Linux-Hardware Digest #414, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: KVM Mouse Problems (jeff)
Re: Horror story...please help me! LM 7.1 expert install zeroed the (Hit1Hard)
sound card ("waltam")
Re: YAMAHA sound card (blowfish)
Re: HP LaserJet 1100 print delays (Daniel Armstrong)
Re: URGENT : Rackmount case with riser cards and Network cards (Benjamin Grimm)
Re: Mouse Wheel (sideband)
ASUS A7V w/ AMD TBird 750 issues (Francesco Spadini)
Lexmark 3200 Printer (Allan Porto)
Re: Using an old Cirrus Logic card (legacy) (Matan Ziv-Av)
Re: Defrag in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Crystal Labs (CrystalWare?) CS4236B Sound Controller Install? (SuSE) (Chris Vine)
Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partition Size Advice (hac)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: What's the best internal modem to get? (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: Driver Soundblaster Live (Alex Chudnovsky)
Sound card advice ("Rob Love")
upgrade NICs ("DM Welson")
Re: Sound card advice (Dances With Crows)
Re: upgrade NICs (Mark Andal)
Re: Serial port PCMCIA card support? (Andreas Hinz)
Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card (Eric Shasteen)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: KVM Mouse Problems
Date: 13 Aug 2000 19:16:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:34:47 GMT, Jim Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We have a Belkin OmniPro 8 port KVM switch that does not work
>with RH6.2. The mouse behaves as if it is receiving a continuous
>random stream of up, right and click messages. The cursor stays
>in the upper right corner and jumps back there if moved away.
>Needless to say, it is unusable.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>--
>Jim Garrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>PGP Keys at http://www.acm.org/~jhg RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88
Are you sure that the KVM is the problem? I get these symptoms
when I define an IMPS2 mouse as PS2. I also use a KVM, BTW
(Genie, not Belkin), and only have problems when the mouse is
in motion during the switch.
-jeff
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From: Hit1Hard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.madrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Horror story...please help me! LM 7.1 expert install zeroed the
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:19:52 -0400
"Robert M. Stockmann" wrote:
>
> Paolo Servadei wrote:
> >
<cut>
> > I am in your hands...please give me some advice!
> > please drop me a line by email if you see some way to get out from
> > this very uncomfortable situation, i can't monitor this newsgroup as
> > i'd like to be able to do (take out NONAG from my address!)
> > thanks
>
> well you had your lesson. Now please ditch that dinky toy RAID system
> and use serious gear, with a more serious/professional attitude.
>
> [msg(DDB)] ?? mandrake
> -DDB(~[EMAIL PROTECTED])- mandrake =
> Totally
> fucked distro based on RedHat. we can't fix it
>
> Robert
> --
> +============================================================+
> |Robert M. Stockmann SBA Automatisering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
> | Networking Engineer UNIX Consultant |
> +============================================================+
> Linux: A copylefted Unix-like operating system for several platforms :
> http://perso.wanadoo.es/xose/linux/linux_ports.html
So , this is the only advise an UNIX consultant , working with an
"professional"
organisation can give ?
What did you do here , show your ( to buy for a lot of money )
"knowledge" ?
Is this your vision of sharing knowledge , when you are not payed for it
?
Is this also the vision of the company that you represent here ?
Since you DO have to share their name with us.
Maybe , just maybe , this "dinky toy" RAID (wich i would love to have to
experiment with ) , is something he bought himself .
(I.O.W. not a company supplied item (the company bought it) to work with
in the bosses time )
Have a nice day.
--
Hit1Hard
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From: "waltam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound card
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:33:07 GMT
I have Apackard bell with an AUREAL VORTEX PCI 3D and soundblaster
emulation.Asindicated i did disabled the plug and play on the bios and also
got the configuration problem.Card reconized but lothar doesnt find it and
with all parameters IRQ DMA etc.impossible to work.No sound at all on
startup exept the beepsound regular.Also tried soundblaster no way to work
with either.
Iff anyone has the similar problem arf me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks anyway for support.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: YAMAHA sound card
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:39:46 -0700
Stuart Fotheringham wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to get the Yamaha sound card working under RH6.2
SuSE 7.0 supports Yamaha right out of the box.
RedHat hardly support anything without major messing around.
REDhat... Is it the same RED as in REDmond, Washington?
An undercover agent to "Deep Throat" the Penguin?
Just too many coincidents, and fishy smelling things going on.
A conspiracy theory in the making...?
R = Repair / Rebuild
E = Everyday, or...
D = Die
H = Have
A = A
T = Turkey
:-0
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture:-Version
2.4-pre-release99999-test-1234567.pre-beta5000.)
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs ==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSzzzzz!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female deer.)
RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A needle
pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That will bring
us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh.
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From: Daniel Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 1100 print delays
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:39:43 GMT
Thanks for the advice. Looks like I will have to upgrade the memory for sure.
Cheers,
Daniel
James Stafford wrote:
> Daniel Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just hooked up a HP LaserJet 1100 to my Linux box running Mandrake
> > 7.1. Using <printtool>, after a little fiddling I configured the
> > necessary settings using the "LaserJet 4/5/6" driver (the closest
> > match). Everything now prints correctly - except that there is a 20
> > second delay between each page that is printed. The printer is rated at
> > 8ppm, and a friend that has the same printer with the stock memory of
> > 2mb under Windows 98 does not experience such delays. What can I do to
> > speed up my print jobs under Linux (besides the last resort of upgrading
> > printer memory)?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Daniel
> I have the same printer, and experience the same delays. I don't know
> what your friend is doing, but I have the same delays under Windows. The
> only thing you can do is get more RAM for the printer. You should be
> able to find 16 MB for about $43.00 +/- if you look around.
>
> jamess
> --
> "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
> it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
>
> -Anonymous
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From: Benjamin Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT : Rackmount case with riser cards and Network cards
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:19:03 +0200
maybe you should use a serverboard with vga onboard to save a slot.
Ken Farwell wrote:
> Robert M. Stockmann wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> Hiya. We are trying to build a rackmount system in a 2U case. The
> >> case is a Procase IPC 2U one with 3 PCI risers. Now, we need to have 2
> >> PCI network cards and a PCI vga card. When we do this, both Network
> >> cards are assigned IRQ 10 by the bios, and subsequently, under redhat
> >> 6.2, only one will work (the other clains the IRQ may be blocked). We
> >> have tried this with Netvin RTL8139B cards and 3COM cards and the
> >> problem persists.
> >>
> >> Can someone please assist of give me some pointers ?
> >
> >
> >Enter the BIOS and assign different IRQ's to different PCI
> >slots.
>
> That should take care of that problem, but in a 2U case we alway use
> multiport ethernet cards, easier on the powersupply = less heat
>
> Ken
>
> -=I only do what my Rice Krispies tell me to do =-
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Wheel
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:57:03 -0400
Wim Koorenneef wrote:
> Check out this page I found yesterday:
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
>
> Daryl Munday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Can anyone help me configure my Logitech WheelMouse so i can use the
> > scrolling wheel.Using suse 6.4
> > Thanx
> > Daz
In the pointers section of your XF86Config, add this line.
ZAxisMapping 4 5
That'll make it scroll for xterm's etc....
HTH.
-SSB
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From: Francesco Spadini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS A7V w/ AMD TBird 750 issues
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:59:53 -0500
First of all, forgive me if this issue has been addressed in the
past. When I boot up the system described in the subject (using RH6.2) it
fails, printing the following info before it croaks:
CPU: AMD AMD Athlon (tm) Processor Stepping 02
Enabling extended fast FPU save and restore...done
Disabling CPUID Serial number... general protection fault: 0000
<register dump>
Process swapper (pid:0, process nr:0, stackpage=c0233000)
<stack dump>
<call trace dump>
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task not syncing
I have tried fiddling with BIOS settings, and booting in single
user mode, to no avail. Any help would be greatly appreciated, and thanks
in advance.
_________________________________________________
Francesco Spadini
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~spadini
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Anima Sana In Corpore Sano"
_________________________________________________
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From: Allan Porto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark 3200 Printer
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:21:06 -0300
I like to use Lexmark 3200 printer on my Linux RedHat 6.2 box but I
don't have drivers, can somebody help me?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matan Ziv-Av)
Subject: Re: Using an old Cirrus Logic card (legacy)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:45:47 GMT
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:43:38 +0200, Uri Yanover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an old 486 (it's running RedHat 5) with an old Cirrus Logic-based
> video board (sitting on VESA bus), on which I occasionally run X. It runs
> fine at 8bpp (through the old DOS video RAM shadow). The problem is that at
> 16bpp or higher, the video RAM at the board has to be mapped to some
> position to the system's RAM above 1MB (linear frame buffer). The board can
> be mapped only within the first 16MBs of memory because of hardware
> specifics - and that is exactly the amount of RAM I have. So
> 1. I heard there's a way to give up some of the RAM through a BIOS switch.
> How is it called?
It's usually called memory hole. But then you don't lose the memory, the 16MB
are simply mapped at 0-14 and 16-18. The problem is that Linux supports this
only from kernel 2.4 (I think there is a patch for 2.2 - look for the keywords
fancy memory detection). If you prefer losing the extra memory, than patching
the kernel or using unstable version, just boot with the option mem=14M.
--
Matan Ziv-Av. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Defrag in Linux?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:55:22 GMT
Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thank you all for answering my 8 questions in one. Just out of curiosity, how
> is it that defragmentation is almost never goes over 8%?
I can't say this for sure, but I believe e2fs stores free blocks in
"groups." Files tend to get entire groups. The small number of
blocks left over in each group aren't used until all the other groups
are full (i.e., the filesystem is almost full). This means that the
only fragmentation to occur is when a file needs more than one group,
but there aren't any contiguous groups. The file would then probably
be split into two equal contiguous halves.
This is purely guesswork based on how I would design a non-fragmenting
filesystem, however. I don't believe I've ever looked at the source
for e2fs.
> Back to performance, here is the output of my free:
> [root@localhost /root]# free
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 62992 61528 1464 60664 1532 26340
> -/+ buffers/cache: 33656 29336
> Swap: 313228 4632 308596
> Wow! I didn't realize that much ram was used! I thought I had 64megs
> of ram....
You do. 1MB = 1024KB; 64MB = 65536KB. Linux is probably not counting
kernel code (>1MB) and may not be counting the first 1MB of memory.
> 62.992 is close enough for me. If I bought 64 more megs of ram, do you guys
> think that my performance would increase significantly? thanks!
No. Linux, unlike certain OSes from Redmond with cutesy names like
"Me," will use _all_ physical memory. In this particular case, the
cache has grown to use the rest of your memory. The cache will grow
downwards as soon as programs appear which need the memory.
The figure to look at if is the amount of used swap space, since
swapping pages is what causes slowdowns. (You have _way_ too much
swap space, by the way.) You're barely using any swap, so if you ran
free when X and a few programs were open, there's not a memory
problem.
--
Eric McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"rash, n. Insensible to the value of our advice."
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Vine)
Subject: Re: Crystal Labs (CrystalWare?) CS4236B Sound Controller Install? (SuSE)
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:10:35 GMT
On Sun, 06 Aug 2000 02:44:15 -0700, GHouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have just installed SuSe Linux v6.4.
>
>I have a PentPro-200, with a Crystal Labs CS4236B
>sound controller (on-board?) which did not appear
>to be listed during the Sound Card Installation.
>
>Would anyone have any ideas on a resolution, or a
>driver? I tried several of the others, to no avail.
>
>My documentation says that it is a 16-bit ISA,
>PC97 Compliant controller.
>
>Default Controller parameters:
>
>Parameter Default
>------------------------- -------
>Base I/O Address / MPU-401 220/330
>8-bit Playback DMA 1
>8-bit Capture DMA 3
>Base IRQ / MPU IRQ 5/15
Just use the standard kernel modules (the CS4236B uses the cs4232,
ad1848, uart401 and opl modules, which I should imagine come with the
standard Suse distribution), and set up appropriate entries in
/etc/conf.modules and in /etc/isapnp.conf. It works well.
I can e-mail you copies of the configuration files for my CS4236B if
that helps.
Chris.
--
If replying by e-mail, remove the --nospam--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:57:52 GMT
In article <8m70n5$85b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey all I finally got Linux to recognize my SCSI HP ScanJet (this
involved
> painfully getting another card) and sane and xscanimage run fine. The
thing
> is, when I run xsane, it gives me an error, saying "no devices
available."
> On bootup the scsi host and scanner are detected, and my advansys
module and
> sg modules are loaded (even though it says they are used by 0). Does
anyone
> have any ideas on how to get xsane to work? Any help would be
appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
Hi, I had the same problem, and I just figured it
out. If you run a distribution-type linux,
usually, when you upgrade packages, it sticks
libraries is /usr/lib...
BUT
...when you download and install programs, the
./configure scripts usually place libraries in
/usr/local/lib
SO,
When you run ldconfig, to update shared object
(.so) libraries, it usually (depending on how
/etc/ld.so.conf is setup) scans for libraries in
/usr/lib, and THEN /usr/local/lib... Problem is,
if you have identical libraries (like libsane.so),
what will happen is that the first-encountered one
will be used... In this case, you'll be linking
your new xsane program to the old libsane in
/usr/lib, instead of the new libsane in
/usr/local/lib, with the end result being that you
get a "no devices available" message. What makes this a particularly
insidious error is that fact that ldconfig doesn't warn you about
duplicate libraries, it just blissfully builds its cache...
So, why, you ask, doesn't that occur with
xscanimage? Because xscanimage is statically
linked, and doesn't require any shared object
libraries... (in truth, i don't understand why
more programs aren't statically linked...
arguments of "but the file size will get too big"
are silly, considering that we've got 40gig drives
cheaply available)
The solution is to remove the libsane libraries
from everywhere except the newest location (which
is, as I described above, /usr/local/bin), and then rerun ldconfig to
rebuild the library cache. To find out where all the libsane libraries
are, do a ldconfig -v | grep libsane*
I hope this helps, if you have further questions,
please feel free to email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:19:00 GMT
John Beardmore wrote:
>
>
> What's the rationale for sizing swap partitions ?
>
> In Win32, the rule of thumb seems to be to have an initial swap file
> size that is say 1.5 time the size of physical ram, and perhaps to let
> it grow bigger if needs be.
>
> How sensible would it be on say a 512 meg ram Linux box to have a mere
> 64 or 128 meg swap partition ? Can a Linux box be configured without a
> swap partition at all ? My gut feeling is that it would be a bit of a
> waste of space ! By the time you needed it at all, you'd be more or
> less totally out of space !
>
You can run with no swap. But there are two problems.
If you run out of virtual memory, Linux will kill some process. If it
is a critical process, like init, you are hosed. With no swap, your
size of your virtual memory is the size of your physical memory.
Ideally, you would have enough physical memory for all of the
applications that you want to run. In practice, once in a while, some
program will grab more memory than you expected. Better to have it
page and slow down than just crash.
In normal operation, you benefit from swap even when programs are not
using much memory. Pages that are not being used can be paged out,
freeing memory for use as cache. Every system has processes that only
sit there waiting for something to happen. And even processes that
are executing have chunks of code and data that aren't in current
use. Without swap, they take up RAM. With swap, those pages move to
swap, and more RAM is available to buffer disk access. Performance
improves.
How much is too much? Depends on your needs. Paging because memory
is needed, as opposed to paging due to inactivity, will slow down your
system. You may decide that slow enough is as good as crashed.
That's the maximum amount of swap you want. You might also look at
quotas. But there are people running applications with huge data sets
that can use large amounts of swap without large amounts of paging -
because of good locality of access.
My desktop has a somewhat excessive 640MB of RAM, and 256MB of swap.
If I actually use up the swap, something's gone wrong. But disk space
is cheap, so there is little reason to make it smaller. It's the same
swap as when I had 128MB of RAM.
Note that there are some Unix systems where the size of the swap space
sets the size of the virtual memory. In those cases, swap will be
larger than RAM. That's not the case with Linux, so there's no direct
connection between RAM size and swap size. Except that the answer to
how much RAM and how much swap is the same: "Enough."
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:23:15 +0000
bernieo wrote:
> Carlos wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> I think it would sure make life a lot
> > >> easier for the average Linux user if distributions just used
ide-scsi,
> > >> and left ide-cd to people that wanted to configure it themselves.
> > >
> > >It would surely make life easier for us who have IDE CD burners, but it
> > >might be a bit of a pain for those with SCSI drives. I've no experience
> > >using a computer with IDE and SCSI drives, and I don't know how well
> > >a "real" SCSI driver would coexist with SCSI emulation.
> >
> > My system has 2 scsi HD's, and ide CDROM and CDRW using the ide-scsi
> > trick. Works flawlessly but was a pain to configure the first time
> > (probably would take less than 5' now...). No problem with mixed ide
and
> > scsi systems.
> >
> > Carlos
>
> I have and IDE CDRW and a SCSI Scanner.
> I tried to enable the CDRW under linux as a Writer, but when I did, I lost
> access
> to the TRUE SCSI Scanner.
>
> How can I setup the IDE CDRW drive to go through the IDE-SCSI Emulation,
> yet still have access to my SCSI Scanner.
>
Pretty easy - it's the matter of several lines like the following in
/etc/conf.modules -
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias scsi_hostadapter1 <true_scsi>
and some in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
modprobe scsi_hostadapter
modprobe scsi_hostadapter1
Then you access your SCANNER as /dev/sgb and not /dev/sga - for /dev/sga
would be already occupied by your WRITER.
>
>
Hope I've been helpful.
--
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's the best internal modem to get?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:27:51 +0000
piddy wrote:
>
> It has to work with all versions of Linux
>
www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html - look for all the modems which are
marked 'OK'. Modems which are marked 'LM' will do too, but they are not the
best - they are Winmodems, which happen to have Linux drivers. In opinion
of many a Linuxer, hardware modems are better than Winmodems by definition.
The best of all, IMO - I don't have one, though - is EXTERNAL SERIAL modem.
Beware of external USB modems - they are unsupported as for now, and
majority of them are the worst (IMO) case of winmodems - HSP.
--
Regards,
Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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From: Alex Chudnovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver Soundblaster Live
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:29:30 +0000
Serge Dewit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there someone who can tell me where I can find linux drivers for my
> soundblaster live player 1024 card ???
>
> Thx guys and girls
http://opensource.creative.com
http://www.alsa-project.org
Two different drivers, each one with its pros and contras - choose what is
the best for you.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> Bien � vous,
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Serge Dewit - Supervisor Helpdesk
>
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>
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>
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>
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> Y o u r S u n s h i n e P r o v i d e r
>
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Alex Chudnovsky
e-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ : 35559910
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From: "Rob Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card advice
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:33:47 -0700
Hello,
I am upgrading my computer by buying a new sound card. I will be running
Mandrake 7.0 and I would like to know what a good card for my system would
be. I am assuming that I can get something nice for around $100.. Any
advice?
Thanks,
Rob Love
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From: "DM Welson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: upgrade NICs
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:44:21 -0700
I just upgraded from an ISA D-Link 220 card to a PCI D-Link 530 NIC, but I
cannot remove the old ISA card from my settings. Does anyone know how I can
successfully remove this card? The netcfg is not allowing my to remove the
card.
darren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Sound card advice
Date: 13 Aug 2000 21:45:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 14:33:47 -0700, Rob Love wrote:
>Hello,
> I am upgrading my computer by buying a new sound card. I will be running
>Mandrake 7.0 and I would like to know what a good card for my system would
>be. I am assuming that I can get something nice for around $100.. Any
>advice?
First, figure out what your requirements are. Are you looking to do
professional-quality audio playback/recording with digital I/O, or would
you be happy with something that sounds like a standard consumer-grade
boombox? If it's the latter, there are a fair number of cards
available. You can often find old ISA SB 16s for cheap, and they work
great. For about $30 in most comp. hardware stores, you can pick up the
Ensoniq AudioPCI, which uses the ES1371 or ES1370 chipset, sounds
decent, and is super-easy to set up. (Uses the es1371 or es1370 kernel
module, no need to mess with I/O and IRQ values, "sndconfig" can find
it.)
Can't help you if it's the former.
There are a number of Yamaha cards that don't work very well with the
free drivers, so you may wish to avoid Yamaha. Check out the site at
http://linhardware.com/ once you've found a card that looks interesting,
and you can find out if it works in Linux or not.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: Mark Andal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: upgrade NICs
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:01:47 GMT
DM Welson wrote:
> I just upgraded from an ISA D-Link 220 card to a PCI D-Link 530 NIC, but I
> cannot remove the old ISA card from my settings. Does anyone know how I can
> successfully remove this card? The netcfg is not allowing my to remove the
> card.
>
> darren
I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but unless you compiled it into
your kernel.
Go to /etc/conf.modules and remove the settings right from there.
Just delete the alias eth0 stuff.
My $0.02
Mark Andal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Subject: Re: Serial port PCMCIA card support?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:02:31 GMT
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:12:27 -0400, Win Heagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know if there are any PCMCIA serial port cards supported
>
Take a look at the SUPPORTED.CARDS file from the PCMCIA source or
homepage at http://pcmcia.source-forge.org.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gr�ssen
Andreas Hinz
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From: Eric Shasteen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:08:55 GMT
I know that this card is not officially supported, but, does anyone know
of any work arounds ??
Thanks,
Eric
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