Linux-Hardware Digest #53, Volume #13 Fri, 16 Jun 00 15:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: hardware recommendations for athlon system (mirte)
Re: R, G, and B (Stuart Park)
Re: R, G, and B (David C.)
Re: Avoid C-Media sound chipsets if possible (fn0rd)
Re: R, G, and B (David C.)
Re: What's a cheap 100BaseT ethernet card? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DVD-RAM or DVD-R on Linux? (Jamie Zawinski)
CFV: comp.os.linux.embedded (2nd/final notice!) (John C. Peterson)
Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems (David Dickson)
Re: winTV 401 and Soundblaster live (Andrey Vlasov)
low level vga programming ("LH")
Re: No printing Epson EPL 5700L with RH 6.1 (Andrey Vlasov)
ASUS V6800 Deluxe card ("Bill Durrell")
Re: Is there support for AAA-131U2 in Linux (Jeff Roberts)
printing trouble, epson stylus color IIs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Books (Faheem Mitha)
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From: mirte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hardware recommendations for athlon system
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:38:00 GMT
michael ottaway wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I have a Matrox G400 single head 32mb card and I use an EPOX board with
> my Athlon. I have used Epox for quiet some time and have never had a problem
> out of them
Epox 7KXA? No problems at all with the sound-on-boardchip?
>though I am sure the others are great too. External modem are
> the way to go.
>
> Michael
>
> Leon Hall Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:use%4.29582$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > i'm in the process of building a dual boot athlon system. does anybody
> have any recommendations for an athlon motherboard, modem and a video card?
Disclaimer:
No Microsoft products are running on this machine. Just SuSE Linux 6.3
with kernel 2.2.13! And no M$ employees or users were harmed in the
creation of this mail.
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From: Stuart Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: R, G, and B
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 00:47:33 +1000
"David C." wrote:
> If you don't have one, they can be made, although you may not find it
> easy. They can also be purchsed. Look around flea markets - usually
> some dumpster-diver has one or two for sale. You can probably also get
> one from the monitor's manufacturer, but it may not be a cheap cable.
>
> The Red, Green and Blue pins (and their associated grounds) get wired to
> three BNC connectors via coaxial cable. Signal in the center conductor,
> ground on the shield.
>
> Horizontal- and Vertical-Sync should be wired to two more BNC connectors
> (also via coaxial cable).
(etc..)
I'm interested in some of this information too..
I have a ViewSonic PS775, which has 2 ways of connecting.
The normal VGA cable method, and 5 BNC connectors (Red, Green, Blue,
HSync, VSync). Do the BNC connectors provide a better picture,
and if so how difficult is it to find a cable (do many stores have
them?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: R, G, and B
Date: 16 Jun 2000 10:57:34 -0400
Stuart Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I'm interested in some of this information too..
> I have a ViewSonic PS775, which has 2 ways of connecting. The normal
> VGA cable method, and 5 BNC connectors (Red, Green, Blue, HSync,
> VSync). Do the BNC connectors provide a better picture, and if so how
> difficult is it to find a cable (do many stores have them?)
I've never noticed much of a difference. The monitor I'm using now (a
Sony Multiscan 20seII) has dual-input as well. I have a PC feeding into
the DBC-15, and an old SPARCstation feeding into the BNC. Both have
clean pictures.
I suppose a purist may consider the BNC connectors to give a cleaner
picture, since each signal wire is in a separate cable, wrapped by a
separate shield. But I've never been able to see any difference.
If you have a choice, get whatever the store has available. If it has
both, get whatever's cheapest (assuming it's not total garbage, of
course.)
The BNC-based cable isn't usually found in the chain stores (like
CompUSA), since those kinds of monitors aren't usually sold their,
either. I would expect to be able to buy one from a dealer who sells
BNC-equipped monitors, however.
Also consider workstation vendors. I know that Sun's monitors used
cables like this for quite some time. Unfortunately, the Sun-end of the
cable is not a VGA-compatible connector. (It's about the size of a
DB-25, with several pins replaced by three micro-sized coaxial
connectors.)
-- David
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From: fn0rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Avoid C-Media sound chipsets if possible
Date: 16 Jun 2000 14:45:39 GMT
I am having no luck getting support from the alsa guys on my brand new
cmedia card (midiman delta dio2496). have emailed alsa and gotton either
no reply or a very unhelpful reply. sigh ;-(
the alsa page says this card IS supported but I'll be darned if I can
get it to work. and I'm no linux newbie; I've been using unix for the
past 15 yrs and linux since 1.1 days.
In comp.os.linux.hardware softrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Avoid C-Media chipsets in Linux. C-Media is very unresponsive and some
: of the information they pass out is either incomplete or wrong. To note
: their confusion, read the head text on their CM8338/CM8738 driver source
: code. Also the driver installation notes contain errors. For example
: note 3.c. is wrong. Aliasing char-major-14 did nothing for RedHat 6.0.
: In addition, I have never got the midi functions to work and C-Media
: does not help.
--
My real email is Grateful.Net@fnord (or something like that).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: R, G, and B
Date: 16 Jun 2000 11:02:14 -0400
D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I believe that would be a fixed-frequency monitor, which may not work
> unless you are very careful with your X configuration settings.
Absolutely true. Many of Sun's earlier monitors are fixed-frequency
1152x864. Most video cards, and X itself, won't have a problem with
this, but you'll have a real bear of a time gettng it set up. Text mode
is not compatible with this resolution, so you'll have to configure X
via a terminal (serial port, telnet session, etc.) Installing Linux on
this might also be a real problem. (Probably better to install with
some other monitor attached, then switch it later.)
Fortunately, most newer BNC-equipped monitors are multisync, just like
most DBC-15 monitors are. So the problem may not actually exist.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What's a cheap 100BaseT ethernet card?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 15:23:00 GMT
I have a Linksys NC100 10/100 card and similar to another post here,
cannot get the bloody thing to work on my linux box (only on a win98
box).
With the SMC card, what is the driver you need to use? If it is that
cheap, perhaps I will give it a whirl.
Sunil
p.s. I am running Mandrake 7.1
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What's a cheap 100BaseT ethernet card? Preferably with the tulip
> > chipset since I know that has good driver support. TIA
>
> CompUSA has SMC EZNet 10/100BaseT PCI nic's for $15, they work great..
> I have three of them, no problems at all. They use the rtl8139
chipset,
> which is well supported under Linux and are reported to be a SMC1211TX
> series. No need to limit yourself to the Tulip chipset.
>
> Make sure you get the 10/100 PCI card, the ISA cards might be
> different..
>
> --
> Walter Francis
> http://wally.hplx.net Powered by Red Hat Linux
6.0
>
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From: Jamie Zawinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD-RAM or DVD-R on Linux?
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 17:10:30 GMT
I'm having a hard time tracking down information about using DVD-RAM
and/or DVD-R for backups under Linux...
Which DVD-RAM and DVD-R drives work well with Linux?
I've heard a rumor that discs written by DVD-RAM drives tend to be
wedded to the drive that wrote them, and can't be read on other drives.
Is that true?
If I don't need to re-write the discs, but just want static backups at
around 4G capacity, what should I use, DVD-RAM or DVD-R? I would have
guessed DVD-R, but it looks like DVD-RAM drives are around $600 while
DVD-R drives are around $5000. What is there to recommend DVD-R over
DVD-RAM?
Are these discs as reliable as CD-R discs? If I verify them immediately
after writing them, then put them in a box, can I count on them still
being readable in ten years?
Can DVD-R discs be read in normal DVD-ROM drives? My laptop's CDROM is
really a DVD-ROM -- if I fed it a DVD-R, would it be able to read my
backups, or is there a difference between video and data DVDs?
Thanks in advance for any advice...
--
Jamie Zawinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jwz.org/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John C. Peterson)
Subject: CFV: comp.os.linux.embedded (2nd/final notice!)
Date: 16 Jun 2000 17:33:14 GMT
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From: David Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS K7V KX133 motherboard problems
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:05:20 -0400
I installed RH6.2 on the K7V with no problems, whatsoever. However,
even though I haven't gotten the on-board audio to work with Linux it
did not cause any installation problems. I have subsequently added a
SCSI adaptor and additional disks and everything is still OK. (I
installed a PCI audio board, until I can fix the on-bard situation.)
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:30:05 GMT, Steve Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
>Ryan,
>
>I just got my Asus K7V-RM and an Athlon 800 today.
>
>Linux would not boot. Always hung up at the IDE detection area. Windows 98
>booted fine after the inevitable 20+ install/reboot/install/reboot driver
>fun.
>
>I turned off the "Byte Merge" option in the BIOS, as suggested on the
>www.k7v.com site. No luck. I tried everything, including disabling UDMA.
>
>Out of pure desperation I turned off "Soundblaster Emulation" in the
>Peripherals section. And it BOOTED! :) Typing this in Mandrake 7.0 right
>now.
>
>I don't know if this will help you or not, but I hope it will.
>
>Steve
>
>
>Ryan Sackenheim wrote:
>>
>> I just recently bought an ASUS K7V motherboard, and I've had problems
>with
>> hard drive accessing in Linux. First of all I moved my hard drive over
>> from my old system, and had some major filesystem errors, in which I
>ended
>> up having to completely wipe the drive clean. And I have not yet been
>able
>> to get any Linux OS installed on the machine. I have tried both Mandrake
>> 7.0 and Red hat 6.2, and they both either lockup or reset after
>attempting
>> to format or install.
>>
>> The strange thing is that it appears to work for a period of time, but
>> then drops out with a kernel panic. I have attempted to change some of
>the
>> settings in the BIOS to disable the Ultra/66 mode for the hard drive, and
>I
>> even moved it to the slower controller, but I still keep having the same
>> errors. I don't think it is a hard drive problem, because the hard drive
>> is about 6 months old, and was previously working just fine. Also I was
>> able to install Win98 without any problems, so I don't believe it is a
>> hardware problem. I was able to use a floppy distribution (Tomsrtbt),
>and
>> mount the drives without any problem, as well as copying files. But like
>I
>> said, the problem appears to happen at random (except during
>installation).
>>
>> Has anyone had similar experiences using ASUS's K7V board? I can't
>seem
>> to find much about it's compatibility with Linux. Is there a way to get
>> Linux to work with this board? Here's some general info about my system.
>>
>> ASUS K7V KX133 Athlon motherboard
>> AMD Athlon 650
>> 128MB 133x RAM
>> 13GB IBM HDD
>>
>>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> --
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: winTV 401 and Soundblaster live
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:14:49 -0700
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Hi there,
yes, this configuration works and very vell in RedHat 6.1. Can not provide
with config at the moment as the system at home. If you interested drop
email and I will try to help. (I don't know anythigh about debian but hope
that it not too diffrent from RedHat in sence of installation steps)
NOTE: I had to follow steps from BTTV source to get picture and sound.
Andrey
shadow wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just got a winTV 401 tv tuner and soundblaster live value card. I have
> the tv tuner working but no sound, works fine under windows. Anybody
> have this combination hardware and have it working give me some help?
>
> I'm running debian potato with xawtv 3.06.
>
> Thanks,
>
> shadow
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H<tt>i there,</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>yes, this configuration works and very vell in RedHat 6.1. Can not
provide</tt>
<br><tt>with config at the moment as the system at home. If you interested
drop</tt>
<br><tt>email and I will try to help. (I don't know anythigh about debian
but hope</tt>
<br><tt>that it not too diffrent from RedHat in sence of installation
steps)</tt><tt></tt>
<p><tt>NOTE: I had to follow steps from BTTV source to get picture
and sound.</tt>
<br><tt> </tt>
<br><tt>Andrey</tt><tt></tt>
<p>shadow wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi all,
<p>Just got a winTV 401 tv tuner and soundblaster live value card.
I have
<br>the tv tuner working but no sound, works fine under windows.
Anybody
<br>have this combination hardware and have it working give me some help?
<p>I'm running debian potato with xawtv 3.06.
<p>Thanks,
<p>shadow</blockquote>
</html>
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From: "LH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: low level vga programming
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 20:07:12 +0200
I need to program a vga driver for a new operating system and I can't
find any documentation in the web about how can I change vga video mode
without using Int 10h (programming vga registers). Someone can help me?
Thanks
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: No printing Epson EPL 5700L with RH 6.1
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:26:22 -0700
HI, there,
I am not sure about this model as it has L at the end but there is support for
Epson EPL 5700. Check next webpage and I hope that it compatible
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=158569
Andrey
Pascual Mu�oz Mu�oz wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I can't print in my Epson EPL 5700L. I use printtool and try all the printers listed
>there,
>
> but it does not work. Can anyone help me?
>
> Thanks in advance.
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From: "Bill Durrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS V6800 Deluxe card
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 14:24:44 -0400
Hi ,
I have an Asus K7V motherboard, Asus V6800 Nvidia geforce DDR graphics
card and an Athlon 750 Mhz processor . I haven't been able to get the
display right with Redhat 6.1. I found some reference to Nvidia driver on
xfree86 but do not know what to do with the file . Please any assistance
will be helpful.
Regards ,
Bill Durrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeff Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is there support for AAA-131U2 in Linux
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 12:02:14 -0500
Nikolaj Woel wrote:
>
> subj.
Does anyone know of support for this card?
It's been out for a while, I would expect that SOMEONE has written a
driver for it.
Jeff
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: printing trouble, epson stylus color IIs
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:55:00 GMT
Hi there,
I am having a lot of trouble trying to get my printer
print "postscript" output.
I have Epson Stylus Color IIs, i am using Ghostscript 5.10,
the thing is that i want to print in black using a black cartridge.
I have tried almost every options of ghostscript (including
-desc_Band=1,
-dnoWeave etc...) and even the uniprint drivers for Epson but none of
them
print correctly.
I even had problem in installing the same printer in Widnows95
but now it works there with a Epson Stylus Color driver.
But in Linux i get print-outs that have elongated characters and
there is a white (unprinted)gap between the characters
and the charaters dont align properly also.
I have read the ghostscript's devices.txt and looked around
the net for a answer to my problem but havent been able to find it. :(
The closest i have come is when using the gs -sDEVICE=st800... option
it prints in correct size but it still leaves a white band in the
middle of the characters..
as an example what kind of printout i am getting is here's how correct
"FOX" should print.
.... ..... . .
. . . . .
.... . . .
. . . . .
. ..... . .
but what i am getting is :
.... ..... . .
. . . . .
.... . . .
. ..... . .
there is a unprinted empty band in the lower end of the line/character
and it is mis-aligned with the upper part.
I realy need to find a solution for this as i dont want to repeatedly
boot to windows to
anybody using same kind of setup ???
take a printout.
-V0D-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faheem Mitha)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Books
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 19:02:44 GMT
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 09:52:03 +0100, Stu
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi All,
> I have installed a Linux distribution at home and started to get used to
>using it. I need a reference book which will fill in the knowledge gaps and
>get me up to speed quickly.
[snipped]>
I have three books which I use regularly. Two of them have already
been mentioned on this thread. They are:
1) Mark Sobell: A Practical Guide to Linux (1997, Addison-Wesley)
This book is getting a little out of date, but is still a good
reference. It probably spends more time on `elementary' matters than
the other two books. It does have some strong points which are not
covered much in the other three books. Specifically it covers well
useful and important generically Unix type stuff like shell
programming. Sobell has written books about Solaris, Unix System 5,
and BSD, and is a Unix person. (See www.sobell.com). It is basically
a users manual. Sobell does not seem to have a new edition planned,
but the books info does not date very quickly.
2) Michael Kofler: Linux: Installation, Configuration, Use.
(1999,Addison-Wesley)
This is probably the book I find myself referring to most
frequently. It is relatively modern and up to date, and has lots of
software specific information which I find useful. It is good for
telling you what is out there. (For example, I first learnt of the
existence of slrn by reading this book). It is also basically a user's
manual. Somebody said in this thread that a new edition is coming
out. If true this is good news. You may want to check when the new edn
is coming out and wait for it if it is soon.
3)Matt Welsh: Running Linux (1999, O'Reilly) (3rd Edition)
*MAKE SURE YOU BUY THE THIRD EDITION* This is probably the most
technical of the three, and is more concerned with the nuts and bolts
of Linux. Installation, hardware issues, writing configuration
scripts, upgrading software, system administration, that kind of
stuff.) Some of this stuff is rendered unnecessary by modern distros
like SuSE 6.4 Ie. it is easier to use Sax than write X config files by
hand. However, the book contains much useful information, including
some useful beginning programming info (Sobells book also has some).
You will probably find the first two books more useful to begin with.
There are lots of other books, but I have done some looking around,
and these three books do a fairly complete job of covering the basics,
though you will probably want to buy more specialised books later.
There are many rubbishy Linux books out there by people who just want
to make a fast buck. These are best avoided. For example, the 1000 pg
distribution specific tomes. These books tend to date quickly by their
nature, and often don't explain properly the important distribution
independent information.
Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
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