Linux-Hardware Digest #472, Volume #12 Mon, 13 Mar 00 21:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: ATA66 and Linux (Hal Burgiss)
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Mike Ching)
Re: Kingston Fast EtherRx card, gotcha? (LhD Administrator)
Re: Can't Get SMP to Boot on BP6 (LhD Administrator)
Re: best graphics card? (target for experiments)
Re: Please help (Bob Martin)
Re: Excessive hard drive paging (Steve)
Re: Zoom modem configuration (Jim Jerzycke)
Re: modems and linux... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adding New Larger Hard Drive To Old Machine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: which cheap bubble-jet printer for linux? (John Schamus)
Re: KPPP (The Scotts)
Re: Zoom modem configuration (The Scotts)
Re: Is anyone using TEKRAM DC315U + RICOH MP7060 ? (John Schamus)
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USR PCI Modems & Linux? Help (Rob Clark)
SB PCI 128 Problem ("Greg Fortune")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ATA66 and Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:26:29 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:43:53 +0000, Prem S Kang
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hal Burgiss wrote:
>>
>> The RH6.1 installer will not recognize UDMA66 drives on UDMA66
>> controllers. Your options are using a distro that does. Someone has
>> said that the most recent SuSE does. Or connect the drive to a std
>> UDMA33 controller, install, then get the kernel patches that do
>> support UDMA66 and go from there.
>>
>This is not true, until recently I was using RH6.0. I have a maxtor
>UDMA66 hd connected to a UDMA66 controller on my motherboard. I suspect
>that this problem `is just coincidental and nothing to do with UDMA66.
UDMA66 drives work fine in UDMA33 mode. They can't run in UDMA66 mode
(at least with RH6.x) since there is absolutely no support for this in
the stock RH kernels. It was not even available at the time 6.0 came
out. 2.3 kernels have this, and there is a patch for 2.2. Dunno about
Mandrake, maybe the patch is in there. What does hdparm, hdparm -i, and
hdparm -tT say for your drive?
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Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Ching)
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:30:18 GMT
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 20:44:46 -0800, Dean_Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Keith R. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:pLMYl5dhX7hK-pn2-IHO4cmrHME2q@localhost...
>>
>> Nope. It's backwards. The higher numbers had priority. Of
>> course the high numbers (9-15) are spawned off IRQ2 so they are
>> at a *lower* priority. I'be been doing this crap since the
>> original PC1 (and before). I wish I kept my TechRefs, but I've
>> moved inbetween and this stuff get jetisoned.
>
>I'm looking at a text called 'IBM Microcomputers' with a description of the
>8259A PIC. It shows priorities by interrupt type as follows:
>
>Divide overflow <== highest
>INT n instruction
>INTO (interrupt on overflow)
>NMI (nonmaskable interrupt)
>External interrupt on INTR line
>Single-step <== lowest
>
>The priority within type seems to be programmable, via the use of a
>'priority resolver' register. It says nothing about how the PC AT
>implemented the priorities.
>
>So, looking at the 'PCI System Architecture' book, it shows the priority
>from highest to lowest starting at IRQ0 and going downward to IRQ7, as
>indicated by the previous poster...
I don't think anybody does it, but you can also use rotating priority where
the highest priority is specified, eg., you can program IRQ4 to be the
highest priority so that it goes, 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 0 - 1 - 2 - 3. However, it
still goes low to high mod 8.
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kingston Fast EtherRx card, gotcha?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:30:10 GMT
De Clarke wrote:
> This is RH 6.1 -- anyone plugged in the PCI Kingston
> 10/100Tx "Fast EtherRx" card and had it "just work"?
Both Kingston cards and the tulip drivers are relatively trouble-free
creatures.
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?394
LhD Administrator
Linux Hardware Database
http://www.linhardware.com
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Get SMP to Boot on BP6
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 00:30:11 GMT
John Peel wrote:
> I can get a up kernel to boot no problem but it's the SMP that doesn't
> do it. I also compiled a 2.2.14 kernel with smp and it does exactly the
> same thing. I can't figure it out but I think it may have somethingto do
> with dma. I don't really know what to do or look for so I could use some
> help because right now one processor isn't doin a thing.. Thanks in
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?534
LhD Administrator
Linux Hardware Database
http://www.linhardware.com
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From: target for experiments <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: best graphics card?
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 15:49:25 -0800
Hi,
ATI is a GREAT card,
UNDER WINDOWS .
Under Linux, it's a
pain in the astrisk .
Mine worked GREAT under
Win98; but I'm typing this
in the middle third of my
monitor screen .
Recommend that you keep
looking .
Ken .
Dan Law wrote:
>
> Dirk Mueller wrote:
>
> > Dan Law wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend a graphics card supported by Linux (well, XFree86)
> > > that would have a high quality mpeg decoder that can be used in DVD
> > > playback on a pc monitor?
> >
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > you probably want to have a look into the Hardware-HOWTO to get
> > an idea which cards are supported. The features of each card you
> > can ask at your favorite hardware seller then.
> >
> > http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> > --
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> > Dirk M�ller [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Dear Dirk,
>
> Thanks for your reply! I checked the Hardware-HOWTO but it seems to be
> slightly out of date. The XFree86 website lists a few new cards including
> ATI and a few others with different chipsets - but I don't know which
> chipset is in which graphics card & I don't know which card can be used for
> /or has the best quality DVD playback. I'm curious to know what the
> LiVID people are using... Perhaps PCI? Perhaps software decoding? But they
> haven't set up their website yet. I wonder if anyone who views DVD on their
> PC finds a particular card performs better than any other?
>
> -Dan
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux
Subject: Re: Please help
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:24:56 -0600
Buchacher wrote:
>
> Please Help
>
> My mouse doesn't react neither with gpm nor in X-Window
>
> My story:
> First I tried to connect the mouse to the PS/2 port and used /dev/psaux
> --> failure
> Then I connected the mouse with an adapter to COM1
> I tried it with /dev/mouse (ttyS0)
> I removed /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/serial.o
> In /etc/conf.modules I set the line
> alias char-major-4 serial
> to:
> alias char-major-4 off
> Nothing helped. Although I could start X-Window by inserting the following
> line in the section "ServerFlags" of the file /etc/XF86Config:
> AllowMouseOpenFail
>
> The result:
> Cannot open mouse - Continuing...
>
> SuSE said I should then press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to go to any text console and then
> immediately return to X-Window by pressing Alt-F7. The mouse still doesn't
> react.
> Thanks in advance
Did you make a link /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux ? Most apps default to
using /dev/mouse which is linked to the appropriate device for your
system.
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Bob Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Excessive hard drive paging
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Mar 2000 00:57:26 GMT
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:51:24 -0500, Doug Bible wrote:
>I have set up numerous linux systems and have not run across a system
>with such excessive hard drive paging. I have installed linux on a Dell
>Precision 610. This system is has an Adaptec 7890 controller with a
>Seagate drive (model ST39102LW). About every 5-10 seconds I heard the
>drive accessing. To see if I have some process running that is trying
>to access the drive I went through and shutdown/killed every process
>viewable using 'ps'. Having nothing left but those processes necessary
>for the system to even run, the drive access persisted. I get the
>feeling that it is something on the kernel level that is causing this to
>occur. I even recompiled to a newer kernel with no avail.
>
>My main question is this: Is there an application that would allow me
>to monitor the processes (even at the kernel level) that are accessing
>the hard drive? Any assistance would be appreciated, for this is
>driving me nuts having to sit and listen to this machine. If there is
>no help for me, my last course of action would be to get extra long
>keyboard/mouse/video cables and put the thing in the closet :)
>
>Doug Bible
This sounds asthough it could be a million things, suppose you've already
checked all the cron jobs, checked that sendmail isn't constantly trying
to send those unsent messages / constantly polling the server to check
for new mail. Is it able to see all of it's memory, have you got a 1K swap
partition, is it updating one of the log files every few seconds, does it do
this on the console or only in X but like I said I'm sure you've checked
all of that stuff, you sound asthough you know what you're doing.
Let us know the outcome.
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Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
or http://start.at/zero-pps
11:50pm up 10:28, 6 users, load average: 1.12, 1.21, 1.18
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From: Jim Jerzycke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zoom modem configuration
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:19:10 +0000
Yes. Sorry......a poor attempt tp answer all your questions at once.
There is a jumper ON THE MODEM that will disable PnP. There is a GROUP
of jumpers on the modem that will let you set com port / irq. I've been
disabling PnP in the bios, too, just to avoid any problems. This is on a
dual-boot machine (Win95), and it hasn't caused ANY problems in Windoze.
For more answers, read the "PnP HOW-TO", and your modem manual. Zoom
also has excellant on-line docs, but that may be a moot point if your
modem doesn't work.
But then.....how are you posting ;)
regards, Jim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modems and linux...
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:19:48 GMT
In article <38c6d855.0@news>,
"plato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> can someone suggest some 56K modems that work with linux?
Have a look at Linux Hardware Database (http://linhardware.com). The
site is entirely devoted to using hardware with Linux and includes user
ratings for specific pieces of hardware.
Good luck.
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding New Larger Hard Drive To Old Machine
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:27:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The problem with older computers not recognizing large hard drives is
> actually a problem in the BIOS. The simple test is "Does the BIOS
setup
> program allow me to set 'large' or 'lba' mode for disks?" If so, no
> worries. If not, things might get a little complex with partitioning
the
> drive, since the BIOS reads the drive geometry and fdisk/cfdisk use
that
> drive geometry to write the partitioning info. You can specify an
actual
> drive geometry to fdisk and the kernel; it might be worthwhile to read
> those docs should you suspect problems.
>
I'm seeing the opposite with my new 20 gig drive. I updated to the
latest BIOS, and the BIOS thinks its the right size, but when I try to
partition it with cfdisk, it thinks the drive is 8 gig. I'm running
RedHat 6.1-- Any ideas? This is a second drive configured as a secondary
slave, IDE-wise.
Thanks,
Michael Czeiszperger
Raleigh, NC
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From: John Schamus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which cheap bubble-jet printer for linux?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:41:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello:
> >
> > Which current ~$100 non-Windows only bubble-jet printer is compatible
> > with Linux?
> >
>
> Look through http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/ should give you some ideas.
>
> --
> Jim Zubb
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A friend of mine recommended the Lexmark Optra 40 inkjet printer. It's
postscript and Buy.com has it for $98.50 with free shipping in the
clearance listing.
http://www.buy.com/clearance/product.asp?sku=70000013
I ordered one to replace my Epson 850. I'm sick of the very long, very
noisy warmups for the Epson. Plus I'm looking forward to the no hassle
printing you get in Linux with a postscript printer.
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| Jay Schamus
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| "Meanwhile to the northwest, storm clouds gather over the new
| Barad-Dur. The Dark Lord stirs..."
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:01:49 +0000
From: The Scotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KPPP
Suggest you review:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/
and use its search engine for hardware, modem, serial, printer, etc. I
spent a frustrating 6 weeks getting RH6.0 to work on my setup, but would
not go back to Win98 now for anything, especially internet
applications. Keep your sense of humor.
Bob Scott
Tony wrote:
>
> Sorry for the third time. But I spent the money to eliminate the use of
> windows, and all I was able to do was install a linux os, Caldera 2.3, on my
> Compaq Presario. Amazingly Caldera 2.3 was the first linux os out four. The
> first three didn't recognize my video card. Caldera found it great.
> However now that I am able to use a linux os on my box, I can't get
> online with it. I have no clue if my modem is even compatable. Compatablity
> lists don't help, as my modem seems to elude these lists. I have heard that
> Winmodems don't work with linux. But I don't even know if I have a Winmodem.
> Now for the modem questions...
> 1:How do I setup a Rockwell HCF 56k Data Fax PCI Modem that is on COM2,
> Interrupt 11, Address 2F8, Max Speed 115200, Dail bits 8, with Parity, Stop
> bits 1 that ,waits for dial tone, cancels after 60 secs, uses FIFO buffer
> 16550 UART, recieve buffer14, transmitt buffer 16, uses error , compress
> data uses flow control, hardware RTS/CTS
>
> 2:What is the Caldera equivilent of the above settings in windows?
> 3:Why do I get no modem, modem is busy messages when trying to find my
> modem?
> 4:When I think I have found my modem, why does it start by saying
> Initializing and then nothing happens?
> 5:Is there a better type of modem to have if this modem continues to not
> work with linux? I hate to have spent money not to be able to use linux
> online.
> 6:If this problem is solved by someone, would they be interested in
> telling me if my Compaq IJ700 printer will work with linux? I have no clue
> how to setup a printer at all.
> :o)
>
> All help is great help even if the goal is not met.
> Help is good by the nature of it.
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:05:43 +0000
From: The Scotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zoom modem configuration
Your mileage may vary, but I had to use the Windows system information
settings (which the bios had selected) in setserial to get my Zoom
internal to work in Linux. For some reason the bios selected COM3
(ttyS2) but with IRQ of 11.
Bob Scott
rjuarezp wrote:
>
> Jim Jerzycke wrote:
> >
> > What model number is it, and do you have the PnP jumper disabled? I've
> > had extremely good luck using Zoom internal modems, but I always pull
> > the jumper to disable PnP, and set the other jumpers to force it to a
> > known com port / irq setting.
> > Regards, Jim
> >
> >
> Windows says that the model is "Zoom V.90 Data+FaxModem version 5.20
> -HZ207". When you say "disable", do you mean to disable the BIOS PnP
> feature or the modem junmpers? Can I force the modem to be at one known com
> port / irq setting without changing the jumpers? Linux seems to detect my
> modem, but when I make "Modem Query" (Kppp), it returns nothing, only blank
> spaces in ATI1, ATI2... I've got that information from Windows. Can it be
> used for Linux? How could I do that?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help.
>
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From: John Schamus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is anyone using TEKRAM DC315U + RICOH MP7060 ?
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:52:58 GMT
Christophe DUCOUDER wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm searching for the correct low-level scsi driver to drive the RICOH
> CDRW unit. I tried sym53c416.o with no result (the module can not be
> loaded, init_module error)
>
> Thanks in advance,
> TOF :)
Is that the right driver?? I just ordered one of those and I those and
I looked at Tekram's site.
ftp://ftp.tekram.com/SCSI/3X5/linux/
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| Jay Schamus
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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| "Meanwhile to the northwest, storm clouds gather over the new
| Barad-Dur. The Dark Lord stirs..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:49:43 -0500
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/13/00
at 08:49 PM, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Think of VMWare like Virtual PC on the Mac, except it runs on a PC. It
>creates a "virtual PC" on the host OS onto which you can install pretty
>much any other "guest" PC OS. I've got the NT version here installed
>under a Win2000 server host which I installed Win98SE onto. What it
>basically does is prevent you from having to reboot into the "other" OS.
>You just crank it up under the "host" OS.
I'll have to trust you on the Mac stuff. Although I've used a Mac I'm not
as well versed. This does sound alot like OS/2 running DOS and Windows in
a shell on top of the PM, though.
>It's an interesting concept, and if they can make it run faster it might
>even be practical. IMO right now it's in the "gee wiz" stage but not
>terribly useful. Easier to just reboot and run the OS natively.
That's where OS/2 has a real nice product. It's much more attractive for
me to run 16-bit (and limited 32-bit) Windows applications whilst in OS/2
than to have to reboot into Windows, run the proggy, watch Windows crash,
reload Windows, ad nauseam. And to say that OS/2 has a better DOS than
DOS is most always a true statement. Until Win32s 1.30 came out I would
say that OS/2's Win-OS/2 was a better Windows than Windows and the only
way MS won that game by strong arm tactics -- they were losing the
technology battle. (Brawn over brains.)
>OTOH Virtual PC on the Mac is the best emulation product I've seen. Even
>on my lowly 240 mhz PPC 603e based Mac, Win95 is very useable. I'd say
>its Pentium 133 speed. Has full networking support, sound, CD ROM, etc.
>Quite amusing to see Win95 booting up in a Mac OS9 window!
And Virex didn't complain? :^)
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Matt. 6:33; John 3:16; Rom. 8:1
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Subject: Re: USR PCI Modems & Linux? Help
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 01:54:00 GMT
In article <8ak0di$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
EchoFox <echofox@;;;;;;;bigfoot.com> wrote:
>if you have one working under Linux, please tell me what it's FCC id is, or
>part number...
FCC Part 68 registration number: 4X2USA-32034-M5-E
Models 5610, 5613, 0726. 0727, and probably 5609
PCI vendor: 12B9 , device: 1008
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
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From: "Greg Fortune" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB PCI 128 Problem
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 18:07:26 -0800
Posted after no solution from alt.os.linux.mandrake and with added
information:
I just bought a 3dfx Voodoo3 2000 and a SB PCI 128 for my Mandrake 7.0 linux
box. They were meant to replace onboard sound and (ick) onboard video.
Both onboard sound and onboard video have been disabled in the BIOS and my
3dfx card works like a dream. (next upgrade will be an AMD to replace my
very unhappy Cyrix chip). The Sound Blaster, which I picked because I knew
it would work without a hitch, has given me nothing but problems.
Most of the problems were fixed with various options in the BIOS. I set my
BIOS to plug and pray to set the IRQ on the SB card to IRQ 5 instead of the
default 1. Then I disabled P&P and tried again to configure the card
through both Lothar and sndconfig. My sound card now indentifies correctly
(I think) as needing the es1371 module, finds the module and then tries to
play a sound as a test. At that point, sndconfig and Lothar hang.
sndconfig can be killed with a simple Ctrl-C, but Lothar must be "killed."
Further testing shows that a modprobe es1371 works fine and the sound module
loads correctly on boot. Changing to the es1370 module results in a "device
is already in use" error. Changing BIOS to P&P results in the same error.
Attempting to use the onboard sound, a CMIsomething chip, results in the
same "device in use" error.
Here are my sys specs:
PCChips M571 Motherboard with SoundPro and Video Inside
Cyrix 233
96 MB RAM
4GB and 3GB drive
Mandrake 7.0
PCI cards are in:
Slot 1 - SB PCI 128
Slot 2 - 3dfx
Slot 3 - Empty
Slot 4 - LinkSys Ethernet card
I have also verified that the card works. I finally got windoze loaded late
last night and the sound card works fine. The other 2 PCI cards also work
under windoze. Also, after a suggestion from alt.os.lunux.madrake reader, I
tried removing the Ethernet card and configuring the sound card. Again, no
luck. I'm very suspicious that the SB PCI 128 module is able to set IRQ's
on the card because I get no options to change the IRQ under Lothar.
To sum it up, the sound card is simply hanging when attempting to play an
audio file.
Any help would be greatly appreaciated.
Greg Fortune
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