Linux-Hardware Digest #559, Volume #14 Mon, 2 Apr 01 15:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: AC97 audio VT82C686 Epox 8KTA3 (Peter Christy)
Re: Need USB Video Capture for Linux ("Robert L. Klungle")
Re: AMD vs Linux (Steve Smith)
Re: CD-RW on a Pentium 133 w/ 96MB RAM (Michael Shobe)
Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question (Bernd Eckenfels)
TV card? (Lars Luthman)
Re: video/ tuner input (Tim)
Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails ("Jason Advani")
Re: OnTrack Disk Manager and Linux partition ("Tommy")
Re: Savage 3D X-server is driving me nuts!!! ("Kenneth W. Zahorec")
Re: Problem with second ethernet card ("Micha Huybrechts")
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AC97 audio VT82C686 Epox 8KTA3
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:12:40 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kevin Chu wrote:
> I have an Epox EP-8KTA3 motherboard with the VT82C686B bridge on it.
> The board also has a SoundBlaster and MPU-401 built in for legacy
> applications.
>
I'm not familiar with the Epox mobo (mine is a gigabyte), but it sounds
like a similar setup. Be careful! The Soundblaster legacy setting is very
misleading. If its the same as mine it ONLY provides sb compatibility with
dos - nothing else! Disable it, as it only confuses matters! You can keep
the mpu-401 active, but I *think* this only works with external midi
devices.
> Does anyone have the sound working on this board, and are you able to
> use synaesthesia?
>
Again, I'm not familiar with this program, I'm just using the generic KDE
stuff,but everything seems to work fine.
I'm currently using the Alsa 0.9.0beta3 drivers which overcome some
problems I was having with the "stable" 0.5.10 drivers. I would recommend
giving them a try. Installing them can be very system dependent. There is a
good "idiots guide" on www.linuxnewbie.org , which I used as the basis of
my installation, though I still had to fiddle things a bit.
I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.2 (similar to Redhat). Icould e-mail you my
settings, if you like, but I'm not guaranteeing they''l work on another
machine. As I said, the Via chipset seems VERY system dependent!
--
Pete
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From: "Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need USB Video Capture for Linux
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 14:49:32 GMT
Andy Walker wrote:
> Robert L. Klungle wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Any one know where I can find a driver and hardware (manufacturor) for a
> >USB Video capture device??
> >Video capture needs to receive RS170 and generate a JPEG file.
> >Current Linux is 2.2.18 (RedHat).
> >
> >Been to linux-usb several times and they don't seem to list this. Maybe
> >I don't know what I am seeing.
> >
> >Hopefully.....bob
> >
> >
> I've heard that Pinnacle PCTV USB works with KWinTV but I've never tested it
> myself. Some distributions come with KWinTV already installed.
Andy,
I checked www.pinnacle.com and they don't list anything except Sparc products.
Checked www.pinnacle.org and their page is under construction.
Do you or anyone know how to contact the Pinnacle you mentioned???
cheers...bob
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Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 09:19:11 -0500
From: Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD vs Linux
I'm running Suse 7.1 on a 1GHz Athlon with no problems...aside from still
trying to get tt fonts into star office 5.2.
Steve Smith
Fabrizio wrote:
> Howdy,
> I was browsing this link
> http://www2.giga-byte.com/faq/pro_index.htm in which Gigabyte reports this
> faq:
>
> ---cut and paste from faq--
> GA-7DX
> Q1. Why can't I boot after installing Red Hat Linux 6.2?
> A1. Red Hat Linux 6.2 had some incompatibility issue with Athlon and Duron
> cpus. To get around this, please use Red Hat Linux 7.0 or try the solution
> on the following website:
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/ThunderBird-Duron.html .
> ---cut and paste from faq--
>
> Does anyone match a such problem with Suse Linux 6.3?
> How does linux suse (6.3) work with AMD products?
>
> Thank you.
> Fabrizio.
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From: Michael Shobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.hardware.arch.intel,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: CD-RW on a Pentium 133 w/ 96MB RAM
Date: 02 Apr 2001 11:43:21 -0400
hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Burning CD-R's isn't CPU intensive. If anything, it's I/O intensive,
> so what hard disk you have and what mode it's running in is more
> important.
Make sure you have a lot of buffer cache on the cdrw.
Make sure your hard disk has dma turned on (using hdparm), if
available. If you're using scsi, don't worry about it, you've
no problems.
> You may wish to check out HP's support history in deja. The HP CD
> burner division only markets burners made by others, and their support
> is the antithesis of the real HP, now known as Agilent. I prefer
> Plextor, myself.
I vouch for plextor drives. Fast. Good. Never messes up.
Very good quality, i'd say the best. Also if you feel like
doing digital audio extraction, your plextor cdrw will also
be _very_ good at this. Plextor is awesome.
--
====================
-Mike
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From: Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Partition Strategy in a RAID-5 Setup: Newbie Question
Date: 2 Apr 2001 16:02:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Jimi Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am. First of all, 3X32 = 96 GB. Personally, I prefer to run RAID 5 with
> 4 disks,
Raid % runs with 3 or 5 Diks where one can fail. If you use 4 disks one will
not be used (HotSpare) until one of the Disks fail. With Raid 5 you can use
about 2x32GB if you have 3x32GB Disks
Greetings
Bernd
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From: Lars Luthman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV card?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 17:45:01 +0200
I've decided that I want a TV card for my computer. I've heard a lot of
good things about Pinnacle's PCTV family, and I'm thinking of buying
PCTV Pro. I have a couple of questions:
* Is there anything special I should think about regarding the hardware?
I have a Asus V7100 graphic card and a Microstar something motherboard.
* Are there any Linux applications that let me watch teletext in Linux?
* Will the remote work?
* I'm using Mandrake 7.2. Does the distribution include all the drivers
and other stuff that I need, or do I have to get it from the net?
--ll
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video/ tuner input
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 12:41:37 -0400
Hi Luke,
Luke wrote:
>
> I want to buy a video / tuner card to watch tv, input video and things so
> forth...
>
> will linux support such devices? if yes does anyone know where i can find
> one to work with both windows and linux or am i really pushing my luk?
>
> A greatful newbie
I use a Pinnacle PCTV card, (BT878 chip) and it works fine.
Good Luck!
Tim
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Timothy J. Schutte
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: "Jason Advani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,osu.sys.linux
Subject: Sound on a Dell Inspiron 3800 (ESS Maestro3) - Loading Modules fails
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 12:45:29 -0400
Hi,
I have an Dell Inspiron 3800 (600Mhz, 192MB RAM, 18GIG, etc) Laptop
running RedHat 7.0's stndard kernel 2.2.16. For sound it uses the Maestro3,
but I am unable to get the sound to work. I've tried Zach Brown's maestro3
drivers and I've tried ALSA drivers which support that chip but havn't had
any success.
I am able to compile the drivers just fine, but whenever I insert them
into the kernel via modprobe, I get about a page worth of unresolved
symbols. I load soundcore first too.
Seems like everything wants modversions.h so I grabbed the Linux source
and turned that on and then did a make oldconfig and make dep which gave me
the files that it wants. Will this cause a problem when I go to load them
in? If so does anyone have a kernel config that works well for this Laptop?
Thanks,
Jason
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Jason V. Advani
The Ohio State University (CpE)
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From: "Tommy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OnTrack Disk Manager and Linux partition
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 16:53:59 GMT
You need to run the OnTrack Manager installation disk again to uninstall the
Disk Manager. Since I did it long time ago, I don't recall the exact steps
to uninstall the Disk Manager. Once you get into the Manager program,
choose the hard disk that you want to uninstall, then play around with the
options there. You should be able to figure things out at that
point....since you are running Linux you are smart enough to do it. :)
One thing to keep in mind is, I don't know if it will DELETE all the data on
the hard disk though.
"Paulo Jan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all:
>
> I have here a quite old Linux box with a Western Digital WC31000 IDE
> hard drive (1.06 Gb.). Being as old as it is, the people who built the
> box (not me) had to install OnTrack Disk Manager in it so that the
> machine's BIOS would recognize the disk, and it's been working perfectly
> for the last few years...
> ...Until today, when the machine died. Now, as it usually happens in
> these cases, the dead server's hard disk has important data, which has
> NOT been backed up. I *think* that the hard disk is okay, because I have
> plugged it into several other PCs, and in all of them the BIOS was able
> to detect it and set the right parameters (cylinders, etc.), but the
> problem comes when I actually try to access the data in it. I have
> mounted the disk in another Linux box and tried to mount it with "mount
> /dev/hdc1 /mnt/"... but it just hangs. I have tried to plug it in and
> set the machine to boot from it... but it doesn't boot; it just shows
> the message "hard disk failure", or something like that. I even mounted
> it in a Windows machine and tried to access it using several of those
> programs to read ext2 partitions from Windows, and all of them were able
> to detect the disk, but all of them complained saying "unknown partition
> type"...
> Now, I suspect that the reason why neither of the above have worked is
> the OnTrack Disk Manager, but what I don't know is how to remove it.
> Doing a "fdisk /dev/hdc" *does* work; it shows the partition table in
> the hard drive in question, but I can't do anything else with the disk,
> and I think that Linux's fdisk doesn't support the /MBR option. So...
> what to do?
>
>
>
> Paulo Jan.
> DDnet.
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From: "Kenneth W. Zahorec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Savage 3D X-server is driving me nuts!!!
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 17:46:58 -0500
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I know this will not help any, but I am having a similiar problem. The savage4
card is a little questionable under Windows as well. It occasionally does some
silly things. It is a number nine card. Maybe that's why they no longer build
video cards. I am forced to do text install on RedHat. I can't set the card up
acceptably after the system is up and running. All kinds of tearing and bit
confounding going on. Maybe I'll just have to shell out for a new ATI card.
Remember to check the RedHat site for compatability before you choose another
card.
Regards, KWZ
"Markie! (^_^)" wrote:
> Well, I took the big plunge to Linux after seeing a cheap Red Hat 7
> disk at the store the other day....
>
> I it seems to have installed fine, it found my sound card and all that
> (gasp!) , but setting up the Xserver for X is really annoying me. I
> have a S3 Savage3D/MV and I installed the new Xfree86 v4 driver for
> it.
>
> The problem is the screen "tears" to shreds. In any bit depth, in any
> res. I've tried running the Xconfigurator again and selecting a new
> server.... but nothing seems to work. The Savage defaults to the
> generic XF86_SVGA driver anyway. I got the same thing while I was
> installing and when I drop back to 640x480x16 colours.
>
> Any idea's anybody? The vid card was the problem with my other attempt
> in Linux too....
>
> -->Markie! (^_^)
>
> [Remove panties to reply...]
>
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>
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>
> See http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,42259,00.html
>
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Regards,
Kenneth W. Zahorec
Principal Software Engineer, Diebold Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I know this will not help any, but I am having a similiar problem.
The savage4 card is a little questionable under Windows as well.
It occasionally does some silly things. It is a number nine card.
Maybe that's why they no longer build video cards. I am forced to
do text install on RedHat. I can't set the card up acceptably after
the system is up and running. All kinds of tearing and bit confounding
going on. Maybe I'll just have to shell out for a new ATI card.
Remember to check the RedHat site for compatability before you choose another
card.
<p>Regards, KWZ
<br>
<p>"Markie! (^_^)" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Well, I took the big plunge to Linux after seeing
a cheap Red Hat 7
<br>disk at the store the other day....
<p>I it seems to have installed fine, it found my sound card and all that
<br>(gasp!) , but setting up the Xserver for X is really annoying me. I
<br>have a S3 Savage3D/MV and I installed the new Xfree86 v4 driver for
<br>it.
<p>The problem is the screen "tears" to shreds. In any bit depth, in any
<br>res. I've tried running the Xconfigurator again and selecting a new
<br>server.... but nothing seems to work. The Savage defaults to the
<br>generic XF86_SVGA driver anyway. I got the same thing while I was
<br>installing and when I drop back to 640x480x16 colours.
<p>Any idea's anybody? The vid card was the problem with my other attempt
<br>in Linux too....
<p>-->Markie! (^_^)
<p>[Remove panties to reply...]
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ILLEGAL SIG FILE
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<p>See <a
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<p>¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°¤
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<pre>--
Regards,
Kenneth W. Zahorec
Principal Software Engineer, Diebold Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</pre>
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From: "Micha Huybrechts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem with second ethernet card
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 18:13:10 GMT
Hi Dean,
Sorry I'm replying from another email-address... I'm at a friend's house
right now ;-)
I tried to locate the file you mentioned, but I do not have a directory
called sysconfig in /etc/ ... Do you have slackware? I think the problem
maybe is located within my modules.conf. Do you know the correct syntax for
the option command?
right now I have:
option ne2k-pci irq=10,11 io=0x6100,0x6200
is this correct? I think the io's look a bit odd, but this is actually what
linux detects....
Help me please?!? ;-))
TIA,
Bastiaan Schaap
"Dean Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi Bastiaan,
>
> > I'm in the process of configuring an old linux box as a router/firewall
> > between my (chello) broadband internet and personal LAN. So there are
two
> > ethernet cards in my system (eth0 & eth1 ). I've recompiled the kernel
with
> > NE2000 network-card support (ne2k-pci), and during booting of the system
I
> > see that both cards are found (I've double checked with dmesg). However,
> > during the rest of startup when the firewall script is being processed
it
> > gives a warning that eth1 is invalid. If I look at my routing table, I
only
> > see settings for eth0. So I think that I forgot to put some settings
> > somewhere... How can I check if my eth1 is working, which configuration
> > files should I check? I'm fairly new with linux, I did do some
installs,
> > but I use SuSE, and most things can normally be done with their setup
tool
> > (Yast).
>
> Well the fact that you are seeing a "eth1" in your bootup sequence is a
good
> thing. I think you will find that the interface probably isn't configured
to
> come up at boot time. You should be able to change this behaviour with
the
> "yast" tool, but I like to deal with raw files so here is where I would
look:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
>
> Take a look in the file and make sure that all the values look like they
are
> there. More importantly make sure that there is a line in your file which
> says something like: "ONBOOT=yes". This will ensure that your network
card is
> brought up when you boot your system.
>
> See ya
>
> Dean Thompson
>
> --
>
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