Linux-Hardware Digest #572, Volume #12 Wed, 29 Mar 00 15:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux sucks (JEDIDIAH)
Soundblaster pci512-unable to install module ("John J. Budd III, MD")
Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted ("Eric
Potter")
Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted (Joshua
Baker-LePain)
Re: Help on Linux... (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Adaptec AAA-133U2 U2SCSI Raid PCI (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Matrox Millenium G400 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1 (mrghostly)
Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 29 Mar ("K.Tsakaloglou")
Re: Adaptec 29160 Driver (andy thomas)
Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted (Johan
Kullstam)
Re: general questions about video capturing ("Jukka Aho")
Realtek 8019 network card & RedHat 6.0 (Adrian Lukas)
Infra-red transceiver Project ? (Andre-John Mas)
Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted (FWFR)
Recomendations for 10/100 PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Recomendations for 10/100 PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet card (Dances With Crows)
Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted (mrghostly)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:12:52 GMT
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 15:49:46 GMT, Pjtg0707 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:48:45 -0800, volarex
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>What kind of person would think that Linux should be more
>>usr friendly?
>> It was meant as a server OS, Let me dumb it down for you:
>> It's mainly for one computer talking to another.
>> Understand?
>> Linux isn't for people looking for friendlyness it's for a
>>person who knows what they are doing and for a person
>>looking for stability.
> If you want stability, get Solaris. You can even get Solaris 8
...assuming that it supports your hardware...
Why do you think many of us haven't been running Solaris since
1993 or so? Sun didn't have any serious interest in serving the
PC hardware user.
[deletia]
Suns are more than capable of being desktop workstations, and have
been so since before Microsoft bothered to deploy it's first serious
attempt at Windows.
That's why some of us are Linux users now.
--
It is not the advocates of free love and software
that theare the communists, but rather those that |||
advocate or perpetuate the necessity of only using / | \
one option among many, like in some regime where
product choice is a thing only seen in museums.
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: "John J. Budd III, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster pci512-unable to install module
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:20:28 -0600
I am trying to get this soundblaster card to function with no success.
I d/l the driver emu10k from the Creative site, which is
emu10k1-20000329.tar.gz, and I end up with unresolved symbol
tqueue_lock . Does anyone have a solution here? JJB
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From: "Eric Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:19:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lilia Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I wonder if there is an utility that can help me to "see" a new disk
> drive that has been connected to the system (on a SCSI level), before it
> has been actually formatted, partitioned, mounted, etc.
>
> Any help will be greatly appriciated!!!!
>
> Lilia
>
Perhaps you need to enter the SCSI adapter BIOS setup utility as you boot up.
>From there you should be able to do a low level format, if necessary.
Other than that, if the SCSI card is being detected by the kernel, then
the drive should also be visible.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted
Date: 29 Mar 2000 17:34:00 GMT
Lilia Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello!
> I wonder if there is an utility that can help me to "see" a new disk
> drive that has been connected to the system (on a SCSI level), before it
> has been actually formatted, partitioned, mounted, etc.
It should be "seen" and identified both in the SCSI BIOS messages during
boot and in your Linux bootup messages. You can access the latter
after boot with dmesg, and they're usually archived somewhere, e.g.
/var/log/dmesg. fdisk will also let you "see" the raw disk.
Pertaining to the other poster, it is rarely necessary to low-level format
a disk.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help on Linux...
Date: 29 Mar 2000 17:40:09 GMT
R.D'Amico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got a cd writer H.Packard 9200i (Scsi) and I wonder if this device will be
> suported by Linux, also if they are any software to use be able to write
> cd..also direct cd write...
All the newer SCSI burners use a standard command set (MMC-3, IIRC),
and are thus supported. For data, mkisofs and cdrecord work very well
from the command line. xcdroast is an X front end to these (and
a few other) utilities that works nicely. For mp3s, I use mpg123 to
create wavs and burn those with cdrecord.
There are other utilities, too. freshmeat.net is the best place
to find all this stuff.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AAA-133U2 U2SCSI Raid PCI
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:56:51 +0200
Kristjan Kristinsson wrote:
>
> Does anyone know if this model (Adaptec AAA-133U2 U2SCSI Raid PCI) or
> (Adaptec AAA-131U2 U2SCSI Raid PCI) are compatible with linux?
No , thes are not compatible.
> I couldn't find information about them.
Read the kernel configuration help for the AIC7xxx driver .
--
Markus Kossmann
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium G400
Date: 29 Mar 2000 12:50:05 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 00:45:35 +1100, Jeff Melvaine
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Greetings
>Anyone know if this card is or soon will be supported in Xfree?
The G400 has been supported since... oh, about September, with Xfree86
3.3.5 or higher. At the moment, they're working on 3D and dual-head
support for Xfree 4.0. If you need dual-head support Right Now, you can
get a commercial X-server that makes it really easy at http://www.xig.com
. RedHat 6.1 and up, Mandrake 7.0, SuSE 6.2 and up, Slack 7... all these
and probably more should support the G400 right out of the box.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mrghostly)
Subject: Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1
Date: 29 Mar 2000 17:06:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8bt9vk$4gt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I give up! I've tried to get my SB PCI 128 to work for quite a while,
>and I now admit defeat.
>
>
>
>Does anyone know of a good PCI sound card that RH 6.1 will recognize
>right out of the box?
>
>
>
>Anyone want to buy a SB PCI 128?
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
>
I've had good luck with the Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI. It works
with every distro I use (Debian/Slack/RedHat), along with OpenBSD
and NetBSD. It's not the best card on the market, but it's cheap
and very well-supported.
====================================================
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 29 Mar
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:57:01 +0300
Questions and answers from this newsgroup (archived by subject) can be found
at http://server.hellug.gr/LUGistics/en/pub/QA_articles_main.php3
Links suggested in those messages are categorized at
http://hq.hellug.gr/~tsakf
K.Tsakaloglou
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From: andy thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 29160 Driver
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 18:52:55 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Michael Pedersen wrote:
> Are there any drivers for Adaptecs new Ultra160 cards (ASC-29160)
If you have a fairly modern kernel which supports kernel modules, you can
use the aic7xxx.o module for the 29160 card. This module was originally
written to support both the aic7770 chipset used on the 2740/2840/2940
series cards ( for the EISA, VLB and PCI buses respectively) and the
aic7780 chipset in the recent 2940U series PCI cards. However, it also
works fine with the aic7892 chipset in my 29160 card.
Andy
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted
Date: 29 Mar 2000 13:13:29 -0500
Lilia Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello!
>
> I wonder if there is an utility that can help me to "see" a new disk
> drive that has been connected to the system (on a SCSI level), before it
> has been actually formatted, partitioned, mounted, etc.
what do you mean by "see"? an entry appearing in /dev? perhaps devfs
could help you.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: "Jukka Aho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.games.video.digitiser,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,rec.video.desktop
Subject: Re: general questions about video capturing
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:39:13 +0300
"Andras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Jukka Aho wrote:
>> For PAL, the maximum resolution is 576 scanlines and
>> 704...720 luminance samples per line.
> Does it change if I use an S-Video cable from a Hi8
> camcorder? Or in what other way does it effect performance?
No; as the name implies, maximum resolution is the theoretical
and practical maximum. You can't go higher than that.
However, not all signalling methods give that high resolution/
quality to begin with. Y/C (S-Video) is a better signalling
method than CVBS (regular composite video signal) because it
separates the color information from the luminance information
(i.e. there is no crosstalk between the color and luminance
components of the signal). RGB, in turn, is a better signalling
method than Y/C since each primary color is totally separated
from each other (they have their own leads in the cable.)
> Is it "usual" for a card to get the best out of data, or
> I might ocassionaly run into a card that can do maybe only
> 160*120 from a normal Pal source?
Modern analog capture cards (even the cheap tv tuners) can
generally all do full-screen capturing. The only notable
exception are hardware-based MPEG-1 capture/encoder cards
which are usually tied to resolution like 384x288/320x240
and 352x288/352x240 or lower (that's because MPEG-1 does
not work very well with higher resolution - and especially
interlaced - images.)
But then again, the pixel resolution is not the only factor
to consider when choosing a capture card.
Usually it is necessary to compress the images while capturing.
This is because the data rate for uncompressed images is very
high: 720x576 at 25 frames per second gives us a whopping 30
megabytes per second! Using a component format like YUV/YIQ
instead of RGB can lower the requirement at the cost of reducing
the color resolution, but it is still high: not all hard disks
can keep up with that kind of sustained transfer rate, and you
would need unreasonable amounts of hard disk space (10 gigabytes
for every 5 minutes) for any kind of longer production. You also
need space for the actual editing purposes (rendering the
previews and the final, edited clip.)
Now, some cards (mainly the MJPEG ones, but there are also
some contenders with MPEG-2 I-frame support) have compression
codecs in hardware. Others (like tv tuners) do not, and they
require using a real-time software codec (like Picvideo) for
the same purpose. The idea is that real-time compression can
help reducing the data rate down by a factor of 1/3...1/10.
Although this kind of packing reduces the image quality, it
gives much more room to play.
>> 1) what is your source format (vhs, dvd, tv, analog
>> camcorder, digital camcorder, other?)
> Hi8 camcorder, with composite and Svideo output (Pal),
> and ocassionaly Pal-VHS vcr both analog.
Are you aware that the new Digital8 camcorders can play back
also analog Hi8 tapes through their Firewire/IEEE-1394 port,
and record digitally from analog sources? I.e. they effectively
function as a video digitizer, and you can transfer the video
to your computer if you purchase an 1394 I/O card.
If you have any plans for upgrading your Hi8 camcorder to a
Digital8 model, this should be taken in consideration.
>> 2) what are you going to do with it (edit just by cutting,
>> edit by applying lots of filters and transitions, add
>> titles and subtitles, otherwise process or simply archive?)
> basicly capture still images, ie. use the stuff as a "digital
> camera" [...] and ocassionally print the good pictures on
> photo printer
You might be disappointed. When it comes to still images, even
a low-end digital camera can perform better than a video camera.
The fact is that video images do not look very good on a computer
screen. The moving picture, the low dot pitch of TV screen and
the long distance between the screen and the viewer deceive the
eye: even broadcast tv can look pretty bad on a computer screen
when compared to images that are scanned in the same resolution.
Of course you can always take some snapshots from video tape,
but they are generally only good enough for web sites and alike,
not for high quality printing. You also need to gamma correct
them images, and if the subject (or the camera) moves even a
tiny bit during one frame - as usually is the case in real life
situations unless you use a tripod all the time and tell your
subjects to stay still - you're also forced to deinterlace the
image, which cuts the vertical resolution of any moving part in
the image to half. (This does not apply if the footage was shot
with a camcorder that has a "progressive frames" mode, but
generally only the higher-end DV camcorders do and even then
you had to select the mode in advance.)
> and make very short clips. primary for archiving.
> about 10-15 secs clips, to store them as they are
> in MPEG, or similar, and 2-3 secs clips to select
> still images from the data to store as pictures,
> and discard the rest.
Sounds quite reasonable. Then I believe you would be
perfectly happy with a TV tuner card (like one of the
Hauppauge models.)
>> and 3) what is your final target format for storing the
>> end result (analog videotape, digital video tape, VCD,
>> SVCD, DVD, multimedia CD-ROM, web site?).
> JPEG for still images, and mpeg, mjpeg, or maybe avi for
> the clips, store them on hard disk/cd-rom,
I would recommend using VCD/SVCD for both (you can store
704x576 still images and make photo slideshows out of them
even on a regular VCD). This way you can watch both the clips
and still images in a DVD player (not all of them support
VCDs or SVCDs but there are many that do.)
-- znark
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:49:38 +0200
From: Adrian Lukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Realtek 8019 network card & RedHat 6.0
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Hi,
I have a network card with a Realtek 8019 cip. Two years ago I installed and configured
my Linux Suse 5.x on my 486 PC. Everything worked fine (the network card too...)
But now I installed the the RedHat 6.0 on the same PC and my network card
and my Sony-CDROM CDU33A were not reconized. The RedHat Install-Program could not
find this two devices. At the device level I didn't change anything (no jumpers ...)
The problem is that now my 468 is "Microsoft free zone", so I can't use the
network card config. program to configure the irq, etc.
Any hints are welcome!
Thank you Adrian
--
======================================================================
>>> Yes. The first step is to ENUMERATE the STATES the problem has.
>>> Then list the EVALUATIONS necessary for STATE transition.
>>> These are your functions.
>>> Hook the two together in a two-dimensional array, and you're done
>>
>> I take it you only solve simple problems?
>>
> You don't get it, do yo?
> Mr. Malbrain is specifying a Turing machine.
I think Mr. Malbrain IS a turing machine.
[USENET: comp.lang.c "Programming Rules"]
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Hi,
<p>I have a network card with a Realtek 8019 cip. Two years ago I installed
and configured
<br>my Linux Suse 5.x on my 486 PC. Everything worked fine (the network
card too...)
<br>But now I installed the the RedHat 6.0 on the same PC and my network
card
<br>and my Sony-CDROM CDU33A were not reconized. The RedHat Install-Program
could not
<br>find this two devices. At the device level I didn't change anything
(no jumpers ...)
<p>The problem is that now my 468 is "Microsoft free zone", so I can't
use the
<br>network card config. program to configure the irq, etc.
<p>Any hints are welcome!
<p>Thank you Adrian
<pre>--
======================================================================
>>> Yes. The first step is to ENUMERATE the STATES the problem has.
>>> Then list the EVALUATIONS necessary for STATE transition.
>>> These are your functions.
>>> Hook the two together in a two-dimensional array, and you're done
>>
>> I take it you only solve simple problems?
>>
> You don't get it, do yo?
> Mr. Malbrain is specifying a Turing machine.
I think Mr. Malbrain IS a turing machine.
[USENET: comp.lang.c "Programming Rules"]
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From: Andre-John Mas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Infra-red transceiver Project ?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:04:26 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone know of any projects that would show me how to add
an infra-red transceiver to a PC and how I could program it under
Linux to respond to TV-controller type device?
Andre
--
http://www.bigfoot.com/~ajmas/
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: FWFR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:24:38 -0600
Option #1: try 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'
Will show you the basic ID, Channel, and brand of drive.
Option #2: Look at the last 'bootlog' and see if the OS sees the
drives. Same info as option #1
Option #3: Personally I like to deal with the SCSI card's BIOS for early
detection.
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> Lilia Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I wonder if there is an utility that can help me to "see" a new disk
> > drive that has been connected to the system (on a SCSI level), before it
> > has been actually formatted, partitioned, mounted, etc.
>
> what do you mean by "see"? an entry appearing in /dev? perhaps devfs
> could help you.
>
> --
> johan kullstam l72t00052
--
Sincerely,
Frederick Friedman-Romell, M.L.I.S.
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Recomendations for 10/100 PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet card
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:33:59 GMT
I'm looking to upgrade the 10 Mbps 3com PCMCIA card I'm currently
using in my laptop. Are there any general recomendations for a known
working and reliable 32bit cardbus 10/100 card, particularly one that
isn't too expensive?
-p.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Recomendations for 10/100 PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet card
Date: 29 Mar 2000 14:45:06 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 19:33:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<HUsE4.23744$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>
>I'm looking to upgrade the 10 Mbps 3com PCMCIA card I'm currently
>using in my laptop. Are there any general recomendations for a known
>working and reliable 32bit cardbus 10/100 card, particularly one that
>isn't too expensive?
I've heard good things about the Netgear 410TX. Check the archived post
below for a bit more info. It's fairly cheap--about $75 compared to the
$150 3Com 10/100 card! Don't know about long-term reliability; the
Linhardware database says nothing about this card...
http://x42.deja.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=600684108
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mrghostly)
Subject: Re: Utility to see a SCSI disk before it has been formatted and mounted
Date: 29 Mar 2000 19:04:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Kullstam) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Lilia Vogt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I wonder if there is an utility that can help me to "see" a new disk
>> drive that has been connected to the system (on a SCSI level), before
>> it has been actually formatted, partitioned, mounted, etc.
>
>what do you mean by "see"? an entry appearing in /dev? perhaps devfs
>could help you.
>
The kernel should recognize the SCSI device upon boot; you may need to do
a MAKEDEV to create an entry in /dev if you add a drive. Try doing a
'dmesg | more' and see if the SCSI device shows up in the kernel; if so,
just add support to /dev and you should be ready to rock.
HTH.
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