Urgent need of drivers
 

I badly need the drivers for my computer. My computer crashed and I lost almost everything. This was a catastrophe for me. I was doing some work with scripting languages and trying to install apache server, PHP, etc with the help of our friends in this forum. Recently Xavier was in the process of helping me. Everything went to hell. I must learn to live with these problems. The loses were severe as far as I am concerned. I haven't done any backup work for about 10 months. This was due to pressure of work and studies.

I bought a second-hand computer.

Now my Linux works. I have some problems with the screen colors and I can't mount the CD. The DVD player is completely dead. I believe all those problems will be solved when I install the drivers.

Linux works well. I can use the word processor and can access the Internet.

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A DVD player called Benq which is 16 speed [ I need a driver.]
I can't find any more details about the DVD player.

A CD RW player from Samsung. [ I need a driver.]

Geforce MMX 64 bit graphic card. [ I need a driver.]
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When it comes to Windows, you can easily find drivers. Please help me. I mean tell me the places to download the drivers. I am running Mandrake Linux 10.0 version.
Your help is profoundly appreciated.

You can get the driver for the Geforce card at Nvidia's driver page. As far as the other two things are concerned... they are supported by the base kernel. If you read your dmesg log after boot (type dmesg | less in a terminal) you should be able to see what the device tags are for those (/dev/hdx). Typically most distributions map the first one to /dev/cdrom.

Thanks jtshaw

The dmseg command gave a blank page.
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[nissanka@c83-250-91-54 nissanka]$ dmseg | less




Lines ? -?/? END
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I didn't log on as a root user.

Please tell me what to do now.

Try dmesg | less instead of dmseg | less and see what that does for you.

Linux version 2.6.3-7mdk (nplanel@n3.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-6mdk)) #1
Wed Mar 17 15:56:42 CET 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017ef0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000017ef0000 - 0000000017ef3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000017ef3000 - 0000000017f00000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
382MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 98032
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 93936 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.2 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 IntelR ) @ 0x000f6f90
ACPI: RSDT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x17ef3000
ACPI: FADT (v001 IntelR AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x17ef3040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 INTELR AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=309 devfs=mount splash=silent acpi=ht
bootsplash: silent mode.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 901.852 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 384108k/392128k available (1816k kernel code, 7240k reserved, 849k data, 272k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 1785.85 BogoMIPS
lines 1-33

Calibrating delay loop... 1785.85 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 53k freed
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0383fbff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Celeron (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Using local APIC timer interrupts.
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 901.0512 MHz.
..... host bus clock speed is 100.0168 MHz.
NET: Registered protocol family 16
EISA bus registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb290, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1



mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040211
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
PnPBIOS: Disabled
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/2410] at 0000:00:1f.0
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
ikconfig 0.7 with /proc/config*
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Initializing Cryptographic API
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
pty: 1024 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 0000:00:1f.5
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 32000K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH: chipset revision 2
ICH: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
hda: IC35L060AVER07-0, ATA DISK drive
Using anticipatory io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14



hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 120103200 sectors (61492 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(33)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 p10 p11 >
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa0
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
NET: Registered protocol family 1
BIOS EDD facility v0.13 2004-Mar-09, 1 devices found
Please report your BIOS at http://linux.dell.com/edd/results.html
PM: Reading pmdisk image.
PM: Resume from disk failed.
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Mounted devfs on /dev
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 272k freed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usbfs
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver hub
drivers/usb/host/uhci-hcd.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.1
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 0000:00:1f.2



uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 9, io base 0000d000
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x6104
drivers/usb/core/usb.c: registered new driver usblp
drivers/usb/class/usblp.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 Chipset.
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 320M
agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000
Supermount version 2.0.4 for kernel 2.6
NTFS driver 2.1.6 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd8826000, 00:90:47:01:cd:50, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
NET: Registered protocol family 17
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 15:45:24 Mar 17 2004
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 0000:00:1f.5
PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 0000:00:1f.6
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH 82801AA found at IO 0xd800 and 0xd400, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 3
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 2 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: ADS72 (Analog Devices AD1881A)
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 Unable to map surround DAC's (or DAC's not present), total channels = 2
lines 127-160


parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-7mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M AMI BIOS
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW CD-MRW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
SCSI subsystem initialized
st: Version 20040122, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c035fe60(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
The output is very large. Would you gather some information? Please tell me.

hdd: SAMSUNG CD-R/RW SW-252B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
This tells you that /dev/hdd is your Samsung burner and that the kernel knows all about it.

More info can be gathered here later in the output:
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM CD-R/RW CD-MRW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

It doesn't appear from what you've shown above that the DVD drive was detected at all. Are you sure the hardware is all physically installed properly?

Yes, I can put a CD into the Benq DVD and take it out. It physically works. It doesn't read. This old computer had this Benq DVD player. That fellow worked with Windows. The Samsung CD is from my old computer. Its motherboard was burnt. The graphic card was burnt. The power supply was burnt. The SDRAM modules were burnt.

Samsung is my old CD burner. It doesn't work with DVD's. I can't mount it. It doesn't accept. It doesn't read the CD's as it did it before. I had difficulties installing Mandrake Linux 10.0 version. I had to try 30 or 40 times. It doesn't read the way it did it before. I believe the problems are in the driver.

The colors are not good on the screen. You mentioned the right place to download the drivers. I will dowonload soon.What shall I do? Please tell me.

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The following is the message when I tried to mount the cd

[root@c83-250-91-54 nissanka]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@c83-250-91-54 nissanka]#

Just a guess, but if everything else in the old computer was messed up then you might want to try removing the Samsung drive. If it is on the same bus as the BenQ drive it could causing your problem.

Once you install the nvidia drivers (make sure to follow all the directions) your display quality under X should improve.

The following is the message when I tried to mount the cd

[root@c83-250-91-54 nissanka]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@c83-250-91-54 nissanka]#

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I removed the CD and tried again. The following is the message.

[root@c83-250-91-54 nissanka]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
[root@c83-250-91-54 nissanka]#

Now I am leaving for the gym. I must do circuit training. I will be back after about 5 hours. I got to attend a few other things in town affter the training.
Please leave your message. I profoundly appreciate your help.

The fact that your DVD driver drawer opens and closes only means the molex connector is plugged in and there is power. If they are on the same IDE channel make sure the master/slave settings are right and that the IDE cable isn't damaged or not properly plugged in. If so, take out the Samsung (the one from the damaged computer) drive as said before and try mounting a CD or DVD in the DVD drive, make sure the CD/DVD is a good'un.

the nvidia drivers as pointed out by jtshaw will take care of your graphics card just make sure to follow the instructions

I just wrote the dmesg command and got the following output. This is not the entire output. This is just a part of the output. It is very long.

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parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x7a on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: This is an XFree86 bug. It shouldn't access hardware directly.
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.3-7mdk
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M AMI BIOS
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
SCSI subsystem initialized
st: Version 20040122, fixed bufsize 32768, s/g segs 256
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c035fe60(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
ide-cd: cmd 0x5a timed out
hdd: lost interrupt
hdd: cdrom_pc_intr: The drive appears confused (ireason = 0x03)
[nissanka@c83-250-90-204 nissanka]$


It mentions about a confusion. What is it?