Linux-Hardware Digest #178
Linux-Hardware Digest #178, Volume #14 Sun, 14 Jan 01 19:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: SB Live IRQ problem (Gareth Randall)
Re: SB Live IRQ problem (Gareth Randall)
Write permissions (Rajiv)
Re: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 PCI 16 MB card solution (E J)
Re: Write permissions (Tony Curtis)
Re: Strange alpha clock issue (Michal Jaegermann)
Re: USR 2977 2976 - Comments Please ("PC Wizard")
Re: ISA video card in "modern" mobo - possible? (Scott Alfter)
please help me with my win linux (REGGIE BOLAND)
Re: ISA video card in "modern" mobo - possible? ("jazardous")
Re: Good, cheap *AT* motherboard/processor combos? (Matt O'Toole)
Re: Good, cheap *AT* motherboard/processor combos? (Matt O'Toole)
Re: Bellsouth DSL Modem and Linux (Sinner from the Prairy)
Help: SCSI Card Upgrade (George)
Video4Linux Not Working ("William Fong")
Re: Manual switchbox ("William Fong")
Mandrake Support for Abit KT7 Raid Array Controller ? ("Samian")
Re: Server Pro's/Con's Wanted ("William Fong")
Re: lost interrupt? (Sigismondo Cenni)
Pcmcia modem ("underworld6d9")
Re: SB Live IRQ problem (Lee Webb)
Re: faulty travan tape (John Orren Battle)
From: Gareth Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:13:58 +
Thought:
I wonder whether the IRQ setup under Linux may be different from your Windows setup,
meaning that IRQ10 is actually in use under Linux.
Windows can sometimes share IRQ's between devices. For instance, you may have USB and
something else sharing IRQ 11. Under Linux, this sharing may not occur, and something
gets pushed off to the only other free interrupt IRQ 10. Hence the soundcard can no
longer obtain the necessary resource (that is the correct error message for this
situation) when it initialises.
Just check the situation with: cat /proc/interrupts and see if anything is on 10.
Fixing this problem will involve more work on your part. I suggest you repost giving
details of what hardware you've got (/proc/interrupts, /proc/ioports etc) and someone
can tell you how to share IRQs in more detail than I can.
As far as I'm concerned we should all curse the moronic designers who keep
perpetuating this ancient cascading IRQ limitation and who never bother to design a
simple circuit to switch 100's of IRQs which could be turned on at bootup by new
OS's... (That's worth a post in itself.)
Craig Barel wrote:
Hello,
This newbie has just installed mandrake 7.2 and everything went smoothly
except for my SB Live Value PCI sound card. Whenever I try and configure it
I get a device or resource busy error message and there is a message
suggesting my irq setting is invalid for the card on boot up. I have moved
the card around all available PCI slots to no avail and don't know what
else to do. I followed the installation instructions and printed a resource
report from within windows and on the irq usage summary there are two
entries for irq 10 (the one SB live is trying to use) they are:
10 Creative SB Live! Value
10 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
I don't know much about this stuff so I'm not sure if the ACPI entry is
causing the problem or not?
I know that the card isn't broken because it works under windows ok. I am
quite sure that this IRQ business is the problem but I just don't know how
to get around it.
Any advice appreciated.
Craig.
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=== Gareth Randall ===
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From: Gareth Randall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:19:55 +
Thought:
Basically, I wonder whether the IRQ usage map is different under Linux.
e.g. under Windows you may have two devices sharing say IRQ 11.
Under Linux these don't share and consume IRQ 10 before your soundcard
comes to initialise. (Your error message is what you'd expect if this
occurred.)
Repost with contents of /proc/interrupts, /proc/ioports, and some hardware
details and someone may be able to identify shareable devices and tell you
how to do it.
[Sorry, Netscape crashed and lost my longer first reply. Shit code ... I
could do better myself if I only had the time...]
Yours,
=== Gareth Randall ===
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From: Rajiv [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Write permissions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:37:27 +
When I log onto my SuSE 7.0 box as user, I have read but not write
("access denied") permissions on the other mounted partitions. The only
write permissions I have are my user and /tmp directories. However, when
I log in as root, I have no problems writing to other mounted
partitions.
My fstab shows all directories to have rw permissions, though. I have
tried chmod 777 with all the directories, but to no avail.
Could anyone out ther
Linux-Hardware Digest #178
Linux-Hardware Digest #178, Volume #11Sat, 4 Sep 99 06:13:46 EDT
Contents:
Re: [Q]: Modem acts up (Teo The Teo)
New hard drive not correctly recognized. ("Suddn")
Re: Adaptec scsi (Mark McDougall)
Re: SIS 620 Finally Works In High Resolution, just had to go to their (Stephan
Skrodzki)
Re: probs installing SCSI card (Mark McDougall)
Re: netscape fonts... (Mark McDougall)
Re: how to drive A3D'S SOUND CAR?? (Laurent)
Re: making linux go away (James Knott)
Ensoniq Vivo90 kernel-2.2 (Gerd Bürger)
Re: HOW TOO with the HOW TOO's? (Stewart Hector)
Re: which modem to buy? (Stewart Hector)
screen resolutions better under linux than windows - why? (Stewart Hector)
Re: Creative TNT Ultra 2 and Caldera Open Linux (Stewart Hector)
Please help: Adaptec/Seagate booting problem ("Phil Botha")
Re: New Computer / Dual CPU Newbie questions (Teo The Teo)
From: Teo The Teo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: [Q]: Modem acts up
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 00:18:42 -0700
Kevin Farrell wrote:
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Alan M. Shih wrote:
I have a PC running Redhat Linux 5.1, using a Motorola Modemsurf 56K
external modem. It was working well until one day it dialed up, seemed to
be connected, and then after 5-10 seconds, it disconnected. The script
automatically redial, but it just kept on and off
I bought another 56K external modem (Modem Blaster) and it did the same
thing. I then upgrade the PC to Redhat Linux 6.0, did not help. I even
moved the whole thing to another Dell PII-233, and still the same. These 2
modems work fine under Win98 and WinNT off the same network I have at home.
I am running out of ideas, please help.
Alan
Talk to your ISP, if you've tried diff modems and even different PCs! Then
it's very likely your ISP.
I have the same problem but my din't know what to do :(
and they'll said they donot support linux :(
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From: "Suddn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New hard drive not correctly recognized.
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 07:23:19 GMT
I have a Maxtor 20.0 GB DiamondMax Plus dirve. When I install the Mandrake
6.0 (Red hat 6.0) version of Linux fdisk only sees 8 GB!
I'm using an Asus P2B motherboard with a Celeron 300a.
Help!
Thanks
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From: Mark McDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adaptec scsi
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 18:09:49 +1000
Hi Frank,
I\m running a RedHat 6.0 system an d i can`t get my adaptec aha1510a
scsicard working. It is going to controll a Tandberg TDC4120 tape
streamer for backup. Can anyone help me?
AFAIK, aha152x is broken in RH6?!? I have the exact same problem,
although I was running on RH5 without any problems. Doing an insmod
aha152x with correct parameters recognises my CDR and Zip drives but
then hangs the machine.
According to the RH6 support pages, under 'install', adaptec scsi hangs
during an install from scsi cdrom (I can verify this!). I've tried after
installing from hard-disk and I still get scsi bus hang. I haven't
looked for upgrades to kernel/module yet.
Anyone else had any success eith this yet???
Regards,
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| Mark McDougall|
|Engineer |
| Virtual Logic Pty Ltd |
| http://www.vl.com.au |
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From: Stephan Skrodzki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: SIS 620 Finally Works In High Resolution, just had to go to their
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 10:06:27 +0200
Allix wrote:
Well I'm still kicking myself , for not going to their website in the first
place, for all you SIS people out there , head straight to www.sis.com.tw
I can finally get 16 , 24 and 32 bit modes in linux, and boy does it ever
look good
From their README:
f. Add following lines in "Device" section in XF86Config
Option "hw_cursor"
Option "noaccel"
Option "no_bitblt"
Option "linear"
Uhhh... love it... yeah boy it does really look good... but only when
you don't scroll or even move pictures around...
After waiting for almost a year for improved SiS6326 Xfree performance,
I have changed my mainboard last week... now using an ATI Rage Pro and
this is what I expect: super fast, no kernel freeze with bttv etc...
Get me right, I don't want to blame anybody for not improving the SiS
drivers... I just was tired of waiting and not able to improve them
myself :-)
Regards
Steve
P.S. PCChips M747 PII Board for sale: SiS6326 and Sound with S/PDIF on
board... :-)
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Stephan Skrodzki
Mannheim, Germany
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From: Mark McDougall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: probs installing SCSI card
Date: Sat, 04 Sep 1999 18:03:57 +1000
Kevin Dorma wrote:
So it looks like the autoprobe do
Linux-Hardware Digest #178
Linux-Hardware Digest #178, Volume #10Fri, 7 May 99 07:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Adaptec SlimScsi 1460 (Michael Meissner)
Re: small network, no pings (DB7654321)
linux drivers for a D-Link DFE-503 TX 10/100 mbits NIC ("Mathieu Imrazene")
isdn4k-utils won't compile on rh6.0 ("Carlsberg")
Printer LBP-465 ("Patrick")
Re: Best Super7 Motherboard ("Gene Heskett")
Video Card and Monitor (Manny D.)
LaserJet 1100 ("Richard Lewin")
Re: SBlive under linux not working! (Martin van Roon)
Help with sound driver startup (Janos Ero)
Motorola Modem Help Please... ("Greg S.")
[Q] Trident 9320 on IBM TP 365XD (Kim ungyol)
Luxury Back Massage at SUPER Below market price for internet ONLY (James Scott)
Re: Digital I/O boards (Lee Wei Shun)
Re: "Jiggling" video (Christopher Mahmood)
Sparc 5/170 RH Linux 6.0? ("HJLin")
Re: SBLive Linux Drivers HELP (Martin van Roon)
Re: HP support sucks (was: funniest printer-problem) (peter)
Re: Linux on a Notebook? (George Dau)
sleep_on / wake_up problem, full-duplex, SoundBlaster 16 ("Regis")
Re: SuSe 6.1 Setting up a PPP Connection to SWBELL.NET with wvdial ("Derek Turner")
SB 128 PCI (Claude Chaudet)
Examples of best machines for LINUX, least expensive machines for LINUX. (Don Saklad)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Adaptec SlimScsi 1460
From: Michael Meissner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 06 May 1999 22:44:55 -0400
Dieter Kraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
with Kernel 2.2.7 and PCMCIA 3.0.10
no SCSI devices are recognised with the Adaptec SlimSCSI 1460B card
It´s no hardware problem because scanner and dat run under win98
Is this a known problem and what is the solution?
I dunno about pcmcia 3.0.10, but certainly back in 3.0.5 days (and maybe 2.2.3
kernel), I used a 1460 adapter. You do have to compile scsi support into the
kernel (I had problems when I compiled it as a module). You might want to
check if /proc/scsi/scsi is created when the card is inserted, and if so, what
devices are present. For the scanner, you will need scsi generic support
compiled in as well (or if a module, loaded), and obviously for the dat you
need scsi tape support compiled in.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DB7654321)
Subject: Re: small network, no pings
Date: 7 May 1999 07:16:09 GMT
Try posting this question to comp.os.linux.networking. Somebody here could
probably handle this question, but you might get a faster response on the
networking newsgroup.
David Bell
Please don't email me just reply on the board.
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From: "Mathieu Imrazene" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: linux drivers for a D-Link DFE-503 TX 10/100 mbits NIC
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 10:10:47 +0200
hello !
is annyone know which drivers i should use for my NIC ? I'm using 2.2.7
kernel.
thank you in advance,
Mathieu
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From: "Carlsberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: isdn4k-utils won't compile on rh6.0
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 09:05:40 +0200
complains about some missing ndbm.h...but I have that file in /include/db1
or something
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From: "Patrick" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Printer LBP-465
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 08:30:49 +0200
I am a very beginer in Linux.
I have got a LBP-465 (a "winPrinter").
Does anyone know if there is any way to use it under linux.
Thanks a million for your help.
Patrick
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Date: 07 May 99 05:02:20 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Best Super7 Motherboard
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to bot_b ;
OK boys and girls, been looking at these groups
for a couple of months now trying to find out
what would be the best board for a AMD 400.
Seems you all are working against me though.
Guess I gave up drinking to soon. Is it really to
much to ask? All I want is to build a good upgradable
system that will run LINUX and WINDOWS.
I know it's that WINDOWS thing isn't it.
Yup. that, and your hotmail address. Their fscking spam generator is
working overtime, and this newsgroup is the only one I don't have
hotmail as a blanket kill in my killfile.
That said, the TYAN Trinity, S1590S baby AT mobo seems to be a fine one,
and I have a 400 mhx AMD K6-2/3DNow, with 64 megs of pc100 memory that
seems to be happy except when I run the rc5 client, the overtemp alarm
goes off entirely too quickly.
The general consensus seems to be that the thermometer in the bios is a
bit bogus. Other than that, the board has been zero problems that
weren't configuration related.
Cheers, Gene
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Linux-Hardware Digest #178
Linux-Hardware Digest #178, Volume #9Thu, 14 Jan 99 20:13:39 EST
Contents:
Rio upload/manager for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Xircom PC Card NICs and Linux (Mohd H Misnan)
Re: fvwm2 to afterstep instead on startx ("PSchork")
Re: Corel StrongArm boxes ("Keith G. Murphy")
PPP Question ??? ("John")
Re: dialing with a phone card to isp (Michael Humphries-Dolnick)
Diamond A50 (I740) and X ("Rick")
Re: need help on ISDN and RIVA TNT (Paul E Larson)
Re: [Fwd: Will my new PC be able to run linux?] (Wolfgang Viechtbauer)
Re: To ISA or not to ISA? (Donovan Baarda)
Re: Teles PCI ISDN Red Hat 5.2 - HELP!!! (Jos De Graeve)
Re: All Linux Problems with Trident 3dImage 975 AGP Setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mac zip support for intel linux? (Matteo Corti)
Re: AMD K6-2/350 and a Giga MB ("George Reaves")
linux for IBM PCServer ? (KHK)
Re: need help: add ide HDD to scsi system -- lilo fail (Frank Schoenherr)
Re: Boot failure (Andy Adams)
LILO
Re: HOWTO AGP ATI RAGE IIC and xwindows (Lars Oeschey)
problem installing ES1371 on Redhat 5.2 (Russ Ferriday)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Rio upload/manager for Linux
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 06:02:54 GMT
Hey,
I am trying toget info for Diamond's Rio from the tech people,
I suggest a good old fashioned campaign to beg for software/info.
I would suggest sending mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], that is as close to rio
as their various support addresses get.
If any one is interested, I am thinking about setting up an account on my
machine and start leaving my Rio hooked up. Don't know if I really want to
risk hosing it though.
One thing to try is to trap loseose system calls. I don't know if there is
anything like truss on winblows, but if there is some facility for trapping
system calls, you may be able to reverse engineer the upload from there.
I suspect there is some MIPSish command structure that needs to be sent to it.
Any way, start a massive mail writing campaign, I plan on cronning a mail so
they will get one every hour or so from me.
= Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network
http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Subject: Re: Xircom PC Card NICs and Linux
Date: 14 Jan 1999 12:23:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Ryan Langford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to put linux on my laptop, and I am wondering if a Xircom CreditCard
10/100 PC Card NIC will work. While I am on the subject... Is anyone out
the running Linux on a Toshiba Laptop? If so, can you get X Windows to
work? My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 4020 CDT, but I think all Toshiba
laptops use the Chips Technology chipsets for their graphics.
I've Xircom 10/100 upgradable and Xircom CM56 modem working great on my
low cost notebook.
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| Mohd H Misnan | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3319/ : Disclaimer?|
| Linux RH5.1 on AMD K6-2/300Mhz notebook + 64Meg RAM + 3Gig HD |
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Reply-To: "PSchork" pschork at jps.net
From: "PSchork" pschork at jps.net
Subject: Re: fvwm2 to afterstep instead on startx
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:25:40 -0800
From your home directory, modify (or create) .xinitrc
Then add or modify the line that looks something like...
exec afterstep
That should do it.
Michael G Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:77ll0u$uot$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I wish to have Afterstep load instead of Fvwm2 when I type
startx at my prompt. I am given the ability to switch to each
other but am unable to locate the doc that would clue me in
to setting a default window manager on startx.
-Michael
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Michael G. Lowe | US Mail: 123-B University Village
Student Consultant | Ames, Iowa 50010-8892
| USA
Phone: (515) 292-0834 | Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Keith G. Murphy" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Corel StrongArm boxes
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:06:34 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frank Sweetser wrote:
"Keith G. Murphy" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[snip]
What kind of buses does it use, how does it rate compared to a newish
Pentium, what sort of compatibility issues might you run into on
upgrading, etc.?
[snip]
as for compatability and upgrades. hardware upgrades - none. it's a
sealed case, truly WYSIWYG. software, i don't think it should be a
problem. it's a pretty stable platform (ie, not changing) so i don't think
that there should be any issues upgrading to the latest software rev.
I guess you're not going to be finding many binary package
