Linux-Setup Digest #973, Volume #20 Tue, 3 Apr 01 00:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Soundcard play *.au and *.wav files, but not from CD rom (E J)
Re: Re:this is Bellsouth policy. ("gosh")
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. ("gosh")
Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1) (Sam Piper)
Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1) (Sam Piper)
enlightenment problem ("George Chang")
Re: Bellsouth ADSL ("John")
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. (Stray Cat)
Re: Which RedHat to use: 6.2 or 7.0 ? (Stanislaw Flatto)
Creative CT5880 Sound or PCI128 or what ever.;-( (olgnuby)
Re: this is Bellsouth policy. (Ted Rathkopf)
Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !? (Dom Bucciarelli)
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundcard play *.au and *.wav files, but not from CD rom
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 00:59:02 GMT
According to Creative:
Will the Sound Blaster Live! work under Linux?
Creative has hired and trained programmers who are
proficient in Linux device driver programming, and we continue
to work on drivers for various products, including
the Sound Blaster Live!. There's no set release date yet.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I found the problem, at least to a degree. The sound card has two
> audio outputs. One is working, the other is not. Apparently, there is
> a way, in windows, to turn on 4 speakers, or both front and rear. In
> Linux, apparently, only one of the audio output ports works. I am
> noping there is a way to get the other one to work, so that I will
> have 4 speakers (or, actually, one output for headphones and another
> that goes to an amplifier) but I don't know if that is possible.
>
> Maybe there is some driver software that will allow me to use both
> front and rear, or at least both audio outputs???
>
> Does anyone know of such software?
>
> TIA,
> Ed
>
> On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 06:22:39 GMT, E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Does your CD-ROM has an audio cable connected to the sound card? (On
> >windows can you play CDs
> >on the older windows CD-Player that uses the audio cable, Windows Media
> >plays CDs without the audio cable)
> >If you have an audio cable, check your mixer settings and see if the
> >volume for the CDs
> >are on and set (gmix for Gnome, kmix for KDE)
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> I've been trying to get my system to work with sound for a while, now.
> >> I finally compiled 2.2.19 with sound support for SB Live! Value card
> >> (emu10k1). I did not think it was working, for a while, but it gives
> >> no error messages, now, and dmesg says it is loading ok. I tried
> >> playing an au file, and, much to my surprise, it worked. So, then I
> >> tried playing a wav file, and that worked, too. But, if I put an audio
> >> cdrom into the cdrom drive, and try to play it, I get nothing from the
> >> speakers. (If I put earphones into the earphone jack on the cdrom
> >> drive, everything is fine, so I know the cdrom is working.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have any idea what the problem is?
> >>
> >> TIA,
> >> Ed
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From: "gosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: Re:this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:21:52 -0700
that would work if only they shipped the alcatel speed touch home
an installer would come out first he would try a usb modem
if that won't work he will check for an open pci slot...
if the pci and usb both will not work an installer will then try the
ethernet modem
if you claim u have a mac atleast that would ensure the installer brings the
ethernet modem
Moose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:n39y6.274$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In the recent past, it was noted that customer's whose computer won't
support the internal PCI or external USB modem would get the
> free Ethernet modem.
>
> What kind of computer would that be? A Mac!
>
> So, tell them you have a Mac.
>
> --
>
>
> gosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:R85y6.698$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> unfortunately I do believe you will have to get an ethernet modem
> no choice here, the modem that BS supports and provides is the
> Alcatel Speed Touch Home The unfortunate part is that BS only
> gives these modems out on Pro-installs. THEY DO NOT SHIP
> ETHERNET MODEMS period no exceptions.... It can also be a frustrating
> experience just getting bell south to ship a different modem... The
reason
> that
> you will have to go with the ethernet modem is that the only software
> bellsouth has for
> linux is NTS Ethernet 300 a third party dialer... so you can authenticate
> one way with
> ethernet 300 download it from ftp.bellsouth.net.. call the help desk
> at 888-321-2375 or it might be 877 I forget option 2 to get the password
to
> DOWNLOAD the SOFTWARE...
> or you might say for the SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD. Since a pro install costs
$150
> if it were me
> I would buy a modem off the internet for cheaper if i could find it. Bell
> south does not want you to do that of course and they will not support a
> modem bought elsewere but then that's not a big deal since we don't
support
> linux anyway
> Be careful of one thing if you do buy a modem on your own since modems
that
> are like the Alcatel 1000 and
> the alcatel speed touch home (the 2 modems supported by BS) are hard
coded
> no drivers to load you must be
> carefull that the vpi vci for bellsouth is set to 8:35 many isp's use
0:35
> and there for many modems are set
> to this.... of you have any other questions about using bellsouth dsl post
> them i'll answer them a better place to post for dsl specific q's is the
> tech support news group fr bell south that you can get to on your bell
south
> news server...
> side note:
> no difference exsists AT ALL between pppoe and pppoa on the host side....
> the only difference is in the manner inwhich
> a node authenticates-- ppoe=thernet300 .... pppoa=Dial up Networking or
RAS
> dialer or I forget what the mac dialer is
> called..... any linux customer is going to be pppoe it does not matter
what
> it sys you are in the bell south data base
>
>
> gosh
>
>
>
>
> News Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:6uDw6.2219$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Help!!!
> >
> > We just got this ADSL and set up Linux Mandrake 7.2 but we can't get it
> > connected. I did the "adsl-setup". Then "adsl-start" and get a
"time-out"
> > message. We are not sure but we may have an IRQ problem. What command
can
> we
> > use to see the list of IRQs?
> >
> >
> > meesh32
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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From: "gosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:27:33 -0700
that's funny I spent a good part of my day searching for a decent news
server and exploring some that i found
---- i had allready heard such bad things about the bellsouth news server
before i switched over
John M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> A happy Bellsouth customer without a decent news server?
>
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 16:27:38 -0700, "gosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >of course it is a possible I suppose that you could find a router similar
to
> >the Caymen 3220
> >to connect to Bell South DSL using linux if you are on a network...
> >I suppose it is also possible that if you search you may find a
compatible
> >pci modem---
> >heck for all I know drivers for the 3com are floating around some where
the
> >modem is known as and can be identified
> >at 3com by it's name the 3com HomeConnect pci
> >
> >I've had my DSL with Bellsouth for a while now and I love it I get a good
> >stable connection at
> >around 800 kb down not bad considering I'm about 18,000 feet from the
> >central office...
> >the only problem I've had is on a rare occasion usualy after a bad
storm...
> >I have to shut down and
> >unplug my modem for a minute than boot back up and I'm back on... no big
> >deal...
> >
> >a happy BellSouth customer,
> >Gosh
> >
> >
> >gosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:R85y6.698$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> unfortunately I do believe you will have to get an ethernet modem
> >> no choice here, the modem that BS supports and provides is the
> >> Alcatel Speed Touch Home The unfortunate part is that BS only
> >> gives these modems out on Pro-installs. THEY DO NOT SHIP
> >> ETHERNET MODEMS period no exceptions.... It can also be a frustrating
> >> experience just getting bell south to ship a different modem... The
> >reason
> >> that
> >> you will have to go with the ethernet modem is that the only software
> >> bellsouth has for
> >> linux is NTS Ethernet 300 a third party dialer... so you can
authenticate
> >> one way with
> >> ethernet 300 download it from ftp.bellsouth.net.. call the help desk
> >> at 888-321-2375 or it might be 877 I forget option 2 to get the
password
> >to
> >> DOWNLOAD the SOFTWARE...
> >> or you might say for the SOFTWARE DOWNLOAD. Since a pro install costs
> >$150
> >> if it were me
> >> I would buy a modem off the internet for cheaper if i could find it.
Bell
> >> south does not want you to do that of course and they will not support
a
> >> modem bought elsewere but then that's not a big deal since we don't
> >support
> >> linux anyway
> >> Be careful of one thing if you do buy a modem on your own since modems
> >that
> >> are like the Alcatel 1000 and
> >> the alcatel speed touch home (the 2 modems supported by BS) are hard
> >coded
> >> no drivers to load you must be
> >> carefull that the vpi vci for bellsouth is set to 8:35 many isp's use
> >0:35
> >> and there for many modems are set
> >> to this.... of you have any other questions about using bellsouth dsl
post
> >> them i'll answer them a better place to post for dsl specific q's is
the
> >> tech support news group fr bell south that you can get to on your bell
> >south
> >> news server...
> >> side note:
> >> no difference exsists AT ALL between pppoe and pppoa on the host
side....
> >> the only difference is in the manner inwhich
> >> a node authenticates-- ppoe=thernet300 .... pppoa=Dial up Networking or
> >RAS
> >> dialer or I forget what the mac dialer is
> >> called..... any linux customer is going to be pppoe it does not matter
> >what
> >> it sys you are in the bell south data base
> >>
> >>
> >> gosh
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> News Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >> news:6uDw6.2219$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> > Help!!!
> >> >
> >> > We just got this ADSL and set up Linux Mandrake 7.2 but we can't get
it
> >> > connected. I did the "adsl-setup". Then "adsl-start" and get a
> >"time-out"
> >> > message. We are not sure but we may have an IRQ problem. What command
> >can
> >> we
> >> > use to see the list of IRQs?
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > meesh32
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
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From: Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:53:07 -0400
Hi Peter - thanks for the reply.
I have been reading - as well as searching. Unfortunately, regardless
of the command line (maxcpus=0, nosmp, mem=128M) the problem persists.
The one difference is that there is now a line that reads:
SMP mode deactivated, forcing use of dummy APIC emulation.
I did not reinstall to try your suggestions. Do you think that would
make a difference? I did not understand your reference to the
"loading board." Please explain.
Thanks.
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:12:19 +0200, "Peter T. Breuer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drooled on the keyboard and implied that:
>
>Stick the loading board into the empty slot (yes, that's what it's for).
>Or tell the kernel the number of processors at bootup. From the
>BootPrompt HOWTO (which you should have been reading lasciviously as
>soon as you realized you had a boottime problem, which can only be
>solved by boottime params, of course ..)
>
> 3.5.4. The `maxcpus=' Argument
> The number given with this argument limits the maximum number of CPUs
> activated in SMP mode. Using a value of 0 is equivalent to the nosmp
> option.
>
>and if I were you, I'd check out "nosmp" too!
>
>Peter
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From: Sam Piper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic: In swapper task - not syncing (RH7 & SuSE 7.1)
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:59:05 -0400
Hi Eric - I have indeed tried the linux-up approach. However, after
two weeks of dealing with RH Tech Support, I could not get the system
stable enough to act as a server. It would "loose" eth0, it wouldn't
respond to telnet, ftp would take for ever to login and finally, I'd
start to get incorrect shutdown warnings and drive scans. Reinstall
start over... sigh I was hoping I'd get something out of this
upgrade. Let's just say what I got was not what I expected from
commercial distributions.
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 09:54:04 +0200, "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> drooled
on the keyboard and implied that:
>> I have installed SuSE 7.1 (pro) on a Tyan TomCat s1563 MBd (P-II
>> 200Mhz ISA/PCI, w/128MB Ram).
>>
>> The problem is that the Kernel thinks there should be two (or more)
>> processors and there is only one. I get a kernel panic error and the
>> system locks. This happens on both the RedHat 7 and the SuSE 7.1 pro
>> distributions.
><snip>
>> What's next??
>
>boot the linux-up kernel.
>RH at least used to install both.
>
>Eric
>
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From: "George Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: enlightenment problem
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 22:08:37 -0400
everytime my linux starts up in enlightenment, the icons on my desktop and
panel don't come up. how do i get it to make them show when it starts up?
thanks
george
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From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
poster,ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: Bellsouth ADSL
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2001 21:41:59 -0400
I meant to each other...I'm a first time dsl user, just got to order and had
to make that choice PCI vs USB external...I appreciate the info...
"Rod Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <c1Px6.205$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Is either the pci or the external usb dsl modems superior?
> If you mean "is either superior to the other," then it's a matter of the
> specific models and your specific uses.
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From: Stray Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 22:17:40 -0400
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:45:40 -0400, "Moose"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In the recent past, it was noted that customer's whose computer won't support the
>internal PCI or external USB modem would get the
>free Ethernet modem.
>
>What kind of computer would that be? A Mac!
>
>So, tell them you have a Mac.
But now you get to pay the $150 Professional Install fee to get that
ethernet modem. And when they show up and find a box that will accept
either a PCI or USB modem, they aren't obligated to give you the
ethernet modem. Some get 'em, others don't, and then they complain
about spending $150 for what they could have done themselves anyway.
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which RedHat to use: 6.2 or 7.0 ?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 12:43:37 +1000
Is your setup suffering from one particular problem only?
If so get patches 15,16,17, patch the source and recompile the kernel.
RH7 is/has been suffering from other problems, some of which you maybe
missing on more stable 6.2.
But it is your scalp - so beware.
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
Slack user from Ulladulla.
"Clark L. Coleman" wrote:
> A while back, everyone was advising me to stick with Red Hat Linux 6.2
> and kernel 2.2.x. There was a lot of bashing of RH 7.0.
>
> I am currently in need of upgrading my kernel from 2.2.14. I can just
> upgrade to 2.2.17 and the problem I am seeing will disappear (don't
> ask, it is not really relevant to my question.) However, I am curious
> about the current consensus on the 2.4.2 kernel and Red Hat 7.0 with
> the latest fixes and RPMs. Is it time to get more current than RH 6.2
> with 2.2.17 kernel?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Clark Coleman
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative CT5880 Sound or PCI128 or what ever.;-(
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:43:04 -0500
I'm not really sure what the hell it is. Anyway....
I just put together a new system. Consists of:
GA-7ZX MB
AMD K-7 Athalon 700
Onboard Creative CT5880 which I understand is the Creative clone or
whatever of the SB PCI128.
running RH 6.1 with 2.4.3 modular kernel.
KDE 1.1.2
According to the best information I can find on the web and elsewhere,
the sound driver and module I should be using for this setup is the
es1371.o from using information from Jim's Linux Pages, and elsewhere
my /etc/modules.conf sound section is set to:
alias char-major-14 es1370
options es1370 joystick=1
/var/log/messages shows it to be loading at the proper address, 0xcc00
and irq 11 with no complaints, when I load an application calling for
sound, a lsmod shows the the es1371, soundcore, and ac97_codec is
loaded(autocleanable) my volume controls under KDE with Kmix or under
Gnome with Gmix all show up okay with no complaints from KDE or Gnome
about not finding or having sound permission or sound not loaded or
compiled in etc.
My video cap shit, Kwintv etc with my BTTV drivers and stuff all work
okay. Beautiful pictures, pretty colors, etc. but no damn sound. ;-(
Hate to say this, but the god damned sound works fine under windoze with
everything, so I'm not needing some one to tell me to hook a cable from
one of my cdroms to someplace. I know it's all taken care of. ;-(
I tried sndconfig before I upgraded the kernel, and it told me that
there was an Equisonic card detected, but not supported by the system,
which is not out of range with my expectations, but I was hoping it
would give me something in my /etc/sysconfig/sound file to identify by
and for KDE to use. I don't know what identifier I should put in there,
but am using es1370, so that may be my part of my problem in KDE, but I
don't know that it should affect Gnome and everything else.
After all these years, and getting where I could configure my old Yamaha
opl3sa2 plug and pray with my eyes closed and one hand out of commission
I get stumped by this.
Sum buddy hep me out with this one.
Charlie
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Crossposted-To:
ahn.tech.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,bellsouth.net.support.adsl,bellsouth.net.support.linux
Subject: Re: this is Bellsouth policy.
From: Ted Rathkopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 02 Apr 2001 23:31:48 -0400
Stray Cat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:45:40 -0400, "Moose"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >In the recent past, it was noted that customer's whose computer won't support the
>internal PCI or external USB modem would get the
> >free Ethernet modem.
> >
> >What kind of computer would that be? A Mac!
> >
> >So, tell them you have a Mac.
>
> But now you get to pay the $150 Professional Install fee to get that
> ethernet modem. And when they show up and find a box that will accept
> either a PCI or USB modem, they aren't obligated to give you the
> ethernet modem. Some get 'em, others don't, and then they complain
> about spending $150 for what they could have done themselves anyway.
I went the "My computer has no USB ports. My wife's laptop has no PCI
slots. I need an ethernet modem so I can switch between them." route.
--
Ted Rathkopf
**** Any e-mail sent to the above address that is not a reply to one
**** of my postings will be automatically deleted.
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From: Dom Bucciarelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: RH 7.0: kernel upgrade problem !?
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 04:00:16 GMT
I had the exact same problem when I did this upgrade too. (rookie mistake)
You need to run 'mkinitrd' to create a new boot image in the /boot
directory. Then make sure that your lilo.conf points to the new image.
cheers,
Dom
C�dric Pillonel wrote:
> I have installed RedHat 7.0 and then I wanted to upgrade my system with
> the Linux 7.0 Errata.
>
> With 7.0, the kernel 2.2.16-22 is installed. With GnoRPM, I've made an
> upgrade of my kernel with the package "kernel-2.2.17-14.rpm".
> Then I've re-runned lilo and I've rebooted.
>
> When rebooting, the kernel couldn't load the aic7xxx module because of
> unresolved symbols and then couldn't mount the partitions (something
> about VFS ?!) and was hanging at this point.
>
> What did I wrong ? Should I upgrade others packages too ? Or should I
> run a special command after upgrading my kernel ?
>
> Another question: when upgrading my kernel, the old one has been
> deleted. I would like to keep the old one and the new one and then to be
> able to choose which one to boot with lilo. Which files should I backup
> before upgrading the kernel ?
>
> thank you very much!!
> C�dric Pillonel
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