Linux-Hardware Digest #450, Volume #9 Wed, 17 Feb 99 08:13:34 EST
Contents:
Will 3Dfx voodoo2 work? ("The Mob Pty. Ltd.")
Re: Problems with IBM Aptiva (John F. Opie)
Re: Is it the Mouse or the Video Display? (fred smith)
Re: Damn MS Intellimous under XWindows! (Dirk Nuyens)
TV tuner bt848a - sound volume too low (Micha� Witkowski)
Re: Finding EDO Memory with Parity? (Jon McLin)
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on a PC104 with Flask disk (Dirk Nuyens)
Re: CPI Modem help needed (Theo Berkhout)
Re: marvel G200 ("Andrew Gregory")
Re: High end sound card - suggestions? (John F. Opie)
SmartMediaCard Adapter-Flashpath ("R.Gros")
Re: CPI Modem help needed (Theo Berkhout)
Re: 386/486 Motherboard Schematics (Geoff Short)
Re: Yamaha OPL3-SA2 in Dell XPSH266 (James Clifford)
Re: 386/486 Motherboard Schematics (Geoff Short)
Re: Clean Up lost+found (Clifford Kite)
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From: "The Mob Pty. Ltd." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Will 3Dfx voodoo2 work?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 21:29:27 +1000
Hi,
Bit of a newbie question...
I'm contemplating buying a Voodoo 2 3Dfx accelarator (PCI) to attach to
a Matrox Millenium card. I'm running RedHat 5.0 which only seems to
support the Creative Blaster 3D card (of the ones which I can get here).
If I buy a noname card, can I expect hassles running X-windows? I told
you it was a bit of a newbie question!
Thanks for any advice,
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John F. Opie)
Subject: Re: Problems with IBM Aptiva
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:33:31 GMT
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:36:07 -0500, "Richard Payne" <payner at timken
dot com> wrote:
>
>
>Frederico Borelli wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Hello ... i have an IBM Aptiva 2134 but i have problems with it .
>>My Mwave audio card is not compatible with Linux .
>>I used OS/2 and never had problems .
>>But i believe in Linux power, and i don't wanna leave it by this problem
>
>
>I'm afraid there is not much you can do. The MWave modems that IBM uses
>(I've got a ThinkPad 600 with on) are currently useless under Linux. They
>are software modems (Not winmodems cause their is DOS/NT drivers),
>and until IBM produces Linux drivers you're stuck. You could always
>buy another modem for this.
>
Hi there -
While you are completely correct - anyone with a MWave Modem, or for
all purposes anything built using that lovely Dolphin DSP that
should've taken the world by storm but for IBM's incredible marketing
department - the MWave Modems are ***not*** a software modem like, for
instance, the click-on modems you see for Palm PCs (I've got a Nino
312 with one of 'em), which run using the CPU as a DSP.
The Dolphin chip is a field programmable gate array digital signal
processor. It loads a driver, basically, when initialising itself in
any of its permutations, either as modem or wave table sound card.
Great piece of engineering, and poo on IBM for, once again, showing
that bigger isn't necessarily better.
FWIW, ITYLTK...
John
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fred smith)
Subject: Re: Is it the Mouse or the Video Display?
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 00:55:10 GMT
Bill Polhemus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi. I have a problem (of course!)
: First, a preface: I am what used to be called a "computer hobbyist,"
: back before we all got so serious with our boxes, using them to make
: money, in businesss, etc. Oh, I still have to use my computer at work
: to DO work, but I love to tinker.
A man after my own heart!
: So, on a hunch, I bought a copy of Red Hat Linux 5.2 at the store where
: I purchased the new machine. Only $20. I'd heard a lot about it (and
: remember that Linux advocates had often spilled over onto the
: comp.os.os2.* newsgroups back when I used to haunt them myself). I was
: intrigued, and had the idea that this could signal the resumption of my
: "hobbyist" career put on the shelf when I abandoned (reluctantly) OS/2.
Yeah, isn't obsolete hardware wonderful?
: The mouse is
: problematic; it's a three-button job I got for about $15 at Wal-Mart
: when my last Microsoft Mouse went kablooey. On the bottom of the mouse,
: there is a slider switch you can set for "MS AM" (not sure what the "AM"
: stands for--"adorable mouse?") and "PC AT". It has a PS/2 plug on the
: end, but came with an adapter which I simply plugged into the COM1 port
: when I was using Windows 95.
I'd guess that when it says MS it emulates a 2-button MickeySoft mouse,
and the other position would emulate a Mouse Systems "PC Mouse", which is/
was a 3-button rodent.
I've got a cheap serial mouse which I have set as a 3-button mouse
and X likes it just fine. What you need to do is set the switch to
whichever mode you want it to use (X supports 3-button mice, so I'd
suggest that mode) then tell X about that. If you wish to get your hands
dirty, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, and find the section that resembles:
# **********************************************************************
# Pointer section
# **********************************************************************
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/mouse"
and set the Protocol either as you see above, or as "Microsoft" if you
prefer the 2-button mode.
: Anyway, for some reason, when I startup up the X Windows system, it
: comes up O.K., but the MOUSE doesn't seem to work. The cursor just
: flies all over the place, all around the periphery of the screen,
: seemingly uncontrollable.
That's because MickeySOft and MouseSystemsmice use a similar but different
convention for their output stream, and X is using the wrong one.
Then you'll be ready to move on to (perhaps to discover!) the next problem.
Hope you have a lot o'fun!
Fred
--
---- Fred Smith -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------
The Lord detests the way of the wicked
but he loves those who pursue righteousness.
============================= Proverbs 15:9 (niv) =============================
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From: Dirk Nuyens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Damn MS Intellimous under XWindows!
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:42:03 +0100
Bill Baldasti wrote:
> OK peoples.. These damn MS mice are pissing me off (no wonder I went
> to Linux from Winblows! (: ) (And excuse my french if I offended
> anyone up there... <smile>
>
> I have RedHat 5.1 installed, and I just can't get my MS Serial
> Intellimouse to work. I've tried all the things that you guys have
> mentioned to other disheartened Linux users with their Intellimouses..
> (Why does MS have to change the protocols between their own mice!?)
> and still to no avail. It just sits there once X loads. Do I need a
> newer version of XFree86? Can someone tell me what command I issue (or
> where I look) to tell what version I am currently running? Because if
> all I need to do is simply install a new version of X... I can do
> that! (:
>
> thanks;
> Bill...
If I'm correct you should just put something like "IM/PS-2" by Protocol
in Section "Pointer" in your XF86Config file
works for me... your mouse should be alive and the stupid wheel will act
as a third button
--
Dirk Nuyens
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Micha� Witkowski)
Subject: TV tuner bt848a - sound volume too low
Date: 17 Feb 1999 11:39:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Winview 601 tv/fm tuner card based on a bt848a chip. It
works with bttv-0.6.3 as a TV-boostar, but with a very low sound output.
To hear anything, I have to set the volume to maximum using a mixer
and then of course I get a lot of distortions and background noise.
Under W95 sound is ok. My soundcard is SB AWE 32, drivers from
kernel 2.2.1ac5.
Does anyone know, how to fix that?
--
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Michal Witkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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* Nec temere, nec timide! *
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Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:44:32 +0000
From: Jon McLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Finding EDO Memory with Parity?
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> ...
> Are you really sure that you have EDO simms with parity? I didn't know
> that EDO with parity existed. Maybe you have Fast Page memory with
> parity?
>
That's what the Dell manual says. And examining the existing SIMMS shows
9 RAM chips.
I somewhere found a web page on memory which mentioned the parity EDO did
in fact exist but was uncommon (and that vendors would often tell you that
it didn't exist!). Don't remember the link.
Thanks for the feedback.
Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 16:07:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy Glew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A recent issue of IEEE Computer (I think) has a paper that proposes
> allocating a separate disk, or a portion of the local disk, as a disk
> cache - absorbing writes when DRAM based disk caches overflow
> during a write burst, and then emptying this "disk based write buffer"
> to the ordinary disk blocks once the write burst is over.
Some of the high-performance file systems rely on non-volatile memory
to help manage the to-disk dataflow.
> Actually, an average case when waiting for rotations on a block by block
> basis would be half a rotation for the first block, half a rotation for the
second
> block, the remainder of a rotation to write the first, half a rotation for the
second.
> If data and parity blocks are on the same track, but are randomly laid out.
> I.e. SEEK + 2*ROT + 2*READ_TRANSFER + 2*WRITE_TRANSFER.
If you're really interested in performance under load, you might think
about doing the "rewrite" somewhere else. Yes, that change of location
implies that you need to update some other block, but that update may
be shareable with other data writes and you may be able to play the same
game up the allocation tree. The likelyhood of such sharing increases
with the load you're putting on the filesystem, so the overhead of this
approach decreases when you care about it.
-andy
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From: Dirk Nuyens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a PC104 with Flask disk
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 12:49:02 +0100
Mark Robinson wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Has anyone got Linux running on the flash disk of a PC104 style
> embedded PC. The PC104 machine in question is a DSP Design TC486
> 486DX-100 with 16M RAM and a 2M flash disk. Am I being unrealistic
> to expect Linux to run in 2M. I would need the kernel, TCP/IP
> networking and my program as a minimum.
>
> The eventual aim is to port the app to QNX, but while this is in
> progress we would like to run the old code.
>
> Cheers
>
> mark-r
> --
> Infact Holdings (UK) | There's lies, damned lies
> Unit 52 Salford Uni Business Park | and Amplifier power ratings.
> Leslie Hough Way,Salford M6 6AJ, UK | -- Bluffers Guide to Hi-Fi.
> http://www.infact-holdings.com/
I'm trying the same...
can you let the BIOS boot from the flash disk? if yes then you might try
the LRP distirbution (http://www.linuxrouter.org), it fits on a 1.44MB
disk so it should fit in your 2MB flash
when you then boot from the flash the bootloader will unzip the kernel
and other stuff into RAM and you will be up and running (on a ramdisk)
the problem I have now is getting the LRP stuff in my flash, I don't
have Linux drivers to access it and when booting dos it is only
accessible as floppy drive B: (the LRP image doesn't fit on a DOS
formatted 1.44MB disk) and I don't seem to get access to the harddisks
attached to the system...
anyone ideas?
--
Dirk Nuyens
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From: Theo Berkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPI Modem help needed
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:30:50 +0100
He, that is great,
Finally found someone using the same hardware.
Strange, on my gateway the modem is on com3.
Anyhow , I will check out this com 1 thing soon, but sorry, next week i'am on a
course, I will
come back to you later, thanks for the response!!!! :-)
theo berkhout
Gaetan Meister wrote:
> Hi Theo,
>
> The Euroviva CPI modem 33.6 from Gateway is the one I use since RH5.0.
> This modem is configured on COM1. You might want to use /dev/cua0 to connect
> using minicom.
> I didn't have to use isapnp tool, neither disble the pnp in the bios.
>
> Can you give us more info on the kinda prb u get when u connect ?
>
> Gaetan
>
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From: "Andrew Gregory" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: marvel G200
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:16:00 -0000
I have a marvel G200 PCI running on a Gigabyte 5AX M/B with an AMD K6-2 300
CPU and it works fine, I did have to tweak the BIOS PnP IRQ settings to get
the whole system to sit together happily though. The Xfree 3.3.3.1 supports
the G200 but not the rainbow runner, and I haven't had time to investigate
the video capture yet, but watch this space.......
I don't know about the AGP version of the card. sorry
Andrew
GANGLOFF Jacques wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>Has anybody successfully installed a matrox MARVEL G200 under X on
>a linux system. Is the card AGP or PCI.
>The latest Xfree release notes say that the G200 PCI cards are now
>fully supported. What about the AGP cards ?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jacques
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John F. Opie)
Subject: Re: High end sound card - suggestions?
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:12:17 GMT
On 12 Feb 1999 02:48:50 -0800, d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d
u (David Fox) wrote:
>Ken Kubota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> I am looking for a high end sound card supported by both Linux and
>> Windows. Do you have any suggestions?
>
>[I hope this isn't a repost.] I have a Turtle Beach Fiji which has
>very good fidelity, better than the Creative Labs cards I've tried.
>The driver is a little tricky to set up, but I have built an RPM
>package that seems to do the trick. I actually have two of the cards
>in two different systems, and both sound good though one has a bit of
>crackling at times. I'm planning on reshuffling my cards to see if
>there is interference coming from the video adapter.
>
>I would assume it works in windows too.
>--
>David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
>UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
Hi David -
PMFBI, but...
I am looking at moving to another system (current one doesn't fit the
compatability list worth a damn) and one of the things I will be using
it to is to convert my enormous tape collection (ca 3000 cassettes) to
CD-Rs for archiving purposes.
How does the Turtle Beach handle HD recording? Any experience with
denoising and filtering packages that remove tape hiss and artifacts?
TIA!
John
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From: "R.Gros" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SmartMediaCard Adapter-Flashpath
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 13:09:38 +0100
Hallo,
I`m looking for a software for a Fashpath adapter for smartMediaCards,
these cards are used
in digital cameras.
Thanks for any answers.
Ruediger
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From: Theo Berkhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPI Modem help needed
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 07:45:12 +0100
He, that is great,
Finally found someone using the same hardware.
Strange, on my gateway the modem is on com3.
Anyhow , I will check out this com 1 thing soon, but sorry, next week
i'am on a
course, I will
come back to you later, thanks for the response!!!! :-)
theo berkhout
Gaetan Meister wrote:
> Hi Theo,
>
> The Euroviva CPI modem 33.6 from Gateway is the one I use since RH5.0.
> This modem is configured on COM1. You might want to use /dev/cua0 to connect
> using minicom.
> I didn't have to use isapnp tool, neither disble the pnp in the bios.
>
> Can you give us more info on the kinda prb u get when u connect ?
>
> Gaetan
>
===================================================================
_ _ Boskalis Dredging Company
( \ / ) tel. work :078-6969399
\ \ / / Home:
_\ \_/ / Schoondonk 57
_( \ _( 4907 ZP Oosterhout NB
( \_) (_ \ Netherlands tel: 0162-430186
\_) ) ) " Reporter asked Ghandi:
| / / 'What do you think of western civilisation ?'
( / Ghandi replied: I think that is a good idea ! "
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Short)
Subject: Re: 386/486 Motherboard Schematics
Date: 17 Feb 1999 11:20:21 GMT
Christopher Burnside ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm looking for schematics for 386/486. we are running linux and it is
: networked. The problem is we have a severe size constraint and we must
: make a smaller board. The only thing is we don't want to get into a lot
: of development time trying to come up with a new computer. we just want
: to rearrage an exisiting design that we know already works. It can have
: isa or pci. Built-in sound/video or networking is o.k. A built-in
: network card would be awsome, but not a nessecity. Thanks
Are you sure you can't buy what you need off the shelf? There are a lot of
companies making 3/486 motherboards which are of the order of 6" x 4" for
industrial applications. How small do you need to go?
Geoff
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Ever sit and watch ants? They're always busy with Geoff Short
something, never stop for a moment. I just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't identify with that kind of work ethic. http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~geoff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Clifford)
Subject: Re: Yamaha OPL3-SA2 in Dell XPSH266
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 10:45:22 GMT
Have you managed to get it working yet?
There are instructions on getting it running in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound... there should be a text file
called OPL3SA2 or something like that.
In the kernel, under sound, you'll need to enable the OSS sound driver
(I think that's what it's called), and then go down a ways and enable
the OPL3-SA2 support... you probably should leave it as a module.
You'll need isapnp, but configuration instructions are in the document
that I mentioned. If you're running a dual boot system, you may find
it easiest to go check out how things are configured for Windows. I
have the Yamaha drivers, and all the configuration information is in
opl3sax.ini (in your sound driver dir).
Hope that helps!
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999 20:10:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a Dell Dimension XPS H266 with an on board Yamaha OPL3-SA2 Chip.
>I was wondering if anyone is currently using a 2.2.x kernel with this
>chip. I basically need to know what sound options to enable in the
>kernel and where to find the I/O addres, IRQ, etc. The Sound-Howto's
>that I have found have all been relatively out-of-date, and don't
>include the newer sound options when they explain the kernel config
>part.
>
>Anyone out there had luck with this chip, and can help me get it working?
>
>Thanks,
>Buck
>
>=================================================================
>Wesley (Buck) Lemke
>http://www.dwave.net/~wesley
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Short)
Subject: Re: 386/486 Motherboard Schematics
Date: 17 Feb 1999 11:42:15 GMT
Christopher Burnside ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm looking for schematics for 386/486. we are running linux and it is
: networked. The problem is we have a severe size constraint and we must
: make a smaller board. The only thing is we don't want to get into a lot
: of development time trying to come up with a new computer. we just want
: to rearrage an exisiting design that we know already works. It can have
: isa or pci. Built-in sound/video or networking is o.k. A built-in
: network card would be awsome, but not a nessecity. Thanks
Are you sure you can't buy what you need off the shelf? There are a lot of
companies making 3/486 motherboards which are of the order of 6" x 4" for
industrial applications. I've not used them, but Advantech have a sizable
range.
Or perhaps you want something about the size of a matchbox? See
http://wearables.stanford.edu/ for an example of a Jumptech 68 mm x 40 mm
computer. (www.jumptec.de)
Geoff
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Ever sit and watch ants? They're always busy with Geoff Short
something, never stop for a moment. I just [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't identify with that kind of work ethic. http://kipper.york.ac.uk/~geoff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clifford Kite)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.networking,ahn.tech.linux
Subject: Re: Clean Up lost+found
Date: 16 Feb 1999 21:32:05 -0600
Jayasuthan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Thank You very much.... I think I have try this but let me try it again.
: The part which I don't understand is " clri ". Is this a program or
: something in debugfs ?
It's a debugfs command.
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Clifford Kite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Not a guru. (tm)
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