Linux-Hardware Digest #675, Volume #14 Mon, 23 Apr 01 18:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Compiling 2.4.3 kernel with new Aic7xxx support. (Markus Kossmann)
Re: es1371 - No Sound (Dougie Richardson)
Re: Modem trouble (Dougie Richardson)
Re: Ensoniq 5880 (AudioPCI)? ("arthur")
Re: oldest terminal you have used ("Paul Ryan")
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: need good linux athalon (tbird) motherboard.. (Tom Roberts)
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) (Ronald Cole)
Re: My hardware list ("Dave")
Re: Ensoniq 5880 (AudioPCI)? (Tom Roberts)
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (bill davidsen)
Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video? (Robert Redelmeier)
Oregon Scientific DS3868 (Erik Veenstra)
Re: My hardware list (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!) ("Big T")
Re: RH7 & ide-tape ("Ian S. Salisbury")
Re: oldest terminal you have used (Larry Ebbitt)
Re: Pixel corruption with XFree86 4.0.3, Intel i810e AGP, 2.2.19 kernel (Jesus M.
Salvo Jr.)
Re: oldest terminal you have used (John Todd)
Re: Via82c driver for sound (David Stites)
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compiling 2.4.3 kernel with new Aic7xxx support.
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:26:10 +0200
Morten Frederiksen wrote:
>
> I have recently donwloaded, compiled and installed the 2.4.3 kernel on my
> Redhat 7.0 box and most things seem to work just fine (even though I used
> the version of the gcc compiler which comes with RH 7.0, which, I know, is
> not recommended). However, I have an Adaptec AHA2910 SCSI controller so I
> need AIC7xxx support in the kernel. But when I try to compile the kernel
> with this enabled, compilation stops and reports that some files are
> missing. Has any one had this problem?
>
Goto http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux/ and get the 6.1.11 patch.
Apply it and don't enable CONFIG_AIC7XXX_BUILD_FIRMWARE when
configuring it.
--
Markus Kossmann
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From: Dougie Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: es1371 - No Sound
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:25:45 +0100
Bob Bucy wrote:
> The object already exists (see below). If the module object exists,
> doesn't that mean the kernel was built with the es1370 as a module?
> Anyway to tell what options were used to build the kernel, after the
> fact?
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33896 Apr 8 19:57
> /lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/sound/es1370.o
There should be a .config file in the /usr/src/linux folder that has the
last build options.
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Dougie Richardson //================================
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From: Dougie Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:47:30 +0100
M. Buchenrieder wrote:
> Dougie Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
> >> Anyway, I think the Rockwell chip set _might_ be for a Windows-modem
> >> (winmodem). In other words, all signal processing functions are
> >> performed on the PC's driver for the OS. Windows OS driver model uses
> >> "special" drivers for devices like this in which the complexity of the
> >> device is programmed into the driver.
>
> >The rockwell chipset is a winmodem
>
> [...]
>
> That's total nonsense. You've either been mistaken by the fact that
> Rockwell manufactures winmodem chipsets as well, or you just don't
> know what you're talking about.
Excuse my writing I meant that the Rockwell 56k ISA in question was a
winmodem not that all winmodems are rockwell and infact was agreeing with
Steve Marins post.
FYI I know a *lot* about codecs, inc rockwell - avionic systems I work on
use chipsets manufactured by rockwell, although more simplistic.
The problem with the rockwell winmodem chipset is RPI - Rockwell Protocol
Interface, which removes error correction and data compression from the
modulation circuitry and passes this onto the host PC processor which is
generally faster (per dollar) than the multitude of microprocessors in use
in smaller internal cards. Theoretically for some transfers winmodems
should be faster as there are less intH sent to the processor which
considering the way windows handles interrupt polling might be a good
thing. Even then the problem goes deeper as there are two versions of RPI
in use.
Regarding your follow up posting to say that if it works under DOS its not
a winmodem is incorrect as the codec handling ECC on the host can be
handled by DOS, infact PCTel modems amongst others distribute these dos
based drivers along with the hardware.
--
Dougie Richardson //================================
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From: "arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq 5880 (AudioPCI)?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:07:09 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ben Feinstein"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having trouble getting kernel support for my new soundcard labeled
> "Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI." Based on the PCI info below, I think I
> have an Ensoniq 5880 chipset, not an es1370 or es1371. I can load the
> 'soundcore' and 'es1371' kernel mods just fine, but the 'es1371' module
> doesn't find my hardware. I'm running kernel 2.2.18pre21 with Debian
> GNU/Linux 2.2r3. Any suggestions as to getting this so called
> "AudioPCI" 5880 to work?
>
> $>cat /proc/pci
> PCI devices found:
> [...]
> Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
> Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq Unknown device (rev 2).
> Vendor id=1274. Device id=5880.
> Slow devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=96. Min
> Gnt=12.Max Lat=128
> [...]
>
> Thanks much!,
>
> Ben Feinstein
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I have the same exact SB/Ensoniq pci card. Mine works under RedHat 7.0
Try adding to your /etc/modules.conf (or conf.modules if that's what you
have)
alias sound-slot-0 es1371
That's the only sound entry I have in my modules.conf
wav files should work okay under Linux 2.2.x
Midi does NOT work for me. I tried Alsa drivers with no success.
I think the 5880/1371 uses software midi and tables which works
fine with Win98 which I also run on the same machine.
Arthur (remove the .remove to reply by email)
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From: "Paul Ryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oldest terminal you have used
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:05:09 +0100
Fred Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Teletype Corp model 15 teletype. (1942)
> Complete with 5 level tape punch.
Now that's old!
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 23 Apr 2001 14:20:13 -0400
chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hell 16-bit looks as good as 24-bit. Extremely close, anyway.
The human eye can perceive, what, a few million colors? 16-bit (which
is generally 15-bit) gives you 65,536 (or 32,768). That's a very
noticeable difference, especially if you crank up the brightness or
gamma correction.
Maybe _you_ can't see it, but I sure can.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: Tom Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need good linux athalon (tbird) motherboard..
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:31:04 -0500
Dave wrote:
> Do you know anything about the Asus A7V133?
That's what I have. It came up without problem, and I installed RedHat
7.0 without any problem. be sure to put a call to hdparm into your
rc.d scripts to enable DMA on your hard drives -- my performance went
from 3.6 MBytes/sec to 32.0 MBytes/sec by doing so.
Note that the FSB is double-data-rate, so the FSB clock of 100
is faster than the memory clock of 133. Before learning this I
tried to set the FSB clock to 133 and hung the processor (and
it did not come back after power-cycle as the manual said....
I fiddled with it and it ultimately did come back).
If you want to use a cheap soundcard, you probably want the ALSA drivers
rather than the standard (OSS) ones....
Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!)
Date: 23 Apr 2001 11:43:34 -0700
Mark_Harju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Many thanks to all who gave tips!
>
> Interesting note: My Win95 laptop logs in to Samba without a problem, so
> I'm guessing this issue is due to a Win98 password encryption feature
> which must be disabled in the registry. A PhD from Oz tipped me off to
> this. No worries, mate!
>
> Thanks again to all who replied!
Why didn't you tell us that you didn't care if your password was sent
over the network in plaintext where Joe Hacker and his brother can
sniff it? Well, that's a horse of a different color!
--
Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
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From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My hardware list
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 11:51:58 -0700
Thanks. What should I look for in a cheap ethernet card? Are there any
brands that are mostly always Linux compatible? Is there anything I should
make sure it doesn't say on the box? I assume there's no Win-ethernet
cards, per say, like in modems.
""Vinzenz Mai"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi Dave,
>
> you could run into problems with your ethernet-card!
> D-Link DFE-530TX is a standard-card, ok, but there exists
> different revisions of this card:
>
> Rev A:
> no problems, should be auto-detected, via-rhine driver
>
> Rev B1:
> problems, problems, problems, ...
> not auto-detected, via-rhine doesn't work, ...
> D-Link supplies two different drivers, both via-rhine, for this card but
> none of these compiled on my system. Somewhere I've read that this
revision
> is based instead on a Realtek chip, but I have not tried this one too.
>
> The revision number is only printed on the card, but if your box is brand
> new, then you should have
> Rev B1 with all the problems.
>
> Have fun
>
> Vinzenz
>
>
> --
> Posted from thor.saarlink.de [192.129.52.103]
> via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG
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From: Tom Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq 5880 (AudioPCI)?
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 12:43:44 -0500
Ben Feinstein wrote:
> I'm having trouble getting kernel support for my new soundcard labeled
> "Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI." Based on the PCI info below, I think I
> have an Ensoniq 5880 chipset, not an es1370 or es1371.
No. The "5880" you see is the PCI device ID, not the chipset. This
card uses the es1371 driver (OSS). For me, that driver found the hardware
and could play just fine, but introduced unacceptable background noise
when recording.
Go to http://www.alsa-project.org and download the ALSA drivers,
libraries, and utilities. This is the Advanced Linux Sound architecture,
and it worked fine for me! The ALSA driver for this card is called
ens1371.o (yes there is an extra 'n').
Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist?
Date: 23 Apr 2001 19:03:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonadab the Unsightly One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| At some kind of signal from the user, the kernel writes
| the entire contents of RAM, plus the CPU registers and
| any other relevant data, to a big file on disk, saves
| a pointer to this so that it'll see it at boot time,
| and then just powers down.
|
| Next boot time, it sees that flag file, loads the big
| file off the disk to RAM, restores everything, and
| picks up right where it left off, in the middle of
| whatever it was doing.
Like a laptop...
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
"I am lost. I am out looking for myself. If I should come back before I
return, please ask me to wait." -seen in a doctor's office
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:20:51 -0500
From: Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: Switchboxes for keyboard, mice, video?
Eric P. McCoy wrote:
>
> chrisv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hell 16-bit looks as good as 24-bit. Extremely close, anyway.
I used to think like you, too! Then I started looking
at some DVDs.
> The human eye can perceive, what, a few million colors? 16-bit (which
> is generally 15-bit) gives you 65,536 (or 32,768). That's a very
> noticeable difference, especially if you crank up the brightness or
> gamma correction.
I'm highly skeptical of quantifications of any continuous
scale. I very much doubt the human eye can accurately
discern "a few million colors." But read on ...
> Maybe _you_ can't see it, but I sure can.
And so can I! What I see is a contrast of two colors that
are not-quite-the-same. On 16bit color, a smooth transition
between two colors can produce a jaggy, digitized pixel line
(isochrom?) when one color flops over to another. This
can be highly disconcerting.
-- Robert
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 18:41:24 +0000
From: Erik Veenstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oregon Scientific DS3868
I can "contact" the above mentioned camera (USB, kernel 2.2), but need a
driver or program to download the images.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance.
gegroet,
Erik V.
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Subject: Re: My hardware list
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 23 Apr 2001 16:12:20 -0400
"Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks. What should I look for in a cheap ethernet card? Are there any
> brands that are mostly always Linux compatible? Is there anything I should
> make sure it doesn't say on the box? I assume there's no Win-ethernet
> cards, per say, like in modems.
I picked up an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (Compaq-branded) off eBay
for $5 (and $5 S&H). The chips are several years old (like, 6 or so
since the first iteration), but that just means Donald Becker has had
time to get the drivers good.
N.B.: There are some known problems with eepros and duplex
negotiation. Although the eepro home page claims this is a problem
only with older switches, I got the same thing with a
brand-new-as-of-last-summer Cisco switch. This can be worked around
by forcing the card to run at full-duplex 100BTX. Symptoms are a high
(>5%) collision rate, and no link if the switch is hardwired to use
full-duplex.
But other than that, I've been pushing pretty large (>1GB per day)
chunks of data around my mini-LAN with no problems.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "Big T" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Samba - Strange Password Prompt (HOT/URGENT!)
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:37:35 GMT
SMB signing.
"Ronald Cole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Mark_Harju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Many thanks to all who gave tips!
> >
> > Interesting note: My Win95 laptop logs in to Samba without a problem, so
> > I'm guessing this issue is due to a Win98 password encryption feature
> > which must be disabled in the registry. A PhD from Oz tipped me off to
> > this. No worries, mate!
> >
> > Thanks again to all who replied!
>
> Why didn't you tell us that you didn't care if your password was sent
> over the network in plaintext where Joe Hacker and his brother can
> sniff it? Well, that's a horse of a different color!
>
> --
> Forte International, P.O. Box 1412, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-1412
> Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
> President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
> My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
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Reply-To: "Ian S. Salisbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Ian S. Salisbury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RH7 & ide-tape
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 15:45:03 -0500
Thank you for answering :)
I have generic SCSI support compiled in but I didn't try to configure it as
a SCSI drive. Do you mean to say that you are using it on /dev/st0 instead
of /dev/ht0?
Thanks!
-Ian-
"KW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:k1XE6.6955$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> My PC has 7.0 w/ 2.4.2 kernel and the IDE tape works fine in it... I
> think it's a seagate... Do you have generic SCSI support enabled? Even
> though it's ide, mt reports it as a generic scsi2 tape drive.
>
> > Has anyone gotten ide-tape to work at all in RH7? How 'bout RH7.1?
> >
> > I'm using 2.2.19-7.01 and tried everything I can think of. ide-tape
> > insmods and modprobes fine but mt always results with an input/output
> > error. Doesn't matter if I use /dev/tape or dev/ht0. I've even compiled
> > it into the kernel with the same results, and tried two different tape
> > drives.
> >
> > A google search shows me that I am not alone but I couldn't find any
> > solutions.
> >
> > I'll post more details if someone has gotten it to work.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Ian-
> >
> >
> >
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 17:25:29 -0400
From: Larry Ebbitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oldest terminal you have used
Fred Brooks wrote:
>
> Teletype Corp model 15 teletype. (1942)
> Complete with 5 level tape punch.
I was gonna throw in an ASR33, but I'm whupped at the gate <g>.
--
Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta
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From: Jesus M. Salvo Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pixel corruption with XFree86 4.0.3, Intel i810e AGP, 2.2.19 kernel
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:44:22 +1000
dusan wrote:
> hi
> yes have same problem on my asus cusl2
> intel 815 chipset and redhat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2 kde 2.1.1
> at 1024x768 16bit resulution
>
> looks like i need to get a diffrent video card like matrox g400 or g450
> agp
>
Is the agpgart module on 2.4.x kernel also marked as "experimental" like
that in 2.2.x kernels?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Todd)
Subject: Re: oldest terminal you have used
Date: 23 Apr 2001 21:15:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 19:05:09 +0100, Paul Ryan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Fred Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Teletype Corp model 15 teletype. (1942)
>> Complete with 5 level tape punch.
>
>Now that's old!
>
>
Yeah, but was it on Linux....
--
_____________________
The lap of Linuxury
|<de in RH6.0
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Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 14:56:12 -0700
From: David Stites <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Via82c driver for sound
Peter Christy wrote:
>
> Tha ALSA drivers work well - I'm using the 0.9.0beta3 drivers very
> successfully. There is a good guide to installing these on
> www.linuxnewbie.org
>
> --
> Pete
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I installed the drivers finally, the documentation is not very good. cat
/proc/asound/cards shows the card installed but cat /etc/modules.conf
>/dev/snd/pcmD0C0c says device not configured. I don't see any documentation on what
>to do when the install program fails. I guess I'll have to buy a good book on sound
>and work it out for myself. I could buy a $25 sound card but that would be giving up.
--
David Stites
Moses Lake, WA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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