Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #14 Fri, 18 May 01 17:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel) ("David Hawkins")
Case badges with your own logo from under $0.50 each (SecurisysAgency)
Selecting from the crop of DSL hub/switch/firewall units (Harry Putnam)
IRQ conflict-- CMD 646 IDE and ESS Maestro 2E (Nicholas Weininger)
Re: Screen Size problem on Sony LCD screen (Kwan Lowe)
Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode! (The Linux
AntiChrist)
USB problem ("Linux Guerilla")
Re: Anyone selling basic cheap Linux boxes? (Kwan Lowe)
G400 + XFree 4.0 (Sebastian Bossung)
Re: G400 + XFree 4.0 ("Peter Riggs")
gravis stinger ("Chris Schadl")
USB problem ("Linux Guerilla")
Re: More Info - Problems with Adaptec 2930CU w/ BRU and SEAGATE Travan in RH6.2
(William N Moore)
From: "David Hawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:12:43 -0700
Thanks Len!
This works great. I really needed to have access to my serial
port, so this helps me a lot.
Where did you get info on the lilo boot parameter? I
had looked at 'man bootparam' and 'man lilo' and couldn't see how
to mask off the interrupts - I had assumed that this
should be possible, but couldn't work out how.
I had a look at the bug report in Bugzilla - interesting
discussion. Is the problem still there in 2.4.4?
Since you appear to have a similar machine, perhaps
you could tell me how you got the sound to work. Its
not really a high priority for me, so I gave up
when it didn't work initially. I suspect the OSS
sound drivers might work, and I did read some
info in the Documentation directory, but haven't
had a chance to play with it again. Perhaps you can
save me some time.
Again, this is great.
Thanks so much!
Dave Hawkins
Caltech.
"Leonard Evens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> David Hawkins wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Clark,
> >
> > I'm not quite sure the problem is 100% related to the Yenta
> > driver though. Any idea why the mouse won't work if I uninstall
> > the PCMCIA drivers? If you stop the PCMCIA services, then
> > the interrupt is released. of course I haven't tried removing
> > the service on boot though.
> >
> > Thanks for the comments.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > "clark tompsett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I have posted a bug report with Redhat. I have a Winbook XL also.
The
> > > problem appears to be bios related. The 2.4.2 kernel used Yenta for
the
> > > socket driver and it looks at the bios and claims irq12. The only
> > > solution I have at present is to install RH7.1 and replace the kernel
and
> > > pcmcia back to 2.2.19. I don't know if this will be solved.
> > >
> > > Clark
> > >
> > > In article <9dffj7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Hawkins"
> > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'd like some suggestions as to the cause and fix of a problem I am
> > > > having with Linux 2.4 freezing up on me. My system is
> > > >
> > > > - Winbook XL
> > > > - Red Hat 7.1 (2.4.2-2 kernel)
> > > >
> > > > The mouse is a PS/2 device (the Winbook has a keyboard 'nipple' and
> > > > touchpad), and this is what Win95 sees it as. When installing RH, it
> > > > didn't recognize the mouse, so I used the text install. On first
boot,
> > > > the mouse was recognized by the hardware detection and assigned as a
> > > > generic ps/2 mouse. The first time I booted into X, the system
froze.
> > > >
> > > > Booting next time and staying in text mode, I tried gpm and mev, the
> > > > laptop froze both times. (/dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux so thats ok)
> > > >
> > > > Looking under /proc/interrupts I see that the PS/2 interrupt is
being
> > > > shared with the TI PCI1131 PCMCIA cardbus controller. Several
documents
> > > > indicate the the PS/2 must use IRQ12, so the 1131 IRQ may need to be
> > > > changed. However, looking at /etc/pcmcia/config.opts lists IRQ12 as
> > > > being excluded - so how come the controller claimed it? (perhaps the
> > > > exclude only applies to devices in the PCMCIA slots...?). Under
Win95
&
Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #13 Fri, 27 Oct 00 03:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Cannot boot Debian 2,2 with SCSI Yamaha 8824s CD-RW ("wyle")
SoundBlaster 16 PCI, which drivers/modules ("Brian Davis")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Michael Westerman")
Re: linux ide raid controller ("Chris Shehan")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Joseph C. Kopec")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Jason")
Re: RH7 and Crystal CS4237B (LinuxBoy)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (John Hasler)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need help configuring modem using SuSE (Collene Pearce)
Re: Who Loves You? ("larry")
Newbie wants to install his ADSL modem (David Lia)
Re: unixware 7.0 hangs (Lew Pitcher)
Anyone know of a nice, _quiet_ Linux box? (Stephen R. Savitzky)
Re: Jaz 1G removable hard-drive ("Vincent")
Re: Ghost partition (Eric)
From: "wyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cannot boot Debian 2,2 with SCSI Yamaha 8824s CD-RW
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:10:14 -0400
hello,
I'm looking for a little help.
My setup:
Initio, ini9090u scsi host adpter connected to
Yamaha 8824S CD-RW
Debian 2.2
also I have a second SCSI host adapter (advansys 3940U2W) , I'm not sure if
it's relevant. I couldn't boot up even when I yanked this host.
Linux seems to detect all of my SCSI devices correctly during boot up as I
see something like this on screen
scsi0: Advansys SCSI 3.2M: PCI Ultra2-Wide: BIOS C8000/7FFF, io A400/FF,
IRQ9
scsi1: Initio INI-9X00U/UW SCSI device driver; Revision 1.03g
scsi : 2hosts
vendor : Quantum drive (connected to the Advansys host)
then it shows what's connected to the Initio host...
vendor Fujitsumodel: etc etc
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi1, chanell 0, id 0,lun 0
vendor YAMAHAmodel CRW88824S etc
type CD-ROM etc
Detected scsi CD-rom sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id1 ,lun 0
then the system freezes.
I can boot with any and all devices except when the Yamaha CD-RW is
attached. ex advansys+sda+intio+sdb, initio+sdb ... so I'm pretty sure it's
the yamaha CD-RW that's the problem. The CD-RW works fine when I run Win98.
What measures can I take to get my system up and running?
--
From: "Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 PCI, which drivers/modules
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 03:11:04 GMT
Hi,
I have a SoundBlaster 16 PCI soundcard that I'm trying to use with Linux.
What module(s) should I be loading to use it? I've tried the es1371 module,
but that doesn't seem to have microphone support.
Thanks,
Brian
--
From: "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:29:47 +1000
depends on your background.
if comming from unix then ...
but apple os is easyer than all if computer illiterate (my opinion)
windows is easy if you upgrade from windows ...
Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Ub6K5.310$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I disagree with this one sorry. Win2k can be rock solid, mines been up
and
> running for 1 month. The only time it goes down is updates and
> thunderstorms. I might also add the Linux box has been up for 2 weeks.
> Course that's also how long I've had it running Linux.
>
> But come on, you can't be seriously saying that learning Linux is as easy
to
> learn as windows?
>
> Jason
> "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> | Arctic Storm writes:
> | > Win2K is just as stable, but easy and user-friendly.
> |
> | A friend of mine (a quite experienced Windows user) just installed
Win2K.
> | If his experience is any guide, you'll never get it to work.
> |
> | Buy a machine with Linux pre-installed, like you did your Windows box.
> | --
> | John Hasler
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Dancing Horse Hill
> | Elmwood, Wisconsin
>
>
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From: "Chris Shehan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux ide raid controller
Date: 27 Oct 2000 03:44:44 GMT
Help
I am running 6.2, and everything seems to work on the install just fine. I
go to reboot after installing the drivers from Promise, and get a CRC Error
message. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
BTW, how did you setup RH 7 with the fasttrack driver?? I couldn't seem to
get the driver to install as a mod
Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #12Wed, 3 May 00 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
PNY QuickChip + Linux = Good? (Richard Petty)
X problems with athlon ("Kevin J. Walchko")
Simple SCSI termination question (Gary Steele)
Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux for SPARC or SGI (Sven Bovin)
Re: Lucent PCI modem (Bill Unruh)
Re: Problem with setting up HCF v.90 56k PCI modem for Linux. ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Vibra16C (Munge)
Q: UMC UM9007AF ethernet card under Linux ("Carlos (C.J.)")
Tandon 486 with scsi-onboard... how? (Jasper van Woudenberg)
Re: Q:RH 6.1 will not detect isapnp boca research fax data modem (33.6 Kbps) ("Gadi
Naor")
Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed (M. Buchenrieder)
Question on Graphic Card (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C4=D1Noodle=C4=D1?=)
Re: Driver for S3 Savage IX ("Libby")
Re: Simple SCSI termination question ("Gene Heskett")
Re: DRI and G400 (Dale Pontius)
From: Richard Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PNY QuickChip + Linux = Good?
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 06:00:09 GMT
I've got a very old 486/66 system with 28meg of RAM running Red Hat.
Everything but the OS is vintage.
All the command line stuff runs fine, but GUI performance is terrible.
Unusable.
Is the PNY QuickChip 133 (clocking) upgrade worth $50 or $60?
--Richard
--
Spam deterent: Remove the "BOGUS" part for a correct address.
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From: "Kevin J. Walchko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: X problems with athlon
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 06:29:00 GMT
hi,
i have a abit ka7 kx133, with a 700MHz athlon, voodoo 3000 pci and 256
MB ram. the computer works fine while i am not in X (command line). as
soon as i do a startx (go into X window) my system locks up after 10-20
seconds and i have to reboot the system. i can't even telnet in over
the network and login so i can kill X or something. has anyone gotten
an athlon system to work with the abit mother board and the via kx133
chip set?
have tried
kernels: 2.2.12, 2.2.14, 2.3.99-pre6
x windows: 3.3.5,4.0
and nothing helps.
i am wondering if it is hardware (problem or bios) or the fact that i am
using a pci video card. it can't be the processor, it is 100% intel
compatible, right??
also, please make sure to CC me when you respond.
thanx
kevin
--
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 02:32:21 -0400
From: Gary Steele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Simple SCSI termination question
Hi,
I've recently purchased a Promise SimpleSCSI card, and I'm trying to get
in running in Linux to run a tape drive.
I've currently got the external tape drive attached to the card and I
have a terminator after the tape drive, and the drive attached to the
external connector on the card. There are no internal devices.
When I try to run modprobe to insert the driver module, I get the
following system log messages:
ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 20, function 0
ncr53c8xx: 53c810a detected with Symbios NVRAM
ncr53c810a-0: rev=0x23, base=0xf0dff400, io_port=0xf000, irq=5
ncr53c810a-0: Symbios format NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, Parity Checking
ncr53c810a-0: initial SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
03/ce/a0/01/00/00
ncr53c810a-0: final SCNTL3/DMODE/DCNTL/CTEST3/4/5 = (hex)
03/ce/a0/00/08/00
ncr53c810a-0: resetting, command processing suspended for 2 seconds
ncr53c810a-0: suspicious SCSI data while resetting the BUS.
ncr53c810a-0: dp0,d7-0,rst,req,ack,bsy,sel,atn,msg,c/d,i/o = 0x101,
expecting 0x100
ncr53c810a-0: detaching...
There are error messages to the console suggesting to check cables,
termination etc.
In the card manual, it said that the card was supposed to be
auto-terminating, and that it detects when it is at the end of the scsi
chain and sets termination.
Does the linux driver for this card support auto termination? (Does it
even have to?)
Do I have to put an internal terminator on the card as well?
Any input would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Gary.
--
From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Int 13h Device Not Found, BIOS not installed
Date: 3 May 2000 06:27:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Folkert Rienstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: The score gets worse: 4 out of 5 false explanations.
I see only people telling you the same thing!
: Was there anything wrong with Buchenrieders explanation that prompted
: you to make this confusing post?
The explanations look the same to me. Scsi bios finds no bootable devices
at bus scan time so doesn't bother copying itself to memory, then
tells you it didn't.
: "David C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: | [EMAIL
Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #10 Sun, 18 Jul 99 19:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problems with using 2 ethernet cards -- please help! (Steve Arnold)
Radio card installation problems (root)
Re: About to build Linux RAID box. Need advice. (Chris Mauritz)
second hard disk (Stephen Tawn)
Re: Building a Linux Box - comments? (wizard)
(yet another) soundcard problem (Bruno MEUNIER)
PC Chips TX AGP Pro M/B? (Ian Briggs)
Exabyte NS-8 hardware compression? (Rohan Oberoi)
DirecPC PCI ("David A. Kimball")
Linux & HP710C, will it work ? (Kris \"Duke\" Vandecruys)
Re: Ricoh CD-RW MP-6200A being read as floppy (DGehler)
Re: ASUS V3800TNT2 (Kris \"Duke\" Vandecruys)
Re: Linux & HP710C, will it work ? ("jams")
Re: recovery nightmare, corrupt part'n table/MBR (Matthias Kilian)
Re: second hard disk ("Prasanth Kumar")
Re: How much space for each partition? ("TURBO1010")
Number Nine SR9 video? (Rick Herrick)
LS-120? (Phillip McGregor)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Arnold)
Subject: Re: Problems with using 2 ethernet cards -- please help!
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:15:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Pelly) wrote:
>I'm trying to use 2 ethernet cards in my linux box to enable ip
>masquerading. However, I'm having problems getting both ethernet cards
>to work. I've got an Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 and a NetGear
>FA-310 card (I think those are the right model #'s). According to the
>ethernet-HOWTO, I can pass arguments to the kernel through LILO to
>tell it I'm using two ethernet cards. However, I'm not using LILO to
>boot linux -- I'm using a boot floppy instead.
Why?
>Either of the cards will load fine individually (ie, when I take the
>other out), but both won't work in the machine at the same time.
>
>So does anybody know how to tell the kernel to load both cards? I'm
>running RH 5.2.
There's probably a way I don't know about, but without using lilo, I don't
know of any other way except changing the kernel driver source. I'd say
installing lilo is the best way to go; you can use it boot different linux
kernels, ie, add a stanza to lilo.conf to boot your latest custom kernel in
test mode, so you can easily go back to your orignal kernel if something
doesn't work right.
Assuming there are no conflicts between the two NICs, you can add the line:
append = "ether=9,0x360,eth1"
to the right section of lilo.conf and you should be in business. The same
thing (without the quotes) will work from the LILO: boot prompt. Just don't
specify the first ethernet card (eth0); you only need to specify the ones
beyond the first one.
HTH, Steve
--
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Radio card installation problems
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 21:24:48 +0200
Is there anyone in this cruel world who can help me out?
I just installed RedHat 6.0 and I have a Aztech Radio card in my system
which works fine in Windows98. I checked the port, and it's on port
350. But somehow, when I recompile my kernel with the Video4Linux
driver & the Aztech driver, the card gives no reaction at all.
First I tried to compile the driver into the kernel, but there was no
reaction. After that, I compiled the kernel again, but now the drivers
as modules. With the 'insmod' command on the 'radio-aztech.o' I get the
message that the resource is busy. In any case, there's no /dev/radio*
or some other device whatsoever to be found in the '/dev/' directory.
And the worst thing of all: documentation on this subject is very
scarce
I'ld appreciate any help on this problem
Regards,
Peter.
--
From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: About to build Linux RAID box. Need advice.
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 19:56:14 GMT
Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> sincero arcadio wrote:
>> Floyd Davidson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> : the total power per unit is about 40 watts, and 8 of them adds up to
>> : more than 250 watts! Probably the best solution there is a pair of 250
>> : watt supplies.
>>
>> Oohh ... now theres an idea I haven't thought of! Use a pair of
>> 250watt power supplies. I've been doing searches for power supplies
>> greater than 300W and those things are actually pretty expensive (like
>> close to $100 or even more)! Using two 250W supplies would definitely be
>> cheaper. Now, i wonder how I would hook it up so one switch would power
>> on both power supplies ... doesn't sound too hard, but I'm no electrician.
> If you're go
Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #9Sat, 20 Mar 99 17:13:28 EST
Contents:
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (jedi)
Sony Monitor Setup (Tomasz Lukasiak)
Re: Monitor Frequency (Xwindows) (Andrew Comech)
Re: Modems and KDE (Rob Clark)
Imation Superdisk as a backup device ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How to Make a bootable MO disk. (Vincent Lai)
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (Don Baccus)
Re: How about this modem?? (Allen)
Re: ghostscript driver for minolta PagePro 8 (Grant Taylor)
Re: Slow SCSI performance :-(
Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card (Colin)
Re: PCI PNP Modem... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AMD vs PII (Maurice Kurland)
Re: What videocard do you use? (Rod Roark)
Re: AMD vs PII (Rod Roark)
Re: vi ("Anders G. Olstad")
Redhat and modem please read ("Elmer D'paz")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:10:14 GMT
On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 12:45:06 GMT, Jeff McWilliams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff Szarka wrote:
>>On a fresh redhat 5.2 install doing rpm installs resulted in many
>>broken dependencies. It's just as annoying as the windows DLL mess.
>
>Keep in mind that this is distribution specific. I don't know anything about
>REDHAT as I don't use that distribution. But I do know Debian. Debian's
>equivalent of RPM is dpkg, and there is a higher level installation utility
>called dselect that lets you select lists of packages to install and it'll
>help you figure out the dependency issues. The Debian people have been
>very good about embedding dependency information inside their .DEB files.
>(The equivalent of .RPM packages in RedHat) If I try to install,
>for example, xbase-3.3.2.deb it'll make sure I have xlib6g-3.3.2.deb installed
>first. If I don't, it'll tell me I have a problem before proceeding with
>configuring the package I tried to install. It's a great feature.
I believe this is the process he is comparing with *dll hell.
>Debian CD's, as well as Debian's web page, gives you the dependency
>information for every package available. Since I find dselect clumsy to use
>(they're supposed to be improving this with a new utility called apt) I just
>use dpkg to pick and choose which .deb's i wish to install by hand. With the
>dependency information in there it's pretty close to fool proof.
>
>
>You're right though, that Microsoft DLL's aren't much different than .so
>shared libs under Linux. The problem with Microsoft software is that
>Microsoft encourages developers to include system DLL's in their software
>installations if they're required by the application. No version
>interdependency checking is done when this occurs. At best, the newest
>version of a DLL almost always gets installed, whether it's compatible with
>the rest of the system or not. I've seen people right in my own company
>seriously hose a computer's TCP/IP capabilities because Installshield Express
>thought a Visual Basic project needed WININET.DLL. Installing a new copy of
>that, however, breaks SHLWAPI.DLL (er something like that) in a way that
>breaks a lot of TCP/IP functionality without warning the user.
>
>This practice is unheard of using the Debian system. An installation of the
>mail reader elm, for instance, won't include the mime-support libs just
>because it supports mime. You go back to Debian for the mime-support libs,
>and dpkg makes sure the mime-support libs and the elm package are compatible
>with the rest of the libs on your system before installing.
[deletia]
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In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Tomasz Lukasiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony Monitor Setup
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:10:44 GMT
Hi,
I just got a new 17in Sony MultiScan 200ES along with a Creative
Labs Graphics Blaster Riva TNT video card. I'd like to run at 1280x1024
resolution, but I want to use all the available refresh capability of
the monitor. The specs give it 30-70k kHz horizontal and 50-120 kHz
vertical. XFree86 gives three ready-to-go 1280x1024 modes, but the only
one that is below 70 kHz horizontal is also only 60 kHz vertical (thus
causing a slight flicker). Can anyone tell me the mode parameters
I should use in order to run at 1280x1024 with
