Linux-Hardware Digest #326, Volume #13 Sun, 30 Jul 00 22:13:06 EDT
Contents:
RedHat 6.2 Soundcard, Modem Confilct ("David Stackis")
Re: Not all memory detected under linux (Jim Broughton)
Re: newbie HP 930C help
Re: E&S Lightning 1200 Divers... (Michael Soibelman)
Turtle Beach Montego Driver Needed!!!!! (doug)
Re: This Adaptec SCSI bug (Michael Soibelman)
Re: Monitor (Steven Fosdick)
Re: Athalon Motherboards/ Linux Support (Steven Fosdick)
Re: TV capture card without video card ? (Steven Fosdick)
Re: Ripping CD's with Linux??? (Steven Fosdick)
Re: re:max_inode count was exceeded (Steven Fosdick)
Re: Sound output distorts when screen changes in X (Steven Fosdick)
Re: Newbie asks stupid questions... (Steven Fosdick)
second es1371 pcm with alsa? ("Owen Williams")
Epson 740 setup help (Jay Moyer)
Raidport III support in Linux? (Michael Soibelman)
Re: dos doesn't boot ("Perry")
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RedHat 6.2 Soundcard, Modem Confilct
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:25:33 -0700
I have installed RedHat 6.2...using the KDE workstation option...it's great
and all except for one little thing...
Seems I can configure my modem using the KPPP tool, and I can connect to the
internet and all....
I can also run sndconfig from a console, and get my SoundBlaster AWE64
working....the thing is, is after I configure my soundcard, my modem will
not work anymore...I get the message "The modem is busy"
I have tried to configure the soundcard first, but then I cannot configure
the modem...which by the way is a US Robotics 56K V90 Internal.
My modem is on COM1.....dev/ttyS0
My soundcard is on COM2.....dev/tty/S1
Has anyone else experienced this before, and know a way to make both pieces
of hardware work together in harmony...
TIA!
David Stackis
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 20:29:44 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frederik Tilkin wrote:
>
> With different kernels (now Redhat 6.2 using kernel 2.2.14-5 or something),
> the detection of the amount of RAM is wrong, resulting in my system using
> only about 16 MB of 128MB present.
>
> I'm running a athlon K7 700 on an epox K7KXA mainboard.
> Does anyone know about this problem?
> Output of cat /proc/meminfo:
Edit your /etc/lilo.conf file place this in the linux
section.
append="mem=128m"
save file then rerun lilo. Reboot. Your full memory will
show up and be used. This is a bios/linux related problem.
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie HP 930C help
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:30:03 GMT
theCelt wrote:
>
>
> Good morning -
>
> I am running Mandrake 7.1 and can't seem to get my HP 930C printer
> working. Using printtool I try and add the printer, but it is not
> listed. So I use "HP 550C (UP)" on the assumption that it will
> recognize it. But when it comes time for a test page, nothing happens.
> While messing around with the settings (I am newbie and not sure where
> to check) I sometimes see a messager "Waiting to come online" which
> makes me wonder if the port is being seen.
>
> I looked at http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and they say the printer works
> perfectly. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to see if I have the needed
> driver or not.
>
> Interestingly, when I do lptest > lp0 (or something like that) nothing
> happens either.
>
> I would greatly appreciate any help or advice you can offer.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> David
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I had a the same problem with my printer. 550 mhz and 930c printer what I
found to be the problem was the cable wasn't in far enough it takes quite
a bit of force.
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From: Michael Soibelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: E&S Lightning 1200 Divers...
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:36:15 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am trying to find any drivers that will work with the E&S Lightning 1200 Video
>CArd. I do not want to spend $250 for XI Graphics X-Server, I just can't afford it
>just for messin with and learning linux. Does anybody know of a workaround for this,
>I just picked up eDesktop 2.4 from Caldera TIA
I have this card too. To my knowledge Xi drivers are the only ones that
work in Linux...
I lucked out and thru extenuating circumstances got the 3D Accelerated
Pro drivers for $100.00. The CD is about 63 MB.
Maybe you can try the demo drivers? Contact Xi and ask which ones (if
any) of there time limited demo drivers will work.
The Pro drivers are very stable and if your using this card in Linux
you'll be amazed at how much better your graphics display will
be..........
Good luck
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From: doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Turtle Beach Montego Driver Needed!!!!!
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:38:12 GMT
Does anyone know where I can find a driver for this card for RH 6.2???
Please email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Soibelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: This Adaptec SCSI bug
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:50:02 GMT
Mike wrote:
>
> Well, after reading a few more posts, and evaluating my situation, I
> guess this Adaptec bug (10418 on Bugzilla) may be my problem. Assuming
> it is, can anyone recommend a good SCSI card to purchase for this
> server of mine, which definitely runs under Linux? I need something
> with an Ultra2/LVD connector...
>
> cheers,
> mike
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I have an Adaptec AHA 2940 U2W. It has been flawless in all my distro's
(Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, Corel). The drivers for this card are
included in all the recent releases.
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:39:05 +0000
In article <8m0i4s$sc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Karen Cheer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have A compaq MV 500 Monitor And need some details so i can install
> turbolinux 6.0 can somebody please help me?
You could try Compaq's web site or perhaps calling their support people.
Another possibility - the model number suggests that this monitor could
actually be a re-badged Taxan MultiVision so perhaps you could find it
on Taxan's web site instead.
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Athalon Motherboards/ Linux Support
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 00:54:04 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> - AMD-750 and AMD-751
>
> this is a bridge processor, used also on VIA chipsets
Just out of interest, can anyone confirm exactly what this does. It seems to
me it sits between the processor/memory and the PCI bus, but does the
processor ralk to the memory via the 751 (i.e. the 751 has three interfaces)
or is there a separate processor to memory bus which the 751 then bridges
to PCI?
My motherboard also has an AMD-756 which is described as peripheral
controller. Am I right in thinking that this chip provides PCI implementations
of the "standard" PC peripherals (PS/2 IDE Serial Parallel etc) along with
a PCI to ISA bus bridge?
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV capture card without video card ?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:06:18 +0000
In article <8lss74$480$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was rooting around for a webcam, but couldn't seem to find anything
> available that would also work under linux. So I started thinking about
> using a TV/video capture card and connecting it to a videocamera.
>
> The computer I plan to run this in is quit old, and the connector pins
> on the video card are broken. Question: can I install a capture card
> (say, ATI TV-Wonder) in my machine *without* connecting it to a video
> card ?
>
> I expect I wouldn't be able to watch TV without connecting the two, but
> I should still be able to capture images with it, right ?
Yes, depending on what software you use to capture with.
My TV/Video capture card (Haupage TV Go) doesn't have any dedicated
connection to the video card - it just sits on the PCI bus so there wouldn't
even need to be a video (display) card present in the machine to capture
from the capture card.
The only complication would be if you wanted to watch what you were
capturing which is a facility some of the gUI based capture programs offer.
You could use the GUI interface remotely by setting the DISPLAY environment
variable to point to another machine, but this probably wouldn't be fast
enough to monitor what was being captured. Of course if you are not
bothered about that you can turn the monitoring off or use a command line
based capture tool and all will be fine.
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:19:10 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
> ? Drivers have nothing to do with anything on the Linux side. Linux
> has one driver for IDE CD-ROMs and another one for SCSI CD-ROMs, and any
> "magic" that Linux can accomplish lies in the user-space program
> "cdparanoia", available at http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ . This program
> is extremely good at what it does and works even on slow, old, nasty
> CD-ROMs, though it's a bit slower than other programs like cdda2wav. As
> for encoding .wav to .mp3, LAME or gogo or bladeenc work well, and even
> the slowest of those works faster than your average Lose9x mp3 encoder.
Another poster mention 'grip'. Grip is a GUI program that ties together a CD
ripping program (cdparanoia or another of your choice) with an MP3 coder
(which you have to installled from your Linux distrubtion or elsewhere)
and reference to an on-line CD database to set the track info informatoion
in the MP3 files that are generated.
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: re:max_inode count was exceeded
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:51:11 +0000
In article <8lptco$t57$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Here's the problem: This machine which is running Redhat 6.1 with
> kernel 2.2.14 (with recommended patches for serving NFS), keeps locking
> up completely, about once every week or so. It then reqires a hard
> powercycle to come back up, and a long disk check.
There is nothing in your message to give us much of a clue as to
why it is locking up.
> We have at times seen a message to the effect that something called
> max_inode count was exceeded. When it comes back up, we get thousands
> of messages saying "deleted inode x has zero dtime. Fixed." It takes
> about an hour and a half to go through all four million plus inodes(not
> all are broken, but many).
The first message looks like it refers to internal kernel tables associated
with manging inodes rather than the disk-based filesystem so it looks as
if this is caused by having a very large number of files open at once,
such the kernel runs out of space to keep track of them all.
As I understand it the deleted inode has zero dtime messages occurs when
a files directory entry had been removed (because some program asked to
delete it) but the rest of the delete hadn't been completed because something
still had the the file open at the time the system crashed.
I recjon therefore you are lookinh for some program that opens a very large
number of files which it fails to close.
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Sound output distorts when screen changes in X
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:14:26 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Henno Schooljan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a sound problem with Red Hat Linux 6.0 when I try to play sound
> (e.g. a MP3-file) with XFree 3.3.6.1. The MP3-file plays just great when I
> just sit back and don't touch anything, but when I move the mouse pointer or
> open some menu's which causes the screen contents to change, the sound
> becomes jerky. (I even had to switch off that moving spectrum analyzer of
> X11amp, because that also caused sound distortion). I know my computer is
> pretty old (Pentium running at 83 MHz), but I do not have these problems
> running Windows 95 (and that OS is noticeably slower than Linux...) I hope
> anyone can help me with this problem.
This may be a process prioritization issue. I think Windows is more ready to
allow an application more than its fair share of the CPU than Linux, so probably
in Windows the MP3 playing is getting priority whereas in Linux the other things
are taking their share.
If this is the cause of the problem you could try running the mp3 player at higher
or real time priority.
Paging activity is another possibility. Just playing mp3 the level of disk
activity should be low - the transfer rate for mp3 is a couple of hundred
Kbits/sec and even a slow disk will do about 4Mbytes/sec. If the disk
rattles a lot during mp3 playing or if there is immediate disk activity on
moving the mouse then you probably don't have enough physical RAM
for all the things you are running - try running fewer programs.
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From: Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie asks stupid questions...
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:08:43 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Richard H. Reepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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!
You could also check the manual for words like HCF-, HSP-, HSF
Another incrediblt useful reference for modems and Linux is
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html which includes a long
list of modems saying whether they are winmodems or not and if
they are whether they can be made to work with Linux anyway.
There are also links to the modem howto and other useful stuff.
> 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....?
You could try www.linhardware.com and see if they have any record of this
printer. There is also a dedicated printer database whose URL I forget
but many of the printer entries on linhardware.com will point you to it..
> 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?
Does is the CPU usage up to 100%? (use top to find out) split between
the MPEG player and X? If so if it is the MPEG player that is taking more
CPU then maybe a more effcient MPEG player may be the answer.
>
> 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....
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From: "Owen Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: second es1371 pcm with alsa?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:16:56 -0500
My old SBPCI128 (es1370) had an option whereby you could create a second
dsp device with a special option in the asound.conf. It broke, so I got a
new one. Unfortunately, this one is an ES1371, which doesn't behave
exactly the same way. I can seem to access /dev/dsp1 (the es1370 used
/dev/adsp), but xmms runs through the files very quickly and no sound comes
out of the speakers.
How can I configure my es1371 to take advantage of the second device?
Owen Williams
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From: Jay Moyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson 740 setup help
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:29:18 GMT
I am trying to install an epson 740 on my machine 433 celeron running
rh6.1 but have been able to make it to work. I have followed the
directions provided by
http://dutera.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html yet it still didnt
work. It was also suggest that i change the dev to /dev/lp0 and this
didn't work either. I recieve an error: Error printing test page to
queue lp0 Error reason: lpr: connect: connection refused jobs
queued, but cannot start damon. the same error comes up for lp1. The
light on the printer doen't blink so the jobs are not getting there.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong?
Thank you for your help
Jay Moyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Soibelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Raidport III support in Linux?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:50:29 GMT
I have a Supermicro S2DG2 motherboard with a Raidport III slot and an
Adaptec Raidport III card (ARO-1130U2). Does anybody know if these
Raidport cards are supported under Linux?
Any information will be appreciated!
Thanks in advance
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From: "Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.msdos,comp.os.msdos
Subject: Re: dos doesn't boot
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:00:52 GMT
(I think) Linux uses a different native file system, meaning it stores files
on your hard drive differently from the method used by dos and the
Win3.1*/95/98. WinNT also uses another native file system. This may make
Dos unable to work with that hard drive. I dont know how it would make it
unable to boot form disk though.
Manually changing the drive settings is always a tad risky, so unless you
actually read it somewhere official...
You may have already done this, (I couldnt tell by your message), but try
installing Linux into a seperate partition than dos
Try partioning and reformating the drive, set it back to LBA, install DOS,
use ghost to multi-partition the drive, THEN install Linux in a sepearate
partition.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> For installing linux, I have adjusted the BIOS harddisk setting,
> switching off LBA and entering manually the nr of sectors, heads and
> cyls. Booting linux is no problem, nor is partitioning the full capacity
> of the harddrive.
>
> The result of this is however that there's no way to boot DOS (in fact a
> Win98-bootdisk) from floppydrive. I even tried doing it via the linux
> DOSEMU, but that didn't work either.
>
> Could someone explain:
>
> 1. how it is possible not to be able to boot DOS from floppy, just by
> having changed harddisk settings; because I thought it should be
> possible to boot from floppy even WITHOUT any harddisk
>
> 2. maybe a hint on how to get in DOS, because I have some
> GHOST-hd-partitions that I should have to put on my system; but as far
> as I know, ghost only runs from DOS.
>
> Should anyone know if in my case, VMware would be able to boot DOS? But
> for doing so, I'd have to install DOS first by booting it from floppy...
>
> I have a HP Vectra VL system.
>
> Any response is welcome,
>
> Vic
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