Linux-Hardware Digest #594, Volume #10 Sat, 26 Jun 99 03:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: Overclocking CPU (Fire martial Bill)
Re: How do I set up a SCSI card manually? (Nilsa gonzalez)
Re: DC10+ with Linux (Andrea Borgia)
Camera for Video Conferencing ("Matthew Cheng")
Re: kppp (A)
Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2 (Craig Kelley)
Will Promise FastTrak66 work under Linux? ("Daniel Kao")
Re: Win98 FDISK no longer works after Linux install (Bernhard Ernst)
Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2 ("Andrew J. Norman")
Trident 64bit 3D AGP ?? ("Kent Livingston")
Please Look At My HomePage!!!
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Mounting Troubles ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Overclocking CPU ("Andrew J. Norman")
IntelliStation upgrade? (Steve Thompson)
new Linux portal site - for professional Linux developers (dan braun)
Re: Joystick support.... (Fire martial Bill)
Problems with Audio Play/Rec on MediaGX systems with RH 5.2 (Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas)
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From: Fire martial Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Overclocking CPU
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 04:26:14 GMT
Bart�omiej Niechwiej wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've got Intel Celeron 366Mhz processor and I was trying to overclock
> it. Unfortunately all Celerons have fixed its multiplier so there is
> only one way to overclock it - to change FSB speed. I have an ABIT BH6
> motherboard which supports 66,75,83,100,112, 124 and 133 MHz selection
> for FSB speed but unfortunately PCI speed is determined from FSB speed
> (66-83 its 1/2 FSB, 100-133 its 1/2 FSB). I managed to set FSB 83Mhz and
> everything under Win95 was OK - I run Quake2 for about 2 hours and
> nothing wrong happened. So I decided to test if linux will suffer some
> overclocking...
> For about six reboots it was OK and the I saw: "Unable to mount root
> device...". When I tried to boot from floppy and repair it I failed.
> After repairing ext2 nothing was readable!!! It was completly damaged
> and I lost about 2GB!!!
> What could be wrong with linux?
> Why does Windows (or rather winshit) work?...
>
> Bartlomiej Niechwiej.
Try disabling UDMA in bios and setting pio 4
Had a similar prob. at 6 @ 83 (celeron 400) I'd go 5.5 @ 75 (412) just
for the extra
stability . I am hopping that a patch for 41.5 MHz controller will come
out soon.
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From: Nilsa gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I set up a SCSI card manually?
Date: 26 Jun 1999 00:30:37 GMT
EddieC wrote:
>
> I have a SCSI card that works properly under windows but Linux cannot
> autodetect it. I have found that it needs the aha152x driver but I don't
> know the rest of the line, or how to start the driver manually. Can
anybody
> help?
> I need to use the aha152x driver on a card w/ IRQ12 and IO 0140-015F.
What
> is the line and where can I put it to use my card. Thanks.
>
>
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From: Andrea Borgia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DC10+ with Linux
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 05:47:15 GMT
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:17:58 +0100,
in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jim Hauxwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone had any success using a DC10+ capture board with Linux? I' sick of
>the 2GB file limit on windows AVI's and want to swap to something which will
>do proper captures.
As far as I know, the newer software will happily produce AVIs larger
than 2GB but then you have to find software that knows how to deal
with them (Xing is supposed to be one).
With regards to Linux, at this moment there isn't a driver for this
board, not even a beta. There's a driver for an older (maybe) version
of the DC30, there's a driver for LML33 (that uses the same Zoran
chips but a different video frontend) and a few more other.
My idea is to write it... I know it sounds bold, but it's about the
only thing left to do. I have the specs for all the chips, the other
driver code to look at, I know two Real Kernel Hackers and I'm already
pestering one of them (thanks Illo) for help on PCI programming.
Want to jump in and help right from the very beginning?
--
Alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ftp and mirror administrator on ftp.students.cs.unibo.it
Homepage: http://caristudenti.students.cs.unibo.it/~borgia/
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Reply-To: "Matthew Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Matthew Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Camera for Video Conferencing
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 05:32:13 GMT
Hi all,
I'm looking for a camera for video conferencing/multicasting on Linux
platform (Red Hat 5.2 or Linux 2.0.36). I know Connectix/Logitech
Quickcam/Quickcam 2 and Panasonic Eggcam w/ PCI video capture card should
work. But two problems:
1) Quickcam/Quickcam 2 is so old that I can't even find it anywhere and the
new versions of Quickcam don't work with the VC/MC applications.
2) I need a camera for a laptop and therefore the Panasonic one is no good.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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From: A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: kppp
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 01:28:21 +0100
It wold do no harm to suggest that you check that you have entered your DNS
servers correctly .. if you don't know these you can get them from internics
homepage or by ringing your tec-support
Ali
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove nospam to send email)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The first thing to do is to add 'debug'
>and 'kdebug 3' into pppd arguments in kppp
>account setup. Then post the resulting log
>in /var/log/messages back to this group
>
>
>
>In article <7jjivb$68f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Pian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> hi all....
>>
>> i still can't logging to internet using kppp
>dialer in mandrake 6.0...it
>> works perfectly in redhat before i switch to
>mandrake 6.0 .....anybody here
>> facing the same problem ?...i'm using Merz 33.6
>External Voice Modem...
>>
>> this is the error message :
>> localhost pppd[1381] : pppd 2.3.7 started by
>root, uid 0
>> localhost pppd[1381] : Using interface ppp0
>> localhost pppd[1381] : Connect: ppp0 <---
>> /dev/ttys1
>> localhost pppd[1381] : Hangup (SIGHUP)
>> localhost pppd[1381] : Modem hangup
>> localhost pppd[1381] : Connection terminated
>> localhost pppd[1381] : Connect time 0.3 minutes
>>
>> i've tried changing the ttys1 to cua1 but the
>same error message
>> appeared....
>> kindly advise...thanks in advance
>>
>>
>
>
>
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>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Jun 1999 23:21:18 -0600
Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dump Redhat.. Redhat killed one of my monitor before during installation
> probing.
> I mean totally killed it.
You mean the dialog box which defaults to [NO]?
Along the same lines: I burned (yes, fire) up a monitor on an NT box
a few weeks ago by cranking up the refresh rate too high.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Daniel Kao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Will Promise FastTrak66 work under Linux?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 04:55:35 GMT
Hi All,
I was looking at inexpensive EIDE RAID-0 controllers and found the Promise
FastTrak66. I was going to take two 20GB drive and RAID-0 them. I was wonder
if anyone knew if these cards worked under Linux? Or are these cards even OS
dependent? Thanks!
-Dan
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From: Bernhard Ernst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win98 FDISK no longer works after Linux install
Date: 26 Jun 1999 00:30:38 GMT
> Can't run FDISK anymore. Run it and it just freezes with a blinking
cursor,
> with hard drive light on after I installed Red Hat. I can run Disk Druid
> and see app partitions. Tried re-SYSing C: (to get rid of LILO), still
> doesn't work.
>
> Is this a common thing - unable to read partition tables? I need to add
> another DOS partition, but can't now. What's up?
>
> Thanks
Windoze 95/98 FDISK is blind to many partition types. I doubt if it can
actually see NTFS. Linux FDISK is happy with various types. I had the
same problem with installing OS/2. Windowze FDISK messed up the MBR each
time. You have to install Windoze first, and then NOT use Windoze FDISK,
rather use diskdruid,cfdisk or FDISK of linux, otherwise you can waste many
hours of your time to get nowhere.
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 05:10:13 GMT
To answer your question,
You do not need a video card at all to run a system. Infact I have a
number of machines which do not have video cards of any sort. My favorite is
actually a video-less, disk-less machine which boots off of my server and then
sits as a node in a parallel virtual machine (ie. a distributed cluster of cpus
which can crunch numbers in parallel, very useful for certain types of data
analysis)
The purpose of a video adapter is quite simply to provide an interface between
the computer and a piece of display hardware (normally a monitor, television,
etc....) The most common types of video adapters are expansion cards which
interface on the ISA, EISA, VESA Local, AGP or PCI buses (in large serves you
will find other varients of course) Lately (within the past year and a half to
two years) a number of motherboard manufacturers have started including the
adapter as a builtin part of the the main board. They do this in the form of a
chipset which normally rides on the PCI or AGP buses and may have it's own
dedicated memory or may steal memory from the systems RAM. Normally on board
video (which you seem to indicate you are using) can be disabled using a jumper
on the motherboard and a corresponding setting in BIOS. (note: your original
post indicated you were using and old S3 card circa '93.....umm......which is
it--motherboard video or an expansion card? Also, I am not aware that ANY
motherboard manufacturer in '93 was producing a board with builtin video, so
what motherboard are you using?)
Even without a video adapter, a machine can still produce output to a screen.
The most common method is through a serial terminal. (You will most likely
recognize names like VT100, VT120, VT220.....which were and still are popular
serial terminals produced by DEC. Using one of these an individual can recieve
text output (an on some higher end models graphics) just as if a video adapter
and monitor were present on the system. The real advantage is that a number of
these terminals can be connected to the same machine allowing for a multi user
platform (if you go down to your local computer dungeon you will still see the
mainframes with their spider web of terminals) Believe it or not, a terminal
can often be much more useful than a high end graphics, especially when
debuging networks or other ill behaving hardware.
As for running without a video card--be for warned that most machines before
about '95 will issue a series of beeps indicating that there is no video card
present. This is not normally interpreted as an error condition, so the
machine will continue the boot process.
My advice to you (if your goal is to do a "dry run" of the Redhat install
procedure) is to do so on a machine with an industry standard video adapter
which conforms to true VESA standards. This will ensure that Linux (and any
other OS you may wish to experiment with) will communicate with it correctly.
If your goal is really to get a working systems, then seriously consider
plunking down the cash for some new components. Right now hardware is super
cheap and you can build yourself a large distributed network of SMP machines
with tremendous amounts of memory for very little money......not to mention you
can make a kick ass Quake II box for next to nothing.
When all else fails......read up on the various subjects. There's a lot of
literature out there and most of it is worth the time.
Andrew J. Norman
Dept. of Physics
College of William & Mary
Barry Smith wrote:
> Thanks for your long answer. The problems are: I don't have a spare
> video card; I don't want to buy one as I intend to buy new kit soon, and
> just wanted to practice the installation; and I don't know how to turn
> off the video on the mother board.
>
> And no one has provided an explanation of why a video card is needed.
> What does it matter whether the video electronics and RAM is on a
> separate board, or on the main board?
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From: "Kent Livingston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trident 64bit 3D AGP ??
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 22:02:53 -0500
I'm a Linux newbie three or four installs of RH 6.0 and some years of NT
sysadmin experience.
I have a problem installing on a new PC100, M585LMR system board with
embedded sound, NIC, modem, and video on the system board. At the moment the
problem is that it can't recognize the video during the installation. It
goes forward but the X portion fails.
Running SuperProbe *after* installation shows
==============
First video: Super-VGA
Chipset: Trident (chipset unknown) (PCI probed)
Signature data: 04001023 (please report)
Memory: 256 Kbytes
RAMDAC: Sierra SC1148{2,3,4} 15-bit or SC1148{5,7,9}15/16-bit HiColor(with
8-bit wide lookup tables)
===============
The manufacturer's page ( http://www.pcchips.com.tw/M585LMR.html )shows the
following for this motherboard:
"Embedded Higher performance 64bit 3D AGP Graphics Accelerator with 8MB
frame buffer, supports Windows 98 Multiple Display feature; Motion
Compensation for smooth DVD playback ; AGP Rev. 2.0 Spec. Compliant
================
With NT running the video shows:
34D8400
RAMDA 8Mb
6x 6.0c(20)
=============
Comand line is running fine as far as I can tell but I'd like to fire up the
X system.
I keep trying different settings in xconfigurator without success. Anyone
point me in the right direction?
Thanks,
KL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Mounting Troubles
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 06:14:20 GMT
Alright, here we go again. . .
I want to mount my floppy drive. It should be painfully simple, yet I
am unable to get it to work:
When I type mount /mnt/floppy, I get the error "/dev/fd0 has wrong
major or minor numbers". Now what the hell does "wrong major or minor
numbers"mean, and then how can I rectify it? /dev/fd0 says
brw-r--r--1 root root 2, 0 Jun 22 09:55 /dev/fd0
isn't that what it's supposed to read? Aren't the major/minor numbers
supposed to be 2, 0 ?
Help?
If it matters, I'm running MKLinux DR3 with Generic 7.
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Overclocking CPU
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 05:36:03 GMT
A couple of days ago I posted a message on this subject (regarding why
linux seems to most people to be less friendly to an unstable cpu state)
Below you will find a copy of that message. The jist however is that Linux
(as is true with most Un*x operating systems reports errors that it finds
immediately and acts upon them (normally screaming bloody murder untill you
fix the situtation) The Microsoft family of operating systems
(Win95/98/NT) take an opposite approach and either ignore errors (95 and
98) or quietly log them (NT). The result is that Windows "appears" more
stable, but only because it is either not telling when an error occurs or
doesn't have the means by which to check to see if an error has occured.
In your case, the 83 MHz front side bus is causing the PCI bus to run
outside of normal specs. Since your IDE controler is most likely linked to
this bus, the errors you recieved indicated that it was unable to handle
the higher frequency. The ultimate result was that it corrupted the
drive's data beyond the point where the normal maintance routines could
repair it.
My guess is that if you ran a similar maintance routine under Windows
(something on the order of Norton's DiskDoctor) that it too would pickup
errors in that filesystem.
The point of all this is that the purpose of each of the operating systems
is different. Windows is a good platform for playing Quake and other games
where if one or two pixels are calculated incorrectly, nobody notices.
Linux really is a Un*x platform and is well suited to server and
workstation applications where errors can not be tolerated without loss of
precision.
My advice to you is to try using a different front side bus which will keep
the PCI bus within specs. Your processor (with appropriate tweeking of
voltage levels and a little luck) may be able to tolerate the 100MHz
setting (although the core of the celeron family really does max out a
little above 466MHz in the current implimentation, so hitting 550 is not
very likely)
I wish you much luck.
The following is an excerpt from a previous post:
=================================================================
You raise a good question. Believe it or not you are in part correct.
Linux can stress certain components more than Win95/98/NT, but also has
some features which make it more friendly to long term (and stable)
Overclocking. Fiirst off both Linux and Win/NT will issue idle cycle
commands to the processor which cause it to enter a lower power state.
This is essentially the same as a number of the popular "Software CPU
coolers." The deal is that when it is in this lower power state it
generates less heat, and thus becomes more "stable" even at the elevated
core frequency (note: this is not the same as some of the utilities that
"throttle" your cpu, nor is it exactly the same as a power management
mode) At the same time Linux is less forgiving than Windows 95/98/NT and
tends to report any errors it gets that might be caused by the overclocking
procedure (sig11 errors are the most common and talked about, although
there are a number of other signs that the different compents are failing
under the overclocking.....and interesting one was one of the IDE controls
on a cheap motherboard closing various read/write calls prematurely due to
it's inability to cope with division of a 112MHz FSB)
Essentially the two operating systems behave differently. Linux likes to
scream and shout about the smallest errors......while Win95/98 believes
that ignorance is bliss....Which is better? Depends on your system's
purpose in life. For servers and workstations error detection is essential
and even a single dropped bit can throw off a high precision calculation.
For a game machine it would be obnoxious if the OS dumped core each time
Quake lost a bit while calculating the color of that pixel on the end of
your enemy's nose.
Generally the rule of thumb I stick to is that if I can stablize a system
under Linux and by that I mean that I can stress it out with large
compilation task (a good one is repeated kernel recompiles and when I say
repeated I mean 20-30 times without an error.....no joke) Then the system
will ussually be stable under any varient of Windows that I have used. The
reverse has not been true.
Just as a bit of trivia I'll give you a table of some of the processors
that I tested and the Maxium speeds that they attained under both Linux and
under Win95/98 (WinNT results were similar)
Processor Speed
Multiplier FSB Windows* Linux*
========================================================
Celeron PPGA 300a (dual) 464Mhz 4.5
103Mhz YES
YES
Celeron Slot1 300a 464 Mhz 4.5
103Mhz YES
YES
K6-2 266 300 Mhz
3.0 100Mhz YES YES
K6-2 266 350Mhz
3.5 100Mhz YES NO
K6-2 266 336Mhz
3.0 112Mhz YES
NO
K6-2 266 333Mhz
4.0 83Mhz YES
YES
K6-2 266 337Mhz
4.5 75Mhz YES
YES
K6 266 333Mhz
4.0 83Mhz YES
YES
K6 266 350Mhz
4.0 100Mhz YES
NO
K6 266 337Mhz
4.0 75Mhz YES
YES
Cyrix MII (PR300) 66Mhz 3.5
231Mhz
YES YES
Cyrix MII (PR300) 75Mhz 3.0
225Mhz YES
YES
Cyrix MII (PR300) 83Mhz 3.0
249Mhz YES
NO
Cyrix MII (PR300) 100Mhz 2.5
250Mhz NO
NO
Cyrix 6x86 (PR200) 66Mhz 2.5
166Mhz YES
YES
Cyrix 6x86 (PR200) 75Mhz 2.5
187Mhz YES
NO
*Criterion for stability, Windows-> could run WinBench 97 successfully and
play Quake without too much difficulty, Under Linux-> could run NBench
(Bytemark Nativemode Benchmark) and recompile kernel 2.0.36 repeatedly
Bart�omiej Niechwiej wrote:
> Hi,
> I've got Intel Celeron 366Mhz processor and I was trying to overclock
> it. Unfortunately all Celerons have fixed its multiplier so there is
> only one way to overclock it - to change FSB speed. I have an ABIT BH6
> motherboard which supports 66,75,83,100,112, 124 and 133 MHz selection
> for FSB speed but unfortunately PCI speed is determined from FSB speed
> (66-83 its 1/2 FSB, 100-133 its 1/2 FSB). I managed to set FSB 83Mhz and
> everything under Win95 was OK - I run Quake2 for about 2 hours and
> nothing wrong happened. So I decided to test if linux will suffer some
> overclocking...
> For about six reboots it was OK and the I saw: "Unable to mount root
> device...". When I tried to boot from floppy and repair it I failed.
> After repairing ext2 nothing was readable!!! It was completly damaged
> and I lost about 2GB!!!
> What could be wrong with linux?
> Why does Windows (or rather winshit) work?...
>
> Bartlomiej Niechwiej.
--
Andrew J. Norman
Dept. of Physics
College of William & Mary
_____________________________________________________________
"I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle;
for how can they charitably dispose of any thing,
when blood is their argument?" -- Williams
Henry V--Act 4 Scene 1
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From: Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Steve Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IntelliStation upgrade?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:17:07 -0400
I have an IBM IntelliStation Z Pro, model 6899-12U, with a single 200 MHz
Pentium Pro processor, and 64MB memory. The second processor slot is not
occupied at present. I run Linux (RH 6.0) as host OS and, recently, NT 4.0
w/s in a virtual machine using vmware.
I'd like to upgrade this to something a little (ok, a lot) faster, and up
memory to at least 256MB; maybe 512MB. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has
been through this can give me some pointers as to where to proceed. For
example, what are the fastest processors I can run in this system, and a
source for those processors, both primary and secondary. I've been to
IBM's web page, but cannot find sufficient information there (and they
want more $$$ for a second 200MHz processor than I paid for the entire
system). TIA,
Steve
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From: dan braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: new Linux portal site - for professional Linux developers
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:40:03 -0400
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From: Fire martial Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Joystick support....
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 04:38:05 GMT
Equinaux wrote:
>
> How do I enable joystick support for Red Hat 6.0? If it helps the joystick I'm
> using is a gravis PC gamepad and it has been configured using isapnp, because
> my sound card is plug and play...
> Thanks,
> Equinaux
>
> PS> Please reply to by e-mail...
It ain't gona be easy if you have to ask I am afraid .So i'll just tell
you
what I did for a sidewinder 3d
1: setup your game port in isapnp.conf in /etc
2: build a new kernel with support for your device see
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick.txt
3: get kjoy ( A kde utility ) modify the path to the joystick driver and
build it I had 2
( Drivers) but you probably have one OR
4: create a script with insmod /lib/modules/2.2.XX/misc/joystick.o
5: use kmod in /etc/modules.conf see kmod.txt in the same directory as
joystick.txt
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From: Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with Audio Play/Rec on MediaGX systems with RH 5.2
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:34:20 +0100
We've been trying to use the SoundBlaster 16 driver in RH 5.2
to play and record audio on a couple of different MediaGXm
266MHz based system. On playback and record we get a
"Too much work in interrupt on uart401 (0x330) - UART
jabbering ??" error message over and over and the system
becomes unusable.
Has anyone seen the same problem? Does anyone have a
cure? Conversely, has anyone got audio playback and
record working successfully on _any_ MediaGXm based system
using _any_ Linux?
BTW - if you just want playback, you can select the
Soundblaster (not 16, etc) driver from the list in sndconfig
and put in your IRQ, I/O and DMA values. Record doesn't
work though.
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Arthur Tetzlaff-Deas Software Engineer/Network Administrator
DSP Design Ltd Tel: 01246 545900
Tapton Park Innovation Centre Fax: 01246 545911
Brimington Road www.dspdesign.com
Chesterfield, S41 0TZ, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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