Linux-Hardware Digest #517, Volume #14 Fri, 23 Mar 01 13:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux Woes ("Charles")
ABIT KT7A-RAID + Tb IDE sorage (Barry Latter)
redhat cds auf festplatte ? ("Peter Diesner")
Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter ("Tauno Voipio")
enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y' (John Hunter)
Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y' (Tony Curtis)
Re: Lilo with HPT366 UDMA 66 (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: ABIT KT7A-RAID + Tb IDE sorage (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y' (John Hunter)
Re: Disk read errors (Howard Schultens)
Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem (Alex Yung)
Re: Linux Woes (Markku Kolkka)
Re: Problems with Toshiba's 4600 graphics card ("Steve Rockefeller")
Mandrake 7.1 vs Mandrake 7.2 ? (peter)
Re: Installing Linux ("Tyron Washington")
Re: ABIT KT7A-RAID + Tb IDE sorage (Joerg Evers)
Re: Linux Woes ("Charles")
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working (David Cutler)
Ensoniq 1370 audio volume is too low (David Cutler)
Re: Smart Media readers in Linux? (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: Dlink DFE 530+ RH7.0 2.4.2 (Andrey Vlassov)
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From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Woes
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:14:20 GMT
Hi NyQuist.
Your chart really wrapped itself.. so let me see if I figured out what you
were saying.
Swap file=4G
/USR/Local Or /Home= 128
/= remainder of drive?
This is a dedicated disk so I don't have to worry about Windows being
"suffocated".
The NIC's are not working.
During Set-Up, they were recognized as eth0 and eth1, however, I have no
idea which is which.
--
Charles
(Remove for email)
ICQ# 42872537
"NyQuist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:6zBu6.30152$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| Okey dokey.
| Reinstall and do some different things
| You only *need* three partitions.
| One for /
| One for Swap
| And another /home or /usr/local (or anything really)
| Make / you're largest; and also, 3 gig's each! - not even Windows is that
| bloated; you can fit LM7.2 with everything installed from the disks in
| around 2.5G. Partition the drives this way (if you just want linux) (on
your
| 15G disk?)
| ____________________________________________________________
| |
| | S | /usr/local |
| |
| | W | or |
| | /
| | A | /home |
| | 10G |
P
| | 4G |
| |_____________________________________ |_128_|_________________|
| If i were you though i'd cut the / partition to ~ 4G and /usr/local to
0.8G
| (That's the most you'll need even if you're d/ling iso's all the time
| (unless your box is for video editing)) and give bloated windows some more
| room to breathe.
| Don't use any other loader; LILO is the best; and don't install to the
MBR;
| it can severly compromise some systems; install to the first bit of /.
| everything boot wise should work then.
| To get the two nic's working, make sure they're both being seen; they will
| prolly come up as eth0 and eth1. More info needed here. What have you got
| working (NIC-wise) so far?
|
|
|
| "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
| news:mUxu6.604$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
| > Okay. I broke down, went and bought Linux Mandrake 7.2 Power Pack
Deluxe.
| > Now, here are the following problems so I am here to pick your brains
| again
| > <G>
| >
| > 1st- I have 2 NIC's on my system. One for DSL, one for LAN. How can I
tell
| > them apart in Linux? I can't get to the internet w/out at least the DSL
| one.
| > (Netgear NIC for DSL and Linksys FA310 for LAN)
| >
| > 2nd- I am using PQBoot for the dual boot. However, it's not booting
Linux.
| > It stalls out on the display of "L I " I have the MBR (for Linux)
| installed
| > on the correct drive listed /dev/hdg1
| > I have 6 partitions total for this disk, all for Linux. Does this sound
| > right? I can boot into Linux, but I have to use a boot disk.
| > (Partitioned as "/", "swap", "/usr", "/home", "/var", "/usr/local" each
| with
| > 3GB each, except swap.)
| >
| > Man, I will say this much... what a helluva different look and feel. Now
| all
| > I have to do is figure out what these other 2 disks are that weren't
used
| in
| > the install, and figure out how to use the programs that were installed
| <G>
| >
| > Will check back in later.
| >
| > Thanks for all the help so far.
| >
| >
| > --
| >
| >
| > Charles
| >
| >
| > (Electrician's do it with *spark*!)
| >
| > ICQ# 42872537
| >
| >
| >
| >
|
|
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From: Barry Latter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ABIT KT7A-RAID + Tb IDE sorage
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:20:22 +0000
Hi Guys,
I'm wanting to build a disk server, initially with 4x75Gb IDE drives,
with a probably later addition of another 4 (8 if possible) through a
PCI IDE controller (possibly 3ware 6000 series). The initial drives
will (if possible) be controlled by the RAID support on the
ABIT KT7-A-RAID Socket A KT-133A motherboard. Can Linux use this board?
Any experinces good/bad with this board or suggestions of another board
to use instead? (preferably ATA100, AMD socket-A, PC133 memory)
Can anyone tell me if this will be possible - its going to cost me
2000quid (UK) if it doesn't work - and my boss wont be too happy!
Aim: Basically we want to store several hundred gig of satellite images,
(1.4Tb would be ideal!) preferably on hard drive not tape (for quick
online access). SCSI is looking too expensive for our available budget,
so I'd like to do it with IDE's. Any other suggestions welcome.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Baz
--
Mr. Barry Latter
R25-2.115
Space Science and Technology Department
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Chilton, Didcot
Oxfordshire
OX11 0QX
UK
Tel : +44 (0)1235 446911
Fax : +44 (0)1235 445848
http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/~barry
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From: "Peter Diesner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat cds auf festplatte ?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 13:31:44 +0100
Hallo zusammen,
habe gerade redhat 7 installiert und w�rde nun gerne wissen, wie ich die
RH-CDs auf Festplatte speichern kann, so dass ich Pakete inkl. Ihrer
Abh�ngigkeiten einfach nachinstallieren kann, ohne auf die CDs zuzugreifen.
Einfach alle rpms in ein Verzeichnis, je ein Unterverzeichnisse pro CD oder
wie ?
Ciao Peter
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,redhat.networking.general
Subject: Re: RH7/3Com and 3Com Mini PCI Ethernet adapter
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 14:28:57 GMT
"Michael Zingale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
> >In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:04:24 -0800, "Guillermo Auad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> wrote:
> >
> >>>I have RHat 7.0 installed on my IBM thinkpad and when I type
> >>>
> >>>% ifconfig eth0 (or eth1)
> >>>
> >>>it does not find the card. The card, a 3Com 10/100 PCI Mini Ethernet
> >>>adapter works properly when I boot Windows 2000 on the same laptop.
> >
> >What card? What are you talking about???? Laptops don't have "cards" in
> >the same way as desktops do. They have pcmcia sockets or cardbus
> >sockets. You need to install pcmcia drivers, and pcmcia tools, and so
> >on. Then you need to teach the system about your card if its not in the
> >database (it will be .. I have plenty of 3com pcmcia cards).
> >
>
> I have a Thinkpad X20 with the Intel Mini PCI card -- this is actually a
card,
> not a PCMCIA card. The MiniPCI card plugs into the laptop motherboard and
is
> replaceable. It is a different standard than PCMCIA.
>
> I recall reading on the linux laptop page:
> http://www.linux-laptop.net/ibm.html
>
> about someone using the 3Com MiniPCI card. Apparently, the driver is in
the
> 2.2.17 kernel, not the 2.2.16 that ships with RH 7. There are
instructions at:
>
> http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wd/fbm/3c556/
>
My A21p runs its mini-PCI Ethernet card happily with the 3C59x driver (IRQ
11, base 0x1800).
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y'
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Mar 2001 08:45:52 -0600
In the kernel config for 2.4.2 I have said 'y' to symmetric
multiprocessor support since I have two processors. The 'Help' button
says to also say yes to enhanced real time clock support. How do I
find/do this with 'make xconfig'. I can't find the setting.
When I try to boot the kernel built as it is (ie no enhanced clock
support), the boot freezes very early on (just after the CPU
detection) on the line 'activating NMI watchdog' and never recovers.
I don't know if this is related to the clock feature or is another
problem.
Thanks,
John Hunter
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y'
Date: 23 Mar 2001 08:52:58 -0600
>> On 23 Mar 2001 08:45:52 -0600,
>> John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> In the kernel config for 2.4.2 I have said 'y' to
> symmetric multiprocessor support since I have two
> processors. The 'Help' button says to also say yes to
> enhanced real time clock support. How do I find/do this
> with 'make xconfig'. I can't find the setting.
"Character Devices", about 3/4 of the way down.
hth
t
--
Just reach into these holes. I use a carrot.
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Subject: Re: Lilo with HPT366 UDMA 66
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:05:06 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (G�rald Valentin) wrote in
<99f8s7$s76$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Thank you.
>
>Do you mean that I should install lilo in the MBR of my 40 GB disk
>(where Linux is installed) instead of installing it in the MBR of my 10
>GB disk (where Windows is installed) in order to help XOSL booting my
>Linux?
Something like that, in fact you can install lilo on the first sector of
any partition by saying boot=/dev/hdb3 (example) instead of /dev/hdb. The
MBR of the 40G disk will work just fine. You may want to remove the
"prompt" line from lilo.conf then, so you won't have to select Linux twice
:)
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Subject: Re: ABIT KT7A-RAID + Tb IDE sorage
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 15:06:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Barry Latter) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I'm wanting to build a disk server, initially with 4x75Gb IDE drives,
>with a probably later addition of another 4 (8 if possible) through a
>PCI IDE controller (possibly 3ware 6000 series). The initial drives
>will (if possible) be controlled by the RAID support on the
>ABIT KT7-A-RAID Socket A KT-133A motherboard. Can Linux use this board?
Sorry to disappoint you, but the hpt370 controller on the KT7 boards is noe
supported for hardware RAID with linux. software raid is fine though.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: enhanced real time clock support; how to say 'y'
From: John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Mar 2001 09:10:56 -0600
>>>>> "Tony" == Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tony> "Character Devices", about 3/4 of the way down.
Thanks, I plowed ahead and did it manually in .config but I'll
remember this one for next time.
Incidentally, my system did not freeze on the NMI Watchdog after this
change.
JDH
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From: Howard Schultens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk read errors
Date: 23 Mar 2001 15:18:59 GMT
Christian Garms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it (a) a floppy disk (b) zip disk (c) hard disk (d) MO disk?
> How important is your data? Maybe it is worth to give your 'disk' to a
> professional disk restorer. It cost round about 0.50USD per megabyte to
> save data from a hard disk (hard disk content will be burned on cds).
Now that I have calmed down somewhat, I have started to be more
reasonable.
the disks are attached to a Mylex DAC960 RAID controller, and
the problem seems to be that the driver or the controller hangs.
We detached the disks individually from the RAID controller and
attached them to a normal SCSI controller to pull off images.
This worked OK using dd .... conv=noerror. Errors were found,
but the program continued. The images were only so we could play
around, always being able to restore the original state of the disks.
We considered sending the disks into Ontrack, a data recovery
company here in Germany but dropped that when they suggested it
would probably cost between 30 - 60,000 marks. ( 16,000 - 32,000 USD)
Using a DOS utility from Mylex, we finally got the disks running
again, but with errors (i.e. hangs).
I only need certain files off the RAID, then I'll try a low-level
format, but I have to get it not to hang.
Anyone familiar with the Mylex RAID driver? Seems there should
be a timeout so that if it doesn't return in 1 minute or so
it should be an error.
-- Howard
====================================================================
Dipl.-Phys. H.Schultens Tel: +49 551 39-5914
Zentrum Physiologie FAX: +49 551 39-5923
Humboldtallee 23
37073 Goettingen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Germany http://www.neuro-physiol.med.uni-goettingen.de
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Re: Toshiba Tecra 8000 Sound Problem
Date: 23 Mar 2001 15:58:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using Mandrake 7.2 in this laptop. The sound card works from the
original kernel. This is what I have in the "/etc/modules.conf":
alias sound-slot-0 opl3sa2
options sound dmabuf=1
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options opl3sa2 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpu_io=0x330 io=0x370
Paul de Weerd ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: "Vladislav Dembskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:98lg0q$2qv0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > Yes my Yamaha OPL3SAx card is supported by ALSA. But it is not PnP card in my
: > laptop. I have similar PnP card in my desktop system and it is working fine
: > with the same driver.
: >
: > Best wishes,
: > --
: > Vladislav Dembskiy
: >
: The Tecra 8000 has a NeoMagic 256 AV Video *and* sound controller. You don't
: really heave a OPL3SAx in your system, it's just (somewhat) compatible. It's
: also WSS compatible i believe. I have the same laptop, and i run OSS (not
: free) on it. Works perfectly, but I never got any other drivers running on
: this card.
: Cheers,
: Paul
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Woes
Date: 23 Mar 2001 18:33:16 +0200
"Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The NIC's are not working.
> During Set-Up, they were recognized as eth0 and eth1, however, I have no
> idea which is which.
Are they the same type and PCI cards? In that case the one in lower
numbered PCI slot is eth0 and the one in higher slot is eth1. See your
motherboard manual to find out the slot ordering.
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steve Rockefeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Problems with Toshiba's 4600 graphics card
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:11:20 GMT
Sorry, not much help here other than to say install of Mandrake 7.2 went
fine. X works fine in 1024X768 16 or 24 bit mode (I think 24 bit, I'm only
using 16.) However, whenever I compile a new kernel (2.4.2) and add that in
lilo even when saving my old modules etc... X gets broken :( Yes I'm
somewhat of a newbie but recompiled my kernel on a desktop with a g400 video
card and X did not get broken there so..?.?
I'm still searching for the solution and trying to see what I missed in the
kernel compile, modules, or anything else.
If you get a solution please advise.
Rock
"Luis Miguel N Tavora" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there,
>
> I've tried to install Red Hat 7.0 on a brand new laptop Toshiba 4600
> (PIII 700MHz)
> but got some problems with the graphics card. The system doesn't
> recognize the
> Trident CyberBlade XP (22) card and so X doesn't work....
>
> Is there anybody facing the same problem? Any suggestions on how to get
> around this?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Luis
>
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From: peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 vs Mandrake 7.2 ?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:01:53 GMT
What are the major differences ?
-KDE ?
-Kernel ?
Which do you like better ?
Why ?
I'm running 7.1, should I upgrade to 7.2 ?
What will be different ?
Peter
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From: "Tyron Washington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:28:04 -0500
Where do I specify that at?
"Alex Yung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:99do7s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you specify your SCSI option or you accepted auto-probe? You must
> specify SCSI option with your card. The following worked for me:
>
> aha152x=0x340,11,7
>
> It reads as IOaddr 340, IRQ 11 and SCSI ID 7.
>
> Tyron Washington ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I just got a old pc box and want to install Linux on it. The thing is
the
> : previous owner kind of hacked this machine together. The primary (c:\)
hard
> : drive is SCSI and so is the CD-ROM drive. They are connected to the
Adaptec
> : 1520B SCSI adpater. Also I believe the CPU is AMD (not sure of its
specs).
>
> : I couldn't get Red Hat Linux 7 to install on it because I don't think
its
> : compatiable with the SCSI card, even though linux hardware compatibility
> : list says it is.
>
> : What do I do from here? What are my options in terms of getting Linux
> : running?
>
> : Thanks in advance,
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joerg Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ABIT KT7A-RAID + Tb IDE sorage
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:51:14 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have a similar board with a promise raid-controller (asus). Although the
raid-functionality is not implemented in linux, I can use the raid
controller as 2 additional ata-100 ide ports in linux and windows without
any problems, support is in the kernel. There is a jumper on the board
which allows to choose between raid / non-raid usage. I currently have a
HD, a CD-ROM and a ZIP-drive on my promise controller without any probs so
far. If you need as much disk space as possible, you maybe don't want to
use raid anyway?
Joerg
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Woes
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:46:01 GMT
You got it. They are both PCI cards.. and I will have to track down an
online manual, since Gateway doesn't like handing out that kind of
information with the PC's themselves.
--
Charles
(Remove for email)
ICQ# 42872537
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From: David Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:48:24 GMT
You're close...way close.
I am using Suse 6.4, which came with the 2.2.14 kernel. But I installed the
2.4.2 kernel (downloaded it from www.kernel.org) this week, and have gotten my
Netgear FA311 card working successfully with this kernel. The way I did it was
to compile in the DP83810 series module (choose this module when you run 'make
xconfig'). After running 'make modules; make modules_install', the natsemi.o
driver was placed in /lib/modules/2.4.2/kernel/drivers/net. I made sure to put
'alias eth0 natsemi' in my /etc/modules.conf file and everything works fine!
Anthony Schlemmer wrote:
> I just recently installed SuSE 7.1 and am using their supplied 2.4.0
> kernel. Their graphical admin tool YaST2 correctly identified the National
> Semiconductor 83815 chip but I couldn't find a suitable driver in the list
> of drivers that were listed. I first went over to the Netgear website and
> found a driver but sadly it's compiled for an older 2.2.x kernel. I
> downloaded the source of Netgears driver but I was unable to compile the
> source against my 2.4.0 kernel.
>
> My next attempt was to go over to the Linux Network driver page at:
> http://www.scyld.com and found that the driver for the FA311 was named
> "netsemi". I added my own "alias eth0 natsemi" to my /etc/modules.conf file
> and I finally had a working networked card. SuSE 7.1 shipped with a working
> "netsemi" driver for their 2.4.0 kernel but I also tried to compile my own
> version of the driver. I was unsuccessful as I didn't have certain header
> files that the driver wanted. This is a new experience for me as I ususally
> compile my own kernels and only include the stuff I need. Since I can't
> compile the "netsemi" driver I guess I'm going to have to stick to using
> SuSE's supplied kernel for the time being.
>
> I have no complaints about the performance of the FA311.
>
> Tony
>
> [snip]
>
> >
> > Have you measured the performance? I spent several weeks getting a set
> > of 3 FA311's limping along under linux, but eventually came to the
> > conclusion that there were design faults in the cards that I had. It was
> > possible to get them to "work", but when you measured their performance,
> > it was pathetic. The cards even failed to communicate with each other
> > (cross over cables) under Netgear's own dos test software. And
> > performance under Windoze was equally dire: one suspects that the doze
> > drivers were continuously and silently fixing the hardware problems.
> >
> > I exchanged the FA311s for FA310s which are cheaper, based on tulip
> > chips, and are far superior.
> >
> > All this was a fair time ago, so maybe the recent FA311s no longer have
> > these problems. But people still seem to report problems or pathetic
> > performance, so I suspect that they are best avoided.
> >
> > But if anyone has FA311s performing well and delivering a substantial
> > fraction of the 100Mb/s bandwidth of which they should be capable, it
> > would be interesting to know. If only to be fair to Netgear if they (or
> > Nat Semi) have finally fixed the problems.
> >
> > ael
> --
> Anthony Schlemmer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ensoniq 1370 audio volume is too low
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:58:36 GMT
I recently bought and installed an Ensoniq 1370 PCI card. I am running
SuSE 6.4 Linux with a 2.4.2 kernel I installed myself. I am using the
es1370 module, which loads correctly. The card uses IRQ 5. The problem
is that the volume is very low, even with the mixer volume cranked all
the way up to 100% (I used gmix, and cranked up every slider bar to
100%). I have played mp3's in XMMS, with the application volume cranked
up to 100%, and the volume is just too low. I have to put my ear up
next to the speakers to hear it. I know my speakers work fine because
they work fine with a Windoze machine. By the way, when the es1370
module is loaded, running 'cat /dev/sndstat' returns nothing.
I've also tried the proprietary OSS/Linux drivers, but the result is the
same: very low volume, even with all volume controls turned all the way
up.
Any ideas on how to get the volume where it should be?
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From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: rec.photo.digital
Subject: Re: Smart Media readers in Linux?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:49:39 GMT
I have Toshiba PDR-5 which use smart media and it works winth Linux just
fine. All what you need to add usb-storage support into kernel and viola
you can mount smartmedia as small hard drive directly from you photo
camera.
Andrey
Daniel Pead wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Walter Francis
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
> >I've been searching around, and I've found that apparently some of the
> >Sandisk readers are compatable with Linux, are there any others?
>
> I have a nice combined USB SmartMedia/CF1/2 (but not microdrive) reader
> which works fine under Linux without any proprietary drivers...
>
> ...unfortunately it comes with a built-in Olympus E10 digicam which
> makes it a rather uneconomical solution :-)
>
> The point is, though, that some USB devices implement a standard
> "storage class" protocol which just show up as pseudo-SCSI devices using
> just the "usb-storage.o" module. With the E10, it was just a case of
> plugging it in, creating /mnt/camera and adding:
>
> /mnt/camera /mnt/camera supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/sda1 0 0
>
> ...to fstab.
>
> So if you have the chance to try a USB card reader (or camera) with
> Linux, its worth a try, even if you don't have a specific driver.
>
> You can probably make an educated guess if you see the magic words
> "storage class" when installing the Windows drivers. Why the fsck
> Windoze needs a driver disk for every last USB device I don't know.
>
> --
> Daniel Pead
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.octpen.demon.co.uk/
> Olympus E10 & C1400L examples on http://www.octpen.demon.co.uk/etcetera/
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From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dlink DFE 530+ RH7.0 2.4.2
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 17:58:28 GMT
you need rtl8139 driver which you will find under networking during
configuration of kernel. RedHat found the card during installation by
itself.
Andrey
root wrote:
>
> Having problems getting this nic to work. I hear that the correct
> driver is 8139too w/2.4.2 but it requires modifications. What
> modifications are needed and any suggestions to get me beyond this
> point. I think Ive tried everything. This is a 2nd nic on this box.
> The 1st is 3c905 (loaded easily) I have updated gcc.rpm. Searchimg
> through the newsgroups I see people have experienced successful installs
> of this nic so I am not giving up. (Yet) TIA
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