Linux-Hardware Digest #83, Volume #11 Mon, 23 Aug 99 22:13:38 EDT
Contents:
Re: Netgear FA310TX ("Marshall")
Re: Partitioning Fiasco (Paul Sherwin)
Re: Motorola 56K Modemsurfer (Johan Kullstam)
System requirements ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem and sound card etup problem with Mandrake 6 (Kaige Hannon)
Re: external CD-ROM ("Tim Teller")
Help! Can't configure joystick ("dkmallick")
Re: Kernel compiling (Roger)
Star office can't find JRE (Jim)
Re: Ati Rage Fury (32meg AGP) (David C.)
Re: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0 (David C.)
Newbie: null-modem or ethernet? ("Kovalev")
Cannot configure X11 and Princeton DPP560 (Mark Cooperstein)
Re: LILO and a 10GB disk??? (Mike Tipton)
Re: Soundcard far to loud (Brian Miller)
Problem : Samba ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: [Q] Installing linux with CD-RW (Andrew Martin)
Failed to format Iomega zip media ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
problem setting up a PCMCIA CD-ROM (Fred Horan)
Re: Failed to format IOMEGA zip (Darryl Bryant)
Is the Sound Blaster PCI512 supported? (Lev Tarasoff)
Hint for Rage128/WinTV - owners ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.net
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 17:54:35 -0400
<snip>
>I've seen at least two different versions of the FA310TX.
>
>The original version used the DEC 21140 chip. I've bought, and used,
>a bunch of these over the years, with very good results. The
>"tulip.c" driver in the kernel works well, although you may want to
>update to the latest version.
>
>Starting about a year ago, Netgear switched over to an FA310TX design
>which uses an OEM'ed Lite-On PNIC chip with a Netgear part number.
>Although the PNIC is supposed to be Tulip-compatible, and it _mostly_
>works with the Tulip driver, there are some definite problems.
I was not aware of this chip switch untill I saw your post. I am dismayed
that Netgear is using the same NIC model # in spite of the heart of the unit
being switched to another chipset.
>The biggest problem of which I'm aware, appears to be due to a bug in
>some versions of the PNIC chip. Under conditions of heavy load - and
>especially if collisions are occurring - the chip's receiver logic
>gets confused, and dumps a whole bunch of gibberish into memory. The
>Tulip driver does not deal gracefully with this situation, and tends
>to cease receiving anything at all from the card. It's necessary to
>restart the card (ifconfig down, ifconfig up, reestablish routes) to
>get it working again.
My short research seems to indicate that this is a O/S specific issue; would
you aggree with that ?.
Lastly; is it safe to assume that PNIC reports it self as such and not one
of the earlier chipsets ?.
<snip>
Thanks
Marshall
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Sherwin)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Partitioning Fiasco
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:16:00 GMT
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 18:18:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>How do I get out of this mess without just throwing up my hands and
>reinstalling everything from scratch? I no longer have a need for WinDOS
>and therefore don't want EZ-BIOS, either. I'd like to be able to use the
I think you can just ignore this. Alternatively, my version of
EZ-Drive came with a setup disk which would deinstall it.Youi may be
able to do 'fdisk /mbr' from DOS, which will rewrite the boot track
(though I'm not sure exactly where the EZ code goes so this may not
fix things). I seem to remember there's some Linux kernel support for
EZ disk translation but I don't use it myself now and haven't for ages
- have a look at the kernel docs and the IDE howto.
>entire disk, including "cylinder 0" and the "extra" 300 MB at the end of
>the disk. I suspect may I need to move the boot partition closer to the
>beginning of the disk, as well. How?
You are only accessing the disk below cylinder 1024, so your Linux
kernel will be bootable - that's where the 300Mb has gone. You can
access the free space by starting Linux fdisk, entering expert mode,
changing the cylinder count to the correct value, and creating a
partition in the free space (maybe you could use it for /tmp).
Best regards, Paul
Paul Sherwin Consulting 22 Monmouth Road, Oxford OX1 4TD, UK
Phone +44 (0)1865 721438 http://www.telinco.co.uk/psherwin/index.htm
Mobile +44 (0)7931 578334 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Motorola 56K Modemsurfer
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Aug 1999 17:55:30 -0400
"Allix" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> All I know is that 90% of modems that come from motorola are
> winmodems.
and 100% of motorolas *external* modems work just fine! i have an
external modemsurfr which i used happily until going cable.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: System requirements
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:46:15 GMT
Hi there,
I need to build a machine to act as a gateway between a LAN of 5 users
and the internet (via cable modem). The machine will also be
responsible for taking all local network traffic, possibly encrypting
it, and sending it over the internet to another machine (which is doing
the same thing) to create a virtual private network.
How fast of a computer do I need to do this? Is speed or memory more
of an issue?
Thanks for your help,
Chris
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From: Kaige Hannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Modem and sound card etup problem with Mandrake 6
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 07:18:43 +0000
Well, the reason you are not getting to type anything in terminal is
that your modem is not being properly initialized. Linux cannot tell the
modem apart from any other port that may be on your computer. Try the
ATI test button and see what happens. If everything comes back blank
then you aren't even hitting the modem.
I just got Mandrake 6.0 running on my box and I had some similar
problems. I have come up with 3 important things:
1. The settings you get for your hardware (especially sound cards) from
Windoz 9x are not necessarily valid in Linux. If the card is PnP then
those are settings Windows is happy with, but Linux may not be. I
recommend opening up your computer and physically changing the jumpers
on the modem to ttyS3 (COM 4), IRQ 3. That is a pretty standard modem
setting. (You may need to consult your modem
documentation to see how to do that) I also recommend physically setting
the jumpers on your sound
card if the PnP mode doesn't seem to be working.
2. As is true in Windoz, MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT HAVE CONFLICTS. Linux may
be using slightly different IRQs, et cetera since it will generally use
what the hardware is set to, this could cause conflicts
that did not exist in Windoz.
3. Since you're using Mandrake make sure you get all the updates
possible (they have some for ppp and sound).
~kaige
I have a question on this too. I thought that symbolic links served as
direct alias' for what they linked to, but my modem WILL NOT function
correctly when I try to use /dev/modem, but it will when I actually set
ppp to /dev/ttyS3. I attempted to make the symbolic link by using ln -s
/dev/ttyS3 /dev/modem.
Any feedback?
I would especially like feedback from anybody who disagrees with my
analysis.
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From: "Tim Teller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: external CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:04:05 -0600
I once had the same question... here is a site that lists both the HP and
the FreeCom burners:
http://www.torque.net/parport/cdr.html
Rodney Myrvaagnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 20:15:55 -0500, Peter Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> That URL only lists the internal HP drives. However, there is a link
> to a more detailed listing. The second site says the 7200e needs a
> patch, which is linked right there.
>
> >Yes, the HP drives are supported. Check this URL out and play around.
> >http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html/
> >
> >Good luck.
> >
> >Peter Buelow
>
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From: "dkmallick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Can't configure joystick
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 15:50:08 -0500
I am trying to use my MS Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick in Linux. I am
running Linux-Mandrake 6.0. The joystick is connected to SBLive card. I have
installed the latest driver for SBLive ( I believe rev. 3) which is supposed
to have joystick support. The sound is working fine with the sound card.
I have compiled kernel 2.2.10 with supports for joystick as well as
sidewinder pro as module. The module joystick.o loads fine at boot-up but
not the sidewinder.o. When I try to do 'insmod sidewinder.o' I get the error
message that the resource is busy.
Any suggerstions as to what I can do?
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:43:38 +0100
From: Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel compiling
SkAtAn wrote:
>
> YEZ , I am GONNA TRy IT DAm*Et
> I am gonna compile my very first kernel
No hard and fast suggestions, but make sure you keep backups of the
existing kernel and modules because chances are, your first efforts
won't even boot. Make sure you have the correct mouse support enabled
because I left out PS/2 and was utterly stuffed.
--
Roger
Web: http://freespace.virgin.net/roger.cantwell
ICQ: 40038278
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Star office can't find JRE
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 23:27:05 GMT
When I install so 5.1, I get a message saying that Star Office can't
find a Java Runtime Environment. I running my own java programs, and
there are no problems in netscape, so I assume there is something I
need to know about configuring SO for java. Any help is appreciated
Jim McIntyre
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Ati Rage Fury (32meg AGP)
Date: 23 Aug 1999 18:52:45 -0400
"rastamn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hello: Does any one have a rage fury video card, and got it to work
> using Red Hat 6.0?
>
> Can.t seem to find a 'patch' anywhere on the net.
This card uses the Rage-128 chipset. There have already been several
threads on this subject. You may want to search for them.
The upshot of them all is:
- The XFree86 people don't yet have a driver for this chipset. I think
they're waiting on the chipset's documentation from ATI.
- You can compile-in and use a generic frame-buffer driver. It will
work, but it won't use any of the card's accelerated features.
- http://www.xig.com - they have a commercial X server that supports
this card.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0
Date: 23 Aug 1999 18:48:40 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Essentially, the Rage 128 chipset isn't supported in either the
>>> Mach64 or the SVGA servers. You need to enable VESA Framebuffer
>>> support in a Linux 2.2.x Kernel, and use the XFBDev server.
>>
>> Or purchase Xi Graphics' server, which supports it.
>> http://www.xig.com. Their price is $100, including free updates.
>>
>> I don't know how well it works, but if you don't want to use VESA and
>> you don't want to wait for the XFree86 people to release a driver,
>> this may be a good alternative. Someone else who posted here said it
>> worked well.
>
> Well as far as I remember the problem is not with the XFree86 team but
> with ATI: if programming info was available I'm sure an ATI128 driver
> would have made it into XF86 3.3.4...
I didn't say there was any problem with them. Just that they don't yet
have a driver. I merely said that for those who don't want to wait for
one to be written (and who are incapable of writing it themselves),
there is a commercial alternative.
The XFree86 people have written drivers for so many cards that adding
one more (especially if the Rage-128 is in any way similar to the 64-bit
chipsets) shouldn't be a big deal. I have no doubt that they will get
one written as soon as they get enough chipset-documentation to write
it. But that time is not now.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Kovalev")
Subject: Newbie: null-modem or ethernet?
Date: 22 Aug 1999 16:50:48 GMT
Hello,
Need to connect 3 comps together, they're almost in the same place,
and I was wondering, what would be better-to have some ethernet
startup kit, like 2-3 NIC, hup and some cable, or just
hook them up via "null-modem".
If the last one, any ideas/links, how exactly could I do this?
What soft do I need? Didn't find anything on "null-modem on linux"
so far. Any disadvantages?
If the first one (ethernet), what will happen if the hub is "10/100"
2 out of 3 NIC are 10/100 pci, but one NIC just needs to be ISA (old
machine). Is there any 10/100 ISA cards out there?
Does it make any sense to have 10/100 hub if one of the cards is 10 at most?
Will it work with it at all?
Any suggestions/links/advice - strongly appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Cooperstein)
Subject: Cannot configure X11 and Princeton DPP560
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 22:40:47 GMT
I have a Princeton digital flat screen monitor model DPP-560. It comes with
an ATI Xpert-LCD graphics card. I have been having trouble getting a
configuration file for X11 that works. Can anybody help?
Regards,
Mark
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From: Mike Tipton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LILO and a 10GB disk???
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 20:23:00 -0400
I have it on a 10 Gig drive and it seems to be fine, but I'm new at this, so
...whatever
Rudy M wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've read somewhere that LILO can't work with boot partition higher then
> this, its no bios problem its a LILO problem....
>
> Bye
>
> Patrick Barrett wrote:
> >
> > this means that you have the dreaded old bios. in other words, you need to
> > create a /boot partition somewhere completely below the 1024th cylinder. (i
> > think it's supposed to be before the 500 meg mark.) Anyway to do this, you
> > have to use fips or partition magic and put a small (20 meg should do it)
> > partition before your /dev/hda1 partition. (ie make 20 megs at the very
> > start of your hard drive a /boot partition and reinstall)
> > Now that i've said it about 4 ways, any newbie should get it :-)
> >
> > Phil Cox wrote:
> >
> > > RH 5.2
> > > Maxtor Ultra 10GB
> > > I am having problems getting LILO to write to the boot sector. I get the
> > > following error:
> > >
> > > Warning: device 0x0302 exceeds 1024 cylinder limit
> > >
> > > Any pointers or help?
> > >
> > > Phil
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From: Brian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundcard far to loud
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:48:37 +1000
Prasanth Kumar wrote:
>
> Richard wrote:
> >
> > Hi, is there anyway i can turn down my soundcard volume in console?
> > I have a SBAWE32, with Rh6. I compiled it via modules in a 2.2.10 kernel.
> > I can also hear hard drive noises coming out of it too.
> > I can turn the vo0lume down oce i get into xwindows.
> >
> > Anyone got any ideas??
> >
> > ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> > http://www.searchlinux.com
>
> "aumix" is a console utility that comes with Redhat Linux 6.0.
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Even easier; there is the 'volume' command on RH6. Just type "volume
<n>"
there <n> is a number between 0 and 100 inclusive.
This could be placed at the end of your rc.local.
Brian.
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem : Samba
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 08:07:02 +0800
I have set the following parameters in GLOBAL of smb.conf :
hide dot files = yes
Then kill -HUP `cat /var/run/inetd.pid`
It works for all users, except one. Which still shows .bashrc etc in
the Windows client. Why do this happen?
More interesting, that Windows client got an error something like
"cannot create file with long filename" in Windows of that client
when copy a file with name "abcdefghijk" to Linux. How to solve it?
Thanks!
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From: Andrew Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] Installing linux with CD-RW
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:12:05 GMT
Reply-To: Andrew Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <7pnnu3$2j1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl
Fink) wrote:
>
> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 23:31:58 GMT Andrew Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >I have a creative Blaster 2224 CD-RW as master and a standard CD-ROM as
> >slave on the secondary channel. Will this affect my installation (ie.
> will
> I
> >have to install from one drive in particular, or does it not matter?)
>
> I can't imagine why it would matter. Use the standard CD-ROM if you can,
> it's almost certainly much faster.
Actually, I've just tried it and it does make a difference. Linux expects
the CD-ROM to be /dev/hdc/ while installing
Tim Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Failed to format Iomega zip media
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 00:51:16 GMT
I am running Red Hat 6.0 and have an ATAPI internal Zip drive installed as
hdc. I can read from and write to the zip using the vfat type.
I want to use the zip in ext2 type. So I first use fdisk to delete the old
dos partition 4 and added new primary partition 1 type 83 (Linux). When I run
"mke2fs /dev/hdc1" to format the zip, I got the following message:
=======================================
Writing inode tables: done
ext2fs_mkdir: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read
while creating root dir.
=======================================
When I run "mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mnt/zip", no error message. But when I
use "ls", I see something like:
=======================================
?--------- 0 zip
=======================================
Certainly I can't write to and read from this "mount point" :-)
Anybody has any suggestions? Thanks in advance!
Wenbin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Horan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: problem setting up a PCMCIA CD-ROM
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:15:46 -0400
I am using a Sony PCG-505TX laptop with RedHat v6.0 and am attempting to
install a ATAPI/PCMCIA CD-ROM (a Microtech MicroCD drive).
I have been able to get Linksys ethernet PCMCIA card to work with the RH
but I cannot mount the CD-ROM.
I have not been able to guess the which /dev to use. I have also tried to
MAKEDEV the proper device but mount complains about a missing module.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Fred Horan
--
Fred Horan
Ithaca NY
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From: Darryl Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Failed to format IOMEGA zip
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:08:40 +1000
Roger wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am running Red Hat 6.0 and have an ATAPI internal Zip drive installed as
> > hdc. I can read from and write to the zip using the vfat type.
> >
> > I want to use the zip in ext2 type. So I first use fdisk to delete the old
> > dos partition 4 and added new primary partition 1 type 83 (Linux). When I run
> > "mke2fs /dev/hdc1" to format the zip, I got the following message:
>
> Iomega Zip drives can only be formatted using Zip Tools, which aren't
> available for Linux - the Windows format shouldn't be used either.
> There should never be a reason to format a Zip disk, but if you have to,
> do it in Windoze using Zip Tools (they appear when you right click the
> Zip drive in Windows Explorer). Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't
> think ext2fs is possible for this reason.
Wrong!
I posted this a while ago..I know about ziptools, but for some reason I
could never get it to work, as far as wiindows is concerned, whether you
format the zip disk with ziptools or windows, windows will still read it,
but when though all this with friends who think to clean off a full zip
disk is to format it? hmmm, put that disk into my old amiga or on my linux
box...nogo it's different!
so now onto my original post......
I bought my zip drive to use with my Amiga, so reformated some disks to
the amiga file system, that works fine, later I built a pc, bought it a
scsi card and used the zip drive on that, now I use linux after being
pissed of having to put up with windoze.
ok. I reformated one of the Amiga zip disk in windows, it worked fine - in
windows!, the Amiga or linux could not read it, because windows formated it
with different block size hmmm, so reformated it as a ex2fs linux disk,
great!.
I wanted it to see if I could get it back to a standard zip format disk,
one that could be read on everything.
in linux fdisk
go fdisk /dev/sda or whatever your zip drive is.
delete all partitions on the disk, use the extended commands and print the
partition table, you will see 4 primary partions, if you want a linux disk
you use partition 1, if you want a dos disk you must use partition 4, do a
create new partition, select p for primary and 4 for the partition number
(for a dos zip disk).
set the bootable flag to "ON", set the partition type to 6 which should be
dos fat16 >=32 meg, write this to the disk and you should have
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
2 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
3 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
4 80 1 1 0 63 32 95 32 196576 06
Disk /dev/sda: 64 heads, 32 sectors, 96 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2048 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda4 * 1 96 98288 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
then exit fdisk, do a /sbin/mkfs.msdos /dev/sda4 (in redhat 5.2) or mkdosfs
/dev/sda4 ,
for linux just do mke2fs /dev/sda1 <--- note the difference in the device
name.
hope that helps
dAz
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Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1999 10:22:42 -0400
From: Lev Tarasoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is the Sound Blaster PCI512 supported?
I'm looking for a good quality sound card for transfering music from
my LP's and tapes to CD. I'm considering the Sound Blaster PCI512,
but this is not on the Hardware compatiblility list. Does it work
with RH 6.0 (Linux version 2.2.5-1)? If not, any other suggestions
would be appreciated.
thanks
Lev Tarasoff - Dept of Physics, University of Toronto,
60 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, M5S 1A7
Tel (416)-946-3019 Fax (416)-978-8905
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hint for Rage128/WinTV - owners
Date: 24 Aug 1999 00:50:27 GMT
Hi,
as there may be more people out there with both a Rage128 based graphicscard
AND some kind of bt848/878 based tv-tuner-card i thought i let you know how
I finally did get xawtv work in overlay-mode with AcceleratedX.
1. First you'll have to install VesaFB as explained at
http://www.0wned.org/~cain/ragefury.htm
you don't have to install the XFree86_FBDev driver, u can leave the
Xaccel as your X-Server
(caution: once you started Xaccel with startx or by xdm you can't
return to console-mode which is neccesary )
2. Get and install xawtv, especially fbtv is needed ...for reasons i don't
know..but it works that way ;-)
3. Boot your linux-box with NO X, only console-mode, but with framebuffer
enabled ( i entered 0317, for 1024x768x16bit at boot-prompt )
4. start fbtv on console ( you may have to get some consolefonts, they're
for example in the package console-tools-data for Debian )
5. if u get any channel with fbtv u can close the program
6. make sure that Xaccel uses the same colordepth like your framebuffer is
configured for, i.e. if you've chosen 0317 (->16bit) you have to configure
in Xsetup that u use 64k colors.
7. now start X with startx and there u are, xawtv will no longer deny to use
overlay-mode ;-)))
The only thing to mention is that this constellation seems not to be very
stable...especially if you have enlightenment as windowmanager it may happen
that your screen freezes, if you swap desktops or play MPGs via mtvp.
But this seems to be a major problem of AccelX which sometimes gives you
a real windoze-feeling if it crashes the 5th time that day, when u just
wanted to do something useful....;-((
happy tv-ing...
fIPS
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