Linux-Hardware Digest #287, Volume #14 Fri, 2 Feb 01 05:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2?? ("songbird")
Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2?? (MCheu)
ProAudio Sound on Notebook (MCheu)
[drm:drm_release] *ERROR* (Dirk Engel)
Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!! ("Jeffrey S. Mulliken")
Re: video *capture* card advice? (Tim)
what is amodem AMR ("Davide")
Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash (Oz Dror)
Re: Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash (Oz Dror)
Cluster SIZE for ext2... ("Radix")
Re: Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!! ("Tauno Voipio")
Help: Emerson UPS Accupower Gold ("RvdB")
Re: NE 2000 Compatible card problems. (Tim Moore)
sound chip under 2.4.0 (Tsoi Kuen Hung)
Red Hat & i815e (Andrey)
Re: 755 thinkpad & linux. (Paul Rubin)
Re: cdrecorder goldstar problem (gianni)
Re: ASUS Support (Gunther Piez)
NETWORK PROBLEM ("Gehendra Acharya")
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From: "songbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2??
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:37:20 -0500
"Bege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how do I get my soundcard TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice to work i Redhat
> 6.2? sndconfig says it's not supported. Where do I get drivers?
last site i knew of for drivers was linux.aureal.com, but as i
just went to find the driver it's not up. so i went looking (at
freshmeat.net (and typed aureal in the search box).
it looks like this might work, but i have no idea if it will in fact
work for you.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal
and this is the original drivers that used to be at linux.aureal.com,
but i don't know how stable they are.
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/drivers/cards/sound/drivers/au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz
good luck, (i don't run Redhat and i've not tried to mess with either
of these on my system, yet)
songbird
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From: MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2??
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:30:10 -0500
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:30:01 +0100, "Bege"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>how do I get my soundcard TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice to work i Redhat
>6.2? sndconfig says it's not supported. Where do I get drivers?
>
Grab the latest Aureal driver from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal
I think the latest one is 1.1.1 (maybe 1.1.2?)
just read the readme file first though, as you have to select the make
switch differently depending on which aureal chipset you have (Not
sure which one is in the Montego...)
You'll need OSS driver support in the kernel (which assuming you
didn't modify or change the one that came with RH6.2, it should be).
You won't need to reboot, it should just work after install if it
works at all. I've noticed that it sometimes spews an error message
after the install, but the sound works anyways, so test it with
something like XMMS first before thinking the install went bad.
Also, there's not supposed to be any MIDI support in the driver. I
say supposed, because some people have reported that they've gotten it
working (I'm not one of them though).
MCheu
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From: MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc
Subject: ProAudio Sound on Notebook
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:57:51 -0500
Anyone know what chipset the ProAudio Sound on a Compaq 1200XL-304
notebook uses?
They call it the "JBL Pro Audio Bass Reflex", but unfortunately, it
seems that their customer support people don't have any idea what this
is. The response was that this was a "PCI sound subsystem", which
doesn't tell me much. I tried doing a web search, and found some
info, but it seems that they may have used different chipsets going
under the name "ProAudio Sound Bass Reflex" in earlier models.
ESS1869
ESS Solo 1
VIA 686
"PCI sound blaster Pro Compatible"
Not certain, but that last one might apply to all 3 since they all
have some sort of sb emulation ability. So it seems that it might be
any of these or something totally different.
If anyone here has a 304 and has installed Linux on it, please let me
know what audio chipset you set it up as.
Thanks
MCheu
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From: Dirk Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: [drm:drm_release] *ERROR*
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:12:55 +0100
Hello,
my Rage 128 stops working under OpenGL after a few seconds (i.e.
xlock-mesa -mode gears). In xterm I get "Error: Rage 128 timed out ...
exiting".
Syslog: "Kernel: [drm:drm_release] *ERROR* Process 788 dead, freeing
lock for context 3"
Does anyone know what to do?
Hardware: ATI Rage 128 AGP, AMD K6-2, Chipset ALI M1541
Kernel : 2.2.18 and 2.4.1 tested with X 4.0.2
Regards,
Dirk
--
Dirk Engel
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jeffrey S. Mulliken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.ppp,linux.dev.ppp,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux
Subject: Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 07:20:51 GMT
My company is really having a serious problem, and I'm pleading for
anyone who can, to help us.
Here's the situation:
At the Corporate H.Q.:
RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machine as a gateway / VPN (via PPTP)
server
RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machine serving NIS and Sendmail
services
A Sun Ultra 2 as a file server, serving NFS mounts on Solaris
2.6
A couple of Sun Enterprise 3000's used as compilers and
ClearCase view servers.
At the Developers Homes:
RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machines running PPTP VPN tunnels
Linksys 4 port Router/hub's
Win9X or 2K machines also behind the Linksys boxes
Throug a variety of ISP's to the net...i.e. @home/Sprint
DSL/PacBell DSL...etc.
Everyone is able to boot their Linux machines up successfully, and
the PPTP sessions get established,NIS connects to the remote domain, and
NFS mounts happen. All seem ok, until any large amount of data is moved
via the NFS mounts. Performance is VERY slow. Even if NFS mounts are
not used, at random intervals, the PPTP connection will just drop,
causing the NIS domain to lose it's bind. The recovery is to init 1,
and then init 5.
The Linksys boxes have a limitation that restricts you to only one
VPN connection through the router, so the remote Windoze machines can't
be VPN'ed in while the Linux boxes are, but with the Linux box down,
they can establish VPN with their Windoze machine, but it will also lose
it's connection after some period. We have tried eliminating the
Linksys boxes from the equation, and it does not seem to buy us much, if
any, improvement. We don't have the VPN with IPMasq. patch on the
kernels anywhere, because we aren't doing the IPMasq. stuff.
Any 'gurus' out there who have any ideas as to what the problem
might be here?
Help us Obiewan Kenobe, you're our only hope!
Jeff Mulliken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Feel free to email me your response
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video *capture* card advice?
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 02:26:11 -0500
Hi Mike,
Mike Edwards wrote:
>
> I have never used a video capture card on any platform, but since we
> recently purchased a camcorder, I thought it might be interesting to
> hook it up to my Linux box. For that , I will need a video capture
> card. Right, then on to my questions:
>
> Do some video cards double as capture cards?
>
> What do you guys recommend for use with Linux?
>
> I should add that, while I am willing to spend as much as US$200, I'd
> like to keep it under $150.
I paid about US$80 for a Pinnacle PCTV card at a local computer show.
Works great!
Any card with the Brooktree 848/878 chipset will work fine. Just make
sure your CPU is quick enough. My poor old 200MMX creates film clips
that look like old-time silent films! :-)
Good Luck,
Tim
--
Timothy J. Schutte
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: "Davide" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what is amodem AMR
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 08:29:16 +0100
I have "Internal Lucent Soft Modem AMR 56 K V.90" in my notebooks travel
mate 518te but i didn't to view the modem is because the modem is AMR
(audio/Modem Raiser) i must to delete the audio module in the kernel.
I have the kernel 2.4.0
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From: Oz Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:00:10 -0800
I have an ABIT BP6 dual celeron 433Mhz.
384MB RAM
3950U2B SCSI controller. with 2 18 GB WD disk (lvd) and 9.2 IBM (lvd)
I have installed RH 7.0 with 2.2.18 SMP kernel.
the system was working fine for 1 week non stop.
then today it crashed. twice within 2 hours. there was no warning
message. The
system was essentially idle. no large jobs where running.
Is there a way to find out why s system that was essentially stable
crashes with no
warring. How can I debug that.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Oz Dror ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Please Also reply by email ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Oz Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 00:06:06 -0800
I forgot to mention, but when the system crashes it turns it self off.
The ACPI is not enabled.
could this be a power supply problem?
or motherboard problem?
how can linux help in debugging it.
-Oz
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From: "Radix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cluster SIZE for ext2...
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 04:40:19 -0330
Hi guys:
Does anyone know the cluster size for the ext2 filesystem...??? Does it
depend on the size of the partition that is being used? For instance, 8GB
partitions under FAT32 use 4KB clusters. Anything greater than an 8GB
partition under FAT32 would use 16KB or greater... This all equals a great
drive waste...
Someone said that you could select your own partition size in linux! Is
this true? If so, how???
Thanks,
Trevor...
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.ppp,linux.dev.ppp,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!!
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:57:21 GMT
"Jeffrey S. Mulliken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My company is really having a serious problem, and I'm pleading for
> anyone who can, to help us.
>
> Here's the situation:
>
> At the Corporate H.Q.:
>
> RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machine as a gateway / VPN (via PPTP)
>
> server
> RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machine serving NIS and Sendmail
> services
> A Sun Ultra 2 as a file server, serving NFS mounts on Solaris
> 2.6
> A couple of Sun Enterprise 3000's used as compilers and
> ClearCase view servers.
>
> At the Developers Homes:
>
> RedHat Linux 2.2.17 Kernel machines running PPTP VPN tunnels
> Linksys 4 port Router/hub's
> Win9X or 2K machines also behind the Linksys boxes
> Throug a variety of ISP's to the net...i.e. @home/Sprint
> DSL/PacBell DSL...etc.
>
> Everyone is able to boot their Linux machines up successfully, and
> the PPTP sessions get established,NIS connects to the remote domain, and
>
> NFS mounts happen. All seem ok, until any large amount of data is moved
>
> via the NFS mounts. Performance is VERY slow. Even if NFS mounts are
> not used, at random intervals, the PPTP connection will just drop,
> causing the NIS domain to lose it's bind. The recovery is to init 1,
> and then init 5.
>
> The Linksys boxes have a limitation that restricts you to only one
> VPN connection through the router, so the remote Windoze machines can't
> be VPN'ed in while the Linux boxes are, but with the Linux box down,
> they can establish VPN with their Windoze machine, but it will also lose
>
> it's connection after some period. We have tried eliminating the
> Linksys boxes from the equation, and it does not seem to buy us much, if
>
> any, improvement. We don't have the VPN with IPMasq. patch on the
> kernels anywhere, because we aren't doing the IPMasq. stuff.
>
> Any 'gurus' out there who have any ideas as to what the problem
> might be here?
>
> Help us Obiewan Kenobe, you're our only hope!
>
> Jeff Mulliken
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Feel free to email me your response
Could you think of changing it to using CIPE instead of PPTP?
The Linux machines of each end of the connection could be used as routers
for the internal IP traffic, so the rest of the networks is transparent. It
can also double as a IP-Masquerade router to the Internet at the same time.
CIPE uses one UDP port / connected client, it is pretty easy to firewall.
I have some of these installations running. The only problem seen so far is
actually a fault in the XDMCP protocol: it is not possible to log in as a
XDM session from one Linux router to the other Linux router - other internal
network combinations are OK. The reason is that the payload in the XDMCP
protocol carries the IP addresses and it misleads the X client to select
wrong IP address when starting the session.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: "RvdB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Emerson UPS Accupower Gold
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 10:16:55 +0100
Hello,
Problem: I am not able to find the correct setting in powerd.conf for my
Emerson Accupower Gold (2100VA) UPS.
The UPS is connected to the linux box via a 25-pin serial cable. When I tell
powerd.conf to listen to /dev/ttyS0 it does always a shutdown, no matter
what to 'monitor' and what is 'whenfail'. Who can help with the correct
settings???
Thanks in advance,
Rolf.
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NE 2000 Compatible card problems.
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:32:18 GMT
> Recently I had to replace the NE 2000 compatible
> ISA card with another due to the fact that the original ISA card
> belonged to
> my room mate. I have since bought another card but cannot get the OS to
> recognize that the card is connected.
isapnp(8)
pnpdump(8)
Note the card that shows up via isapnp is PnP. The other has jumpers
and so does not need isapnp configuration.
$ cat /etc/conf.modules
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x240,0x340 irq=3,11
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ne 5952 2 (autoclean)
8390 6340 0 (autoclean) [ne]
$ cat /proc/interrupts
...
3: 21633139 XT-PIC NE2000
...
11: 22680288 XT-PIC NE2000
$ cat /proc/ioports
...
0240-025f : NE2000
...
0340-035f : NE2000
...
$ cat /etc/isapnp.conf
# $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.18 1999/02/14 22:47:18 fox Exp $
# Trying port address 0203
# Board 1 has serial identifier 3c 6c f7 a0 ba 01 22 8b 11
(DEBUG)
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL))
# Card 1: (serial identifier 3c 6c f7 a0 ba 01 22 8b 11)
# Vendor Id DLK2201, Serial Number 1828167866, checksum 0x3C.
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0
# ANSI string -->D-Link DE-220P PnP ISA Card<--
#
# Logical device id DLK2201
# Device support I/O range check register
# Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3e
#
# Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
# Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be
changed if required
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE DLK2201/1828167866 (LD 0
# Compatible device id PNP80d6
# Logical device decodes 10 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x0240
# Maximum IO base address 0x0380
# IO base alignment 32 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 32
(IO 0 (SIZE 32) (BASE 0x0240) (CHECK))
# IRQ 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 15.
# High true, edge sensitive interrupt
(INT 0 (IRQ 3 (MODE +E)))
(NAME "DLK2201/1828167866[0]{D-Link DE-220P PnP ISA Card}")
(ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
# Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state
(WAITFORKEY)
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tsoi Kuen Hung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound chip under 2.4.0
Date: 2 Feb 2001 09:22:34 GMT
Hi,
I cannot listen to my MP3's since I upgraded to
kernel 2.4.0. It works fine under old 2.2.x but
just noise under the new one. The booting message
said the new modules have been loaded correctly
and I can even listen to the sound effects of
some games (not PC speakers of coz). FreeAmp and
mpg123 are both failed. My configurations are
listed below:
RedHat 7.0 + kernel 2.4.0 + glibc2.2 + CS423X
on board sound for Dell GXa
when I run 'cat /dev/sndstat' it report no such
device. What's wrong with my mahine? Thanks in
in advance!
----Brittle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrey)
Subject: Red Hat & i815e
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:45:26 GMT
Hello !
I have a problem. I can't start HDD in ATA100 mode on the i815e MB. Can you
help me ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Paul Rubin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 755 thinkpad & linux.
Date: 02 Feb 2001 01:53:56 -0800
If it has the mwave modem/sound card, there's some awful way to get
it working but it involved downloading special binary drivers to it
under msdos before booting linux. Check the linux laptops page
(web search for that).
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From: gianni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cdrecorder goldstar problem
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:58:38 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
> 8x for audio = 1376 K/sec (8*172) whereas data transfers only 1200K/sec.
> I've had some problems trying to burn audio CDs at the highest speed my
> burner will handle (6x) which went away when I dropped to 4x. If your
> burner supports 6x for the media you're trying to burn on, try that
> first.[0] I've also had problems with really cheap CD-Rs; those often
> crapped out before 100M got written.
>
> [0] Careful; a few drives will say things like "4x CD-R, 1/2/4x CD-RW"
> and they mean it. Trying speed=2 with a CD-R in the drive BSOD'ed Doze
> and caused a flood of errors on Linux.
I try with speed=2 but it's the same! I think that is a hardware problem!
gianni
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From: Gunther Piez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS Support
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 11:03:59 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the availability of Linux drivers for ASUS video cards
> and motherboards?
since all of the newer asus video cards are nvidia based, you will find
the linux drivers at www.nvidia.com. the motherboards are generally
supported by the kernel (you will need a 2.4.1 for the newer mobos), for
hardware monitoring you might try lmsensors, it works for most of the
boards but the server-works chipset based ones (yet).
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
system engineer innominate AG
the linux architects
tel: +49.30.308806-48 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com
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From: "Gehendra Acharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NETWORK PROBLEM
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:30:16 +0530
Dear Friends,
I got a problem regarding to Network.
I have one computer in dial-up connection. I want to browse internet in
other computers which is connected to the computer having dial-up via
network.
Please suggest me, what should I do.
Please write all the process including ip address.
Thanks
Gehendra Acharya
Nepal
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