Linux-Hardware Digest #618, Volume #14 Fri, 13 Apr 01 09:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: using firewire with linux (Charles E. Hill)
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? (Don Sterner)
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? (Don Sterner)
Re: Cold start hanging if cdrom installed (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Bass/Treble w/ Soundblaster Live ("BetrOffDed")
Re: Superblock (Query_String)
Re: Hauppauge WinTV-D Configuration (jeanseb)
Re: CDRW on ATA100 (David Balazic)
Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HELPPPPPPPP !!!!!!! (James Richard
Tyrer)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Anthony Hill)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to (Joeri
Sebrechts)
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it? ("Stephen T Cripps")
Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HELPPPPPPPP !!!!!!! (Johan Kullstam)
Re: tar of dot.files (Tim Haynes)
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) (Dean Thompson)
Random tape device... (John Ouellette)
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From: Charles E. Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using firewire with linux
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 04:07:38 GMT
Dan Hitt wrote:
> Does anybody have experience using firewire with linux?
>
> Is it supported at all? Could you boot from a firewire device
> (such as a disk)?
>
> Thanks in advance for any answers, including pointers to
> hardware compatibility guides which discuss the issue.
>
> dan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
I have a Belkin (Lucent chipset -- OHCI compatible) 3-port card in my
machine (2.4.3 kernel) and have successfully grabbed video from my Sony
camcorder using Broadcast 2000.
Check out http://linux1394.sourceforge.net for more information on
drivers, etc.
I don't know about booting from a Firewire drive, though. I doubt it, but
I could be wrong.
--
Charles E. Hill
Artek New Media
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From: Don Sterner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:47:58 -0500
On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:13:12 +0100, "Stephen T Cripps"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks Dave. I was trying to inform readers of information made available
>to me by my memory supplier - which is industry 'insider' information that
>general consumers may not be privy to.
Oh, it's the "I've got a secret" game again? Nah, it's called I
sell something less, but I'll try to run down the other brands so
people will think mine is the best choice. Wrong. Play all the
word games you want. Crucial is absolute top, quality memory.
It'll function in the fastest of motherboards available today and
it'll overclock with the best of them. Anything you imply to the
contrary is pure BS.
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From: Don Sterner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:42:59 -0500
On Sat, 07 Apr 2001 07:04:50 GMT, "James Tonsager"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>266Mhz DDR memories are
>4 times more expensive than
>133Mhz SDRAM<
>
>And not that much faster. You'll see it in benchmarks, but subjectively . .
>. not. .
Where in the world are you seeing a 400% price increase for DDR?
You're not buying at the right places. Good quality Crucial PC133
CAS2 256mb is $99.89. PC2100 CL2.5, 256mb is $112.49. So yes,
there's a differnece in price, but it's more along the lines of
12%, not 400%.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: Cold start hanging if cdrom installed
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 05:03:58 GMT
Klaus Pieper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The problem is related to the cdrom drive. Without the CD or with an old
> Liteon anything fine.
Does it make any difference if you jumper the CD-ROM drive
differently, or move it to the other EIDE cable?
- jonadab
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From: "BetrOffDed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bass/Treble w/ Soundblaster Live
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 05:22:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Alan Davis"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At some point, perhaps 2.2.15, one of my kernels was set up with a
> bass-treble working mixer for the SB Live. I am unsure which of the
> various drivers I used, but either the Creative one, off the FTP site,
> or the kernel's own.
>
> More recent kernels / drivers don't seem to support that feature.
>
> Can anyone tell me what I have? Which drivers can I use?
>
> I haven't used Alsa drivers yet, as I haven't gotten through the
> configuration maze of that system.
>
> Alan Davis
>
I'd suggest checking out the opensource.creative.com emu10k1 mailing
list archive. This has been discussed recently and I remember the
procedure was posted.
Unfortunately I can't recall exactly when or what the process was.
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From: Query_String <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Superblock
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 06:16:38 GMT
Aalderd Bouwman wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> how can I set back a superblock.
> I got a kernel-panic and my harddisk now contains a superblock with invalid
> magic number.
>
> Can anyone help me??
>
> Aalderd
e2fsck -n -b ... -B BlocksizeIfYuKnowIt /dev/hdwhatevr
try some of these #'s for ...
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409, 663553,
1024001, 1990657, 2809857, 5120001
when you think it safe to do so, or when it has
become a do or die situation, remove the
-n (readonly switch) and PRAY!
Post back.
HTH://
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i200mmx, 64ram, Voodoo3-2000, hp6L, hp7550i,
ibm34L1201nic, SbLive, usr56kV.
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From: jeanseb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV-D Configuration
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 08:26:51 +0200
Johnny Luong wrote:
> I can't seem to get a picture or audio from the card from the analog
> signal on the tuner using xawtv.
>
> Here is the corresponding dmesg:
>
> bttv: driver version 0.7.57 loaded
> bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k total) for capture
> bttv: Host bridge needs ETBF enabled.
> bttv: Bt8xx card found (0).
> bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 00:0f.0, irq: 16, latency: 32, memory: 0xdb101000
> bttv0: subsystem: 0070:3900 => Hauppauge WinTV-D => card=10
> bttv0: model: BT878(Hauppauge new (bt878)) [autodetected]
> bttv0: enabling 430FX/VP3 compatibilty
> bttv0: Hauppauge msp34xx: reset line init
> i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered as adapter 0.
> bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: model=39000, tuner=Philips TD1536D (4), radio=no
> bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @ 0x80... found
> i2c-core.o: driver i2c msp3400 driver registered.
> msp34xx: init: chip=MSP3438G-A1, has NICAM support
> msp3410: daemon started
> bttv0: i2c attach [MSP3438G-A1]
> i2c-core.o: client [MSP3438G-A1] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found
> bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found
> tvaudio: TV audio decoder + audio/video mux driver
> tvaudio: known chips:
> tda9840,tda9873h,tda9850,tda9855,tea6300,tea6420,tda8425,pic16c54 (PV951)
> i2c-core.o: driver generic i2c audio driver registered.
> i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver registered.
> tuner: chip found @ 0x61
> bttv0: i2c attach [NoTuner]
> i2c-core.o: client [NoTuner] registered to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 1).
>
> I think the problem is mainly in the program xawtv, and I have it
> configured the following way:
>
> TV norm: NTSC
> Video Source : Television
> Frequency table : us-cable
>
> Audio >
> Capture : overlay
>
> Anybody got any ideas? Message me, as I'm not subscribe to this
> newsgroup.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Luong
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
try to pass the tunner type to the card as NTSC and check for the
frequency table !
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From: David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDRW on ATA100
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:37:21 +0200
Marc Ulrich wrote:
>
> I was informed in an earlier message that putting a CDRW on my Promise
> Ultra ATA 100 card would degrade the performance of my hdd. Is this the
> case even if my HDD is on primary Promise controller and the CDRW is on
> the secondary Promise controller?
No. To be sure : measure !
> I don't want to change b/c putting the CDRW on the onboard controller
> funks out the hdx letters (hda is no longer hda) giving me a real
> headache for trying to get the system to boot.
??? Moving IDE devices does not change hdx letters ( except for the device
that was moved , of course )
> Well, if I have to change, what do I need to inform Lilo of? Currently:
>
> On board primary = nothing.
>
> On board secondary = master = cdrom
> slave = Zip 250
Why do you have two devices on secondary channel and none
on the primary ?
They would perform better by being each on a its own channel.
Although the difference would be something like 1% :-)
> Promise primary = master = HDD (which I think is only using 66Mhz
> instead of 100. That's another question.)
>
> slave = none.
>
> Promise secondary = master = none
> slave = HP 7200 CDRW.
Don't have a 'slave' without 'master' !
That is asking for trouble.
Change it to 'master' ( or 'single' , if it has that option ).
And put it to the end of cable , not middle ( if not already so ).
The ends of the cable must be used first, before the middle connector,
otherwise you are asking for data corruption.
> How can I move things around to keep the Promise primary hda?
If you don't move it , it won't change its letter. ( but I
have no experience with secondary IDE adapters , so I may be wrong )
> Or, what
> should I do to inform linux to look elsewhere for the root fs?
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
The best advice I can give you is :
Try it and see !
If someone here tell you one thing and then your setup behaves
differently, then their advice was useless, but if you try something,
you will see results that are "true" :-)
You can always put devices to their old position if something goes wrong.
--
David Balazic
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,dc.org.linux-users,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HELPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:15:46 GMT
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> not at all. blinkenlights never go out of style.
Kppp has synthetic blinking lights, but I suppose that real ones are niftier.
> > A 3COM/USR 2977 internal PCI modem works fine with Linux.
> >
> > The current Kernel even auto detects it.
>
> and how do you cycle power on just the modem without rebooting your host?
Why would I want to do that?
JRT
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From: Anthony Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:24:53 GMT
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001 04:11:05 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the
Unsightly One) wrote:
>It's not just NAT; I want to have a system running Linux
>all the time for a variety of reasons, and my PC is
>forevermore a multiboot system.
I must say that I do kinda like the flexibility of my Linux
NAT/Gateway/router box, it does provide quite an extensive feature set
for the job. That being said, the LinkSys (or other similar)
household router would be what I'd recommend to just about anyone else
people who like playing with *nix networking. These household routers
are cheap, stable and easy to configure from what I've seen.
>Out of curiousity, though, does LinkSys support dialup PPP?
I highly doubt it, considering it doesn't have a serial port to plug a
modem into (at least not the model I've looked at, others might).
=======================
Tony Hill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:52:45 GMT
Christian Garms wrote:
>
> Anyway: Who use his/her personal computer longer then four years?
That's assuming the user upgrades everything in one big schwoop.
I don't. I upgrade a part whenever needed. Like, the machine I'm typing
this from is an athlon 700, but the main hard disk in it is at least 3
years old (so what if it doesn't support udma/66, big deal!). And the
secondary disk dates back to my 486 (I think it does, I'm not sure, it
coulda been from just after I upgraded to a pII).
Anyway, the speed at which you fill up a harddisk is the inverse of the
free space on that harddisk.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 06:17:43 GMT
Mark_Harju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
>Here are the particulars via RTFM (Mandrake 6.0)
You didn't RTFM enough, then.
>1. smb.conf file modified for sharing and correct workgroup name (same
>as the Win98 workgroup name, incl case); therefore -
>2. visibility of Linux system in the Win box's "Network Neighborhood" is
>present
>3. user account created in Linux
>4. samba installed and active
But no encrypted passwords are being used, unless you have run
smbpasswd to create them for you. Or setup your Win98 box for
unencrypted passwords. See the file ENCRYPTION.TXT in the samba
sources.
[...]
>Please remove the "NO-SPAM-".
No.
Michael
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Reply-To: "Stephen T Cripps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Stephen T Cripps" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.amd.thunderbird,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH7.0 on A7M266, worth it?
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:39:09 +0100
Get off my case. You have made this point in previous threads and its
repetition here is little more than a personal attack. If you have a beef
with me - send it by email. Leave the ngs for what they are intended - a
forum for the exchange of information.
--
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Proprietor
MFS
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www.m-f-solutions.mcmail.com
For the friendliest solutions ever...
"Don Sterner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: On Sat, 7 Apr 2001 20:13:12 +0100, "Stephen T Cripps"
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: >Thanks Dave. I was trying to inform readers of information made
available
: >to me by my memory supplier - which is industry 'insider' information
that
: >general consumers may not be privy to.
:
: Oh, it's the "I've got a secret" game again? Nah, it's called I
: sell something less, but I'll try to run down the other brands so
: people will think mine is the best choice. Wrong. Play all the
: word games you want. Crucial is absolute top, quality memory.
: It'll function in the fastest of motherboards available today and
: it'll overclock with the best of them. Anything you imply to the
: contrary is pure BS.
:
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Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up,dc.org.linux-users,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Internal Diamond Supra PCI Modem Instalation HELPPPPPPPP !!!!!!!
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 11:05:55 GMT
James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> > not at all. blinkenlights never go out of style.
>
> Kppp has synthetic blinking lights, but I suppose that real ones are niftier.
>
> > > A 3COM/USR 2977 internal PCI modem works fine with Linux.
> > >
> > > The current Kernel even auto detects it.
> >
> > and how do you cycle power on just the modem without rebooting your host?
>
> Why would I want to do that?
sometimes a modem get itself into a weird state and you want to reset it.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security
Subject: Re: tar of dot.files
Date: 13 Apr 2001 12:54:34 +0100
Reply-To: Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Travis Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
> > There ya go. It creates the backup of the persons entire directory and
> > everything in it, including dot files.
>
> If you ever want to get *just* the dot-files, you can do:
>
> tar cf mydots.tar .[a-z]* .[A-Z]* .[0-9]*
>
> That'll get all files that start with a . and has a letter or numeral in
> the second position. Unless someone's creating files like ".$", that
> should get them all.
ObPlug: the reason you have to do that is because your shell will include
`.' and `..' in its expansion of `.*' causing tar to recurse. Bad. Me, I
use zsh, moderately well customized, where I know I can expect .* not to
include . and .. with happy abandon.
~Tim
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!)
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 23:01:20 +1000
Hi Mark,
> Hello everyone. Sorry to bug you, but I've got a Linux hair-puller here!
>
> I'm at my wits' end trying to connect to my Samba Linux box via a win98
> machine, but every time I do, I'm getting a password prompt. No password
> I've got will work! I hope this isn't a dummy thing...!
[...]
Okay, some simple questions to ask, what security mode does SAMBA think it is
in (user, share, server). I think you are probably either in user or share
mode at the moment. Additionally, what are the SAMBA logs reporting ?, is it
possible that SAMBA is trying to do a verification using its own smbpasswd
file which means that you need to create the user in the smbpasswd file
through the "smbpasswd -a" command.
This could be behind the username, password prompt that you are receiving.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: John Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Random tape device...
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 09:06:33 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I've got a machine with two external SCSI channels, one with a DLT7000
attached
to it and the other with an old Exabyte 8500 and even older DDS2
attached.
The older drives are basically to ensure we can read old tapes that we
have
on hand and aren't really used for writing. The DLT, on the other hand,
is used heavily by users and for system backups. The problem is that
*sometimes* the DDS drive isn't detected during boot-up -- this results
in the DLT drive changing it's device number (i.e. becomes /dev/nst1
instead
of /dev/nst2). Is there a way of forcing a tape drive to always be the
same
tape device?
Now that I'm writing this, I'm not 100% certain what order the SCSI bios
is looking at the interfaces: the Exabyte and DDS on a PCI Adaptec 2930
SCSI card while the DLT is on an on-board Ultra2 interface (the disks
are
on a second on-board channel). Hmmmm.... I may have partially answered
my own question. However, *is* there away, regardless of the order
in which the SCSI devices are probed by the bios, to ensure that my DLT
will always be /dev/nstX?
I'm running RH 7.0 with Linux 2.2.18 at this point.
Thanks a bunch for any pointers,
J.
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