Linux-Hardware Digest #48, Volume #10 Fri, 16 Apr 99 23:14:00 EDT
Contents:
Ideal Linux Box? (Craig M Lambert)
Re: ATI Rage Fury (Andreas Spengler)
Re: HELLLPPPP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
Re: ES 1371 on Intel 440BX motherboard ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
Graphics card compatibility??? (Shymon Shlafman)
winbook laptops (Christian Reilly)
BUYING A MODEM ("Tuomo O. Vuolteenaho")
Re: Most effective SCSI setup for Linux (David Ripton)
Re: I NEED 4 THINGS !!! PLEASE !!! (Roberto Alsina)
Re: Network cards info please (Peter Pawlowski)
Please help! Kernel panic! ("John Dixon")
Re: Graphics card compatibility??? (Scott Stone)
Re: Creative Labs' Riva TNT (Scott Stone)
Hardware-controller (Peter Pawlowski)
Pansonic KX-P152 printer problems....out of paper? (Prothonotar)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Robbt
Erisbright")
Re: Dual Processing with Celeron Processors (WORLOK)
Re: eth0 not found by ping etc ("Gene Heskett")
Re: laptops and linux (David Ripton)
How to install cheapest X Terminal for every room?? (Raphael)
Help on Redhat Starbuck with Sound Blaster PCI 128? (Harry Fu)
Re: AMD K6 Slackwera Installation (OldUncleMe)
Re: Winmodems And Linux. ("Rufus V. Smith")
Re: Monitor Specs (Dieter Stumpner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig M Lambert)
Subject: Ideal Linux Box?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:04:51 GMT
Hi,
I'm about to build myself a new Linux box and wanted some feedback
about the hardware I have selected for it. (I am going to use Caldera
1.3 in it).
Motherboard: Asus P5A (rev 1.0.4) [Dabs Direct] socket 7/
Asus P5S-vm (as long as AMD K7 can be
supported)
CPU: AMD K6-3/K7 (when it comes out) 450-500mhz
Ram: 128mb SDRAM PC100
Hard drive: large UDMA > 10gb (not sure what make)
Graphics card: AGP possibly ATI xpert 98/99 or ATI Xpert @
work 8/12mb (must be compatible with Linux)
CDROM: >=40x IDE (possibly Panasonic/Creative - compatible
with Linux)
Floppy disk: Generic
Mouse: 3 button Microsoft - serial port
Keyboard: win 95 (104)
Box: ATX power supply, with 2, 5.25" drive
bays and 2, 3.5" bays
Printer: Epson colour 640
Soundcard: Creative labs PCI (16bit)
Tv card: Hauppage/ati compat.-(connects with graphics
card)
The other hardware such as the monitor and modem, I already have.
Thanks for any help
Craig
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:51:57 +0200
From: Andreas Spengler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Hi Jeremy,
Jeremy Shinall wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I just installed Red Hat 5.2 on my system running at 374MHz (Celeron
> 300A overclocked using 4.5 x 83MHz). I have an ATI Rage Fury AGP video
> running the Rage 128GL chipset with 32 MB RAM. RH installed just fine,
> but when I type 'startx' the screen blinks then returns an error that no
> screens were found. I've tried just about EVERY setting in Xconfigurator
> for the type of card, chipset, and whether to probe or not. Nothing
> helps. Any ideas?
>
Bad luck.
this Chipset isn�t supported under X yet. ATI is no friend of Linux.... ;-(
Greetings,
Andreas Spengler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: HELLLPPPP
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:28:55 GMT
Hi from a fellow newbie.
Sounds to me like when you used FDISk you forgot to format the Jaz
disk as ext2 , as needed by Linux.
Probably the Jaz disk is pre formatted as Windoze compatible Fat32, on
which Linux can't be installed.
Bill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:01:48 +1000, "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Help...... I can't install redhat 5.2
>the problem is, after I choose fdisk then I get to choose between hard
>disk and jaz drive (where I want to install)
>
>the problem:
>
>after entering "/jaz" as mounting thing (???), the when I press OK,
>it says "need to have root (/) directory in linux native format ext2 to
>continue installation" or something like that.
>
>I haven't got a clue on what this meant.
>If anybody sucessfully installed red hat on jaz disk, (also for bootable
>disk), or knows how to do it, PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO.
>
>thank's
>
>
>
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From: Shymon Shlafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Graphics card compatibility???
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:22:50 +0200
Hello, Linux people!!!
I'm going to buy for my Pentium-166MMX the following graphic card:
ATI Xpert98 PCI (8MB,RagePro).
Please, answer ( if anyone knows ) if Linux supports this card.
I'll appreciate your answers.
Bye,
Shymon
P.S.: Please, send answers to my E-mail.
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ES 1371 on Intel 440BX motherboard
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:38:21 -0500
Harry McGregor wrote:
> The should not be ESS chips, but ES (ensoniq Sound), ess is another
> company. Ensoniq was bought out by creative about a year and a half
> ago. The AudioPCI (ES1370 and 1371) is a very good card. Get the
> 2.2.5 kernel, compile it, and it runs great.
The card has good sound quality, no doubt. I ran mine under Windoze before
installing linux. But the huge amount of stuff that needs to be done, and
the disk space it takes, to get it to run MIDI is ridiculous.
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From: Shymon Shlafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Graphics card compatibility???
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:19:02 +0200
Hello, Linux people!!!
I'm going to buy for my Pentium-166MMX the following graphic card:
ATI Xpert98 PCI (8MB,RagePro).
Please, answer ( if anyone knows ) if Linux supports this card.
I'll appreciate your answers.
Bye,
Shymon
P.S.: Please, send answers to my E-mail.
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From: Shymon Shlafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Graphics card compatibility???
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:20:15 +0200
Hello, Linux people!!!
I'm going to buy for my Pentium-166MMX the following graphic card:
ATI Xpert98 PCI (8MB,RagePro).
Please, answer ( if anyone knows ) if Linux supports this card.
I'll appreciate your answers.
Bye,
Shymon
P.S.: Please, send answers to my E-mail.
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From: Christian Reilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: winbook laptops
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 16:42:45 -0700
Hi all,
I just saw an add for a sub $1000 laptop, the "Winbook" in New
Scientist. Has anyone tried putting Linux on one of these? The name is
scary, but for $999....
Thanks,
-CR
==============================================================================
Christian Reilly Department of Biological Science
Hopkins Marine Station Stanford University
Pacific Grove, CA 93950 (831)655-6223
"What do you want to take apart today?"
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From: "Tuomo O. Vuolteenaho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BUYING A MODEM
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 00:28:58 GMT
Question 1: For dual boot NT/Linux users: Which modem should I buy? I
need a 56k modem that works well with both NT and Linux. Specs: Epox
kp6-bs motherboard, NT4.0sp4, SuSE 6.0.
Question 2: Cable modem. Are there some special issues with this one?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Most effective SCSI setup for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:10:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >Once you get enough memory that you are not swapping heavily, then the thing to
>> >do about optimizing compiler performance is a faster CPU. Note, even though it
>> >is counterintutive, having a FPU in your computer will help GCC compiler
>> >performance (the reason is, that floating point is used to hold the register
>> >quality numbers that the compiler sorts to pick which pseudo register to
>> >allocate to a hard register first, and if you don't have a floating point unit,
>> >the kernel will have to emulate each floating point instruction).
>>
>> I'm not about to argue gcc issues with an egcs guru, but how is he going
>> to get his hands on a CPU that runs on a Pentium motherboard that *doesn't*
>> have an FPU? AFAIK, all the pin-compatible Pentium clones do have FPUs,
>> although FP operations tend to be significantly slower than Intel's.
>
>Yeah, I was tending to think of the low end 386/486 chips that didn't have a
>FPU, which was still an issue back when I was the x86 GCC maintainer. But hey
>since I haven't done much to the x86 port in 4+ years (as compared to other GCC
>ports), I couldn't remember if there were low end Pentiums without the floating
>point unit.
The Nexgen Nx586 was the last x86 clone that didn't have a FPU. I think it
ran on a Socket 4 5V Pentium board, but I could be mistaken. Anyone got one?
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From: Roberto Alsina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I NEED 4 THINGS !!! PLEASE !!!
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:06:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Thrasher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1.) To get a GUI interface (preferably an RPM) that works in KDE on
> RedHat 5.2 that will enable me to use my CD-R (Mitsumi 2801TE). I
> already have it set up for SCSI correctly. X-cdroast is a piece of shit.
KIsoCD :
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~um12/kisocd-index.html
The page is in german, but the english pages at
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~um12/kisocd.html
describe it as
"a tool made to easily create data-CDs. It helps
you composing the contents of the cd; the work itself is
done by mkisofs and burning the CD by cdrecord. "
It's the very first listed app in KDE web site's application page!
> 2.) Same as above but for a generic scanner, and please don't tell me to
> go to mostang.com I have and installed SANE their documentation sux and
> I need a step by step method for someone new to Linux (that seems very
> hard to come by!).
Sorry, but SANE is all there is, as far as I know.
> 3.) I set up my printer in the Red Hat installation without a hitch, it
> seemed. I try to print, no dice!
What happens when you print?
> 4.) A good, free Office Suite for KDE in RPM format.
Need a car too? ;-)
KDE's office suite, KOffice is still not released, except in an alpha form,
which means it is not ready for widespread use.
There are some "office programs" for KDE which are in a more useful shape,
for example KLyX (kindof a word processor) and KSIAG (a spreadsheet).
On the other hand, StarOffice ( A office suite from Star Division,
http://www.stardiv.com ) is free for personal use, very featureful, and has
some KDE integration. It is quite heavy, though.
> I know it sounds like a lot but until I am able to get these things
> resolved I will be unable to delete Microsoft Win95. I really want Linux
> to win but if things like this aren't addressed with a little more ease
> IT NEVER WILL!! I am fed up with messing with zipped files and compiling
> shit!
>
> Am I screwed???
You are a bit on the demanding side, but I wouldn't say screwed.
Keep in mind, however, that you are paying nothing, so what you can "demand"
is limited. You can politely request, of course.
--
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From: Peter Pawlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Network cards info please
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:21:33 -0500
I got a D-Link 220P for 20 dollars. It comes with DOS software that disables
PNP and shows you the hardware based irq and io information. Get the io, go
into linux and type:
modprobe ne io=0x***
***, the number from the program.
You're network card should work, just as it did for me.
Peter Pawlowski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does the Netgear FA310TX network card require fiddling around with isapnp?
> If so, what other network card is good, less than $25, and doesn't require
> messing around with isapnp? Thanks for any info. Please email also if
> possible
>
> ekw
>
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From: "John Dixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help! Kernel panic!
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:27:11 -0700
I am running Redhat 5.2 with a 2.2.4 kernel on an IBM ThinkPad with KDE 1.1.
I was configuring efax today when I got an error message as I attempted to
open a console: "corrupt shared libraries". In fact, everything I tried to
run gave the same error message. I was able to dump out of X-windows, but
even the "reboot" command at the root prompt yielded only a "corrupt shared
libraries" message. When I cold-booted, the process only went as far as the
attempt to mount the drives, and I get a "kernel panic - no init". When I
try to boot using my boot disk and rescue disk, I am stopped at the same
point in the process, only the message is slightly more verbose, with
something like "kernel panic - no init....trying to pass init to kernel"
.......
and then full stop.
I'm just not experienced enough with Linux to guess what the next
intelligent move might be. If I was back in the world of dos, I would
strongly suspect a virus of some kind. Luckily the Win98 partition on the
box is still functioning, and I am able to send out this SOS in a bottle.
ANY ideas would be most gratefully received. I just hate the idea of
dumping about four months of work on my Linux setup.
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From: Scott Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics card compatibility???
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:34:52 -0700
jedi wrote:
>
> On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:39:28 +0200, Shymon Shlafman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> > Hello, Linux people!!!
> >
> >I'm going to buy for my Pentium-166MMX the following graphic card:
> > ATI Xpert98 PCI (8MB,RagePro).
>
> Get an 8M Matrox G200 or Banshee/Voodoo3 instead.
>
however, the ATI card will work fine.
At least, if you're using XFree86 3.3.3 or 3.3.3.1.
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UNIX Systems/Network Admin (Consultant)
Taos Mountain Software
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From: Scott Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Labs' Riva TNT
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:33:50 -0700
Chris wrote:
>
> I have the AGP version, but I wouldn't think that it would be any
> difference in setting it up. Here is what I am using in X:
>
> Chipset:NV1
> Server:XF86_SVGA
>
> Hopefully that will get things up and running!
>
NV1 is not the right chipset... an NV1 is the predecessor to the
Riva128, which is an NV3. The RivaTNT is an NV4.
> Chris
>
> John Folk wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know how to get this card working in Linux? I have the PCI
> > version and RedHat 5.2. Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>
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Taos Mountain Software
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From: Peter Pawlowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hardware-controller
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:27:59 -0500
If I get a modem that has a hardware-controller, is it virtually
guaranteed to work under linux, or are there stil large chances that it
won't. I would greatly apprectiate any help.
Peter Pawlowski
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of people working for an infinite amount of time, writing
random code, eventually you'll get a working OS. Certain
software companies must of gotten lucky."
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From: Prothonotar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pansonic KX-P152 printer problems....out of paper?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:50:50 -0400
I'm trying to use a Panasonic KX-P1592 with kernel 2.2.3. The parallel port is
in ECP/EPP mode using EPP1.7 (I've also tried EPP1.9, ECP, ECP/SPP and SPP modes
in the BIOS to no avail).
Whenever I try to access /dev/lp0, I get a message saying the printer it out of
paper. It definately is not.
I used to get this problem in Windows 95 long ago, but I tried today printing
from Windows and it worked fine (it was using ECP mode for LPT1). In fact I used
to be able to print from Linux. Several kernel and hardware upgrades later it no
longer works (although it isn't the kernel because 2.0.35 doesn't fare any
better).
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From: "Robbt Erisbright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 19:51:34 -0500
>
>i seem to recall a certain operating system limiting filenames to
>just 14 chars until fairly recently. this particular annoyance is now
>(largely) fixed and (almost) everyone is happy.
>
>microsoft, in their incompetance, botched the move to long filenames
>horribly.
>
>still filename length limitations have nothing to with case
>sensitivity. bringing it up is a cheap ruse to deflect the real
>question.
>
>case sensitivity is really neither good nor bad, it just is. i
>happen to prefer it. however, there's no accounting for taste and i
>understand if you do not care for it.
>
>--
>johan kullstam
I think you just proved whoever' said that case sensitive OS's translate
towards lowercase OS's since everything even your name isn't
capitalized...I'm not really trying to take any side really, I just was
observing this drawn out thread and decided to point this out...
Really in all fairness. I think that maybe it could be an option you could
turn off in the kernel or what not ? to translate it all to lowercase as far
as files are concerned but let you use non case sensitive...or just have the
GUI shell intelligently query it as both before turning up the error.
And yeah I really do dislike Microsoft's conversion from the short file
names to long file names freaking ~1 tildas everywhere but ohh well...
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From: WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processing with Celeron Processors
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:16:24 GMT
You can buy the processors and motherboard, overclocked and fully guaranteed
from http://www.computernerd.com . About US$499.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I see people reference the fact that they have dual processor
> linux boxes with *modified* celeron processors. Can any one
> provide an description/url that describes the modifications
> required
> and why it is necessary.
>
> I am presently looking to purchase such a setup so success and
> horror
> stories welcome...
>
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Date: 16 Apr 99 22:26:04 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eth0 not found by ping etc
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Robin Jackson;
>>However, any pings that would have to go thru the card to get to the
>>rest of our network apparently go into a black hole, no matching led
>>activity on the back of the card. I can't ping its assigned address
>>from any other machine on the network either, altho in that case, I do
>>see the red led dancing at 1 per second intervals.
>>
>>Its kind of a stripped install, about 280 megs of a 329 meg drive, but
>>I'd think that if a vital piece of the networking wasn't there,
>>something would surely squawk.
>>
>>Pinging its own assigned address quad works, as does the localhost
>>address.
>I you get any answers by email can you let me know please as I have a
>similar problem (although I cannot ping my own address which is strange).
>Robin
I found that problem today Robin. It seems the CMOS can steer IRQ's,
and that board has the ability to assign each IRQ to a pci slot or to
the ISA slot. All my junky old cards are ISA, and most of the IRQ's
were defaulted to the PCI slots. SO I have it online thru our SOCKS
server on the main amiga, but gawd is that connection slow, about 100
cps average.
The SOCKS server running on the Amiga is SOCKS 4, and I've not been able
to find any docs in the old netscape (4.08?) to tell me if they expect a
V4 or a V5 when the socks proxy is turned on.
Can anyone define how compatible such a lashup might be? All the rest
of the house network browses thru this SOCKS4 on the amiga, thru a 56k
modem, and have not noticed any huge drop in speed since most of those
machines had either 28.8 or 33.6 modems in them.
Cheers, Gene
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RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: laptops and linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:31:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Scott Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a question for anyone out there. Next year I'm heading off to
>college and i was thinking about buying a laptop, because i plan on taking
>my other computer (a mac running linux) i thought a pc laptop would save a
>lot of space. My question is, i would be using the laptop to run linux and
>do devolopement. So i would need somehting that could handle X Windows,
>handle sound, and graphics. Have a floppy and cdrom, around 64-96MB
>memory. Im thinking a pentium II type processor. Anyway my question is,
>where could i find a nice laptop for around 2,000 - 3,000 dollars, that
>will run linux beutifully? Thanks in advance.
Just bought a ProStar 1200 from www.imperialdirect.com. K6-2/400,
64 MB, 14.2" XGA, 4MB Virge/MX, 6.5 GB HD, ESS1869 sound, floppy
and 24X CDROM, and "free" Win98 (no Windows refund available on
this model) for $1800. Added a D-Link DFE-650TX pcmcia network
card and a proper Logitech mouse. Works great under Linux,
except that I don't have MIDI working yet and I haven't bothered
fiddling with the infrared or USB ports.
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From: Raphael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: How to install cheapest X Terminal for every room??
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 15:32:30 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am starting a home automation project, and I am thinking of having a
computer installed in every room. The perfect solution is for all these
to be X Terminals which are diskless and connects to the main server in
the closet. What is the cheapest and easiest way to do this?? I will
probably need sound capability so I can route voice messages etc.
I just saw someone in another newsgroup selling HP Enzivex X-Terminals
for $150CND, will they be useful??
Looking for advices and suggestions,
Thanks!!
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Director (Performance) - P.P.A. Productions Inc.
Linux Specialist - T.D.A. Development Centre
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From: Harry Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help on Redhat Starbuck with Sound Blaster PCI 128?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:42:04 GMT
I encountered a strange problem here. My sndconfig seems to configure my SB
PCI 128 fine but wouldn't play any sound back. For example, there is no CD
music, no other sound effect. When I use the sndconfig program, it detects
the sound card okay, showing PCI audio device found, and even do the sound
test but the volume was really low compare with my other machine which runs
AWE64. After the sndconfig, I could not hear any sound from the programs that
I have tried. Is it the problem with new kernel 2.2.x sound modules? If there
is any latest info on this subject matter would be appreciate.
H. Fu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OldUncleMe)
Subject: Re: AMD K6 Slackwera Installation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:40:50 GMT
It was: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:44:51 GMT and with STARTLING insight, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Michael)" posted "AMD K6 Slackwera Installation" to "comp.os.linux.hardware" :
-->Hi:
-->
-->I have an INTEVA Pentium computer with AMD K6/200 processor,
-->Award Plug and Play BIOS. The board is M5ATA Pentium Super with PCI
-->and IDE bus. I have IDE hard drives (2.1 and 6.4 G), IDE CDROM,
-->parallel port ZIP, HP printer.
-->
-->I tried to install Slackware 3.6 but half way through installing the
-->ramdisk, the computer reboots. I have tired all the boot disks that
-->were logocal. I have also tried booting from the CDROm (no luck), I
-->have tied running the live system and the live from Zip. None work.
-->
-->From the Newsgroups mesages, I understand this not my particular
-->problem (I am not a novice), but that it hapens to many people. I have
-->not seen it before or its solution.
-->
-->If it is a problem of the BIOS, can I disable the BIOS? Can I change
-->it?
-->
-->If it not a problem of the BIOS, what can I do?
-->
-->I would apprecite any suggestion. I am working with Linux in a NexGen
-->90 Mhz without co-processor while the Pentium is runing Windows 95.
-->
-->Thanks in advance.
-->
-->Mike
Sounds like a problem with ram: can you swap out the computer's ram or take it and
have it
tested? Are there any device conflicts with current settings? G'luck, /ts
tenox @ home dat com
/ts
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From: "Rufus V. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems And Linux.
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:40:27 -0400
There are no ways to use Winmodems with Linux on the immediate
horizon, AFAIK. Sorry.
KrOnZ wrote in message <7f88tm$g2k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Here are my specs: RedHat 5.2, U.S. Robotics 56K Internal Winmodem ISA.
>
> Does anyone know any way i can get my Winmodem to work in linux? I'm
>new to linux and most people are telling me that there might be a way,
>Please Help Me..
>
>If you can help e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dieter Stumpner)
Subject: Re: Monitor Specs
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:42:56 GMT
taken from the Win95 monitor3.inf (and the inf-File from Acer
http://www.acer.com/aac/support/articles/95mon3.htm)
7177is="AcerView 77is"
[7177is.AddReg]
HKR,"MODES\1280,1024",Mode1,,"30.0-69.0,50.0-110.0,+,+"
HKR,,MaxResolution,,"1280,1024"
HKR,,DPMS,,1
HKR,,ICMProfile,1,9
horizontal frequencies between 30.0 and 69.0 kHz
vertical frequencies between 50.0 and 110.0 Hz
Max Resolution 1280x1024 dots
About +,+? i think it meens sync +, +
DPMS is available (Powermanagement)
I realy don't know what ICMProfile meens
Nice day wishes
Dieter
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 13:52:02 -0600, "Jean Void" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have a monitor, but the manual didn't say anything about the rates. I
>remember seeing a website with a database of the different monitor specs.
>BTW, I have an Acerview 77is
>Can anyone direct me to it?
>
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