Linux-Hardware Digest #379, Volume #12 Wed, 1 Mar 00 07:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: on board NIC, Sound, Graphic ("Jason Byrne")
Re: LINUX JUST HANGS (Orion Henry)
Re: 4 Celeron motherboard? (Orion Henry)
Re: AMI MegaRAID: Crash with Bonnie I/O test (Ulf Michel)
Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks) (John Jordan)
LS-120 problem (Karsten Breuer)
Re: Poweroff with abit bp6? (Robert Ulmer)
Re: SBlive + ALSA ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Tar problem on verify. ("Agust� Vil� i Armengou")
Re: Wireless Network (Jerome Corre)
Machine hangs 'lost interrupt' ("Eric Parker")
What cd-recorder model by parallel port works fine in linux? (Francisco de Borja
Rodriguez)
drivers for my TV-Tuner/Video card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: my zip 250 (Thomas Zajic)
CD-RW HP 7510E parallalel port (Francisco de Borja Rodriguez)
Ultra160 29160 SCSI support? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SB128 PCI and MIDI (Massimo D'Antoni)
SB128 PCI and MIDI (Massimo D'Antoni)
SB128 PCI and MIDI (Massimo D'Antoni)
Re: LS-120 problem (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: 13gigs and no where to go...... ("Richard Gaywood")
SB128 PCI and MIDI (Massimo D'Antoni)
Re: heating linux (Stefan Poppe)
Dell Inspiron 7000 Questions (Ryan Stapleton)
Matrox Marvel g400-tv and xf86 4.0 ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
CDRW as backup device... adviseable? (Julio C. Gutierrez)
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: on board NIC, Sound, Graphic
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 00:12:27 -0800
I have two machines running SuSE 6.3 with PCChips M748LMRT (onboard video
(SiS 620), pci sound (c-media 8738), ethernet (davicom9102), and
PCTel/Micromodem HSP56 winmodem).
Guess what... 'everything' works (even the modem - much better than Win 98
btw).. and board is baby-AT with AT/ATX power and Slot-1/Socket 370
processor support (up to p3 550 I believe - I have p3 500 & Celeron 400),
66/100 bus, 3 DIMM slots.
The video memory is shared... but otherwise works fine (24 bit @ 1024x768 on
my system). I'm not sure about hardware acceleration - just started writing
some OpenGL apps... and not expecting great performance under Linux... but
otherwise I'm pretty content.
Anyway... not bad for a $95 board (sure you can probably find it for less)
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From: Orion Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX JUST HANGS
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:10:52 -0800
Mailer wrote:
>
> Sorry.
>
> More Info.
>
> RedHat 6.0 running on COMPAQ PROLIANT SERVER with double processor and
> 128MB RAM. SCSI LVD DRIVES * 5.
Have you updated to a newer (2.2.14) kernel?
Do you have a UPS?
Do you have adequate cooling?
Have you checked your RAM?
Have you checked the logs for oopses/etc?
Can you ssh/telnet to the machine once it hangs?
Have you tried connecting a dump terminal to the
serial port to log error messages externally?
Will it crash if X is not running?
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From: Orion Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:13:46 -0800
Atle wrote:
>
> Could someone point me to a 4 Celeron motherboard that Linux will
> support?
>
> Please email me if you know of a powerful multiprocessor board ...
Celeron's/PII/PIII's can only have dual processor configurations.
For more than 2 you need to look at Pentium Pro's, Xeon's or non
x86 solutions.
You can however do dual celeron's with an Abit-BP6
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From: Ulf Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID: Crash with Bonnie I/O test
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 09:07:46 +0100
Jeff McWilliams wrote:
>
> Hmm, that sounds like a possible memory problem.
>
> I have a 466 but currently no drives to hook up to it and test.
> What MegaRAID firmware does your card contain? If it is not the latest
> then you may want to try flashing to the latest firmware.
> The latest is GH6D.
> You may also want to get the latest MegaRAID driver. www.ami.com has
> copies and I think they're up to 1.04 Oops - scratch that, it's 1.07 on
> their web site. You may want to try compiling a new Kernel with the 1.07
> driver.
>
> Jeff
> --
> Jeff McWilliams - Advanced Development Engineer, ACE Technologies
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have downloaded the new driver (contained in 107.zip) and found an
indication that my problem might be solved:
> Changes in this 1.05-1 Release:
> -------------------------------
> 1) Driver: Fixed hangs occurring under heavy I/O.
Thank you for this advice. Can you give me a hint, how to
flash the latest firmware?
Ulf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jordan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 08:06:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH) dijo a todos por la internet:
>If you're looking for a book written to the appropriate target
>audience then try before you buy. Most serious bookstores will
>allow you to browse titles thoroughly before buying. Do that.
>Stick your butt in front of the Linux titles and go through them
>one by one until you find what you need.
I live five minutes from Powell's main bookstore. In the technical
bookstore they have easily 100 books about Linux. I browsed for a
couple of hours, but didn't find any I could understand very well.
I did buy two of them. But when I got them home and attempted to do
some of the things they discussed with my Corel Linux computer, all I
got was error messages (file not found, no such path, etc.). So far
neither of them has been any help at all.
The best help I have had is right here. Thanks to several people in
here I have now got the network sort of running. The only thing left
is to get the Linux box to see the NT box. (NT can browse the Linux
box, but not vice-versa.)
We must always try to remember that what is obvious to us may not be
obvious to others. It has nothing to do with intelligence; it has to
do with background. It is human nature to forget that we were not born
knowing everything we currently know.
Oh, and I still don't know what a gateway is. Or why it is important.
Or where to figure out what address I should enter for the gateway.
NOTICE: The e-mail address is deliberately incorrect.
Delete "xnospam" from the username.
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From: Karsten Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LS-120 problem
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:06:22 +0100
Hi everybody,
I've a linux box with SCSI harddisk + CD-ROM and
an ATAPI LS-120 (mentioned as primary master ba the bios)
disk drive. The kernel version is 2.2.13 (SuSE 6.3) compiled
with support for Adaptec AIC7xxx and ide-floppy.
The SCSI-subsystem works fine, but I'm not able to mount
the LS-120. While booting, the kernel seems to find the drive
as /dev/hda but reports that it is an unknown device
("hda: P, ATAPI UNKNOWN (Type 16) drive").
After the boot process the LS-120 can't be mounted
neither as /dev/hda nor as /dev/fd0.
Has anyone an idea to solve this problem?
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From: Robert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Poweroff with abit bp6?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:11:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:43:54 +0100, Robert Ulmer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hello is it possible to use the abit bp6 poweroff function with linux
> >and smp?
> >
> >I've tried to compile APM into the kernel and to add
> >a
> >append="apm=smp-power-off"
> >into my lilo.conf file.
> >
> >that wasn't enough!
>
> I find this in apm.c in kernel sources... (2.2.15pre9)
>
> * 1.12: Remove CONFIG_SMP as the compiler will optimize
> * the code away anyway (smp_num_cpus == 1 in UP)
> * noted by Artur Skawina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> * Make power off under SMP work again.
> * Fix thinko with initial engaging of BIOS.
> * Make sure power off only happens on CPU 0
> * (Paul "Rusty" Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).
> * Do error notification to user mode if BIOS calls fail.
> * Move entrypoint offset fix to ...boot/setup.S
> * where it belongs (Cosmos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).
> * Remove smp-power-off. SMP users must now specify
> * "apm=power-off" on the kernel command line. Suggested
> * by Jim Avera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, modified by Alan Cox
> * <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
> * Register the /proc/apm entry even on SMP so that
> * scripts that check for it before doing power off
> * work (Jim Avera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>).
> *
>
> --
> Hal B
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --
Hi, this works fine, thanks.!
R
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SBlive + ALSA
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:38:05 -0800
These will work fine with the creative open source OSS compatible driver, but for ALSA
it is a bit more.
Here is what I have so far in my modules.conf
Everything works fine except the midi-synth, anybody have a clue where it is wrong?
I pretty much just copied what worked with my SB64 for midi, but it doesn't work. I
have
built the AWE synth as a kernel module. When I try to play midi I get an "modprobe:
can't locate snd-seq-client-62" and "modprobe: can't locate snd-seq-client-63" message
######### Alsa Sound Driver ##############
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
# OSS/Lite portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-emu10k1
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-6 snd-pcm-oss
# Install EMU10K1 synth/seq dependencies
post-install snd-midi /sbin/modprobe snd-seq; /sbin/modprobe snd-seq-oss
post-install snd-seq-oss /sbin/modprobe snd-synth-emu10k1; /sbin/modprobe
snd-card-emu10k1
# Restore mixer settings and load soundfonts
post-install snd-mixer /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
post-install snd-synth-emu10k1 /usr/local/bin/sfxload /usr/local/share/awe/synthgm.sbk
########### End Alsa
..snip
>
> alias sound emu10k1
> pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore
> post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore
...snip
| Chuck Johnston
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:47:10 +0100
From: "Agust� Vil� i Armengou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tar problem on verify.
I am trying to make verifyed tar's with "W" option, with a HP Colorado 8
Gb internal ide tape, using it as a /dev/ht0 device.
It complains about too many read errors in the begining of the verify
process and stops it.
But if I extract, compare (with the 'd' option), and make a diff of the
obtained files, it all runs fine.
Please, somebody can help ?
Many thanks in advance.
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From: Jerome Corre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wireless Network
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 09:40:27 GMT
Bob,
Thanks for your quick answer,
>
> >Also is it possible to use a PC with two network cards: 1 wireless,
and
> >one wired. and use it as a router between the wireless group and the
> >wired network.
>
> Yes, this is quite feasible. I have exactly that setup using Proxim
> Symphony cards. I have an old 486/50 running Linux 2.2 that has a
modem, a
> wireless card, and a regular ethernet card. We have some desktop
PC's on
> the wired net and a laptop on the wireless one. I set up the
wireless net
> as 192.168.2.0/24 and the wired one as 192.168.1.0/24. I use diald
and IP
> masquerading to hook up to the Internet. The 486 routes between all
the
> networks and also handles our home email and local DNS. Everything
works
> great.
>
> You could probably also do this with bridging instead of routing but I
> haven't tried that.
>
So if I understand correctly, your wireless network can talk to your
wired one without the use of an access point, assuming you have a box
with both a wireless and wired network card.
how easy is it to set up a router like your under linux? (knowing that
I am new to Linux)
thanks in advance, regards,
--
Jerome Corre
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Eric Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Machine hangs 'lost interrupt'
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 09:46:07 -0000
I have recently installed RedHat 6.1. I find that very shortly after logging
in the machine hangs when trying to access disk and a meesage 'lost
interrupt' is printed on the screen.
Is this indicative of a hardware error ?
Is it some sort of configuration problem ?
Any advice would be appreciated ?
TIA
eric
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From: Francisco de Borja Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What cd-recorder model by parallel port works fine in linux?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:04:02 +0100
What kind of cd-recorder by parallel port works good?
Any cd-recorder model without problems?
Tanks in advance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: drivers for my TV-Tuner/Video card
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:17:38 GMT
Hi!
I have a spitfire TV-Tunercard which is also my display card
The specs are as follows
Spitfire - OTI 64111, T9635, BA1134BBTO7
Can some one tell me where and how to get a driver for this please?
Thanks in advance
Shiv
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: my zip 250
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 10:27:08 GMT
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:00:10 GMT, nelliott wrote:
> hello
> I just got a zip 250 i've tried a insmod ppa then i
> found out i should use the imm module but i still get that dam device
> resource busy or not responding.
> my parallel port is at 378h using ecp. what am I missing?
AFAIK ECP is not a good idea to use with a Zip (mine wouldn't work with
it either), try setting your parallel port to EPP (in the BIOS) instead.
HTH,
Thomas
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- Thomas "ZlatkO" Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Linux-2.2.14/slrn-0.9.6.2 -
- "It is not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw." (M. C.) -
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From: Francisco de Borja Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW HP 7510E parallalel port
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:28:34 +0100
There is any problem with this model in linux?
Tanks in advance
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:00:50 +0100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ultra160 29160 SCSI support?
Hi!
Does Linux support the new Ultra160 29160 SCSI Controller? Are there any
drivers?
Thanks,
Christian
PS: Please answer me also per eMail! Thx
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From: Massimo D'Antoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: SB128 PCI and MIDI
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:20:35 +0100
According to its specification, my new SB 128 PCI has hardware support
for midi; indeed, I'm able to play midi files when under Windows.
Instead, when under Linux, if I try to play a midi file with playmidi,
it complains there is no /dev/sequencer device, and I'm forced to
translate midi to wav with timidity.
Everything else (MP3, WAV) works fine with my SB.
Can anyone tell me something definitive about midi support of SB 128
PCI?
Is it possible that my previous SB16 ISA PnP had this support, while
this newer one has not?
Thanks
Massimo
--
=======================================================
Dipartimento di Economia Politica - Universit� di Siena
p.zza S. Francesco, 7 - 53100 SIENA
tel. (39) 0577 232616 - fax (39) 0577 232661
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Massimo D'Antoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: SB128 PCI and MIDI
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:21:25 +0100
According to its specification, my new SB 128 PCI has hardware support
for midi; indeed, I'm able to play midi files when under Windows.
Instead, when under Linux, if I try to play a midi file with playmidi,
it complains there is no /dev/sequencer device, and I'm forced to
translate midi to wav with timidity.
Everything else (MP3, WAV) works fine with my SB.
Can anyone tell me something definitive about midi support of SB 128
PCI?
Is it possible that my previous SB16 ISA PnP had this support, while
this newer one has not?
Thanks
Massimo
--
=======================================================
Dipartimento di Economia Politica - Universit� di Siena
p.zza S. Francesco, 7 - 53100 SIENA
tel. (39) 0577 232616 - fax (39) 0577 232661
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Massimo D'Antoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: SB128 PCI and MIDI
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:22:54 +0100
According to its specification, my new SB 128 PCI has hardware support
for midi; indeed, I'm able to play midi files when under Windows.
Instead, when under Linux, if I try to play a midi file with playmidi,
it complains there is no /dev/sequencer device, and I'm forced to
translate midi to wav with timidity.
Everything else (MP3, WAV) works fine with my SB.
Can anyone tell me something definitive about midi support of SB 128
PCI?
Is it possible that my previous SB16 ISA PnP had this support, while
this newer one has not?
Thanks
Massimo
--
=======================================================
Dipartimento di Economia Politica - Universit� di Siena
p.zza S. Francesco, 7 - 53100 SIENA
tel. (39) 0577 232616 - fax (39) 0577 232661
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS-120 problem
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:26:04 +0000
Karsten Breuer wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> I've a linux box with SCSI harddisk + CD-ROM and
> an ATAPI LS-120 (mentioned as primary master ba the bios)
> disk drive.
The same on my machine(+ some more SCSI-devs), based on a Asus P2B-S.
>The kernel version is 2.2.13 (SuSE 6.3) compiled
> with support for Adaptec AIC7xxx and ide-floppy.
I am using SuSE 6.0 with Kernel 2.0.36.
I set up the kernel with
- Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support
(CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE)
- Include IDE/ATAPI FLOPPY support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY)
I also have a AIC7890.
> The SCSI-subsystem works fine, but I'm not able to mount
> the LS-120. While booting, the kernel seems to find the drive
> as /dev/hda but reports that it is an unknown device
> ("hda: P, ATAPI UNKNOWN (Type 16) drive").
My boot.msg says:
<4>hda: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
[...]
<6>hda: 123264kB, 963/8/32 CHS, 533 kBps, 512 sector size, 720 rpm
<5>hda: no media in the drive
> After the boot process the LS-120 can't be mounted
> neither as /dev/hda nor as /dev/fd0.
> Has anyone an idea to solve this problem?
/dev/fd* won't work. This is why you have problems creating boot disks
with the LS-120.
/dev/hda should be right. My fstab says:
/dev/hda /floppy auto noauto,user
0 0
How did you mount it? fstab entry?
Andreas
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 13gigs and no where to go......
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 11:09:02 -0000
> Another way is to use Partition Magic. A Windows program and
> much more userfriendly than Fips.
Partition Magic is very good, if you willing to fork out for it. It lets you
resize Windows & Linux partitions without having to wipe them first. Damn
reliable, too, in my experience.
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: Massimo D'Antoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: SB128 PCI and MIDI
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:28:24 +0100
According to its specification, my new SB 128 PCI has hardware support
for midi; indeed, I'm able to play midi files when under Windows.
Instead, when under Linux, if I try to play a midi file with playmidi,
it complains there is no /dev/sequencer device, and I'm forced to
translate midi to wav with timidity.
Everything else (MP3, WAV) works fine with my SB.
Can anyone tell me something definitive about midi support of SB 128
PCI?
Is it possible that my previous SB16 ISA PnP had this support, while
this newer one has not?
Thanks
Massimo
--
=======================================================
Dipartimento di Economia Politica - Universit� di Siena
p.zza S. Francesco, 7 - 53100 SIENA
tel. (39) 0577 232616 - fax (39) 0577 232661
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=======================================================
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From: Stefan Poppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: heating linux
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:35:56 +0100
"Robert W. Cunningham" wrote:
>
> Michael Hofmann wrote:
>
> > "Robert W. Cunningham" wrote:
> > >
> > > This equation tells us all we need to know:
> > >
> > > Power (watts) = Voltage (volts) x Current (amps)
> > >
> >
> > NO. Don't confuse people with wrong assumptions. Your formula holds true
> > for DC ONLY, which is NOT what we have in the case of a PC power supply.
> > It runs on AC. This means that you have to take the phase angle (Phi)
> > between Voltage and Current into account.
>
> Get a clue. Most DMMs (Digital Multimeters) take that into account for you!
> When you push the little "AC" button, a .707 factor is automatically figured
> in! Of course, if your "AC" is not a TRUE sine wave, this correction may be
> in error, and you would need to use a "True RMS" DMM. But, as I said in my
> original post, that doesn't apply here.
The point Michael makes is totally different from your factor .707
argument. This only takes into account the average versus peek
voltage/current. The point that Michael makes is that a power supply is
not an ohmic resistance (or was it "resistivity"? should improve my
English) to the power line. Because it consists of coils and
capacitances it forms a _complex_ resistance (may be better
"impedance"). Only for ohmic resistance the phase angle between voltage
and current is zero and you can obtain the power the way you describe.
But from your posting I conclude that you actually should know the
facts.
You are even right that _modern_ power supplies _should_ not form a
complex load to the power line. But that does not change the fact that
Michael's statement is physically correct and more general than yours
and that old power supplies may not adhere to your recommendations.
There's no reason to shout at him.
So in case you don't know the internals of your power supply, his method
is certainly more precise.
>
> What was your reply intended to do? Prove that you're taking your first EE
> class?
Get a clue? Get some good behaviour!
BTW, you could try to disconnect everything from the power supply
(mainboard,disks, etc)
According to your theory current should almost drop to zero (besides
losses in the power supply). If there's a non-zero phase-angle the
current should stay non-zero. That should be a method to test ist.
Bye,
Stefan
--
Stefan Poppe
Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ryan Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Inspiron 7000 Questions
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:56:15 GMT
Hello,
I have a few questions about my laptop and linux.
I have AccelX install for reference.
I am trying to setup my system so that it goes into standyby after
a period of time, or setup the system to shut off the backlighting.
I can't seem to get this to work. I am using RH 6.1 running gnome.
I had Mandrake 6.x install with kde and I had it working under that (ok
it did it for me) But I switched back to RH to keep all my linux boxes
running the same distro. Does anyone have any ideas?
2nd problem is if I go into suspend, 1/2 the time my external mouse
dosnt get detected when it comes backon.
Thanks for the help.
-Ryan
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox Marvel g400-tv and xf86 4.0
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:15:46 -0500
Hey,
I am buidling a box with a marvel g400-tv. i heard that matrox contracted
coders to write drivers for the 4.0 release of xfree86. i was wondering
how much support will be availible in this release for the extra features
of the card, like video caputre and tv tunning. there is a project called
livid that hopes to impliment these features through video4linux. i was
wondering if xfree86 4.0 will boost their production or if the two are
unrelated. i am also wondering if there are any marvel g400-tv owners out
there and what you have gotten it to do under linux. please CC to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
-mike
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From: Julio C. Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW as backup device... adviseable?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 12:01:52 GMT
hi,
I start being in need to have backups of the data in my PC, as I will
start having in it sensitive data (end-of-career project, some stuff
for a company I work for, etc, etc).
I had been thinking on adding a ZIP drive, though in this very newsgroup
I was told it would be wiser to get a CDRW for price and cappacity of the
media.
So, for personal backups, made maybe every 10 or 15 days, do you think a
CDRW would do the trick nicely?
If so, which would work fine under linux? I am planning to use an IDE one
as I don't have SCSI controller. At the company I worked for they had an
Iomega IDE CDRW and (under windows) worked 100% ok. The price was more than
reasonable.
Another question: Would it be possible to split a backup among two CDs?
For instance, say that I have to backup 1 gigabyte of infomation... would
it be possible to create two "volumes" or whatever it might be called? If
so, which utility should I be looking for?
Thanks for all your comments.
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Julio C. Gutierrez -- Please remove both X to send email
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