Linux-Hardware Digest #684, Volume #12 Fri, 14 Apr 00 15:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686? ("Jeff Susanj")
Linux on Compaq Prosignia VS-----> Netflex-L ENET problems ("lydis")
Re: Q: Best printer for linux box? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Logitech mouse ("Michael H. Collins")
Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686? (J Bland)
cacheing and memory usage problem ("Dean Browett")
Re: Tekram DC-395 (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Changing PS/2 mouse to serial mouse (Robert Wiegand)
Re: Athlon and Linux? (Junk Mail)
Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use ("JP")
Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not. (None)
new hard drive, old motherboard, and linux ("Jason Meyers")
LILO kill win-disk ("Pliev")
Re: trio 3D et suse 6.4 ("lem")
WangDAT 3200 & SuSE6.1/6.2 ("Martin Jones")
Re: mp3 problems (Robie Basak)
Re: How to install Linux ("Hemant R. Mohapatra")
Re: 101 key keyboards (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: i810 Chipset - Error Installing (Scott Zielinski)
Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use (RJ)
Re: Athlon and Linux? (Rod Smith)
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:51:09 GMT
Then where does the AMD 586 fall in this scheme? I am using a 586 on my
computer at home and it seems to be a much speeded up 486 (133 Mhz).
Jeff S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>k6 is not 5th gen. it is 6th.
>amd 386,486,k5,k6
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From: "lydis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux on Compaq Prosignia VS-----> Netflex-L ENET problems
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:15:13 GMT
I have problems with installation of the integrated network card Netflex-L
ENET (AMD Chipset AM79C965)
Anyone has an idea about a driver that works with
this card ? (special parameters, etc....)
Thx
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Q: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 11:16:18 -0400
Alexis Bilodeau wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Can somebody recommend a printer?
> >
> > My Epson Action Laser 1400 is driving me nuts, because the sheet
> > feeder constantly pulls in two sheets and jams. I want to replace
> > it with a new/used printer, but have no idea which one avoids that
> > problem.
> >
> > Here are my priorities, in order:
> >
> > Required:
> >
> > 1. GOOD non-jamming sheet feeder which accepts ordinary paper
> >
> > 2. Runs perfectly under Linux (possibly with some fiddling)
> >
> > Optional:
> >
> > 3. Color
> >
> > 4. Two-sided printing
> >
> > 5. Cheap
> >
> > 6. Fast
> >
> > Any recommendations? I'm considering a refurbished Epson Color Stylus
> > 440, because it satisfies #2, #3 and #5; does it satisfy #1? Is there
> > a printer which satisfies all six conditions?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Len.
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
> I wouldn't buy epson, too. I'm not that much impressed by the quality
> of their printers... I think HP or lexmark are good choices.
DON'T buy the Lexmark Z-series stuff. They're Windows-only printers.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: "Michael H. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech mouse
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:45:55 GMT
Corel lost the mice on my boxes too. I am now happily running SuSE.
The difference between win and linux is great if you use a linux not
based on Debian. IMHO
Corel is like doze; A pretty install with nothing under the hood.
MC wrote:
>
> The installation of COREL Linux OS is working fine. But after the first
> restart and booting of the KDE my mouse (Logitech First Pilot mouse, serial)
> doesn't work! I can't move it anymore! I can only climb through the menus
> via the keyboard. That's my problem! I could solve this problem in Win98,
> but I'm a absolute newbie in Linux (just want to see what's the difference
> between Win and Linux)!
>
> Please help me!
--
Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com
512-442-3151 512-656-9508
The Ultimate WM http://www.xfce.org
Fun with the Austin Linux group http://www.austinlug.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686?
Date: 14 Apr 2000 15:38:29 GMT
>Then where does the AMD 586 fall in this scheme? I am using a 586 on my
>computer at home and it seems to be a much speeded up 486 (133 Mhz).
>
>Jeff S.
IIRC (and I've already got confused on this thread once ;) the 5x86 chips
were just suped-up 486s, with 2x the L1 cache and a better FPU unit. I used
to have a 133MHz one, seemed quite nippy. Pin and code compatible, which
made em nice 486 upgrades.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>k6 is not 5th gen. it is 6th.
>>amd 386,486,k5,k6
Yep, forgot the K5, oops. The 6 in the name kinda gives it away, must have
got confuzzled with the k6/k6-2/k6-3 business.
JB
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From: "Dean Browett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cacheing and memory usage problem
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:50:04 +0100
Hi
We are running:
Linux Redhat 6.0 (dual Pentium II MMX 300MHz)
Kernel 2.2.10
DPT Raid controller (64MB on board cache RAM) configured for RAID 5
consisting of 6 IBM DCAS-34330 SCSI hard drives one of which is acting as a
hot swap drive.
256MB RAM
We're having a problem whilst trying to write a large amount of data (3
million+ records) to a mysql database. Our problem lies with cache/buffer
control. Although Linux caches the data we have found that over time the
performance of the database dwindles to almost nothing.
We are running multiple(10) processes for testing purposes. When they are
first started they each occupy approximately 10% of the cpu time. Over time
the amount of buffers and cache increases whilst cpu time decreases to about
1% and sometimes less. Eventually the amount of data being written to the
hard drives is at the rate of 1k/sec.
At this point all the memory seems to be allcoted between buffers and cache.
What we want to do is control the amount of cache/buffers the OS allocates
and to be able to flush the data from these buffers/cache to the hard disk
at a much faster rate.
Is this user definable or must it be compiled into the kernel?
We have set different parameters for 'update' to try and get the OS to flush
the cache/buffers more frequently.
We have also tried varying amounts of cache on the DPT Raid controller in
case that was an issue.
Any help would be appreciated
Thanks
Dean
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tekram DC-395
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 04:30:22 +0200
Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> Ummm, the 395/315 is a completely different chipset than the 390F/U/W/U2W
> series, and uses a driver you can download from TekRam.
>
Well , this driver driver is now maintained by Kurt Garloff. So the
latest version version of that driver may only be available at
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/. and
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Robert Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Changing PS/2 mouse to serial mouse
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:43:33 -0500
Kenneth Porter wrote:
>
> I want to replace the PS/2 mouse on a Red Hat 6.1 system with a serial
> mouse. What do I need to do to get it recognized?
The mouse type for X is selected by two lines in the XF86COnfig file.
The first is a mouse type - this should be "PS/2" now an will probably
need to be "Microsoft" or "Logitech".
The second is the mouse port - this should be "/dev/mouse" or "/dev/psaux"
now and should be changed to "/dev/ttyS0" or "/dev/ttyS1" (or change the
/dev/mouse link).
--
Regards,
Bob Wiegand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Junk Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Athlon and Linux?
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 09:18:21 -0700
I am running RH6.1 on an Epox EP-7KXA with a 700 MHz Athlon and PC133
RAM, and everything is running great; well, the on board sound doesn't
work, but that doesn't really bother me. I made absolutely no changes in
BIOS settings from what it came with, and have not done a BIOS upgrade.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The only advice I have to you is to be wary of the Epox EP-7KXA
> motherboard. I have an Athlon 700 and everything is extremely speedy.
> I will be doing some work with my system soon, and I hope to fix
> whatever issue I seem to be having, but this motherboard I think may be
> causing my system to lock.
> I have disabled the onboard sound in the bios, have a dual boot
> system, in Windoze I get static out of my SB Live for some reason.
> Fixed with the mobo driver disk. When running Linux my system runs fine
> for a short time then becomes unresponsive to anything but the reset
> key.
> There is a bios upgrade for the board, so perhaps when I flash it I
> will have better luck.
> Anyways, do some research. People with the Asus board seems to have
> no problems at all.
>
> Good luck
> Mike
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Aaron Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A couple of questions...
> >
> > I am thinking about buying an Athlon 700 and was wondering how it
> worked
> > with Linux. Right now I am running RH on an AMD K6-2 233 and it runs
> > perfect, but a friend of mine said it ran kinda slow with his Athlon
> > 600, so I wanted to get others' opinions also.
> >
> > Also, I need to get a new AGP video card to go with that Athlon and
> was
> > wondering which kind works good with Linux and is a good card. I
> don't
> > need a 3D accelerator like Voodoo or anything, just something that is
> > AGP and has 8Megs of memory and easily does 24-bit color in 1600x1200.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron
> >
> > --
> > "You smoke your head on strait, then drink your woes away..." - Phil
> > Anselmo
> >
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:26:08 GMT
I'm looking for some wireless LAN products for home use that will work with
both Linux (RedHat) and Windows 98.
So far I've seen 2 possible product lines:
Lucent ORINOCO - http://wavelan.com/products/
3Com Air Connect - http://www.3com.com/mobile/wireless/product.html
For now I have 2 PC's I need to connect that are about 50 feet apart. The
network cards will need to be PCI or ISA cards. I may be adding a notebook
computer so PC cards should also be available.
Does anyone out there have any experience with these products using Linux?
Any other recommendations?
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From: None <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not.
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:31:26 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> hardware installation and GUIs, it still requires a certain amount of
>> computer knowledge and experience. An average user likes to double click
>> on setup, and 2 minutes later have a working program, getting them to
>> tar, ./configure, gmake, su, gmake etc is not practical to them.
I know... "rpm -i <package name>" is so hard...
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From: "Jason Meyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new hard drive, old motherboard, and linux
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:30:56 GMT
I want to install a new hard drive on a linux box that I plan to use as a
backup/server machine. I'm pretty sure that the motherboard on the machine
only supports up to 8.4gig. However, some sources I've read suggest that
disk geometry can be handed off to operating systems that support it. So,
in a nutshell, can linux (RH 6.0) handle a larger drive, even if the
motherboard does not?
Thanks for any help at all.
Jason
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From: "Pliev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO kill win-disk
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 20:55:01 +0400
Hello All!
I have a problem. I have two operating systems on my computer - Linux and
Windows 98. After some incorrect operations, which has made one a crazy man,
I have some disk errors. He (crazy) changed files /etc/lilo.conf and
/etc/fstab. And Extended Windows partition has vanished! But Windows
see drive(D), but say - device not ready, size of space equal 0 bytes. Fdisk
of Linux see this partition, defined it as FAT16. May be loader of logical
partition is dead?
Tell me please, do I can to recover my disk?
Thanks! Dima.
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From: "lem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: trio 3D et suse 6.4
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:53:52 +0200
It still doesn't work , I have tried with sax but i have always the same
result : a black screen !
Couls you send me your xf86config file ?
Thanks
Thomas E. Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
SfYI4.97629$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> "lem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:8d02f6$2oth$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I just installed suse 6.4 on my PC and I didn't find any working
> > configuration for my video card
> > I 'm using XF86config.
> > I tryed all possibilities ( with XF86_SVGA & XF86VGA16 ) each time i
start
> X
> > I got a Black screen
> > I tryed also XF_86_S3 but it is not recognised .
>
> Go to YAST/Choose install packages/Change create configuration/xsrv
>
> Make sure the appropriate server is installed (might be s3virge, but I
don't
> have either SuSE 6.4 or this video card, so I am guessing).
>
> If you have the correct server installed then I suspect sax will configure
X
> for you.
>
> Regards... Tom
>
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with this card ?
> > Are their many models of such card ?
> > Should I buy another video card to use linux ?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Martin Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WangDAT 3200 & SuSE6.1/6.2
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:49:06 +0100
Can anyone please help me as I am getting to the end of my tether!!! I have
a WangDAT 3200 SCSI DAT drive and a Yamaha CDRW connected to an Adaptec
AVA-2904 (aic7xxx chipset). I have installed SuSE and on boot it sees the
SCSI card and the CDRW but not the DAT
Doing a cat of /proc/scsi/scsi shows me only the CDRW yet if i look in the
aic7xxx subdirectory in the file named 0 then I can see that there are 2
entries in this file (for SCSI IDs 2 & 3 which are the SCSI IDs of the CDRW
and DAT) but sgcheck only shows the CDRW
Please email reply to me (as well as posting) as my newserver seems to lose
a lot of messages.
Thanks,
Martin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mp3 problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Apr 2000 17:40:56 GMT
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:00:27 -0400, Will Joyner said:
>Hi
>
>I am running a 250 mhz Cyrix II processor with 64 megs of RAM. When I
>run xmms or gqmpeg and begin to play a mp3 it runs fine. But as soon as
>I startup netscape or any other application, it slows the mpeg down or
>audible static is heard. I have tried switching the output module from
>esound to OSS in xmms, but no avail. I have chosen to give each player
>priority, which seems to work a little. Is there a way that I reduce
>the amount of processing/ram that these applications use or is there
>another way I can optimize my computer to run the fastest? I have
>enabled all the stuff I know to make it run faster.
>
>In WINDOZE I didn't have this problem, so I am hoping that it is
>something I can fix in Linux.
That's because Windows will give a process plenty of time if it wants
it, slowing down other processes in the meanwhile. It's supposed to
have pre-emptive multitasking but in reality this doesn't seem to
work. The advantage of this is that games and other real-time
processes in Windows have less of a hard time working smoothly.
OTOH, Linux gives each running process a fair share of the CPU, so
this is why sound gets choppy sometimes.
There's a program called rtstools you can get from:
http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/misc/
which allows root to set realtime priority on a process - this will
give the specified process permission to remain running for as long as
it likes; only when idle will Linux give other processes time.
On my computer, decoding mp3s using mpg123 takes about 3% CPU on
average (PII 450), so doing this is safe. If your player is busier,
then other processes' performance will suffer, and if it utilizes the
CPU 100%, nothing else will work (ie. like when Windows crashes).
Robie.
--
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From: "Hemant R. Mohapatra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to install Linux
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:51:51 GMT
hi,
u can get a lot of info on the official web site of red-hat linux
--
http://www.redhat.com
--
Regards,
Hemant
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Diana wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 11:51:04 +0800
> From: Diana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware
> Subject: How to install Linux
>
> I am a newbie.
>
> I have experience in installing windows, but none for Linux.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Please explain in more details. Thank you for your help.
>
> My email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 101 key keyboards
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:46:50 +0200
Clueless Bozo wrote:
> I'm having a hard time finding keyboards without the extra keys
> specific to a certain software vendor.
Why not use those keys for something useful like changing virtual
terminal?
man showkey
man loadkeys
regards Henrik
--
spammer strikeback:
root@localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 14:35:04 -0400
From: Scott Zielinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810 Chipset - Error Installing
D G wrote:
>
> "Scott C. Zielinski" wrote:
> >
> > I received the following error message when trying to install the i810
> > Chipset.
> > Did the first part (rpm -Uvh XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh60.i386.rpm),
> > which worked find, but it was when I ran rpm --rebuild
> > I810Gtt-0.1-5.src.rpm that I ended up getting this error at the end -
> > the first half of the install seemed to work find
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
> [snip]
> > agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels exit -1
> > agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels
> > make: *** [agpgart.o] Error 255
> > Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9674 (%build)
> >
> > Any ideas? It suck using 4 bit colors - and 320x200 resolution (maybe
> > its 640, but it still sucks)
>
> Two questions:
> Q1. What kernel (or distribution) are you using? The agpgart rpm was
> geared toward RedHat 6.0, which I think is kernel 2.2.5. I am using it
> on RedHat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12 without problems.
> Q2. What does "rpm -q glibc-devel" tell you? Install it if it's not
> there. You might need a few more developer packages as well.
>
> --
> DG
> e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
A1. I have Mandrake 7.0, and the Kernel is v 2.2.14-1mdklinus
A2. "rpm -q glibc-devel" returns the following:
glibc-devel-2.1.2-9mdk
Thanks for your help.
Scott Zielinski
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From: RJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 18:30:19 GMT
Hi JP,
I run the Lucent ORINOCO products in exactly the environment that you're
looking at. The cards are _all_ PCMCIA. To use them in a desktop system
there is a simple ISA adapter that accepts the PC card NIC. ORINOCO
support for Linux is very good (still known as Wavelan at the driver
level).
I have a Linux box in the basement with a wireless card and 100Mbit link to
the rest of my network. I set my laptop to use the Linux box as the router
and voila, wireless Internet from anywhere around my house (outside too).
I bought the NIC's for $160 a piece at techstore.com.
Regards,
RJ
JP wrote:
>
>
> I'm looking for some wireless LAN products for home use that will work
with
> both Linux (RedHat) and Windows 98.
>
> So far I've seen 2 possible product lines:
> Lucent ORINOCO - http://wavelan.com/products/
> 3Com Air Connect - http://www.3com.com/mobile/wireless/product.html
>
> For now I have 2 PC's I need to connect that are about 50 feet apart.
The
> network cards will need to be PCI or ISA cards. I may be adding a
notebook
> computer so PC cards should also be available.
>
> Does anyone out there have any experience with these products using
Linux?
> Any other recommendations?
>
>
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Athlon and Linux?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:01:54 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Junk Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am running RH6.1 on an Epox EP-7KXA with a 700 MHz Athlon and PC133
> RAM, and everything is running great; well, the on board sound doesn't
> work, but that doesn't really bother me. I made absolutely no changes in
> BIOS settings from what it came with, and have not done a BIOS upgrade.
I suspect you can get the on-board sound working using ALSA drivers
version 0.5.6 or above (http://www.alsa-project.org). These support the
sound features in recent VIA chipsets. I'm using them on a laptop with an
MVP-4 chipset and in an ASUS Athlon board with mixed AMD/VIA chipset.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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