Linux-Hardware Digest #930, Volume #10            Wed, 4 Aug 99 18:13:36 EDT

Contents:
  Re: ATI All-In-Wonder 128 (Roland Roberts)
  Re: BT878 video capture based cards... (Martin Terpstra)
  Re: loading ppa module at bootup (Col 2.2)? ("Robert L. White")
  Sound on ThinkPad ("Leif B. Rasmussen")
  Re: Erasing CDRW discs under Linux? (William Grzanich)
  Re: LS-120's, a pain in the %#& (Johan Kullstam)
  Re: New user needs help with video card! (Keith)
  Re: BT878 video capture based cards... (Martin Terpstra)
  Erasing CDRW discs under Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: Erasing CDRW discs under Linux? (Rod Wright)
  NCR53c720 on EISA bus (Jamie Gedye)
  486 is REALLY Slow (Richard Petty)
  Re: 486 is REALLY Slow ("James Shearer")
  Re: 486 is REALLY Slow (John Doe)
  Re: Linux and MS Proxy Server HELP! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

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From: Roland Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI All-In-Wonder 128
Date: 04 Aug 1999 14:55:40 -0400

>>>>> "Ray" == Ray  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

    Ray> What distribution of Linux are you using?  Have you tried the
    Ray> Mach64 Xserver?  I have an All-In-Wonder Pro AGP
                                                  ^^^

Not the same.  According to the XFree86 notes, the Rage 128 chipset is
not supported.

roland
-- 
              Roland B Roberts, PhD; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
     Muller Data Corp, 395 Hudson Avenue, New York, NY 10014 USA
                 Tel: 212 807-5143; Fax: 212 989-7193

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From: Martin Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BT878 video capture based cards...
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:45:42 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hello,

I have got mine (Hauppauge BT878 based) TV card more ore less working but... 
I don't receive anything on the low channels. eg in pal-europe channels lower than 21 
(471.25) such as S41 (463.25) down to E2 (48.25).
I am using Linux 6.1 with kernel upgraded to 2.2,10 and I load all needed
modules (not build in kernel). My TV card is equiped with the Temic PAL 
tuner. (type=7)  I use the bttv 0.6.4 version.

Does anyone have any idea what seems to be the problem.
Could someone post a correct conf.modules file ? (the TV part) 

thanks,

Martin Terpstra  ( mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )


Peter Morguet wrote:
> 
> Pierre Ficheux wrote:
> >
> >         Hi
> >
> >         Is there anybody successfully using a *BT878* ('new' version of BT848)
> > based card ? The LINUX 'bttv' driver should work with this new chip but
> > I have tested 3 BT878 based cards with no success :-(( The video is
> > displayed but it's very bad (such as a sync problem...). 2 of these
> > cards look very simple: a single BT878 chip, 1 quartz + 2 or 4 video
> > inputs...
> >         The chips seem to be the same for the 3 cards (made by Connexant,
> > 'BT878KHF').
> >
> >         I have tested several versions of the bttv driver: kernel 2.2.9
> > included version, last version 0.6.4 from the official bttv website
> > (http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html), and an older
> > version running on 2.0.36...
> >
> >         I never had problems with similar cards based on the 'old' BT848.
> >
> >         Thanks a lot for your help.
> >
> >         Regards
> >
> > --
> > Pierre FICHEUX -/- COM One, Cestas, France -\- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >                                          http://www.alienor.fr/~pierre
> > RHA-LOVELY...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the Hauppauge WinTV pci under Suse Linux 6.1 lately and
> it works fine. At first I loaded bttv with a card=2 option (which is for
> Hauppauge cards) and had a problem similar to yours:
> the image looked totally distorted.
> Then I tried the card=10 option (which is obviously for the newer
> BT878-based Hauppauge cards) and the image was OK.
> 
> Maybe there are different card-options for your board, too?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> 
> --
>     /) Peter Morguet                             (\
>    / ) Lehrstuhl fuer Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation         ( \
>  _( (_    _           Inst. for Human-Machine-Communication _) )_
> (((\ \>  /_> Technische Universitaet Muenchen         <_\  </ /)))
> (\\\\ \_/ /           Munich University of Technology  \ \_/ ////)
>  \       /                                              \       /
>   \    _/  phone: ++49 (0)89/289-28544                   \_    /
>   /   /  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]           \   \
>  /   / http://www.mmk.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/~mor/        \   \

-- 
Martin Terpstra
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.terpstra.demon.nl

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From: "Robert L. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: loading ppa module at bootup (Col 2.2)?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 13:07:13 -0600

Try /etc/rc.d/rc.boot.  I got this from :
http://www.calderasystems.com/doc/openlinux/admin.html#916922

I think that is the same as Red Hat's rc.sysinit (which calls rc.local).  If
you have the rc.boot file you should be able to add your load commands there.

Bob White

Craig Lambert wrote:

> Regarding editing the etc/rc.d/rc.local. There isn't a rc.local file
> to edit.
>
> On Tue, 03 Aug 1999 21:55:59 -0600, Bob White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Craig Lambert wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Does anyone know how to load the ppa module in at bootime for col 2.2?
> >> I've tried using COAS and the Kernel Configuration package; however it
> >> gives me an error and says it cannot load the module. If I just insmod
> >> ppa at the terminal emulation it loads fine; yet of course, I have to do
> >> this everytime I go into linux.
> >>
> >> Thanks for any advice
> >>
> >> Craig Lambert
> >
> >One solution would be to add the insmod command to /etc/rc.d/rc.local
> >file.  I'm using RedHat, but I think Caldera has the same boot process.
> >
> >Bob White
> >
> >
> >


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From: "Leif B. Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound on ThinkPad
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 21:37:59 +0200

Hi!

I recently got an IBM ThinkPad model 1458, which I run as a dual-boot
system with win98 and (of course) Linux. After some testing I settled on
Slackware-4.0 as my Linux installation. Installation of XFree86 was
problem-free and my LanPro 4000 ethernet card was recognised at once.

My problem is, however, getting sound to work. The flyer I got from my
dealer mentions the built-in sound card as SB Pro, but seems to be
Yamaha OPL3-SAx. No matter what I try in kernel configuration can get it
to work. Doing a 'cat /dev/sndstat' lists the drivers I have enebled in
th kernel, but nothing is installed under 'audio' and 'mixer'.

If anybody have experience with this, could you give me a hint? Thnx.

- Leif



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Grzanich)
Subject: Re: Erasing CDRW discs under Linux?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 19:48:11 GMT

cdrecord has an option to blank CDRWs... blank=all or blank=fast, if I 
remember correctly.

-Bill

In article <nb%p3.4993$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I must be missing something really obvious, but I've looked all over
>for a program to erase CDRWs from Linux.  I've been using XCDRoast
>with great success to burn CD-Rs and CD-RWs, so I'm at least that
>smart.  Right now, I have to boot into Windows to erase :-(.  What's
>the trick?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Charles R. Wright

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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS-120's, a pain in the %#&
Date: 04 Aug 1999 12:50:18 -0400

"Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sat, 31 Jul 1999 22:05:59 -0400, Ryan Michela wrote:
> 
> >I am trying to get Slackware to recognize my internal LS-120 super disk
> >drive.  Does anyone have any suggestions.  I can't find a driver anywhere.
> 
> In the v2.2.x kernel config, enable IDE block devices and IDE floppy.
> After that the drive will be recognized as /dev/hda.
> 
> BTW, it's still a pain in the #@$%! because of the pertitioning 
> requirement.  The device is view as a removeable hard disk, not as a 
> big floppy.

what, you mean you can't just use `tar' on it?

-- 
johan kullstam

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From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New user needs help with video card!
Date: 4 Aug 1999 19:30:37 GMT

I'm having a similar problem, Onboard S3 that I can't seem to get around.  
On my Compaq I was able to disable it in BIOS but that didn't help much 
until I passed pci=bios to linux on startup (The docs say this is the 
default, but it didn't appear that way to me.)  If you don't use pci=bios 
you can cat /proc/pci and look at the devices.  I think part of the 
problem (for me anyway) is that the S3 comes first, so that is what gets 
used in the setup of X.  Solution, use pci=reverse to reverse the 
ordering.  With these two options together I got to the point of 
Xconfigurator correctly detecting my Diamond.  Sweet!, you say.  Well, it 
was until I tried to start X and it tried to use the S3 card with my 
RIVATNT chipset off the diamond, so no go.  It seems to me that X tries to 
use the first video card on the PCI bus and ignores the pci=bios stuff.  I 
very well may be wrong, but that is what it looks like to me.  Anyway, 
this is a longwinded response to your question.

Here's the short and skinny: try pci=bios and pci=reverse (alone or 
together) as params to LILO or loadlin and see if that helps.

Keith
David Casey wrote:
> 
> Hiya!  I have a 200MHz Pentium MMX Packard Bell with 64MB of RAM, a S3
> graphics card which came with the computer, a Diamond Monster Fusion 
video
> card with 16MB RAM.  I am using Windows 98 on one part of the hard drive,
> and have loaded Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on the other side.  Problem is, the 
probe
> software detects the S3 video card which I'm no longer using.  Under 
Windows
> 98, I would just disable it in the Hardware Manager.  I can't disable it 
in
> the Bios controls, nor do I know of a way to disable the card using 
hardware
> means (i.e., jumper, etc.).  I can't remove the S3 card as it is part of 
the
> motherboard (what genius came up with that idea??  oh wait, packard 
bell...
> say no more...).  I can't just swap the monitor connector because the
> computer doesn't use the S3 video card (tried that idea).  Does anyone 
out
> there have ANY idea of how I might be able to get the GUI of Linux up and
> running??  I would hate to have to remove the Diamond video card to use
> Linux.  And I *really* want to get into Linux as I am tired of dealing 
with
> Windows 98 and the large number of bugs it seems to have.  Heard a lot of
> good stuff about Linux, including the bad stuff about the graphics cards
> being problems, but want to fix this quickly!!  ANY help would be greatly
> appreciated!  Thanks...
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 


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From: Martin Terpstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BT878 video capture based cards...
Date: 4 Aug 1999 19:30:36 GMT

hello,

I have got mine (same) TV card more ore less working but... I don't receive 
anything on the low channels. eg in pal-europe channels lower than 21 
(471.25) such as S41 (463.25) down to E2 (48.25).
I am using Linux 6.1 with kernel upgraded to 2.2,10 and I load all needed
modules (not build in kernel). My TV card is equiped with the Temic PAL 
tuner. (type=7)  I use the bttv 0.6.4 version.

Do you have any idea what seems to be the problem.
Could someone post a correct conf.modules file ? (the TV part) 

thanks,

Martin Terpstra  ( mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )


Peter Morguet wrote:
> Pierre Ficheux wrote:
> > 
> >         Hi
> > 
> >         Is there anybody successfully using a *BT878* ('new' version of 
BT848)
> > based card ? The LINUX 'bttv' driver should work with this new chip but
> > I have tested 3 BT878 based cards with no success :-(( The video is
> > displayed but it's very bad (such as a sync problem...). 2 of these
> > cards look very simple: a single BT878 chip, 1 quartz + 2 or 4 video
> > inputs...
> >         The chips seem to be the same for the 3 cards (made by 
Connexant,
> > 'BT878KHF').
> > 
> >         I have tested several versions of the bttv driver: kernel 2.2.9
> > included version, last version 0.6.4 from the official bttv website
> > (http://www.thp.uni-koeln.de/~rjkm/linux/bttv.html), and an older
> > version running on 2.0.36...
> > 
> >         I never had problems with similar cards based on the 'old' 
BT848.
> > 
> >         Thanks a lot for your help.
> > 
> >         Regards
> > 
> > --
> > Pierre FICHEUX -/- COM One, Cestas, France -\- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >                                          http://www.alienor.fr/~pierre
> > RHA-LOVELY...
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I installed the Hauppauge WinTV pci under Suse Linux 6.1 lately and
> it works fine. At first I loaded bttv with a card=2 option (which is for
> Hauppauge cards) and had a problem similar to yours:
> the image looked totally distorted. 
> Then I tried the card=10 option (which is obviously for the newer
> BT878-based Hauppauge cards) and the image was OK. 
> 
> Maybe there are different card-options for your board, too?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Peter
> 
> -- 
>     /) Peter Morguet                             (\
>    / ) Lehrstuhl fuer Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation         ( \
>  _( (_    _           Inst. for Human-Machine-Communication _) )_
> (((\ \>  /_> Technische Universitaet Muenchen         <_\  </ /)))
> (\\\\ \_/ /           Munich University of Technology  \ \_/ ////)
>  \       /                                              \       /
>   \    _/  phone: ++49 (0)89/289-28544                   \_    /
>   /   /  email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]           \   \
>  /   / http://www.mmk.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de/~mor/        \   \


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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Erasing CDRW discs under Linux?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 17:58:43 GMT

Hello,

I must be missing something really obvious, but I've looked all over
for a program to erase CDRWs from Linux.  I've been using XCDRoast
with great success to burn CD-Rs and CD-RWs, so I'm at least that
smart.  Right now, I have to boot into Windows to erase :-(.  What's
the trick?

Thanks,

Charles R. Wright

------------------------------

From: Rod Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Erasing CDRW discs under Linux?
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 16:42:31 -0400

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jamie Gedye)
Subject: NCR53c720 on EISA bus
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:39:02 GMT

Has anyone been able to get this type of SCSI controller to be
recognized?



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Petty)
Subject: 486 is REALLY Slow
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:43:52 GMT

I'm putting on the finishing wraps on a 486 Frankenstein machine.

Specs are:

    486DX @ 66-Mhz
    1.6-Gig Maxtor hard drive
    28-Meg RAM

    Red Hat Linux 6.0
    Kernel 2.2.5
    75-Meg swap space


I'm new to the Intel side, so could someone tell me if this machine is
supposed to be this freaking slow?!

Any of the X GUIs are almost useless. Booting up takes over ten minutes.
It takes 25-seconds just to open a new terminal window. Stare at your
watch for 25-seconds to see how long this is...

Is there something really big and obvious that I missed? It is unrealistic
to expect to be able to use KDE on a 486?


--Richard

PS: Please reply via email, too --
    I'm not a frequent visitor here.

-- 
Spam deterent: Remove the "bogus" part for a correct address.

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From: "James Shearer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 is REALLY Slow
Date: 4 Aug 1999 20:53:59 GMT


Richard Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

<snip>
>     486DX @ 66-Mhz
>     1.6-Gig Maxtor hard drive
>     28-Meg RAM
>     Red Hat Linux 6.0
>     Kernel 2.2.5
>     75-Meg swap space

> I'm new to the Intel side, so could someone tell me if this machine is
> supposed to be this freaking slow?!
<snip>
> It takes 25-seconds just to open a new terminal window.

Nope.  I'm currently running kernel 2.0.36 on a 486/40 w/ 20MB RAM, and my
machine runs just fine (well, relative to your description ;).  I'm
running X, which unlike your 10 minute lag, takes only about 7 seconds to
start.  An rxvt/xterm window opens in only a few seconds (~3).  So, I
guess it's safe to say something is amiss.  I'd try starting X sans KDE,
though.  See what kind of speed you get. 

Good Luck.

-- 
James Shearer | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | remove spamblocker
                                            if replying by mail.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Doe)
Subject: Re: 486 is REALLY Slow
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Aug 1999 17:09:04 -0500

On Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:43:52 GMT, Richard Petty 
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm putting on the finishing wraps on a 486 Frankenstein machine.
>
>Specs are:
>
>    486DX @ 66-Mhz
>    1.6-Gig Maxtor hard drive
>    28-Meg RAM
>
>    Red Hat Linux 6.0
>    Kernel 2.2.5
>    75-Meg swap space
>
>
>I'm new to the Intel side, so could someone tell me if this machine is
>supposed to be this freaking slow?!
>
>Any of the X GUIs are almost useless. Booting up takes over ten minutes.

Something terribly wrong with your setup.  Maybe you have no cache
memory OR you have inadvertantly disabled cache memory.  It takes at
most *two minutes* to boot on a 16MB machine with an ancient 120MB HD.

>It takes 25-seconds just to open a new terminal window. Stare at your

More like 2.5 seconds.

>watch for 25-seconds to see how long this is...
>
>Is there something really big and obvious that I missed? It is unrealistic
>to expect to be able to use KDE on a 486?
>

I don't know about kde but kde is for ...

I use fvwm (not even fvwm2).  It is good enough anything.

>
>--Richard
>
>PS: Please reply via email, too --
>    I'm not a frequent visitor here.

No.  Why?? See below

>-- 
>Spam deterent: Remove the "bogus" part for a correct address.

If you want people to reply via email you don't do this kind of stupid
idiot spam deterent thing.  Make it as easiest as possible for others
to reply to you.  If it takes more than 1.2 mili-Joule of energy to 
remove this "bogus" part of your address I won't email you but there
may be others who are more than willing to please you.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and MS Proxy Server HELP!
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 20:55:59 GMT

Could you provide a bit more of an explanation...
how can squid or apache provide connectivity to
the microsoft proxy server..?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
  scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You will find both Squid and Apache on the
Redhat 6 CD.
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I have just set up RedHat 6.0, and want to run
it as my main operating
> > system.  On my local intranet I am running MS
Proxy Server 2.0 on NT Server,
> > and in my current Win98 system I have the WSP
(winsock proxy) Client
> > installed for all winsock requests (so it
makes the internet seemless in
> > windows).  How do I access the proxy server in
Linux?  Is there no WSP
> > Client
> > equivalent for linux?  Is there another way of
setting up linux so it can
> > use the proxy server?
> >
> > I know the obvious answer would be to replace
NT Server with linux, but I am
> > trying to take linux one step at a time (i am
relatively new to it)...
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated...  And
may i just say, LINUX RULES
> > :-)
> >
> > EvanD
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>



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