Linux-Hardware Digest #636
Linux-Hardware Digest #636, Volume #14 Tue, 17 Apr 01 02:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Anyone got Abit kt7a working w/o problems? ("D. Pearson")
Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please (Stuffed Crust)
Re: Red Hat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2) w/ VIA chipset (Stuffed Crust)
Re: Anyone got Abit kt7a working w/o problems? (module)
Re: Microsoft gets hard (Dennis Yelle)
k7vza onboard sound support ("teknogeek")
Re: CD Writer for Linux (Lucius Chiaraviglio)
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? ("Monte Milanuk")
Re: Anyone got Abit kt7a working w/o problems? (Joel Comeaux)
Re: Modem trouble (David Efflandt)
Re: FlexATX motherboard for Linux? (Brad Pepers)
Maxtor 98196H8 Hard disk size wrong (Jon Williams)
Re: Microsoft gets hard ("JS PL")
Re: Anyone got Abit kt7a working w/o problems? ("Thomas Hoell")
capacity of exabyte 8200? (Lupei Zhu)
From: "D. Pearson" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Anyone got Abit kt7a working w/o problems?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:12:35 GMT
Previous config was Abit kt7 mb Duron 700 cpu. Linux ran(runs) rock
solid on it. Upgraded mb and cpu to Abit kt7a TBird 1.2 - 266fsb cpu.
It is extremely unstable under linux. Nothing else was changed. Same
periphs, same slots, same memory, video card, everything. Freezes
regularly. It's pretty much unusable. System is dual boot and runs NT
without problems. Not a single freeze. Might be the hardware but I don't
think so. I haven't made any bios performance tweeks at all.
Everything's set conservatively. If anyone has an Abit kt7a running
without problems I would appreciate knowing about it. At least I would
know it could be done.
thanks,
-dep-
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From: Stuffed Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.laptop
Subject: Re: Buying a Dell Laptop, compatability feedback please
Date: 17 Apr 2001 02:57:06 GMT
Harold Stevens US.972.952.3293 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm considering SuSE 7.1 on a Dell Latitude CPi A366XT. Since this is
a configuration with a single removable bay for either a CD or floppy
(but obviously not both simultaneously) I must consider how to get it
to boot up the SuSE install. Maybe boot the install diskette, then do
hotswap of floppy for the CD to continue the install (?). Or try SuSE
boot from install CD option, if this Latitude BIOS permits (?).
Boot off of the CD.
- Pizza [Happy owner of a CPi A266XT]
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Solomon PeachypizzaATfucktheusers.org
I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent.
Patience comes to those who wait.
...It's not "Beanbag Love", it's a "Transanimate Relationship"...
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From: Stuffed Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Red Hat 7.1 (kernel 2.4.2) w/ VIA chipset
Date: 17 Apr 2001 02:59:19 GMT
Ian Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quite a bit has been written lately about problems with VIA chipsets,
and I'm trying to figure out if upgrading to Red Hat 7.1, with kernel
2.4.2 is going to cause me problems. Try as I might, I can't figure out
exactly which VIA chips are having problems.
Alan Cox's latest 2.4.3-ac7 patch includes some rather "experimental,
please test" fixes for VIA chipset bugs.
It's not advisable that you use such bleeding edge kernels unless you
really need it..
- Pizza
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I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent.
Patience comes to those who wait.
...It's not "Beanbag Love", it's a "Transanimate Relationship"...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (module)
Subject: Re: Anyone got Abit kt7a working w/o problems?
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 03:01:01 -
"D. Pearson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Previous config was Abit kt7 mb Duron 700 cpu. Linux ran(runs) rock
solid on it. Upgraded mb and cpu to Abit kt7a TBird 1.2 - 266fsb cpu.
It is extremely unstable under linux. Nothing else was changed. Same
periphs, same slots, same memory, video card, everything. Freezes
regularly. It's pretty much unusable. System is dual boot and runs NT
without problems. Not a single freeze. Might be the hardware but I don't
think so. I haven't made any bios performance tweeks at all.
Everything's set conservatively. If anyone has an Abit kt7a running
without problems I would appreciate knowing about it. At least I would
know it could be done.
thanks,
-dep-
I just recently installed slackware on a ABIT KT7A-Raid with AMD Duron-800.
So far i have had absolutely no problems system wise.
--module
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From: Dennis Yelle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Date: M
Linux-Hardware Digest #636
Linux-Hardware Digest #636, Volume #13 Wed, 27 Sep 00 06:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Maxtor 94098U6 problem (E J)
Re: intel i810 - sound - where do I start to fix this ?! ("Jason Byrne")
Panasonic CDROM 562B ("H.AJ. van Niekerk")
Re: Xircom RealPort pc card loses link (Mark Aufflick)
Re: Asus A7v M/B compatible? (Heiko Hafner)
Geforce II MX compatability with Mandrake 7.1 (Jay Johnson)
Re: linux and crusoe (Kenneth Rørvik)
Nagrywarka Yamaha CDRW4260 (Jarek "FreakaZoid")
Re: Unable to mount CD (as root) (John)
Re: intel i810 - sound - where do I start to fix this ?! (Peter Nunn)
Fujifilm MX1200 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird (Mike Oliver)
Realtek 8019(AS) (Holy)
Re: CPUID and Athon T-Bird (Vidar Skjelanger)
Voodoo 5` ("Matthew Barclay")
Re: New Linux Install (Chris Sherlock)
From: E J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Maxtor 94098U6 problem
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 20:44:58 -0700
I think you need to get the latest kernel. I am using linux kernal 2.2.14,
Redhat 6.2.
I have a 40G Maxtor disk (different model) and I have EZ-BIOS and jumpered
as 2G
harddrive. I can format the entire 40G harddisk for Windows, but when I
used partition magic to put 20G for windows and 20G
for linux, partition magic created and formatted the 20G linux. When I
tried to format the 20G linux again with Redhat 6.2,
it would make a horrible clicking sound formatting the last 10G and it would
not finish formatting the 20G.
I had to move the linux to the front 7G and back 33G to windows and it works
fine even though I don't like the size of the partition.
I am downloading Redhat 7.0. Hopefully I could format the linux partition
the way I want it.
Martin Beier wrote:
Hi folks.
I have a Maxtor 94098U6 in my Linux box, which is not recognized with
its correct size. My Linux Version is 2.2.10
LIHB-102:~ # uname -a
Linux LIHB-102 2.2.10 #28 Tue Jul 20 19:25:30 MEST 1999 i686 unknown
In the boot.msg file, the disk seems to be correctly configured as a 40GB
IDE
disk.
4PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
4PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
4ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
4ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
4hda: IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM 44X, ATAPI CDROM drive
4hdc: Maxtor 94098U6, ATA DISK drive
4ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
4ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
6hdc: Maxtor 94098U6, 39083MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=13872/16/63
4hda: ATAPI 20X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
When I try to configure it with fdisk I only get 6991456 blocks:
LIHB-102:~ # fdisk /dev/hdc
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 13872.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 13872 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 13872 6991456+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help):
The filesystem I created is also 7GB:
LIHB-102:~ # df -k /dev/hdc1
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hdc16747211 82 6747129 0%
/home/projekte/Abrechnung
Can anybody tell me how to configure the disk to have the missing 33GB
available.
Thanks in advance! maddel!
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From: "Jason Byrne" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: intel i810 - sound - where do I start to fix this ?!
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 21:22:37 -0700
"Neil" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
HI
Can anyone give me some clues as to how I sort out this mess ! I don't
understand exactly what these kernel messages mean.
I'm running SuSE 6.3/6.4 kernel 2.2.13.
TIA
Neil
Starting sound driver: snd-card-intel8x0 ...
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol snd_pcm_new
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
_snd_magic_kcalloc
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
_snd_magic_kfree
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_transfer_done
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol snd_kcalloc
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_lib_transfer_size
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol snd_device_new
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_pcm_dma_alloc
/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-intel8x0.o: unresolved symbol
snd_ac97_write_lock
Linux-Hardware Digest #636
Linux-Hardware Digest #636, Volume #12Fri, 7 Apr 00 16:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Crystal 4236B/DELL OptiPlex Gx1 sound card (Edward Lee)
PAL camcorder capture and display (Ramakrishna Kakarala)
Re: CDROM problem: Acer 50X (Steve Cousins)
How to use xf86config? ("Ricardo")
Re: Modem setup problems ("Gregory D. Horne")
Re: current Debian MCA boot disks? ("miguel")
Re: Crystal 4236B/DELL OptiPlex Gx1 sound card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Elsa Gloria Synergy S-video support in Linux x86? (jmd)
S3 Virge settings (Ben Martens)
Re: Modem setup problems (Paul Marshall)
Multipe Display adapter (Elmar Haneke)
Re: I-opener and linux: 128meg really helps! (Carlos)
Audio cd ("Robert Weaver")
Re: Problems with new memory module (Tobias Meyer)
Re: Modem setup problems (Clifford Kite)
Re: Am I the only person around with a 40 gig HD? (Dave Nejdl)
Re: Modem setup problems (Patricia)
From: Edward Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Crystal 4236B/DELL OptiPlex Gx1 sound card
Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 00:57:36 -0700
You can try the driver at http://linnix.com. I have an add-on ISA card
with CSC4236, but it should work the same.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the same setup and am STILL having
problems.
I have used the sndconfig program, and actually
had sound working twice! I saved my isapnp.conf
and conf.modules files once I had the sound
working, but as soon as I reboot - the sound no
longer works!
HELP! Even if I copy the working config files
(listed above) and reboot, the sound doesn't work.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Brent
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From: Ramakrishna Kakarala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PAL camcorder capture and display
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 11:56:43 -0700
Hi,
I have a camcorder which records in PAL
format and it has a video out. I would like to buy
a plug in card for my Linux box (RH6.1, with
S3 Trio 64 video card) so that I can capture
video coming from this camera and display it on
the screen. Suggestions as to which cards
to buy would be appreciated.
Thanks
ram
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Steve Cousins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDROM problem: Acer 50X
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 14:08:50 -0400
Hal Burgiss wrote:
I have a 50x Acer, and the patch I think you may be referring to
appeared about 2.2.15pre5. At least that is where I got going. 2.2.14
would generate the same type errors as above for me. FYI ...
Same scenario with me, installation was fine, but not usable afterwards.
I also found oddly that if I booted runlevel 3 (no X), it generally
worked fine for some reason. startx would kill it though. Try
2.2.15preWhatEverItIsAtNow.
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Hal B
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Thanks Hal,
You answered my question before I was able to ask it. I just got the latest
2.2.14 kernel and it gave me the same problem. I'll try to find the patch
that you mention and see if that does the trick.
Steve
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Steve Cousins Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Research AssociatePhone: (207) 581-4302
Ocean Modeling Group
School of Marine Sciences 208 Libby Hall
University of Maine Orono, Maine 04469
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From: "Ricardo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to use xf86config?
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 15:48:19 +0100
I've installed Red Hat 6.1 when i start Linux in x mode, as soon as I
move mouse, it goes to the top of the screen and I can't take it from there.
That's problem a configuration problem, so I entered Linux Single and
used pico to edit xf86config. I went to the pointers section but I can't see
where the text corresponding to the configuration is, because every line as
a # at the begining.
Thanks
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From: "Gregory D. Horne" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Modem setup problems
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 18:23:54 GMT
Have you checked to see whether ps -aux yields an instance of kppp running
already?
Andy Jones wrote:
I'm having loads of problems configuring my modem. First some
details:-
RH 6.0
Dell XPS400
ppp 2.3.7
Hayes Accura external ISDN modem on com1 (defintely not a WinModem)
I've had the modem working under RH5.1, but since I've reinstalled
RH6.0 I can't get it to work. I've since lost the original 5.1 install
disks so it's not as if I go back to that setup either. I've tried the
following methods:-
kppp
Gives the following - "Looking for modem Sorry modem is busy"
minicom
---
Gives the following error - "You're already online - hang up first",
even though I'm not.
Using pppd + chat
-
Give &q
Linux-Hardware Digest #636
Linux-Hardware Digest #636, Volume #9Fri, 12 Mar 99 02:13:30 EST
Contents:
Re: Non-Winmodem problems! Help! ("Ger Donners")
Re: Linux on a Celeron? (Allen)
Re: MATROX mystique G200 problems ("J Forehand")
Re: Dual Processors (James Knowles)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on a Celeron? (Greg Fruth)
Re: Ethernet vs. SCSI (Allen)
Re: HOW TO UNINSTALL LILO , and boot with a floppy disk ? (garv)
Re: modem config problems (Allen)
ISA NIC for Linux - Help me find one that works! ("Robert Schnitzer")
Re: MATROX mystique G200 problems (garv)
RED HAT x SLACKWARE ("wilson")
Supermicro S2DGE + Xeon problems ("T.D. Brace")
Re: SMC EZ ethernet card trouble ("Daniel Long")
Re: PROBLEM: Diamond FireGL1000 Pro ("Leo de Mul")
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (wizard)
Re: A more complete and well-formed question. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: [Q] Recommended supported scsi card (Michael Meissner)
Re: Diamond FireGL1000 Pro ("Leo de Mul")
Re: Linux and 486 (James Knowles)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Christopher Browne)
install exabyte tape drive (Lupei Zhu)
From: "Ger Donners" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Non-Winmodem problems! Help!
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 00:43:58 +0100
In case the modem is an internal, does linux see the extra serial port? My
guess would be the portsettings are incorrect. I know everyone says Linux
doesn't use BIOS but I always setup the onboard ports to COM13 or disable
them. Otherwise they will conflict with internal modems. If it is an
external modem set the ports in BIOS to something your mouse and internal
modem is NOT using. Never use com 2 and 4, and 1 and 3 together to avoid
problems. This may be not true by the books but it is in the real world.
Ger Donners
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
7c915m$e08$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Greetings: I recently purchased a non-WinModem 3Com/USR 56K modem that I am
trying to set up on my linux box. Currently, I have a 28.8K USR Sportster
internal modem, and that has been working splendidly without problems.
However, when I install and try to set up the 56K modem, diald (which I am
using for dial-up) fails to initialize the modem. I have tried setting up
the
modem on /dev/cua0, /dev/cua1, /dev/cua2, but have not had any luck. It
seems to me that the problem might be in the modem initialization string,
but
I thought that these were all pretty much the same, especially for modems
made by the same manufacturer? Please, can anyone help?? Thanks!!
Justin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Linux on a Celeron?
Date: 12 Mar 1999 04:33:29 GMT
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 12:53:25 -0700, Jim Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been looking for some information on this hardware mod - can you
point me at a source for information?
Jim (wanting MP without the price! g)
BL wrote:
even two celerons are ok - if you do the hardware mod. I'm running dual cel.
(smp) and have been for a few weeks now. almost a 2x increase.
Jim I think your original Question got lost in the thread...
Check this out for Celeron modification info:
http://www.bxboards.com/
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie--(how DO you exit vi?)
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From: "J Forehand" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MATROX mystique G200 problems
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:53:43 -
I understand that the G200 IS supported in the latest XFree (3.3.3?)..
Most likely you have a earlier version.
au revoir
How can i use my MATROX mystique G200 with Linux red hat 5.2 ?
When i call "startx ", i got a message that explain that the card i use is
unknown .
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From: James Knowles [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual Processors
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 04:44:49 +
I run two dual Pentium-II boxes with ASUS boards w/ built-in SCSI.
Very nice. (P2B-DS, P-II 400MHz, 128Mb RAM) I can't speak for the tomcat
as I know nothing about it, but I've learned over the years not to go
the cheap route. My time is too precious to spend it fighting hardware,
especially something with the potential for problems as SMP.
I would strongly recommend 2.2.x kernel. I've run on 2.0.xx, 2.1.129,
and 2.2.1 now. Big kudos to the kernel team for 2.2.x. The system
overhead is next to nothing, compared to the 2.0 series. My server just
flys. I can hardly load it
