Linux-Hardware Digest #728
Linux-Hardware Digest #728, Volume #14Fri, 4 May 01 19:13:13 EDT Contents: Linux as a router? (Chris Smith) Re: Bad A7V133 MB (Egil Solberg) Re: Gigabyte GA-6vxdr7 SMP barfs with 2.2.17 (jurriaan kalkman) Re: Bad A7V133 MB (optimator) Re: Wrong major or minor number... (jwk) Re: i810 and X-windows (Peter T. Breuer) Re: linux machine croaked :( (Dedicated to all Manson Fans) Re: Bad A7V133 MB (Thomas Rindfleisch) Re: Wrong major or minor number... (Shad) Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux... (The Snowman) Re: VTech Helio PDA (Ralph Wu) Re: run two linuxes (Troy Jesse) Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux... (Peter T. Breuer) Dealing with IRQ errors? (Tom LeTourneau) CDRW recommendations? (Ed Nather) Re: i810 and X-windows (Jesus M. Salvo Jr.) Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it (John Hong) Re: Bad A7V133 MB (Tom Roberts) Re: linux machine croaked :( (Ron Bellomo) Re: Bad A7V133 MB (dude) From: Chris Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Linux as a router? Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 19:17:01 +0100 Hi, Does anyone have any experience using Linux as a border router running BGP (Zebra software)? I'm looking for opinions on the best / most stable hardware to use, i.e.: Motherboard, Network card, etc. Thanks, Chris E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Egil Solberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus Subject: Re: Bad A7V133 MB Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 20:30:04 +0200 have you set cables and hdd/cd-rom-jumpers up right? optimator [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i en meddelelse news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Ok, here is the deal. I have been fighting with my A7V133 motherboard for about a month trying to get it stable with no results. Configuration: Asus A7V133 w/ audio BIOS 1004a Maxtor 30GB ATA/100 HD - connected to the VIA IDE controller IDE0(master) Old 24x CDROM - connect to the VIA IDE controller IDE1(master) 512 MB PC133 Linksys 10/100 Ethernet I tried installing RedHat7.0 before 7.1 came out and I have had the same results from both. If I have any large data transfers the system just locks. I have tried enabling and disabling all of the BIOS HD options(PIO/UDMA/multisector/) with no help. My question, How can I tell if its the motherboard that is bad? Thanks, Mike -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jurriaan kalkman) Subject: Re: Gigabyte GA-6vxdr7 SMP barfs with 2.2.17 Date: 4 May 2001 18:41:04 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4 May 2001 15:32:13 GMT, Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All - Just got some eval equipment in today to play with, with the Gigabyte GA- 6vxdr7 motherboards in them. The NICs show up as EtherExpressPro 10/100 nics, pretty normal. These are dual P3 boards with dual 933 cpus and 512meg memory. After apic_write. Before start apic_write. Startup point 1. And there it sits. Otherwise, any ideas ? The first hint people always give with this kind of smp trouble: 'add noapic to the lilo arguments'. So that's my hint :-) Good luck, Jurriaan -- Use the MOUSE, Luke Obi Wan Gates. GNU/Linux 2.4.4 SMP/ReiserFS 2x1743 bogomips load av: 0.34 0.08 0.02 -- From: optimator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus Subject: Re: Bad A7V133 MB Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 18:45:19 GMT I was able to install and run the system fairly stable till I had large disk accesses that froze the system, so I think the cables were on correctly. Thanks, Mike Egil Solberg wrote: have you set cables and hdd/cd-rom-jumpers up right? optimator [EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev i en meddelelse news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Ok, here is the deal. I have been fighting with my A7V133 motherboard for about a month trying to get it stable with no results. Configuration: Asus A7V133 w/ audio BIOS 1004a Maxtor 30GB ATA/100 HD - connected to the VIA IDE controller IDE0(master) Old 24x CDROM - connect to the VIA IDE controller IDE1(master) 512 MB PC133 Linksys 10/100 Ethernet I tried installing RedHat7.0 before 7.1 came out and I have had the same results from both. If I have any large data transfers the system just locks. I have tried enabling and disabling all of the BIOS HD options(PIO/UDMA/multisector/) with no help. My question, How can I tell if its the motherboard that is bad? Thanks, Mike -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk) Subject: Re: Wrong major or minor number... Date: 4 May 2001 18:52:27 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 04 May 2001 14:48:29 GMT, Shad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, I'm encountering an error when trying mount my SCSI CDRW. The message says mount: /dev/cdrom1 has a wrong major or minor number I am also unable to use
Linux-Hardware Digest #728
Linux-Hardware Digest #728, Volume #13 Sat, 14 Oct 00 20:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Recording from SB32 AWE PnP in Gnome (Keith Rhodes)
Re: AMD THUNDERBIRD (William Schubach)
Re: asus a7v m/b (Justin Seiferth)
Re: Problems with SB Live! ("Florian Merges")
Re: Which distribution? ("Florian Merges")
Re: Mandrake 7.1 on an i815E board? (Mike Johnshoy)
A mess of an ethernet problem (Bob Gamble)
10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (B'ichela)
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (Bob Hauck)
Good, cheap video card? ("Matt Fuerst")
From: Keith Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Recording from SB32 AWE PnP in Gnome
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 22:01:01 +0200
I want to record from the mic in jack of the sound card...
I managed to do this a while ago, before I started using gnome, using the method
that Tranter gives in the Linux Multimedia Guide and in the Sound HowTo, to
whit:
dd bs=8k count=4 /dev/audio sample.au
However, when I try that now, I get the reply that the device is busy... trying
to read from dsp gets the same reply, too...
I think esd is hogging the device, so I need to use something else to read from
it
Any clues?
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out of my address before you reply.
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From: William Schubach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMD THUNDERBIRD
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 12:32:24 -0700
About the ATA-100 controller- Somebody pointed out to me that kernal
2.4/test-9 recognizes the promise controller with no problem. see the
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus newsgroup for more info.
Giles Hjort-Tyson wrote:
I'm not sure what you mean by that, but my A7V runs redhat linux 7.0 just
fine. I'm useing a western digital ata/66 drive on the VIA HD controller,
the promise controll is not recognized yet. My SB 128 PCI isn't supported
by redhat though, and helix gnome won't install, but those problems are not
related to the A7V.
"Ben Ransom" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
So, perhaps a newer boot disk will solve the above problem, but does
anyone
know for sure whether there are drivers for the Asus A7V and KT133?
-Ben Ransom
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From: Justin Seiferth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: asus a7v m/b
Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 04:29:19 -0500
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I don't believe the ata/100 Promise controller is recognized- not on mine
anyway (2.3.39 w/experimental Promise support option enabled). The boot process
stops at LI (just the first two letters of the LILO: prompt are printed before
everything halts). Board works fine with regular controller- although I can't
get my es1371 sound card working with it.
Justin
Niklas Krumm wrote:
Hi,
I am considering to purchase a Asus A7V motherboard with a 700 mhz T'bird.
Does anybody know of any problems, esp. with the promise ata/100 controller?
I know that kernal 2.2.14 wont work with the cpu. Will the 2.4 kernal have
ata/100 support built in?
Thanks alot,
Nik.
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From: "Florian Merges" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problems with SB Live!
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 20:54:00 +0100
In article 8s7vt3$fru$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Paul Kuliniewicz"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe it has to do with the output channels being muted as default.
I had some fun too, trying out the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound
Architecture) drivers, not getting to anything, and switching back.
Anyhow, once I installed the emu10k1 mod, I used the KDE mixer to put
the channels on. It worked. Unfortunately, I don't know af a
command-line mixer other than the one included in the alsa Utils
package. you could try it out at www.alsa-project.org. (the three
packages, drivers, libs and utils aren't too big, =1meg each) If you
get something with them, please tell me.
Oh, if only it were that simple
Messing around with XMixer and KMixer don't do anything. I have all the
volumes turned up to 100% and unmuted, so that isn't the problem. I
even tried messing with the balance (left, right, and center), all to no
avail. Still no sound whatsoever. (Yes, I do have the volume knob on
the sp
Linux-Hardware Digest #728
Linux-Hardware Digest #728, Volume #12 Sat, 22 Apr 00 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
cdwriter (john calison)
make ("Assad Montasser")
VIA Pro133A + Linux (Shrikant Joshi)
Re: CDROM prob. with new kernel (Shrikant Joshi)
Re: NOO!!! Bastards! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NOO!!! Bastards! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tekram DC395UW and Corel(debian2.1)Linux??? (mofdi)
Re: help for HP 710 c (mikeyk)
Re: SCSI Card not recognised upon installation (mofdi)
Re: SCSI Card not recognised upon installation (mofdi)
Re: cdwriter (Carl Fink)
Re: cdwriter (john calison)
Re: Linux on Inspiron (Norman Levin)
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (Marcel Pol)
getting sound to work (Edward Kriek)
Running a bit hot? (John McKown)
Re: Winprinter via Win-based server? (John McKown)
Re: Newbie: Pls advise install Mandrake 7 on K6-2/350 +UMAX SCSI scanner (Marcel Pol)
Re: NOO!!! Bastards! (Frank Hahn)
Re: Netscape froze my machine - now bios doesn't see my hdd (zerr)
Hardware upgrade from 486 ("William C Curtiss")
Re: Which modem can run under LINUX (Dances With Crows)
From: john calison [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: cdwriter
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 09:18:11 -0400
I hope someone can help me with the following question. I running
RH6.1 with an HP CD-Writer Plus 9300i (R and RW), it's master on the
secondary IDE. I understand Linux creates a virtual SCSI driver in this
situation.
Can I use "cdrecord" with this setup, in short, can I record, play,
etc... as I would if this where on a SCSI controller? And if so, can
you point me to a HOWTO so I can become familiar with the commands. I
know how to mount and read and play a CD, I read the "cdrecord" man
page, but it seems to apply to SCSI devices.
Can someone please help?
thanks in advance,
john
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From: "Assad Montasser" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: make
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 14:05:57 GMT
Hello,
As a new guy in Linux I have a problem:
when I want to install a package with using make and then make install, the
command interpreter says :
bash: make, command not found.
Is there a rpm package I have not installed ?
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From: Shrikant Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VIA Pro133A + Linux
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:02:36 +0800
Hi there,
This may be a very dumb question but this is the last concern
stopping me from buying the new Mobo to
upgrade my PentiumII-300/Unknown MOBO - ASUS P3V4X +
PentiumIII-550E
Any idea if Linux Kernel 2.2.xx will work under a motherbaord
with VIA Pro133A chipset ?
If so does it require some patches OR migration to 2.3.xx
version of Kernel is the only solution ?
I am using Redhat 6.1 (Kernel ver. 2.2.12-20)
Cheers
Shrikant
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From: Shrikant Joshi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDROM prob. with new kernel
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 22:08:20 +0800
Toni Heinonen // Loopy wrote:
I'm running Red Hat 6.1, which came with the kernel 2.2.12-20.
After making my own compile, with only the new enchanted disk
driver, and no supports for the kinky chipsets (CMD640 etc) I
have been getting very strange behaviour from my cd-rom drive.
Many times, when I try to copy a big file from the cd-rom, whatever
program I may be using, aborts. On the screen and in the logs the
kernel spits out one of the following messages:
Mar 26 16:48:05 kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
Mar 26 16:48:11 kernel: hdc: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
--
"At least they're ___EXPERIENCED incompetents"
If my memory serves me right, the make xconfig contains section where you have to tell
it that CMD640
workaround or some stuff like that is required.
I don't have Linux source right now on my disk else I would have given the exact info.
My last Kernel compilation was in the last millineum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NOO!!! Bastards!
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 10:09:41 -0400
In tmUL4.1545$[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/21/2000
at 01:33 AM, "Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Motorola sucks when it come to CPUs (blown out of the embedded market by
Microchip), discrete components (I know) and now all their computer data
communications products. They used to build some nice radios but now they
are just debris.
Interesting. I guess you don't like the PowerPC, then? The 68000 series
processors were always a step or two ahead of Intel's offerings. Not that
I could benefit -- I've never been a fan of MacOS and the Intel
architecture was what you had if you wanted a DOS-based system or even
OS/2. The PowerPC movement had originally promised to bring the two camps
together in a hardware since but this hasn't really blossomed. If
Linux-Hardware Digest #728
Linux-Hardware Digest #728, Volume #10 Sat, 10 Jul 99 22:13:26 EDT
Contents:
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Chris Robato Yao)
Re: Video Card Recommendation? (Jim)
MGE UPS ESV 11+ ("Johan Fredrik Øhman")
Re: UDMA 66 Support (Byron A Jeff)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Chris Robato Yao)
Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system) (JeremyDunn)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Robato Yao)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: 11 Jul 1999 00:42:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Robato Yao)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kls) writes:
In article 7m674j$441$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
Not really. Like I said, the K6-3's performance is much more consistent
than a dual Celeron, where sometimes you're faster, but a lot of times,
you're much slower as well.
Now, now, Chris, much slower?:) "got my Celeron oc'ed to 550 is when the
Celeron more or less starts feeling a bit equal".
Celeron oc'ed at 550 doing SMP are not consistent. I've seen reports of
problems.
single vs single, as you've pointed out, isn't that bad. then smp
kicks in... btw, how 'bout those reports url's.
Try the usenet for one thing. Nobody makes URLs of failures, although
Sharky's Extreme I think has a "statistic" on overclocked Celerons.
I do question the extremely low success rate on Celeron 366s on
his stat though (5%).
It does. You need to particularly look for week 14-25 Malay PPGA
Celeron 366, and many retailers are not interested to inform you what
week 14-25 Malay PPGA are already known to be good overclockers which does
not imply all others aren't. It's just those are the known ones from people
buying them reporting back.
Slot 1 366s are forgetable. Overclocking 400-466 Celerons with 75 and
83MHz bus speed is for me considered unacceptable due to the long term
damage on hard drives and file systems from overclocked IDE bus.
People don't report failures as they do with successes,
Can't say I've ever heard of damaged hard drives from overclocking
This happens. This happened already to me, and this can
happen to anyone trying to risk their drives, for example, 83MHz. File
system damage is already a common known fact for overclocking hard
drives. You can reduce damage by turning off UDMA and going down to PIO
2, but that will take performance off your hard drive.
People/sites report success failure all the time(try storagereview).
% of successful overclocking could just as easily be worded as % of
unsuccessful overclocking by subtracting the first % from 100. r-a-t-i-o:)
so reading the newsgroup is not a good indication of ratio.
I wasn't basing a ratio off newsgroup responses but refering to polls tests
on websites(not MY ratio's either). Anybody remember that one site where
the guy was a vendor was testing the celerons he was selling? He had made
a chart of speed grades crossed with voltage settings % of success/fail.
Careful with this people.
Many dealers are not
cooperative as to why the hell you want to view the chip numbers at the
back, and it's hard to get that information out from mail order firms.
I tracked my Celeron by tracking which local dealer running out of their
Celeron inventory, so I would know that when their next Celeron shipment
arrives, it would be new stock.
It's also been said that newer cpu's are good as a general case. Some people
have estimated 80%. but then it's just an estimation.
Some dealers are no longer stocking 333s and 366s.
many still are. no issue here.
exactly is their stock. You also need a slotket with adjustable
voltage, and even there, you still have to take a crap shot.
Not if one went with an abit bp6(which is damn appealing even w/o it's dual
capability).
I don't consider Abit to be an alternative for my uses. For me, FIC and
Abit are unacceptable due to their relatively high RMA rates (returns).
I'll put Soyo, Asus, Chaintech, and AOpen ahead of Abit for reliability,
especially since I eventually move my platforms into business
deployment.
Poopooing again Chris?:) Abit havn't been/aren't the only ones coming out with
socket 370 boards you know:)
Abit has a higher return rate than other motherboard brands. One can
understand it a bit with Super 7, but BX?
Abit is the only brand out there with programmable voltages for socket
370. The rest has none. Without programmable voltages, the success
rate of oc'ing Celeron 366s to 550 is not very good. One has to be very
lucky if you can oc a Celeron 366 to 550 on standard voltage (class it a
"gold" Celeron.)
You practically have to burn in your Celeron at 2.3v or 2.4v for a period of
time, before you can back down to 2.2v. And of course, if you burn it
out, there is no warranty from o
