Linux-Hardware Digest #320, Volume #13 Sat, 29 Jul 00 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" - wrong capacity (WORLOK)
SYM53C885-based Cards ("Michael Rice")
alsa driver compiled still no sound (J. Roe)
Re: Backups (Tim Moore)
Re: alsa driver compiled still no sound (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Newbie asks stupid questions... (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: HPT366 Support in Linux-- PLEASE HELP! (Eyal Lebedinsky)
Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems ("The Active")
Question about scsi2 cdrom for audio extraction (WORLOK)
CD-RW Support in Linux ("Greg Boehnlein")
Re: Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" - wrong capacity (B'ichela)
Re: CD-RW Support in Linux (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Question about scsi2 cdrom for audio extraction (Bartek Kostrzewa)
soundcard configuration (Jianxu Shi)
Re: alsa driver compiled still no sound (J. Roe)
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From: WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" - wrong capacity
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:11:54 GMT
Greetings,
I picked up a refurb Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" scsi2 disk. Redhat
6.1 sees it ok and the FDISK and mkfs seemed to go ok. the disk
reported 1064 cylinders.
It would only successfully do a mkfs when I set it up as a Primary
partition 1.
When I mount it and do df -m, I get the wrong capacity. Anyone know
where I screwed up?
--Tom
===========================
[tom@red-dwarf tom]$ df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 97 42 50 46% /
/dev/hda7 484 129 330 28% /home
/dev/hda6 1400 0 1329 0% /opt
/dev/hda5 2953 1408 1395 50% /usr
/dev/hda8 88 39 44 47% /var
/dev/hdc1 9574 6624 2463 73% /share
/dev/sda1 97 42 50 46% /scsi0
[tom@red-dwarf tom]$ df -k
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 99521 43221 51161 46% /
/dev/hda7 495876 132560 337715 28% /home
/dev/hda6 1433584 20 1360740 0% /opt
/dev/hda5 3024016 1442048 1428352 50% /usr
/dev/hda8 90075 39910 45530 47% /var
/dev/hdc1 9803940 6783388 2522540 73% /share
/dev/sda1 99521 43221 51161 46% /scsi0
===========================
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From: "Michael Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.scsi.ncr53c8xx
Subject: SYM53C885-based Cards
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:22:00 GMT
Does anyone know of a PCI card that uses the SYM53C885 chip for Ethernet?
Thanks.
Michael
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: alsa driver compiled still no sound
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:31:21 GMT
Hello,
I seem to have the alsa driver configure, installed and working for my
via686a chipset. However I can't get any sound. I unset the mute in
alasmixer and raised the volume to 100% on all channels, but still no
luck. I've been trying to test sound by using a cd and KDE cd player
also trying to test wav files via kde's utilities, but still no luck.
I'm not good with the command line but am wondering if I will get sound
to work outside of alsa's utilities. I've tried this:
[janine@boco audio]$ aplay -s 50000 -w laugh7-5-99.wav
Aplay: version 0.5.8 by Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Using soundcard 'VIA 82C686A at 0xa800, irq 5'
Playing WAVE 'laugh7-5-99.wav' : Unsigned 8-bit, Rate 22050 Hz, Mono
but I don't hear anything!
Is there a way to get sound to work first via alsa's utilities and then
for outside utilities (like KDE stuff?)
any help would be greatly apprectiated.
BTW, this is what my /proc/modules is showing (so I'm assuming no
problems)
[janine@boco audio]$ cat /proc/modules
snd-card-via686a 7008 0
snd-pcm 30360 0 [snd-card-via686a]
snd-timer 8672 0 [snd-pcm]
snd-ac97-codec 23008 0 [snd-card-via686a]
snd-mixer 27344 0 [snd-ac97-codec]
snd-mpu401-uart 2216 0 [snd-card-via686a]
snd-rawmidi 9720 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 3344 0 [snd-rawmidi]
snd 37292 1 [snd-card-via686a snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 2724 2 [snd]
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
--
Janine Roe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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the less i know, the more i want to look around...
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backups
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:49:40 GMT
> > Average 940KB/s (unless I've set something up wrong), no compression, travan
> > 5, tape cost ~$4/GB uncompressed, loud.
>
> Don't forget damn slow on recovery. If you can afford to be without your system
> for a WHOLE DAY waiting for the piddling recovery speed, have a ball. A friend
> found this out the hard way. If this is for a personal system, fine.
True. I've about 5.3GB of real data which would be ~95 minutes to restore
from a level 0 dump. If you want speed (and ~$12/GB), dump (or mirror) to a
second hard drive. If you're dealing with business data or big datasets,
get a pro backup solution.
> I recommend you look into CD-RW drives. The media is cheap and they work out of
I did (4xCD-R). Didn't want to sit there and change CD's 9 times. The
redeeming thing about tape is being able to kick off a dump before going to
bed.
> the box... mostly. Go for a SCSI CD-RW; IDE support under Linux mostly works.
I run SCSI emulation for CD-R and the Colorado. Works fine.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 02:54:46 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa driver compiled still no sound
"J. Roe" wrote:
>
Hey there Janine, I didn't get it working yet, but try this: use
'alsamixer' to turn your volume up, normally ALSA needs volume
adjustment at startup. (find out how to change volume with alsamixer
from commandline and then add alsamixer -commandlinecommandsyoufoundout
to your /etc/rc/rc.local)
>
> --
> Janine Roe
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ...the more i learn, the less i know about before
> the less i know, the more i want to look around...
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 02:57:53 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie asks stupid questions...
"Richard H. Reepe" wrote:
>
> Hi Folks, I've been told that I'll need Linux on my PC for this years
> part of my degree course starting in September. I picked up Mandrake 7.0
> on a PC-Plus cover disk and the install seemed a breeze. I gave it a
> tough test too as I only allocated it 2Gb in a second logical partition
> of my second drive hidden away on the second IDE port. It booted from
> the CD, asked me to point at a partition, then got on with the job. It's
> all running okay except for a few minor items which I would now like to
> fix.
>
> Firstly, I have a PCI modem from Diamond Multimedia which goes by the
> name of a Supra Express 56i V Pro. This is a 56K Internal Voice Modem
> which supports V90 and on a good day gets me to Demon at 48k using
> Windoze98SE. According to system/devices it also contains a Supra 2560
> PCI Modem Enumerator. However, when running Linux and using the Mandrake
> DrakConf to locate PCI hardware, the details page against the modem
> remains blank. I have scanned the "documentation" that came with the
> modem and it does NOT say "winmodem" anywhere in the text - is this good
> news or a red herring? Has anyone managed to get this modem running
> under Linux and if so how?... Please..... I'm getting bored booting into
> Windoze every time I need another patch!
>
> Second, Now this really is silly... I have a NEC SuperScript 610plus
> laser printer (Yes I know it's GDI design!). I bought it 3 years ago
> when it was 200 UKP and a "proper" laser with PostScript was 800 UKP. It
> seen me through 4 Windoze upgrades and I still think it's a cute device,
> but of course the standard PS or DM drivers won't touch it. Has anyone
> done any work on GDI printers under Linux....?
>
> Lastly, I am using a Matrox Millennium II (MGA 200) graphics card (AGP)
> in an ASUS P2B MotherBoard. I know that I can display 6 concurrent
> Windoze Media Player 7 mpegs tiled on screen and still see all frames
> (frame rate drops to 28 fps from 30). Sound is a bit confused though!
> However, under Linux I cannot watch one mpeg as the picture is broken up
> into rectangles which seem to show bits of different frames overlapping
> as it runs. You can make out that the film is about, but it's not very
> watch able. Am I expecting too much here, or is there something I could
> do to improve performance?
Can help you with the mpeg part, get smpeg from www.lokigames.com (under
development)
>
> System Hardware:
>
> ASUS P2B (100fsb)
> 128Mb RAM (PC100)
> Celeron 266 (Over Clocked to 400)
> Seagate 13Gb Hard Drive
> Seagate 5.2Gb Hard Drive
> Iomega ZIP
> Sony 3.5 Floppy
> Sony 40x CDR
> Matrox Millennium 2 16Mb
> Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
> Sony Multiscan 15sf
>
> Thanks in advance, you can all laugh now....
> --
> ........Regards R2 (Richard H. Reepe)
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> web-site: http://www.r2.org.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eyal Lebedinsky)
Subject: Re: HPT366 Support in Linux-- PLEASE HELP!
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:51:50 GMT
In article <8luvsh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"I" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> trick. I put something like "ide2=0xb400,0xb800,10" at the top of my
If you follow the advice in the doco then you should note that the
second port should be base+2, like (assuming the correct data was
picked from the /proc/pci):
"ide2=0xb400,0xb802,10"
--
Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "The Active" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 02:48:30 +0200
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
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From: WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question about scsi2 cdrom for audio extraction
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 01:26:33 GMT
I have a Sony CDU-625 scsi2 24x cdrom. I figured this thing should be
able to do audio extraction for CD Ripping with ripperX and
cdparanoia...right? CDPARANOIA complains with the message:
[root@red-dwarf /root]# cdparanoia -Q
cdparanoia III release 9.6 (August 17, 1999)
(C) 1999 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
/dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default,
cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.
Consider using -s to force a more complete autosense
of the machine.
More information about /dev/cdrom:
Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
/dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device
/dev/scd0
===================
Please tell me that doesn't mean what I think it means.
--tom
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From: "Greg Boehnlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW Support in Linux
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:53:06 -0400
Hello all,
I've just purchased an HP 9210i CD-RW drive. It kicks ass, but I'm
wondering if there is a way that I can access my CD-RWs from Linux? I'm
creating them with Adaptec Direct CD under Windows, but I would prefer to be
able to use them under Linux as well, since I spend 99% of my time in it! ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" - wrong capacity
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 21:45:48 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 00:11:54 GMT, WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Greetings,
>
>I picked up a refurb Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" scsi2 disk. Redhat
>6.1 sees it ok and the FDISK and mkfs seemed to go ok. the disk
>reported 1064 cylinders.
>
>It would only successfully do a mkfs when I set it up as a Primary
>partition 1.
>
>When I mount it and do df -m, I get the wrong capacity. Anyone know
>where I screwed up?
>
>--Tom
>===========================
>[tom@red-dwarf tom]$ df -m
>Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>/dev/hda1 97 42 50 46% /
I see your IDE Drive. is the Scsi one mounted? Scsi devices have
names like sda, sdb, sdc,sde,sdf etc.... what does fdisk -l /dev/sda
look like?
--
B'ichela
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 03:58:11 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW Support in Linux
Greg Boehnlein wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> I've just purchased an HP 9210i CD-RW drive. It kicks ass, but I'm
> wondering if there is a way that I can access my CD-RWs from Linux? I'm
> creating them with Adaptec Direct CD under Windows, but I would prefer to be
> able to use them under Linux as well, since I spend 99% of my time in it! ;)
If it's an IDE drive you'll have to recompile your kernel with generic
SCSI support and ATAPI(IDE) > SCSI emulation, then use cdrecord (or one
of the many GUI's for it)
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Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 03:59:07 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question about scsi2 cdrom for audio extraction
WORLOK wrote:
>
> I have a Sony CDU-625 scsi2 24x cdrom. I figured this thing should be
> able to do audio extraction for CD Ripping with ripperX and
> cdparanoia...right? CDPARANOIA complains with the message:
>
> [root@red-dwarf /root]# cdparanoia -Q
> cdparanoia III release 9.6 (August 17, 1999)
> (C) 1999 Monty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and Xiphophorus
>
> Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
>
> /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. By default,
> cdparanoia stops searching for an accessible drive here.
> Consider using -s to force a more complete autosense
> of the machine.
>
> More information about /dev/cdrom:
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
> Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
> /dev/scd0 is not a cooked ioctl CDROM.
> Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
> No generic SCSI device found to match CDROM device
> /dev/scd0
>
> ===================
>
> Please tell me that doesn't mean what I think it means.
>
> --tom
>
> --
> ================================
> Viva Linux!! Viva La Revoluti�n!
> ================================
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
give cdda2wav a try maybe
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From: Jianxu Shi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: soundcard configuration
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 20:28:54 -0400
I am a newbie to linux world...
I tried sndconfig to install my soundcard, an Intel 82810 AC'97 audio,
to
my redhat linux 6.2 box. It was detected but then the sndconfig said
unsupported and quit!
Does anyone have such an experience? Howto mentioned I should compile
kernel for this. Could you give me more specific hints
(step1...step2...)?
Thank you!
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From: J. Roe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: alsa driver compiled still no sound
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 02:38:31 GMT
Bartek,
Yeah, I've done that. Still no sound. seems as if I'm missing something
key here. Sound appears to be working, but I can't here it.
ugh!
> Hey there Janine, I didn't get it working yet, but try this: use
> 'alsamixer' to turn your volume up, normally ALSA needs volume
> adjustment at startup. (find out how to change volume with alsamixer
> from commandline and then add alsamixer
-commandlinecommandsyoufoundout
> to your /etc/rc/rc.local)
>
> >
> > --
> > Janine Roe
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > ...the more i learn, the less i know about before
> > the less i know, the more i want to look around...
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
--
Janine Roe
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...the more i learn, the less i know about before
the less i know, the more i want to look around...
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