Insmod Error and Other Difficulties

General_Tso · 03-27-2003, 02:31 PM

Hello, Folks:

When linux loads, I see a long serious of errors having to do with "insmod." Anyone know what this could be about?

Also, I'm not sure if my machine is detecting it's dvd-rom and cd-rw. I check in /dev and all I see is one "cdrom."

Here's what my fstab looks like:

dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb4 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/pocketdrive user,defaults,noauto,umask=000 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Do any of you know how I can my DVD and CDRW working?

Lastly, I have a logitech mouse with a scroll wheel. The mouse works fine, but the scroll wheel doesn't do anything. Is there any way to get it working? I'm guessing there's something in etc/rc.d/rc.modules, but I don't really know...

Sorry for the laundry list of problems. I appreciate your patience.

Thanks!

--Erich

whansard · 03-27-2003, 02:36 PM

generally for cdburning, you need to have a line
in lilo.conf or your grub bootloader for "hdc=ide-scsi",
depending on where your burner is, then
loading modules for generic scsi emulation.
you can see if you have your burner detected with.
cdrecord --scanbus
mplayer can play dvd's with a symlink to your dvddrive,
mplayer -dvd 0, i think.
anyway, that will give you some terms to search on.

General_Tso · 03-27-2003, 02:56 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by whansard
generally for cdburning, you need to have a line
in lilo.conf or your grub bootloader for "hdc=ide-scsi",
depending on where your burner is, then
loading modules for generic scsi emulation.
you can see if you have your burner detected with.
cdrecord --scanbus
mplayer can play dvd's with a symlink to your dvddrive,
mplayer -dvd 0, i think.
anyway, that will give you some terms to search on.

I remember the installer program asking for special additions (that isn't the exact wording) for lilo that were in that form, but I didn't put anything there. Here's a copy of my lilo. Where would I insert that line?

Quote:

boot="/dev/hda"
prompt
timeout="1200"
message=/boot/message
root=/dev/hdb2
vga="773"

image="/boot/vmlinuz"
label="Linux"
root="/dev/hdb2"
read-only
optional

other=/dev/hda1
label="Windows2000"
image="/dev/hda1"
root="/dev/hdb2"

image="/dev/hda1"
root="/dev/hdb2"

Also here's the result of that one command. I don't have MPlayer, I don't think, so I didn't run that command.

Quote:

root@egs-8100:~# cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'FUJITSU ' 'MHR2020AT ' '30B8' Disk
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *
root@egs-8100:~#

Doe this tell you anything?

Thanks!

--Erich

php · 03-27-2003, 03:10 PM

put append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" just under timeout="1200" then save and exit, and run lilo.conf to save changes.. also change in /etc/fstab the /dev/hdX's to /dev/sr0 and sr1

whansard · 03-27-2003, 03:16 PM

it looks like your burner is already to go,
assuming that fujitsu is it.
whatever burning software you want to use would
need device 1,0,0
is that fujitsu a hard drive? or what?

anyway under the image line
append="hdd=ide-scsi"

there should be a bunch of threads just like this one,
on this site. skim through them for some stuff to try.

General_Tso · 03-27-2003, 03:51 PM

Folks:

No matter what changes I make to the lilo.conf file--either through vim or through KDE's lilo tool--they don't seem to take affect. I think the problem is that there is one at etc/lilo.conf and another on the MBR. Does that sound right? What can I do to fix this?

--Erich

whansard · 03-27-2003, 04:37 PM

type
lilo
to install changes

m0rl0ck · 03-27-2003, 04:38 PM

You have to rerun lilo after you edit /etc/lilo.conf.

What are the insmod errors? unresolved symbols? Recompiled your kernel lately or installed a new one?

General_Tso · 03-27-2003, 05:23 PM

Thanks, folks. LILO is working properly now.

Yes, I just installed Slackware today. As for the isnmod errors, they go by too fast for me to read them. They all seem to have to do with modules--for example my sound card. I'm not really sure.

--Erich

whansard · 03-27-2003, 06:09 PM

if you type
depmod -a
you may see similar messages

General_Tso · 03-27-2003, 11:38 PM

Folks,

The command depmod -a didn't return any output, but here's the output from a dmesg > boot.message command. (That's a really cool command for those who aren't aware of it.)

Quote:

Linux version 2.4.20 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 Mon Mar 17 22:02:15 PST 2003 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017f87000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000017f87000 - 0000000017fa6000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000017fa6000 - 0000000018000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) 383MB LOWMEM available. On node 0 totalpages: 98183 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 94087 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=Linux ro root=342 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 1395.783 MHz processor. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 2785.28 BogoMIPS Memory: 385428k/392732k available (1733k kernel code, 6920k reserved, 568k data, 112k init, 0k highmem) Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) CPU: L1 I cache: 0K, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 256K CPU: After generic, caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 3febf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1400MHz stepping 07 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfc11e, last bus=2 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB PCI Bridge PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/2440] at 00:1f.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized Journalled Block Device driver loaded vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf8000000, mapped to 0xd880d000, size 32768k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=4 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:0393 vesafb: scrolling: redraw Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ICH2: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev f9 ICH2: chipset revision 2 ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda

MA, hdb

MA ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc

MA, hdd

MA hda: WDC WD400BB-75AUA1, ATA DISK drive hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive hdc: _NEC DV-5800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W2410A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 blk: queue c0388784, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63, UDMA(100) blk: queue c03888c0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff) hdb: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63, UDMA(100) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide Partition check: hda: hda1 hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 md: linear personality registered as nr 1 md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3 md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4 raid5: measuring checksumming speed 8regs : 1609.200 MB/sec 32regs : 989.200 MB/sec pIII_sse : 1831.600 MB/sec pII_mmx : 1592.400 MB/sec p5_mmx : 1546.400 MB/sec raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1831.600 MB/sec) md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: ... autorun DONE. LVM version 1.0.5+(22/07/2002) NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 UMSDOS: msdos_read_super failed, mount aborted. FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 FAT: bogus logical sector size 0 reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:42) ... Using r5 hash to sort names ReiserFS version 3.6.25 VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 112k freed Adding Swap: 257032k swap-space (priority -1) reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:44) ... Using r5 hash to sort names ReiserFS version 3.6.25 PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 02:0c.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 02:09.0 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 02:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado at 0xec80. Vers LK1.1.16 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: _NEC Model: DV-5800A Rev: 1.04 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W2410A Rev: 1.03 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/48x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22 options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... isapnp: No Plug & Play device found Intel PCIC probe: not found. Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found. ds: no socket drivers loaded! PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:0a.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1f.2 Crystal 4280/46xx + AC97 Audio, version 1.28.32, 15:38:02 Mar 11 2003 cs46xx: Card found at 0xfbffe000 and 0xfbe00000, IRQ 11 cs46xx: Voyetra (5053:3357) at 0xfbffe000/0xfbe00000, IRQ 11 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5914 (Cirrus Logic CS4297A rev B) ohci1394: $Rev: 578 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 02:09.0 PCI: Sharing IRQ 3 with 02:0c.0 ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[3] MMIO=[fbfff800-fbffffff] Max Packet=[2048] usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:1f.2 PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 02:0a.0 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff80, IRQ 11 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00d0035600a4a0a0] [Linux OHCI-1394] PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1f.4 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64 uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xff60, IRQ 9 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected i810 TCO timer, v0.05: timer margin: 30 sec (0x0860) (nowayout=0) i810_rng hardware driver 0.9.8 loaded hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x46d/0xc002) is not claimed by any active driver. hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2, assigned address 3 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 3 ports detected hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-2.1, assigned address 4 usb.c: USB device 4 (vend/prod 0x413c/0x2001) is not claimed by any active driver. hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-1, assigned address 2 usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0x49f/0x3) is not claimed by any active driver. usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 15:38:38 Mar 11 2003 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver usb.c: registered new driver usb_mouse input0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Mouse M-BA47 on usb1:2.0 usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usb.c: registered new driver hiddev usb.c: registered new driver hid input1: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [NMB Dell USB 7HK Keyboard] on usb1:4.0 input2,hiddev0: USB HID v1.00 Pointer [NMB Dell USB 7HK Keyboard] on usb1:4.1 hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice usb.c: registered new driver keyboard usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver usb.c: registered new driver serial usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4 usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Compaq iPAQ usbserial.c: Compaq iPAQ converter detected usbserial.c: Compaq iPAQ converter now attached to ttyUSB0 (or usb/tts/0 for devfs) ipaq.c: USB Compaq iPAQ, HP Jornada, Casio EM500 driver v0.2

Also, the one message that I saw during boot was the following:

Quote:

INSMOD: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/cs461x.o.gz: insmod cs461x failed
INSMOD: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/cs461x.o.gz: init_module: no such device
INSMOD: /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/cs461x.o.gz: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

Does this reveal anything to anyone?

Thanks, folks.

--Erich

General_Tso · 03-27-2003, 11:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by hackers_
put append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" just under timeout="1200" then save and exit, and run lilo.conf to save changes.. also change in /etc/fstab the /dev/hdX's to /dev/sr0 and sr1

Just out of curious, what will changing /dev/hdX's to /dev/sr0 and sr1 in fstab do?

Thanks,

--Erich

whansard · 03-27-2003, 11:56 PM

why do those module names end in gz?
i haven't seen gzipped kernel modules before.
did you gzip them? or download them and not gzip -d them?

if your software is able to mount the cdrom drives ok now,
you don't need to mess with fstab.

if you add hdc=ide-scsi, to your lilo.conf and install it,
your software will no longer see the drive hdc as hdc,
but will see it as /dev/scd0, assuming its the first scsi
generic drive.

General_Tso · 03-28-2003, 02:38 AM

I have no idea why do those module names end in gz. I installed straight from the cd, and I haven't messed with them. This is my first time working with Slackware, so I'm sure I could have messed up somewhere but I have no ideea where I would have gzipped them.

I'm still having some problems mounting those drives...

Quote:

mount: block device /dev/scd1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/scd1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@egs-8100:~# mount /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrw
/dev/scd1: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/scd1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/scd1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@egs-8100:~# mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
root@egs-8100:~# mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

Quote:

/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb4 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/scd0 /mnt/dvdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/pocketdrive vfat user,defaults,noauto,umask=000 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Any ideas? Sorry for the trouble...

Thanks a ton.

--Erich

Fuel · 03-28-2003, 02:40 AM

many people have mysterios INSMOD errors with 9.0 .. mine is with my NIC ( but it works )