Linux-Hardware Digest #163
Linux-Hardware Digest #163, Volume #14 Thu, 11 Jan 01 19:13:05 EST
Contents:
Via on-board sound success! (Peter Christy)
Epson 1640SU under linux: notes (long 8.5K) (A E Lawrence)
Re: DLink 530TX, what chip does it use? (Franz Simlinger)
Re: Help !!! Drivers for USR winmodem (56.6k) and Creative Sound Blaster (A E
Lawrence)
Re: Strange alpha clock issue ("JJ")
Re: CISCO 675 Modem (Jeff Andre)
Re: Hardware advice needed (A E Lawrence)
Re: faulty travan tape (A E Lawrence)
Re: Linksys Ethernet Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: will Mandrake Linux 7.2 support HP Officejet G85? (Jarl Friis)
From: Peter Christy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Via on-board sound success!
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 18:38:14 +
I originally posted this in the alt.os.linux.mandrake forum, but apparently
some people can't access it there. So I'm posting it here too for those
unlucky souls!
At long last, and after no end of faffing about, I've finally got the
onboard VIA sound chip (686a) working on my system! None of the "official"
recommended methods worked properly (if at all!) and what follows is the
result of much trial and error - mostly error! Your mileage may vary, as
much of this seems to be very system dependant. Even if it doesn't work
straight off for you, it MIGHT point you in the right direction!
The bits that work or don't work seem to be EXTREMELY system dependant, so
here is a brief summary of my system:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-7ZM (Via KT-133 chipset) with a 700MHz Duron
processor.
BIOS setup: AC97 support ENABLED
MC97 (modem) DISABLED (might not be important - don't know!)
Legacy audio ENABLED (without this no MPU-401 or joystick.)
Soundblaster DISABLED (this is only used by real DOS)
OS: Linux-Mandrake 7.2
Kernel: 2.4.0 test 12
2.4.0 prerelease.
DevFS ENABLED.
Desktop: KDE 2.1 beta
First of all, you are wasting your time trying to get the kernel modules to
work with the VIA 686a. Yes, I know they are there in the kernel
configuration but they don't appear to work at all. Even if you are lucky
enough to get them working, apparently they only support 8 bit audio.
Forget them!
The kernel should be compiled with sound support ON (to produce the
soundcore module), but no driver modules selected
Get the latest ALSA sound drivers. At the time of writing (Jan 2001) these
are 0.5.10. 0.5.9d may also work, but 10 has bug fixes for the AC97.
Unpack the TAR files into a spare directory (I use /usr/local/src/).
You should end up with three new directories, alsa-driver-0.5.10,
alsa-lib-0.5.10 and alsa-utils-0.5.10.
Enter the alsa driver directory, and do ./configure , make , make install.
NOTE: My compiler kept crashing during the make trying to make something
that had no relevance to the VIA chip. If you do ./configure
--with-cards=via686a it will ONLY build modules relevant to the via
chipset. This saves time and space! It also reduces the chance of a
spurious compiler crash!
Next, go to the alsa lib directory and ./configure , make , make install .
You shouldn't need any options here.
Now do the same again in the alsa utils directory ( ./configure , make and
make install ). The utils aren't strictly necessary, but may be useful for
bug-hunting.
Now all the modules should be in place. If you reboot your system, you will
find some extra options under the "Startup Services" (traffic lights
symbol) in Drakconf. These are Alsasound and sound (sound may have been
there originally) MAKE SURE BOTH THESE ARE SWITCHED OFF! It seems that the
LM 7.2 startup calls the modules in the wrong sequence - as a result they
don't work. You MUST install them the hard way!
Actually, it isn't that hard! Go to /etc/modules (NOT /etc/modules.conf!)
and add the following lines:
snd-card-via686a
snd-pcm-oss
snd-mixer-oss
During boot-up, LM reads the contents of /etc/modules and installs the
requested modules. NOTE: This appears to be broken in 7.1 (at least, I
never got it to work!) 7.1 users will probably have to add these lines to
etc/rc.d/rc.local
/sbin/modprobe snd-card-via686a
/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm-oss
/sbin/modprobe snd-mixer-oss
NOTE AGAIN: I haven't tried this - its just a guess!
Now edit /etc/modules.conf, adding the following lines:
# ALSA native device support
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
# OSS-free setup
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
The alsa literature implies that you have to add an awful lot of other
stuff, but the latest releases seem to take care of all that for you
automatically.
Finally, if you're running DevFS, you need to add a couple of lines to
devfs.conf:
REGISTERsound/.*PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
REGISTERsnd/.* PERMISSIONS root.audio 660
(If
Linux-Hardware Digest #163
Linux-Hardware Digest #163, Volume #13Sat, 1 Jul 00 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
RE: servidor de news ("Martin")
Re: IBM Deskstar 75GXP and UDMA ("Zvonimir Zelenika")
Re: IBM Deskstar 75GXP and UDMA ("Zvonimir Zelenika")
Ricoh F680 (Guus Zijlstra)
Re: vestigal partition - how to get rid of? (Joe Ringer)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Hal Burgiss)
mouse in Linux (ABIT ZM6, Celeron 466) (Speedy Fast)
Problem with D-link DFE-530TX+ (RTL8139) NIC (Warren Gross)
Re: Why is my harddisk so slow? (Cliff Pennock)
Re: mouse in Linux (ABIT ZM6, Celeron 466) (Speedy Fast)
Re: cdrecord -scanbus: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI (Duane)
Re: can't play audio CD's but works otherwise (Narbey Derbekyan)
Linux Resource (Cory Rauch)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
("news.teleport.com")
Re: can't play audio CD's but works otherwise (Narbey Derbekyan)
Re: adjust clock on linux (Michael V. Ferranti)
From: "Martin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
es.binarios.sexo,es.comp.emuladores,es.comp.hardware.cd-rw,es.comp.hardware.misc,es.rec.juegos.comp.arcade,es.rec.juegos.comp.aventuras,es.rec.juegos.comp.simuladores.misc,es.rec.juegos.estrategia,microsoft.public.es.window
Subject: RE: servidor de news
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:29:10 +0200
ranzio [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió en el mensaje de noticias
eT975.9732$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
alguien sabe algun servidor de news en el que salgan todos los grupos y
sea
publico
noticias.alphacom.es
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From: "Zvonimir Zelenika" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBM Deskstar 75GXP and UDMA
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:23:17 +0200
Hi !
Here is a data point for you, I've got the IBM75GXP/45G on the same
ATA33 bus as an older IBM 14.4G drive. The performance of the two drives
is exactly the same,
/dev/hda: (14.4G)
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.19 seconds =107.56 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 15.74 seconds = 4.07 MB/sec
/home/bjrosen hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb
hdparm -Tt /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb: (75GXP 45G)
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.19 seconds =107.56 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 15.76 seconds = 4.06 MB/sec
We did get things working, at the end it was actually IRQ conflict beetween
Ethernet card and Promise Ultra 66 card. Things are now working great:
[mod@modtest mod]# hdparm -tT /dev/hda
/dev/hda: (Maxtor 6Gb on motherboard ATA33)
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.60 seconds = 80.00 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.52 seconds = 18.18 MB/sec
[mod@modtest mod]# hdparm -tT /dev/hde
/dev/hde: (IBM Deskstar 75, 45Gb on Promise Ultra66)
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.58 seconds = 81.01 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 2.20 seconds = 29.09 MB/sec
[mod@modtest mod]#
I think there might be something wrong with your settings, since 4MB/sec is
too slow and it sound like your disks aren't using DMA at all.
check hdparm /dev/hda and /dev/hdb to see if DMA is turned on at all.
using_dma= 1 (on)
and then try to turn it on with hdparm -d1 /dev/hda and on hdb. If your
system hangs, then check at startup if some devices are both using same IRQ
(if Mass Storage Controller is on same IRQ with something else).
--
Zvonimir
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From: "Zvonimir Zelenika" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IBM Deskstar 75GXP and UDMA
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 17:24:52 +0200
I had problems with conflicts between maxtor and IBM drives on my
system. I only had UDMA33 drives, but got random errors if I tried to
run both drives in DMA mode at the same time on the same system.
Don't have same problem since they're on separate controllers (Maxtor in on
the board ATA33, and IBM Deskstar is on Promise Ultra66 card)... ...it works
great now. 30MB/sec on the IBM.
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Zvonimir
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From: Guus Zijlstra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ricoh F680
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2000 17:32:27 +0200
Reply-To: remove_nospam_bogus_from_sender
I've been offered a new Ricoh F680 fax/printer
for about $260. This is in The Netherlands (Europe)
where prices can be slightly higher than in the US.
My questions are the following:
- Does anybody have first hand experience with
this model. Is it any good???
- Does it have a straight copier function? Ricoh's
website is pretty vague on this point.
- Is this machine supported under linux? It has a
centronix h/w interface, according to the specs.
Please cc me personally, if you can manage to remove
the no-spam stuff.
Tia,
Guus.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Ringer)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: vestigal partition - how to get rid of?
Date: 1 Jul 2000 15:36:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 02:57:26
Linux-Hardware Digest #163
Linux-Hardware Digest #163, Volume #11Thu, 2 Sep 99 08:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Stanislav Kelman)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cheap video card (Roger Traywick)
Re: 3COM Ethernet Card PROBLEM... (Jason Harmon)
Re: Unusable space on 13.6GB hard-disk (Len Brown)
SCSI II LVD Hard Drive ("Sara")
Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP (Yotam Medini)
Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Paul)
Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x? ("Ron")
Is there a Digital Soundcard for Linux? (Stefan Lewandowski)
Re: Promise EIDE 2300+ Setup? ("David J. M. Karlsen")
Dynalink ISPH64 and SuSE Linux 6.1 ("Henrik Stokseth")
Re: help mounting Zip drive ("Henrik Stokseth")
Re: Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP (Kjell Petersen)
Beowulf computer parts - cheap! (M. Oesterwinter)
Re: Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI reset (J.M. van der Kolk)
Re: LCD display (Mark Cooperstein)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stanislav Kelman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.be.advocacy
Subject: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:43:52 -0400
Hello there!
How come Linux lags behind BeOS in hardware support? There are supposedly
tens of thousands of Linux developers who are now backed by a number of
multi-billion companies? Be, Inc., which is a relatively tiny company,
somehow managed to get good "out-of-the-box" support for TNT2, Voodoo3 and
SB Live! way before Linux. I don't even believe that any of the current
major Linux distros support any of the above hardware.
With TNT2 and Voodoo3 being pretty much the most popular chips on modern
home systems (and the only ones offered by, say, Dell or Gateway),
wouldn't you agree that their support should be a high priority? If so,
what is the time frame on this?
Regards,
Stan
P.S. I am not looking to start another OS war. I just want to run some
alternative OS's on the new dual-Celery computer that I am putting
together in the meantime.
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
are the ones who do." --Macintosh ad campaign
___
* You can find a crazy person at http://www.LetItBe.org *
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:17:27 GMT
In article 7qhrph$heg$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article 7qgbqv$cec$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, I am in the process of configuring and setting up some Linux
servers for my company, [snip]
The question is this... software or hardware based RAID? And what
are the hardware requirements?
I think that setting up software raid in Linux for a company is a
very bad idea at this time. I have done a kernel patch in kernel
2.2.11 to stripe a couple of drives together as an experiment, but
no way would I do this on a machine used for business.
Depending upon how dead in the water your company would be if the
RAID array has problems, I'd recommend finding a company that does
this professionally. You need to decide how fault tolerant the
system needs to be, and provide for a backup mechanism that is fast
enough so that you're not backing up during high-usage times.
I know, this isn't exactly the question that you asked, but I felt
strongly about this and wanted to make sure you had taken these
factors into account. There's just so many factors to take into
account when choosing a RAID+backup solution that I'd personally
stick with proven SCSI hardware, known redundancy, hot-swapping
of bad disks and fast tape backup. You may find that backing up
250Gb of data requires a very expensive tape drive, like digital
linear tape. Scary to get it wrong!
Well I would rather use Linux for our fileserver than Netware or NT.
From what I have read it seems that there are somewhat reliable RAID
drivers for Linux (in 2.2.x at least), reliable enough that many people
seem to be using them and various distributions such as Red Hat
advertise it as one of its key features. But if software RAID support
is not as stable as you seem to be implying then thats something Linux
needs if its going to be considered a legitimate player in the
fileserver arena.
Anyway the 250gb RAID I mentioned was just the scratch/temporary
filesystem, no backups will be kept of that one and if it fails i'll
just rebuild it, no problem really. It will be a RAID0, just striping.
The RAID that needs backups is the main file server, ~50gb, and I'll
be using RAID5 for that one and I will be keeping backups with multiple
tapes on my DDS3 drive just in case of multipl
Linux-Hardware Digest #163
Linux-Hardware Digest #163, Volume #10Wed, 5 May 99 08:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: PhoenixMiser error on ULTRA LITE VERSA ("Greg Bryant")
serial post and 2.2.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 5.2 Breaks PCMCIA Token Ring ?? (James Knott)
Diva T/A ISDN modem II ("Claus Jul Larsen")
Diva T/A ISDN modem to Linux ("Claus Jul Larsen")
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (Bill Unruh)
Re: How good is a Riva TNT for svgalib? (Pasztor Szilard)
Trident 9880 on Linux? (Anders Skovsted Buch)
Re: XF86config for Diamond Stealth II S220? ("Chris J. Milne")
Re: Winmodem Rip Off Baskets (Ron Tarrant)
CDR 4210 Question (Jeff Dell)
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (Ken Cormack)
Re: LILO refuses, stops after 'LI' (Timothy Klein)
(Internet Screen probs...) I'm a newbie in linu so I'd LOVE s.o. to help on some
things:
Re: "Jiggling" video ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Webcams and Linux ("Armin A. Arbinger")
Re: "Jiggling" video ("Larry Brasfield")
From: "Greg Bryant" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: PhoenixMiser error on ULTRA LITE VERSA
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 22:52:54 -0400
Power on the system and watch the cursor. When it turns to a flashing
block, press F1 a couple of times. You should go into setup. The BIOS is
apparently not set with the correct drive parameters. You can set it up as
a Custom Defined type. Type a D to access the drives menu, arrow key down
to Hard disk 1 and then use Alt-down arrow to access the drive sub-menu.
The Ultralite Versa will not support anything larger than a 340MB drive
unless you use some sort of drive management software.
That Versa will only support a dedicated save-to-disk partition so make sure
you use the correct version of PHdisk and tell it to create a partition, not
a file. The STD partition must be the first partition on the disk. I have
no idea if the STD feature will work under Linux.
Good luck and have fun with your "antique" discovery.
Greg
Eugene Luster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I started a new job on the west coast. While taking inventory of
all the computer gear in a satellite ofice I found an old Nec ULTRA LITE
VERSA 486/25. Istarted it out of curiosity to find out it would make
it past the RAM check (8MB) but give an error of no bootsector on the
HD. I decided to try and reformat the HD with DOS 6.0 (just cause I had
it lying around). I used the DOS boot isk and installed it fine. The
ULTRALITE booted to DOS from the HD. However it only recognized an HD
of 11 MB!
No worries maybe something was wrong with the HD. I installed an HD
from an applepowerbook I recently upgraded. Once again the format and
DOS install went well ut the same result occurred, an 11 MB HD. I
decided I was not as smart as I thought so I did some research and found
out I should have run PHDISk to set up the HD with a partition used for
backing up the entire contents of memory while powering off.
Armed with a 3.5 inch floppy containg a copy of phdisk.exe from NEC
I walked down the hall to wher th ULTRALITE sat charging I powered on
and.After the RAM check I get a bios error, "PhoenixMISER(tm)
partition doesn't exist. Please power off and correct the porblem."
Not high heaven nor low hell wil go into the ULTRALITE now. I can not
use f2 or f12 to get to the bios/cmos setup, boot disks don't work,
kicking it... (JK) nothing. I was planning on installing linux on it
as I want to get familiar with it as an OS. Any ideas how I can get
around the bios roadblock. If the answer will help out thieves by
telling them away to circumvent the bios password do not post it here.
I would rather throw this thing away then facilitate theft.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: serial post and 2.2.6
Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 09:30:39 GMT
I have upgraded to kernel 2.2.6, and my modem no longer works. After booting,
the send and receive lights are on solid on the modem. I have tested the modem
on another machine, and it works fine. Is there any way I can find the status
of the /dev/ttyS0 port?? setserial identifies the port correctly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 Breaks PCMCIA Token Ring ??
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 05:58:37 -0400
Reply-To: James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Iain Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I upgraded from 5.0 - 5.2 and it breaks my PCMCIA Token Ring card :-(
I use an IBM Auto 16/4 token ring PCMCIA card in a ThinkP
