Linux-Hardware Digest #306, Volume #10 Sun, 23 May 99 14:13:52 EDT
Contents:
Slow Mouse ("Peter A. Koren")
Non-Winmodem ! There is a god ... (Menelik)
Re: building a dual processor system? (bryan)
Re: With dual-processor system, is SCSI a must or is Ultra-DMA enough? (bryan)
Re: DEC depca ethernet card recognized by Linux? (John Oliver)
Re: no SB16 (older type) with SuSE 6.1 (Dean Plude)
Re: HP DeskJet 820Cxi and PCI modem (Mircea)
How can I upgrade my kernel? ("Andrew Marks")
Re: Linux friendly hardware list? (Reece Kimball Hart)
Anyone using Billion ISDN card? ("Ingvald Kaldhuss�ter")
Re: NTFS, FAT32, ext2 multi-boot possible with Partition Magic4.0? (Valerie Bull)
Re: How do u install an LS-120 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Avermedia + xawtv + bttv = No Sound (Sam Brown)
(Q) NT + Linux (Timothy Murphy)
Re: Moving source code files from NT to Linux (Timothy Murphy)
Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset) (Peter Stein)
Recommend video board? ("Christopher R. Carlen")
Installing linux on IBM Netfinity 5000 server with 3L ServeRAID RAID (Manoj Phadke)
Re: Build or buy? (Don Baccus)
Multiple Monitors ("Thelonious Georgia")
Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset) (Peter Stein)
Streaming Live Audio/Video with Linux??? (Mike Gorsuch)
Support for hardware monitoring (DMI) ? ("Staffan Emr�n")
3Com 3c985B supported? (Nick McGrogan)
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From: "Peter A. Koren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Slow Mouse
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:43:10 -0500
I just installed Red Hat 6.0 on my computer which is set up with a
Logitech Trackman Marble connected to a PS/2 port. It works, but the
mouse is too slow, even when the settings in either Gnome or KDE are
configured for maximum acceleration. The setting adjustments do work, it
is just that the control "gain" is to low. There is not enough
acceleration available.
I might have to try the serial adapter to see if it makes a difference.
BTW, the fact that I am running X at 1280x1024 @16bits/pixel might be
part of the problem, as the mouse speed is ok at lower resolution.
I had the same problem on another machine using Red Hat 5.2 using a
three button logitech PS/2 mouse.
Is there a fix?
Thanks,
Peter Koren
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From: Menelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Non-Winmodem ! There is a god ...
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 15:34:09 GMT
Yep,
I bought a Non-Winmodem Jaton ISA internal 56 K modem. It works great.
Has jumpers to set the appropriate com port. Includes Voice and fax as
well (no idea if the voice works though). PPP was a breeze to setup
using Kppp.
It was cheap for $CAN 75 (about $US 50).
I am very amazed that I managed to find this modem. My supplier was
carrying only cheap winmodems ($CAN 30) or expensive US Robotics
modems.
I am very impressed with this card and would recommend it to anyone.
Menelik
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: building a dual processor system?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 15:45:11 GMT
Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I bought a good dual PII MB at the MIT flea market. It has a onboard
: UW SCSI (adaptec) and all the other standard stuff. Linux supports dual
: processors right? will performance really increase.
with multiple processes, yes.
: I am planning on
: runnig a web server over cable modem.
do they give you static IP's? if not, how can you do this and have
the webserver name always resolve?
I just don't know what kind of
: components I should buy. I am not buying it right away, probably a
: couple months from now. Should I go for 2 450 PIIs or 2 400s?
2 celerons if you can get 300a chips and overclock them. get the
right slotkets - do some net.research to find out about these.
: These
: are the other components that I was thinking about
: STB Voodo 3000 AGP 16MB
why this for just a web server?
: Seagate 9.1 UW SCSI hard drive
for -serious- web serving, how about a 9gig ibm 10k rpm drive? its
about the same price as the seagate cheetah but runs a lot cooler.
the 10k rpm makes a nice difference ;-)
: SB Live! Value sound card.
again, for a web server?
: 128MB RAM PC100
get ECC while you're at it, and for serious web serving, get LOTS of ram. maybe start
with 256meg.
--
Bryan
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: With dual-processor system, is SCSI a must or is Ultra-DMA enough?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 16:33:01 GMT
or an application that writes and reads a lot will benefit from scsi.
I have a network management app that polls for data, writes to files,
and a CGI script that reads from those files, creates .gifs and
returns the output to the browser.
I saw almost a 2x improvement in speed going from ide to ultra2 scsi.
it wasn't so much the ultra2 (that's only good for burst speed which
isn't sustained very long) but the 10k rpm spindle speed and 4meg
cache of the ibm 9gig drive. it helped a lot - along with the
scatter-gather nature of scsi.
Matthew P. Cummings <cummings@TRY-IT&PAYstingray.net> wrote:
: In article <7i88h1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > or so drives), you will not see better performance from SCSI.
: > buying SCSI at anything lower than Ultra2 is highly questionable,
: You can see a large improvement with 2 drives in raid using SCSI. I started
: using 2 ide drives in a news server, then switched to 2 scsi. The SCSI won
: hands down, and now with 6 drives and 20 Gigs of space the SCSI flat out kicks
: IDE.
: For individual usage, you're most likely not going to see what I see with a
: news server, and IDE will hold it's own so to speak. I wanted to point out
: that you are saying as fact ( without qualifying it ) something which just
: isn't so. I qualified my statement by letting you know the conditions I
: observed the performance increase of SCSI, i.e. very heavy usage.
: --
: Legal Warning: Do NOT send unsolicited commercial email to me - consider this
: an official notice.
: cummings@TRY-IT&PAYmcmsys.com - http://www.mcmsys.com/~cummings
--
Bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Oliver)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: DEC depca ethernet card recognized by Linux?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 15:47:17 GMT
On 23 May 1999 14:56:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg
Schwarz) wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Oliver) writes:
>
>>Sure! Throw that old POS away and buy a new card? ;-)
>
>>Seriously, why would you want to screw around with that prehistoric
>>NIC?
>
>because it's easier to use that one than to go and buy a new one. I now
>found that all it took was to include depca support in the kernel (pretty
>obvious, but I seemed to have been on the wrong track because of that
>AM7990/Lance thing). I just booted the new kernel, and it's autodetected,
>works on the spot. NFS and amd are fine with it. A quick test gave me a
>download speed of 210 kByte/s. Should be enough for a 386DX25 with MFM
>disks :-).
Very good then! Your first sentence gave me a start, though, given
the problem you were having... :-)
>So, seriously, why should I want to screw around with a new NIC?
>(which, if it is a cheap one, might not even be jumper configurable) :-)
AAMOF, I haven't seen a NIC with jumpers for *quite* some time... new
or otherwise.
>BTW, your newsreader seems misconfigured as far as your address is
>concerned.
Nope, it's properly configured! I don't get any spam this way. And I
like to keep all my Usenet discussions in Usenet.
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From: Dean Plude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no SB16 (older type) with SuSE 6.1
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 03:03:13 -0400
Mario van Ginneken wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently I installed SuSE 6.1 on my system, but I can't seem to get my
> SoundBlaster 16 going. I always thought SB was as straight as you can get
> it, but it doesn't look that way :-)
>
> SuSE's manual describes how to configure SB16 (without OSS), but they talk
> about the PnP-version and I don't have that version, mine is an older one,
> I'm afraid.
>
> Does anybody have any luck getting an older SB16 to work with SuSE6.1 or
> another version of the standard 2.2 kernel?
>
> TIA,
>
> Mario van Ginneken
> The Netherlands
Yes skip part on pnp config and just select io[base] irq[number]
dma[number] etc
exsample:
use make xconfig ;select sound (not as modules);then select sb16 ;enter
values; compile as part of kernel
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 820Cxi and PCI modem
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 11:02:39 -0400
Jarno Saarto wrote:
(..)
> I also have a PCI pnp modem with Cirrus Logic's chipset. It works under
> windows at com4, but under Linux I haven't been able to get it working.
> Any tips on this one?
>
> Jarno Saarto
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
MST
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From: "Andrew Marks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I upgrade my kernel?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 14:31:00 +0100
How do I upgrade my RH5.1 kernel to whatever the latest one is?
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From: Reece Kimball Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux friendly hardware list?
Date: 23 May 1999 10:57:42 -0400
Reply-To: Reece Kimball Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>>> "K" == KalDar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
K> Is there a linux friendly hardware site?
There's a relatively new site called Linux Hardware Database which
compiles user reports of various hardware items. It looks a little sparse
still, but it may give you some news from the front lines.
http://lhd.datapower.com/
--
Reece Hart, http://www.research.ibm.com/people/r/reece, PGP:0xD178AAF9
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From: "Ingvald Kaldhuss�ter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone using Billion ISDN card?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 19:59:17 +0200
Hi, just bought S.u.S.E 6.1...great distribution!
But....cant get my ISDN to work. Billion have a beta-driver on their
homepage, but no luck installing it yet :-(
So if anyone is using this card, i'd like som tips on how to make it work
Thanks
--
Mvh
Ingvald Kaldhuss�ter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Valerie Bull)
Crossposted-To:
alt.windows95,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: NTFS, FAT32, ext2 multi-boot possible with Partition Magic4.0?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 14:05:41 GMT
I read Josh Peters reply to you. I know that Partition Magic 4.0 will
no longer be able to read your partitions if you use lilo in your MBR.
I believe PM advises people to use their Bootmagic for a dual boot. I
used lilo and now I can't use PM. I have been advised to uninstall
lilo in order to use PM to read my partitions (I have not tried this
yet). I just thought you might want to know this before you decide
what to do.
Valerie
On Sat, 22 May 1999 23:17:21 -0700, "vancaf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I know both Win98, WinNT on FAT16 and Linux on ext2 is a possible option for
>those 3 OS, but I'm wondering if it's possible to multi-boot Win98 on FAT32,
>WinNT4.0 on NTFS, and Linux(Caldera OpenLinux 2.2) on ext2 partition...
>Would using Partition Magic4.0(and BootMagic) help me making possible? Or
>is it impossible?
>
>If it's possible, could you tell me how to do it?
>
>Thank you.
>
>
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Date: 23 May 99 12:06:31 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do u install an LS-120
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Toby McDonald;
TM> I would be very appreciative of anyone who could tell me how to
TM> install an LS-120 drive on red hat 5.2
Mine is set for slave, and is on the primary IDE port of my TYAN S1590S
mobo, so it automaticly gets to be the /dev/hdb device.
I had a 6 pack of bad disks, bad because the filesystem on them was
destroyed by another experiment gone bad on an Amiga (this one). So I
had nothing to lose by doing a 'mkfs /dev/hdb' on each of those 6 disks.
Voila! I now have 6 ea 119 megabyte disks to use with linux. They have
to be mounted to a mountpoint (I use /mnt/ls120 as that mountpoint)
before they can be used, and they aren't particularly fast at about 1/2
a meg a second (hdparm -t /mnt/ls120) read, and much slower than that
when writing, but they make a good place to stash stuff I need before I
can get a stock 5.2 install to actually work on my hardware.
They are also noisy, I've been asked to point to where the corncobs come
out by one witness to mine while it was working.
I have no idea what format an untouched, factory formatted disk might
be, or if it can be used at all without doing as I did and making a
linux native filesystem on them. I didn't have an untouched one to try,
and at 50 bucks a 3 pack, didn't think the experiment was worth the
admission ticket price. YMMV of course.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or |Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
--
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Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 13:17:33 +0100
From: Sam Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Avermedia + xawtv + bttv = No Sound
It's been a hassle for me. I haven't even got it as far as you...
one experiment to do:
while AVERTV is running with the images, try to play something over your
soundcard--see if avertv is messing with your soundcard resources.
also, just make sure that you have the connector cables set up right (they
can fool you).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, after a bit of wrestling, I got Bttv and xawtv compiled ok... I
> get a picture, but no sound.. My best guess is that this is because
> the sound chip on the card is not compatible. I have attempted to
> identify the sound chip by searching the card with a magnifying glass
> and penlight, but no luck.
>
> I am using an ensonique Audio PCI sound card (1371).
>
> Some of you other folks out there have the Avermedia TVphone Tuner..
> (Mine is not the '98' version)... have you had luck getting sound?
>
> What is the workaround?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan.
>
> --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
> ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: (Q) NT + Linux
Date: 23 May 1999 18:12:31 +0100
Can I safely install LILO with NT in my first partition
(sda1 = 1.1GB) and Linux in my second (sda2 = /boot = 16MB)?
I'm worried that I might disable NT,
as the LILO documentation says nothing about NT.
Also, how would I remove LILO from NT,
as it does not appear to have an fdisk command
(so I could not say fdisk/mbr).
I inherited a PC with NT on it,
and would like to keep it if possible.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Moving source code files from NT to Linux
Date: 23 May 1999 18:07:05 +0100
"KERR, MIKE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem is that when I try to compile it using gcc, I get lots of
>warnings and errors. I'm assuming the file should work and it's a
>problem involving going from NT to Linux.
I haven't had any such problems,
but you could certainly avoid them
by tar-ring your source files,
ie passing them as xyz.tar.gz .
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset)
Date: 23 May 1999 16:52:26 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Peter Stein;
>[...]
> PS> So should this mean that the available 2.2.9 kernel sources contain
> PS> these patches? I acquired the 2.2.9 kernel source and it most definitely
> PS> does *NOT* contain the source added by the 2.2.9 UDMA patch.
>
>I dunno why not, I grabbed 2.2.9 src the other night, and compiled
>it on my 2.0.36 system (RH5.2).
Someone must have applied the UDMA patch before tarring the source.
The 2.2.9 kernel source I acquired from ftp.metalab.unc.edu does *NOT*
contain the UDMA patch.
>It ran the drives quicker than stink in UDMA33 mode. Unforch, so much
>other stuff broke that I ended up doing a reinstall of 5.2.
>
>I'd also like to know what if any sensible reason exists for
>rhs-printfilters, in its latest incarnation, that makes it also REQUIRE
>the latest 2.1 whatever version of glibc because installing that breaks
>the rest of the system. My printer works great, but what good is a
>working printer when nothing else on the system works?
>
>I've attempted to post several messages about this, but my ISP's
>newsserver sends any original messages I make to /dev/null. For obvious
>reasons, I haven't sucked any news from it in 9 months or so, but most
>of the free newsservers *won't* let you post so I have to post thru
>these jokers.
>
>Anybody know a good, free newsserver that you can also post replies to?
>
> PS> No, not the kernel source. I'm refering to patches 2.2.6->2.2.9.
>
>You guys ever hear of www.freshmeat.net? It has pointers directly to
>the 2.2.9-tar.gz copy of the full src.
I built 2.2.9 after applying the UDMA patch. Unfortunately it doesn't
work. I get UDMA performance for 'hdparm -t', but this is read only.
For any write operation the kernel reports the following and IDE
gets switched to PIO mode:
kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
kernel: hda: DMA disabled
kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
kernel: ide0: reset: success
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Christopher R. Carlen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recommend video board?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 12:31:35 -0400
I am looking for a board, in the price range $50 to $100. I am not
particularly concerned about 3D.
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks.
--
_____________________________
Christopher R. Carlen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <-- Remove "bogus_field" to reply !!!
My OS is Linux 2.0.29
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From: Manoj Phadke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Installing linux on IBM Netfinity 5000 server with 3L ServeRAID RAID
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 22:50:04 +0530
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tried to install using redhat 5.2 but its not detecting the hardware
raid controller & hence not allowing to proceed with partitioning.
I am getting RedHat 6. next week. does it support 3L?
any help is higly appriciated
Thanks in advance
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Subject: Re: Build or buy?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Baccus)
Date: 23 May 1999 09:50:08 PST
In article <FrV03.34791$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>but if the os is running multiple tasks (like on my website) then a
>scsi drive is a MUST.
Lots of RAM and good webserver/db engine caching's even faster...
--
- Don Baccus, Portland OR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Nature photos, on-line guides, at http://donb.photo.net
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From: "Thelonious Georgia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple Monitors
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 13:41:13 -0400
Hey all-
I have a Diamond FireGL Pro 1000, and am thinking of getting a second card
(AGP) for multiple monitor support. Can anyone recommend an AGP card that
works as a secondary (or can the FireGL be made a secondary to the AGP
primary?)
Thanks for any info,
Theo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: UDMA under Linux 2.2.5 on Asus P5A-b (Ali M15xx chipset)
Date: 23 May 1999 17:09:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Simone Piccardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>I have the same problem with this board (and I'm using 2.2.9). At boot
>time linux say me that it find a non standard PCI-IDE interface (or
>something similar, I have the PC at home and I forgot to take with me
>the note), and I cannot use DMA. But I need a patch or is just possible
>to use hdparm to do the work?
>Thank you in advance
I applied the UDMA patch to 2.2.9. When it boots UDMA is enabled, but it
doesn't stay that way. On any write operation the kernel reports:
kernel: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA
kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
kernel: hda: DMA disabled
kernel: hdb: DMA disabled
kernel: ide0: reset: success
I have verified that DMA (not UDMA) works ok, but that requires disabling
UDMA in BIOS which makes UDMA inaccessible to OS2 and WIN98 (the other OSes
on my system).
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mike Gorsuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Streaming Live Audio/Video with Linux???
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 17:51:45 GMT
Hey fellas,
Last night a friend of mine and I decided we wanted to set up a
"netshow" - you know, a live show broadcasted on the
web with audio and video. We're both college students at the University
of Central Oklahoma, and being college
students we don't have much of a money resource for this project.
This is what we think we need (please remember that I've never messed
with streaming audio/video on the Linux
platform before): a machine with a good amount of ram (at least 64) and
a decent processor (AMD K6-2 300), a
video/audio capture card supported under linux that will support
recording the audio and video onto disk.
Is there such as card? Also, what kind of server suite do we need? We
cannot afford the price tag on the RealVideo
Plus server, and we would like an open source solution anyways. Does
anyone have any recommendations? Please?
Thanks a ton guys for listening to this,
Mike
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From: "Staffan Emr�n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support for hardware monitoring (DMI) ?
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 18:51:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello out there!
Does anybody know about any DMI (Desktop Management Interface) software
being written for Linux? Now that there are a lot of hardware around
that can be monitored (motherboards, harddrives etc) for failures,
warnings and maintenance, it would be nice to have software for that
purpose in linux.
If there is not any such project ongoing, are there interest in setting
up such a project? If needed I could take some kind of coordinating
role, and also do some coding, but I don't think I have the time needed
to do it all by myself. Access to proper documentation must also be
solved, I visited the DMTF homepage (www.dmtf.com), but it seems that
you have to put up 2500 USD just to get access to official
specifications.
Best regards
Staffan Emren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick McGrogan)
Subject: 3Com 3c985B supported?
Date: 23 May 1999 19:00:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could someone please confirm or deny the existence of linux support
for the 3Com 3c985 gigabit NIC? The 3Com website claims that:
* Compatibility
- Software
Gigabit EtherLink Server network interface card supports Windows
NT 4.0, Novell NetWare 4.x and 5.0, SCO Unixware 7,
LINUX V.2.1.131.
(see http://www.3com.com/products/dsheets/400403.html)
However, the card doesn't appear to get a mention in either the latest
Hardware Compatability HOWTO, or the RedHat supported hardware list.
Anyone know anything definite about this?
TIA,
Nick.
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