Linux-Hardware Digest #254, Volume #13 Mon, 17 Jul 00 21:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help! ("Samuel Irlapati")
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? ("cdaniel")
2.3xx, 2.4xx with Athlon on Asus K7M mb (Ewald Pfau)
Re: XF86Config for ATI Rage Fury Pro (Chris Moesel)
Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help! (bcs)
Problem configuring X for S3 Savage 3D card ("Milan Gornik")
Re: ADSL in uk - USB connector ("Darren Eccles")
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo
=?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=)
Re: Solved? (was: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right) (Bryan)
Re: Hard disk recover ("John Smith")
Re: HP DeskJet 1220C/PS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? ("Dan")
Re: Problem configuring X for S3 Savage 3D card (Rob Kroll)
Re: dual cpu mobo's
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CPU temperature ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Video Capture Card for Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Creative AudioPCI 128 - no MIDI (Victor Schneider, Ph. D.)
Re: Need soundcard suggestion. (Victor Schneider, Ph. D.)
Re: Sound Blaster Live problems (Victor Schneider, Ph. D.)
Network hw_addr different on laptop vs. desktop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Samuel Irlapati" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help!
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:08:52 -0400
to me, kernel panic is a sign that you need to re-install the operating
system. I have had gotten the kernal panic message before too and it was
when I trying out experiments on my hard-disk. As in the previous post
mentioned, just make the default os dos. If you have more problems post
messages.
albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8kv3p8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Having passed the configuration prob, I managed to install RH 6.2 on my
> windows 98 box, I have my 8.4gb disk splitted in 4x 2.1gb partitions (one
> for w98, 2nd for shware, personal docs and the 4th I wanted to put linux
> there) Here's the glitch, for my surprise, Rh installed perfectly and even
> lilo didn't bother with the 1024 cylinder limit thing, but the lilo boot
was
> always jumping to linux instead of win98, so I tryied a program called
> BOOTMAGIC, and selected the windows partition for boot and also the Linux
> partition so that I could choose between one or the other. But when I
tryed
> it, only windows98 would boot ok!!! Well I tryed the linux rescue disk
that
> I madde when I was installing linux, but it didn't work too well because
now
> when I boot to linux is says "kernel panic ..." and the pc stalls
> completely.
> can one you guros help me out here???
> thanks
>
>
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From: "cdaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:27:11 GMT
I found drivers for the ATI All In Wonder video boards.
The board I'm using is the All In Wonder Pro PCI 8Mb. Rage 64 chipset. The
software is XATITV or ATITV .
The drivers for the Mach 64 video install with the distribution and then you
have to do a search for the software. The TV tuner portion is supported as
well as full screen and background video display. There is also a good
compliment of command utilities.
I haven't fully tested the capture functions or tried the software with more
current AGP or 16Mb boards. But this one seems to work well so far.
I'm sure that there are other capture type boards of better and worse
quality that work as well, and I'm interested in hearing more about those
and the software that runs them.
"Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:963860775.307675@sj-nntpcache-3...
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder
III)
> that has Linux drivers?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ewald Pfau)
Subject: 2.3xx, 2.4xx with Athlon on Asus K7M mb
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 23:38:26 +0200
Anyone found out how to run some newer Linux kernel on that mainboard,
Asus K7M (Athlon 600 MHz, 128 MB RAM)?
Had to switch-on 'memory window 14-16 MB' in BIOS. After that,
2.3.9-pre7 was pretty stable.
Then I could not migrate to 2.2.16 (coming with Slackware 7.1), nor
2.4.xx, until upgrading Flash-BIOS with version from 11. April.
Then I compiled _one_ kernel 2.4.0-test2, which would run perfectly
without that memory window, but I cannot reproduce that kernel anymore
(overwrote '.config' with the next try ..&^%$@! - 'nearly same' seems
not good enough here, seems to need to reproduce 'exactly the same
kernel', as I did not change that much things). Each other kernel, as
well with 2.4.0.test4, will need that memory window being set, again.
Elsewise strange things happen, as 'crc error' while uncompressing
kernel when booting. If it boots, so it may be unstable (start some
activity, as non-clean boot-fsck, or copy a big file, or..., so the
kernel crashes).
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:53:47 -0400
From: Chris Moesel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config for ATI Rage Fury Pro
yep-- it's AGP. I've downloaded a bunch of docs on how to configure
xf86config to make it work, but it still refuses to work... i dunno...
if i figure anything out, i'll post.
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From: bcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lost LILO needs to be reconfigured...please help!
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 17:03:28 -0500
albert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having passed the configuration prob, I managed to install RH 6.2 on my
> windows 98 box, I have my 8.4gb disk splitted in 4x 2.1gb partitions (one
> for w98, 2nd for shware, personal docs and the 4th I wanted to put linux
> there) Here's the glitch, for my surprise, Rh installed perfectly and even
> lilo didn't bother with the 1024 cylinder limit thing, but the lilo boot was
> always jumping to linux instead of win98, so I tryied a program called
> BOOTMAGIC, and selected the windows partition for boot and also the Linux
> partition so that I could choose between one or the other. But when I tryed
> it, only windows98 would boot ok!!! Well I tryed the linux rescue disk that
> I madde when I was installing linux, but it didn't work too well because now
> when I boot to linux is says "kernel panic ..." and the pc stalls
> completely.
> can one you guros help me out here???
> thanks
When you installed boot magic, you wrote over LILO which you had written to the
MBR during setup. Now, LILO does not exist on your drive, and it must if you
want to boot Linux. If you don't have LILO on the MBR, then it must be on the
first sector of the / partition, an option you were given during setup. The
boot disk is expecting the configuration you installed, which no longer exists,
as it has been altered by the bootmajic install. Anyway, in order to install
LILO by any means other than during setup, you will need Linux running on the
target system. You probably have a utility provided by boot majic which will
restore the MBR to pre-bootmagic-installation form. (* 1) Do that, then try
running setup again and chose upgrade, and see if you can reconfigure LILO. If
not, exit setup and boot up Linux from the hard drive and fire up the LILO
User's Guide (it may be in /usr/doc/lilo-0.21 in ps form, if not, then on the
Doc CDRom if you bought the distro) , and have fun, and learn something! Or
just learn something! You'd save time just reinstalling from scratch, though,
anyone would, no matter their experience. Make sure to install LILO on / and
not on the MBR. But whatever you do, read the aforementioned excellent doc.
Take note: If LILO is not going to be on the MBR, then it won't be able to find
a / partition which exists (all or in part) beyond cylinder 1023. Moreover,
any logical partition that the / partition is on must begin and end before
1024. Regarding the message from Chem-R-Us, don't forget to run
# lilo -t
(the "-t" op is for test)
to make sure your syntax is straight, then
# lilo
after you have edited /etc/lilo.conf, or the changes won't be written.
Good Luck!
bcs
ps If you want to abandon bootmagic, do (*1), then edit as Chem-R-Us said, then
do (*2).
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From: "Milan Gornik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Problem configuring X for S3 Savage 3D card
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:57:27 +0200
I have S3 Savage 3d video card (revision 86C390), on AGP slot, with 8 MB on
it. I tried to use XF86Setup to configure X for my video card, but that was
not successfull (server always hangs). I tried many options (different
servers (vga16, svga, s3), different resolutions ...) but server could run
only in standard vga 640x480 mode, using 16 colors. Can someone help me?
10x in advance,
Milan Gornik ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Darren Eccles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ADSL in uk - USB connector
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:18:38 +0100
> Darren,
> It won't work. I don't know which hardware BT uses but it's probably
> much the same as Bell South here in NC (Efficient) and there just
> aren't any Linux drivers for this kind of setup yet.
Thanks for the reply Jonathan.
I read an interesting article in the PCW magazine recently where the
contributor
had succeeded in connecting his linux machine to an adsl source from an ISP
by the name of HomeChoice. Apparently this link is presented as
'a modem-like serial internet connection'. He was able to get ppp daemon
working over this link - the connection is 'more or less straight ppp over
serial',
the machine does not have to dial out first.
This combined with the fact that some usb modems appear to work (check out
linux-usb.org) made me think that a driver that used ppp through a usb link
might
do the trick without having to write dedicated drivers.
Only a thought though - I'm still wet behind the ears when it comes to this
sort of stuff.
Am I wasting my time and wishing for a miracle??
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= Luis Domingo =?iso-8859-1?Q?L=F3pez?=
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:33:29 GMT
Hi Brian Davis:
>
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder III)
> that has Linux drivers?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
Any TV capture card with chips of the Bt848/849/878/879 family should work
fine. There is a generic driver called bttv and an API (video4linux).
Jose Luis Domingo
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Solved? (was: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right)
Date: 17 Jul 2000 22:46:16 GMT
its worth noting that SMP on the bx chipset is VERY unstable at close
to 100% saturation on two cpus. this is known even though intel won't
admit it.
morale: don't run 2 cpu's at full load for extended periods of time.
AND see if you can cool the bx chip better than with that flimsy
'green' heatsink that usually comes with the bx boards.
(I won't run smp on bx for mission critical systems. gx is more
reliable as are other chipsets; its the consumer-oriented bx that just
falls down under heavy (VERY heavy) load)
In comp.os.linux.hardware James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > This problem may affect customer systems, particularly systems
: > that are swapping to disk very heavily (thrashing), or are otherwise very
: > heavily loaded.
: Good heavens! Thanks for the heads up. I didn't notice this in the RH
: errata. Kernel problem it is. I'm running with 256MB RAM to keep
: swapping at a minimum. I've always been careful to ensure that I have
: adequte RAM to prevent swapping when pushing the machine hard. Swapping
: in my opinion is the #1 performance killer, even when swap's striped
: across three disk partitions.
: > I just wasted a day trying
: > to track down what looked like a hardware problem in my new system.
: Well, the description sounded supsiciously like a hardware problem.
: Gotta hate these types of problems.
: I'm glad that you've found the solution. Thanks for sharing it with the
: rest of us.
: --
: A straw poll only shows which way the hot air blows.
--
My real email is Grateful.Net@fnord (or something like that).
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From: "John Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard disk recover
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:47:54 -0700
If you cannot choose where to boot from your BIOS, If you cannot boot from
anything, you're out of luck.
You need to buy a new computer. They are very cheap nowadays
> An installation of SuSE Linux made 65 (!) little partitions on my HD and
> now it doesn't work! I cannot boot from diskette, hd or CD-ROM.
> I need to save some files!
>
> Please help me.
>
> Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 1220C/PS
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 18:50:31 -0400
Well, I got word back from HP on Thursday about their DeskJet
1220C/PS printer. (My news server has been down.) I had sent a
message to their shopping site through <http://www.shopping.hp.com>
last Monday night. Although they try to answer your e-mail within 24
hours, I didn't get a response until Wednesday morning.
What was troubling though, was that their response was a form
letter e-mail stating how customers with technical support questions
on products they have purchased should look at the HP Customer Care
web site or call some 1-800 number for $2.50/minute. This annoyed me
since I was very clear in my message that I was looking to *buy* this
printer, and that I had a pre-sales question. (In fact, I had even
marked that category on their web form.)
So, I wrote back again stating this, and six hours later I got
another form letter e-mail saying that pre-sales questions should be
directed to this other 1-800 number.
Now please remember that the whole point of this was to see if
their DeskJet 1220C/PS handles Postscript in hardware or (Windows)
software, because HP's WEB SITE FOR THIS PRODUCT DOESN'T SPECIFY THIS.
So I called their 1-800 number and got the first menu. I listened to
the four options and chose the one for information on printers.
I then listened to another four option menu and pressed the
button for HP products.
A five option menu was then read to me, and I pressed the button
for product information.
A recorded voice came on telling me that product information can
be obtained FROM THEIR WEB SITE.
I was livid. After I calmed down, I called the 1-800 number back
and chose the options to talk to a live person. I ended up talking
with a polite and knowledgeable gentleman who was able to answer my
question within a few minutes. The answer is: the DeskJet 1220C/PS
does its Postscript in Windows software. The Windows driver receives
the Postscript data and translates it to HP's PCL 3.
There you have it. If you are looking for a color inkjet printer
that can do Postscript, the HP 1220C/PS is not it. It looks like I'll
be buying the Lexmark Optra Color 45.
--
Bernie Hoefer
PGP e-mail is welcome! Key ID is 0x446A6F93 with fingerprint
1EA6 025D 9DFB 224E 69D4 CE0E 7241 A6A9 446A 6F93.
(Change my address to fname.lname@company to e-mail me.)
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 09:15:01 +1000
The Brooktree line of cards have some good drivers. They're also the
cheapest video capture card, and probably the most popular. Check the
package of the cheapest capture cards, and see if they have a Brooktree
chipset. Viewing quality is great in X or on a frame-buffer console. Capture
isn't quite there yet (not in mine anyway) but it's getting better...
Dan
---
Microsoft advises regarding the use of their flagship relational database
server...
Note: Because SQL Server does not support user-defined triggers on system
tables, it is recommended that no user-defined triggers be created on system
tables.
Brian Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:963860775.307675@sj-nntpcache-3...
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder
III)
> that has Linux drivers?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
>
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Problem configuring X for S3 Savage 3D card
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Kroll)
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:22:22 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Milan Gornik) wrote in <8kvsua$rhf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have S3 Savage 3d video card (revision 86C390), on AGP slot, with 8 MB
>on it. I tried to use XF86Setup to configure X for my video card, but
>that was not successfull (server always hangs). I tried many options
>(different servers (vga16, svga, s3), different resolutions ...) but
>server could run only in standard vga 640x480 mode, using 16 colors. Can
>someone help me?
>
>10x in advance,
>Milan Gornik ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
>
Visit http://www.xfree86.org/ and download XFree86 3.3.6.
It has support for your video card.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: dual cpu mobo's
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:27:03 GMT
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:07:00 +0000, Ian Mortimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Guys,
>
>My old P133 is getting a bit tired now and I wan't to build myself a
>shiny new one based around 2x700Mhz Pentium III's and a SCSI disk.
>
>I've been looking at the motherboards suitable (very hard to find info
>on dual boards isn't it ?) and it seems that the Asus P2B-D is quite a
>popular choice BUT it's looking a little dated now and I was wondering
>if there are any better (ie 133 FSB) boards for the above setup ? (not
>too worried about overclocking - stability, features and at least 1xISA
>slot are my main priorities)
>
>Two more little questions:
>
>1) Is onboard SCSI a good thing or is more trouble than it's worth ?
>2) Can FCPGA chips operate in SMP or should I stick to Slot 1 and the BX
>chipset ?
It's a good thing. One less board, more reliability and possibly better
integration w/ the motherboard. It's a bit cheaper, but that advantage
is lost because it is a throwaway item. I went with scsi on the motherboard
because I wanted to upgrade my scsi to ultra2 at the same time.
I've been extremly happy w/ my chaintech CT-6BDU-U2 motherboard. It has both
ultra and ultra2 scsi chains so that my old peripherals won't slow things
down. There also a socket for adaptec's hardware accelerated raid.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
Date: 17 Jul 2000 17:39:50 -0700
"Brian Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
> Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder III)
> that has Linux drivers?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
Check out http://penguin.lvcm.com/ click on "Video Capture" in the
sidebar. There is a family of chipsets from Brooktree (Bttv this and
that) that are used in a lot of video tuner cards (including my own
STB TV card), and well supported under linux. If you know how to rebuild
a kernel, when doing a "make config" or better, a "make menuconfig" or
"make xconfig", there is a section in the build devoted to TV cards.
======= Remove "UhUh" and "Spam" to get my real email address ======
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Subject: Re: CPU temperature
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:47:02 GMT
Auto Cat +++ Auto Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Although Intel places thermal diode in its P2 and P3, no one will
> complain that the core temperature is different from the data sheet.
> The temperature sensor is used to provide info for overclocking.
Really?
Because my health-monitoring hardware is disabled if I overclock my
CPU. Seems somewhat counterintuitive, but maybe that's just Tyan's
way of avoiding warranty calls caused by raving idiots.
--
Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
oh, wait."
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Subject: Re: Video Capture Card for Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:50:23 GMT
Jos� Luis Domingo L�pez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Brian Davis:
> >
> > Hi,
> > Has anyone found a Video Capture Card (e.g. Intel Smart Video Recorder III)
> > that has Linux drivers?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Brian
>
> Any TV capture card with chips of the Bt848/849/878/879 family should work
> fine. There is a generic driver called bttv and an API (video4linux).
FWIW, the ATI-TV Wonder (not the All In Wonder) does NOT work with the
Bt848 drivers. Can't change channels, no sound, extreme instability,
etc.
That was the worst card I've ever owned. Not even the drivers for
*Windows* worked. Never again, ATI.
--
Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
oh, wait."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Schneider, Ph. D.)
Subject: Re: Creative AudioPCI 128 - no MIDI
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:52:26 GMT
On 14 Jul 2000 14:59:47 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Daniil Kolpakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>:> Daniil Kolpakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>:> : I have Creative Labs Sound Blaster 128 PCI. Mandrake 7.0 (Air) 's
>:> : utilitys sndconfig and Lothar Sound Config say that I have Ensoniq xx70
>:> : (don't remember those xx) -based card. In sndconfig's list also said
>:> : that Ensoniq xx71 (not 70 as it detects) is Creative SB PCI 64/128. When
>:> : I try to select 71 card it says modprobe error. With 70 module sound
>:>
>:> OK, so it's a 1370 (or whatever else CL are now badging as 128PCI).
>:>
>:> : works Ok. But no MIDI. I've tried to modprobe other modules as well,
>:> : hack into config files by hand, no luck. MIDI players say I have no
>:> : /dev/sequencer. & I really don't. However, it seems I have /dev/midi (?)
>:>
>:> You don't and you really don't. The card doesn't have midi support.
>:> No hardware on board to do it. You'll need to emulate midi in
>:> software, using timidity or something like that. Isn't there a software
>:> midi kernel driver nowadays too? "v_midi.o"? Try that and then a midi
>:> player like kmedia or kmidi or whatever it is called. (disclaimer,
>:> IANA Sound Expert).
The debian/Corel distribution doesn't have up-to-date sound and midi drivers,
and v_midi.o does not work with kmidi, or cause /dev/sequencer to work.
>
>: OK OK I see. Thanks for info (will try to find the software). Just tell
>: me how does it works under DOS? It's really interesting, since DOS is
>: not multitasking.
>
>The drivers do the work (TSRs). Multitasking has nothing to do with it.
>
>(I always wanted to post a one-line response to a 20 line post)
>
>Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Schneider, Ph. D.)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Need soundcard suggestion.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:55:01 GMT
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 16:38:19 +0200, Simon Eilting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The SBLive! doesn't have an amp.
True, but most newer cards don't. And, the older cards with amps really
didn't have enough power to drive good speakers. But, SBLive does work
with the emu10k1.o driver.
>
>You can use nearly every ISA soundcard for linux, but if you want to use
>PCI, you should look at the kernel and its docs to see if it is
>supported.
>
>Another suggestion is SB 128, because it works well without any
>configuration problems, in my case. It doesn't have an amp also.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor Schneider, Ph. D.)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:58:16 GMT
On Fri, 14 Jul 2000 23:12:34 +0200,
Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de> wrote:
>[This followup was posted to comp.os.linux.hardware and a copy was sent
>to the cited author.]
>
>In article <opKb5.12538$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> Hi, I'm using the Linux-Mandrake 7.1, Kernel 2.2.15 and the KDE enviro. I'm
>> trying to get my stupid Creative Labs SB Live! Value to play sounds. Here's
>> the deal, I load up sounddrake, it detects my SB Live.... and i hit that
>> test button to test the configuration and it plays the sound fine. However,
>> when I go to "Ok" it says the following error:
>>
>> "sox: Unable to open dsp. No such device"
>>
>> something like that I believe (I'm not at the location of that computer or
>> I'd check it)
>>
>> Anyway, is there a way to fix this? It seems funny that the test button
>> works.. but not Ok
>>
>> And oh, BTW, I'm going on vacation soon so if you could also email me your
>> response, I'd really appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Shaun Patterson - Newbie linux user and lovin it =)
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> please remove "NOSPAM" from email
>
>the easiest way to install it is to download the 2.4.0-testX kernel ...
>fejf
The latest 7.1 Slackware has an emu10k1.o driver that works just fine with
all flavors of kde, gnome, etc. It also boots X-Windows with kde and
fvwm98 unbelievably fast.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Network hw_addr different on laptop vs. desktop
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 00:53:21 GMT
Where to start? OK, I have purchased an Aviator2.4 kit from WebGear.
The "final" configuration of this beast will be as a wireless interface
to my existing Linux-based gateway to the internet (the usual stuff).
For starters, however, I decided to get a windows-to-windows Aviator
configuration working just so I could verify basic operation. That
failed. I could never ping either box over the wireless network. I
even removed ALL other cards and both Windows installations were
pristine (i.e., fresh installs for the sole purpose of testing these
cards). I really had the simplest configuration you could possibly
imagine (static IPs, no gateways, no DNS) and nothing ever worked. The
ping requests just "timed out".
So I swapped over to Linux to see if some of the lower-level debugging
might help resolve things. What I noticed is that when I plugged the
Aviator card(s) into my laptop, the hardware address(es) looked "right".
That is, they both stared with 00:00:8F (which is one of the "valid"
Aviator prefixes from what I gather). When I plugged the card(s) into
the desktop machine using WebGear's provided PCMCIA adapter, the
hardware address shows up starting with FF:00:FF. The full addresses of
one of these cards in each of these boxes is lised below:
Laptop: 00:00:8F:48:5D:E9 (looks right to me)
Desktop: FF:00:FF:48:FF:E9 (what's with this FF every other byte?)
Is this normal for the *same* card to appear with two different hardware
addresses when used in a laptop versus a desktop? I can't imagine
that's the case. I won't bother with any more details until I find out
if this simple fact is "normal". It could be that my ISA adapter is
just busted or hardwired wrong or something like that. If so, then all
bets are off, I'm sure, as to getting anything else to work with it.
Thanks for you help and sorry to request this, but please CC: replies to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] as Deja can be a bit slow on the updates...
Thomas Dorris
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