Jkx@home » stk62k http://www.larsen-b.com Titanium Exposé Wed, 20 May 2026 16:33:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Shuttle ST62K (aka Zen) Fan issue http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/200.html http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/200.html#comments Sun, 17 Apr 2005 14:16:55 +0000 admin Continue reading →]]> Like a lot of users, i get an issue with my fan on the Shuttle Xpc. In fact, i found a lot of comments over the net, that Shuttle used some bad fan in this boxes. Some users decide to use the waranty, but i don’t want to send this back to Paris, just to have another crappy fan.

I decided to change it by myself. But finding the right fan is really hard, because it’s 80mn x 80mn x 1.5mn fan. After a long search i decided to go to a tunning shop. (They have a bunch of various CPU fan).. The guy said to me: Ok, No problem. We have a video card fan that can feet .. Oh really a video fan ?

He give me a Zalman ZM-OP1

Despite this fan doesn’t have the exact same caracteristics as the default one, it perform quite the same. And it does even less noise. So i’m really happy :)

Many thanks to the shop: Tuning Informatique (http://www.tuninginformatique.com/)

update: fix the Zalman URL

]]> http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/200.html/feed 30 Maxtor Diamond Star Boot Error on ST62K http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/169.html http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/169.html#comments Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:20:08 +0000 admin Continue reading →]]> I just received my new hard-drive, a Maxtor Diamonstar 90 – 8M (read 80Go and 8M of cache). So I decided to fdisk + cp -a my old distros to the new drive. Everything is ok .. I have something like this:

/dev/hda1  Win (I don't install this but leave a blank fat32 .. if)
/dev/hda2  Linux (my current debian)
/dev/hda3  BSD (NetBSD I think)
/dev/hda4  Data (10Go for what you wants)

After I finish my cp -a /dev/hda2 /dev/hdc2, I just chroot to this and run grub-install. Ok .. that’s fine (no error message), it’s time to reboot.

Ouch! My new system doesn’t want to boot, I get a ‘SYSTEM BOOT FAILURE, INSERT BOOT DISK …’ hum .. that’s sucks! Ok .. boot from a rescue CD (which I really love after a day of issue on this HD), just chroot to my new drive install Lilo instead of grub .. => Crash .. oh god .. I tried it a several times and have random crash. After 2 hours, I discover that the HD have some issues with the Prefetch Read/Write, so I disable it.. Ok, no more random crash. Now I need to fix the boot error issue. I tested several things, and took me a lot of time and i discover something. In my bios (I even made a new bios install), the default option is ‘auto detect’ from the kind of HD: Large / LBA / CHS.. And this fucking HD is detected as a CHS, so I forced it to LBA, and now it works. In fact the OS doesn’t bios so it can read/write on the HD, but Lilo or Grub use the bios directly.

To resume Maxtor DiamonStar:

  • Doesn’t support Read / Write prefetch
  • Do some bad thing w/ bios detection (I never seen this before ooo)
  • Are really quiet
  • Perform quite well: 56Mbs/sec in hdparm -t (far from my 110Mbs/ SCSI HD but..)
  • Are damn hot (really really hot !!)

I destroy 2 Maxtor HD in a previous life, I hope this one will work a bit longer. Anyway, this is really the last time I buy this shit.

]]> http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/169.html/feed 0 Shuttle ST62K Zen Install Howto for Linux http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/132.html http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/132.html#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:55:56 +0000 admin Continue reading →]]>

Hardware

The Shuttle STK62K is a small XPC that use:

  • ATI IGP9100 video board
  • ATI IXP150 AC’97 Audio Controller
  • OHCI based USB 2
  • Realtek network card

As i run into different issue with that box, i decided to write a little howto. Look here for more infos

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5833 (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5838
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4347 (rev 01)
0000:00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4348 (rev 01)
0000:00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4345 (rev 01)
0000:00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 17)
0000:00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4349
0000:00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
0000:00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342
0000:00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller
0000:01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5834
0000:02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:02:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)

Issues

Caution, i run into weird issues at the first boot.. a lot of segfaults and other weird things. I spend a part of the night to discover that the main trouble isn’t Linux based, but a hardware issue. The ST62K seems to have a lot problems with cheap memory. My current install use two Elixir (CAS=3) 512Mo stick in dual channel. After a little test with memtest+ i discover that the memory should be downsized to 266MHz FSB (instead of the common 400FSB). I found severall other users with the same issue. So don’t expect to use a DDR400 at full speed on this box with cheap memory, or buy Corsair (CAS=2.5 not the CAS=3!).

Linux

I tried several kernels: 2.4.26 and 2.6.7 debian stock kernel, but i run into trouble with this meanly because the APM is set by default in .. so to run it i need to build kernel 2.6.7 from scrash.

Processor

My box run on a Intel 3.0C running at 3.2Ghz as this box support overclocking form +0 to +15 FSB, so (200 + 10) * 15 = 3.2 Ghz, i managed to overclock it to 3.3 without any trouble. In the kernel i set:

[*]   Symmetric multi-processing support
[*]   SMT (Hyperthreading) scheduler support

SMT is the new scheduler that support the HT processors

ACPI / APM

The main reason why i start with ACPI, is that the box do some really strange things if you have APM set. So you need to disable the APM, and set the ACPI in you kernel.

[*] ACPI Support
[*]   Sleep States (EXPERIMENTAL)
<M>   AC Adapter
<M>   Battery
<M>   Button
<M>   Fan
<M>   Processor
<M>   Thermal Zone

The Thermal Zone is the only import here.

Network

The ST62K use a Realtek nic, so just use the 8139too driver.

Hardrive / DMA

Recent kernel as support for ATI IXP chipset so ..

Device Driver > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support
<*>       Generic PCI IDE Chipset Support
[*]       Generic PCI bus-master DMA support
[*]         Use PCI DMA by default when available
<*>        ATI IXP chipset IDE support

Video

The embeded video card is IGP 9100. To have support for X you have 3 options:

  • use the ‘ati’ driver wich come with XFree. It’s works fine (without acceleration)
  • use the ‘radeon’ one, but this require a some kernel tweak
  • the ATI made drivers doesn’t seems to support the IGP card right now.

I now run the radeon on. To do this you have 2 options:
- use the stock kernel one
- use the DRI based one

stock kernel

Devices Drivers > Graphics support
<*>   ATI Radeon display support

Don’t use module if you want to have framebuffer support. You need to enable AGPGart too (i’m not really sure)

Section "Device"
#Driver      "ati"
Driver       "radeon"
VendorName  "ATI Technologies Inc"
BoardName   "Unknown Board"
BusID       "PCI:1:5:0"
EndSection

DRI

First you need to download the latest XFree86 binary (which is 4.3.99) and put this in the place of XFree binary. Next download the Radeon driver from the DRI website. Simply untar and install it. (You need to set the kernel drivers as module not built-in for that)

Which One ?

Right now, this doesn’t really change anything because the kernel base kernel doesn’t support DRI. And the DRI one, disable the DRI because it doesn’t find it as a AGP card, so disable the direct rendering. So don’t expect good openGL performance :( But the radeon driver is really punchy on X .. so as i don’t play game, this isn’t a issue. I think this gonna change soon anyway.

update: TV Output

For the TVout put, there is currently no options. The only way to have it works, is to configure the X server to use a vesa driver (instead of radeon) and 800×600 screen size. After that, plug the TV set and reboot to enable it. (Done thought the bios post), and enjoy. Thanks Per for the tips.

Sound

Again only recent kernel support this :)

Device Drivers> Sound > Alsa PCI devices
<M> ATI IXP 150/200/250/300

After simply load the ‘snd_atiixp’ module

Sensors

I read a couple of post saying that the sensors doesn’t work, but i managed to use it without any trouble, as it use a it87 isa based sensors.

I2C > Hardware Sensors Chip support
<M> ITE IT87xx and compatibles

Don’t forget to set i2c-dev Results:

it87-isa-0228
Adapter: ISA adapter
VCore 1:   +1.45 V  (min =  +1.42 V, max =  +1.56 V)
VCore 2:   +1.53 V  (min =  +2.40 V, max =  +2.60 V)   ALARM
+3.3V:     +6.40 V  (min =  +3.12 V, max =  +3.44 V)   ALARM
+5V:       +4.97 V  (min =  +4.72 V, max =  +5.24 V)
+12V:     +11.68 V  (min = +11.36 V, max = +12.60 V)
-12V:     -19.77 V  (min = -12.63 V, max = -11.41 V)   ALARM
-5V:       -2.38 V  (min =  -5.28 V, max =  -4.81 V)   ALARM
Stdby:     +5.02 V  (min =  +4.72 V, max =  +5.24 V)
VBat:      +3.16 V
fan1:     1795 RPM  (min =    0 RPM, div = 16)
fan2:        0 RPM  (min =  332 RPM, div = 16)
fan3:        0 RPM  (min =  664 RPM, div = 8)
M/B Temp:    +60°C  (low  =   +15°C, high =   +40°C)   sensor = diode
CPU Temp:    +44°C  (low  =   +15°C, high =   +45°C)   sensor = diode
Temp3:       +41°C  (low  =   +15°C, high =   +45°C)   sensor = thermistor

Some voltages seems wrong .. but not important. Yes this box have only one fan and the CPU temp is 44°. The 60° correspond to the RS300 chip but this seems to be broken (the bios show me the same values..). When overclocked and building the kernel, i managed to have 59° and a fan at 2300 RPM. (I tweaked the bios to start the fan at 55° instead of 65° default)

Additionnal

You can download my kernel config. I think this setting can be used on S62G4 too ..

]]> http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/132.html/feed 31 My computer burn in hell ! http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/131.html http://www.larsen-b.com/Article/131.html#comments Sun, 27 Jun 2004 19:38:05 +0000 admin Continue reading →]]> My K7S5A motherboard (w/ a Athlon on) burn on fire last week. I don’t know why, when i come back home (after work), i found a blanc screen, try to reboot but nothing.. Damm

I looked a this closer yesterday.. and yes some chipset on the motherboard have burn .. So i need to buy another one :(

I get a lot of trouble with this computer. 2 video card with broken cooler.. and now a motherboard death. I wondering what to buy right now. I won’t buy another Athlon since i get a couple of issues w/ the heatsink and temperature.

I know a lot of python guru works on MacOS right now, this kind of stuff is to expensive i think? I’m wondering if i should buy another notebook (mine is a bit old to use it for everything..) or by a cool small P4. I read a couple of article about the ST62K. This seems to be kool because it only use 1 cooler, and have a decent video card. A new notebook can be kool to, but the one’s i know you need to choose between power (goot lcd size) and their weight (most do 4/5 Kg .. to bad for a notebook)

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