Linux-Hardware Digest #584, Volume #12 Fri, 31 Mar 00 11:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: HELP! SB 128 PCI won't work! (Steffen Jost)
Re: Linux sucks (Lion)
burning mp3's (Rich Mesek)
Re: Only for The Gurus ("Brian Johnson")
serial port ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
lm_sensors vs TYAN S1590S mobo ("Gene Heskett")
Re: burning mp3's (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Promise Boot Problem? (Abe)
Re: S3 Savage4 installation problem with Mandrake 6.0 (John Winters)
Re: Exabyte tape problem (hac)
Re: lm_sensors vs TYAN S1590S mobo (Dale Pontius)
Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1 (mrghostly)
RedHat 6.1 and Compaq DLT4000 problems (twes)
lp0 issues with Redhat 6.1 (root)
Configure a Cannon Multipass 5500 on Linux? (Ryan Petrain)
Re: My serial port ttyS3 doesn't work (Gustin Kiffney)
Re: burning mp3's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Weak sound with VIA Apollo Pro (Rod Smith)
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From: Steffen Jost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP! SB 128 PCI won't work!
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:13:47 +0200
Bonjour Jean-Sebastien!
Do you probably have a Via VP Pro chipset on your board? I had some
problems under win98 with my sb128pci, because the irq mapping didn�t work.
If you have such a chipset you have to enable "pci quirks" in the kernel
config, this should resolve the problems with bad irqs.
My card worked perfectly under linux, right from the beginning, with irq 10
and i/o 0xec00.
HTH
Steffen
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From: Lion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:59:32 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JEDIDIAH
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:24:56 +0100, Lion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>In article <38e212ef.3041845@news>, Jan Knutar <[email protected]>
>>writes
>>>My Win95 runs so much more stable after explorer crashes. Without the
>>>taskbar and desktop icons, the system is not only faster, but more stable!
>>
>>I recently purchased a CD with a quicktime3 movie on it. To view this in
>>windows I had to reinstall the whole system. Pretty bad. But on the
>>other hand, it's tit for tat. There is *no* way of viewing a qt3 movie
>>on Linux atm.
>
> Convert it to cinepak with Quicktime Pro 4.x and vmware.
Doesn't qt pro cost money?
--
Lion
BreadHead - Back By Popular Demand
Sex, Metal & Revolution
http://www.bigfoot.com/~breadhead
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From: Rich Mesek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: burning mp3's
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:26:35 -0500
How do you burn mp3 files onto cd's in cdda format? I can't find any conv=
ersion
utility or cd-burner that can create a music cd out of mp3's. What am I m=
issing?
Rich
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From: "Brian Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Only for The Gurus
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:29:13 GMT
it might help to know that the specific HOWTO you'll be looking for to set
this up is the IPCHAINS-HOWTO. I also recommend this, it works great
here.. if you must use the windows modemsharing then set that up, and
when you set-up your linux box, have it point to the ip address of the
windows box as the default gateway. also when choosing addresses for your
local net make sure they're part of the private address range (the Net3-4
howto explains this if you need explanation).
-Brian
In article <8c10or$2ka0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Allan Wingenbach"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is easily accomplished in Linux using a feature called IP
> Masquerading. There are several well written sites and HOW-TOs on this
> subject, so I can't possibly do you any good by going into detail here.
> The HOW-TOs are at www.linuxdoc.org . I use IP masquerading on 6
> networks I've setup with anywhere from 2 to 25 client machines and it
> works flawlessly.
>
> Allan Wingenbach
>
> Ahmet Bedir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> As some of you might know Win98SE has an feature to share the same
>> (modem) TCP/IP connection for many networked PCs.
>>
>> I'm networking 2 PCs, and hope to run LINUX on one of them. The Primary
>> PC will have the modem and W98SE, and the 2nd will run LINUX.
>> Although I imagine I will be able to network the two together but can I
>> also share the same TCP/IP connection to the net.
>>
>> I have a feeling anything Win can do, LINUX should/could do better (so
>> I keep hearing & reading). As I'm a to be LINUX user (I haven't
>> installed it,
>> yet) I'd appreciate some feed back on the matter, with perhaps a simple
>> explanation.
>>
>> Thanks in advance to all the gurus.
>>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: serial port
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:21:03 GMT
hi
Ive got a GMS phone with a built in modem and it connects to my laptop
with a cable via the serial port. Now in windows the phone will detect
that it is connected to a computer but in linux it wont. What is
different about the serial port in linux?
Thanks
Robert
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Before you buy.
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Date: 31 Mar 2000 7:37:55 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lm_sensors vs TYAN S1590S mobo
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Has anyone managed to make lm_sensors work on a TYAN S1590S motherboard
yet. I keep getting some sort of can't find it messages when I try to
modprobe the latest versions into the system.
Cheers, Gene
--
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This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
� 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: burning mp3's
Date: 31 Mar 2000 13:38:40 GMT
Rich Mesek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do you burn mp3 files onto cd's in cdda format? I can't find any conversion
> utility or cd-burner that can create a music cd out of mp3's. What am I missing?
mpg123 -w 1.wav 1.mp3
mpg123 -w 2.wav 2.mp3
.
.
.
cdrecord -v dev=$DEVICE speed=$SPEED -audio -pad -swab 1.wav 2.wav ...
replacing $DEVICE and $SPEED with the appropriate values -- check the man
pages.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Abe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Boot Problem?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:50:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the tip, but where did you get the numbers? My /var/log has
numbers different from /proc/pci...
How did you compile the kernel? I've tried 'Boot offboard IDE first',
append='pci=reverse' and other options, but it still locks just before the
decompression stage. The kernel never starts enough to even look for an IDE
controlller, so I don't think that the IDE card is the problem...
Perhaps I need to recompile without bz...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Kelly wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Abe Waranowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've read all the FAQ's & Howto's and followed directions, but I still
> > can't boot from a Promise UDMA66 PCI card.
> >
> > I'm using kernel 2.2.15-pre14 with the Promise patch posted earlier in
> > this newsgroup.
>
> I'm using TurboLinux Workstation 4.0.
> It has 2.2.12-8 kernel. All I did was
> boot the CD and at the boot prompt enter
> linux ide2=0xyyyy,0xyyyy where the yyyy's are the hex
> addresses obtained from either cat /proc/pci when booting
> the Promise boot disk, or from Win98 device manager.
>
> So far I can only get it to run in pio mode, but bonnie
> shows numbers ranging from nearly 4 MB/sec to 6.7 MB/sec
> so it's not too bad.
>
> I got the Promise boot disk image from www.promise.com
> but it turns out I didn't need it.
>
> It may be an issue of having more than one drive, so I
> can't help you there.
>
> [snip]
>
> > What's the deal?
> >
> > Thanks for the help!
> >
> > -Abe
> >
> >
>
> --
>
> Mike
> --
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
> -- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup,uklinux.help.newbies
Subject: Re: S3 Savage4 installation problem with Mandrake 6.0
Date: 31 Mar 2000 15:03:04 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harry Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've had Mandrake 6.0 (which, I believe, is based on Red Hat 6)
IIRC, Mandrake 6.0 is based on Red Hat 5.2.
>running
>on a Gateway 2000 Pentium II 233 for a while without any problems.
>However, recently the graphics adapter needed replacing, and I can't get
>the new one working on the system. Basically, the new adapter is a S3
>Savage4, and it isn't listed in the adapters that are available at
>installation.
Hmm. Your installation probably has something like XFree86 3.3.2.
The current version is 3.3.6 and that does seem to list the Savage4
as compatible.
>I've been to the vendor's Web site in the hope of finding some
>documentation on how to install the adapter, but couldn't find any
>Linux-related information at all.
I presume by "Vendor" you don't mean Mandrake. Their site is packed
with Linux-related information.
>Could anyone give me any pointers
>either on how to install this adapter or where I could find information
>on doing so?
I'd suggest updating to a later version of XFree86. You can download
this from Mandrake's web site, (www.linux-mandrake.com) or just get
a later version of Linux Mandrake. (The current one is 7.0)
HTH
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - the source for Linux CDs in the UK
See http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Exabyte tape problem
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 14:25:13 GMT
Stephen Griffiths wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have installed an 8500 Exabye on my intel linux box. It seems to
> work just fine -- I can make
> tar tapes and read them back, compare to original, no problems). I am
> having a problem reading
> any tar tape (made with the same exabyte tape drive) created on a
> solaris sun workstation. I can
> read the tapes on the sun box if I re-install the drive there. On
> Linux, I have tried to read the
> tapes with dd to try and byte swap but always get an error.
>
> dd if=/dev/st0 of=foo bs=10240 conv=swab
> dd: /dev/st0: Input/output error
> 0+0 records in
> 0+0 records out
>
> First, do I have a byte swap problem (big vs little endian) and second
> is the byte size value
> correct for a standard solaris tar file? Should tar even care about
> big/little endian? Why can I
> not read these tapes on my linux box?
>
> Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Steve
The default block size for Exabytes on Sun is 63k. The default buffer
size for SCSI tapes in Linux is 32k. See the problem?
Edit /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/st_options.h and change this:
/* The tape driver buffer size in kilobytes. */
#define ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS 32
64 works for me. Yes, that Sun default is 63k, not 64k. Don't know
why.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: lm_sensors vs TYAN S1590S mobo
Date: 31 Mar 2000 14:38:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Unrot13 this;
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Has anyone managed to make lm_sensors work on a TYAN S1590S motherboard
> yet. I keep getting some sort of can't find it messages when I try to
> modprobe the latest versions into the system.
>
Yes, I have it running at home on one. It was not entirely
straightforward to get running, but fairly solid once it is.
The sensor chip itself is kind of braindead, so you have to
set it up in a sort of iterative mode.
Later I can give you specifics, though it take until next
week. It took a bit sorting through all the via-i2c stuff,
and getting the right sensor chip defined, etc.
Dale Pontius
NOT speaking for IBM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mrghostly)
Subject: Re: Need sound card for RH 6.1
Date: 31 Mar 2000 14:17:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>On 30 Mar 2000 15:53:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mrghostly)
>blabbed:
>
>>You might also consider that you have not enabled user-access to the
>>/dev/dsp and /dev/audio entries. A good way to test this is to try
>>running your sound programs as root, then try again as a user. If you
>>can't get playback as a normal user, you need to do a chmod on the dsp
>>and audio entries.
>
>I'm pretty sure that normal users have access to those devices because
>I do hear sampled sounds whenever I start afterstep with my SB-16.
>
Yeah, that'd rule that problem out... Hmmm. The only other thing I can
suggest is to compile sound support into the kernel (make sure to enable
EXPERIMENTAL DRIVERS, then choose the AudioPCI driver -- *not* as a module,
but compiled into the kernel). If that still doesn't work, you may be
experiencing an IRQ/DMA conflict. If that's the case, you might try
pulling all boards except the sound card and then add boards back one by
one until you can repeat the problem.
====================================================
Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: twes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 6.1 and Compaq DLT4000 problems
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 06:56:04 -0800
I have installed Redhat 6.1 on a Compaq Proliant with an
internal DLT4000 tape drive. I can access the drive via
/dev/st0 and it seems to work for small backups.
We backup our machines using cpio. After the backup we
verify the files on the tape are the same as those written,
but using cpio -itC65536 we get lots of errors about cpio
skipping 4096 bytes of junk.
Anyone any ideas ?
Tim
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: lp0 issues with Redhat 6.1
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 07:30:28 -0800
Hello.
Middle of last week, I downloaded and installed Cartman. Things went
very well and I've managed to get a really great copy of linux on my
machine. This week I've been working on getting a few misc things
working. The biggest thing I'm working on right now is getting the
linux box to print. I've got a HP Deskjet 694c and I read about which
drivers to use. The install seemed like it would be simple.
Unfortunately, I can't seem to get printtool to recognize my parallel
port. It will not autodetect the port, and I can't manually specify the
print job to go to /dev/lp0 without the printing ASCII directly to port
producing a error message. I can only assume that for whatever WEIRD
reason, upon installation Linux did not recognize the port.
How can I go about fixing this. I would assume that the first thing
that I'm going to have to do is to get /dev/lp0 working, and then the
printtool setup *should* be a snap. So, how does one tweak their lp0
settings for this?
if possible, can you please send your reply to my e-mail address
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (yeah, remove the NOSPAM stuff :) )
thanks alot for any assistance that you can provide!
chip
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From: Ryan Petrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configure a Cannon Multipass 5500 on Linux?
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:30:02 GMT
Is there any drivers or install that will properly configure a Cannon
Multipass 5500 so that linux will see all the devices on it.
I doubt that the copier will be albe to be seen.
--
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From: Gustin Kiffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: My serial port ttyS3 doesn't work
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:29:54 GMT
Try setting ttyS2 to use irq 11. The irq 9 cascades interrupts from
the higher interrupt controller down to irq 2 (it doesn't matter what
this means, it's a vestigial hardware compatibility thing from the old
IBM XT and AT days 20 years ago), and the serial port code might have a
problem with 2 or 9 for the port.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am reposting /proc/interrupts:
> CPU0
> 0: 691620 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 9336 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 3: 136842 XT-PIC serial
> 4: 110371 XT-PIC serial
> 5: 116823 XT-PIC soundblaster
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 9: 309 XT-PIC serial
> 10: 614 XT-PIC serial
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 184772 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 23805 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
>
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Subject: Re: burning mp3's
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 15:54:31 GMT
Rich Mesek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > How do you burn mp3 files onto cd's in cdda format? I can't find any conversion
> > utility or cd-burner that can create a music cd out of mp3's. What am I missing?
Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied:
> mpg123 -w 1.wav 1.mp3
> mpg123 -w 2.wav 2.mp3
> .
> .
> .
> cdrecord -v dev=$DEVICE speed=$SPEED -audio -pad -swab 1.wav 2.wav ...
>
> replacing $DEVICE and $SPEED with the appropriate values -- check the man
> pages.
While this will work, cdrecord writes each wave file as a separate
track. This may confuse some cdplayers and/or generate clicks and
pops between tracks. You also have no control over the lead-in and
lead-out. If you are a perfectionist, you will want to use CDRDAO
which writes in the more common Disk At Once mode. More info about
CDRDAO can be found at: http://www.ping.de/sites/daneb/cdrdao.html
-p.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Weak sound with VIA Apollo Pro
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:04:02 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <8c11cu$bpl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> I have a Gigabyte GA-6VX-4X motherboard
> which uses VIA Apollo Pro VT82C694X North Bridge
> chip and the VT82C686A South Bridge chip
...
> Under linux Redhat 6.2 kernel 2.2.14, however i
> just cant get the sound to work.
> I compiled in VIA chipset sound option but
> no joy as yet.
Try the ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.org) drivers. They now include a
driver for the VIA 82c686A. This driver works very well for me on my
Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 notebook.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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