santner

Again tyme, you have answered my question. Thanks

How can I disable the initialization of eht0 when booting. I don't have a broadband connection so it will always fail anyway, and since I have compiled the 2.6.6 kernel this is the only annoyance, it will stall for almost an entire minute before it fails to initialize. Does anyone know where the code is at to comment this initialization out? :P :D

My procedure for compiling a kernel is:

make mrproper

make xconfig

make clean

make bzImage

make modules

make modules_install

So I was wondering, if I wanted to only update a module, add agpgart or something could I just update it with xconfig and then:

make modules

make modules_install

Or do I have to make the bzImage also?

Also, if I just want to patch the kernel, do I have to run:

make modules

make modules_install

Or is it enough just to make bzImage again?

[moved from Software by spinynorman]

Thanks for the tip. I'll try it out when I get home.

This isn't critical, more of an annoyance but my clock in the lower right hand portion of my desktop(on the taskbar) is always set 15 minutes fast, even after I reset it. I am resetting it by the System Configuration(I think) menu option. I then enter my root password, select SYSTEM then select DATE AND TIME and reset the time, but to no avail. Any ideas? :P

It is a Microtek ScanMaker 4900. Here is what I am basing that on:

http://www.sane-project.org/cgi-bin/driver...el=4900&bus=usb

If you know of any driver available, PLEASE let me know. Thanks,

I read your message and gave it a go, but nothing. Something must have corrupted the bios to the point where it won't reset to the proper code to match the code in the bios. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Thanks!

On lilo/RedHat 9.0 you would type ctrl-x when the splash screen appeared and then you would be able to specify the run-level such as:

redhat_linux 3

I have lilo on my new mandrake install, but I haven't figured out how to do this, any ideas?

I'm a little peeved with ext3. I was using ext3 when I accidentally(rm -rf...) erased family pictures, music, videos...only to find out that there was a bug in ext3 and I could not recover anything. However with ext2 that option is available. It all worked out in the end as I learned how to create separete partitions for /home, /mnt/Pictures... and to back EVERYTHING up on a serparete partition(/mnt/backup) and to a disc.

This morning I set my windows key to start the konsole through the keyboard shortcuts menu in KDE. This is the best thing that windows has ever done for me!!!

My windows story for those interested(I'll give you the summarized version). Let me preface this by saying that the ONLY reason I use windows is for my scanner which has no linux driver(when I get some more time I plan on writing the code myself, and this is just the motivation I need). Due to numerous reinstalls(>5) something changed in the BIOS where the code on the Windows ME Reinstallation CD does not match the code in the BIOS, so now I can not reinstall the windows software that I paid for when I bought my computer!! Why Bill, why??????????

Could that affect the functionality of the via_agp module though? It seems that one is dependent on the other. If I load via_agp, agpgart loads automatically also.

I know, I know. But it works. In other words it plays with mplayer. And it is not just that one vcd, it is ALL of them. Probably around 20 or so. My cdrom drive is 3+ years old, maybe could be the drive?

Here is some more data in my search for an answer. I think that ultimately I need to recompile the kernel without AGPGART because VIA_AGP loads AGPGART automatically and overrides the NV_AGP. It seems that I have read that there are issues with my chipset(VIA KM133) and the AGPGART. Anyway, on to the data.

grep -i nvidia /var/log/XF86Config.0.log

(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NvAGP" "1"

(**) NVIDIA(0): Use of NVIDIA internal AGP requested

(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failed to verify AGP usage

Failed to verify AGP usage---->cat /proc/drivers/nvidia/agp/status

Status: Disabled

glxinfo | grep -i pci

OpenGL renderer string: GeForce FX 5200/PCI/3DNOW!

This answers how my AGP card can work with AGP being disabled, it's using the PCI BUS!!!

dmesg | grep -i agp

0: NVRM: not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded!!

nvidia: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted.

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.

0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004

not using NVAGP, AGPGART is loaded---this leads to my theory of compiling the kernel without AGPGART. Let me know what you think.

Here is what I found out:

cp -fr /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/Videos

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq01.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq02.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq03.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/mpegav/avseq04.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/segment/item0001.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/segment/item0002.dat': Input/output error

cp: reading `/mnt/cdrom/segment/item0003.dat': Input/output error

So I typed:

dmesg

request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4136

Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 1034

hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hdc: command error: error=0x50

end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4140

Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 1035

hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }

hdc: command error: error=0x50

end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 4144

etc....................

Does this scream out anything?

Actually I used:

cp -fr /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/Videos

I didn't have time to write down the error this morning. I will make a note of it tonight and update this post tomorrow. In the meantime......

When I try to copy to data from the disk, i.e.:

cp /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/Videos/

I receive some sort of Input/Output Error and I end up with a bunch of empty directories in /mnt/Videos. Is there another/better way to copy the data from my vcd to the harddrive? Thanks tyme,

I have some old(10 months) VCD's that were created with the sony handycam software that came with my camcorder. I now would like to back them up to my harddrive so that if the disc ever becomes corrupted/breaks, then I won't lose that precious footage. I have tried:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

but it says that the disc is write protected, and it is mounting it as read-only. Is there any way around this? These vcd's are of my 10 month old dauther, so it's very important that I don't lose this data.

Shane B)

I was reading through these forums today, and someone had suggested to comment out the DPMS line in their XF86Config file to improve fps. So the person did so, and doubled their frame rate . So I was wondering what DPMS(Display Power Management System) is, and if it is important. Thanks,

Shane B)

ok....so I did something stupid this morning. I couldn't find where the agpgart module gets loaded from, but I knew that via-agp was associated with agpgart so I decided to remove that module from being loaded automatically. I just figured that if it didn't work that I would boot to runlevel 3 and change it back. Well, it didn't work and I changed it back and then for some unknown reason after I rebooted the nvidia module wouldn't load and the familiar ascii garbage was all over my screen. To make a long story short, after about 4 reboots the nvidia module suddenly loaded again and I am now no further along than I was yesterday

Does anyone know how to disable agpgart from being loaded automatically at bootup?

I just came across this and it seems to be relevant. From www.minion.de

Linux 2.6 AGPGART seems to be broken on some chipsets. If you find that your system hangs upon starting X, potentially with ASCII garbage all over the screen, try the built-in NVIDIA AGP GART driver (Option "NvAgp" "1", AGPGART not loaded) instead.

When I set:

Options "NvAGP" "2 or 3"

Then I get the "ASCII Garbage" on my screen and have to power off to shut it down. However when the option is set to 1 it loads fine but the AGPGART module still gets loaded. Does anyone know where to go to shut this off from loading automatically on bootup?

I get home around 6 EDT, although I don't usually get the chance to do anything on my system until later that night after my 10 month old daughter goes to sleep :D .

It seems like it might have something to do with AGPGART getting loaded at bootup. Have you tried to disable the code that auto loads it and see if that changes anything? I'm at work, so I have to wait in anticipation all day long.

As my status indicates, I am new to this forum. If this is inappropriate, let me know. I just thought that I would move this over to the previous thread so that others can pick up where we left off. Thanks.

In my XFree86.config file, I have:

Options "NvAGP" "1"

which as I understand from the readme.txt file:

Option "NvAGP" "integer"

Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of:

0 : disable agp

1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible

2 : use AGPGART, if possible

3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP)

Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot

work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your

kernel or is built as a module, but loaded into your

kernel (some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel

at boot up). Default: 3 (the default was 1 until after

1.0-1251).

So from the above paragraph I understand that I need to disable AGPGART from loading automatically at startup so that the nvidia internal AGP support will work. Is this how you see it? If so, where can I go to disable AGPGART at startup? I imagine somewhere in /etc/modules*?

In my XFree86.config file, I have:

Options "NvAGP" "1"

which as I understand from the readme.txt file:

Option "NvAGP" "integer"

Configure AGP support. Integer argument can be one of:

0 : disable agp

1 : use NVIDIA's internal AGP support, if possible

2 : use AGPGART, if possible

3 : use any agp support (try AGPGART, then NVIDIA's AGP)

Please note that NVIDIA's internal AGP support cannot

work if AGPGART is either statically compiled into your

kernel or is built as a module, but loaded into your

kernel (some distributions load AGPGART into the kernel

at boot up). Default: 3 (the default was 1 until after

1.0-1251).

So from the above paragraph I understand that I need to disable AGPGART from loading automatically at startup so that the nvidia internal AGP support will work. Is this how you see it? If so, where can I go to disable AGPGART at startup? I imagine somewhere in /etc/modules*?