Linux-Hardware Digest #612, Volume #10 Mon, 28 Jun 99 04:13:36 EDT
Contents:
FS: 6 semi-bare Sun SPARCStation 1's ; $50 each ("Kent Rankin")
Re: PC98 and Linux? (the hork)
TNT and flickering xscreensaver-gl (Lars Bensmann)
Re: Ali Aladdin 5 chipset
Re: CreativeLabs Soundblaster PCI128 CD-ROM Sound Problems (Charles Wilkins)
Re: es1370: unable to write to codec register (SB-PCI128 Problem) (Charles Wilkins)
Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly (D. J. Birchall)
Re: RH5.2 / AudioPCI/ES1370/ES1371/SB128 mixer behaviour? (Charles Wilkins)
linux 2.2.9 drivers for lexmark 1100, ("Janet Anderson")
sound drivers for turtle beach Montego (pci) ("Janet Anderson")
Printer problem for kernel 2.2.10 (Rafael Stekolshchik)
Re: No Mic (SB PCI 128 / Ensoniq AudioPCI / es1370) (Charles Wilkins)
Re: asus integrated scsi & ethernet (Mike Frisch)
eth0:transmit timed out on 3c509b (joekool)
Re: Q: ASUS MB with FX chipset and RAM upgrade 64 Mb => 128 Mb. Worth it? (boing)
(despite my occasional anti-linux post, read this) was Re: Monitor dies while
installing Redhat 5.2 (Barry Smith)
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From: "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.wanted,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS: 6 semi-bare Sun SPARCStation 1's ; $50 each
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:06:15 GMT
The units are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449.
Sun SPARCStation 1
16MB RAM
Floppy Drive
bw2 Framebuffer
2 Serial Ports
Onboard Sound
Onboard SCSI-2
3 SBus Slots
Do send any questions that you might have.
-Kent Rankin
P.S. - I have 17" Monochrome monitors for these as well(model 17SMM1) for
$50 each.
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From: the hork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PC98 and Linux?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 04:24:17 +0200
Sean Manning wrote:
> Is it possible to install Linux on PC98 Pentium 100?
Don't know what a PC98 is exactly.
Generally you can install linux on your intel processor bases system.
Regards
HORK
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Bensmann)
Subject: TNT and flickering xscreensaver-gl
Date: 28 Jun 1999 02:57:43 GMT
Hello,
I purchased a Elsa Erazor III a couple of days ago (does anybody knaw how
to get the TV-Out going under Linux?) and I've tested xscreensaver-gl and
Q3Test so far. Later worked fine and the OpenGL-programms that come with
xscreensaver work fine in a window. But when I start them with -root (as
they are started when they act as screensaver) they mess up. BTW, I use
the XServer from nVidia.
The ones that show animations flicker like hell. It looks like they use
double buffering, but just draw to one screen. When you started a
3D-screensaver in a window before you can see the last picture of it in
every second frame.
Pipes does another strange thing with -root. It messes up Z buffering (at
least it looks like it). Everything is drawn in front of anything else. It
works just fine when started in a window.
How can this be? Has anybody gotten this to work with a TNT card? Is there
any way to fix this?
cu,
Lars
--
knowledge, n.:
Things you believe.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Ali Aladdin 5 chipset
Date: 28 Jun 1999 05:12:08 GMT
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 19:53:26 +0200, luca78 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sorry, this may be a trivial question. My motherboard broke suddently,
>and I had not enough money to get another VIA; so had to buy an unnamed one
>with Ali Aladdin 5 chipset. It works, but I cannot enable DMA on IDE
>controller, so disk drives are slow. I have 2.2.9 kernel, and it does not
>support my chipset. Is there a patch or a new (also officially unstable)
>version allowing me to use my disks with full performance?
The 2.3.8 kernel works on mine, but it won't compile
support for MS filesystems, which you might not think
is a bad thing(tm).
--
Brien
{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Wilkins)
Subject: Re: CreativeLabs Soundblaster PCI128 CD-ROM Sound Problems
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:50:13 GMT
On Mon, 14 Jun 1999 00:27:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John) wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I am running a PII 333 on an ASUS Motherboard, 128meg ram...IDE
>Harddrive and a SCSI (Adaptec AHA2940) CD-ROM and RedHat 6.0 just
>about right out of the box. But on to my problem :)
>
>I am having problems playing an audio cd from either X, using the one
>that came with RH6.0 under Enlightenment+GNOME, or the console, using
>cdp. Originally I used RH5.2 and I had no problems, but now using a
>fresh install of RH6.0 I have the problems. However, I can play a WAV
>file, using both a cat command (cat file.wav > /dev/dsp), and an MP3
>file, using x11amp.
>
>I have tried sndconfig which it states that it autodetected an
>AudioPCI soundcard and loads, to the best of my knowlege, the es1370
>(or es1371) module. Also I have tried to load sound support into the
>kernel directly, I get the same problem as stated as above.
>
>Any help on this problem will be much appreciated :)
>
>thanks in advance,
>John
The only thing I had to do was make a symbolic link to /dev/cdrom from
the cdrom device.
If you can play wave files then the hardware is setup properly, but
the application is not talking to it.
If your Cd-Rom is and IDE and in the secondary master position then do
this.
cd /dev
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
Then run x and see if it works
I hope this helps.
Charles Wilkins CNE / MCP / A+
Network Design Consultant
Practical Computer Solutions
http://www.pcscs.com
609-321-1530
609-321-0840 - fax
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Wilkins)
Subject: Re: es1370: unable to write to codec register (SB-PCI128 Problem)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:46:11 GMT
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:12:04 -0700, Patrick Reynolds
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been working with RH 5.2 for about five months now, dual
>booting Win98. My Intel mobo has a Crystal CSxxxx chip on it, and it's
>been working with Linux, and Win98, but I use my PCI 128 for Win98 for
>games that support 4 speakers, its nice to have, blah blah blah.... But,
>its a pain to switch between the 128, and going into BIOS and Enabling
>and Disabling the onboard sound whenever I switch between 98 and RH 5.2
>(linux).
> When I try to SNDCONFIG my PCI128 card, it probes it as the AudioPCI
>card, thats correct. When it tries to play the sample sound I get a
>repeating
>
>es1370: unable to write to codec register
>es1370: unable to write to codec register
>es1370: unable to write to codec register
>es1370: unable to write to codec register
>es1370: unable to write to codec register
>......
>
>And before that, I get the LD4 error, so I have to go into ISAPNP and
>(VERIFYLD N). When I boot Linux, I get the same error when it tries to
>init. Sound. Any help please? Anything will help, trust me.
>
>Thanks in advance -- Patrick --
>
I am not sure what the answer to your problem is but I have been doing
quite a bit with the PCI128 with the es1370 chip in Redhat6.0.
To load the driver for the SoundBlaster 128, just do a modprobe
es1370. Or do an insmod soundcore and then an
insmod es1370.
I have found these drivers to be minimally supportive to the hardware,
compared to win95, but they do allow switching hardware settings on
the fly either by unloading the es1370 module and reloading it with
different arguments, or in some cases by using "aumix", the console
sound mixer utility.
My best suggestion would be to update your kernel to 2.2.10 and see if
there is better driver support that what you are using.
I hope this helps a bit.
Charles Wilkins CNE / MCP / A+
Network Design Consultant
Practical Computer Solutions
http://www.pcscs.com
609-321-1530
609-321-0840 - fax
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Birchall)
Subject: Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly
Date: 27 Jun 1999 22:47:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jerry keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just been able to set up my external Zoom modem for use with linux.
> After connecting the first time to the net using Kppp, I was able to surf
> for about 3 minutes until I received the following message:
> "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly"
> I am using Mandrake Linux 5.3 (red hat 5.2) with KDE.
> Here is the applicable portion of the script that I was given after this:
>
> localhost pppd[375]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> ........
> localhost pppd[375]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> localhost pppd[375]: Modem hangup
> localhost pppd[375]: Connection terminated
> localhost pppd[375]: Exit.
>
> I have connected again, with the same exact results.
> Does anyone have any ideas/ suggestions??
The content of that "........" section you omitted might be
helpful in diagnosing whether it happened due to something
on your end (in which case you might be able to do something
about it) or on the other end (in which case it might be
someone else's problem).
For example, here's what the end of a connection looks like
(sans the date, time and hostname fields) on my system, when
I 'kill -9 pppd':
pppd[559]: Terminating on signal 15.
kernel: 74 65
kernel: 72
pppd[559]: Connection terminated.
pppd[559]: Connect time 0.6 minutes.
pppd[559]: Sent 50709 bytes, received 37454 bytes.
kernel: 33 36 20 33 39 0A 0 36 39.
kernel: 4A 20 ress VJ
kernel: 36 20 32 30 36 66 20
kernel: ppp: channel ppp0 closing.
pppd[559]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
pppd[559]: Exit.
Here's another ending, where the ISP dropped the connection for whatever
reason:
pppd[507]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
pppd[507]: Modem hangup
pppd[507]: Connection terminated.
pppd[507]: Connect time 50.0 minutes.
pppd[507]: Sent 40612 bytes, received 143291 bytes.
kernel: ppp: channel ppp0 closing.
pppd[507]: Exit.
On my system, at least, things come up in a very different order depending
on how the connection dies. The lines you gave, in the order you gave
them, would mean the remote host dropped it, in my case.
-Dan
--
>From the Linux laptop of Dan Birchall, V.P. of Technology
Digital Facilities Management, Haddonfield, New Jersey
Internet/Extranets/E-Commerce - http://www.digitalfm.com/
Hosting the bright ideas of M&M Lighting - http://www.mmlight.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Wilkins)
Subject: Re: RH5.2 / AudioPCI/ES1370/ES1371/SB128 mixer behaviour?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:56:21 GMT
On 3 Mar 1999 14:44:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel) wrote:
>I have a Soundblaster 128 under RH5.2 using the included es1370.o driver
>(set up by sndconfig.) Works well enough but the mixer acts really screwy.
>
>For example, when it first comes up only the left channel works. When I nudge
>the master volume a little it's OK. There is very strange interplay between
>the mute setting, the microphone gain, the aux output gain, etc. It's usually
>possible to get the settings you want but not in an intuitive way! Weird!
>
>I use the mixer control that came with KDE but the xmixer that was default with
>KDE also acts weird so it's either an incompatibility between the driver and
>the sound card, or between the driver and the mixer control panels.
>
>Nobody else has mentioned this even though the SB128/AudioPCI topic comes up
>about once a day in the newsgroups.
>
>I've looked at the comments in the newer versions of es1370.c and they don't
>mention anything about problems like this. I can't try it because I don't want
>to upgrade to 2.2 at this point.
>
>Comments?
>
>Markus
try using the console utility aumix
it displays what is going on much better
Charles Wilkins CNE / MCP / A+
Network Design Consultant
Practical Computer Solutions
http://www.pcscs.com
609-321-1530
609-321-0840 - fax
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From: "Janet Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux 2.2.9 drivers for lexmark 1100,
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 00:46:43 -0500
I'm looking for printer drivers for my lexmark 1100 or recomendations for
other that will work????--------------pullman---------------
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From: "Janet Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound drivers for turtle beach Montego (pci)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 01:07:32 -0500
I'm looking for drivers for my montego 64 pci sound card by turtle beach or
some advice on how to set it up(you see I've been looking for a long time
for a turtle beach card in my price range that I can plug my xg
daughterboard into I finally find one at dell factory outlet for $35 and now
the penguin has got a hold on me and won't let go cute little fella isn't
he )I run alot of music programs and I'd like pure linux on this
box----------thanx--------pullman------
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From: Rafael Stekolshchik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Printer problem for kernel 2.2.10
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:02:46 +0300
Hi,
Why my printer DeskJet 400 doesn't work?
(before for linux 2.0.30 it worked finely,
and it also worked in Win95)
Here are reports from different programs:
1) kernel is updated to 2.2.10 ,
parport & printer configuration are:
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
2)
more conf.modules
returns
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
3)
dmesg:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
4)
When I do
/sbin/insmod parport_probe.o
I get
parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP DeskJet 400
in the /var/log/messages
5) My printer is in the chain with the ZIP device
6) lpq:
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st root 33 /opt/test.txt 2610 bytes
7) more /proc/parport/0/autoprobe
returns
CLASS:PRINTER;
MODEL:HP DeskJet 400;
MANUFACTURER:Hewlett-Packard;
DESCRIPTION:HP ;
COMMAND SET:PCL,C32;
8) more /proc/parport/0/devices
returns
lp
9) more /proc/parport/0/hardware
base: 0x378
irq: 7
dma: none
modes: SPP
10) lpd is running,
ps auxS | grep lpd
returns
lp 66 0.0 0.1 1608 40 ? S 07:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
root 62 0.0 0.0 1596 0 ? SW 07:47 0:00 (lpd)
11) /etc/printcap
lp|lp0|a4-auto-mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/a4-auto-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/a4-auto-mono/log:\
:if=/usr/sbin/lpf:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
Rafael Stekolshchik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles Wilkins)
Subject: Re: No Mic (SB PCI 128 / Ensoniq AudioPCI / es1370)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 05:59:49 GMT
On 06 May 1999 16:58:48 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gavin W. K.
Peters) wrote:
>Hello,
>
> We're having trouble here with some es1370 cards in our office.
>We have insalled the cards, and are able to get excellent audio
>reproduction (playing mp3 files, for instance), but are unable to
>record sound.
>
> We have tried using dd and cat from the device, as well as a
>number of sample applications we have written to the OSS interface,
>and are unable to do anything except occasionally hear a periodic
>pulsing sound?
>
>- Gavin
>
>
>
>
try using aumix and set the mic to R - it is the only utility that
seems to work the mixer for this card properly
also, I would like to hear about the applications that work well for
you with this card
Charles Wilkins CNE / MCP / A+
Network Design Consultant
Practical Computer Solutions
http://www.pcscs.com
609-321-1530
609-321-0840 - fax
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: asus integrated scsi & ethernet
Date: 28 Jun 1999 02:02:57 GMT
On Sun, 27 Jun 1999 14:04:57 -0700, boing <@wenet.net> wrote:
>anyone with experiences with asus p2b mb with integrated scsi &
>ethernet? i think it's supposed to be compatible with adaptec & intel
>express pro, and if so (i.e., if linux drivers are available), i'd like
>to get it instead of getting separate boards for each.
Yes, I have installed RedHat 5.2 on a P2B-LS with no problem whatsoever.
The network and SCSI are detected by the install program (Adaptec and
Intel, respectively).
Mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: joekool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,redhat.networking.general
Subject: eth0:transmit timed out on 3c509b
Date: 28 Jun 1999 07:30:39 GMT
the system:
redhat 6.0, PII, 3c509b PCI
the problem: while transfering files via ftp, after a period of time (say
about the time to transfer 500 meg.) I consistently receive this message:
eth0:transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status eth00
the question: is this a problem with the driver for this card, or just my
setup of it? I remember hearing about problems with this card in the past
thanks in advance
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From: boing <"b-young"@wenet.net (remove -)>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Q: ASUS MB with FX chipset and RAM upgrade 64 Mb => 128 Mb. Worth it?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:09:00 -0700
Vladimir NOVIKOV wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm currently using an old ASUS MB with FX chipset, Pentium 100 and 64
> Mb RAM.
>
> I'd like to get another 64 Mb to upgrade till 128 Mb RAM, but it seems
> that there is a bug in the FX chipset wich works badly with so much
> RAM because it can only put in the cache the first 64 Mb.
>
> Thus, with 128 Mb RAM the system is slower and not faster because the
> OS is located in the non cached part of the RAM.
>
> Is this true? If yes, what can I do.
>
> I use Windows and Linux.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vladimir
i also still use this thing (fx mb with 80 mb ram and 256kb cache). i'm
not sure which 64m the cache covers, and how that can be controlled or
not, but even uncached ram is way better than swapping. if your current
usage dips into swap space (and i assume that's why you want to add
memory), it will still give you nice boost, methinks.
(don't forget to supply the parameter to the kernel to use memory above
64m)
regards,
byoung
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From: Barry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: (despite my occasional anti-linux post, read this) was Re: Monitor dies while
installing Redhat 5.2
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:51:54 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, ToXIc MYsT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Redhat is by far the easiest OS that I have ever installed. I can install
>a fresh version of redhat in about 15-20 tops. I haven't tried SuSE but as
>far as i'm concerned RedHat is a very easy install.
That sounds encouraging. All my friends use RedHat, and I wanted to stay
with that. Not being "ME too", but to get some help if things go wrong.
--
Barry Smith
Email: sax (at) wychcraft.demon.co.uk <-- I don't want ANY spam!
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