that I am trying to install for the first time. I have tried several kernel builds using 2.2.16, 2.2.17, 2.2.18-pre8 and 2.4.0-test8 all to no avail. 2.4.0 does not even get to the error before failing. Any help much appreciated. Regards Nigel
Re: [Cooker] `menu`
Hi The menu really winds me up as well. I hate being boxed into using what the Distro vendor thinks I should use - one of the reasons I moved to linux was cause I wanted to freedom to config my system like *I* wanted it. People are different, and work in different ways, and what works for the folks that invented the menu package may not work for others. The new unified menu in cooker looks promising, but I would rather there was an option at install that asks users whether they wish to use the Mandrake Unified menu or to go-it-alone, and use manually maintain their menu(s) using the tools provided by KDE, Gnome etc. I personally only use KDE and so have absolutely no need for a mandrake package to unify the menu's between different environments. Just query the user at install time about which system to use. Regards Nigel
