Linux-Hardware Digest #15, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Apr 99 15:13:26 EDT
Contents:
Stereo with xawtv 2.40 (Peter Kamphuis)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Leslie
Mikesell)
Re: ISDN / BT Speedway Problem (HiSax/Fritz) ("Anthony")
Re: ES 1371 on Intel 440BX motherboard ("M.C. van den Bovenkamp")
Re: Netgear ISA EA201c NIC ("J. R.")
Ping? Ping? Verified ("David Claney")
Redhat 5.2 and HP Kayak XU-U2 PII300 with Array 1000CA Controller?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
FORSALE: Mitsubishi Amity CN (Win95/Linux dual boot) (h)
Support for CD changers? (Pete)
Power off with ATX at shutdown (Wolfgang Ganzert)
Re: XInput: Switch from MS mouse to Graphics tablet ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: psaux device or resource busy (**Nick Brown)
Re: sound blaster live (Harald Arnesen)
Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions (john)
Best chip/method for new PCI card design ("Gregory Benjamin")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Leslie
Mikesell)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Leslie
Mikesell)
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From: Peter Kamphuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Stereo with xawtv 2.40
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:09:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I've just compiled xawtv 2.40 and the bttv drivers that come along
with it and noticed that I do not get any stereo anymore. Xawtv 2.35
ran and runs fine (also with the new drivers). I have kernel 2.0.35
and a Hauppauge WinTV card (BT878, stereo, radio).
Does anyone know about specific changes and/or problems with the new
xawtv version?
Thanks,
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 12 Apr 1999 16:31:15 -0500
In article <7estpv$m08$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> You can't, becuase rm doesn't see the original command line. It only sees the
>> command line after the shell has expanded wild cards. The way it should work
>> is as follows:
>>
>> 1. The shell expands wildcards.
>> 2. The shell places in the environment variable "CMD_UNEXPANDED" the command
>> line without wildcards expanded.
>> 3. The shell runs the command.
>
>This is a fairly good fix for Unix. It is not the right way to do it with a
>blank sheet of paper. There is no point in expanding wildcards, then throwing
>away the command line you just read in and reading an environment variable.
>This isn't transparent programming.
>
>System libraries. The solution is known.
That makes it really ugly when different users want different versions
and doesn't deal with the other ways that people use shell expansions.
What is a system library going to do with:
=======
FILES=`echo *`
cp $FILES /tmp
rm $FILES
========
The $FILES variable is known only to the shell so cp and rm aren't
going to be able to expand it no matter what libraries they have.
This kind of operation is often needed for 'live' directories
where you want to do several operations to the same set of files
even though more may appear between the set.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Anthony" <Anthony@spim>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ISDN / BT Speedway Problem (HiSax/Fritz)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:36:49 +0100
You have to get the ISDN package - part of isdn4linux from ftp.suse.com and
run the std2kern -d.
This will update your kernel source with the correct drivers.
I tried working with this and various 2.2 kernels - upto 2.2.5 and found it
to be unstable.
I use 2.036 and find it works great - do you really need 2.2.x? I'm going
to wait a bit until things become a little more stable.
Anthony
Simon Griffiths wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>Simon Griffiths wrote:
>>
>> Heeeeeelp.....
>>
>> I've currently got a 2.2.5 kernel with modular support for IDSN/HiSax
>> (Fritz)
>> and a BT Speedway PCI card. All looks fine....
>>
>> but I get :
>>
>> Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: HiSax: Card AVM A1 not installed !
>> Apr 10 14:10:24 localhost kernel: ISDN-subsystem unloaded
>>
>> everytime I try to load the HiSax module with...
>>
>> modprobe -v hisax io=0x6400 irq=9 protocol=2 type=5 id=Fritz
>>
>
>OK, I've had a chance to look further into this, and I come to the
>following conclusions....
>
>1. The card I have - a BT speedway internal - is a Fritz/PCI version.
>2. There are 3 Fritz types in the ISDN4Linux Hisax driver module: Fritz,
>Fritz!PnP, Fritz!PCI
>3. The internal BT Speedway needs the Fritz!PCI
>4. Each type of card requires a different type argument in the insmod
>call. I should have been using:
> modprobe -v hisax protocol=2 type=27
>
>But....
>
>5. the Fritz!PCI & Fritz!PnP drivers are included in 2.0.36, but not in
>2.2.x
>6. the Fritz!PCI driver included in the latest version of ISDN4Linux
>won't compile in 2.2.n
> (at least I can't get it to!)
>7. 2.2.x is great - there's so much good stuff in here I don't want to
>regress
>
>
>Conclusion - I'll just have to manage with my 33.6 modem until some
>wonderful person can tell
>me how to get the Fritz!PCI driver compiled in 2.2.n !
>or...
>the Fritz!PCI driver gets rolled into the 2.2 kernel distribution.
>
>Any takers ?
>
>Also, I think the BT Speedway card is being pushed pretty strongly with
>the new
>BT Highway products and is selling pretty well, - there may be lots pf
>people out there
>with the same problem as me !
>
>Simon.
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From: "M.C. van den Bovenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ES 1371 on Intel 440BX motherboard
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 09:26:59 +0200
Franck Veysset wrote:
> On the motherboard, there is an integrated sound card, soundBlaster
> 16 compatible, based on an ES 1371 chipset.
>
> Does someone know how to tune the system to be able to compile this sound
> card ???
Take a look at http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/. The 2.0.34
patch mentioned there
(ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/Sound/2.0.34-modular-3.patch.gz)
worked for me to get my SoundBlaster 64PCI working, which is based on
the same chip. I'm running 2.0.35, though.
Regards,
--
Marco van den Bovenkamp.
CIO EMEA Network Design Engineer,
Lucent Technologies Nederland.
Room: HVS BZK 32
Tel.: (+31-35-687)2724
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
From: "J. R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear ISA EA201c NIC
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:01:16 GMT
Allen wrote:
>
> It still won't boot after taking out the NIC?
That's right.
> I guess at that point,
> best thing to do is to dump the CMOS memory, and remove all cards or drive
> connectors except video card, and start re-booting from there, adding parts
> one at a time, 'till you find out which one won't allow you to continue.
Well, I'm afraid I can't leave out the I/O card, either, as it contains
both
the floppy and the HD controllers. ;-)
But seriously, this is the first time this old ('92 vintage) Gateway '486
did something like this, despite of many hardware reconfigs in the
meantime.
I still need to do more testing along the lines you suggested, but I'm
afraid
the problem might be in the motherboard, as I have already tried a
different
I/O card to no avail. I have two IDE HDs and both show gibberish when
doing
the dir on them in the DOS partition. The Linux partition is also giving
up on boot. The BIOS looks good though.
>From the fact that this happened after I put in thet new NIC, may indicate
that
either the NIC was somehow bad and shorted something on the MoBo, or the
great
force that had to be used to seat the card in the edge connector broke
some
traces in the MoBo. For that's one thing I always hated about this
ISA-bus
PC: the excessive force required to press those cards in the edge
connectors.
PCI slots are just so much smoother when inserting a card in them!
Anyway, thanks for the empathy,
Joe
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From: "David Claney" <dclaney@qa(Spamfree)display.com>
Subject: Ping? Ping? Verified
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 11:58:52 -0400
It was a stroke of luck that I continued to hack away at network
configurator in xwindows and it finally took. I can ping all machines on
the network, but I am dumbfounded, If I can ping from the linux box and see
the network shouldn't I be able to ping it back from another machine? Is
there something else we need to do?
DClaney@Qa(nospam)display
just remove the nospam for email, but I prefer to just read the news group I
learn there are so many ways to accomplish the same thing that way.
"see you next week, same bat time, same bat channel."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Redhat 5.2 and HP Kayak XU-U2 PII300 with Array 1000CA Controller?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:37:18 GMT
Redhat 5.2 and HP Kayak XU-U2 PII300 with Array 1000CA Controller,
Getting SCSI TimeOut Errors, Any ideas???
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
From: h <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FORSALE: Mitsubishi Amity CN (Win95/Linux dual boot)
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:35:14 GMT
I'm selling my Linux laptop on Ebay. If you're interested, please
follow the link:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=90620327
Regards,
-Ken
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete)
Subject: Support for CD changers?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:15:55 GMT
Hello all,
I happen to have a Panasonic 5 disc CD changer. (IDE)
I was wondering (other than treating it like a plain old CD drive)
is there any other OS support for such a beast? Like the ability
to switch cd's and automount?
Thanks and best regards,
-Pete
Please respond to the group or remove the hack from my address to mail
me directly...
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:51:20 +0200
From: Wolfgang Ganzert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Power off with ATX at shutdown
Hello,
maybe someone can help me. I am looking for a (free) software tool which
is capable of powering off my PC with an ATX power supply. The powering
off should be done at operating system shut down as it is included in
Win95.
Are there any suggestions?
I would be thankfull if the answer could be mailed directly to me (and
to the news group) since I have sometimes problems accessing the news
server.
Thank You in advance
Wolfgang
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XInput: Switch from MS mouse to Graphics tablet
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:28:17 GMT
As there are plenty of question out there but very few answers, I thought that
it might be helpful to post an extremely useful link that helped solve my
problem (quoted below):
http://www.delix.de/Linux/Support/Info/wacom.html
My congratulation to Edward who wrote the page... it is exceptionally helpful.
In article <7et0pu$okj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> All,
>
> Looking for help changing my XInput from using a normal mouse on /dev/cua0 to
> using a graphics tablet mouse (Intuous/Wacom) as the input to a kernel 2.2.2
> based Linux system running on Intel hardware (AMD K6 233MHz, 128MB ram).
>
> The XWindows system is 3.3.3.
>
> I have followed the step-by-step instructions gleaned form the 'net,
> changing /etc/XF86Config to:
>
> load the Wacom module
> Added Xinput sections for Wacom stylus and Eraser with "AlwaysCore" enabled.
>
> However, the graphics tablet should be on /dev/mouse (/dev/cua0) but the
> "Pointer" section used to configure the (MS) mouse points to this as well. I
> want to remove the mouse completely and only use the mouse that comes with the
> graphics tablet, however removing the "Pointer" section causes X to error on
> startup.
>
> Running with both enabled causes X to crash (and it winds up the Linux OS so
> that I need to hard-reset the box ... not very friendly. I am willing to
> accept that maybe there were problems when I upgraded form 3.3.2 to 3.3.3 of
> X and snoop around the system on that basis, but what I would really really
> appreciate is if any gurus out there can confirm the correct way to disable a
> "normal" mouse and only use the Xinput devices to control the pointer and X's
> operations. I want to physically unplug the old mouse for good and use that
> port (/dev/ttyS0 or /dev/cua0) for the grpahics tablet, it's stylus, eraser
> and mouse only.
>
> If anyone has actually achieved this, the relevant extracts from your
> XF86Config would be VERY much appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>
> Brad
>
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>
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: psaux device or resource busy
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 19:25:53 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What does cat /proc/interrupts show ?
PS: Your signature is a bit on the LARGE side.
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From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound blaster live
Date: 13 Apr 1999 11:50:03 +0200
Alpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> any suggestions of what to do with a sound blaster live model number
> sb4670 sound card??
> other than buying a new one
> it appears as though sound blaster does not support this card on linux
> only on inferior operating systems
> any suggestions on drivers
You have two options:
1. Wait until the drivers come out.
2. Find a Windows user with a supported soundcard and swap with her/him.
--
Harald Arnesen, Apall�kkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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From: john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Need Sound Card Suggestions
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:39:15 +0100
u could check the creative (labs) website to see if they have any
information on this sound card, and whether it is compatible with linux.
otherwise, email the support people, or find sum1 who has is setup
already and ask them how.
i do see other people asking if they have drivers for it already here.
Your best bet might be to visit http://www.opensound.com
they have a list of sound cards that are supported.
http://www.opensound.com/osshw.html
you can download a utility from here which allows you to setup your
sound card i think. i have never used it tho.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, dsfox@c.? writes
>Every time I ask about sound quality I hear how easy they are to set
>up! In my experience the AWE-64 has just OK sound quality, though its
>a big step above the real cheap ones.
>
>"Ferdinand V. Mendoza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>> Mine is SoundBlaster AWE 64. It works great
>> with Linux_Mandrake. No pain in setting up.
>>
>> Bud
>>
>> David Fox wrote:
>>
>> > How is the sound quality? I think I tried one of those and it sounded
>> > like an AM radio.
>> >
>> > "Derek Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >
>> > > I use the creative ensoniq AudioPCI es1371 and it only cost around 30
>bucks
>> > > with rebate and had absolutley no prob setting it up.
>> > > Steve Orosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> > > >Hi,
>> > > > I am going to buy a new sound card for my computer and I would like
>> > > >to get one that supports Linux and Windows. So far the only card that
>> > > >I've liked so far is the SoundBlaster 128PCI. However I'm not sure if
>> > > >it is supported in Linux. If anyone can help me in choosing a good
>> > > >soundcard for my computer. So if anyone has any suggestions for a PCI
>> > > >soundcard PLEASE let me know. I would prefer a PCI sound card but if
>> > > >there are some good ISA soundcards also tell me about them.
john
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From: "Gregory Benjamin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Best chip/method for new PCI card design
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 00:52:37 -0700
I'm in the early stages of designing a PCI card
for a laser film recorder (LFR) device. I have never
designed a PCI card or written a Linux driver, but
I have both designed hardware and written low-level
RTOS code for several processors over the years.
I want to produce a board design that works well on
the first try, or failing that, with minimal rework.
Volume will be low, so PCI interfaces in the form of
an IP core in an FPGA are probably out. The
computer system is dedicated to driving the LFR and
doing simple queue management. What I'm looking for
are recommendations on the most appropriate vendor/chip
for the PCI interface, the cleanest buffering/FIFOing
architecture that will assure me of no data loss, and
pointers on the most appropriate driver sources to use
as a starting point. I am also interested in inexpensive
(<$500) PCI development boards/tools to allow prototyping.
I have some familiarity with product offerings from
AMCC, Anchorchips, PLX, etc.
Here are some particulars:
# Laserlab LFR PCI design
o device is a high-resolution laser film recorder (LFR)
o LFR is controlled by a dedicated PC
o PC will run Linux (no support for other OSes planned)
o PC configuration
- ASUS P2B mainboard
- Intel CPU >= 366MHz.
- 128MB RAM
- Matrox G200 graphics adapter
- UDMA IDE disk(s) attached to mainboard
- 10/100 mbit/sec NIC
- LFR PCI card
o LFR charcteristics
- synchronous device -- data MUST be present when needed
- data processed as scan lines
- two scan line periods: 2.5 and 5.0 ms
- 5 Kilobytes per 2.5 ms scan line
( 400 scans/sec * 5KB/line = 2MB/sec)
- 10 Kilobytes per 5.0 ms scan line
( 200 scans/sec * 10KB/line = 2MB/sec)
- image takes up to 8 minutes, 40 seconds to produce
- image size 1040 Megabytes (maximum)
o LFR PCI card requirements
-- outbound data rate 2 megabytes/sec
-- inbound data rate < 100 kilobytes/sec
o Data flow
-- receive from NIC via tcp/ip
-- save to disk as sequence of files
-- read from disk to RAM
-- minimally process in RAM
-- output to LFR PCI card
All input appreciated!
o-----------------------------------------------------------------------o
| Gregory Benjamin Laserlab, Inc. o Laser photoplotting |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6790 Top Gun Street o CNC machining |
| Suite 9 o Chemical milling |
| San Diego, CA 92121 o Printed Circuit Fabrication |
| www.laserlab.com Tel: 619-646-7660 o Precision photomasks |
| ftp.laserlab.com Fax: 619-646-7667 o AutoCAD to Gerber conversion|
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 13 Apr 1999 12:42:04 -0500
In article <7evcd6$pe1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>My definition of getopt() has it operating in the context of the command to
>parse the **argv - but I admit that my phrasing was misleading. My point was
>that the shell passes the command string with minimal changes.
That doesn't make sense to anyone who knows that the purpose of
the shell is to process the command line.
>I would like to see something seamless, so that if you change the default in
>the 'shell' (I am using the Unix term here) it will automatically change the
>_default_ behaviour of the application. The application will always have the
>right to override any defaults for it's own needs.
Again, this doesn't make any sense when the 'application' is in fact
a shell script, using what you are calling applications as tools.
Cp, rm, ln, etc., etc. are intended to be single-purpose utilities
to be used like functions within a shell framework. Why would you
ever want the tool to override the behaviour that it's caller
expected?
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 13 Apr 1999 13:07:25 -0500
In article <7evb3q$oec$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >System libraries. The solution is known.
>>
>> That makes it really ugly when different users want different versions
>> and doesn't deal with the other ways that people use shell expansions.
>> What is a system library going to do with:
>> =======
>> FILES=`echo *`
>> cp $FILES /tmp
>> rm $FILES
>> ========
>> The $FILES variable is known only to the shell so cp and rm aren't
>> going to be able to expand it no matter what libraries they have.
>> This kind of operation is often needed for 'live' directories
>> where you want to do several operations to the same set of files
>> even though more may appear between the set.
>
>So use a variable that is visible to the application.
The shell is the application. What you propose would be the
equivalent of exposing private variables as globals to functions
that don't need to see them.
>I am not proposing fixes
>for Unix here - I am stating that the flaws in Unix are fundamental and basic,
>and that it should not be a basis for the OS for the new millenium. I'm not
>proposing that Unix should be thrown away, just that it shouldn't be the
>universal solution.
I think you are just claiming that anything you don't understand must
be flawed. The simplicity of the unix approach does take some
understanding.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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