Linux-Hardware Digest #206, Volume #14 Fri, 19 Jan 01 21:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Support for my sound card? (Oleg Krivosheev)
Re: USB ADSL modem (Alcatel) (Hal Burgiss)
Re: additional hardware for performance gain (Trevor Hemsley)
3Com 10/100 card only running 10Mbps ("Jon Small")
Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed (Alan Jones)
Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed (Alan Jones)
Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support (Noble Pepper)
Linux Sound Systems Overview?!?!?! (Doug Mitton)
es1370 - where is the sequencer/midi driver ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370? ("Jason Ng")
My Modem :( ("Tina Carter")
Re: CMD PCI-0649 ATA/100 (Noble Pepper)
Linux compatible sheetfeed scanner? (Frank Peters)
Re: Installing linux 6.1 (David)
TV Out and MPG Out ("jon")
Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: Laptops (Doug Mitton)
Re: 3Com 10/100 card only running 10Mbps (Mike Schwartz)
Re: 2.4 module compile RH7 (Steve Martin)
Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: es1370 - where is the sequencer/midi driver ? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Setting up my CDWriter (Dances With Crows)
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From: Oleg Krivosheev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Support for my sound card?
Date: 19 Jan 2001 15:20:12 -0600
Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just bought a Compaq which came with this sound card, and I can't get it
> working with Mandrake 7.2:
>
> Vendor: ESS Technology
>
> Model: ES1988 Allegro-1
>
> Kernel Module: unknown
>
> Bus Type: PCI
>
> I believe it's an onboard deal because I can't assume it would be anything
> else in a machine like this, though I haven't even opened the case yet to
> look. It's not in the list given by HardDrake or whatever. Any ideas?
>
> Matt O.
>
driver already included into 2.2.19pre7,
would be in 2.2.19final
OK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: USB ADSL modem (Alcatel)
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Jan 2001 17:24:12 -0500
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:37:25 +0100, Philipp Druyts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Does anyone know if there's a driver for this ADSL modem yet ?
>I knew a page ... but it isn't there anymore ... it was from Johan Verrept.
>He was working on a driver ...
>
I think he ran into problems with Alcatel. Don't know where the page
went or whether he gave up. AFAIK, that was the only project.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Subject: Re: additional hardware for performance gain
Date: 19 Jan 2001 22:48:31 GMT
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:15:23, "Kirk R. Wythers"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where would I see the biggest gain in performance on a workstation with
> a 500 mHz xeon, 256 megs ram, and 2 7200 rpm scssi disks? Adding a
> second cpu, or adding another 256 megs of ram? My biggest complaint is
> how a large copy job (cp -a) bogs down the whole system. Perhaps there
> isn't much that can be done about this. If so I'd like to hear those
> thoughts as well.
You need to measure where your bottleneck is before you can find out
how to fix it. More memory is only going to help you if you are
hitting the swap partition. A faster cpu is only going to help if
you're running at >90% (or so) busy. I'm just running a cp -a on a
directory with ~2GB in it and my system is not even noticing it's
happening, cpu running at 5-10% busy (a Celeron 300A at 464MHz). If
yours is at a huge percentage busy when just running a cp then it
might be that your SCSI controller needs changing... maybe it's an ISA
bus one or one that doesn't have good drivers.
Measure where your bottleneck is and then you'll know what to change
to fix it.
--
Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: "Jon Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 3Com 10/100 card only running 10Mbps
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:08:24 GMT
I have the card working fine at 10Mbps, but I can't get it to switch to
100Mbps. I have tried numerous CAT5 certified cables, but to no avail. The
driver that I am using is the 3C574_CS, so is there some way to force it. I
have only found how to set the mode to either half/full duplex.
Thanks,
Jon Small
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:26:12 GMT
On 19 Jan 2001 02:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
wrote:
>You gets what you pays for, at least when it comes to hardware. Is it
>more important for you to have 10 more FPS in Quake3, or a fast and
>reliable backup system? Only you can decide.
The later. My ISA video card is till working fine.
> The latest versions of cdrecord support BurnProof, and
>I very much doubt that Joerg S. signed an NDA.
Thanks.
> If you're not going to be burning many CDs and you can live
>with a slower burn speed, get to pricewatch.com and find a 4x IDE burner
>from the middle of the list. If you're going to be burning tons of CDs
>and you want it to be fast and ultra-reliable, go to the same place and
>pick out an 8x SCSI model from the middle of the list.
I can live with slower speed. I favor ultra-reliable, and I think
Burn Proof is a good thing. I'd like a new Plexwriter 6/5/16s for
$150. ;) So which 8x SCSI model would you recommend as a best buy?
>FWIW, my cheap IDE 6x unit and its previous cheap IDE 4x unit have
>burned exactly 3 coasters. One from the (only) time I used Win98 to
>burn anything, one instance of me not nohup-ing the cdrecord process
>before killing the xterm, and one bad blank.
Yes, I think most coasters are due to bad media and/or user error. I
would like the unit to work reliably in W98 and perhaps other systems
as well.
Alan Jones
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: Re: CD-RW info and recommemdations needed
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:26:12 GMT
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:10:59 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>You gets what you pays for, at least when it comes to hardware. Is it
>>more important for you to have 10 more FPS in Quake3, or a fast and
>>reliable backup system? Only you can decide.
>
> I don't think this is what is at stake at all actually.
> There is little difference between IDE and SCSI for
> most people and 'fast' may not be that relevant.
Exactly. But price is a very important concern for me.
> OTOH, larger media might be more valueable. In that case
> a MO drive or DVD-RAM might be more appropriate.
Perhaps. The big factor is that Zip disks are too expensive, and CD-R
media is cheap. $300 is getting closer to DVD-RAM territiry, and
eventualy I do plan to get a DVD drive. However, the CD format is
essentialy a standard. Can I download a newer Linux distribution ISO
image, put it on a DVD-RAM disk, and install at all, or as easily as
with a CD-RW?
> Then again, a jukebox burner of some kind (if they make such a
> beast) might make more sense. Or, 3 2x burners rather than one
> faster burner might make sense (in lieu of a stacker).
Not likely. Do yo need to burn a music CD on one drive, while doing a
system backup on the other? Do you need to burn 3 CDs unattended
while you eat dinner? Do you envision a striping system where you
might copy a DVD video to a set of CD-R drives?
Alan Jones
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:40:50 -0600
Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
>
> Anyhow. The latest ide patch from Hedrick at
> ftp://zeus.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18 dated
> 12/22 (I should have looked sooner) works perfectly.
>
I hope you mean 12/21, that's the latest one I see there, in any case 12/21
is the one that is working well for me.
Contrary to the my interpretation of alot of info out there, LILO will boot
systems on hde. My boot record resides on hda, but EVERYTHING else is on
hde and it is working great. I just created partitions, formatted, copied
from hdb. Changed partition pointers in fstab and lilo.conf and it's off.
I've spent more time reading doc's and biting my fingernails than actually
having problems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Mitton)
Subject: Linux Sound Systems Overview?!?!?!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:52:09 GMT
[I am re-posting this as I couldn't find it in DejaNews today when I
tried to check on followups! Sorry if it is duplicated!]
Does anyone know of any documentation which describes the various
types of sound systems for Linux and how they inter-operate?
I have read the Sound and Sound-Playing how-to's and that is not what
I'm asking about.
I don't have all the information so I may not use the correct
terminology BUT here is a description of what I'm trying to resolve.
Different Linux sound applications and utilities seem to talk to the
sound hardware in different ways that are not always mutually
compliant. So far I have un-officially identified the following sound
systems:
1) Linux Native
2) New Linux Native
3) OSS
4) ALSA (?)
5) ESD
The "Linux Native" system worked fine with my old Sound Blaster Pro.
It utilized /dev/audio and /dev/sndstat and all the programs I wanted
to use lived comfortably with it.
My new system uses an integrated C-Media CMI8738 on a PCChips M599LMR
mother board. Both the add-on driver (for older kernel versions) and
the current included driver (cmpci.o) seem NOT to use the traditional
/dev/audio and /dev/sndstat BUT the /dev/dsp interface. This causes a
lot of trouble with some applications, and some I have not been able
to get working at all.
I don't understand how the OSS, ALSA(?) and ESD systems fit into the
picture but it has been causing me a lot of trouble lately. I tried
to get XMMS running on my system BUT it will not play a peep unless I
select the ESD option and load esd ... but then nothing else works
while I do this. The Enlightenment Sound Daemon (ESD) loads, plays a
scale of notes and xmms works PERFECTLY. I have to unload ESD before
speak freely or realplayer or any other of my "native" applications
will work.
Any way, I am looking to collect enough information to try and get
sound working co-operatively on my system and have access to all the
applications I am looking for.
Thanks in advance for any comments, pointers and insight you can
supply to this effort.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: es1370 - where is the sequencer/midi driver ?
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:54:28 GMT
Hello,
I have an es1370-based Ensoniq PCI sound card (actually made by Ensoniq,
not the PCI128 model). It is supposed to support midi in/out and full
duplex. No on-board synth, though. Linux (Debian) provides a driver for
that device - es1370.o. I installed that, as well as the sound.o.
Soundcore.o is loaded based on dependencies.
When I try 'cat /dev/sndstat', it says that none of the available
devices is present : synth, sequencer, midi - nothing.
I understand the lack of synth - the board cannot do that. But shouldn't
there be a device (in /dev) for midi in/out at least ? Or do I have to
connect something MIDI-capable to my soundcard to be able to see
anything like this ?
I would appreciate your help on this subject.
Regards,
Martin
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From: "Jason Ng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:02:10 +0800
Hi,
I would like to know if I can use RAID 0 for my machine in Linux.
My controller is HPT370. When I boot Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD ROM, it does
detect my chipset but it fails to detect my Windows 2000 partition which is
using RAID 0.
Can anyone kindly help me solve the problem?
Thanks.
Regards,
Jason
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My Modem :(
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:06:26 -0500
Hi Everyone
I just change few thing in my linux dial up network.
One was I change /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS1 But it keep saying Modem
instinalising. And does nothing.....
I think I need to change my modem irq how do i do that?
Please let me know. Thanks..
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From: Noble Pepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CMD PCI-0649 ATA/100
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 18:10:42 -0600
Mike Edwards wrote:
<snip>
> OK, I just did some digging and see that there are some patches at
> www.linux-ide.org, but are they what I really need (little or no doc on
> that site).
>
> Thanks!
> Mike
I have a Promise ATA/100 working great so far with patches from
www.kernel.org, patch is dated 12/21
make xconfig has an entry for CMD64X chipset support, but the help says
CMD643, CMD 646, CMD648. it might work with the 649, might destroy your box
ruin your marriage, make your dog s**t in your slippers who knows?
If you want to use the patch above you'll have to patch 2.216 to 2.2.17 to
2.2.18 then apply the ide patch. It's a lot smoother than it sounds.
Here's some sources of info
Good links:
http://sweb.uky.edu/~mabran3/linux/hpt/
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/udma66.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html
http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~b6506063/hpt366/
http://www.linux-ide.org/ultra100.html
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~vibber/linux/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Peters)
Subject: Linux compatible sheetfeed scanner?
Date: 20 Jan 2001 00:08:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm looking for a small sheetfeed scanner (similar to the Visioneer
PaperPort Strobe Pro that will work with linux. I've looked through
the various SANE lists but so far have been unable to find one that is
sheet fed rather than flatbed.
The Visioneer scanner comes with fairly simple Windows software that
allows one to quickly scan, sort and store business documents (letters,
faxes and the like) to save clutter and file cabinent space. For this
application scanner quality is a distinct secondary to speed and a small
desktop footprint (the Strobe Pro is about 10" by 3" and fits nicely
between the keyboard and monitor).
Either parallel or USB would be great. If, by any chance, someone knows
of drivers for the visioneer (either flavor) that would be great too,
but I'm not holding my breath.
Any recommendations?
--
Frank Peters - Mississippi State University
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Installing linux 6.1
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:05:20 GMT
Marty friedman wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am trying to install linux 6.1 with the following problems:
> I have a multiple partitions(5,6,5 gigs) and a last one (2 gigs) for
> linux.However when it comes to partitioning the HD with linux, i get "the
> partition is too big" for the / mounting point.Same applies for /boot mount
> point.
>
> Any help anyone?
If the partitions you mention are DOS/windoz partitions then you need to
delete them or format them to ext2 format. You can make the linux
partitions during the installation.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.004% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: "jon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV Out and MPG Out
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:44:58 GMT
I'm looking to build a machine for Mpeg playback.
Seeking recomendations on hardware and packages that give me Mpeg output
(TV) and genral TV Output (X or VGA Type).
Also anyone know of any way of doing reasonable quality Mpeg1 video capture
other than use a brooktree chip and post processing (IE single pass capture
hardware)
Any ideas.... thanks :-)
Jon
--
Jons Person web-pages, not good - but its a start ......
http://www.jonshouse.co.uk
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:52:04 -0500
Noble Pepper wrote:
>
> Rinaldi J. Montessi wrote:
> >
> > Anyhow. The latest ide patch from Hedrick at
> > ftp://zeus.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18 dated
> > 12/22 (I should have looked sooner) works perfectly.
> >
> I hope you mean 12/21, that's the latest one I see there, in any case 12/21
> is the one that is working well for me.
You are correct, sir.
> Contrary to the my interpretation of alot of info out there, LILO will boot
> systems on hde. My boot record resides on hda, but EVERYTHING else is on
> hde and it is working great. I just created partitions, formatted, copied
> from hdb. Changed partition pointers in fstab and lilo.conf and it's off.
>
> I've spent more time reading doc's and biting my fingernails than actually
> having problems.
I believe that is normal behavior :-)
--
Rinaldi]$
"Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Mitton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Laptops
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:56:07 GMT
Over Christmas I picked up a low end IBM ThinkPad i1210. It is a
500Mhz Celeron, 32Meg RAM, 6Gig HD and I installed Mandrake 7.2 on it.
First I installed the incomplete "MacMillian" version and I got a
warning about my "system resources being low" and that I should reboot
and select the text install. I then acquired a memory upgrade to
96Meg and the full download version of Mandrake 7.2.
Except for the WinModem the installation went well. I have added a
PCMCIA Network and Modem card(s) and they were detected and configured
with no problem.
I had trouble with the graphics chip until I updated to the XFree86-4
v4.02 version. Then, I found out there seems to be a problem with
XConfigurator. It only selects the VGA driver for this video chip
set. If I boot with the FrameBuffer LILO option and manually edit the
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file from the "vga" driver to the "fbdev" driver
and it is working perfectly. All told I have a great working system
except for the one growing pain.
[In the interim I had used the new "siliconmotion" driver that was in
the XFree86-4 V4.02 ... again manual editting of the XF86Config-4 file
was required. I didn't really care for it much as when I switched
from the text to the GUI the screen would be scrambled for several
seconds before it straightened out. I've found I really like the
FBDEV options as my text console is running at 800x600 and it is much
better than the standare 80x43.]
Any way, good luck in your decision.
Alain Laederach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Hi Everyone,
>
>Has anyone had a good experience installing a Dual boot system on a
>recent laptop? Are there any laptop models to be avoided at all cost? As
>far as I understand it, there are two issues, when setting up such a
>system. A, how will the recovery CD deal with the partitioning, and B,
>will I be able to find a video driver for my video card?
>
>Finally, I would like to know if any of you would suggest installing NT
>over Windows 2000, or windows 98, on the windows partition?
>
>
>Thanks for any help,
>
>Alain Laederach
>
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>Hi Everyone,
><p>Has anyone had a good experience installing a Dual boot system on a
>recent laptop? Are there any laptop models to be avoided at all cost? As
>far as I understand it, there are two issues, when setting up such
>a system. A, how will the recovery CD deal with the partitioning, and B,
>will I be able to find a video driver for my video card?
><p>Finally, I would like to know if any of you would suggest installing
>NT over Windows 2000, or windows 98, on the windows partition?
><br>
><p>Thanks for any help,
><p>Alain Laederach
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From: Mike Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3Com 10/100 card only running 10Mbps
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 17:56:36 -0800
what is at the other end of the ethernet cable? Your ethernet card is probably
auto-negotiating and picking 10 Mbps because the other end talks 10 Mbps. For
example when I first hooked up my PC to a hub that connected to my DSL router
the PC talked 10 Mbps because the DSL router only had a 10 Mbps card in it. I
later built out my network with a 100 Mbps etherswitch + other machines, and
then the PC was able to talk 100 Mbps to the switch and other 100 Mbps machines
connected to the switch
- Mike
Jon Small wrote:
> I have the card working fine at 10Mbps, but I can't get it to switch to
> 100Mbps. I have tried numerous CAT5 certified cables, but to no avail. The
> driver that I am using is the 3C574_CS, so is there some way to force it. I
> have only found how to set the mode to either half/full duplex.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon Small
--
schwartz-at-CodeOnTheRoad.com
(don't forget to fix the above spam-guarded email address)
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: 2.4 module compile RH7
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:58:30 GMT
Jeff Moore wrote:
> Now I am compiling the 2.4 kernel and modules and it compiles the kernel
> but not the modules.
> installed the updates for gcc 2.96, glibc 2.2 as per redhat
> downloaded kernel source 2.4 from kernel.org and installed by directions
> there
Did you update modutils? The old modutils won't work with 2.4 kernel,
as the modules tree layout is different. See Documentation/Changes
for details.
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 21:00:48 -0500
Adam Becker wrote:
>
> > <snip>
> >
> > I've had the exact same thing happen with a dual celeron abit bp6 with
> > the original gentus linux and anything I've compiled since. Short
> > answer is hpt 366 is garbage. Get an ata pci card. Not a lockup since
> > I installed it. I think it was freezing during the slocate (updatedb)
> > cron job. That's the only rigorous thing that happens after I log off.
> >
> > I was (am?) using the RU BIOS and have been all along. I did not bother
> > testing the hpt controller in dma33 mode. You can probably buy a
> > Promise card for $30 - 40.00. I notice Abit stopped using the hpt
> > controller in recent releases.
> >
> > --
> > Rinaldi]$
> > "Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
> > glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
>
> I added the Promise card, but the system still finds the hpt366 as ide2&3
> how can I disable it so the system will find the new Promise card??
> I tried disabling Ultrdma in bios, no luck.
> I tried ide2=0x9400,0x9802 ide3=0x9c00,0xa002 (from /proc/pci for Promise
> card), it still finds ide2&3 on the hpt366.
> I tried ide4&5 on same address, no luck. Is Linux limited to ide0-3?
Also emailed-----------
Did you recompile your kernel with the Promise ATA 100 support?
Let's take it from the top. What kernel are you using and how did you
install it; rpm, *.tar.gz/bz2? Do you have the source? You composed
this using MS, does Winblows see the Promise card? Do you know how to
patch a kernel?
I don't believe the hpt 366 can be disabled without altering the BIOS.
I put support for both hpt and Promise in my current kernel. I still
get the blue Highpoint screen at boot, but have nothing attached. I may
hook a couple of udma 33's to it and do some massive data transfers and
diff the files. If it's ok, that's good.
One request: I'll gladly give you all the help you need on this, but
please bottom post (as you did here) your replies and don't <snip> any
of the content. It will save me from having to refer to previous posts
for information.
The law of Linux: learn what you don't know, teach what you do.
--
Rinaldi]$
"Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: es1370 - where is the sequencer/midi driver ?
Date: 20 Jan 2001 02:07:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:54:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I have an es1370-based Ensoniq PCI sound card (actually made by Ensoniq,
>not the PCI128 model). It is supposed to support midi in/out and full
>duplex. No on-board synth, though. Linux (Debian) provides a driver for
>that device - es1370.o. I installed that, as well as the sound.o.
>Soundcore.o is loaded based on dependencies.
>
>When I try 'cat /dev/sndstat', it says that none of the available
>devices is present : synth, sequencer, midi - nothing.
The ES1370 and 1371 do not have a /dev/sndstat , even if the cards are
working perfectly. This was apparently the result of some funkiness at
the driver level and/or small incompatabilities between the drivers for
the cards and the rest of the cards that support the kernel's generic
OSS sound model. What can you, eh? (No, I'm not going to rewrite the
modules. Driver programming is not my bag of tea.)
>I understand the lack of synth - the board cannot do that. But shouldn't
>there be a device (in /dev) for midi in/out at least ?
MIDI out for the 1371 (and possibly the 1370) is done in software. I
think you'll want to look for "timidity" on http://freshmeat.net/ .
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Setting up my CDWriter
Date: 20 Jan 2001 02:07:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001 20:11:45 GMT, Karel Venken staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>>>I have the same problem. My HP8250i is connected to /dev/hdc. I have
>> Boot the system with "hdc=ide-scsi" as a kernel command-line
>> parameter to prevent the ide-cd module from seeing the CD-RW.
>I have the impression that loadlin (boot from within dos) does not
>accept this parameter. I can not use Lilo becasue my linux partitions
>are after 1024. Can I do this by manually loading the modules after
>boot, or is it then already to late and the CD-writer already assigned
>to the ide?
"hdc=ide-scsi" is just a normal parameter--why wouldn't LOADLIN accept
it? The syntax I use in my /etc/lilo.conf is like so:
append "hdc=ide-scsi"
but I don't know what the LOADLIN equivalent would be since I've never
had to use it. FWIW, LILO has been able to boot Linux partitions
residing on "high" cylinders for a few months now. Or try grub, which
can also do that. Latest versions of both are at http://freshmeat.net/
>>Also, cdrecord must execute as root.
>OK, I did.
And are you still getting the same errors?
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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