Linux-Hardware Digest #758, Volume #13 Thu, 19 Oct 00 23:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: avermedia tv98 (bt878) no sound (Pawel Golik)
Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (Larry Ebbitt)
Adding SCSI to IDE System Linux 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
D-Link DFE530TX+ Install Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
USB and AGP graphics cards ("Jules")
Re: PIII vs Athlon (Robert MacGregor)
Re: PIII vs Athlon (Robert MacGregor)
Re: red hat 7 and ati rage pro 128 (Paul Silver)
Re: ESS 1869 Drivers (Daniel)
Re: D-Link DFE530TX+ Install Problem (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?=)
Re: LS-120 woes... (Bo Berglund)
Enabling 256Mg of Ram in linux-2.2-12 kernel? ("Daniel Cave")
Re: PIII vs Athlon (Scott Alfter)
Canon MultiPASS ("chenxq")
Re: PIII vs Athlon ("Rocket Chef")
Re: Enabling 256Mg of Ram in linux-2.2-12 kernel? ("David ....")
Re: PIII vs Athlon (Marcus Lauer)
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From: Pawel Golik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: avermedia tv98 (bt878) no sound
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:02:27 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have the same type of Avermedia TV card working well through my
> soundblaster-live. Here are some examples of my setup
>
> /etc/modutils/bttv = options bttv pll=0 radio=1 card=6
> /etc/modutils/tuner = options tuner type=2
I tried passing card=6 - same result. Tried radio=1 too - no luck.
> you might want to make sure your modules are loaded something like
Did lsmod and all the relevant modules are there. Also tried to insmod
tvaudio.o and tvmixer.o - didn't change a thing.
But now I think this is more of a mixer problem - when I plug headphones
or speakers directly into the TV card output jack I can hear TV soud,
albeit with low volume. When I connect to SBLive! line-in I hear
nothing. Yet the mixer is set to record from line-in and it's at maximum
vol. What is even more bizarre is that when I connect a discman to
line-in and fire-up a recording program (I use yarec) I can record from
CD to wave file. But with TV on line-in and yarec I get only static in
the recorded file. The combination of xawtv and a discman on line-in is
also mute.
Another strange behavior I noticed - most CD-player programs don't work
on my system (only alsaplayer does, but it uses CDDA). Yet in windows I
can play CDs correctly, and the CD player is well connected to the
soundcard with the CD cable (the little one). So maybe my mixer is
somehow broken?
Cheers
Pawel
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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:31:09 -0400
From: Larry Ebbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
Simon Welch wrote:
>
> I have just installed Suse Linux 6.4, I can not get my Microsoft
> Intellimouse Optical mouse to work. I have tried PS/2 & USB (it has a
> converter) but neither works.
>
> Does anyone know where I can download some drivers? And do I
> definetely need some?
>
I have a RH 6.1 installation. I installed an Intellimouse Optical in
the palce of my plain ol' mouse and it works well. As I don't care for
the wheel, this is fine. If I want wheel support I must make changes to
the X configuration.
--
Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding SCSI to IDE System Linux 6.2
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 22:25:28 GMT
Got a question for those who have gone this path
before.
I just added an Adaptec 2940UW card to my linux
box that was previously installed on a 20GB IDE
drive. I've added 4 SCSI Ultra Wide hard drives
to the system. I only want to use the SCSI drives
as additional data drives and do NOT want to move
the install to the SCSI drives.
Upon the initial boot(after adding the card and
drives) the autoconfigure detected the card and a
screen came up and loaded the aic7xxx driver for
the card(which is the correct driver). So far so
good.
The problem is that I can't FDISK the drives.
fdisk /dev/sda returns "Unable to open /dev/sda".
I tried sda, sda1, sdb etc... Nothing...
So I then decide to see if the install can see the
drives. I boot from CD and start an install and
ALL of the drives are listed. I went ahead and
partitioned and formatted them and completed a
minimal install with no problem.
I'm back to booting to the IDE now and it's the
same old story, the fdisk utility will not see the
drives. I checked the kernel to see if the SCSI
module was loaded and it is.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any idea why
this would happen. I think I'm getting close just
need a little nudge.
Any help would be appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: D-Link DFE530TX+ Install Problem
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:43:04 -0400
I've been trying to install a D-Link DFE530TX+ NIC without success.
According to the documentation I've found it is supposed to use the
RTL8129/8139 module, with no mention of any module options required. I
tried the module but can get it to work. During boot the kernel
diagnostics show the something like...eth0: RTL8129/8139 v1.08, etc...
and everything seems all right upto this point. Later, it attempts to
configure the device and fails with the message, SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource
temporarily unavailable. I've tried updating the file rtl8139.c, with
the one that came on the driver diskette, and compiled a new rtl8139.o,
but no success again.
System Details
=======================
Distro: SuSE 6.4, kernel 2.2.14, RTL8129/8139 module version 1.08
Processor: Pentium III 500MHz
M/Board: ASUS P3B-F
NIC: D-Link DFE530TX+
According to various web sources this card is supposed to work with
linux. Has anyone manage to make this card work? Any solutions to
making mine work?
Thanks in advance!
Mark Lightfoot
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jules" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB and AGP graphics cards
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:49:09 +0100
Hi
I want to install Linux on a new PC with:
UDMA ATA/66 HDD
USB Mouse
nVidia GeForce 256 Graphics
I have heard that Red Hat 7 will install with this hardware. Can anuyone
confirm?
Thanks
Jules
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From: Robert MacGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.intel,comp.graphics.api.opengl,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio
Subject: Re: PIII vs Athlon
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:54:45 -0700
Out of the murky depths of comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio, the terrible
bryan wagstaff arose and bellowed forth:
> This is obviously a processor religous war. Can we please move it OUT of
> the opengl and 3dstudio ng's, (and probably out of the linux hardware was
> well).
>
> Bryan.
I think it's relevant to 3D Studio since a lot of the probs I myself
have experienced with two seperate KT133 boards were directly related to
3D hardware (nVidia, to be precise).
Choosing a good mobo is not a trivial matter and therefore this thread
is hereby declared on topic for 3DSmax so STFU an FOAD you choad.
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From: Robert MacGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.api.opengl,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio
Subject: Re: PIII vs Athlon
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:56:06 -0700
Out of the murky depths of comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio, the terrible
Bobby Kubinec arose and bellowed forth:
>
>
> > Just read today: AMD announced ~50% pricecut, again, for their processors.
> > For example the price of 1Ghz Athlon was sliced 46%, to $3xx from $5xx.
> >
> > MUCH cheaper. =)
> Holy cow! a 1Ghz for $3xx! that rocks!
It'll be nice when they get the quirks ironed out of SMP and the price
drops a bit more to the point where you'll be able to put together a
dual 1ghz board (sans memory and all else) for around $600! I expect
another six months will yield some real tasty options.
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From: Paul Silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: red hat 7 and ati rage pro 128
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:10:35 GMT
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> db wrote:
>
> > Does red hat 7 recognize and configure the ati rage 128 PRO card upon
> > install?
> >
> > newbie here still unable after a few months to get a decent distro to run x
> > on my new video card. Any help would be appreciated....
>
> There seems to be some question about the pro version, but my reading of the
> documentation at XFree86.org is that it does. YMMV (your mileage may vary).
>
> You need to be using XFree86 4.0.1. The driver is called "r128". This goes
> in a device section of your XF86Config file.
>
> JRT
Yes, I am currently running RH 7.0 with a Rage 128 Pro card
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ESS 1869 Drivers
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 23:30:03 -0000
Noble Pepper wrote:
>
>
> This should be in your kernel source tree, you may need to recompile
your kernel
> to use the card.
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ls /> Hey I hope someone can help me. I have a ESS 1869 sound card and i
need
> > linux drivers for it, (yes i have checked the manufacturers web site).
I
> > read in another usenet discussion that someone used a SB16 ESS aware
> > linux driver for his ESS 1869 and that worked. Where can i get a SB16
> > ESS aware linux driver?
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.
>
>
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rasmus_B=F8g_Hansen?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE530TX+ Install Problem
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:30:42 +0200
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been trying to install a D-Link DFE530TX+ NIC without success.
> According to the documentation I've found it is supposed to use the
> RTL8129/8139 module, with no mention of any module options required. I
> tried the module but can get it to work. During boot the kernel
> diagnostics show the something like...eth0: RTL8129/8139 v1.08, etc...
> and everything seems all right upto this point. Later, it attempts to
> configure the device and fails with the message, SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource
> temporarily unavailable. I've tried updating the file rtl8139.c, with
> the one that came on the driver diskette, and compiled a new rtl8139.o,
> but no success again.
>
> System Details
> -----------------------
> Distro: SuSE 6.4, kernel 2.2.14, RTL8129/8139 module version 1.08
>
> Processor: Pentium III 500MHz
> M/Board: ASUS P3B-F
> NIC: D-Link DFE530TX+
>
> According to various web sources this card is supposed to work with
> linux. Has anyone manage to make this card work? Any solutions to
> making mine work?
I am using a D-link DFE530TX (but no '+'), and it uses the via-rhine
driver. I don't know about the '+'-version - but I would at least try the
via-rhine driver.
Rasmus B. Hansen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Berglund)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LS-120 woes...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 00:03:16 GMT
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 15:35:12 -0400, Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
... snip ...
>
>Your mount point does exist as a directory already, right?
>
># su
># mkdir /mnt/LS120
># mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /mnt/LS120
Done and works, except I found (by trial & error) that it is hdc4,
which is NOT reported by fdisk....
... snip ...
>
>Then, if it works, you'll be able to add a line to the /etc/fstab
>file, like
>
>
>/dev/hdc1 /mnt/LS120 vfat noauto 0 0
>
Done, except it is hdc4
>substituting for the mount point as desired, or the device if
>it's really a different partition etc. After that, a simple
>
>'mount /mnt/LS120'
>
>should work.
And it really does!!!
>
>> (hda1, hda2, hdb, hdc, hdd with or without numbers..)
>> It is all so very confusing, one might believe that once the drive is
>> found it would be accessible too, but no.. :-(
>
>It is, once you find the correct incantation. ;-)
>
Thanks 1000! With your help it is now done! I can read my floppies
just fine.
Next task is finding out if lilo can boot from a start floppy in this
drive (guess it cannot, must be a BIOS option most probably...)
Bo Berglund
Software developer in Sweden
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP: My public key is available at the following locations:
Idap://certserver.pgp.com
http://pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371
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From: "Daniel Cave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Enabling 256Mg of Ram in linux-2.2-12 kernel?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:34:25 +0100
Guys.
(please excuse x-posting)
Im stuck on this what seems an obvious resolution, but how do i able my box
to see 256 mg instead of the first 64 mg of ram in my system?
Ive tried permutations of
mem=256m/256 in /etc/lilo.conf, but no avail..
using RH6.1..
Much appreciated
dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: PIII vs Athlon
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:16:28 -0000
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Reuben King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Out of the murky depths of comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio, the terrible
>Jukka Liimatta arose and bellowed forth:
>> > Sorry, I beg to differ. The KT133 is the biggest pain in the butt.
>> > Locks all the frickin time.
>>
>> I beg to differ to your beg to differ. Works great here abouts.... and the
>> price can't be beaten. Shall we begin a third round? =)
>
>Go look at the Asus and Abit newsgroups and see what joys people are
>having trying to get their KT133 boards to work reliably. Especially
>with 3D hardware.
That's odd. I have personal experience with three systems (two 650-MHz
Durons w/ FIC AZ11s and a GHz T-bird w/ Asus A7V), and none of them have
caused any problems that could be traced to the chipset. The GHz box needed
some updated drivers as the ones installed by the builder were a bit flaky,
but other than that, they've all run like clockwork. (The Duron boxen have
different ATI cards (one Rage 128, one Rage Pro) and the GHz T-bird uses a
Matrox G400. The problems people mention the most seem to involve Nvidia
and 3Dfx boards...could this mean anything?)
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: "chenxq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon MultiPASS
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 10:27:26 +0900
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I have a Canon MutiPASS which integrates Pinter, Scanner and FAX in one. I
just want to use its Printer function under Linux.
When I use lptest > /dev/lp0, no response. I think I should switch the
MultiPASS into Printer mode before I can use it.
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From: "Rocket Chef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.api.opengl,comp.graphics.packages.3dstudio
Subject: Re: PIII vs Athlon
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 01:49:13 GMT
> I have read somewhere (Don't quite remember where, but it might have been
in
> the "Inside 3D Studio Max 3" book) that Max3+ is optimized for PIII chips.
> Which basically means that it takes advantage of the SSE instruction in
the
> PIII. Athlon doesn't have these instructions, so I would therefore go for
> PIII.
We run MAX 3.1 at work, so here is the readme addenum for the CPU issue:
(start here)
CPUs
Machines with non-Intel processors
The MAX Profiler utility uses Intel Pentium specific instructions so it does
not load with processors of other types, such as Cyrix or AMD CPUs. This
will cause a DLL initialization failure in acap.dll when loading MAX. This
utility is installed only if MAXSDK is chosen as an option in the custom
install. It is advised to remove the files "\3dsmax3\acap.dll" and
"\3dsmax3\StdPlugs\MaxProf.dlu" on these systems.
Machines with Pentium III processors
3DS MAX R3.1should operate fine on machines with these processors. You can
increase the interactive performance of your SZB driver by approximately 30%
by installing the special drivers tuned for this processor. While these
drivers have not been thoroughly tested and are not installed by default,
you can safely copy these drivers from the Pentium3 folder of your 3DS MAX
installation. Specifically:
Exit MAX
Copy the pentium3\heidi6.dll file from the CD to the MAX root directory
Copy the pentium3\drivers\szb6.hdi file from the CD to the \drivers
subdirectory of the MAX root directory.
This change will have no effect on D3D or OpenGL driver performance. Please
check with your graphics card manufacturer for the possibility of recent
driver updates that may also take advantage of Pentium III 3D instructions
in either OpenGL or Direct3D mode
Advanced Micro Devices Athlon® processors
3D Studio MAX Release 3.1 officially supports AMD Athlon CPUs. Please see
the minimum system requirements for more information about ram, video, and
hard drive requirements. For more information about the Athlon and 3D Studio
MAX Release 3.1, please visit AMD's website at http://www.amd.com/discreet
(end here)
So, if you don't have a 3D Accelerator, yes, you'll see big differences in
Software Z-Buffer with a P3.
But in rendering time, I think only the FPU make a difference. (only my
opinion)
Is the Athlon(Tbird and so on..) FPU beat the P3's? Here is the question.
Personally, I just wait for a dual-cpu board. Once you worked with 2 cpu,
you just don't want to get back to only one ;)
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From: "David ...." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Enabling 256Mg of Ram in linux-2.2-12 kernel?
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 21:04:54 -0400
Daniel Cave wrote:
>
> Guys.
>
> (please excuse x-posting)
>
> Im stuck on this what seems an obvious resolution, but how do i able my box
> to see 256 mg instead of the first 64 mg of ram in my system?
>
> Ive tried permutations of
>
> mem=256m/256 in /etc/lilo.conf, but no avail..
>
> using RH6.1..
>
> Much appreciated
>
> dan
Add this to /etc/lilo.conf
append="mem=256M"
Then run /sbin/lilo
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PIII vs Athlon
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:37:36 -0700
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Reuben King wrote:
>But the Intel chipsets are more reliable. The 440BX is more solid a
>chipset than anything out there for AMD. Sorry, it's true.
Intel has managed one good chipset in the last five years. The BX. And
for that reason, people deify them. Go look at the Athlon 1200/Duron 800
review at Tom's Hardware (www.tomehardware.com) - he's god a great
counter-argument to this, and no doubt more information and experience than
either myself or this guy.
Marcus
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