Linux-Hardware Digest #474, Volume #9 Sun, 21 Feb 99 00:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux on Compaq Proliant 7000 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: printing with 2.2.1 (Colin Day)
When FSCK can't fix it... HELP! (David J Whalen-Robinson)
Re: xterm in black and white (William Park)
isa serial modems, no jumpers ("ComFuMasta")
Re: How to set up ACER MAGIC S22 on Red Hat 5.2. (Michael Trausch)
Re: How to low-level format a harddrive (Michael Trausch)
Re: SCSI Zip Zoom card (Michael Trausch)
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG (Steve Irwin)
Help with Dell - Integrated Sound ("Michael J. Bahr")
Re: true color in windows, 16color in linux (Ken Oster)
Advice Needed From Seagate Owners ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Why I can't install my modem manually? (Lucifer)
Re: 486DX2 - BIOS - Big HD (Frank Hahn)
Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0 (Paches)
Re: tpconfig and gps/X (Henry)
Re: more than one mouse (Henry)
Q: SB AWE64 PCI PnP, Slackware 3.5 with Kernel 2.2.1 = {"suicide-10 minutes"} (Mark
Tigwell)
Re: Best CD Writers (Jim Zubb)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq Proliant 7000
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:49:58 GMT
Hi
Just run the System Configuration Utility from the Smart Start CD. Enusre
that the Embeded controller has First Order. Check whether the CD rom is
recoginised. Insert the Linux CD and reboot the System. This will solve your
problem. As the Smart Driver available on web is a Beta version I feel it is
better use it as a Secondry controller to store data. It works fine for all
the Raid configuration.
If you have any further question feel free to mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Yin Tan Cui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Moore wrote:
> >
> > I have a Compaq Proliant 7000 that I would love to migrate from NT to Linux.
> > Unfortunately, I have never installed Linux before. I know I will need to
> > patch things up to recognize the Smart Array II controller, as well as
> > recompile for SMP. My problem is that I cannot finish the boot process from
> > the diskettes (RedHat5.2). It appears that the kernel is looking for a hard
> > drive, but doesn't recognize a disk attached to the imbedded SCSI. Just for
> > grins, I dropped an Adaptec 2940-UW card into the machine, added a 9Gb
drive,
> > disabled the Smart Array controller, and the two imbedded controllers. I
> > figured this would allow me to install on the machine and apply the patches.
> > Unfortunately, it still won't boot. Does anybody have any suggestions?
> > Error messages encountered during boot:
> > VFS: cannot open root device 08:18
> > Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:18
>
> This error is due to that you don't have RAM disk support in the
> instllation disk you used.
>
> > David Moore
> > Summit Electric Supply
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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From: Colin Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing with 2.2.1
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:59:27 +0000
David Henderson wrote:
> OK.... I'm getting a little aggravated over this.
>
> Printing to a HPLaserJet6MP worked fine on 2.0.35 (SuSE 5.3) to lp1.
> When I switched to 2.2.1, I can no longer print. I've read through the
> news list and I understand that I should configure par port, but where
> is it??????? I've tried everything I know to do and consulted all the
> howto's and books on linux I have, all to no avail. Some help
> please!!! Thanks!!!
>
> Dave H
Use printtool to assign the printer to lp0 instead of lp1 I
am assuming that you have only one parallel device, in the
2.2 kernels the parallel ports are assigned by autopolling
(port at lowest address is lp0 and so on, I believe).
Also, remember to include parallel port support in
General Setup in the kernel.
Colin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David J Whalen-Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: When FSCK can't fix it... HELP!
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:42:05 -0500
I have RedHat 5.1
First the Odd Disk Activity:
When the machine boots everything works, but the
drive light is aways on 100% of the time.
It's not from a process: There are no processes using hte disk
that I can see (not that I'm a pro at checking that), but
the light is on from boot to shutdown.
When I mount the CDROM, or just even TRY to mount a CD when there
is no CD, the light goes out, and then behaves like normal the entire
rest of the time.
Then the crashes:
Every now and then, the computer has disk problems on boot and
dumps me into the shell. Usually I can fix them with FSCK, and then
I start up again. I thought for a long time that IF I didn't mount a cd
to get the disk light to go out, then the shutdown while the disk
light was on, was a contributing factor to the Disk errors.
Now the disk seems to be in a state where
FSCK /hda/dev1
and etfsck -b 8193 /hda/dev1
won't fix it.
For a while it WOULD fix the disk, but then after a boot
it was like it never fixed it and it would drop me into the maintenace
shell again.
Now it can't even find a super block at the default OR 8193
Has anybody heard of a disk situation like this before?
It's like shutdown is hurting the disk.
What upgrades should I get, and what crazy FSCK options should
I go through before I give up and redo hda1.
Since root has no real info, redoing the root partition IS an option,
but I would rather get to the bottom of the issue.
I figure one person may have info on a similar HD light issue,
and another might like to share their FSCK steps to fixing the
problem.
There are many web pages with the FSCK man pages, but I haven't
found a decent guide to how to know what trials to go through
with FSCK.
When do you throw in the towel for example?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Park)
Subject: Re: xterm in black and white
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 00:22:23 GMT
eric d'souza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi,
: can anybody help us poor unix types venturing into linux ?
: We want to use caldera open Linux 1.3 as a remote X server for SGI IRIX systems.
: The xterms we see are all in black and white, even locally
: Hardware is a S3VirgeDX video card with XF86_SVGA X server (the recommended one)
: The rest of the box is a 300Mhz Celeron with 128 MB ram.
: So far the best X server is labtam's xwinpro running on NT !
: cheers
: Eric
: glassworks, london
: www.glassworks.co.uk
And, what is your question?
--
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From: "ComFuMasta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: isa serial modems, no jumpers
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:06:37 GMT
hi. i recently picked up a isa internal pnp modem. it has no jumpers. i
called the company and i was told that this modem will work in linux. i have
redhat 5.1. i am new to linux. i have installed it like 20 times. it just
wont work for me. i have used minicom, seyon, and even tried it manually,
and no luck what so ever. i have got my modem to work in windows. it is on
com2, irq 3. i have talked with a few people that have told me to disable my
com2 in my bios. i tried it a while back and i remember no luck. when i used
minicom, and tried to initialize it did not give me the ok. when i use
seyon. it says wrong port ( even though i know it is the correct on) and it
tells me to recompile seyon and set HAVE_MODEM_CONTROL to no. please help
me. if you have any quiestions please contact me and feel free to ask all
the questions you have. i have been working on this prob for about 3 mos
now. it is getting pretty annoying.
thanx
comfumasta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Re: How to set up ACER MAGIC S22 on Red Hat 5.2.
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:42:46 -0500
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Yep... I have one of these cards =)
To use it under Linux, you need to pick the configuration that Windows
reports as the current.
If the port is 0x220, it's in Sound Blaster mode. If the port is 0x530,
then it's in Microsoft Windows Sound System mode. You need to use one of
these drivers.
The card *MUST* be initalized by DOS or Windows first, then you boot into
Linux (soft boot only). You cannot cold boot into Linux and expect the
card to work.
Then, set it up as whatever it's emulating (SB or WSS).
- Mike
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
> I've a sound card Acer MAGIC S22.
> I could not set it up on Red Hat 5.2.
> For windows95, readme file recommended:
> IOAddress = 530
> IRQ = 10
> DMADAC = 0
> DMAADC = 1
>
> I do not know why but set as
> IOport 220h
> IRQ IRQ5
> DMA DMA1
>
> in sndconfig tool,
> I selected MAD16 and gave options as aboves.
> But the sound card does not work.
> Does anybody have any idea?
>
> Ed.
>
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From: Michael Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to low-level format a harddrive
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:38:25 -0500
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Isn't it all (E)IDE hard drives that get damaged if you attempt to
low-level format 'em, and the SCSI ones that you have to lowlevel format?
- Mike
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On 20 Feb 1999, Torsten Jenkner wrote:
> with modern harddrives it is impossible to low-level format them. If you do
> so, you would destroy the drive completely. The question is what problems
> you have exactly. Are there any problems on hardware? Are there any tracks
> unreadable and/or not writeable? give us more information.
>
> Torsten Jenkner
>
> A.G. schrieb in Nachricht ...
> >Hi all:
> >
> >I suspect I have problems with my harddrive. Can somebody advise about the
> >subj?
> >
> >Thanx for any input,
> >Arcady
> >
>
>
>
>
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From: Michael Trausch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Zip Zoom card
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 21:40:06 -0500
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Try using this line:
# insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340
The module should probe all the other options, and see the card (which
should be located at 0x340 by default).
- Mike
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On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Jose Carlos Machado wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'have RedHat Linux 5.2 with Kernel 2.2.1
>
> Ican't have my Zip Zoom scsi card recognized by the system.
>
> scsi support and scsi disk support are built into the kernel but I get
> the following message during boot:
>
> SCSI: 0 HOSTS
> SCSI: Not Detected
>
> The driver aha152x with proper parameters is loaded as a module.
>
> If I use insmod aha152x.o I get a message saying:
> init_module: device or resource busy
>
> Hepl will be really appreciated. Thanks a lot!
>
> ZC
>
>
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From: Steve Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.dcom.xdsl
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:25:59 -0800
There lies the problem. Windows has built in limitations on how much data can be
processed in x
time. Linux uses too much bandwith. Too efficient. :-)
Bob wrote:
> Mark Young wrote:
>
> > In article <79ts5m$qjj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
>writes:
> > |> James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > |> > My isp, mtt.ca, will also terminate adsl service if the account is using
> > |> > anything other than windows. Apparently, MacOs has crashed some systems,
> > |>
> > |> That's flat-out ridiculous. How can MacOS crash anything? What "some
> > |> systems"? It's amazing how these people always think that working in a
> > |> computer-related firm grants them carte blanche to talk out of their ass
> > |> about things they don't even approach understanding.
> >
> > no kidding...in fact, I heard it just the opposite...that windows was
> > crashing itself and so many other systems, and has reduced the overall
> > productivty of soooo many people, that many of the telcos, and, uh, the
> > government...yeah, the government, them too...well, they're thinking of
> > forcing everyone to switch over to macs...
> >
> > I heard it from a friend's mother who was talking to the fellow whose
> > wife is supposed to be really really good friends with another woman
> > who's really really smart.
> >
> > that's what I heard anyway...
> >
> > ;-)
> >
> > ...myoung
>
> Today Computerworld quoted some corp IS exec saying that linux does
> in seconds what NT does in minutes, as far as big database over OS.
> I guess that's why they'll use NT everywhere they can. Wonder why
> his arm was in a sling?
>
> -Bob
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From: "Michael J. Bahr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with Dell - Integrated Sound
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:22:34 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Dell Dimension XPS R400 w/ Crystal 3D integreated sound. Has
anyone had any luck in getting this to work. (RH5.2 & newbie)
Using sndconfig fails to detect and manual setup ends with an error.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Mike
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From: Ken Oster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: true color in windows, 16color in linux
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 04:02:16 GMT
ComFuMasta wrote:
>
> i get true color in windows, but i use a driver sis 5597/5598. in linux all
> i can get is vga16. can you help. i do not know what all info you need but
> if you have any questions please feel free to ask.
>
> comfumasta
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is new driver that supports this.. Plus I think the newest version
of XFree too...
I use the Xsuse driver i downloaded from their website. It was the "sis"
one. :)
If you grab the xsis file from suse, you'll need their xconfigurator
too.
let me know if you need the files, i have the xsis.rpm and the
configurator.
one of my linux boxes at home has that same chipset and it works great
in
16 bit color. 800x600.
Ken O
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Advice Needed From Seagate Owners
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 06:52:32 GMT
Dear fellow Seagate owners,
I need to identify the dates of manufacture of an ST34501W and an
ST34572W. There are quite a few sets of codes and numbers printed and
labeled on the drives, but I cannot figure out which one is the year
and month of manufacture. Any advice will be appreciated, please also
reply to my email address. Thanks and regards,
Kryz Keiderg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucifer)
Subject: Why I can't install my modem manually?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 01:29:18 GMT
Hi,
Recently, I bought a U.S. Robotics 56K internal modem (ISA).
When I choose PNP, Win98 can configure it correctly and it works fine.
Now, I want to configure the modem manually. So, I set the jumpers to
use COM3, IRQ 7. Then, when I choose "add new hardware" and tell to
searche for new modem, well, Win98 can't find it.
My question is how to install my modem manually?
Can LINUX recognize my modem if I leave it PNP?
I tried with "modemtool" but can't see the modem...?
Could be my BIOS? (AMIBIOS V.1.07)
Thank you for your help!
Eric.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: 486DX2 - BIOS - Big HD
Date: 21 Feb 1999 04:22:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 21:07:40 -0600, Internet Real Estate
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Newbie here ... trying to get a box ready to install Red Hat on. Got a 486
>DX2 66mhz, and am junking the 540 megHD and adding a Western Digital 8.4
>gig. I know the BIOS will have to be updated.
>
>So my questions are:
>
>1) What is the best place to find the new BIOS file? I have heard too many
>stories of chips being fried by running the wrong update file.
>
I would think you should go back to whoever built either your computer
or your motherboard. If the bios on the motherboard can be updated, I
would think that would be the cheapest.
If it can't, then I think you could buy one of the add-on IDE controller
cards (I'm assuming that is the type of hard drive you are talking about
since I don't see anything mentioned). If you look around, some of them
have a BIOS built in which must overlay your existing machines bios.
You could either hook your drives to this card and disable your onboard
IDE controllers or just leave the drives hooked up to your motherboard
and just take advantage of the BIOS on the controller card. A friend
of mind just purchased a card with an upgradeable bios for US$50.00 or so.
I also think there are some companies which sell bioses for machines
but I am not really familiar with this.
If these are SCSI drives, I'm not sure where the drives get their
information.
>2) After the BIOS update, will I have to still run one of those separate
>programs that enable the system to see the full 8 gigs, or will Linux when
>I install it, handle all of it.
>
Linux may be able to handle the entire drive without an updated bios.
It may be MSDOS that has the problems with large drives and not Linux.
If you only plan to run Linux, you may not need to do anything.
The reason I say this is that several years ago I purchased an 850MB
disk drive. I was not able to upgrade the bios on the 486-33 I have.
At the time, I partitioned the drive three ways. One 540MB partition
for MSDOS, one 16MB partion for Linux swap, and the balance for Linux.
In the bios, I told the computer that it was a 540MB drive. MSDOS was
happy. I then booted Linux from Loadlin off the MSDOS partition.
Everything still works to this day.
>As you can see, I really want to understand all this BEFORE I jump in and
>mess it all up. Especially with the BIOS. Can't afford to buy a new system
>board if I screw it up.
>
There are probably other ways to do the same thing. Hopefully others
will share their experiences.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: Paches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:13:09 -0800
My linux is on it's own drive (hdc1) and the windows drive is a western digital
6.4g (hda1). I'll keep trying the solutions presented here. I'll let everyone
know once I get it working. Keep thinking....
-Paches
Jose Urena wrote:
> Did I said NFS?, I meant NLS (National Language Support)
> thanks for noticing
>
> Tom Emerson wrote:
>
> > Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > is the Windows 95 filesystem part of your kernel?
> > > you might need to rebuild your kernel with all the MSDOS file System
> > options
> > > plus NFS support
> >
> > and "codepage" support (NLS) -- often overlooked because it's in a
> > different area of the kernel config script/menuconfig, but needed to
> > support the characterset that makes up the filename [or some such nonsense]
> > >
> > > Paches wrote:
> > >
> > > > I tried:
> > > > mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /doze (thanx to help from readers)
> > > > but I got this:
> > > >
> > > > [MSDOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16, check=n,conv=b,vid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> > > >
> > [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,f1=0,ds=32,de=0,data=32,se=0,ts=12578832,ls=512]
> > > >
> > > > Transaction Block Size = 512
> > > > VFS:Can't find a valid msdos filesystem on dev 03:01
> > > > mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on dev/hda1, or too many
> > > > mounted filesystems
> > > >
> > > > Hmmmmmmmm
> > > > -Paches
> > > >
> > > > >
> > >
> > >
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From: Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: tpconfig and gps/X
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:48:20 -0500
I just submitted a change to GPM to support the Synaptics touchpad
(serial and PS/2). It is in release 1.17.5 (ftp.prosa.it/pub/gpm --
just out today). I did this because the tpconfig program couldn't
perform the changes which I wanted against my touchpad. It appears that
the newer touchpads have fewer options and the options are now handled
by the driver. Also I use my touchpad through the serial port and use a
PS/2 mouse at the same time (gives me options for when a touchpad
doesn't seem quite the right option).
Also, I wanted the cursor to continue when I hit the edge of the
touchpad. This wasn't an option to my touchpad and only worked on drag.
This change to GPM supports many of the things which the touchpads used
to do internally. This has the advantage of configuring GPM as you want
(it reads a configuration file to setup options). The configuration can
only be changed by changing the config file and restarting GPM.
Just thought you might want to know.
Henry
Bruce Kall wrote:
>
> I currently support the tpconfig utility (Synaptics
> Linux touchpad driver -- www.compass.com/synaptics). Anyway
> I just released the latest version to fix a problem with
> the 2.2.X kernel. The next enhancement I would like to
> add is to make it work while either gpm and/or X is
> running. From what I know from the initial author of
> tpconfig, the PS/2 port does not support sharing and
> this is the reason why tpconfig hasn't support running
> itself while gpm and/or X is running.
>
> What I'm looking for is suggestions/pointers on how to
> add this functionality to tpconfig (run on top of X).
> Any suggestions would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Bruce
>
> --
> ====================================================================
> Bruce Kall
> Mayo Foundation
> Rochester, MN
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> phone: (507) 255-4768
>
> ====================================================================
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From: Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: more than one mouse
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 20:51:32 -0500
Yes if you use GPM to feed mouse data to X.
I use the following to use a mouse and touchpad:
gpm -m /dev/mouse -t imps2 -M -m /dev/touchpad -t syn -R
The "-R" causes GPM to create a pipe which it writes MouseSystems format
mouse data to. Then you configure X to read that pipe as the mouse
input and GPM will interleave two mice and X doesn't know the
difference.
Henry
Chris Podurgiel wrote:
>
> will linux support multiple mice on a single machine? ie. multiple mouse
> cursers.
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From: Mark Tigwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: SB AWE64 PCI PnP, Slackware 3.5 with Kernel 2.2.1 = {"suicide-10 minutes"}
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 1999 15:39:43 +1100
I have tried everything to get this to work. I even tried downloading a
commercial driver (yes, even desparate enough to pay ca$h). All of the
references and docs I can find on the subject seem to contradict each
other. So many people have these sound cards... surely there is a nice
_simple_ HOWTO out there that doesn't send you spinning in every
increasing circles from kernel docs -> isapnp -> awe driver ->isapnp ->
kernel etc etc. If I had the experience, I'd do it myself - but my
programming on Linux just ain't up to it.
Does someone know how to make an SB AWE64 PnP work with kernel 2.2.1 and
Slackware (which doesn't have that nice sndconfig thingo that Red Hat
does - but is better in so many other ways) ? I get nothing, nada, zip -
no matter what I do.
I've tried:
1. Installing the awe driver, compiling kernel with low level support.
(messed with isapnp.conf for _hours_)
2. Compiling kernel (2.2.1) with PnP and in-built SB support
3. Compiling the kernel with no sound support and installing the
commercial driver, but wouldn't install under my kernel, despite claims
it would
Desparate,
Tigs
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From: Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best CD Writers
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:44:33 -0500
Eric Lee Green wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Feb 1999 09:04:59 -0800, Robert Brown
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Can anybody tell me the of some good CDROM writers for Redhat 5.0?
>
> I've had good luck with the Teac 4x12 CD writer. That's what we use to
> make our updates disks with never a coaster. Sorry, I don't have the model
> number handy :-(.
>
> One hint: SCSI works MUCH better than IDE here. We got plenty of coasters
> with IDE. Even reading the image off of an IDE hard drive resulted in the
I have found that IDE 2x writers work nearly flawlessly,
with some load to the system even (I usually read newgroups
while burning a CD). 4x writers suck on IDE unless you have
the system dedicated to burning only. They work fine if you
put no other load on the system.
--
Jim Zubb
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