Linux-Hardware Digest #442, Volume #14 Mon, 5 Mar 01 22:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Modem and Xfree86 ("Mark F. & Joyce E. Clohecy")
Re: KT7A RAID et Linux (Torsten Clay)
Re: Modem problems ("Mark F. & Joyce E. Clohecy")
Re: Seagate 20GB IDE Tape problem -- DSC Timeouts (Mark Bratcher)
Re: sound only with xmms!? (Frank Hahn)
Re: Odd harddrive problems (Matthew Borkowski)
Re: Video Capture Card/TV Tuner (Daniel J. Peng)
Sound: Problem with Intel motherboard, onboard sound ("The Snow Moose")
ATI Radeon 32 DDR ("Mark Winkelman")
Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o (bgeer)
HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 & GUS (CYBERYOGI
=CO= Windler)
Re: CD player problem (Mike McCann)
aiptek PenCam ("AS")
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From: "Mark F. & Joyce E. Clohecy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem and Xfree86
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:36:25 -0500
I also have an actiontec 56K internal PCI modem with a Lucent chipset.
I have never been able to get it to work with Linux.
If you get yours to work, let me know what you did.
Mark
"Tallman Nkgau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an Actiontec 56K Internal PCI Call Waiting Modem(L56DV+P) and
> running in single user mode without X running, I can communicate with
> the modem. But when X starts it takes over IRQ 11 from the modem (I
> think thats what it does) and the modem is no longer accessible to the
> system. It turns out that IRQ 11 is assigned to the VGA Controller....I
> have an Intel i810...Anyway, since its a PCI bus this should pose no
> problem...but it does. How can setup the modem (or X) so that they are
> both active at the same time. Thanks.
> TZ
>
>
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From: Torsten Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KT7A RAID et Linux
Date: 05 Mar 2001 16:21:52 -0700
Try Mandrake 7.2
It installed ok on my KT7A Raid using IDE4, although I had to turn
off the "autotune" kernel option in Grub/Lilo to get it to boot
with the 2.2.x kernel.
Torsten
>J'ai fais l'acquisition d'une carte KT7A raid , j'ai pluger mon disk dur
>Western digital
>sur IDE3 pour b�n�ficier de ATA100. Lors de l'installation de la
>mandrake 7.1
>ainsi que pour la redhat 7.0, j'ai le message suivant:
>An error has occured. no valid devices were found
>on which to create new filesystems.
>please check your hardware for the cause of this probl�me.
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From: "Mark F. & Joyce E. Clohecy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem problems
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 18:40:39 -0500
I get the same thing with my Linux PCI modem.
Depending on which cua? or ttyS? I use, I get:
"Sorry, modem busy"
"Modem not found"
"Modem found, but being used by another program"
I'm so confused!
Mark
"Matthew Borkowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm using BestLinux running KDE and when I try to use my modem, I get
> the error "Sorry, modem busy". The documention says that the most likely
> cause is that I own a Winmodem, but I'm fairly sure I do not. Is there
> anyway to find out if my modem is or isn't a Winmodem. If the latter is
> true, then what is the cause of the error message?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Seagate 20GB IDE Tape problem -- DSC Timeouts
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 00:49:59 GMT
In article <97qeo9$1hpc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pavel Bocek wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I got a Seagate ST20000A Tape Drive (ATAPI, 20/10 GB capacity ). With small
>files there are no problems, however when trying to get a larger file (90
>meg for example) from tape the file is not copied completely.
>In system log I see:
>
>Mar 3 09:34:01 trade kernel: ide-tape: hdc <-> ht0, 1000KBps, 6*54kB buffer,
>5400kB pipeline, 130ms tDSC
>Mar 3 10:28:51 trade kernel: ide-tape: ht0: DSC timeout
>Mar 3 10:28:51 trade kernel: hdc: ATAPI reset complete
>Mar 3 10:28:51 trade kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 8, key = 2,
>asc=4, ascq = 1
>
>I tried different kernels, 2.2.16. and 2.2.18 (same bahaviour) and hedrick's
>IDE patches (here timeouts even on tape rewinds & status)
>
>Does anybody have any idea to solve this problem?
>
Pavel,
I use the identical tape drive, and I had a problem with long seeks
(> 2 hours) when appending a backup to a tape with other backups on it.
The 'mt' command that I used to forward space so-many tape marks would
die if the seek took longer than 2 hours.
I tracked it down to a DSC timeout in the ide-tape.c module in the kernel
source. I changed IDETAPE_DSC_MA_TIMEOUT (media access timeout) from 2 hours
to 4 hours (big enough for my 20GB drive) and my problem went away.
There are two timeouts for DSC given in that file. The MA (media access) timeout,
and RW (read-write) timeout. I'm not sure which one yours is dying on.
If the operation is > 2 hours, probably the MA, so increase that. If not, then
try increasing the IDETAPE_DSC_RW_TIMEOUT value.
HTH
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===============================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: sound only with xmms!?
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 01:10:03 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 23:31:59 +0100, Roland Zumkeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > If you're using the Enlightened Sound Daemon (esound), it will grab
> > more-or-less exclusive access to whatever device file your sound card
> > uses. This is likely the case for any other sound daemons as well.
> > There may be a way around this; my way was to do "apt-get remove
> > esound".
>
> Thanks for the hint. But "fuser /dev/dsp" says no process is using this
> device.
> I also tried "apt-get remove", but due to dependencies it wants to remov
> 88 packages, including Gnome, which I don't want. Can these dependencies
> be overridden and is it a good idea?
>
I have a Soundblaster AWE64 in a Slackware 7.1 system. I could not
get sound to work until I set the Plug and Play OS setting from
"yes" to "no" in the BIOS. Linux would then play sound through the card.
Up until that time, I would also get errors about /dev/dsp not
being there even though it was.
--
Frank Hahn
"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
you believe?!"
-- Bullwinkle J. Moose [Jay Ward]
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:14:22 -0500
From: Matthew Borkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Odd harddrive problems
John Joseph Trammell wrote:
> What kind of processor and how much memory does this computer
> have? And how much swap space did you allocate? Or is your
> main concern the amount of stuff on the hard drive? If so,
> please post the results of the 'df' command.
I am running BestLinux on a 200 mhz processor with 64 mb of RAM (it may
actually be 48 mb (heh, don't ask why) but Windows (before I took it
off) said it was 64 mb). I am a newbie to Linux, and I don't know what
you mean by allocating swap space. All I've done so far is go through
the install program, and I have used it for a couple days. But other
than trying to setup up my modem (by the way, it keeps just waiting at
the modem init. stage and I've tried all the things the doc has said,
but to no avail), I haven't really done much. Could you please tell me
how I could see and/or change the amount of space allocated for the
swapfile. But my main concern IS the amount of stuff on my harddrive.
The docs said it would only 1.4 GB and my harddrive is over 4.5 GB.
Also, I'm concerned why it shows two separate partition (both of type
Linux). Anyway, my results of the 'df' command are as follows:
============================================================================================
| Files system | 1k-blocks | Used | Available | use
% | mounted on |
| /dev/hda1 | 2450928 | 1198756 | 1127672 |
52% | / |
| /dev/hda3 | 2348136 | 2106840 | 122016 |
95% | /home |
============================================================================================
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel J. Peng)
Subject: Re: Video Capture Card/TV Tuner
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 01:20:47 GMT
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 20:57:50 GMT, Drew Roedersheimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:57:05 -0500, Tim wrote:
>>FYI, I am running a Pinnacle PCTV capture card with a Sony analog
>>camcorder into a PentiumII 200MMX. You may want a bit more "horsepower"
>>than 300 MHz. for full-motion video.
>
>I believe my card is based on the Brooktree chipset too. I use a Hauppauge
>WinTV go card - works flawlessly - and doesn't chew up many CPU cycles
>either....
What kind of captures can you get with these cards? Can you capture
full-frame uncompressed 320x240 24bpp 30 fps? 640x480 24bpp 30 fps? What
speed computer do you have? Is there a performance difference between
Windows and Linux?
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From: "The Snow Moose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound: Problem with Intel motherboard, onboard sound
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 12:46:36 +1100
Running redhat linux 2.2.14-5.0
I tried to do a sndconfig but it came up with the not supported problem, ie
Model: Intel Corporation|82801AA 82810 AC'97 Audio is not
supported.
I tried other cards with the noprobe option but to no avail.
This led me to download alsa sound driver and it appeared to install ok, but
no sound
is coming out when i play sound files...
Can I use a later linux version that may have support ?
Is there any other alsa drivers or rpm for sound drivers out there ?
Thanks,
Nick
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Reply-To: "Mark Winkelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Mark Winkelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Radeon 32 DDR
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 02:01:32 GMT
From: "Mark Winkelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Radeon 32 DDR
Date: Monday, March 05, 2001 7:17 PM
From: "Mark Winkelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Radeon 32 DDR
Date: Monday, March 05, 2001 7:13 PM
Hello,
I just purchased a new Athlon 1000mhz and a ATI Radeon 32 DDR. I am running
RH 7.0 with all of the RH updates (from update CD :-) ). I downloaded the
correct version of XFree86 4.0.2 and still can't seem to get anything out
of this card. If someone has any clue, I would appreciate the help. I have
been working on this for hours. Oh, and by the way, DVD's work fine in
linux if you have a fast enough processor for playback. Thanks LIVID
developers.
Mark Winkelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bgeer)
Subject: Re: lm_sensors, via686a.o
Date: 5 Mar 2001 19:16:26 -0700
William Daffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just changed my motherboards from an abit bp6 to an asus A7V and
> I'm trying to get lm_sensors working again. I ran sensor-detect and
> it gives me the information to put in the rc.local and
> modules.conf. The problem is that it wants to load a module
> (via686a) which it, and I, can't seem to find.
I have a K7V, not A7V, but while there is a via686 on it, the sensors
are actually attached to a w83781d & responds with "as99127f-i2c-0-2d"
when "sensors" is run. I load these modules:
w83781d 16876 0 (unused)
sensors 5340 0 [w83781d]
i2c-viapro 3300 0 (unused)
i2c-core 11484 0 [w83781d sensors i2c-viapro]
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From: CYBERYOGI =CO= Windler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.sound,linux.debian.user,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.music.midi
Subject: HELP ME!: How can I enable ALSA MIDI synth sound? (for SB AWE64 & GUS
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 03:29:32 +0100
I am student of software-techniques and for my thesis I plan to develop a=
sing- and gesture controlled music synthesizer with a 3D/VR user interfac=
e.
Because I need for this project USB webcam support and full-duplex sound =
processing(simultaneous input and output) I was urged to download Kernel =
2.4.1 and the ALSA sound drivers.
I have a PC with 128MB RAM and an AMD K6 300MHZ CPU running Debian linux =
with
Kernel 2.4.1 and installed ALSA 5.10.After trying various ALSA versions I=
got
most sound functions to work,but neither the internal MIDI synth of my So=
und-
Blaster AWE64 Value nor of my Gravis Ultrasound Classic run despite they =
are
claimed to be supported by the ALSA driver.No matter what I change in =
"/etc/modules" or "/etc/modutils/alsa",I always get in "/proc/asound/snds=
tat"
the message: "Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG" and MIDI programs lik=
e
playmidi complain "No playback device set".
I already tried multiple ALSA versions (including 0.9beta) with no succes=
s.
I read the alsa source code docs and also the documentation package =
"doc2001112.tar.zip" without finding any explanations how to enable synth=
devices in config.(May the "snd-card-virmidi" driver be neccessary for th=
is??
Which parameters does it need?)
The setup program "alsaconf" didn't work anyway;version 4.2 enumerates fr=
om
1 instead of 0 which is incompatible with alsa,and version 4.3b writes no=
=
output at all (to /etc/modutils/alsa) as long /etc/modules.conf exists,an=
d
when I delete modules.conf then it writes but forgets to insert the name =
of
one of the soundcards which results in a faulty output file.Though hand-
editing /etc/modutils/alsa is the only reasonable way to get a working
/etc/modutils/alsa file.With ALSA 0.9=DF alsaconf anyway doesn't work due=
to
0.9=DF uses no "dma_size" parameters anymore.
Please help me and tell me what is wrong with my installation or whether =
I
need an older or patched ALSA version compatible with Kernel 2.4.1 to get=
the
MIDI synth to work.I urgently need to get soon the system running because=
I
am living on borrowed time with completing the project. =
[Below are some config files and /proc outputs of my ALSA 5.9 system.]
MAY THE SOFTWARE BE WITH YOU!
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root@Loonyx:~# more /proc/asound/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.10b emulation code)
Kernel: Linux Loonyx 2.4.1 #2 Die Feb 20 21:46:02 CET 2001 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers: =
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config: =
Sound Blaster 16 at 0x220, irq 5, dma 1&7
Gravis UltraSound Classic (3.7) at 0x240, irq 11, dma 5&6
Audio devices:
0: DSP v4.16 (DUPLEX)
1: GF1 (synth) (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)
1: GF1
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: CTL1745
1: ICS2101
---
root@Loonyx:~# more /etc/modutils/alsa
# --- BEGIN: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
# --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.2 ---
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-sbawe
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss
alias snd-card-1 snd-card-gusclassic
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1
alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm1-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm1-oss
options snd snd_major=3D116 snd_cards_limit=3D2 snd_device_mode=3D0660
snd_device_gid=3D29 snd_device_uid=3D0
options snd-card-sbawe snd_index=3D0 snd_id=3DSB_AWE64_Value snd_port=3D0=
x220
snd_mpu_port=3D0x330 snd_awe_port=3D0x620
snd_irq=3D5 snd_dma8=3D1 snd_dma8_size=3D128 snd_dma16=3D7 snd_dma16_siz=
e=3D128
snd_mic_agc=3D0
options snd-card-gusclassic snd_index=3D1 snd_id=3DGUS_Classic snd_port=3D=
0x240
snd_irq=3D11 snd_dma1=3D5 snd_dma1_size
=3D128 snd_dma2=3D6 snd_dma2_size=3D128 snd_joystick_dac=3D15
# --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
#added by =3DCO=3D Windler to unmute mixer:
post-install snd-mixer /usr/sbin/alsactl restore
#alias snd-card-2 snd-card-virmidi
#alias sound-slot-2 snd-card-2
#alias sound-service-2-1 snd-seq-oss
#options snd-card-virmidi snd_index=3D2 snd_id=3Dvirtual_MIDI
---
root@Loonyx:~# more /etc/modules
# /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
#
# This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
# to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with
# a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored.
=2E..
#Entries by CYBERYOGI =3DCO=3D Windler:
#snd-card-sbawe
#snd-synth-emu8000
#snd-synth-opl3
#snd-card-gusclassic
snd-mixer-oss
snd-pcm-oss
snd-seq-oss
snd
#old OSS drivers:
#
#sb io=3D0x220 irq=3D5 dma=3D1 dma16=3D5 mpu_io=3D0x330
#awe_wave =
#opl3 io=3D0x388
#gus io=3D0x240 irq=3D11 dma=3D5 dma=3D6
#v_midi
##mpu401
#sound
---
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From: Mike McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD player problem
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 02:41:26 GMT
Alan Claunch wrote:
>
> Has anyone had this problem? My CD drive mounts and reads fine, xmms plays
> MP3s fine,however-when playing an audio CD with kscd I get sound only from
> the right speaker. I've tried graphical fixes with the mixer (not in any of
> the *rc or conf files) but no luck. The system works fine under Win98.
>
> SuSE 7.1 kernel 2.2.18 hdb=Matshita DVD=cdrom
> hdc=Ricoh 7040A R/RW=cdrom1
> Soundblaster Live value
> Altec Lansing speakers
>
> Thanks
> Alan
Hi
My experience is that the audio on mine doesn't work at all. My
configuration is similar except I'm using a Guillemot maxi-sound
Fortissimo. I also have a Radeon all-in-wonder which I don't know if it
is somehow getting in the way.
That aside, I don't understand how this new driver works that YAST2 sets
up. Does it require that analog cable between the audio card and the
cd-rom drive be connected. I know that win98 works without the analog
cable connected. Also, I configured the sound card after the
installation, is there further configuration needed for the sound card.
Maybe what you learn will help me too.
Oh, yes the CD PLAYER in KDE can detect and run the CD Rom player, just
no sound Oh yes, I checked cdrom ownership, if I read it correctly 755
owner root.
Mike McCann
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From: "AS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aiptek PenCam
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 02:55:57 GMT
Hi,
Anybody out there using the AIPTEK PenCam either as digital camera and/or
live cam? Please let me know if you are using it. Thanks.
AS [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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