RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
-Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh -- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield Which Digital TV card are you asking about? I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' of Myth TV, and it didn't run. I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put in a corner and never acted on. This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would be most grateful for your rpms. I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:36, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Derek Jennings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 5:48 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh Which Digital TV card are you asking about? I don't know - something that is easy to set up with Mandrake! Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I currently use KDETV with an analog card. I did a 'click and install' of Myth TV, and it didn't run. I put it on my list of things to look at later - the list that gets put in a corner and never acted on. This may be a good reason to look at Myth again, in which case I would be most grateful for your rpms. I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek I have put my mythtv RPMS in the download area of my web site. You do not need all the packages. The core is libmyth0, mythtv-frontend, mythtv-backend, mythtv-themes, and mythtvsetup. The remaining packages are optional plugins. They are compiled to support DVB digital cards, and the hardware MPEG2 decoder of Via M10k motherboards, but they should work with analogue cards, and other motherboards also. If your analogue card is currently working with KDETV then myth should find it too. To use myth first install MySQL and then run 'mythtvsetup' to detect and setup your TV card and initialise the MySQL database. Then 'service mythbackend start' will start the myth backend server. You can then start the front end with 'mythfrontend' There is excellent documentation on myth at http://www.mythtv.org/modules.php?name=MythInstall have fun derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14990 (cooker) might be interesting. Note the reference to the kernel-multimedia. Good luck! -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:09, Frans Ketelaars wrote: On Thursday 31 March 2005 02:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14990 (cooker) might be interesting. Note the reference to the kernel-multimedia. Good luck! -Frans That is very interesting... I just checked with the kernel-2.6.11-6mdk kernel in current cooker and it *does not* include the cx88-dvb driver I need for my Hauppauge Nova-T card, but the kernel-multimedia-2.6.10-3mm kernel in cooker contrib *does* derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
Thank you all. I am having a look at MythTV at the moment, and have got myself into sql problems, and have run out of time to look at it. I will pursue this further over the weekend, Thanks again, Hugh winmail.dat Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:51 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners ___ ~ maybe, someone on one of these Lists, could guide you:- .. From: linuxtv-listserver [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists Ecartis lists available on this machine: linuxtv-softmpeg Maintainer linuxtv-softmpeg linux-dvb-maintainer Maintainer list for DirectFB. directfb-cvs DirectFB CVS commit log messages directfb-dev DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. directfb-users DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. linux-dvb About IP over satellite on Linux boxes, digital VCR, Electronic Program Guide linux-dvd About DVD for Linux, our DVD API, the Margi Driver linuxtv-cvs DirectFB offers maximum hardware accelerated performance at a minimum of resource usage and overhead. Users list. mpeg2 MPEG2 encoder mailing list vdr About IP over satellite on Linux boxes, digital VCR, Electronic Program Guide .. best rgds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
-Original Message- From: riccardo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 March 2005 4:16 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner On Thursday 31 March 2005 12:51 am, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners ___ ~ maybe, someone on one of these Lists, could guide you:- .. Thanks, I have been around a few lists and things (and will add those to my sources), but I am/was after any Mandrake specific information. Looks like I have the potential to be a guinea pig! Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - Digital TV Tuner
On Thursday 31 March 2005 01:51, Hugh Dixon wrote: Does anyone know anything about using/installing Digital TV Tuners under mandrake 10.1. I can find nothing on the mandrake site (Am I looking in wrong place?). There are generic Linux articles about needing the 2.6.11 kernel. Does anyone know anything about this? (I did a search for TV Card on the mandrake hardware compatibility list and found nothing! I find this odd as analogue tuners seem to be well supported...) Hugh -- The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. - Porterfield Which Digital TV card are you asking about? Mandrake 10.1 will work out of the box with some cards (e.g. Avermedia DVB), but will require compiling of new modules with others (e.g. new style Hauppauge Nova-T) The situation is complicated by manufacturers changing the chip sets of their cards without changing model names. Mandrake 10.2 will support many more cards without having to recompile the kernel. Personally I would recommend a card based on a late model chip set such as the Connexant cx88 chipset. The Hauppauge Nova-T DVB card works better for me than the Avermedia card did. (better signal quality) What software do you want to use with the card? I can heartily recommend MythTV. It is absolutely fabulous. There are RPMs for it on plf, but they are out of date and not compiled for digital TV (DVB) cards. I can supply you with a set of RPMs of the latest version compiled for Mdk 10.1. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners
-Original Message- From: gary [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 11:25 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:01 +1100, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugh Dixon Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 3:38 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners Hi, I'm looking to get a DVD burner, and am having trouble sourcing things from the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. I have one of these: Vendor: Lite-On Technology Corp. Model: DVDRW SOHW-1653S ...and a DVD-ROM: JLMS XJ-HD166S, both work fine. -- Gary And now for something completely different... http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/hardware.html#HWCDROM Thanks all, Will get in touch with my supplier and see what they can come up! Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 07 Feb 2005 05:01, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugh Dixon Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 3:38 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners Hi, I'm looking to get a DVD burner, and am having trouble sourcing things from the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. Does anyone know how up to date this list is? Am I correct to think that anything that conforms to the IDE spec should be OK? Does anyone have stories of things to avoid? Thanks, Hugh Dixon Oops. Just saw the current thread about dual layer DVDs. - sorry. Anyone got anything to add about any other DVD burners? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/DVDDriVes I have two Lite-On drives and am happy with them. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCBzDNkFAvMr/nNX8RAp2NAJ9n1VoEvmMukcbI3fTBVIqDFFngUgCgltiM BewfKwI9uzrti9bZDu/VQnc= =WB1x -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners
On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:01 +1100, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugh Dixon Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 3:38 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners Hi, I'm looking to get a DVD burner, and am having trouble sourcing things from the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. I have one of these: Vendor: Lite-On Technology Corp. Model: DVDRW SOHW-1653S ...and a DVD-ROM: JLMS XJ-HD166S, both work fine. -- Gary And now for something completely different... http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/hardware.html#HWCDROM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners
-Original Message- From: Hugh Dixon Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 3:38 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners Hi, I'm looking to get a DVD burner, and am having trouble sourcing things from the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. Does anyone know how up to date this list is? Am I correct to think that anything that conforms to the IDE spec should be OK? Does anyone have stories of things to avoid? Thanks, Hugh Dixon Oops. Just saw the current thread about dual layer DVDs. - sorry. Anyone got anything to add about any other DVD burners? Thx, Hugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners
On Sunday 06 February 2005 11:01 pm, Hugh Dixon wrote: -Original Message- From: Hugh Dixon Sent: Monday, 7 February 2005 3:38 PM To: newbie@linux-mandrake.com Subject: [newbie] Hardware compatibility - dvd burners Hi, I'm looking to get a DVD burner, and am having trouble sourcing things from the Mandrake hardware compatibility list. Does anyone know how up to date this list is? Am I correct to think that anything that conforms to the IDE spec should be OK? Does anyone have stories of things to avoid? Thanks, Hugh Dixon Oops. Just saw the current thread about dual layer DVDs. - sorry. Anyone got anything to add about any other DVD burners? Thx, Hugh plextor dvd burners work out of the box and are exceptionally quiet. My 2cents. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:30:15 -0800 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: specific information about if I might encounter any trouble trying to use any of the following with Mandrake? Asus p4s533 motherboard p4 1.6 GHz processor geforce ti4200 agp video card Doubtful you would have problems. That's mostly current stuff. My advise would be to first try a live cd distro on it just for testing purposes, such as knoppix or mepis. Then if it boots fine and detects the hardware you could just go ahead and install mandrake on it. Then you'd still end up with a good and useful other distro to try for testing, or for other uses. Amy -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I'm sure if you return it to the store it was purchased from they will replace it. As far as I know this is very uncommon. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Nov 23 09:41:59 EST 2004 09:41:59 up 1 day, 12:14, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I would however have a serious look at the power supply to make sure it is not the cause. Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Nov 23 09:48:22 EST 2004 09:48:22 up 1 day, 12:20, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.02, 0.00 Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard? -- Paul Simon Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:49 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I would however have a serious look at the power supply to make sure it is not the cause. Regards, Dan Gordon Well, I replaced the P/S. That was my very first thought as well. It didn't make any difference as to the symptoms. Only replacing the video card returned it to a usable system. As I said, its the very first time I've had a video card fail. It just doesn't seem to happen. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:45 am, Dan Gordon wrote: On Tuesday 23 November 2004 09:15 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Does Nvidia repair their cards? If so, is it expensive? Just a thought. It was a nice card - Geforce 4, Ti4200, 64 megs. I'm sure if you return it to the store it was purchased from they will replace it. As far as I know this is very uncommon. Regards, Dan Gordon Have to check my box of receipts but I'm pretty sure its out of warranty, and it came from Tiger-Direct. -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:01 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Well, I replaced the P/S. That was my very first thought as well. It didn't make any difference as to the symptoms. Only replacing the video card returned it to a usable system. P/S can and is usually the cause of other hardware failure, even though a P/S may not show signs of failure itself it can cause great damage to other components. I recently had a system in which two new hard drives were toasted lucky for me the store where i purchased from was willing to replace them after of course replacing the P/S. I would still try and return the card you never know. As I said, its the very first time I've had a video card fail. It just doesn't seem to happen. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) Yeah doom3 most defiantly can burn stuff out, umm especially the mind. Keep an eye on him :-) Regards, Dan Gordon -- Tue Nov 23 11:36:02 EST 2004 11:36:02 up 1 day, 14:08, 2 users, load average: 0.05, 0.06, 0.06 During the voyage of life, remember to keep an eye out for a fair wind; batten down during a storm; hail all passing ships; and fly your colors proudly. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure (a 1st for me)
On Tuesday 23 November 2004 11:42 am, Dan Gordon wrote: I would still try and return the card you never know. I've got the receipt/manuals, so I'm gonna give it a shot. Ya never know, I might get lucky. Can I blame it on Doom3, since he was playing it when it happened? :-) Yeah doom3 most defiantly can burn stuff out, umm especially the mind. Keep an eye on him :-) Regards, Dan Gordon lol yeah, 13 years old - I keep a pretty close eye on him anyways. :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case
Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Dennis Myers um 2:24: On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:03 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is still fine I just want to know if it's possible to exchange the laptop cases of a Toshiba Satelite 2650 or if someone has experience doing this? Alex Yes you can change out the case top. I have seen parts in very good shape on ebay. Take a look a laptopparts and accessories If I recall. Good luck. Thx Dennis, I started hunting for it but it's difficult when being limited to a specific model. Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case
On Friday 29 October 2004 06:20 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote: Am Fr, den 29.10.2004 schrieb Dennis Myers um 2:24: On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:03 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is still fine I just want to know if it's possible to exchange the laptop cases of a Toshiba Satelite 2650 or if someone has experience doing this? Alex Yes you can change out the case top. I have seen parts in very good shape on ebay. Take a look a laptopparts and accessories If I recall. Good luck. Thx Dennis, I started hunting for it but it's difficult when being limited to a specific model. Alex Yes it is different, you may have to have patience and check or search over a period of days or weeks before the right part is up for bid. Good luck, hope you find it. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware Question... broken Laptop case
On Thursday 28 October 2004 04:03 am, Alexander Ruoff wrote: Hi all the laptop of my mum suffered a bit and now the case is broken in the back where the screen is attached to the case. Since the hardware is still fine I just want to know if it's possible to exchange the laptop cases of a Toshiba Satelite 2650 or if someone has experience doing this? Alex Yes you can change out the case top. I have seen parts in very good shape on ebay. Take a look a laptopparts and accessories If I recall. Good luck. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.
Power Supply? On Aug 27, 2004, at 1:46 AM, charlie wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:55 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the motherboard. I have since have had a difficulty whenever I try to transfer large files on the hard drive. When I try, my computer restarts or freezes. I have since replaced the mobo (Soyo Dragon Plus SY-KT600), my memory, and my hard drive. Changing my hard drive and motherboard made no change. My computer would alternately freeze or reboot during the installation phase. After installing new memory (from Crucial, specifically for my new mobo), my computer doesn't even boot properly, and never gets to the menus in the mandrake install cd. No real idea here, but I have heard of something similar and it was the cabling that was damaged. Again because of a power outage. Might not be the case with your machine though, but worth a check just the same. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 10, KMail 1.6.1 and of course OpenOffice.org1.1.0 ___ _ If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:22 pm, Dale Kosan wrote: Power Supply? On Aug 27, 2004, at 1:46 AM, charlie wrote: On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:55 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the motherboard. I have since have had a difficulty whenever I try to transfer large files on the hard drive. When I try, my computer restarts or freezes. I have since replaced the mobo (Soyo Dragon Plus SY-KT600), my memory, and my hard drive. Changing my hard drive and motherboard made no change. My computer would alternately freeze or reboot during the installation phase. After installing new memory (from Crucial, specifically for my new mobo), my computer doesn't even boot properly, and never gets to the menus in the mandrake install cd. No real idea here, but I have heard of something similar and it was the cabling that was damaged. Again because of a power outage. Might not be the case with your machine though, but worth a check just the same. No the ribbons to the motherboard. But they did the same as you before they tried anything else, bought a new motherboard and graphics card and the problem persisted. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it. ...Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 10, KMail 1.6.1 and of course OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.
Paul Rodriguez wrote: A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the motherboard. I have since have had a difficulty whenever I try to transfer large files on the hard drive. When I try, my computer restarts or freezes. I have since replaced the mobo (Soyo Dragon Plus SY-KT600), my memory, and my hard drive. Changing my hard drive and motherboard made no change. My computer would alternately freeze or reboot during the installation phase. After installing new memory (from Crucial, specifically for my new mobo), my computer doesn't even boot properly, and never gets to the menus in the mandrake install cd. You can try disabling all on-board devices first and see if it boots up properly when this is done. If not, remove extra hardware you inserted and try to reboot then. If you can't reboot in a bald situation, either your board or your CPU dealed with some serious arse-kicking. Your board components aren't made to endure more than 5 volts and a certain power amount. If it exceeds you can for sure say other components are affected in someway. Specially with a power-surge:if it can't go through your surge-protecor it will choose another easy way which was your modem. After such event it may not look like something happened to your other hardware, but your components are damaged and they deteriorate very quickly once damaged. The effects show later but are still the resemblance of what happened during the surge. That it killed your Ethernet device doesn't mean that this device stopped the problem. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware problem. Keeps rebooting/freezing.
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 12:55 pm, Paul Rodriguez wrote: A couple of months ago, we had a power surge at our house that harmed the computer. Although the computer was on a surge protector, the cable modem was not, and it fried the eth0 on the motherboard. I have since have had a difficulty whenever I try to transfer large files on the hard drive. When I try, my computer restarts or freezes. I have since replaced the mobo (Soyo Dragon Plus SY-KT600), my memory, and my hard drive. Changing my hard drive and motherboard made no change. My computer would alternately freeze or reboot during the installation phase. After installing new memory (from Crucial, specifically for my new mobo), my computer doesn't even boot properly, and never gets to the menus in the mandrake install cd. No real idea here, but I have heard of something similar and it was the cabling that was damaged. Again because of a power outage. Might not be the case with your machine though, but worth a check just the same. Charlie -- Registered Linux User:- 329524 --- At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. .Henry David Thoreau ___ This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 10, KMail 1.6.1 and of course OpenOffice.org1.1.0 If you want to know Mandrake more intimately - look here:-) http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] hardware issues after installing a new vidcard
On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:22, James Cammarata wrote: Hi all, first time sending to here. I've got about a year's worth of experience with Linux, so I'm not a complete newb but i do have some questions. Here's what happened: I installed a new video card (ATI 9200SE) and upgraded my memory from 128MB to 640MB on a brand new Dell Poweredge 400SC running Mandrake 9.2. When I rebooted the computer, my ethernet adaptor and sound card were suddenly missing. I looked in /dev/sound and the mixer (and everything else) device is gone, and I had to use drakeconf to reinstall my networking. In retrospect, I assume it had something to do with the fact that I replaced the default PCI video card (Rage XL) with an AGP card. I'm tempted to smoke this box (as there's nothing critical on it) and try to repeat the process to see if that is indeed what happened, or if it was a one time glitch. So, I have 2 questions about my situation: 1) Anyone know how to get X windows to recognize the new ATI 9200? Drakeconf will only start if I set it up as a VESA compliant vid card. I installed the Linux driver from the ATI web site but it did not help. 2) How the h*** do i reinstall /dev/sound/mixer and anything else ALSA might need. I have reinstalled ALSA but that did not help. Anyone know the mknod command for it, or what I need to reinstall to fix this? Here's things I've tried: 1) Reinstalling any RPM that had the word ALSA, sound, or mixer in the file name or description 2) Installed the enterprise kernel to try to get devfs to correct the problem automatically. 3) Disabling the sound card, starting Linux, rebooting, and then re-enabling the sound card (through BIOS, it's an onboard AC'97 sound system). Thought maybe Linux might detect it as new hardware, but nope. On http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ViDeo there is an entry: Radeon 9200 * Works fine for me under 9.1, but I don't use 3D gaming so I can't speak to that. PhilGroschwitz If you go to that page you will see a link to Phil's personal page, where you can get his address. I would ask him directly if he has moved to 9.2, and if so what is his experience with the card. He may not be reading the list regularly at this time, as many of us come and go according to our circumstances. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hardware issues after installing a new vidcard
On Saturday 10 January 2004 01:27 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: On Saturday 10 January 2004 03:22, James Cammarata wrote: Hi all, first time sending to here. I've got about a year's worth of experience with Linux, so I'm not a complete newb but i do have some questions. Here's what happened: I installed a new video card (ATI 9200SE) and upgraded my memory from 128MB to 640MB on a brand new Dell Poweredge 400SC running Mandrake 9.2. When I rebooted the computer, my ethernet adaptor and sound card were suddenly missing. I looked in /dev/sound and the mixer (and everything else) device is gone, and I had to use drakeconf to reinstall my networking. In retrospect, I assume it had something to do with the fact that I replaced the default PCI video card (Rage XL) with an AGP card. I'm tempted to smoke this box (as there's nothing critical on it) and try to repeat the process to see if that is indeed what happened, or if it was a one time glitch. So, I have 2 questions about my situation: 1) Anyone know how to get X windows to recognize the new ATI 9200? Drakeconf will only start if I set it up as a VESA compliant vid card. I installed the Linux driver from the ATI web site but it did not help. 2) How the h*** do i reinstall /dev/sound/mixer and anything else ALSA might need. I have reinstalled ALSA but that did not help. Anyone know the mknod command for it, or what I need to reinstall to fix this? Here's things I've tried: 1) Reinstalling any RPM that had the word ALSA, sound, or mixer in the file name or description 2) Installed the enterprise kernel to try to get devfs to correct the problem automatically. 3) Disabling the sound card, starting Linux, rebooting, and then re-enabling the sound card (through BIOS, it's an onboard AC'97 sound system). Thought maybe Linux might detect it as new hardware, but nope. On http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/ViDeo there is an entry: Radeon 9200 * Works fine for me under 9.1, but I don't use 3D gaming so I can't speak to that. PhilGroschwitz If you go to that page you will see a link to Phil's personal page, where you can get his address. I would ask him directly if he has moved to 9.2, and if so what is his experience with the card. He may not be reading the list regularly at this time, as many of us come and go according to our circumstances. Anne XFdrake 'should' run from console mode, as should hard drake. if you have nothing on the box of value, why not reinstall? get a clean install with hte current hardware? if you have stuff you can not live without, then you should know you will have to get the ATI kernel stuff and boot to the ATI kernel. this is because of the changed video cards. you could run it under frame buffer, but no 3daccel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hardware issues after installing a new vidcard
thanks for the pointer on my video problem, i figured that wouldn't be too hard to solve. My main issues is with my lack of sound. I have absolutely no idea how to fix this and can't find any help via Google. James Cammarata [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.sngx.net home: 314-835-1122 work: 314-872-2426 cell: 314-409-0583 __ Out the Ethernet, through the router, down the fiber, off another router, down the T1, past the fire-wall ...nothing but Net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hardware issues after installing a new vidcard
On Saturday 10 January 2004 04:08 pm, James Cammarata wrote: thanks for the pointer on my video problem, i figured that wouldn't be too hard to solve. one thing at a time tho... My main issues is with my lack of sound. I have absolutely no idea how to fix this and can't find any help via Google. first set the BIOS to plug and pray aware OS to NO, set bios it 'initailize video first to AGP (or some such) set reserve IRQ for Video to yes in BIOS. then make sure the sound card is loaded in harddrake and the vol. controls are not muted in kmix or whatever mixers you want to use and include alsamixergui in the mix of unmuted mixers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
One of my boxes does the same thing if I don't get the memory seated just exactly right. If I pull the memory one stick at a time I can isolate which stick was incorrectly seated and fix the problem. -- Warren Post Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras http://srcopan.vze.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 22:46:08 + Björn Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? I recently got a spare Dell Optiplex GX1 to bring home from work. It came without memory, HDD och CD, so I had to search my stock for suitable parts. But today, when I were to bring life to my creation, it simply refused to cooperate! I feel very offended and rightfully upset :) Power to diodes on front YES Power to HDD YES Power to CD YES Power to CPU fan YES Power to expansion cardYES Power to monitorYES Power to keyboard NJET And there was no signal to the monitor. I tried with two different monitors and a separate graphics card as well as the onboard one. Any suggestions welcomed Björn Thank you for your answers, all of you. The problem turned out to be a faulty memory. After I changed it, all worked well. Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
Björn Olsson wrote: Any suggestions welcomed DOes it appear to be booting? Has the system been set correctly for the graphics card? Have you tried a mainboard reset- MB's will have an onboard jumper where you can force a reset. Watching for your posts... -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
Björn Olsson wrote: Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? One other Q: Any audible signals (beeps) when you turn it on, assuming the speaker is connected? -- Pierre Final Filer Software http://www.finalfiler.com Worrigee, NSW, Australia 2540 -- Life's like a roll of toilet paper- The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:46 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? I recently got a spare Dell Optiplex GX1 to bring home from work. It came without memory, HDD och CD, so I had to search my stock for suitable parts. But today, when I were to bring life to my creation, it simply refused to cooperate! I feel very offended and rightfully upset :) Power to diodes on front YES Power to HDD YES Power to CD YES Power to CPU fan YES Power to expansion cardYES Power to monitorYES Power to keyboard NJET And there was no signal to the monitor. I tried with two different monitors and a separate graphics card as well as the onboard one. Any suggestions welcomed Björn You didn't mention swapping the PSU or mobo, but just in case... I'm not sure if they still do it, but dell used to use a non-standard ATX design. This meant you had to use a Dell power supply with a Dell motherboard. When I tried upgrading a Dell with a new motherboard it took me ages to work that out. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:46 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? I recently got a spare Dell Optiplex GX1 to bring home from work. It came without memory, HDD och CD, so I had to search my stock for suitable parts. But today, when I were to bring life to my creation, it simply refused to cooperate! I feel very offended and rightfully upset :) Power to diodes on front YES Power to HDD YES Power to CD YES Power to CPU fan YES Power to expansion cardYES Power to monitorYES Power to keyboard NJET And there was no signal to the monitor. I tried with two different monitors and a separate graphics card as well as the onboard one. Any suggestions welcomed Björn If I remember correctly some moutherboards will play dead if the ram is no good. Try removing and reseating the ram or better yet if you have a spare stick of ram try installing it in place of the old ram. If that does not do the trick I might try a different power supply One of the voltages may be way out of spec. and or reseating the power supply connector. Also try unhooking all cables from the CD floppy and hard drive along with anything Else that is non essential. Marc KM5KW -- Composed on a 100% microsoft and windows free computer using Mandrake Linux 9.1 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware diagnostics (old Dell)
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:06 pm, julian wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:46 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? I recently got a spare Dell Optiplex GX1 to bring home from work. It came without memory, HDD och CD, so I had to search my stock for suitable parts. But today, when I were to bring life to my creation, it simply refused to cooperate! I feel very offended and rightfully upset :) Power to diodes on front YES Power to HDD YES Power to CD YES Power to CPU fan YES Power to expansion cardYES Power to monitorYES Power to keyboard NJET And there was no signal to the monitor. I tried with two different monitors and a separate graphics card as well as the onboard one. Any suggestions welcomed Björn You didn't mention swapping the PSU or mobo, but just in case... I'm not sure if they still do it, but dell used to use a non-standard ATX design. This meant you had to use a Dell power supply with a Dell motherboard. When I tried upgrading a Dell with a new motherboard it took me ages to work that out. first, disconnect all the cables from the drives, and remove all the cards except video and memory, then try it. a reversed ide cable can cause the same malfunction symptoms (I know it ain't easy to get it backwards but it can be done, I promise, believe me, it can be done. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 10:20 pm, you wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 08:59, Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 8:01 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 06:49, Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video Accelerator? Anne Aside from the fact that they suck horribly? Consider that they're bad enough under M$ Wingdows...but then again, I digress...what kinda machine is it in - something noteworthy? No - the old machine that was going to be my standby windows/linux machine appears to have died on me, and I'm looking for the lowest cost to get a working system again. It would hardly be worth it if I didn't have this apparently intractable problem of being unable to mount my new camera. I could buy a card reader, but neither my attempts with one, nor those of many other people, have been successful. And the new camera is xD memory, adding one further layer of problem. I had windows on this system, but can no longer boot to it. I can read the partition from 9.0, but lilo can't boot it. I don't know whether having win4lin on the same system has any bearing on this. All in all, I really do want some way to access my camera without having to go begging to my grandson for the use of his computer. Anne ...hmmmunderstandable BTW, not being able to boot to Windows via lilo - strange - has something changed the /etc/lilo.conf ? If I could solve this I could ditch the old one and save a packet. I think lilo.conf may have got screwed up when I was trying to solve the 8.2/9.0 stanzas. Some strange lines got added - no idea where they came from - but I've tried booting with them in, and with them hashed out. It seems to make no difference. But since they appear to contradict each other, they are probably irrelevant? When I try to boot to windows via lilo, it gets to Loading windowsOriginal, then hangs. This is the stanza for windowsOriginal (win98 on a vfat partition, first of 5 partitions on that drive). other=/dev/hde1 label=windowsOriginal table=/dev/hde map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 The map lines were originally split with 'to 0x8x' on a second line, but rightly or wrongly I though that may be my fault through having word wrap on at one time. However, it doesn't make any difference to the result, whichever way they are, or whether they're hashed or not. I can read the partition fine from linux, under the fstab line /dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-15,user,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 so the partition is not hosed. OR, have you tried booting to it with a Win98 (or whatever) CD? Could be that the FAT boot record is hosed up - or even that there's a slight problem with the lilo.conf... FAT boot record - could be. Would that mean fdisk /mbr, then Mdk install disk to re-write lilo? From a windows boot disk I can get the re-install option, which I suppose may work, subject to the re-writing ot lilo, or get to a dos prompt, but of course that has only loaded a virtual file system ready for install or diagnostics. There's no way to boot into windows from there, that I can see. I have tried a fd created as a win98 recovery floppy, and a cd created as an install disc. Results are the same. I hope you can see a likely cause of my problem. If I could mount my camera on windows on this machine I would be (relatively) happy, at least until the usb support is improved on linux. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 11:03 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:01:27 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds more than enough for what I need. Trident is among several producers of adequate video chips. Too often these chips, because they are nearly if not exclusively found on low end systems, are equated with being 'bad'. Many think only in terms of speed and power, but you don't need a GeForce4 or a Radeon 9700 to to use a wordprocessor, surf the net, or keep up with your email. Hell there are even many 3d games that run well enough on them to cause you to waste time and dawdle (I, myself, am a firm believer and practitioner of procrastination.) I'm not a gamer, so my demands won't be that great. Really, all I need is to be able to mount my camera under windows, make the photos available over the lan, and keep husband out of my hair by making solitaire available :) I would like to also install Mandrake, though, for family to explore, which is why I was questioning whether it was supported. If I can't fix up what I've got, I'm looking at a MSI-MS 6378 mobo, which has pretty much everything on board, for cheapness. I don't recognise the audio description, but this isn't essential, and if the worst comes to the worst I can later disable it and add a card. Well, the next day or two will tell. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 06:49, Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video Accelerator? Anne Aside from the fact that they suck horribly? Consider that they're bad enough under M$ Wingdows...but then again, I digress...what kinda machine is it in - something noteworthy? -- Mon Dec 30 06:55:00 EST 2002 6:55am up 12:59, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.31, 0.23 -- |____ | kuhn media australia| | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn| | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ || | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]| | |'. `\ | | |icq: 5483808 | | ;/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.---.| | mobile: 0410-728-389| | ' `-`' | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | -- * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting -- We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 7:49 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video Accelerator? Anne what about it? It uses the 'trident' driver if that is what you want to know. derek -- -- www.jennings.homelinux.net Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:49:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video Accelerator? Remember Anne google is your friend. http://www.tridentmicro.com/videographics/showmodel.asp?pro=blade%203d BLADE 3D is a low-power 2D/3D graphics controller for very low-priced desktop applications. BLADE 3D delivers two key graphics features to very low-priced desktop PCs: DirectX 6.0 hardware for good 3D images at very low hardware cost Single-pass pixel processing pipeline for low-cost 3D rendering performance Other key features include: Single-pass, single-pixel rendering engine operating at up to 125 MHz system clock Supports 8 MB of frame buffer with 64-bit memory interface in a wide variety of SDRAM memory configurations such as 4Mx16, 1Mx16, etc. DVD support with hardware Motion Compensation for real-time playback Digital interface to standard NTSC/PAL encoder such as Trident's TVExpress for TV out support Software support for BLADE 3D is complete with certified drivers for Windows® ME, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000, OpenGL and Linux. In other words if you got 1 it will work in linux. Charles Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite. -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.20-2mdk -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Sunday 29 Dec 2002 8:14 pm, Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 19:49:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know anything about 'integrated Trident Blade 2D/3D Video Accelerator? Remember Anne google is your friend. http://www.tridentmicro.com/videographics/showmodel.asp?pro=blade%203d BLADE 3D is a low-power 2D/3D graphics controller for very low-priced desktop applications. BLADE 3D delivers two key graphics features to very low-priced desktop PCs: DirectX 6.0 hardware for good 3D images at very low hardware cost Single-pass pixel processing pipeline for low-cost 3D rendering performance Other key features include: Single-pass, single-pixel rendering engine operating at up to 125 MHz system clock Supports 8 MB of frame buffer with 64-bit memory interface in a wide variety of SDRAM memory configurations such as 4Mx16, 1Mx16, etc. DVD support with hardware Motion Compensation for real-time playback Digital interface to standard NTSC/PAL encoder such as Trident's TVExpress for TV out support That sounds more than enough for what I need. Software support for BLADE 3D is complete with certified drivers for Windows® ME, Windows® 98, Windows® 2000, OpenGL and Linux. In other words if you got 1 it will work in linux. That's really what I wanted to know. Thanks for your efforts Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:01:27 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds more than enough for what I need. Trident is among several producers of adequate video chips. Too often these chips, because they are nearly if not exclusively found on low end systems, are equated with being 'bad'. Many think only in terms of speed and power, but you don't need a GeForce4 or a Radeon 9700 to to use a wordprocessor, surf the net, or keep up with your email. Hell there are even many 3d games that run well enough on them to cause you to waste time and dawdle (I, myself, am a firm believer and practitioner of procrastination.) Charles Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature. -- Mandrake Linux 9.1 Kernel- 2.4.20-2mdk -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
Charles A Edwards wrote: On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 22:01:27 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds more than enough for what I need. Trident is among several producers of adequate video chips. Too often these chips, because they are nearly if not exclusively found on low end systems, are equated with being 'bad'. Many think only in terms of speed and power, but you don't need a GeForce4 or a Radeon 9700 to to use a wordprocessor, surf the net, or keep up with your email. Hell there are even many 3d games that run well enough on them to cause you to waste time and dawdle (I, myself, am a firm believer and practitioner of procrastination.) The Trident 3dimage card caused me so much grief when I first started using Linux, I find it hard to look on them favourably (even under Windows, I had to replace it, as in many games it was a question of moving the mouse then waiting expectantly for the pointer to move). I agree that it's not necessary to buy state-of-the-art video cards though, unless you're rendering 3D animation or are a Quake freak for whom every frameset counts. A GeForce 2 with a decent amount of onboard RAM is fine for all reasonable purposes - get a GeForce 4 when the GeForce 5 comes out! Sir Robin -- Do unto others what you would like others to do unto you. And have fun doing it. - Linus Torvalds Robin Turner IDMYO, Bilkent University Ankara 06533 Turkey www.bilkent.edu.tr/~robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
Thanks, Bryan. My MDK 9.0 machine is now a dual-boot with Win XP Pro. Having found drivers for Win 2K/XP for this card, I am going to install it today, get both O/S's running the card, and see what I can do in MDK to find the apps I need. I am glad to hear that you didn't have to do any weird dances or mumble obscene incantations to get the Bt card to work. 'Easy' can be a good things, sometimes. ;-) Thanks for info, T - Original Message - From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 12:51 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote: I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? I am still on Mandrake 8.1, but I did not need to do anything special to view my camcorder on KWinTV. I would say this program is OK for creating video clips if you don't need sound. I have only been able to record silent video clips with KWinTV, despite the presence of a video + audio option. KWinTV cannot be used for video editing as far as I know. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
I have a hauppage tv tuner with the brooktree chipset and it seems to work fine. I never use the card in linux but i do get the blue screen from the yellow jack and i get snow from the coax. So it does work. I haven't actually tried capturing video with it Linux but I assume that it will work. --- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan, I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? T - Original Message - From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
This is all sounding fairly encouraging. I know that there are many hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree chipset? Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to bring a lead forward? Anne On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 3:10 pm, you wrote: I have a hauppage tv tuner with the brooktree chipset and it seems to work fine. I never use the card in linux but i do get the blue screen from the yellow jack and i get snow from the coax. So it does work. I haven't actually tried capturing video with it Linux but I assume that it will work. --- Technoslick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bryan, I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? T - Original Message - From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** --- - Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote: This is all sounding fairly encouraging. I know that there are many hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree chipset? Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to bring a lead forward? Anne Umm, I missed the start of this thread but I've got a WinTV (hauppage chip set) and it works fine under Linux. XawTV is always installed from the start. (although I usually wind up with this icon from Hell that takes a priest to remove from my desktop!) :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
(Dark Lord -- sorry for hijacking your post, but I never got Anne's...) Anne, It says on the largest chip of the small video capture card Bt??. Mine is an older card, so it has a different set of numbers than what you might find around now. Here's the site I found that gives me some direction on the use of Hauppage Bt848 series card in Linux: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~iocchi/bt848/ And here's a good FAQ that explains a lot about the use of Brooktree technology in video capture cards and what can be done with them: http://www.tv-cards.com/FAQ.htm#0 I can't wait to install mine and see what I can do with it... :-D T On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote: This is all sounding fairly encouraging. I know that there are many hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree chipset? Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to bring a lead forward? Anne Umm, I missed the start of this thread but I've got a WinTV (hauppage chip set) and it works fine under Linux. XawTV is always installed from the start. (although I usually wind up with this icon from Hell that takes a priest to remove from my desktop!) :-) -- /\ Dark Lord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
Thanks, filed for reference. I'll have to make a decision soon, so I'll follow this up. Anne On Wednesday 06 Nov 2002 9:46 pm, you wrote: (Dark Lord -- sorry for hijacking your post, but I never got Anne's...) Anne, It says on the largest chip of the small video capture card Bt??. Mine is an older card, so it has a different set of numbers than what you might find around now. Here's the site I found that gives me some direction on the use of Hauppage Bt848 series card in Linux: http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~iocchi/bt848/ And here's a good FAQ that explains a lot about the use of Brooktree technology in video capture cards and what can be done with them: http://www.tv-cards.com/FAQ.htm#0 I can't wait to install mine and see what I can do with it... :-D T On Wednesday 06 November 2002 03:58 pm, you wrote: This is all sounding fairly encouraging. I know that there are many hauppage tv tuners - how can I tell which models have the brooktree chipset? Does the connection have to be at the back, or is it possible to bring a lead forward? Anne Umm, I missed the start of this thread but I've got a WinTV (hauppage chip set) and it works fine under Linux. XawTV is always installed from the start. (although I usually wind up with this icon from Hell that takes a priest to remove from my desktop!) :-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
Bryan, I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? T - Original Message - From: Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 7:38 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware question On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:25, Anne wrote: I have been using a usb gizmo under windows to capture stills from an analogue video camera. There's no chance, I think, of getting a Linux driver for this, so I wonder what next. I have connected a camera to the composite input of my Hauppage WinTV and grabbed stills using KWinTV. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware question
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 19:53, Technoslick wrote: I have a Bt848KPF video capture card that came with my 3Com BigPicture Vidcam. I did a little research on it and found that the Brooktree chipset on the card is very compatible under Linux. I can see on the card that it was made by Hauppage. I no longer care to use the Webcam that came with it, but instead use the card for retrieving video from my VHS-C recorder. Did you have to make any adjustments or configurations in MDK 9.0 after you installed it for it to work? Does KWinTV work well for video retrieval and editing? I am still on Mandrake 8.1, but I did not need to do anything special to view my camcorder on KWinTV. I would say this program is OK for creating video clips if you don't need sound. I have only been able to record silent video clips with KWinTV, despite the presence of a video + audio option. KWinTV cannot be used for video editing as far as I know. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 8.0 Professional KDE 3.0.0 KMail 1.4 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware acceleration support for GeForce 4
Hmm. Athlon runs fine here. I added the line mem=nopentium to my lilo.conf just in case anyway. Running GeForce Ti 4400 here and it is fine, albeit under 8.2 for now [damn these servers are slow 9.0] ;-) You need 4.2 version for the latest nvidia drivers to work. Im unsure if 9.0 supports this card still in the gfx card install section. Just choose as unknown card and carry on but do not set the system to startx automatically for you. This allows you to boot into a command line which makes installing the gfx drivers a lot easier. I had to manually install the nvidia drivers after setting up the system using std vga modes supported on this gfx card. You are correct about needing to alter XF86Config-4. This is a painless thing using vi at the startup console tho and should take 10 minutes max to complete. visit http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q3/000811/index.html and have a read making notes where needed and get the latest nvidia drivers and store them on your system. make a note of the full path to aid you later. Just follow the instructions and welcome to linux running a top quality fast gfx card running in beautiful 1280x1024 24bit technicolour :) Hope this helps you out. regards magnet -- Registered Linux user 281659 Registered machines 163839,163840,163841,163842,163843,163844 Home network: 6 x AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz all running Mandrake 8.2 and token Windows laptop ;-) My home is over-run with penguins that like a warm environment! On Sunday 29 Sep 2002 3:51 pm, you wrote: It's great to be using Mandrake again - 8.x had issues with the Athlon processor. Anyway, in 9.0, when loading I'm given a choice of which XFree86 to choose - 4.2.x, 3.3.6 or 3.3.6 with experimental hardware acceleration support. I thought 4.2.x had this (I can use HW accel support in 4.2.x in SuSE), so I went with 4.2.x. In Mandrake's config util, is there a place to select HW accel that I'm missing? If not, then I need some help activating this (I'm guessing a modification of the XF86Config-4 file). Any help or insight that can be provided will be greatly appreciated... Barry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatability list - web cams
Joan Tur wrote: Es Dijous 01 Agost 2002 15:38, en eric jackson va escriure: Hi, I'm looking for a list of web cams that work with Linux. I didn't see any cameras in the list at Mandrake's site. Anyone have a link to a hardware compatability list? Have a look at http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/ Mine is Philips PCVC730K and works fine out of the box... Thanks for the information! Eric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware questions
dfox wrote: 1) In /dev there is an entry scanner, which is flashing red. What does this mean? It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan Flashing red usually indicates a broken link. /dev/scanner should point (link to) to the proper /dev/ entry for the scanner, which depends on your particular model. I don't have a scanner so I don't know what that would be. FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as far as I have got with it. Hmm. it might be /dev/s* something - /dev/sda is scsi hard disks, there are other entries (/dev/st) for scsi tapes, etc. It's not on Sane's supported list, so I'll probably have to leave that for the time being. modprobe usb-storagethen mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cardreader 'usb storage' is going to provide hard-disk like access for usb devices, not SCSI ones. I have this cardreader (SmartMedia Compact Flash, and also a LS120 drive, both usb, so I'm really wanting to get them going, though the LS120 is not as important as the cardreader. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware questions
FemmeFatale wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Two problems, possibly related: 1) In /dev there is an entry scanner, which is flashing red. What does this mean? It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as far as I have got with it. 2) Problem 1 came to light when I was trying to sort out the problem of my cardreader (compact flash and smartmedia). Following the advice to a previous question, I typed modprobe usb-storagethen mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cardreader This crashed spectacularly, needing a forced fsck to get it going again. It occurred to me that sda1 may be the filmscanner, so I tried to look at the directories in a shell. Under /dev/usb there is only lp0 - my printer, presumably. Under /dev/scsi there are 3 entries, host0, host1, host2. Each of these shows subdirectories bus0/targetx/lun0 (lun0 in every case). Host0 shows 'generic', host1 shows 'cd generic' and host2 shows 'disc generic'. Can someone please explain to me what is happening, and how I can check whether the cardreader is being recognised without risking another serious crash. TIA Anne anne, if you want i'll put up a full set of docs on USB card readers USB-related stuff on my ftp for you. perhaps that will help? I'm sure it would. Please make sure that you have idiot-proof instructions here on the list :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hardware requirements (more)
Mandrake has produced i386 versions for previous releases, and I suppose they may do so for 8.2, but it gets harder each time. In theory there's nothing to stop you compiling the whole distribution from source, but of course doing that on a 486 would take forever, not to mention a larger hard disk than a 486 would have. As for Star Office, Carroll's right; in fact she's understating. Running it on aything less than a 300MHz processor and 128MB RAM would try most people's patience, and to get the kind of speed you'd be used to with, say, MS Office, you probably want twice that. 100MHz and 32MB is possible if you're patient, but don't use SO5.2, which was the slowest, most bloated thing they ever produced. OpenOffice 1.0 should work, though you might consider making coffee while it loads. If you also have a newer, faster computer, you might consider setting up your 486 as dumb-but-not-totally-moronic terminal. OpenOffice uses a kind of client-server model, so I think you could have your main installation on your big fast machine, then install the client-side stuff on your 486. Sir Robin On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 19:10, Carroll Grigsby wrote: Alex: Take a look at RedHat -- they supported 486's through 7.1, and may still do so in their current version (7.3). I'm still dubious about StarOffice; version 6.0 requires a Pentium with at least 64 mb RAM. You didn't mention your hard drive. IIRC, 486's were quite limited (540 mb maximum?). That is probably sufficient for a text-only installation, but it will take some discipline. I'm sorry to be a wet blanket, and perhaps you'll succeed, but it's going to take a lot of effort on your part. I had a 486DX4-120 system for a long time, and it was the most stable I've ever had -- even though I was running Windows 3.11 on it. I replaced it about four years ago, and gave the motherboard to a friend at work; he ran it for another two years. -- cmg On Sunday 19 May 2002 01:12 am, I wrote: Alex: He's mistaken. The 8.2 PowerPack carton specifies that Pentium, Pentium compatibles or AMD processors are required. This is because the binary code contains instructions that a 486 cannot understand and therefore cannot execute. As suggested below, there are some Linux distributions that will run on a 486, but Mandrake dropped support for them several years ago. You've got another problem, too. While it is possible to run in text mode with only 32 mb of RAM, you will not be able to run any graphical programs, particularly Star Office. I believe that it is possible to work with as little as 64 mb, although Mandrake recommends 128 mb. -- cmg On Saturday 18 May 2002 05:30 pm, you wrote: Does anyone confirm that? A friend of mine told me yesterday that Mandrake 8.2 can be run under PC486 DX-4 100 MHz. Thanks, Alex At 14:16 17/05/02 +0100, you wrote: As far as I am aware Mandrake 8.1 upwards will only run on Pentium 1's and upwards..no support for 286/386/486. Same applies to RH Please correct me if I'm wrong FreeBSD will still run from 386 upwards. :o) -Original Message- Sent: 17 May 2002 12:57 PM Subject: [newbie] hardware requirements Hello, I couldn't find at Mandrake's website what are mininum hardware requirements for 8.2 version install. Does anyone know that? I have an 486DX-4 100 MHz with 32 Mb RAM that I want to get back to life. Besides that OS, I'll install on it StarOffice 5.2 only. Thanks, Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hardware requirements (more)
Alex: Take a look at RedHat -- they supported 486's through 7.1, and may still do so in their current version (7.3). I'm still dubious about StarOffice; version 6.0 requires a Pentium with at least 64 mb RAM. You didn't mention your hard drive. IIRC, 486's were quite limited (540 mb maximum?). That is probably sufficient for a text-only installation, but it will take some discipline. I'm sorry to be a wet blanket, and perhaps you'll succeed, but it's going to take a lot of effort on your part. I had a 486DX4-120 system for a long time, and it was the most stable I've ever had -- even though I was running Windows 3.11 on it. I replaced it about four years ago, and gave the motherboard to a friend at work; he ran it for another two years. -- cmg On Sunday 19 May 2002 01:12 am, I wrote: Alex: He's mistaken. The 8.2 PowerPack carton specifies that Pentium, Pentium compatibles or AMD processors are required. This is because the binary code contains instructions that a 486 cannot understand and therefore cannot execute. As suggested below, there are some Linux distributions that will run on a 486, but Mandrake dropped support for them several years ago. You've got another problem, too. While it is possible to run in text mode with only 32 mb of RAM, you will not be able to run any graphical programs, particularly Star Office. I believe that it is possible to work with as little as 64 mb, although Mandrake recommends 128 mb. -- cmg On Saturday 18 May 2002 05:30 pm, you wrote: Does anyone confirm that? A friend of mine told me yesterday that Mandrake 8.2 can be run under PC486 DX-4 100 MHz. Thanks, Alex At 14:16 17/05/02 +0100, you wrote: As far as I am aware Mandrake 8.1 upwards will only run on Pentium 1's and upwards..no support for 286/386/486. Same applies to RH Please correct me if I'm wrong FreeBSD will still run from 386 upwards. :o) -Original Message- Sent: 17 May 2002 12:57 PM Subject: [newbie] hardware requirements Hello, I couldn't find at Mandrake's website what are mininum hardware requirements for 8.2 version install. Does anyone know that? I have an 486DX-4 100 MHz with 32 Mb RAM that I want to get back to life. Besides that OS, I'll install on it StarOffice 5.2 only. Thanks, Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] hardware requirements
Does anyone confirm that? A friend of mine told me yesterday that Mandrake 8.2 can be run under PC486 DX-4 100 MHz. Thanks, Alex At 14:16 17/05/02 +0100, you wrote: As far as I am aware Mandrake 8.1 upwards will only run on Pentium 1's and upwards..no support for 286/386/486. Same applies to RH Please correct me if I'm wrong FreeBSD will still run from 386 upwards. :o) -Original Message- Sent: 17 May 2002 12:57 PM Subject: [newbie] hardware requirements Hello, I couldn't find at Mandrake's website what are mininum hardware requirements for 8.2 version install. Does anyone know that? I have an 486DX-4 100 MHz with 32 Mb RAM that I want to get back to life. Besides that OS, I'll install on it StarOffice 5.2 only. Thanks, Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hardware requirements
Mandrake definately is designed for pentiums up. http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/mandrake/Mandrake-old/8.1/i586/ quote 2. Installing See the install.htm file. IMPORTANT COMPATIBILITY NOTE: Mandrake is built with CPU speed optimizations for Pentium-class (Pentium(tm) and compatibles, AMD K6, Cyrix M2, PIII...) so it WILL NOT RUN on older i386 and i486 based computers. However, a special version compiled for those CPUs will be available for download from our servers and on cheap CD-Roms. /quote On Sun, 19 May 2002 09:30, Alexandre Barra wrote: Does anyone confirm that? A friend of mine told me yesterday that Mandrake 8.2 can be run under PC486 DX-4 100 MHz. Thanks, Alex At 14:16 17/05/02 +0100, you wrote: As far as I am aware Mandrake 8.1 upwards will only run on Pentium 1's and upwards..no support for 286/386/486. Same applies to RH Please correct me if I'm wrong FreeBSD will still run from 386 upwards. :o) -Original Message- Sent: 17 May 2002 12:57 PM Subject: [newbie] hardware requirements Hello, I couldn't find at Mandrake's website what are mininum hardware requirements for 8.2 version install. Does anyone know that? I have an 486DX-4 100 MHz with 32 Mb RAM that I want to get back to life. Besides that OS, I'll install on it StarOffice 5.2 only. Thanks, Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] hardware requirements
As far as I am aware Mandrake 8.1 upwards will only run on Pentium 1's and upwards..no support for 286/386/486. Same applies to RH Please correct me if I'm wrong FreeBSD will still run from 386 upwards. :o) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alexandre Barra Sent: 17 May 2002 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] hardware requirements Hello, I couldn't find at Mandrake's website what are mininum hardware requirements for 8.2 version install. Does anyone know that? I have an 486DX-4 100 MHz with 32 Mb RAM that I want to get back to life. Besides that OS, I'll install on it StarOffice 5.2 only. Thanks, Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware query
I have built a number of these. Always used older H/W as raw CPU speed is a bit wasted on this application. At the moment my server is a Pentium 1 200. I put a PCI IDE controller and a PCI USB card into it so it can handle large drives and USB printers. (The USB support on old mobos can be suspect and the bios can't see disks bigger than GB). The only other thing you need is for the machine to have a bios than can be set to halt on no errors. i.e. not to complain about missing keyboard etc. I had no trouble with the award bios with this - at least back as far as 1995 revision dates. A Dell system I set up for a customer insisted on having a keyboard no matter what, so we just left one connected out of sight. Anyway, I guess the main advice is to just check that the bios supports halt on no errors. Booting from CD is also handy of course. You will of course have a keyboard, mouse and monitor connected while installing, so make sure you do a final boot with just the monitor attached, so you can see any hardware detection issues. HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 01:37, Belgarius wrote: Having long been fed up with Macroshaft's software, at least with regards to server needs, I've opted to instead, use a Linux based server. While not fond of M$ by any means, I still have to use it for my daily tasks, and so, will by necessity, need to keep my primary workstation under that platform. I have been building a Linux box for some time, and have hit yet another obstacle. What I need is a simple server/gateway box, one that will run the servers, and provide Internet access for the remaining workstations. I would greatly appreciate any advice, or pointers in directions where I might obtain information about setting up a box without using keyboard, monitor, or input devices. I've scoured what resources I have been able to find on the topic, and have yet to hit one that details the hardware aspects of this undertaking. With much appreciation, Belgarius I think, therefore, I am... I think... Registered Linux User #271587 http://counter.li.org --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware query
Belgarius wrote: Having long been fed up with Macroshaft's software, at least with regards to server needs, I've opted to instead, use a Linux based server. While not fond of M$ by any means, I still have to use it for my daily tasks, and so, will by necessity, need to keep my primary workstation under that platform. I have been building a Linux box for some time, and have hit yet another obstacle. What I need is a simple server/gateway box, one that will run the servers, and provide Internet access for the remaining workstations. I would greatly appreciate any advice, or pointers in directions where I might obtain information about setting up a box without using keyboard, monitor, or input devices. I've scoured what resources I have been able to find on the topic, and have yet to hit one that details the hardware aspects of this undertaking. With much appreciation, Well if you wanta url for what hardware is stress tested with Mandrake I can post one... Thats not a problem. -- Femme Good Decisions You boss Made: We'll do as you suggest and go with Linux. I've always liked that character from Peanuts. - Source: Dilbert Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware query
Well if you wanta url for what hardware is stress tested with Mandrake I can post one... Thats not a problem. -- Femme I appreciate the input, but what I was looking for was more a way to get the system to not whine about not having the hardware present. Brian Parish was good enough to enlighten me to the obvious. One drawback to having worked with Windows for so long is forgetting that the forest is, in fact, made up of trees. ;c) Belgarius To the deaf, the dancers seemeth mad... Registered Linux User #271587 http://counter.li.org --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.351 / Virus Database: 197 - Release Date: 4/19/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware: Soltek SL-75MAV KM133A
On Thursday 27 September 2001 01:28, you wrote: Hi Does anyone know of any problems running Mandrake 8.0/8.1 on the following hardware: AMD Duron 800 Soltek SL-75MAV series mainboard with: North Bridge VIA VT8365A (KM133A) South Bridge VIA VT82C686B Integrated Savage4 2D/3D Video Accelerater AC97 Digital Audio onboard A friend of mine who wants to try Linux has this setup but when he tried to install RedHat 7.1 it choked on it for some reason. He wants to try Mandrake, probably 8.1 when it comes. I keep hearing bad things about VIA chipsets and onboard graphics, but I can't figure out what's what with Linux and hardware. Thanks I'm using with Mandrake 8.0 (2.4.3-20mdk): AMD Athlon 1GHz Soltek SL-75KAV mobo North Bridge VIA VT8363A (KT-133A) South Bridge VIA VT82C686B crappy old S3 2MB video card AC97 Digital Audio onboard 60GB IBM DTLA-307060 ATA-100 hard drive Only problem is that my chipset has my hard drive running on udma2 (33MHz) instead of the udma5, so is supposedly reading slower than it should. However, I think this has been worked around in a later kernel - I just haven't gotten around to compiling a newer kernel. This may not apply in your friend's case anyway with the KM133A. No problem with the sound. Cheers skinky _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware: Soltek SL-75MAV KM133A
I have almost the same hardware except processor (I have AMD K-7-850). Up to this time I have no problems with the LINUX Mandrake 8.0. The RedHat 6.2, Mandrake7.x have had problems like processor panik. So, do not worry your computer will work very good. Alexey - Original Message - From: Hugh Cecil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie mandrake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:28 PM Subject: [newbie] Hardware: Soltek SL-75MAV KM133A Hi Does anyone know of any problems running Mandrake 8.0/8.1 on the following hardware: AMD Duron 800 Soltek SL-75MAV series mainboard with: North Bridge VIA VT8365A (KM133A) South Bridge VIA VT82C686B Integrated Savage4 2D/3D Video Accelerater AC97 Digital Audio onboard A friend of mine who wants to try Linux has this setup but when he tried to install RedHat 7.1 it choked on it for some reason. He wants to try Mandrake, probably 8.1 when it comes. I keep hearing bad things about VIA chipsets and onboard graphics, but I can't figure out what's what with Linux and hardware. Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
jumper settings are even more specific than that, they are specific to that model and serial number dreive. however, if the question was do most all ide drives have a setting for master and slave or cable select I can say from experiance that all but the oldest ide drives do, and the older ones just do not have cable select as a setting. is the BIOS set to regognize the drive? or is this an scsi drive? On Saturday 22 September 2001 06:35, you wrote: Just finished building my Linux box a few days ago. I took an old 4Gb Quantum Fireball which suddenly Linux doesn't recognize and keeps asking me for SCSI drivers and gives me a list to pick from. Nevertheless, I just want to turn this 4Gig drive as extension for raw data such as photos and music. I have manuals with jumper settings for another harddrive, but I wanted to ask if anyone knew if jumper settings are standard among all harddrive makers or specific to each manufacturer. Thanks in advance. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
PENA FAMILY wrote: Just finished building my Linux box a few days ago. I took an old 4Gb Quantum Fireball which suddenly Linux doesn't recognize and keeps asking me for SCSI drivers and gives me a list to pick from. Nevertheless, I just want to turn this 4Gig drive as extension for raw data such as photos and music. I have manuals with jumper settings for another harddrive, but I wanted to ask if anyone knew if jumper settings are standard among all harddrive makers or specific to each manufacturer. jumpering varies by manufacturer and may vary within models by same manufacturer. there are/maybe _similiar_ jumpers between 'maufacturers', tho this is usually when same _oem_ makes drives for different 'brands'. what is _model_ number of quantum drive? have you check quantum site for jumpering? tc,hago. g . Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
I managed to answer my own question. The problem is that for whatever reason WindowsME and Linux couldn't see the old drive. I looked it over and made sure the jumper settings were correct. I kept at it until BAMM! Linux and Windows saw it. On a side note I really wish someone would get a driver working for winmodems. I don't really want to spend the money on an external one since this one works just fine. Oh well keeping the faith going. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
there are drivers that take a little work on your part...see www.linmodems.org On Saturday 22 September 2001 09:05, you wrote: I managed to answer my own question. The problem is that for whatever reason WindowsME and Linux couldn't see the old drive. I looked it over and made sure the jumper settings were correct. I kept at it until BAMM! Linux and Windows saw it. On a side note I really wish someone would get a driver working for winmodems. I don't really want to spend the money on an external one since this one works just fine. Oh well keeping the faith going. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware help
PENA FAMILY wrote: On a side note I really wish someone would get a driver working for winmodems. I don't really want to spend the money on an external one since this one works just fine. Oh well keeping the faith going. Just as a reminder, not all internal modems are winmodems. I prefer an internal modem for reasons of convenience (modem inside the computer, no wall wart, less cabling, etc.) and cost. A friend of mine recently bought a white box external modem for $50 (while she was visiting relatives in Phoenix). I helped hook it up for her (as part of an install fest), and somebody else completed the Linux installation. Worked first time and ever since with no problems. I haven't bought a modem in a while, but based on the above and on recent browsing at computer shows, I would expect to pay: * $10 to $25 for a winmodem * $35 to $50 for an internal real modem * $50 and up for an external modem (not USB) Aside: Don't choose the modem based on these prices -- for example, a vendor will be happy to sell you a winmodem in the $35 to $50 price range -- that doesn't make it a real modem. Look for a warranty and the address / telephone number of the manufacturer. Last time I bought a modem, almost everyone was offering a five year warranty. Buy from a vendor within driving distance, know his return, refund, and warranty policies, and keep the receipt with his legible phone number and addresss. (Many vendors will accept defective merchandise for a period of up to 30 days, saving you the hassle of dealing with a manufacturers warranty, but policies differ so you need to ask -- likewise on non-defective return / refund policies.) I've bought a lot of stuff at computer shows, I've had problems with less than 2% of it, and always got the problem resolved, even though twice I had to drive to a vendor's place of business. (Most problems were resolved over the phone or by exchange of parts by mail.) I've tried to stick with vendors in Philadelphia, New Jersey, or New York city, 50 to 80 miles away, just in case. The purchase that was my worst experience at a computer show was a Hewlett Packard inkjet printer which died a few months after the warranty expired. I expect equipment I buy to work for much longer than the warranty period -- 3 to 20 times the length of the warranty. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
thanks for all the info. do you have and use USB devices? can you disable USB in BIOS? have you disabled the serial ports? do you not have a modem, and have a high-bandwidth? looks to me as if the cards are not setup in netconf. i also wonder why your video card does not show up in the cat proc/interrupts, do you have a setting in BIOS that saves an IRQ for video? needs to be enabled I believe for that card. can we MAKE sure that plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF in bios? On Sunday 09 September 2001 00:27, you had thoughts to the concept of: OUTPUT dmesg Linux version 2.4.8-12mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.1)) #1 Fri Aug 24 16:18:19 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 0400 (usable) BIOS-e820: fff8 - 0001 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 12288 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount Initializing CPU#0 Detected 265.912 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 530.84 BogoMIPS Memory: 61572k/65536k available (1068k kernel code, 3576k reserved, 393k data, 708k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: After generic, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Common caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda11, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA2 Sound Chip' isapnp: 1 Plug Play card detected total PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fa1b0 PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:a2b0, dseg at 400 PnP: 14 devices detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized devfs: v0.113 (20010820) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled block: queued sectors max/low 40602kB/13534kB, 128 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: chipset revision 0 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, ATA DISK drive hdc: ATAPI 48X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 2503872 sectors (1282 MB) w/83KiB Cache, CHS=621/64/63, DMA hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 p7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 ide-floppy driver 0.97 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 708k freed PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at io=0378, irq=7 dma=-1 parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport0: cpp_daisy:
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
I can disable USB and on board sound in BIOS. Here's how my PnP bios look: I have two options initially: Configuration Mode: [Use PnP OS] PnP OS: [Disabled] This is what it was. Looks like PnP is disabled to me, so that's how I had it. The other thing I can do is change it to: Configuration Mode: [Compatible OS] IRQ 3 [Available] IRQ 4 [Available] IRQ 5 [Available] IRQ 9 [Available] IRQ 10 [Available] IRQ 11 [Available] netconf has the IP and host name all correct for each card, and the module set correctly. However, this is what modprobe gives me: /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: invalid parameter parm_irq /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: insmod 3c59x failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: invalid parameter parm_irq /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod 8139too failed I can directly insmod the 3com driver and have it work: insmod 3c59x Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz I can now ping the internal network, at this point. Doing the same thing for the d-link/realtek card seems to work, but doesn't really: insmod 8139too Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz ping www.linux-mandrake.com Network is unreachable. Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 09:33:48 -0400 From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] thanks for all the info. do you have and use USB devices? can you disable USB in BIOS? have you disabled the serial ports? do you not have a modem, and have a high-bandwidth? looks to me as if the cards are not setup in netconf. i also wonder why your video card does not show up in the cat proc/interrupts, do you have a setting in BIOS that saves an IRQ for video? needs to be enabled I believe for that card. can we MAKE sure that plug and pray aware OS is set to OFF in bios? On Sunday 09 September 2001 00:27, you had thoughts to the concept of: OUTPUT dmesg Linux version 2.4.8-12mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.1)) #1 Fri Aug 24 16:18:19 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 0400 (usable) BIOS-e820: fff8 - 0001 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 12288 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount Initializing CPU#0 Detected 265.912 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 530.84 BogoMIPS Memory: 61572k/65536k available (1068k kernel code, 3576k reserved, 393k data, 708k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: After generic, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Common caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda11, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA2 Sound Chip' isapnp: 1 Plug Play card detected total PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fa1b0 PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:a2b0, dseg at 400 PnP: 14 devices detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized devfs: v0.113 (20010820) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
ifconfig says: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:1C:47:48 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b) Interrupt:10 Base address:0xff00 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:88:E2:69 inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1875 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:113030 (110.3 Kb) TX bytes:240 (240.0 b) Interrupt:9 Base address:0xec00 loLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3697 (3.6 Kb) TX bytes:3697 (3.6 Kb) Seems to try to set both cards to the same IP even though in linuxconf I set adapter one to 192.168.0.2 (eth0 3c59x) and adapter two to 24.23.67.145 (eth1 8138too). Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 20:14:12 +0200 From: Frans Ketelaars [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ryan_steffes wrote: I can disable USB and on board sound in BIOS. Here's how my PnP bios look: I have two options initially: Configuration Mode: [Use PnP OS] PnP OS: [Disabled] This is what it was. Looks like PnP is disabled to me, so that's how I had it. The other thing I can do is change it to: Configuration Mode: [Compatible OS] IRQ 3 [Available] IRQ 4 [Available] IRQ 5 [Available] IRQ 9 [Available] IRQ 10 [Available] IRQ 11 [Available] netconf has the IP and host name all correct for each card, and the module set correctly. However, this is what modprobe gives me: /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: invalid parameter parm_irq /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: insmod 3c59x failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: invalid parameter parm_irq /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod 8139too failed I can directly insmod the 3com driver and have it work: insmod 3c59x Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz Looks to me there is a line in /etc/modules.conf like: alias eth0 3c59x and then something like 'irq=...'. I suggest using just 'alias eth0 3c59x'. I can now ping the internal network, at this point. Doing the same thing for the d-link/realtek card seems to work, but doesn't really: insmod 8139too Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz ping www.linux-mandrake.com Network is unreachable. What does /sbin/ifconfig say a this point? -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
ryan_steffes wrote: I can disable USB and on board sound in BIOS. Here's how my PnP bios look: I have two options initially: Configuration Mode: [Use PnP OS] PnP OS: [Disabled] This is what it was. Looks like PnP is disabled to me, so that's how I had it. The other thing I can do is change it to: Configuration Mode: [Compatible OS] IRQ 3 [Available] IRQ 4 [Available] IRQ 5 [Available] IRQ 9 [Available] IRQ 10 [Available] IRQ 11 [Available] netconf has the IP and host name all correct for each card, and the module set correctly. However, this is what modprobe gives me: /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: invalid parameter parm_irq /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz: insmod 3c59x failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: invalid parameter parm_irq /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz failed /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod 8139too failed I can directly insmod the 3com driver and have it work: insmod 3c59x Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/3c59x.o.gz Looks to me there is a line in /etc/modules.conf like: alias eth0 3c59x and then something like 'irq=...'. I suggest using just 'alias eth0 3c59x'. I can now ping the internal network, at this point. Doing the same thing for the d-link/realtek card seems to work, but doesn't really: insmod 8139too Using /lib/modules/2.4.8-12mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz ping www.linux-mandrake.com Network is unreachable. What does /sbin/ifconfig say a this point? -Frans Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
Looks to me there is a line in /etc/modules.conf like: alias eth0 3c59x and then something like 'irq=...'. I suggest using just 'alias eth0 3c59x'. I commented lines from /etc/modules.conf that said: options eth0 irq=10 options eth1 irq=9 just now, rebooted, and got different errors at boot, but the scroll by too fast to read. This time when I run modprobe as root, I don't get anything back at all, but pinging returns destination host unreachable. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) cat /proc/pci say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem to do is locking the IRQ for An ISA card. I'm not sure how that relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and seems to need module 8130too. The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how to capture them. I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ 7. (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, irq=7 dma =-1) The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension XPS_h266 if that helps. Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under Mandrake 7.0. What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del and that's about it. I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the detecting new hardware stage. Any advice? Ryan Steffes It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your graphics card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the PCI 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all devices comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the assignment of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is next to the video card, there is your problem. Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-} *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card]
Very helpful, thanks. cat /proc/pci says, in abstract Device:IRQ Video card:11 3com LAN:10 Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 USB Controller:3 The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a printer) aren't mentioned. By the way, after having watched it a dozen times, I can figure out that there do seem to be two errors in the insmod for the eth0 and eth1 at boot. (If anyone has a good way to see boot errors besides dmesg, I'm all ears). One of the errors is a device does not appear to be present, and the other is that the irq_param is invalid. If I do an insmod 3c59x as root, I can ping the internal network. However, insmod 8130too messes that all up, and doesn't bring up the outside network. Thank, Ry Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:11:49 -0400 From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) cat /proc/pci say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem to do is locking the IRQ for An ISA card. I'm not sure how that relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and seems to need module 8130too. The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how to capture them. I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ 7. (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, irq=7 dma =-1) The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension XPS_h266 if that helps. Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under Mandrake 7.0. What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del and that's about it. I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the detecting new hardware stage. Any advice? Ryan Steffes It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your graphics card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the PCI 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all devices comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the assignment of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is next to the video card, there is your problem. Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-} *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
Clarification, it's modprobe that won't work, but I can insmod 3c59x. Original Message Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card] Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:53:45 -0400 From: ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbies List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very helpful, thanks. cat /proc/pci says, in abstract Device:IRQ Video card:11 3com LAN:10 Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 USB Controller:3 The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a printer) aren't mentioned. By the way, after having watched it a dozen times, I can figure out that there do seem to be two errors in the insmod for the eth0 and eth1 at boot. (If anyone has a good way to see boot errors besides dmesg, I'm all ears). One of the errors is a device does not appear to be present, and the other is that the irq_param is invalid. If I do an insmod 3c59x as root, I can ping the internal network. However, insmod 8130too messes that all up, and doesn't bring up the outside network. Thank, Ry Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:11:49 -0400 From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) cat /proc/pci say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem to do is locking the IRQ for An ISA card. I'm not sure how that relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and seems to need module 8130too. The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how to capture them. I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ 7. (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, irq=7 dma =-1) The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension XPS_h266 if that helps. Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under Mandrake 7.0. What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del and that's about it. I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the detecting new hardware stage. Any advice? Ryan Steffes It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your graphics card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the PCI 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all devices comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the assignment of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is next to the video card, there is your problem. Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: -- It's also important to understand that there's no answers available from this list, only opinions. Some of them just happen to be, or are intended to be helpful ;-} *Tom Brinkman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
sorry if we seem to be going over the same stuff, but what does (in a text console, without the quotes) ifconfig say? On Saturday 08 September 2001 18:16, ryan_steffes wrote: Clarification, it's modprobe that won't work, but I can insmod 3c59x. Original Message Subject: [Fwd: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card] Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 17:53:45 -0400 From: ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Newbies List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Very helpful, thanks. cat /proc/pci says, in abstract Device:IRQ Video card:11 3com LAN:10 Realtek (which is actually my D-link LAN, go figure):9 USB Controller:3 The on board sound and or parallel port (I think you are right, since shortly after it mentions lp0, even though I don't have a printer) aren't mentioned. By the way, after having watched it a dozen times, I can figure out that there do seem to be two errors in the insmod for the eth0 and eth1 at boot. (If anyone has a good way to see boot errors besides dmesg, I'm all ears). One of the errors is a device does not appear to be present, and the other is that the irq_param is invalid. If I do an insmod 3c59x as root, I can ping the internal network. However, insmod 8130too messes that all up, and doesn't bring up the outside network. Thank, Ry Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 12:11:49 -0400 From: etharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gee,, I had always guessed th parport stuff refered to a parralle port (also known as printer port. what does (in a text console,without the quotes) cat /proc/pci say? On Friday 07 September 2001 23:10, you had thoughts to the concept of: The network cards are not next to my video card. In my bios I have the option of turning plug and play off, but the only assigment I can seem to do is locking the IRQ for An ISA card. I'm not sure how that relates to PCI slots. The other network card is a D-Link 530TX+, and seems to need module 8130too. The only errors I'm getting during boot up come from insmod and don't show up in dmesg, which is why I haven't posted them; I don't know how to capture them. I also have onboard sound which is auto detected and seems to run on IRQ 7. (Based on the line: PnPBios Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at i:0370, irq=7 dma =-1) The mother board, and most of the hardware, come from a Dell Dimension XPS_h266 if that helps. Original Message Subject: Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 00:49:19 -0400 From: civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ryan_steffes [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under Mandrake 7.0. What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del and that's about it. I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the detecting new hardware stage. Any advice? Ryan Steffes It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your graphics card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the PCI 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all devices comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the assignment of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is next to the video card, there is your problem. Civileme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name=message.footer Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
OUTPUT dmesg Linux version 2.4.8-12mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release / Linux-Mandrake 8.1)) #1 Fri Aug 24 16:18:19 CEST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: - 0009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0010 - 0400 (usable) BIOS-e820: fff8 - 0001 (reserved) On node 0 totalpages: 16384 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 12288 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301 devfs=mount Initializing CPU#0 Detected 265.912 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 530.84 BogoMIPS Memory: 61572k/65536k available (1068k kernel code, 3576k reserved, 393k data, 708k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff , vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 512K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: After generic, caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Common caps: 0080f9ff CPU: Intel Pentium II (Klamath) stepping 03 Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda11, last bus=0 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers. Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds. isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: Card 'OPL3-SA2 Sound Chip' isapnp: 1 Plug Play card detected total PnP: PNP BIOS installation structure at 0xc00fa1b0 PnP: PNP BIOS version 1.0, entry at f:a2b0, dseg at 400 PnP: 14 devices detected total Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized devfs: v0.113 (20010820) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled block: queued sectors max/low 40602kB/13534kB, 128 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx PIIX3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 PIIX3: chipset revision 0 PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: QUANTUM FIREBALL1280A, ATA DISK drive hdc: ATAPI 48X CDROM, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: 2503872 sectors (1282 MB) w/83KiB Cache, CHS=621/64/63, DMA hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 ide-floppy driver 0.97 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p5 p6 p7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 ide-floppy driver 0.97 md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096) Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 708k freed PnPBIOS: Parport found PNPBIOS PNP0400 at io=0378, irq=7 dma=-1 parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP] parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38) parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38) lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d Adding Swap: 70524k swap-space (priority -1) ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled. i2c-core.o: i2c core module i2c-algo-bit.o: i2c bit algorithm module Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv: driver version 0.7.72 loaded bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total)
Re: [newbie] Hardware detect lockup, installing new network card
On Friday 07 September 2001 17:27, ryan_steffes wrote: I just tried to upgrade to Mandrake 8.1 beta (but I had the same problem with 8.0) to fix some problems I was having with x windows. After having installed Mandrake successfully, I needed to add a network card to my setup, a 3com 905 series card. It was working fine under Mandrake 7.0. What happens is this, I turn the box on, it boots up, does the Harddrake probe, then goes into the detected new hardware. I hit enter to configure the device, it tells me it is about to, then the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I can reboot the computer with ctl-alt-del and that's about it. I don't have any trouble running X from the command line, if I skip the detecting new hardware stage. Any advice? Ryan Steffes It is pretty obvious that you have a conflict in IRQ between your graphics card and your video. Windows assigns them different interrupts through Plug'NPray, but linux does not, depending instead on the BIOS and on the PCI 2.0 specification that says devices can share interrupts (not all devices comply though the 3C905 models do). The easiest solution is to move the network card to a different slot in your box or to play with the assignment of IRQs to PCI slot numbers in the BIOS setup. If the network card is next to the video card, there is your problem. Civileme Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure?
Possible failed memory stick?? For everybodys information:- I had a machine recently that went unreliable and finally failed to boot. The cure: I removed each memory module and lightly cleaned the gold fingers with a rubber ink eraser. On replacement of the modules the machine booted fine and has now run for three months with no further problems. The reason: I suspect that the gold plating used is not as pure as one would like. At the very low logic levels (as low as 1.5V) used in modern machines. Slight voltage drops across connectors can be sufficient to prevent discrimination between a logic 0 and a logic 1. Since this differetiation is a fairly important requirement for computer operation the machine can simply stop working. Either way it saved me a few pounds!!! Colin Close Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure?
Because i was in a hurry i forgot to add the two most important lines to this posting: the very first one Could you _please_ help me?, and the last one: thanks in advance, i apologize for been so unpolite, thanks again, freddy Por favor, responda a [EMAIL PROTECTED] Destinatarios: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:(cci: Freddy R. Mena/TA/EDC) Asunto: [newbie] Hardware failure? I think my linux box is developing some kind of hardware failure, last couple of weeks it had many random segmentation faults in gnome panel, gnome terminal, and others... Last three days it had this message in shutdown: can´t umount /home, is busy... And yesterday: 1-while idle suddenly appeared: kernel can´t handle requested system paginglots of numbers here Ooops... lots of numbers again, etc, etc... 2- after 1in start up: starting http [FAILED] i am going to check this week end, but, what do you think? could you guess from these messages what is the failing hardware?, or, could it be a software fail?. the hardware is amd athlon 600 mhz, mainboard pcpartners, soundblaster live platinum, external modem us robotics, video trident 3d blade 8 mb, 128 mb ram Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i am going to check this week end, but, what do you think? could you guess from these messages what is the failing hardware?, or, could it be a software fail?. facetious Guess? sure, in fact I can make a WAG (but not a SWAG). /facetious I have no idea really, but suggest that you check that all of your disk partitions have a reasonable amount of free space. If you have any doubts, post the results of df and someone else may be able to make a judgement. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /home has 40 % free, /usr around 56 % free, /boot around 75 % free, /dos 25 % free swap partition 200 mb. I forgot (again, maybe because today is friday) to write this is a western digital 17 Gb HD (hda); and has a matsushita cd-rw at hdc, running linux mandrake 7.0. freddy Looks (to this newbie) like you have enough space. by the way, what do WAG and SWAG mean?, english is not my first language... Sorry, WAG is a Wild Ass Guess SWAG is a Scientific Wild Ass Guess Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure?
No reiserfs, i´ll follow your instructions to test the memory, thanks freddy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware failure?
i´ll follow civileme instructions this weekend, thanks, freddy Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] hardware (soundcard) conflict)
as root in a text console, type (without the quotes) lsdev or if that does not work, cat /proc/interrupts On Sunday 08 July 2001 18:17, David L. Dufeau wrote: I'm getting an error in my /var/bootlog that leads me to believe that a I/O or DMA conflict is preventing my soundcards module from loading properly. I can get the I/O and DMA addresses from the bios, but is there any way to figure out what Mandrake8.0 wants for the addresses, and where the conflicts may exists? HardDrake and LinuxConf don't seem to identify the device addresses. -thangyouberrymuch -dave David L. Dufeau Vertebrate Paleontology Laboratory J.J. Pickle Research Campus PRC 6 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 78712 Mail Code R7600 (512) 232-5517
Re: [newbie] hardware addresses and 3com nics
There's a DOS utility from 3com used to set your Nic's IRQ's... U'll have to search for it. I think, you can go into Windows, make sure the nics are detected and set to non-conflicting IRQ's, soft-reboot into Linux, and Linux should see the NIC's at the same IRQ's as the Windows box did. I also think there is something wrong with those 3com drivers, and I read somewhere that a person upgraded their kernel and then didn't have to reboot all the time to get the nic's working as I have to do right now. On Thursday 22 March 2001 11:35, you wrote: hello group (first time post)... goals: - dual-nic set on mandrake 7.2, acting as firewall - one nic uses dhcp to connect to roadrunner, the other to connect to lan status: - both nics (3com95x) load successfully - dhcp fails to initialize eth0 - /var/log/messages shows the following errors: 'eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2001.' and 'eth0: transmit timed out, Tx_status 00 status 2000...' - when i run 'ifconfig -a' i see that both eth0 and eth1 are sharing io=0x300 and irq=10 this leads me to believe that it's not correct for eth0 and eth1 to share addresses (duh?) the i/o and irq come off the bios, right? how do i give each nic separate and discreet i/o and irq information? i think if i can solve this problem, i believe that dhcp will initialize correctly. thanks in advace john hogan
RE: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?
Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? whoa On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rick Commo wrote: There was a recent article on burners in a local computer rag that you pick up free at grocery and computers stores. The Yamahas were the most highly recommended followed by the Plextors. Of course the cost a little more too. Rick
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On Tuesday 12 December 2000 03:23 pm, Vic wrote: Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? whoa . or vice versa depending on who you believe. It's pretty obvious after checking all the hardware reviews and the cdr NG's that Yamaha and Plextor are way ahead of anything else in terms of reliabiltiy and usability. IMO, IDE Plex's are the best, stay away from Ricoh and 'rebadges' (which includes most everything that isn't Yamaha or Plextor ;) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Rick Commo wrote: There was a recent article on burners in a local computer rag that you pick up free at grocery and computers stores. The Yamahas were the most highly recommended followed by the Plextors. Of course the cost a little more too. Rick
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Oh (duh on me) ok so just those two, good thing I have my sites set on a plextor already, do the newest ones sold on http://www.jdr.com work? I would think so but not sure, just wanna make sure that all Plex's that I would buy are compatible. On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Tom Brinkman wrote: . or vice versa depending on who you believe. It's pretty obvious after checking all the hardware reviews and the cdr NG's that Yamaha and Plextor are way ahead of anything else in terms of reliabiltiy and usability. IMO, IDE Plex's are the best, stay away from Ricoh and 'rebadges' (which includes most everything that isn't Yamaha or Plextor ;) -- Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
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On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: Yamaho was OVER Plextor??? Because of the price. Plextor is quite more expensive. Paul whoa -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
Re: [newbie] Hardware compatibility lists?
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Vic wrote: Oh (duh on me) ok so just those two, good thing I have my sites set on a plextor already, do the newest ones sold on http://www.jdr.com work? I would think so but not sure, just wanna make sure that all Plex's that I would buy are compatible. I recently put in a 12/10/32 IDE which works great. Paul -- Cowboy Coffee: A brew strong enough to float a horseshoe in. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 7.2 - Pine 4.30
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http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3 At 09:25 AM 12/11/2000 -0600, you wrote: Does anyone know if there is a place that lists hardware compatibility with linux. I want to get a cd burner, but don't want to risk buying one that won't work with linux. My first CD-ROM wouldn't work in conjuction with my motherboard and linux, I don't want to go through that headache again. While I'm at it, can anyone suggest a descent burner that works well in a dual boot system with windows and linux? Dave Sherman SoftServ Business Systems, Inc. "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
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Not sure about the list but I have a Yamaha scsi burner that works in both Windows and Linux : )
