Linux-Hardware Digest #204, Volume #9 Sun, 17 Jan 99 21:13:45 EST
Contents:
Re: which distribution package do you recommend? ("Eugene")
NDC 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card (Sohoware) (Walter Cardwell)
Re: Which CPU to upgrade to? (Ruffian)
Re: Full ATX Tower (Ruffian)
Where to spend more money to speed up file server? (John Rowe)
Re: PERC RAID Controller - compatible? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: lpr and "unknown printer" problems... (Frank Hahn)
Re: cds seem to burn ok, but no sound! (Frank Hahn)
PCI128 help (Barry Hawkins)
Problem with EEPro/10+ ISA card ("Mengchang Chen")
Sound Blaster Live! (John Borak)
Re: Choosing a HP color printer ("Faust")
Re: Drivers for Riva TNT (Troy Carter)
Terrible partitions problem (Michael Numminen)
Re: Soundblaster AWE32 (Jarmo Maula)
HELP: IBM ISA Token Ring 16/4 ("John P. Arnold")
Who has 2 ISA NE2000 cards? ("Dmitrij Belogaj")
Re: Need for WinModem research? (was: Re: need to take action...) (CP Hennessy)
Re: Winmodem or no?? (David Fox)
Development for Gravis Stinger Serial Gamepad ("Funky Weatherbean")
modem/pppd config-bit 7 set to 0? (joris dallaire)
Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent (Neil Zanella)
Re: Help w/ Audio Excel CMI8330 sound card (JTKirk)
Re: NVidia and XFree86 support (Troy Carter)
Re: Total newbie hardware questions for Linux on 486 (Rob Clark)
K56flex modem problem ("Jukka Ylim�ki")
Re: DLink 530TX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux 5.1 display driver for SiS5598 (KingFisher)
Re: Newbie with card problems (Reinder)
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From: "Eugene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: which distribution package do you recommend?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 18:43:25 -0500
SuSE is arguably the best distro for a newbie -- it's easy to install,
includes nice configuration tools, etc.
I use Debian and it kicks ass. I wouldn't recommend it for a complete newbie
though.
M. Wimmer wrote in message <77tsan$7gd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi!
>
>I collected some general information about linux on the internet, but I
must
>admit, that I am a 100% newbie in this field. I would like to "learn by
>doing" about this powerful operating system.
>Can you recommend a distribution package?
>It should cost less than about 20 Euros.
>It should be run off my second, smaller SCSI - HD (Controller NCR C810 is
>supported).
>It must support my Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM graphics card and Panasonic CR
>581-M CD-ROM drive.
>Maybe there is a package with a very comfortabel user interface?
>I am a medium experienced USER of Windows 95.
>
>Best regards and many thanks for your suggestions
>
>Manfred Wimmer
>Remove "no_garbage_mails_" from the adress to reply by eMail.
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Walter Cardwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NDC 10/100 PCI Ethernet Card (Sohoware)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:46:54 GMT
I recently bought one of those network-in-a-box kits from Sohoware, and
Red Hat 5.2 does not recognize the card vendor, or I think include a
driver for the card.
The only markings on the chips seem to be "MX", the card is called an
"MX-A" under Windows.
Does anyone know of a driver for these cards available for Linux?
Thanks!
Walter Cardwell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ruffian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which CPU to upgrade to?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:49:30 +0000
Rod Roark wrote:
>
> Ruffian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 13 Jan 1999 13:43:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Taylor)
> >wrote:
> >Get an ASUS P2B with a PII350. The board will hold up to 768MB RAM.
> >4 PCI slots, 1 AGP slot, 2 ISA's (I think, I don't pay too much
> >attention to the ISAs). PII350's are getting pretty cheap.
>
> The Celeron 400 is even cheaper, and easily outperforms a P-II/350.
>
> -- Rod
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
> http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Starting at $499
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Rod
I decided to go with a PII350 for some reason ... but actually it was
the board that swayed me - I want the RAM expansion which an Abit board
won't give me...I don't want to play around with overclocking because
I'm
not that experienced and would probably end up with a 3 sided case *g*
I'd go with the PII350 only because my intention is to have it
functional
by the time the PIII's are out - then the PII450's will be a lot
cheaper.
Between these groups, the 3dfx newsgroups, Tomshardware, alt. pc's
homebuilt
and Pricewatch I think I'm hanging over the edge *g* been playing a lot
of
Unreal lately.
see you
Jan
--
reality.sys corrupt; reboot universe [y/n] ?
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From: Ruffian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Full ATX Tower
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:04:39 +0000
Antonio wrote:
>
> Can any one make any comment on which full ATX tower is the best on
> the market. I'm looking for something that is easy to get into,
> upgradable to extra fans, lots of space and a very good power supply.
> Do they make power supplies that go to sleep when no power is being
> drawn?
>
> Thank you
>
> Tony
Hi there
go lurk in the newsgroup for homebuilt pc's ... I think it's
alt.hardware.pc's-homebuilt or something like that, I'm in LINUX
now and that newsgroup is in my Agent in Windows. Do a Dejanews
search for building pc's and you should get the newsgroup name up.
see you
Jan
--
reality.sys corrupt; reboot universe [y/n] ?
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Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.servers,comp.protocols.smb
From: John Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where to spend more money to speed up file server?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:27:02 GMT
I'm looking to set up a linux file server, primarily running samba
2.0, using s/w disk mirroring. My basic server would look like this:
* 2x Pentium II 350 MHz
* 256 MB 100 MHz ECC SDRAM
* 8 x 9 GB IBM Ultrastar 9ES disk drives, mirrored, on 4 ultrawide
scsi channels or 2 ultrawide + 1 ultra2.
* A few 100 BaseT ethernet cards.
Possible upgrades (# means UK pounds, about US$1.6 FWIW):
+#200 400MHz Pentiums
+#400 450MHz Pentiums
+#300 (?) extra 256 MB RAM, 512 MB in total
Disk drive RPM Seek Transfer rate
+#0 Ultrastar 9ES 7200 7.5ms 108.6-171.1
+#520 Ultrastar 9LP 7200 6.5ms 92.2-179.2
+#800 Ultrastar 9LZX 10020 5.6ms 187.2-243.7
So, where, if anywhere, is it worth spending more money? I guess what
I'm asking is, in a linux server running samba and s/w disk mirroring
on multiple ethernet cards, is the limit in the disks, the CPU,
memory, memory bandwidth, or something more nebulous? And is there any
part of the above which is noticably weaker than the rest?
Any other comments?
Thanks a lot
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PERC RAID Controller - compatible?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 23:10:30 GMT
> HOWEVER, there are no drivers currently available for their PERC2 Single
> Channel PCI system (which is faster - you can use 80Mb/sec and much cheaper).
I've just (successfully ;-) installed RH5.2 on a poweredge 2300 w/
a Perc2 (AMI MegaRaid) SingleChannel controller. I had to use the
custom 52boot and 52supp images from AMI:
ftp://ftp.megatrends.com/MegaRaid/Drivers/linux/
//Lasse
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: lpr and "unknown printer" problems...
Date: 17 Jan 1999 19:25:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 16 Jan 1999 23:04:30 GMT, Frank Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 15 Jan 1999 19:43:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Using Debian 2.0 and lpr (why on earth doesn't Debian have an lpr package?)
>>
>>I have a normal /etc/printcap:
>>
>>lp|bj|bjc4400:\
>>
>>:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>>:mx#0:\
>>:lp=/dev/lp1:\
>>:sh:
>>
>Just a question. Is there really a blank line or was this just
>part of your formatting?
>
>
>>(Yes, there should be tabs on those, but lynx is being screwy).
>>
>>I have run lpd from my init scripts.
>>
>>lpc yields no output with the status command.
>>
>>The printer works fine with cat xxx > /dev/lp1 and with ghostscript.
>>
>>Running lpr yields "lpr: lp: unkown printer".
>>
>>Yes, there is a /var/spool/lpd and /var/spool/lpd/lp and lpd.lock in /var/spool/lpd.
>>
>>Any suggestions?
>>
>The only other comment I can make is that when I print I use something
>like this:
>
>lp -P printername filename
>
Maybe that should be lpr. I think the lp command is for Solaris.
Sorry for the confusion.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: cds seem to burn ok, but no sound!
Date: 17 Jan 1999 19:25:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 02:24:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ok I finally got my cd writer working...or so I though. using xcdroast and
>cdrecord, I try to copy an audio cd, and everything seems ok. The tracks come
>up correctly when I try to play it (same # of tracks, track length is ok). In
>fact everything is fine...except I get no sound! I have wasted 2 discs
>already. Do I have to prepare the disc with a filesystem first?
>
When you say no sound, do you mean through your speakers or through
the audio out jack on the CD player? If you are not getting sound
through your speakers, it cound be numerous things. Your sound
module may not be loading if compiled as a module. Sound may
not be compiled in at all.
Do standard music CD's work with your present software and setup?
>Also, is it possible to write wav audio files to a cd (either directly or by
>converting them somehow)?
>
Don't know.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: Barry Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI128 help
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:23:26 -0500
Hello,
I first want to thank everybody who has helped me in the past. I am
using kernel 2.2.0-pre7, but I still can not get me Creative Labs
Soundblaster PCI128 to work. Please tell me what bone headed thing I am
missing?
Thanks,
Barry
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From: "Mengchang Chen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with EEPro/10+ ISA card
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:31:09 -0600
I just got an Intel EEPro/10+ ISA LAN Adpater(Intel 82595FX). It works
under Windows NT but the RedHat 5.2 boot image can't find the device. Had
anybody experienced this kind problem and can give me some advices.
Thanks.
Mengchang Chen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Borak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster Live!
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:42:18 -0500
Has nayone gotten this soundcard to work yet with linux. I got this
great card with my machine but it doesn't do me any good if I can use
it. Any help is great. Thanks
-John
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From: "Faust" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Choosing a HP color printer
Date: 17 Jan 1999 23:48:03 GMT
I have the Epson Stylus 800 and it works fine under Red Hat 5.2 with
Staroffice and WP8. I can only get 360x360 out of it with the default
driver, but I have seen fixes that allow the higher 1440x720. I just haven't
found the need to do it yet...
Steve
Rock 13 wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Gary Momarison wrote:
>>
>> Johan Pelgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > I'm about to buy a color printer.
>>
>> Don't fail to ask HP which printer works best with Linux.
>>
>> If people don't ask, they will never give a good answer.
>>
>> Ask the Mac people, who apparently have been cut loose
>> by HP. I chose Epson last time for that reason.
>
>Relatively new here, I'm still researching the support of my hardware
>before installing Linux RH.
>I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 and when I emailed Epson they pointed
>me to a URL which didn't prove that useful (?).
>Got any advice? Will this work on Linux?
>--
>
>Rob: remove the X to reply
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From: Troy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for Riva TNT
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 15:59:02 -0500
Get the freetype rpm.
david pekala wrote:
>
> This may sound dumb since I just started using linux... but here goes. I d/l
> the XFree86 file fro rawhide and when I install it, it gives me a message that
> I need libttf.so.2 I looked all over the rawhide site, but couldn't find the
> file. Where would I get it from?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
> Dan Nguyen wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > XFree86 3.3.3 has support for the Riva TNT (although work does need to
> > be done on it)
> >
> > --
> > Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
> > http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
--
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Troy Carter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Numminen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Terrible partitions problem
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:26:12 +0100
Hi again!
I have NT 4.0 on the first partition. I had before a second partitions
to
NT 4.0 which is now removed, I think its /dev/hda5 becaus the disk size
is
equal.
/dev/hda1 Boot Primary DOS FAT16 [NO NAME ] 1539.57
/dev/hda5 Logical DOS FAT16 (big)
535.50
/dev/hda6 Logical Linux 941.07
/dev/hda3 Primary Linux Swap 63.00
I use the procedure below to add this removed partition to linux.
In fdisk I delete /dev/hda5 with the "d" command, then create new linux
partition with "n" command. I choice logical type (becous I want use
this
space to applications) and where it's should start and where it's end
should be, I select the numbers of cylinders what fdisk recomended.
This partition should be exactly in middle of two another partitions.
When I entered p command I could notice that /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda6
changes
size so /dev/hda5 get the /dev/hda6 size and /dev/hda6 get the /dev/hda5
size.
After I done all this I use "w" command to save the new configuration.
Fdisk
recommende me to reboot, which I done. But now when my pc rebooting I
get the
following message:
[MS-DOS... something
Transaction block size = 512
something...
something...
something...
Kernel panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
What happen? Have I crashed my hd? How can I make it to work again?
Please help me someone I really have panic now...
Thanks!
// Miche
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jarmo Maula)
Subject: Re: Soundblaster AWE32
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:46:41 GMT
Another newbie answers:
I also had problems, but there is instructions on SuSe CD pack.
You need to use PnP tools etc..
I do not know yet if the AWE works, but no problems with typical sound
appications.
Cheers
Jarmo Maula
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 13:54:16 GMT, Foreign <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Allthough one should suppose that the newer versions of Linux (I use Suse
>5.3) support the Soundblaster AWE32, I could not get this thing working
>till this moment.
>Anybody who could help me out? Thanks!
>
>
>Foreign
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From: "John P. Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP: IBM ISA Token Ring 16/4
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 19:33:59 -0600
I installed an IBM ISA Token Ring 16/4 card on my Compaq Deskpro
running the 2.0.36 kernel. When properly connected I haven't had any
problems talking to the network. The device driver I'm using is the
ibmtr.c
(version 1.3.57) that comes with the 2.0.36. My problem is that when
I'm not physically connected to the network my machine hangs during
the bootup procedure. Specifically, it hangs at rc.inet1. More
specifically,
I believe it hangs at the ifconfig command.
According to the Token Ring mini-HOWTO, I can avoid error messages,
when not connected to the network, by using a Token Ring loopback
connector. Does this apply also to my problem?
If a loopback connector is necessary, what is the pinage so I can build
one?
Is there an updated driver for my kernel version that would avoid this
problem all together?
Thanks in advance for any help...
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From: "Dmitrij Belogaj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Who has 2 ISA NE2000 cards?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:37:07 +0100
Hello!
I have a seriouse problem with two ISA NE2000 adapters.
If somebody has two identical ISA NE2000 (non PnP) adapters properly
configured on RHL (2.0.30) box,
please reply me!!!!!
Dima.
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From: CP Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need for WinModem research? (was: Re: need to take action...)
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 01:39:39 +0100
Hi,
It seems to me that there may be enough linux users out
there who bought a PC with a win*modem and would like to use it under
linux to make an attempt at this.
I am one of these people :-( who had to buy a real modem.
Would anybody volunteer to setup a website and/or mailing list ?
Maybe some guru could give some pointers on how to go about this ?
Would it be possible to monitor what is happening when windoze starts
talking to the modem ?
And if not can anybody guess what they assume is happening ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: 17 Jan 1999 17:28:16 -0800
John Mock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> P.S.:
>
> Well, the 25 pin ones went out of style. Lots of machines don't
> use any what with PS/2 connectors and all. I predict no more
> 9 pin serial ports by the year ... 2006?
>
> There's a good reason that 25D's are unpopular, and that one goes back to
> the MacPlus. Apple's stupid decision to use a serial port connector for
> SCSI has made most other people abandon the 25D for serial ports if they
> support SCSI. They know that a few dumb users will plug serial cable into
> SCSI or SCSI cables into serial ports. +/- 15V into a TTL compatable device
> (0/+4V) can be really bad news.
They're also incredibly pointless and a big waste of space, considering
that often only three of the 25 pins are connected.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Funky Weatherbean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Development for Gravis Stinger Serial Gamepad
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 01:40:45 -0500
Hi,
I am starting development on the Gravis Stinger for Linux. It uses the
serial port instead of the gameport. This way you can use it on a
LAPTOP!!!!! it works great under Windows. But now I want to make it work
under linux. If you are interested in helping Email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Mark Evans
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From: joris dallaire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: modem/pppd config-bit 7 set to 0?
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:50:33 -0500
Hello linuxians,
Below is the log message for a pppd error upon connection with
kppp:
[root@localhost sbin]# tail /var/log/messages
Jan 17 04:16:14 localhost pppd[327]: pppd 2.2.0 started by root, uid 0
Jan 17 04:16:14 localhost pppd[327]: Using interface ppp0
Jan 17 04:16:14 localhost pppd[327]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua2
Jan 17 04:16:44 localhost pppd[327]: LCP: timeout sending
Config-Requests
Jan 17 04:16:44 localhost pppd[327]: Connection terminated.
Jan 17 04:16:44 localhost pppd[327]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit
clean:
Jan 17 04:16:44 localhost pppd[327]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0 Jan
17
04:17:01 localhost pppd[327]: ioctl(TIOCNXCL): Input/output error
Jan 17 04:17:01 localhost pppd[327]: Exit.
Jan 17 04:18:14 localhost kernel:PPP: ppp line discipline successfully
unregistered
What's the matter with the <Receive serial link> having bit 7 set to 0?
Is my ISP having kind of another standard mask for login on TCP/IP?
Or is that receive side my own serial device side misconfigured?
There is that <timeout sending Config-Requests> that makes me believe my
modem
may be misconfigured. Then how to check if current setings are
ok?(system's
base i/o, irq)? my modem uses 0x03f8, irq 12
Can someone shed some light on these topics? Help
always greatly appreciated.
--
Joris Dallaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ:14881544 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www3.sympatico.ca/joris.dallaire/
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.networking.general,iu.linux
Subject: Re: Ethernet card recommendation--urgent
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:55:12 -0330
I reccomend an EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card by Linksys.
It uses the tulip.c driver that comes with kernel 2.0.36 .
You can also download the driver from their website.
The card works very well on my system.
Neil
On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Jan Stifter wrote:
> [...]
> Shane Bearham wrote:
> >
> > "Larry Herzog Jr." wrote:
> >
> > Nothing like a good old WD8013 series card....never fails me
> > even performs admirably, it's programable or jumpered &
> > around here I can pick them up for $3-$5 each at swap meets
> >
> > Shane ()
>
> I can recommend the Fast EtherRx PCI 10/100TX card of Kingston.
> just turn on the DEC-Tulip option in the kernel and it works perfect...
>
>
> jan
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> | Jan Stifter email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
> | web: www.htl-bw.ch/~ia95stif |
> | meet me: telnet://freechess.org:5000 (nick: nunc) |
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JTKirk)
Subject: Re: Help w/ Audio Excel CMI8330 sound card
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:51:31 GMT
On Sun, 17 Jan 1999 10:22:19 -0500, "Ken McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Do a DejaNews search for my CMI8330 HowTo posted in December and last week.
>Let me know if you have any difficulties with the setup.
>
>Ken McCord
>
>JTKirk wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>I'm having trouble configuring my sound card (as I said, an Audio Excel
>>ISA PnP with a CMI8330A chip) under RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36)
>>with the OSS/Free driver.
Thanks, but I had already done that. (BTW, very useful document,
I event forwarded it to a local users' group mailing list, since
it seems I'm not the only one having a hard time with sound cards)
Hmmm... You know what's worse? I also installed RH5.2 in two
other computers, these ones with Prosonic/Jazz 16 cards, with
the same results... So I think something else must be wrong/
Could someone please enlighten me?
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_H__/_/ [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Troy Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NVidia and XFree86 support
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 16:30:53 -0500
Ross Boylan wrote:
>
> The recent 3.3.3.1 announcement says
> "Open Source NVIDIA driver has been provided. "
>
> What does this mean?
NVidia actually provided the driver the xfree86.
>
> 1) My understanding was that 3.3.3 had such support, although it
> wasn't fully optimized. What's new?
I thought only 3.3.3.1 had the open source code. Anyway, I have a
Riva128zx (STB Velocity 128) and it works perfectly under 3.3.3.1 (no
video noise at all, at 1600x1200x32bpp) but it did not under 3.3.3 (lots
of video noise at higher resolutions and higher color depths).
>
> 2) Which Nvidia chips does this refer to?
>
3.3.3.1 supports NV1, NV3 and TNT (Riva128, Riva128zx, Riva TNT)
> 3) Various reports in the newsgroups indicated that NVIDIA had not
> been willing to open up their specs, at least for the TNT. I had
> written the card off on that basis (I'm about to get a system). Have
> they changed, or is the TNT driver made without NVIDIA's assistance?
> (One report said they were providing it, but withdrew it).
>
I am pretty sure they provided it
> 4) How well does the TNT support use the chips' acceleration
> abilities?
>
3.3.3.1 Doesn't.
> --------------------------------------------
> To reply via email, edit out the "remove" and "me" from the address
--
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Troy Carter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Total newbie hardware questions for Linux on 486
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:13:11 GMT
In article <77tg8k$soo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jacaranda Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I recently bought a new pc and want to turn the old 486dx280 into a linux
>system if at all possible..
>Problems: two hard drives, one 256mb, one 540mb (both IDE) and I can't
>afford anything more as the rest if going towards a 3d accel..
>Also, only 16mb ram.
>5.25 and 3.5 floppies working fine plus one 2x cdrom
>
>This won't run Redhat obviously...
I'm not sure this is obvious, but why not try Slackware?
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/slackware/
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: "Jukka Ylim�ki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: K56flex modem problem
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:00:34 +0200
hi ! my problem is this.
When i type AT in minicom
i get result Ok
When I type ATDT ...n
the modem dials ok and contacts the opposite...
then the problem appears. During handshake modem
says NO CARRIER ?!"!!! :(
this only happens when contacting My ISP
and other k56 sites
when I dial out to v34 everything works fine
Got any Ideas how to get rid of this nuisance
The modem is not PNP or WInmodem
It uses rockwell chip RCVDL56ACF /SP R6761-21
brand and model is LEGATO Golden hornet k56
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DLink 530TX
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 22:36:43 GMT
I have two of these cards. They've worked real well for me. They use the
"via-rhine" drivers. Never kernels (2.0.36 I think, and definately
2.2.0-pre#) have support built in.
Installation was easy once I realized they didn't use the tulip drivers. (The
530 is a tulip compatible, the 530tx are via-rhine compatible)
Good Luck
Brian Trapp
In article <75s258$fol$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ying Zhang) wrote:
> Has anyone had success with the DLink 530TX fast ethernet nics? They are
> dirt cheap and I want to know how well it is supported under Linux. The
> Ethernet HOWTO says the DE-530's work with the generic tulip drivers, but
> I'm not sure if this includes the 530TX?
>
> Can someone please confirm this? Thanks
>
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From: KingFisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux 5.1 display driver for SiS5598
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 10:02:06 +0800
Thanks Ken !
Ken McCord wrote:
> Do a DejaNews search for my instructions posted in December using XFree86
> 3.3.2. This chipset is also support natively in 3.3.3.
>
> Ken McCord
>
> KingFisher wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Hello to all Linux expert,
> >
> >I have problem to select a display driver for my ASUS SP97-V motherboard
> >
> >with disply controller SiS5598 embedded inside, and the 4M display
> >memory is shared with the motherboard.
> >Can any one tell me which display driver that I can choose from the
> >Xconfigurater menu ? most of the driver I select cannot access the
> >display RAM that shared with the motherboard. need your help !
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Wilken
> >
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From: Reinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Newbie with card problems
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 17:20:21 +0000
Trotter wrote:
> Hi, I just installed Redhat 5.2. I am using an intel etherexpress 16
> network card and the semi-auto detect thing will not see it. I have clicked
> every intel etherexpress thing they have and the auto-probe thing says "I
> can't detect this device on your system." Does Linux hate me and not
> support my card or am I do something wrong? thanks.
>
> - Trotter
You can try and manually try out several modules. Assuming default
installation,
they are located in /lib/modules/2.0.36-xxx/net.
use the modprobe command to try out several modules.
--modprobe eexpress.o. If it can't locate the card it gives an error.
try until you find the module that'll fit. Then insmod <modulename>
Check the files /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/conf.modules.
Then use the ifconfig command to set IP adress and such and bring it up.
read the man page of ifconfig for this.
If you want to use the GUI configuration tool you may have to
give the right address and/or Irq when adding the card. Such as io=0x300 irq=11
(or whatever applies to your card)
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