Linux-Hardware Digest #248, Volume #13 Mon, 17 Jul 00 01:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: External Modem Problem (SiVA)
Re: mpeg capture from video capture card (blowfish)
Modem Blaster Flash II external won't work (SiVA)
Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time? (Dex)
Re: Sound Blaster Live problems ("Horst Simon")
GA-5AX APM Shutdown make OOPS (Eric Wick)
Re: Firewall/Gateway hardware requirements (blowfish)
Flash ROM Driver / Flash File System ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right (blowfish)
Re: Sun Monitor compatible with PC? (Thomas Kochak)
Re: Sun Monitor compatible with PC? (Richard Ingram)
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP (James Knowles)
Voodoo3 2000 AGP making funny colors in X (Simon Lemieux)
Re: Another SCSI-emulated IDE CD-R problem (Jason White)
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP (James Knowles)
Re: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right (James Knowles)
Re: Need cdrom writer advice (Jason White)
Re: Zip drive (softrat`)
Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP (Michael Meissner)
Re: LT modems ("Peter T. Breuer")
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Subject: Re: External Modem Problem
From: SiVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:17:10 -0700
Let me know how you solved it, cause I'm having hte same
problems with the same modem.
Thanx
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mpeg capture from video capture card
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:31:30 -0700
Thierry wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Do you know an existing program (with sources) wich capture video from a
> video capture card (bt chips) and save it in mpeg or quicktime format.
> Without using Xwindows.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> thierry
broadcast2000.
comes with SuSE6.4.
-Alex / blowfish.
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Subject: Modem Blaster Flash II external won't work
From: SiVA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:32:41 -0700
Hi I just bought the Creative labs Modem Blaster 56K Flash II
external and none of the modem tools will recognize it. wvdial /
minicom / kppp. I'm using SuSE 6.4. I have it plugged into com1,
but I'm not quite sure how to diagnose this problem..
any suggestions would be great,
Justin
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From: Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time?
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:54:46 -0400
Maarten wrote:
> Dex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hal Burgiss wrote:
> >
> >> On Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:27:39 -0400, B. Joshua Rosen
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >Does that require a rebuild, or is there an argument that I can pass at
> >> >boot time?
> >>
> >> Kernel rebuild.
> >
> >Again...as much as Winblows sux. Why does a hardware upgrade or change
> >require a rebuild of the friggin' Kernel????
>
> >But still, what is so hard about making Linux upgradeable w/o recompiling
> >kernels????
>
> What is so hard about recompiling the kernel ? Have you even tried ?
> Typing 'make dep clean bzImage modules' can't be that hard, can it ?
>
> Maarten
>
> --
>
> Your mouse has moved. Please wait while Windows restarts for the change
> to take effect.
I was hoping the message you replied to would have died a miserable death,
Maarten. I posted it after a very bad night. Really, I like building kernels,
find it exciting even. But you have to admit, for people who just want to use
Linux, it would be a lot easier to not have to make menuconfig, and fill in
the blanks. I have been keeping an eye on the Gnu Hurd....they have a goal of
being able to modify just about anything without actually having to rebuild
everything. That way, users can keep using while programmers can keep playing
B-).
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From: "Horst Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live problems
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 13:01:21 +1000
I am using the alsa drivers with my soundblaster live value and it works perfect.
The only problem I still have is with netscape playing midi files. I have plugger
installed and
tried umb, but netscape will not play.
Midi files play perfect with kmidi.
I am using SuSE 6.4 with Kernel 2.2.16 and the latest
alsa drivers.
Anyone know how to get the midi plugins working on
netscape?
Regards,
Horst Simon
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Wagner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> the easiest way to install it is to download the 2.4.0-testX kernel ...
>> fejf
>
> I think its better if download the latest driver from
> opensource.creative.com.
>
> hth, Daniel
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From: Eric Wick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GA-5AX APM Shutdown make OOPS
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 19:13:04 +0200
Hello,
my new Board isn't able to shutdown correctly. Like my old Soyo it
runs into a kernel oops.
Has someone seen a patch for this? The soyo apm patch will not work
here.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: Firewall/Gateway hardware requirements
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:15:24 -0700
Chris Pitzel wrote:
>
> > I am considering buying a 2nd hand Pentium 133 with 16M ram to use as a
> > Firewall/Gateway/Router for a small network. The network has half-a-dozen
> > users, is 100M Ethernet and has some fastish computers involved (700Mhz, with
> > 1.4G anticipated next year). The network is connected to the Internet via a
> > 1.5Mbit cable modem. Is the Pentium 133 enough to ensure it will not become the
> > bottleneck ?
>
> Yes, most definitely a Pentium 133 would do just fine. I would
> recommend that you upgrade the RAM to 32megabytes, and use good quality
> and well supported NIC's (I use 3com 3c905-TX's here on a Pentium-66 in
> a similar environment).
>
> The bottleneck is your internet connection, and definitely not your
> machine. Even a 486 would be adequate for your connection.
If you have to spend more than $30.US for an old clinker, then, waste
more money on upgrading anything. You're better off buying a hardware
router. A few are available for ubder $100.00US, real easy to set up
from your browser, has IP-packets filtering, ports forewarding, DMZ,
WAN, LAN 10/100Mb/s ports and so on. Can piggie back to more hubs if
needed.
Not to mention without adding more annoying noises from the fan,
powersupply fan, and HD.
And the room that it takes. Especially when you already have 5, 6
machines running, and possible adding more soon. The noise is
unbearable.
Other than you already have an old clinker laying around *AND* not
having to spend more than $10.00US on it. I'd say, just let the 'Linux
running as a cheap firewall/router" idea to rest. It's not worthed.
- Alex / blowfish.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Flash ROM Driver / Flash File System
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 03:03:16 GMT
Hi, I need advice on how to access the flash rom
on my embedded system to create a file system. I
would like to be able to read and write from the
flash rom.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 20:41:42 -0700
James Knowles wrote:
>
>
> As an aside, IIRC, to burn both CPUs with gmake you'll need to specify
> "-j3" not "-j2"; the parameter needs to be number of CPUs+1. Two threads
> for compiling, one master thread.
>
Want to see your Asus SMP really flies? :)
Get FreeBSD 4.x , or 5.x, compile the kernel by lying to it you have 6
or 8 cpus installed. :-)
But it does not garrentee to work on every single machine. If you're one
of the lucky one that the machine bought your lie, it'll run quite a lot
faster with pthreaded apps. But not all set up will buy the lie. One of
my SMP box bought the lie, the other didn't.
(*You can just try it and recompile it back to the real inbstalled cpu
numbers. Building kernel with FreeBSD is so simple and idiot proof. I
don't even mind to do it everyday. 99% of the time you CAN still boot
your system without any problem, or even rescue boot disk, if you made a
mistake building your new kernel.)
- Alex / blowfish.
> HTH,
>
> James
>
> --
> C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that
> harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
> - Bjarne Stroustrup
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From: Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun Monitor compatible with PC?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 03:57:40 GMT
By the way, the model is: CPD-1790
Thomas Kochak wrote:
> My dad bought a Sun monitor (really old, from 1992) for our PC. It seems
> to use some propriety type of connection, not like the standard VGA
> connecter on my Riva TNT. He is convinced that there is some type of
> cable converter so we can use it but I'm not that optimistic about it.
> Is he right? Is there any way I can use this monitor with my PC by using
> some type of converter? And are there even drivers for it in Win98/Linux
> that I could use? Thanks in advance!
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From: Richard Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun Monitor compatible with PC?
Date: 16 Jul 2000 22:59:47 -0500
"J.W. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > My dad bought a Sun monitor (really old, from 1992) for our PC. It seems
> > to use some propriety type of connection, not like the standard VGA
> > connecter on my Riva TNT. He is convinced that there is some type of
> > cable converter so we can use it but I'm not that optimistic about it.
> > Is he right? Is there any way I can use this monitor with my PC by using
> > some type of converter? And are there even drivers for it in Win98/Linux
> > that I could use? Thanks in advance!
> >
>
> You need a 13WD3 to HDD15 converter block. Then you hook up a regular
> male to male video cable. Adapter costs about $15 USD and you can order
> them from Belkin, Cables to Go, ABL Electronics, just to name a few.
Depending which model it may need a new graphics card able to drive a
fixed frequency monitor. What model Sony/Sun is it ? You could then post to a
sun newsgroup and ask if it is multisync or fixed.
Richard.
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:08:24 -0600
> DDS-2 (120m tape ) is 4 GB uncompressed, 8 GB compressed !
You are correct. Sorry!
http://www.hp.com/tape/datasheets/dat8.html
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From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Voodoo3 2000 AGP making funny colors in X
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:15:32 GMT
Hi,
just got my Voodoo working and I noticed some color change when I
move/resize/etc windows... Is there something I can do to fix this?
Thanks,
Simon
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From: Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another SCSI-emulated IDE CD-R problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:17:49 GMT
Well, after many, many kernel rebuilds of various versions this weekend,
the only solution I could come up with was to use one of the latest and
greatest kernels: 2.3.99-pre99. I tried 2.2.12, 2.2.13, 2.2.14, 2.2.16,
and 2.3.51, but none of these kernels would allow my CD-RW drive to read
or write to discs.
The 2.3.99-pre99 kernel works just fine, so I hope the 2.4 series
continues where 2.3 left off...
Regards,
Jason
Jason wrote:
>
> Well, I've read through several newsgroup discussions about CD-Writing
> to SCSI-emulated IDE devices, but no one has reported the problem that
> I'm having. When I try to mount any type of disc on my CD burner, it
> fails with the following message:
>
> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdr
> mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> It's lying. It dosen't actually mount the device -- or it does, and
> then immediately fails. Below is the output from syslog when attempting
> the mount, as well as the rest of my environment. I can, however,
> successfully mount any disc on the DVD drive, which is also
> SCSI-emulated on /dev/scd1.
>
> /var/log/messages:
> ------------------
> kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected -
> discarding data
> kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected -
> discarding data
> kernel: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
>
> kernel 2.2.16 config
> --------------------
> (Y) BLOCK Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL...
> (N) BLOCK IDE/ATAPI CDROM
> (Y) BLOCK SCSI emulation support
> (M) BLOCK Loopback device
> (Y) SCSI - SCSI support
> (Y) SCSI - SCSI CD-ROM support
> (Y) SCSI - Enable vendor-specific
> (Y) SCSI - SCSI generic support
> (Y) SCSI - (select a low-level driver)
> (Y) FS - ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem
> (Y) FS - Microsoft Joliet cdrom...
>
> during boot:
> ------------
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 1 host.
> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-W8432T Rev: 1.05
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-104 Rev: 1.25
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
> scsi : detected 2 SCSI generics 2 SCSI cdroms total.
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09
> sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>
> # cdrecord -scanbus
> -------------------
> Cdrecord 1.8.1a03 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
> Schilling
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W8432T' '1.05' Removable
> CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-ROM DVD-104 ' '1.25' Removable
> CD-ROM
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
>
> # ls -l /dev/cdr*
> -----------------
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 13 23:42 /dev/cdr ->
> /dev/scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 13 23:42 /dev/cdrom ->
> /dev/scd1
>
> /etc/fstab
> ----------
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto,owner 0 0
> /dev/cdr /cdr iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:18:41 -0600
> I get always compression off, but the drive is compression capable !!!
Does your drive have jumpers to set this? Mine does, though mt can set
compression on/off using the same command:
jamesk@therrindur:~ :-) sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1
Compression on.
jamesk@therrindur:~ :-) sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0
Compression off.
jamesk@therrindur:~ :-) sudo mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1
Compression on.
I assume you're doing this as root either logged in as root or sudo'd
(or equivalent)?
> Is DDS2 4GB nominal and 8GB compressed ????
As I just posted elsewhere, after looking on HP's web site, yes DDS2 is
4GB raw. I stand corrected from my previous posting, which was off the
top of my head. My DDS3 drive is 12GB raw. I was probably thinking of
DDS1 drives at 2GB. I don't know where I came up with the number. :-)
> I am expecting to store at least 4GB or should I expect less ??
Depends on different factors, block size, whether you can feed a
continual stream, etc.
--
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with catsup.
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 22:20:22 -0600
> Want to see your Asus SMP really flies? :)
Sounds fun. Next time I strip the machine down I'll have to try it just
for kicks.
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There are two paths that people can take. They can either play now and
pay later or pay now an play later. Regardless of the choices, one thing
is certain. Life will demand a payment.
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From: Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need cdrom writer advice
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 04:22:16 GMT
Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone have a favorite cdrom writer
> that they can suggest?
>
> I am looking for:
> 1) scsi-2 bus
> 2) Linux friendly, and
> 3) has to last longer than 13 months (needs to be reliable)
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> aewell @ gbis . com (remove the spaces)
> p.s. my old unit had a 12 month warranty and at 13 months ...
Anthony,
I purchased an 8x4x32 IDE drive from Plextor about 6 months ago and it
works great for reading/writing under Linux. I know it's an IDE drive,
and your looking for SCSI, but Plextor is definately a brand that I
would recommend. I would have bought the SCSI model, but I'm just too
cheap. :->
The reason I bought Plextor in the first place was that I heard so many
good things about the quality and reliability of their drives.
Regards,
Jason
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From: softrat` <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip drive
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 21:28:25 -0700
Julian Bordas wrote:
>
> Hello
> How do I mount the zip drive ??
>
> I have done a "modprobe ppa" The zip drive whirs and the lights flash
>
> I have "mkdir -p /mnt/zip" and I have "echo '/dev/zip /mnt/ vfat
> noauto,user 0 0' \ >>/etc/fstab
>
> and rebotted the machine all to no avail.
>
> Any ideas any one?
>
> Julian
Well, do you really have a parallel port interface for your ZIP drive?
(I don't. I have SCSI.) Did you enter 'mount /dev/zip' after you put a
disk into the drive? (Your fstab entry indicates non automatic mounting:
'noauto'.)
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Subject: Re: Tape Drives - how do you backup? + HELP
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Jul 2000 00:42:36 -0400
tabascox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It is really strange, but when I do "mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 1", I
> get:
> Compression off.
> Compression capable.
> Decompression capable.
>
> If I do " mt -f /dev/nst0 datcompression 0", I get
> Compression off.
> Compression capable.
> Decompression capable.
>
> I get always compression off, but the drive is compression capable !!!
> Is DDS2 4GB nominal and 8GB compressed ????
> I am expecting to store at least 4GB or should I expect less ??
>
> Right now I am trying to put 65536 as block size and see what happens ..
Check the version of your 'mt' command. If it is 0.4 or 0.5b then you have the
correct command. If it is 0.5 without the b suffix, you have the version that
has the bug in it that you can't use the -f option along with an option that
takes a numeric argument (the argument parsing would also give 0 as the value).
IIRC, Redhat 6.1 had the buggy mt.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LT modems
Date: 17 Jul 2000 04:45:41 GMT
Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have an ltmodem (a winmodem) in my Gateway notebook. There is a lucent
: driver at linmodems.org for it but I cannot seem to get it to work.
That's funny. I can't seem to guess what you're trying </sarky>.
: Something about the "ltmodem module not found", and I cannot open, say
: /dev/modem in minicom.
: Is it possible to get this to work? I am using Redhat 6.2.
Nooo. It's completely impossible! What do you think? That lucent put
out a binary module on a webpage with instructions on when and
how to use it and it won't work with anything?
Load it with insmod -f and report the error or warning messages
_exactly_ (repeat, _exactly_). It's likely that you are running a
different kernel than the module was compiled for, so you need the -f
switch. And the output of uname -a ...
Peter
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