Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi Susan! > Have you found the FAQ (published on any Debian site in the directory > doc/FAQ) to be inadequate? If so, can you suggest some changes? > The FAQ you mention is great for a general overview regarding Debian. Actually i downloaded the old and the new version of the FAQ prior to nuking my old Linux setup and read it. Not every line of it but at least the stuff that was important to my mind. Right now at this moment i got my Debian system at least running with X and PPP, so that i can at least access the net. At last! Dselect was so nice as not to install the software after selection as described before but i tried installation from the command line using dpkg and switching back to dselect for choosing what i wanted to be installed. This dselect may be a great invention technically but for easy installation by a newbie it definitely is a nuisance! Sorry if i hurt somebody's feelings... The kind of FAQ i was suggesting would be supposed to cover more specific installation topics and traps like the one i escaped with Bruce's tips after a too long period of anger trying to get it running. You know, there are these small details which make a debuting Debian user get stuck already upon installation and i'd propose to cover these topics in an "Debian-Installation.FAQ". Thanks a lot, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key iQCVAwUBMjQ+5ugqiw1XE3/lAQEbTQQAi5b7p2qeZTk2K81LuutWg4UxVwiVFBXb uqczbAWjI0+x3Vvle6/uP8jgQVlRtb5gOsVQWsO8KCEgWIiLI0zImEmMy59ysE+q lEDlP6NuYTbH5GIi/ffI6QUjjTyKUQ6QtzpofEpuToNipCOhtFPcqX/WXBobG1UZ B2g3V2ximdE= =rw51 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
Hi Paul -- You said: > Well, i think it's time to compose some kind of an Debian-Installation-FAQ > just for these kind of cases. An FAQ of this kind would have saved me and > probably others lots of time and frustration. Anybody interested in > contributing to such an FAQ? Let's see if i can manage to maintain it and > learn from it! Have you found the FAQ (published on any Debian site in the directory doc/FAQ) to be inadequate? If so, can you suggest some changes? (This is not meant tongue-in-cheek. I don't know if you missed it, or if it just didn't help.) Susan Kleinmann
Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Try: > modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 > > If you use "modconf" (the module configuration menu) use the arguments > > cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 > Yeah, wow! This did the trick! But why is it not documented in the help text which is accessible at boot up of the installation disks by pressing the key F4? It wrongly suggests to add as parameter "cdu31a=0x3XX,X" or something like that. This even sounds rather plausible if you know this already from other more or less broken distributions! This is definitely a bug in the installation routine! What a pity that i lost so much time trying to find it out... Well, i think it's time to compose some kind of an Debian-Installation-FAQ just for these kind of cases. An FAQ of this kind would have saved me and probably others lots of time and frustration. Anybody interested in contributing to such an FAQ? Let's see if i can manage to maintain it and learn from it! BTW, i didn't succeed installation anyway. :-( After my CD drive was recognized and the bad-links-fix package from i-Connect (i received a broken Debian-1.1.5 CD from them) was installed as described in their README i could use dselect to select my packages and everything. (This 'dselect' is to my mind a rather awkward program and i didn't enjoy installation with it very much...) But after completion of all selections when i started 'Install' i just got following error message (i wrote it down at home and went to our institute for mailing it): - -cut-here-- Running dpkg -iGROEB /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386 find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/admin/sudo_1.4.4-2.deb: No such file or directory find: /tmp/Debian-1.1.6/stable/binary-i386/base/mount_2.5l-1.deb: No such file or directory dpkg: subprocess find returned error exit status 1 installation script returned error exit status 1. Press RETURN to continue. - -cut-here-- Well, i tried continuation and repeated everything various times. The files which are not found by find are definetely there right in the place as reported in the error message. They are just there waiting for 'find' and this damn 'find' just chooses to ignore them for whatever reason there is!? Can't 'find' handle symbolic links on a CD ROM? At this point i just had to give in. Looks like a case for i-Connect anyway... I think this is just incredible! When i was a complete clueless newbie who didn't even know how to pronounce UNIX or Linux and was a complete Windoze addict one and a half year ago i managed to setup a Slackware based system due to proper documentation in little more than a day. And up to this moment i barely managed to install a Debian-1.1 base system since friday evening being stuck again on monday morning... This ain't no good! I'd really wish it to be easier for a non informatics guy like me! Maybe i should switch to Redhat, but i like the idea behind Debian and GNU and actually want to install it on two Linux boxes which i am maintaining at our institute. But these frustrating experiences with my testdrive at my private box give me something to think about... Well, now it is almost 2:30 in the middle of the night and i am tired, pretty desillusioned and rather frustrated about my Debian experiences so far. I'll go home to sleep now and hope to get my Debian system up and running some time really soon. I depend on a Linux box and i definitely want it to be a GNU/Debian machine in any case! Good night, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key iQCVAwUBMjNjgOgqiw1XE3/lAQGh2QP+PSfedWmjKLv9NAO7R23BvYS5QMK3aaeN 3CLK7WJKV/VsMpgtW8UqVsMuVN7LFVIZLyblvBslSDMQHlF/bSUWz6VPMd+50Clk 9fhfcxXxAjTIWzA0ExtWdQxk8g0i5QNY+/hDsQSrX7KgI5dtKJucFr97JdvPpbl0 RK4ihDYbCRc= =MOGv -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
> I choose CDU-31-A as CD drive module and tried to install it with the > parameters "0x340,5". Oh darn. I gave the wrong advice. Try: modprobe cdu31a cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 If you use "modconf" (the module configuration menu) use the arguments cdu31a_port=0x340 cdu31a_irq=5 Thanks Bruce
Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 7 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote: > You may be giving the module the wrong argument (for that version, at > least). Try "modprobe cdu31 cdu31a=0x340,5" . Also, add ",PAS" to that > if you are using the CD connector on a Pro Audio Spectrum card. > Until now i tried installation maybe 8 or 9 times, maybe more (i didn't count). Everything went fine but the cdu31a doesn't become recognized in no way whatever i do. I tried so far: 1.) At booting of the install boot disk: Adding parameter as "cdu31a=0x340,5", naturally without the `"' and as i don't have a PAS i didn't pass any information about one to the kernel. As a variation i put a few times "cdu31a=0x340,05" but this was not very succesful either. 2.) After installation of the base system via the setup screen as offered by the debian install: I choose CDU-31-A as CD drive module and tried to install it with the parameters "0x340,5". Output: "Initialisation of cdu31a failed." 3.) After reboot of the system with the newly installed kernel from a custom boot disk: I tried installion of the module with "insmod cdu31a" but again the only output was just "Initialisation of cdu31a failed." In /dev there is no entry "cdu31a" to be found and trying to execute "./MAKEDEV cdu31a" yields a "Don't know how to make /dev/cdu31a" or something similar (I'm not at home right now to check the exact strings). I don't understand this by no means. I'll try the way you wrote, Bruce, but i suspect there is a typo in your prescription? Shouldn't it better be "modprobe cdu31a cdu31a=0x340,5"? ^^^ I don't have a PAS and use the interface card provided by Sony. Maybe i should tell the kernel definitely that there is no PAS at all with something like "PAS=0"? Thank you, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key iQCVAwUBMjMLc+gqiw1XE3/lAQGLdQP/UMwpsBvFf086z7FfuWseUy2Ytttq4J6y AlpvIRpuDiBT9gnP37WO6cxMQ98jHADo2ul2s3LsFTnlCLnXVOFBAQeArhqfhjhI cFc2Xpfv/TiRXGGdtuiCGSA5jvpFmaCBoq4Kap+jTCU2USLjZSgi9IS3v9gYRgkD DGI9bXmvia8= =Gc1a -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
You may be giving the module the wrong argument (for that version, at least). Try "modprobe cdu31 cdu31a=0x340,5" . Also, add ",PAS" to that if you are using the CD connector on a Pro Audio Spectrum card. Thanks Bruce
Sony CDU31A not recognized at all!?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all! Yesterday evening i started installation of Debian-1.1.5 being well aware about the need to use the bad_links_fix_1.1.5.tgz for fixing some troubles related with the spoiled CD-ROM which i received like a few others too. Using the 1,44" diskimages in buzz/disks-i386/current/ i managed without any major problem to partition my harddrive and install a base system. BTW, this is a well designed setup procedure to my mind. But here installation is over for me. My Sony CD-ROM drive CDU31A doesn't get recognized at all by the debian kernel, whereas there never was any problem with this for one year and a half with a Slackware-based setup. Also Win95 has no problems with this drive. Trying to install a loadable module via insmod or the Debian installation routines just yields a "Initialization of cdu31a failed". When giving the kernel the proper I/O adress and IRQ like it worked before (0x340,5) has no impact at all. In /dev there is not even mention made of a 'cdu31a' although there exists a 'cdu31a.o' in the place where all modules are to be found. My machine is a Vesa Local Bus 486DX-33 with 20MB RAM, two harddrives and the CDU31A on a ISA CD-ROM controller by Sony. This is my first encounter with Debian as well as with the 2.xx generation of the Linux kernel. I tried pretty everything to find out why the drive is not recognized. I even read the documentation provided on the CD-ROM by I-Connect and on the Debian WWW server. Regrettably the man pages are still not accesible with the barebones base installation. Right now i'm checking the Debian mailing list archives at "http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives"; but i didn't find any hint so far... Well, i can't proceed with the installation and i am pretty disappointed up to this point that i'm so helpless right now. I need Linux for my everyday work and really need to have a working system ASAP. I'd really hope it is some dumb error of myself which prevents initialization of the CD drive but i just can't figure this out. Do you need more information or is this sufficient for having an idea about what is possibly a solution? TIA, Paul *8^) __ Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] African Music Archive - Institute for Ethnology and Africa Studies Johannes Gutenberg-University - Forum 6 - 55099 Mainz/Germany Our AMA Homepage in the WWW at http://www.uni-mainz.de/~bender/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 Comment: 'finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]' for public key iQCVAwUBMjGfUOgqiw1XE3/lAQGfZwP/SgDKq6KUaubacHilpFXjYwUrxL28QtNZ bUyOFIPXLv7aaxXZwcA9SQmknrxlxQjJMG98Pr6nZDSEn5ZwQ0CNCSGtlVH5N2vi 7px+rr8eJQeKvVaSwg3+BVFnWyE7do0b4Wds6TqFx6YM35e1KHCfUv/gs1nhRCRV Afo67e151yU= =nRUM -END PGP SIGNATURE-
