Linux-Hardware Digest #807, Volume #14 Mon, 21 May 01 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Which NIC card should I use for router? (nick)
Re: nvidea GeForce DDR ("Holze")
Re: montego II in redhat (Toby Haynes)
Printer Setup Help? ("LRW")
Re: Trouble using CDROM + CDRW in xcdroast ("Wayne Osborn")
Solution to sound playing with half speed on soundblaster16-clone
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL Redhat 7.1 (Jason Hudson)
Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, Princeton Graphics Ultra 75 - flickering
(heló)
Multiple soundcards setup (James Thorniley)
/dev/hda17 ... (R S Prigan)
Re: Hauppage WinTV PVR Redhat 7.1 ("John McCabe")
Re: VIA Apollo Southbridge again (Thomas Palm)
Re: dual athlon ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Printer Setup Help? ("LRW")
Re: Why is it so hard to get a parallel port to work? Help! (VolkerApelt)
Re: Printer Setup Help? (Dean Thompson)
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From: nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which NIC card should I use for router?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 23:31:05 +0800
I have a 100-base T internet connection and about 200 users in our local
network .
And I want to use linux with iptabls to forward the packet .
Which NIC card can I use ? Any suggestions ?
Thks in advance .
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From: "Holze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: nvidea GeForce DDR
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:48:34 +0200
If you want openGL support take a look on www.nvidia.com . There you'll get
the latest ones and an install instruction
regards
Holze
Rob George schrieb in Nachricht ...
>Is there a driver for this video card?
>
>
>
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: montego II in redhat
Date: 21 May 2001 12:00:16 -0400
On 20 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> im curious, has anyone actually gotten a turtle beach montego
> II sound card to work in redhat linux 7.1? im wondering if i
> should put anymore time into figuring this out, or just drop
> $15 for one that will work easly..
Go to http://aureal.sourceforge.net and get the latest version of the drivers -
1.1.2 I think. The Turtle Beach Montego II has an au8830 chipset, so just
follow the instructions. The hardware MIDI synth won't work, and there is no
hardware-accelerated 3D audio because Aureal never released the API before they
went bankrupt and Creative now holds the rights. OpenAL works fine with this
driver, so you can still have 3D sound but it sucks up more CPU.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Printer Setup Help?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:10:30 -0500
Grrr...
I've tried every option in printtool, and no luck.
I have an HP LaserJet 5 named "ops" on the network. Server 123.45.678.90
hosts all the printers, and the one printer in question's IP is
123.45.678.xx (all IP's changed to protect the innocemt *g*).
I've tried Direct To Port Printer, NT Printer (it's an NT based network,)
and Remote Unix (lpd), and I've filled in all blanks best I know how. No
errors, and all seems to go OK, but no test sends ever go through.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Liam
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble using CDROM + CDRW in xcdroast
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:25:39 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steve Wampler"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jaideep Tibrewala wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>>
>> I have RH7.1, 52x IDE CDROM and a SCSI CDRW. I can mount the IDE CDROM
>> as an ide CDROM and the SCSI CDRW as a SCSI CDRW - no problems with
>> that.
>>
>> However, when I use Xcdroast, it only sees my CDRW. I would like to be
>> able to read from my CDROM and write to my CDRW at the same time. But
>> as of now, I cannot do it since xcdroast will only recognize my CDRW.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to how I can set the CDROM up so that it will appear
>> as a SCSI device along with my original SCSI CDRW?
>
> I'm not sure you need to make it appear as a scsi device... Have you
> tried starting xcdroast *after* putting a cd into the ide drive?
Just a note on that one, I use 0.98a8 and the cd is ejected/reloaded
automatically prior to burning. The software only does this if the disc
is loaded *after* starting the software... It must know this by reading
the drive. Yours does not do this (Jaideep)?
> --
> Steve Wampler- SOLIS Project, National Solar Observatory
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
12:20am up 2 days, 21:41, 2 users, load average: 2.07, 2.09, 2.08
...Not only is UNIX dead, it's starting to smell really bad.
-- Rob Pike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Solution to sound playing with half speed on soundblaster16-clone
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 22:58:09 -0400
Hi, newbie here. I had this weird problem as in the subject line, but
seemed to have solved it. Thought I would share cause there might be more
poor souls like me out there.
The solution turned to be adding an option in the /etc/modules.conf
options sb esstype=1688 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=0 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
The option I added is "esstype=..."
Hope this helps somebody. Visit my linux newbie guide at:
http://sunsite.dk/linux-newbie/
Cheers.
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From: Jason Hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alcatel Speedtouch ADSL Redhat 7.1
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:18:37 -0500
i'm trying right now to get this Speedtouch USB to work. if i do i will
gladly let you know!! i've been trying for two weeks
John McCabe wrote:
> Has anybody got this working?
> I've been getting errors when patching the kernal, something to do with
> usb.. (tried a few days ago but did not keep notes).
> I'm hoping someone has got this setup working successfully and can help
> me..
>
> I've tired the howto on www.linuxdude.co.uk but have not been
> successful..
> /John
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From: heló <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 8MB, Princeton Graphics Ultra 75 - flickering
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:30:06 -0000
Arun Shastry wrote:
>
>
> Just installed RH v7 on my dual PII box. Everything's working fine
except
> the flickering and hazy characters on the monitor issue. When the
> resolution is set to 800 X 600 (16 bits and 32 bits both work), it works
> fine; but at 1024 X 768 onwards the flickering and haziness starts
killing
> me.
>
> Any suggestions ideas???
>
> Thanks,
> Arun
>
>
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From: James Thorniley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple soundcards setup
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 18:32:00 +0100
I am experimentally trying to set up two sound cards in one box. I have an
SB Live! and bought a SoundBlaster 16 PCI as a cheap spare card. Installing
the modules for both does not seem to be a problem (emu10k1 for the Live
ande es1371 for the SB 16 PCI) as no problems appear in /var/log/dmesg:
Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 15:50:39 May 20 2001
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:08.0
emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 4 model 0x20 found, IO at 0xd800-0xd81f, IRQ 11
es1371: version v0.30 time 17:15:08 May 20 2001
es1371: found chip, vendor id 0x1274 device id 0x5880 revision 0x02
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
IRQ routing conflict in pirq table for device 00:0a.0
es1371: found es1371 rev 2 at io 0xe400 irq 9
es1371: features: joystick 0x0
ac97_codec: AC97 codec, id: 0x0000:0x0000 (Unknown)
Now I assume the different soundcards should be represented by
/dev/dsp[1-3]. On my debian system these all appear to exist:
# ls -l /dev/dsp*
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 3 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 19 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 35 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp2
crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 51 Nov 30 15:23 /dev/dsp3
using
cat foo > /dev/dsp1
plays a noise through the SB Live! fine but I cannot get anything similar
to work for the SB 16 using /dev/dsp2 or 3.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
James
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From: R S Prigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: /dev/hda17 ...
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 17:54:47 GMT
How can I get entries for /dev/hda?? > 16.
Is this something that needs to be compiled into kernel, or can i otherwise
make with MAKEDEV.ide or such??
Thanks
RSP
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From: "John McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hauppage WinTV PVR Redhat 7.1
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 19:53:54 +0100
That sort of work, I'm getting a picture of sorts, but the tuner refuses to
respond to anything, tried Zapping and kwintv...
Any more ideas??
"Vladimir Florinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <9e1o8v$8h2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John McCabe"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > right tried it again without the .o for each module but still no joy,
> > there is no i2c.o module just i2c-old.o and i2c-parport.o I've tried
> > both and got the same result, running xawtv I am unable to tune in any
> > channels all that I get is noise in the top 25% of the tv window... /me
> > is going nuts...
> > "John McCabe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> Has anybody managed to get this working? I've tried to use the
> >> suggestions for the WinTV on the Hauppage support site (modprobe
> >> /usr/sbin/bttv.o etc...) but it reports that the modules are not
> >> found...
> >> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.. /John
> >>
> >
> There is no i2c module. There are i2c-core and i2c-algo-bit (these you
> need). The new bttv knows how to load them and probes the tuner type all
> by itself. I recommenmd the following in modules.conf:
>
> alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
> alias char-major-81 bttv
>
> I emphasize: don't load modules by hand.
>
> I use zapping with the new XFree and the quality and performance are
> great.
>
>
>
> --
>
>
> Vladimir
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Palm)
Subject: Re: VIA Apollo Southbridge again
Date: 21 May 2001 12:52:43 -0700
Itīs definitly the board (probalbly southbridge) - I even swapped the
Chassis (Power-Transformator). As I posted I have the problems (with
many small files) on the Onboard-Promise-Controller _and_ the
Onboard-VIA-Controller.
I donīt know if the PCI-Bus is handled by the Southbridge, but I guess
itīs a PCI-problem.
After your installation please do the same tests and let me know...
(I will test the board now under WIN98SE with the new VIA
4in1-Drivers)
C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I noticed your post and the motherboard you are using, I am
> installing my A7V133 this week (hopefuly linux will still
> run). Are you sure that the VIA southbridge is causing you
> problems? Could it be the promise controller and RedHat,
> according to this NG there are some issues. Promise did have
> drivers for Kernel 2.2 but I don't know if they have them
> for 2.4. You might want to check out the Promise web/ftp
> sites.
>
> -Clyde
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I still have problems with the VIA Apollo southbridge (Kernel 2.4.2 (Redhat 7.1)
>and Kernel 2.4.4).
> >
> > In rare circumstances,
> > there ist still file-corruption. I use an ASUS A7V133 (Revision 1.05,
> > including Sound + Raid). My tests:
> >
> > - copying 4 GB of CD-ISO-Files from Promise Secondary Master to Promise
> > Secondary Slave. After that "diff -r srcdir destdir". Test was
> > succesfull, no differs, even after 15 executions
> >
> > - (same test with small files)
> > copying 4GB of small files (50 to 500 KB) from Promise Secondary Master
> > to Promise Secondary Slave.
> > 1st run of "diff -r srcdir destdir" -> no differs
> > 2nd run of "diff -r srcdir destdir" -> 2 files differ
> > 3rd run of "diff -r srcdir destdir" -> 1 file differs
> > 4th run of "diff -r srcdir destdir" -> 1 file differs
> > 5th run of "diff -r srcdir destdir" -> no differs
> >
> > - I d did the same tests on the Promise Primary, same results. Also on
> > the the VIA Secondary but my feeling is that there are even more
> > corruptions.
> >
> > I stripped the machine to the bone, PCI-VGA only, same results.
> >
> > I cannot say for sure, but before I stripped my adaptec SCSI-Card, there
> > may even been "differs" after copying from SCSI-Disk to SCSI-Disk. Off
> > course I thought other parts of my Hardware was flacky (e.g. RAM...),
> > but I swapped everything: RAM from different manufacturers, IDE-Cables,
> > CPU (Duron 900 -> Duron 850), VGA-Card, I tried the most conservative
> > Setting in the A7V-Bios, Bios-Update 1003 -> 1004 -> 1004 beta3, UDMA6->UDMA2 all
>to no avail.
> >
> > Any hints?
> > <TP>
> >
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual athlon
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 13:57:19 -0600
> Alternatively, booting the kernel with "noapic" might work. (or at least
> reverting to a single cpu kernel long enough to get a newer one
> compiled) What kind of errors are you seeing?
Be aware if you're benchmarking that "noapic" will incur a performance
hit. Setting the MPS level to 1.1 instead of 1.4 may also work, and
probably won't incur a performance hit, certainly not as large as turnign
off APIC. As far as I've been able to tell, the only benefit of 1.4 over
1.1 is the ability to use PCI-to-PCI bridges.
steve
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From: "LRW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Printer Setup Help?
Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 15:22:18 -0500
Nev'mind. I figured it out.
(Good to know I'm not a COMPLETE idiot. Only mostly)
=)
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Subject: Re: Why is it so hard to get a parallel port to work? Help!
From: VolkerApelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 May 2001 23:10:27 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwhiteak) writes:
> Hello!
Hi, Jason,
(You probably have already done most of this,
just check the BIOS Part, look at the /proc
files and prepare your kernel)
First, you have a working windows environment.
Write down all the configuration settings from the
"Control Panel / Printer Setup" Dialog.
Port, IRQ, mode settings, SPP/EPP/ECP,....
Is Windows set to Plug&Play ? ( big no no )
Then reboot, go into the BIOS Settings menu
(my motherboard requires a key press <DEL> to do that)
and write down all the settings for the printer .
again Port, IRQ, mode settings, SPP/EPP/ECP,....
Is the BIOS set to "Plug&Play OS"? (big no no , too)
I compiled parport support into the kernel (statically, no modul)
because of robustness. Don't use plug&play, switch of as much as
you can!
/usr/src/linux/.config
... # under "BASICSETTINGS" (re-translated from german GRUNDEINSTELLUNG)
CONFIG_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
# CONFIG_PARPORT_OTHER is not set
...
> - deleted/recreated /dev/lp(x) with mknod -m 666 /dev/lp(x) c 6 1
(you dont need world write/read access, make it -m 660)
So, your dev files now list like ( ignore the date part):
> ls -al /dev/lp*
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 24 2000 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Mar 24 2000 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Mar 24 2000 /dev/lp2
these are the lines from my /var/log/boot.log
<6>parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
<4>parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation.
You can set it to irq mode by echo'ing 7 into /proc/parport/0/irq.
> echo 7 > /proc/parport/0/irq
But do those tests in poll mode first.
>cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 2549719 XT-PIC timer
1: 26976 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
7: 3 XT-PIC parport0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 21159 XT-PIC aic7xxx
11: 96699 XT-PIC eth0
12: 130759 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
NMI: 0
> cat /proc/ioports
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0378-037f : parport0 <<<<<<#######
03c0-03df : vga+
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0778-077a : parport0 <<<<<<#######
e400-e4be : aic7xxx
Do you have a /proc/parport/0/ directory ?
>ls -al /proc/parport/0/
insgesamt 0
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 0 May 21 22:18 .
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root root 0 May 21 22:18 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 21 22:18 autoprobe
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 21 22:18 devices
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 21 22:18 hardware
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 21 22:18 irq
>cd /proc/parport/0/
autoprobe is empty
>cat devices
lp
>cat hardware
base: 0x378
irq: none
dma: none
modes: SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2
>cat irq
none
Later you can try to "cat 7 > irq", which will switch it from poll
to irq driven.
Now, try "cat ..." with all three lpX devices. (instead of
"/etc/profile" use some short ascii file from your host. )
>cat /etc/profile > /dev/lp0
This should print at least on page of data.
Write down which lpX device reacts.
> - LPD and CUPS won't work. In LPD, the job just sits in the queue.
Forget about LPD / CUPS until your parport works with
"cat /etc/profile > /dev/lp0".
They will surely fail, if cat doesn't work.
> - I have hardcoded the kernel startup parameters "parport=auto",
> "parport=0x378,7", "lp=parport0", "lp=0x378" in my GRUB startup and
> all to no avail.
Leave it out. Do not configure it at the boot prompt !
> - When statically defined into the kernel (2.2.19), I have actually
> seen the kernel display that is sees the port (I/O and IRQ), and
> detects my Lexmark Z11 printer. However dmesg doesn't seem to indicate
> the "polling driver" message that I have seen some documentation
> indicate should be there.
Try to compile it statically. you dont't need modules.
! it sees the port ! That is the config to work on !
I don't know about Lexmark Z11, which kinds of printer languages
does it understand ? You will need that later with the
lpr/lpd/ghostscript setup. (like PCL3, postscript, ... )
> - I have tried changine the parallel port parameters in my BIOS. No
> joy.
Set them back to the defaults, see above.
> - Printer works fine under Windows98.
> - I have configured the requisite alias commands in my
> /etc/modules.conf...can't recall exact statements as I'm not in front
> of machine right now.
.. and post some notes which step gives which result.
We will analyze them later.
God look.
Volker
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Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet
Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Printer Setup Help?
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 08:04:08 +1000
Hi Liam,
> I've tried every option in printtool, and no luck.
> I have an HP LaserJet 5 named "ops" on the network. Server 123.45.678.90
> hosts all the printers, and the one printer in question's IP is
> 123.45.678.xx (all IP's changed to protect the innocemt *g*).
> I've tried Direct To Port Printer, NT Printer (it's an NT based network,)
> and Remote Unix (lpd), and I've filled in all blanks best I know how. No
> errors, and all seems to go OK, but no test sends ever go through.
Check to make sure there is no firewall in place which is either absorbing the
packets on the way out or on the way back in again. See whether or not the
printer supports direct TCP/IP printing via the lpd port. Try and telnet to
the printer and see whether or not it responds with its text telnet
configuration screen.
Failing that, try to telnet to the printer on port 515 and see whether or not
it responds. If the connections look like they freeze and never return until
you get a timeout message, the the chances are that there is a firewall in the
way.
Take a look at your ipchains/iptables commands.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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