Re: Asus motherboard and Sound
Alon Kantor wrote: Hi, I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent card. Can anyone help. Thanks. Alon a somewhat late answer: download install the latest alsa-driver hda-intel into your kernel. install alsa-libs and alsa-utils too from 'their' site. restart your machine and open up the sound with alsamixer. it will work: at least it does for ages on my machine (same motherboard). good luck, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Asus motherboard and Sound
Hi, I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent card. Can anyone help. Thanks. Alon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus motherboard and Sound
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:26:15AM -0400, Alon Kantor wrote: I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent card. Can anyone help. Thanks. Alon What have you tried, what errors do you get. Have you installed the alsa packages? Have you run alsa mixer to raise the volume (defaults to all off)? Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus motherboard and Sound
On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:26:15AM -0400, Alon Kantor wrote: I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent card. Can anyone help. Thanks. Alon I am using the same motherboard. A. Install 'alsa-oss, alsa-utils' package. Run 'alsaconf' as root to reconfigure the soundcard. use 'alsactl store' to save the settings. B. IF still sound is not working properly, then edit (as root) '/etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base' file, add the following at the end of the file. options snd-hda-intel position_fix=1 model=3stack save and reboot. try now. -- Arijit Sarkar Kolkata, India -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Asus motherboard and Sound
arijit sarkar wrote: On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 09:50 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:26:15AM -0400, Alon Kantor wrote: I'm having many difficulties to produce sound with my ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard, neither with the on board sound nor with an independent card. Can anyone help. Thanks. Alon I am using the same motherboard. A. Install 'alsa-oss, alsa-utils' package. Run 'alsaconf' as root to reconfigure the soundcard. use 'alsactl store' to save the settings. Alsaconf is broken and won't be fixed (bug no 432678) [1]. There is a work around on the NewbieDOC wiki [2]. Basically, check that /dev/dsp exists; if not create it with modprobe snd_pcm_oss. [...] [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=432678 [2] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Sound_in_Debian_GNU/Linux#Some_applications_.28OSS_applications.29_produce_no_sound_in_ALSA -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:39:37AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but I have to boot into another OS and keep coming back to Debian only to find that every package I have downloaded needs some dependencies which I have to go back and download again. Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without having to burn many CDs of Debian? First of all, make sure your driver is in 2.6.15 but not 2.6.8. If so, here are all the dependences for kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 which is the latest kernel in my cache: coreutils cpio cramfsprogs dash fileutils initrd-tools libacl1 libattr1 libc6 libncurses5 libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libuuid1 lsb-base module-init-tools ncurses-bin sed util-linux zlib1g He asked to be Cc'd, although I suppose it is a bit rude not subscribing. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 02:39:37AM -0500, Andrew Cady wrote: On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but I have to boot into another OS and keep coming back to Debian only to find that every package I have downloaded needs some dependencies which I have to go back and download again. Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without having to burn many CDs of Debian? First of all, make sure your driver is in 2.6.15 but not 2.6.8. If so, here are all the dependences for kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 which is the latest kernel in my cache: coreutils cpio cramfsprogs dash fileutils initrd-tools libacl1 libattr1 libc6 libncurses5 libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libuuid1 lsb-base module-init-tools ncurses-bin sed util-linux zlib1g oops, forgot to add Cc :-), corrected. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 10:26:20PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: First of all, make sure your driver is in 2.6.15 but not 2.6.8. If so, here are all the dependences for kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 which is the latest kernel in my cache: coreutils cpio cramfsprogs dash fileutils initrd-tools libacl1 libattr1 libc6 libncurses5 libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libuuid1 lsb-base module-init-tools ncurses-bin sed util-linux zlib1g Thanks for the reply. I got it working differently, however. I got the driver from the manufacturers website, compiled the kernel on a different machine using kernel package, and took the kernel along with yaird, udev and related dependencies. I got it working. Many thanks for all the replies to debian-user. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but I have to boot into another OS and keep coming back to Debian only to find that every package I have downloaded needs some dependencies which I have to go back and download again. Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without having to burn many CDs of Debian? You didn't tell us which ASUS motherboard you are using. It makes a difference. I had trouble like this with an ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ, which has an AMD64 processor. To get the ethernet up to permit installation I just plugged an old, well-supported ethernet card into one of my PCI slots. That enabled me to install from a sarge netinstall disk that had been jiggered to contain a 2.6.12 kernel. As far as I know, it is still not recognisong the onboard ethernet. One of these days it probably will, and then I'll suddenly have to figure out which is which -- or unplug the card. But I still couldn't get a lot of stuff working -- trouble with RAID, LVM, and X -- so I switched to an etch install disk. Now everything works except for onboard ethernet, video and sound. Haven't tried to plug in a speaker yet, the onboard nvidia chip seems to be too new for xorg (not recognised, doesn't even work as VGA or VESA), and I haven't had time to try the proprietary nvidia drivers yet. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:29:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't tell us which ASUS motherboard you are using. It makes a difference. I had trouble like this with an ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ, which has an AMD64 processor. I guess that is the one... To get the ethernet up to permit installation I just plugged an old, well-supported ethernet card into one of my PCI slots. That enabled me to install from a sarge netinstall disk that had been jiggered to contain a 2.6.12 kernel. As far as I know, it is still not recognisong the onboard ethernet. One of these days it probably will, and then I'll suddenly have to figure out which is which -- or unplug the card. Well, I guess the ethernet card is sis190, and I got the drivers easily. To make it work, simply compile a kernel with the drivers from sis.com and tgar works. But I still couldn't get a lot of stuff working -- trouble with RAID, LVM, and X -- so I switched to an etch install disk. Now everything works except for onboard ethernet, video and sound. Haven't tried to plug in a speaker yet, the onboard nvidia chip seems to be too new for xorg (not recognised, doesn't even work as VGA or VESA), and I haven't had time to try the proprietary nvidia drivers yet. I am not too sure about this. But do post regarding your experience with the sis190 driver, if that is the ethernet card on your system. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:15:36PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 09:29:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't tell us which ASUS motherboard you are using. It makes a difference. I had trouble like this with an ASUS A8N-VM-UAYGZ, which has an AMD64 processor. I guess that is the one... To get the ethernet up to permit installation I just plugged an old, well-supported ethernet card into one of my PCI slots. That enabled me to install from a sarge netinstall disk that had been jiggered to contain a 2.6.12 kernel. As far as I know, it is still not recognisong the onboard ethernet. One of these days it probably will, and then I'll suddenly have to figure out which is which -- or unplug the card. Well, I guess the ethernet card is sis190, and I got the drivers easily. To make it work, simply compile a kernel with the drivers from sis.com and tgar works. May try that later. I have it working with a ten-dollar cheap ethernet card, and for now that's good enough. IN the long run, I'll probably want to add a gigaherz card, and as far as I know, the on-board one is only 100MHz. But I still couldn't get a lot of stuff working -- trouble with RAID, LVM, and X -- so I switched to an etch install disk. Now everything works except for onboard ethernet, video and sound. Haven't tried to plug in a speaker yet, the onboard nvidia chip seems to be too new for xorg (not recognised, doesn't even work as VGA or VESA), and I haven't had time to try the proprietary nvidia drivers yet. Works fine in text mode, though! I am not too sure about this. But do post regarding your experience with the sis190 driver, if that is the ethernet card on your system. Thanks. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 462, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but I have to boot into another OS and keep coming back to Debian only to find that every package I have downloaded needs some dependencies which I have to go back and download again. Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without having to burn many CDs of Debian? Thanks. Kumar (Please CC me, as I am not on the list.) -- Kumar Appaiah Address: Kumar Appaiah 462, Jamuna Hostel Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installation of Sarge on an Asus motherboard
On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 10:35:46PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: Hello! I have a strange problem on a machine. I have a Debian repository really close by. Now, I have the Sarge first CD, and would like to install the rest from the repository. Now, the ethernet card is sis190, for which the driver is not present in the kernel 2.6.8. Now, I have been trying to install linux-image-2.6.15 (k7), but I have to boot into another OS and keep coming back to Debian only to find that every package I have downloaded needs some dependencies which I have to go back and download again. Now, is there a good way to get the ethernet card working without having to burn many CDs of Debian? First of all, make sure your driver is in 2.6.15 but not 2.6.8. If so, here are all the dependences for kernel-image-2.6.11-1-686 which is the latest kernel in my cache: coreutils cpio cramfsprogs dash fileutils initrd-tools libacl1 libattr1 libc6 libncurses5 libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libuuid1 lsb-base module-init-tools ncurses-bin sed util-linux zlib1g -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem installing Debian on P5WD2 Asus motherboard
Hi all. Is anybody using Debian with this motherboard? It's almost 10 days that i'm trying wihout successthey can't find my hard disk (maybe the controller?) Chipset MB: Intel 955X Controller: ICHR7 (Intel) HD: Seagate SATA 200Gb (not in RAID) Debian: Sarge 3.1.r0 PS: i also tryied installing using kernel 2.6 but no success again :( -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem installing Debian on P5WD2 Asus motherboard
Jonis Maurin Ceará wrote: Hi all. Is anybody using Debian with this motherboard? It's almost 10 days that i'm trying wihout successthey can't find my hard disk (maybe the controller?) Chipset MB: Intel 955X Controller: ICHR7 (Intel) HD: Seagate SATA 200Gb (not in RAID) Debian: Sarge 3.1.r0 The ICH7 chipset is too new for Sarge. You'll have to try the Etch beta version which uses a newer kernel. http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parport module, ASUS motherboard
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What address is the port at? The standard addresses are 0x378, 0x278 | and 0x3bc. You can usually configure these in the BIOS. Set the port | to use address 0x378 for greatest compatibility. Thank you very much. Setting the parallel port explicitly in the BIOS to use address 0x378 did indeed fix the problem, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parport module, ASUS motherboard
Pigeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | What address is the port at? The standard addresses are 0x378, 0x278 | and 0x3bc. You can usually configure these in the BIOS. Set the port | to use address 0x378 for greatest compatibility. Thanks very much (and to Neal Lippman also). Setting the address in the BIOS to 0x378 did indeed solve the problem, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: parport module, ASUS motherboard
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 06:07:36PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: Any attempt to load parport_pc (or the combination of parport, lp, and parport_pc) by hand fails, and gives the usual: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. The User Guide for the motherboard says that the parallel port is on IRQ 7, but trying: insmod parport_pc irq=7 What address is the port at? The standard addresses are 0x378, 0x278 and 0x3bc. You can usually configure these in the BIOS. Set the port to use address 0x378 for greatest compatibility. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21C61F7F pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
parport module, ASUS motherboard
I recently installed Debian testing on a newly built machine with an ASUS P4P800 motherboard. The kernel is a patched version of 2.4.22 (patched to include support for the on-board LAN controller on the ASUSP4P800). Everything works fine except for a problem with local printing. Lprng is the print-spooler software. Printing to networked printers works fine, but printing to the HP Printer attached to the parallel port is impossible. The error-message produced by numerous sources (e.g. checkpc) is: cannot open lp device '/dev/lp0' - No such device or address I've tracked the problem down, I believe, to a failure to load the parport_pc kernel-module. The relevant part of /etc/modules.conf looks like this: alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc which I believe should have the consequence that parport_pc is loaded when parport is loaded (and the compiled module is in fact in /lib/modules/2.4.22). But it won't load. lsmod reveals: # lsmod Module Size Used byNot tainted lp 6432 0 (autoclean) parport14880 0 [lp] sk98lin 151712 1 (autoclean) Any attempt to load parport_pc (or the combination of parport, lp, and parport_pc) by hand fails, and gives the usual: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. The User Guide for the motherboard says that the parallel port is on IRQ 7, but trying: insmod parport_pc irq=7 Has anyone dealt with a similar problem? If anyone has advice or help to offer, I'd be most grateful. Thanks for reading this far, Jim McCloskey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard
Thank you to those who replied. I've decided to adopt Henrique's suggestion and go with Software Raid. There seems to be little point in persevering with the onboard chip if it does not offer better performance. I've copied everything over to hda1, modified lilo.conf and fstab and verified everything works off hda. I've also printed out the software raid howto. Hopefully tonight I will get the chance to setup the array and copy everything back. And thanks, Roberto, for posting the relevant parts of your kernel config. I tried compiling with the necessary modifications but unfortunately it did not help. I'd love to know what the problem was but I was simply spending too much time on it. And after reading Henrique's posts it seems fairly clear that standard Linux software raid is preferable. By the way, I am planning to try an initial chunksize of 32. Any comments as to whether this is appropriate. regards, Darryl -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard
I have this working well using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. However, it fails on both 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels with the message unable to mount root fs. This is the case even when the later kernels are compiled with the same options as the working 2.4.18 kernel. A Google search reveals that there was a problem starting with 2.4.19 with the order of detection of IDE controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas welcome. Darryl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard
On Sun, 07 Sep 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote: controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas welcome. Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. And safer, probably. -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[LONG] Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard
--- Darryl Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: I have this working well using the 2.4.18bf24 kernel. However, it fails on both 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 kernels with the message unable to mount root fs. This is the case even when the later kernels are compiled with the same options as the working 2.4.18 kernel. A Google search reveals that there was a problem starting with 2.4.19 with the order of detection of IDE controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas welcome. I had the same problem with a Biostar MB and a promise 20276. Here are the relevant parts of the config that finally got things working (I used the latest Debian 2.4.21 sources): CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_UID16=y CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y CONFIG_MODULES=y CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y CONFIG_KMOD=y CONFIG_MK7=y CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_X86_HAS_TSC=y CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_USE_3DNOW=y CONFIG_X86_PGE=y CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y CONFIG_X86_F00F_WORKS_OK=y CONFIG_X86_MCE=y CONFIG_MICROCODE=y CONFIG_X86_MSR=y CONFIG_X86_CPUID=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_HIGHIO=y CONFIG_MTRR=y CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y CONFIG_X86_TSC=y CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_PCI=y CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y CONFIG_HOTPLUG=y CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y CONFIG_SYSCTL=y CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_ACPI_BUSMGR=y CONFIG_ACPI_SYS=y CONFIG_ACPI_CPU=y CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y CONFIG_PARPORT=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=m CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL=m CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM_SIZE=4096 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y CONFIG_MD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=y CONFIG_MD_RAID0=y CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y CONFIG_MD_RAID5=y CONFIG_MD_MULTIPATH=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LVM=y CONFIG_XFRM=y CONFIG_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_GENERIC=y CONFIG_IDEPCI_SHARE_IRQ=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX_NEW=y CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ATARAID_PDC=y CONFIG_SCSI=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m CONFIG_CHR_DEV_OSST=m CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=4 CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y CONFIG_SCSI_LOGGING=y CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C8XX=y CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_DEFAULT_TAGS=4 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=32 CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=20 CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16=y CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2000=y CONFIG_SCSI_PCI2220I=y CONFIG_SCSI_PSI240I=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC=y CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_1280=y CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE=y CONFIG_SCSI_SIM710=y CONFIG_SCSI_SYM53C416=y CONFIG_SCSI_DC390T=y CONFIG_SCSI_T128=y CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F=y CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F_MAX_TAGS=8 CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR=y CONFIG_SCSI_NSP32=y ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard
--- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On Sun, 07 Sep 2003, Darryl Barlow wrote: controllers, but using the ide=reverse option does not help. Any ideas welcome. Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. And safer, probably. How is that possible? The point of the hardware RAID is to hide the implementation from the OS. The OS addresses the logical device and the chipset takes care of the mirrorring/striping/whatever. For a software RAID, IIRC, the OS has to legwork, meaning that for a mirror array it will send the daya to both disks. Maybe this is OK for a workstation, but I don't think it would cut it for very long on a server. I don't believe there is a major performance difference for striping, especially when you have only diks and they are different controllers, but I still think you are wrong for the most part. -Roberto ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard
On Sat, 06 Sep 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Don't use PDC20265 RAID. Instead, use software RAID1. It is much faster. And safer, probably. How is that possible? The point of the hardware RAID is to hide the For reading operations, the OS can do simultaneous reads of different data from different disks (and Linux does exactly this). And your RAM is waaay better a cache than what you have in your disks (and what you don't even have in the PDC20265). implementation from the OS. The OS addresses the logical device and the Since when hiding the implementation from the OS is something that should make it faster? It is much *safer* if you are dealing with MS Windows crap, but that's about it. It is also a very nice way to get vendor-locked to your RAID controller. chipset takes care of the mirrorring/striping/whatever. For a software RAID, If your RAID HW controller was a top-notch one, with lots of buffers and a proper HW engine... maybe. But el-cheap-o Promise PDC20265 is worth very little (I have an Asus A7V with a PDC20265. I talk from experience). The RAID HW controllers I have used (Intel SCRU32 with 64MB cache and IBM serverRAID with (I think) also 64MB cache) were not much faster when doing raid 1 (these are SCSI disks, though, and tagged queues make a lot of difference). They were better for RAID5, though. And these are high-end, proper HW RAID controllers talking to SCSI-160 disks. IIRC, the OS has to legwork, meaning that for a mirror array it will send the daya to both disks. Maybe this is OK for a workstation, but I don't think it would cut it for very long on a server. I don't believe there is a major performance difference for striping, especially when you have only diks and they are different controllers, but I still think you are wrong for the most part. If you have two disks, one in each channel of your PDC20265, running in UDMA100, it *is* faster to use Linux software RAID in my experience (Asus A7V, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz). If you doubt it, test it. Don't buy the HW must be better than software crap, it is only true if you use the proper HW. And the PDC20265 ain't one when compared to a fast processor and a proper OS with enough RAM. Actually, it ain't a proper RAID HW controler at all in my book. I have no idea whatsoever to what happens if you put the two disks in one channel. I know software raid SUCKS in that configuration, but I seriously doubt PDC20265 HW RAID would do any better. It does NOT support tag-queue or disconnected operations, after all... -- One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie. -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Promise PDC 20265 raid on ASUS Motherboard
--- Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: If your RAID HW controller was a top-notch one, with lots of buffers and a proper HW engine... maybe. But el-cheap-o Promise PDC20265 is worth very little (I have an Asus A7V with a PDC20265. I talk from experience). The RAID HW controllers I have used (Intel SCRU32 with 64MB cache and IBM serverRAID with (I think) also 64MB cache) were not much faster when doing raid 1 (these are SCSI disks, though, and tagged queues make a lot of difference). They were better for RAID5, though. And these are high-end, proper HW RAID controllers talking to SCSI-160 disks. [SNIP] If you have two disks, one in each channel of your PDC20265, running in UDMA100, it *is* faster to use Linux software RAID in my experience (Asus A7V, 256MB PC133 SDRAM, Athlon Thunderbird 1.2GHz). If you doubt it, test it. Don't buy the HW must be better than software crap, it is only true if you use the proper HW. And the PDC20265 ain't one when compared to a fast processor and a proper OS with enough RAM. Actually, it ain't a proper RAID HW controler at all in my book. Point taken. I don't have much experience with high end hardware and only very limited experience (one machine at school w/ Promise RAID 20276) with RAID. About the most high-end hardware I've worked on is a grey box with an Athlon, running Woody, and hooked up to an UPS. Thanks for the insight. -Roberto ___ Yahoo! Messenger - Nueva versión GRATIS Super Webcam, voz, caritas animadas, y más... http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard (SOLVED)
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:42:08PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: Compiling and installing a 2.4.20 kernel (from the ac branch actually) did indeed solve this problem. All is working great now. Is this the patch you are referring to? http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.20/patch-2.4.20-ac2.gz If this works you just made my week :-D -- Regards, Michael Bevilacqua ~ . . /V\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard (SOLVED)
Michael Bevilacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Is this the patch you are referring to? | | http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/2.4.20/patch-2.4.20-ac2.gz | | If this works you just made my week :-D Yes, exactly that one. I went to this verion of the kernel originally because on this list I was told (by Frederik Dannemare [EMAIL PROTECTED]) that the ac kernel-branch provides UDMA support for the SIS5133 onboard IDE controller. With a standard 2.4.18 kernel (not supporting SIS5133) you get roughly 3 MB/sec for disk reads. With 2.4.20-ac2 and UDMA enabled, I get: % hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.26 seconds =492.31 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.42 seconds = 45.07 MB/sec % Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard
Thanks a lot to Mark Devin and Ralph Brown for their help. Both suggested using the sis900 driver for the onboard LAN on the Asus P4S533-E. I've tried that, and the problems persist. Loading the module sis900 (with modprobe or with insmod or with kerneld) produces: eth0: Error EERPOM read 0 sis900.o: init_module: No such device Those of you who have got the LAN on this motherboard to work with the sis900 driver, are you sure that this is the Asus P4S533-E (rather than the Asus P4S533). The SiS900 chipset on the E-model is at revision 91, while on the plain P4S533 it's at revision 90. Would you mind running lspci and seeing if it has: SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 90) (this is the P4S533) or: SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91) (this is the P4S533-E) My suspicion is growing that the problem is one of defective hardware. When we did the install, the installation procedure couldn't even detect that there was an ethernet adapter anywhere on the system (at the `Configure the Network' point). Isn't that a sign that there is some hardware problem? The rest of the install was beautifully smooth, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard
On Thursday 27 March 2003 09:48, Jim McCloskey wrote: Thanks a lot to Mark Devin and Ralph Brown for their help. Both suggested using the sis900 driver for the onboard LAN on the Asus P4S533-E. I've tried that, and the problems persist. Loading the module sis900 (with modprobe or with insmod or with kerneld) produces: eth0: Error EERPOM read 0 sis900.o: init_module: No such device I have seen the same message with my sis900 (not on an asus board). My solution was to install linux 2.4.20, where they fixed some promblems with this driver. Now everything works perfectly. Got my kernel directly from www.kernel.org HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard (SOLVED)
Michael Naumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Thanks a lot to Mark Devin and Ralph Brown for their help. Both | suggested using the sis900 driver for the onboard LAN on the Asus | P4S533-E. | | I've tried that, and the problems persist. Loading the module sis900 | (with modprobe or with insmod or with kerneld) produces: | |eth0: Error EERPOM read 0 |sis900.o: init_module: No such device | | I have seen the same message with my sis900 (not on an asus board). | My solution was to install linux 2.4.20, where they fixed some | problems with this driver. Now everything works perfectly. Compiling and installing a 2.4.20 kernel (from the ac branch actually) did indeed solve this problem. All is working great now. Thanks very much indeed to all who helped. Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 08:22, Jim McCloskey wrote: I've been trying to install Debian (Woody) on a machine built around an Asus P4S533-E motherboard. I'm using the vf-2.4 kernel-flavor. The problem I'm having is with the onboard LAN controller. It's listed among the PCI controllers at the initial stage of the boot process (assigned IRQ 5) and lspci can find it and reports: 00:04.0 Ethernet controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS900 10/100 Ethernet (rev 91) I'm trying to use the eepro100 driver, but the interface cannot be brought up. I get NO SUCH DEVICE error messages, and this in dmesg: eth0: EEPROM read 0 I installed (and run) Debian testing on a machine with an ASUS P4S533 with no difficulties whatever, using the eepro100 driver. Does anyone know what might be different between the P4S533 and the P4S533-E that could be at the root of this difficulty? I saw a reference to what looks like the same problem on a SuSe web-site, and it suggested that a patched kernel was needed. The information and advice was very specific to SuSe however. Might the sis900 driver be a better choice? Definitely. I have an ASUS board with a sis900 on board LAN card. I don't actually use the pre-compiled kernels that you can apt-get and instead compile my own. However, I had absolutely no problems with this ethernet on board device. I just compiled the sis900 driver as a module and modprobed it and it worked. What I would suggest is the following: 1. Check if your kernel has compiled support for sis900 driver. You can do this by trying to modprobe sis900. If that doesn't work then grep through the config file for the kernel you are running like: grep -i 'sis900' /boot/config-2.4.20 (or whatever your kernel version is). You should see something like: CONFIG_SIS900=m or CONFIG_SIS900=y 2. If your kernel doesn't have support for the sis900 device then you can compile your own kernel with the support. The sis900 ethernet card worked great on my ASUS system. Cheers. Mark. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard
Jim McCloskey wrote: [cut...] Can I ask two questions? 1. Is the 2.4.20-pre8-ac2 kernel sturdy enough to function as the kernel for a server (mail and web mainly, about 30 users)? I would say yes. Others may disagree. But you could start out with this kernel on a test machine or something, before putting it on a production server. I would do this for any kernel. 2. Would you be willing to share the config file you used to get UDMA support? you may find it at http://sentinel.dk/config-2.4.20-pre8-ac3 look for options with IDEDMA and SIS5513. These should be the interesting ones. /frederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard
Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I got my P4S533 in July. Great and stable board! The onboard LAN and | sound is supported in standard marcello kernels, but you'll need a | newer -ac kernel (I use 2.4.20-pre8-ac2), if you want to be able to | use NVIDIA's 3D accel. drivers via AGPGART. Finally I can play | UT2003demo on my P4S533. ;) | | The 2.4.20-pre8-ac2 also gave me UDMA support for the SIS5133 onboard | IDE controller. With a standard 2.4.18 kernel (not supporting SIS5133) | I only got 3 MB/sec for disk reads (tested with hdparm -tT). With the | new 2.4.20-pre8-ac2 and UDMA enabled I get 46 MB/sec. Wow, thank you---this is incredibly useful information. Just in time too, since I'm about to do the install and configuration on this machine. 3D acceleration is not an issue, since this machine is destined to be a (small) departmental server and will never run X. The difference between 3 MB/sec and 46 MB/sec for disk reads is quite spectacular though. Can I ask two questions? 1. Is the 2.4.20-pre8-ac2 kernel sturdy enough to function as the kernel for a server (mail and web mainly, about 30 users)? 2. Would you be willing to share the config file you used to get UDMA support? I had a similar problem with my new ASUS A7V333. The 2.4.18 kernel's IDE driver does not support disk DMA through the VIA 8233a SouthBridge chip. You may want to check if your board has that chip, too. The solution was to install kernel-image-2.4.19-k7 from testing. After that, hdparm was able to enable DMA for the disk. This improved throughput from 7 MB/s to as much as 45 MB/s. -- Jack O'Quin Austin, Texas, USA http://www.stellajazz.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard
Jim McCloskey wrote: Has anyone any experience of the ASUS P4 S533 motherboard under Debian? In particular, I've been trying to reassure myself that the onboard LAN controller is supported, and have wandered all over the net seeking reassurance. I'm still not sure. The LAN controller is described as an SiS 961. Does anyone know for sure whether or not this is handled properly by the sis900 ethernet driver? Any other experience or observations? I got my P4S533 in July. Great and stable board! The onboard LAN and sound is supported in standard marcello kernels, but you'll need a newer -ac kernel (I use 2.4.20-pre8-ac2), if you want to be able to use NVIDIA's 3D accel. drivers via AGPGART. Finally I can play UT2003demo on my P4S533. ;) The 2.4.20-pre8-ac2 also gave me UDMA support for the SIS5133 onboard IDE controller. With a standard 2.4.18 kernel (not supporting SIS5133) I only got 3 MB/sec for disk reads (tested with hdparm -tT). With the new 2.4.20-pre8-ac2 and UDMA enabled I get 46 MB/sec. /frederik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS motherboard
From Jim McCloskey [EMAIL PROTECTED], on Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 10:19:04PM -0700: Has anyone any experience of the ASUS P4 S533 motherboard under Debian? In particular, I've been trying to reassure myself that the onboard LAN controller is supported, and have wandered all over the net seeking reassurance. I'm still not sure. The LAN controller is described as an SiS 961. Does anyone know for sure whether or not this is handled properly by the sis900 ethernet driver? Any other experience or observations? ---end quoted text--- That's what I have. The onboard sound and LAN is working perfectly. I've been very pleased with the motherboard. No compatibility problems whatsoever with either Debian unstable or Windoze 2000. In case it becomes useful to you... The make menuconfig options are: Network device support --- Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --- EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers SiS 900/7016 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support Sound --- Sound card support C-Media PCI (CMI8338/8738) The corresponding .config file variables are: CONFIG_NETDEVICES CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET CONFIG_NET_PCI CONFIG_SIS900 CONFIG_SOUND CONFIG_SOUND_CMPCI Good luck! Steve -- \_O \_O \_O ~~~ Steve Cooper Redmond, WA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ASUS motherboard
Has anyone any experience of the ASUS P4 S533 motherboard under Debian? In particular, I've been trying to reassure myself that the onboard LAN controller is supported, and have wandered all over the net seeking reassurance. I'm still not sure. The LAN controller is described as an SiS 961. Does anyone know for sure whether or not this is handled properly by the sis900 ethernet driver? Any other experience or observations? Thank you, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
