Linux-Hardware Digest #130, Volume #13 Wed, 28 Jun 00 00:13:04 EDT
Contents:
ES1788 Slow playback. (Sean Cody)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 GRRRRRRR ("Gene Heskett")
Re: pci videokaart met sis 6326 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Mandrake 7.1 GRRRRRRR ("Gene Heskett")
Does sound OPL3 really work?? ("Terrance E. Hodgins")
Re: Epson Stylus Color 740 (James Franklin)
Data Translation DT2853 frame grabber ? (Daniel Tso)
Hang during boot (need advice) ("Steve Goldman")
Re: Data Translation DT2853 frame grabber ? ("101011")
Re: Best video cature card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
<Chris Vine> Re: Need help with CS4232 on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 - reports "failed
loading module"... ("LR")
Re: Newbie needs help in installing LT winmodem ("LR")
LS120 Drive Problem! ("Chi-Tat Leung")
Re: insmod failed? ("Devon Harding")
Re: LS120 Drive Problem! (Dances With Crows)
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From: Sean Cody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ES1788 Slow playback.
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 19:18:20 -0500
Kernel: 2.2.14-15mdk
Distro: Mandrake 7.0
Box: Compaq Presario 1020 (Notebook)
Sound Chip: ES1788
playback of any wav or mp3, output is slow (as in almost half speed) and
voices are garbled. tried mpg123 -d 2 which speeds it up but the audio is
still bad. any ideas? it plays fine just the output sounds like's it's
playing at half speed (kinda like a tape player when the battery dies).
any ideas or suggestions would be appricated...
--
Sean Cody (aka NullStream)
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"If God's my witness then God must be blind."
Garbage - As Heaven Is Wide
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Date: 27 Jun 2000 20:12:8 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 GRRRRRRR
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to aflinsch ;
> John W Kendrick wrote:
>>
>> One other notes. Since this failed attempt to install Mandrake,
>> enither Mandrake or Red Hat will properly use the tulip module for
>> my specific ethrenet card. It worked perfectly before.
> As of release 7.0 Mandrake ships with 2 "tulip" drivers one is
> called tulip, the other tulip_old. if you have an older card, you
> might need to use the tulip_old driver (I had the opposite problem
> when I installed my cards, with Mandrake 6.0)
It sounds like I might have a tulip expert here, so here is a question:
I'm running RH6.2, using the tulip code from the floppy (netgear
FA310TX), and a compile script that, after it does the kernel make and
copy, the modules and their install, cd's to the FA310TX dir and
executes cctulip, then copies that to /lib/modules/'version'/net/tulip.o
before continueing on with the rest of the linkage and such adjustments
in /boot.
This has worked for many kernel upgrades here with the exception that
here the script does that to the emu10k1 code.
However, at work, on a 64 meg, 433 mhz celery, the resultant boots
won't. So I tried with kernel 2.4.0-test2 today, and everything seemed
to work *except* the tulip compile, that kicked out buckets of
'dereferenceing incomplete object' messages, and didn't seem to make
tulip.o. So obviously I have no ethernet, and no net at all.
I also tried commenting that out of my script, and re-running make
menuconfig, turning on the tulip stuff I could identify there. No
change. It only makes about 10 modules overall, and there are dozens
turned on in the config.
I need for froggie to plunk his magic twanger here. Ideas anyone?
Is there a way to extract to a config file, the present config being
used by the kernel thats actually running? That might be step one,
followed by a make oldconfig to bring that one uptodate.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 27 Jun 2000 20:21:29 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pci videokaart met sis 6326
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Kees Schrama;
>> Linux werkt niet met de video kaart met chip sis 6326.
>> Waar vind ik een goede driver voor deze kaart?
KS> In XFree86-4.0. Earlier versions (XFree86-3.x) do not support
KS> this videocard.
But the xsys (xsis maybe) driver from the Suse main site does work
reasonably well, at least with XFree86-3.3.3 up to 3.3.5. Copy it into
the same dir with the XFREE SVGA driver, rename it, and make a link to
xsis from the SVGA name. Check its name though, my memory may be off
duty.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 27 Jun 2000 20:16:34 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 GRRRRRRR
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to John W;
JWK> well actualy my ethernet card requires a special tulip driver
JWK> wich I have to download and compile. UNfortuntaley, where before
JWK> it worked perfectly, now it wont compile right under either
JWK> distro (gives two "suggest
JWK> [something] to avoid ambigious else command"
I've built it maybe 10 times, and that error is always reported. It
apparently has no real effect. Kernels ranged from 2.2.5 to 2.2.14-5.0.
I can't get anything newer to fully boot, except today 2.4.0-test2 did,
but then all tulip stuffs seem to be incompatible with 2.4.0-test2.
[...]
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Terrance E. Hodgins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does sound OPL3 really work??
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:35:59 -0700
Hello. I'm going nuts trying to get the synthesizer
part of my sound boards to work.
I have a couple of sound boards, an IOmagic 16, and
a Diamond Multimedia board, which are very similar.
Both are standard old SB16 clones.
They both use an Opti 924 or 925 chip, and an AD1845
or Crystal CS4231A sound chip, all of which just fake
having a generic Plug-n-play SoundBlaster 16.
I've been through the whole routine with isapnpconf,
and have that working.
I've been through the whole thing of figuring out which
device drivers I really have to use. (And the documentation
on sound is terrible. --Don't get me wrong, I love Linux
and appreciate the great work the programmers have done,
but it is still a nightmare to figure out the sound drivers.
Being an old programmer, I resorted to reading the source
code, because the documentation was horrible, and confusing too.)
Everything about the sound cards works, except the
synthesizer. I can listen to MP3 Grateful Dead concerts
all day and all night (and do).
The PCM works, the mixer works, volumes work, CD play works...
The only thing that doesn't work is the OPL3 synthesizer.
I'm sort of wondering whether there is just a big bug
in the device driver for the OPL3. I've gone as far
as reading ALL of the relevant source code, and modifying
the source code, installing
syslog messages to track exactly how the device driver
tests the board, and gets the results, and everything
comes back as "Good, it should work" when I reboot and
reload the relevant device driver modules. But OPL3
synthesized sound is still very goofy.
Oh, and it is debian linux, latest stable version, with
the 2.2.13 or 2.2.14 kernel.
What I get
is very strange sound, like a byte-reversal problem, or
misconfiguration, or mis-programming of the synthesizer
registers.
The sound is mostly white noise hiss, but if you listen
very carefully, you can sort of hear the tune way back
in the background, underneath the hiss.
I'm not asking for a fix, so I'm not posting all of the
numbers for interrupts, I/O ports, etc. I am 99.9% sure
that I have that right.
Just a few simple "Yay" or "Nay" answers to hear if it is
just my strange problem, or a device driver bug.
FYI, the modules loaded, for the IOmagic 16 card, are:
softoss2, opl3, ad1848, mpu401, uart401, sound, soundlow.
Yes, or No? Does such a thing work for you?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Franklin)
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 740
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 Jun 2000 19:50:08 -0600
On 27 Jun 2000 14:09:40 GMT, Richard Zidlicky _
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In <8iqrih$ev7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Eric J. Shamow" _
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>Hi all -
>
>>I'm working with an Epson SC740, kernel version 2.2.16, and I've run into
>>something of a wall:
>
>>The print daemon is running, the parallel support module is loaded, and yet
>>my printer refuses to print. Output redirected to /dev/lp0 produces no
>>response, but no error messages either. The cable is fine, the printer is
>>fine.
>
>you haven't accidentally overwritten the /dev/lp0 with an ordinary
>file? I managed to do similar..
>Did you check /var/log/messages?
>
>Bye
>Richard
>
I had a similar problem. It turns out Lothar messed it up. Lothar would put
in duplicate lp entries and the whole thing stopped printing, despite lpc
status indicating all was fine.
The brute force/newbie fix was to delete the spool entries, the
/var/spool/lpd/spooler directories, turn off the printer, reboot the machine,
when Lothar finds the loss of the printer, let it remove the entry, turn the
printer on again, reboot the machine, when lothar finds the printer, choose
ignore (middle choice), use printtool to put in the proper spoolers back in.
Everything works.
I am too lazy to try it because it is working now, but try my method without
deleting all the entries (just the lp entry lothar put in), turn off the
machine, run lothar, choose remove config, turn on printer, run lothar, choose
ignore. you should be left with your spoolers only, and a working printer.
--
James
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Crossposted-To: sci.image.processing,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Tso)
Subject: Data Translation DT2853 frame grabber ?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 02:09:46 GMT
Does anyone have any useful software for the Data Translation
DT2853 frame grabber/buffer ? It is an ISA monochrome RS-170 frame
grabber.
Although source code and drivers, etc, are preferred, I would
consider anything at this point. Thanks.
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From: "Steve Goldman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Hang during boot (need advice)
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 22:37:39 -0700
Please give me 2 minutes of thought and your $.02. I know the information
is light, but I'm just asking what to throw away and what to keep. Thanks
in advance.
1. Computer was cheap PC clone with Cyrix 266 processor. Win98, Linux, and
FreeBSD ran fine (LILO boot loader).
2. It began to crash unexpectedly, run slow, behave badly. I took it back
to seller.
3. After investingation, seller says, "You messed up the processor by
playing with CMOS settings. It's all your fault. I'll fix for you anyway."
Note: I had never touched CMOS settings.
4. I got machine back with Celeron 233 processor and new motherboard.
Seller told me he could not get machine to boot unless he ran the processor
at 200 MHz, but that's all he'd do for me.
5. Bad behavior became worse, the death rattle began. The machine began to
hang on boot every time. I gave up and bought a new, cheap PC clone.
6. A year went by, and I hoped that the machine might have magically
repaired itself. Machine booted OK. I reformatted the HD and loaded RedHat
6.2. It locked up during the install twice, but third time's the charm.
The machine booted up and ran fine.
7. After a day or two, hang on boot every time began again. The symptoms
are this: Machine finds all 32 M RAM, seems to find all hardware OK. Linux
gets to INIT and then hang/crash occurs. Sometimes INIT reports processes
are spawning too fast and it needs to wait 5 minutes (it never gets going
again). Sometimes PANIC occurs and all sorts of ugly stuff appears on the
screen (like register contents or something).
8. I removed and reseated the processor and the memory (but not any other
cards). No joy.
What's my next move? I would buy another motherboard and processor (cheap)
if I thought that would work. I'd like to have a second computer. Thanks
again for your help.
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From: "101011" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sci.image.processing,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: Data Translation DT2853 frame grabber ?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 12:43:11 +1000
Daniel Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:i4d65.5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone have any useful software for the Data Translation
> DT2853 frame grabber/buffer ? It is an ISA monochrome RS-170 frame
> grabber.
> Although source code and drivers, etc, are preferred, I would
> consider anything at this point. Thanks.
Do people still use them?
Wow, brings back memories - about 12 years ago!
Sorry, can't help you there - the stuff is sitting in my old
lab collecting dust.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Best video cature card
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 03:01:50 GMT
Hi, I'm doing some similar research and thought someone might have a
suggestion or two.
I'd like to do some capturing from vhs & tv sources. I've seen that
many people are using tv tuners to do captures, is this correct? It
seems like a dedicated capture card would work better and produce
higher quality captures. Anyone have a suggestion on a good card that
works in linux?
Ultimately I'd like to write a simple web interface that I could access
to record programs away from home, which is why I want to do this in
Linux.
Thanks for any help you can provide. I've tried to read as much as I
could, I'm just uncertain how good the quality of captures is from
these tv tuner cards and I don't want to buy the wrong thing.
max
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jack Cawkwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thierry,
>
> There is not a simple answer to this question.
> It depends what you want to get from the card.
> There are a large number of linux supported
> cards, with varying qualities depending upon
> what they are intended to be used for.
>
> There is one especially designed for Linux,
> try http://linuxmedialabs.com, there may be
> others. Also search the web for framegrabber
> linux and so on, you will be spoilt for choice.
>
> Alternatively, be more specific about what
> you want to do with your grabber?
>
> Jack
>
> Thierry wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the best pci video capture card for linux, (chip,
video4linux
> > compatible, and good quality).
> >
> > Without TV reception.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > thierry
>
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Before you buy.
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From: "LR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: <Chris Vine> Re: Need help with CS4232 on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 - reports
"failed loading module"...
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:29:04 -0400
Chris,thank you so much. That would be greatly appreciated.
I hadn't realized my return address was still set incorrectly...
If you can, I would indeed appreciate it if you could email me those config
files -- at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^^
| | |
You know the drill I'm sure.
Thanks again. I'll let you know by direct email if I get them, and how they
work.
Luis
Chris Vine wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:26:26 -0400, "LR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hi folks, hope you can help:
>>
>>[snip]
>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Luis
>
>I sent you my /etc/isapnp.conf and /etc/conf.modules for my CS4237B
>and various background information via e-mail, but it bounced with the
>message that your mail box is full. Please let me know if you need.
>
>Chris.
>
>--
>If replying by e-mail, remove the --nospam--
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From: "LR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help in installing LT winmodem
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:32:39 -0400
Question: Are you sure the Lucent driver works only on RedHat.
I have the same modem, and understood that the drivers supported other
2.2.12 and 2.2.14 kernels.
I have the same modem, and just installed Caldera OpenLinux 2.4, and was
hoping to get the modem working, or to decide on replacing it...
Luis
Ozetechnology wrote in message
<39574145$0$17020$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(Kok Wei Kit) wrote:
>> hi all, i'm a newbie, just installed mandrake into my system. need to
>> ask a few questions.
>> 1. how do i install my modem (Lucent Winmodem 56k) to my linux system?
>>
>> Please go easy on me, i'm really new.... thanks a million, wei kit
>
>Ok I will go easy on you :-)
>
>There is a driver for this thing, but only for Redhat 6.1. I have actually
>made it work on my Dell Inspiron 5000 which has the same modem.
>
>Have a look at www.linmodems.org they have some drivers, also notes on
>install etc.
>
>hope this helps
>
>Site: www.ozetechnology.com
>+++ New Images in the Gallery +++
>
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From: "Chi-Tat Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LS120 Drive Problem!
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:10:31 +0800
Hi, Everybody,
Recently, I've bought a new LS120 drive for my linux box which is installed
in RedHat Linux 6.0. After installation of the drive, I found that I can't
mount my LS120 drive using the following command
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
However, the drive works fine under Win95. What is my problem? Is there
any important procedures required to enable the LS120 drive?
Thank you very much in advance!
Chi-Tat Leung
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: insmod failed?
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 23:55:10 -0400
It's actually enabled at boot up, but fails at 'insmod 3c509'. After the
system has comeup, I can then manually do 'insmod 3c509' then 'ifconfig eth1
192.168.0.1' insmod seems to timeout on boot.
-Devon
"Craig Kelley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Here is a copy of my "conf.modules"
> > alias eth0 ne
> > options ne io=0x300 irq=10
> > alias eth1 3c509
> > options 3c509 io=0x320 irq=5
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> >
> > I'm using RHL62
>
> Then you should just be able to click the "start interface at boot
> time" in the network control panel; or edit it manually in
> /etc/sysconfig.
>
> --
> The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: LS120 Drive Problem!
Date: 28 Jun 2000 00:00:24 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:10:31 +0800, Chi-Tat Leung
<<8jbpfb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Recently, I've bought a new LS120 drive for my linux box which is installed
>in RedHat Linux 6.0. After installation of the drive, I found that I can't
>mount my LS120 drive using the following command
>
>mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
>However, the drive works fine under Win95. What is my problem? Is there
>any important procedures required to enable the LS120 drive?
The LS120 is an IDE device. Therefore, you mount disks (both LS-120s and
standard 1.4M floppies) with
mount /dev/hdX /mnt/floppy
where X is the IDE interface it's plugged into. hda is master on
controller 0, hdb is slave on controller 0, hdc is master on controller 1,
hdd is slave on controller 1. You need the ide-floppy module available,
or you need ide-floppy support compiled into the kernel--all major distros
ship with one of those options enabled in their standard kernels. HTH,
good luck...
--
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\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
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