RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!!
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:37:09 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Check my website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics/Lib96MB.html Plenty of high res pictures. Note that you also need to mod the case of the libretto and remove the CMOS connector and solder the CMOS directly on the mother board. Avi. -Original Message- From: Anders Nordin [mailto:mozarts_gh...@hotmail.com] Sent: woensdag 22 april 2009 23:25 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:24:42 +0200 From: Anders Nordin mozarts_gh...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Can somebody show where to solder on a PA2067U? _ Hitta kärleken nu i vår! http://dejting.se.msn.com/channel/index.aspx?trackingid=1002952 .
RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!!
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:18:23 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Hi, Can you make a picture of the module on both sites? I used my scanner to get the pictures you see on the web site. Basically the work to do remains the same. The PA2067U module if it is compatible for the SS1000 and/or the protégé Toshiba's should have the RAS pin connected to a NC pin on the Libretto connector. In the PA2067A module after in spection it appeared that the second RAS pin was connected on the libretto on pin 69 while the memory module had it connected to pin 70 on the module. If the PA2067A and PA2067U module are electically compatible you need to connect pin 69 to pin 70 with an even smaller wire or a dot of solder to short circuit the two pins. Note that pin 70 is NC on the libretto. My quess is that pin 70 on your memory module is connected to one of the RAS lines on the EDODRAM chips. If the chips used are pin compatible with the chip mentioned on my web site it is pin 14. If you want send me high res pictures to avi dot cohenstuart at infor dot com and I'll try to figure it out for you. I need both sites of the module scanned in. Avi. -Original Message- From: Anders Nordin [mailto:mozarts_gh...@hotmail.com] Sent: donderdag 23 april 2009 14:45 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:43:10 +0200 From: Anders Nordin mozarts_gh...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! I meant the PA2067U-module, not the PA2067A-module (U, not A). Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:38:59 -0700 From: avi.cohenstu...@infor.com To: libretto@basiclink.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:37:09 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Check my website: http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics/Lib96MB.html Plenty of high res pictures. Note that you also need to mod the case of the libretto and remove the CMOS connector and solder the CMOS directly on the mother board. Avi. -Original Message- From: Anders Nordin [mailto:mozarts_gh...@hotmail.com] Sent: woensdag 22 april 2009 23:25 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 23:24:42 +0200 From: Anders Nordin mozarts_gh...@hotmail.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Can somebody show where to solder on a PA2067U? _ Hitta kärleken nu i vår! http://dejting.se.msn.com/channel/index.aspx?trackingid=1002952 . _ Dela foton på ett smidigt sätt med Windows LiveT Photos. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/photos.aspx .
RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!!
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:56:52 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Chris, Yes. Only R2 needs to be soldered. Avi. -Original Message- From: Chris Hogan [mailto:ch...@hogan.net] Sent: woensdag 22 april 2009 9:03 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:02:23 +0100 From: Chris Hogan ch...@hogan.net Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Bloody hell Avi! Nice work! Not sure my soldering skills are up to this but just to be clear, in that third picture you've just shorted R2 on the memory module, right? Chris -Original Message- From: Avi Cohen Stuart [mailto:avi.cohenstu...@infor.com] Sent: 21 April 2009 22:24 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:04:44 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Hi guys, With the help of someone who gave me the tip to look into the PA2067A module for the Protégé 3010 and some other links I bought 2 of these (1 in case kill 1...) See http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics/Lib96MB.html how it can be done with a module from http://www.memoryx.net/ktt3010321.html You need some soldering skills and a little bit of case modding. Avi. .
RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!!
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:28:38 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! I simply ordered it from the weblink on my webpage. The shipping was about $11 and it took about 2 weeks. I wouldn't bother to look further. I live in the Netherlands. Avi. -Original Message- From: Nick L [mailto:chi...@gmail.com] Sent: woensdag 22 april 2009 11:39 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:36:55 +0100 From: Nick L chi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 100/110CT with 96Mb possible!!! Nice work Avi, that's superb! Now all we need is a cheap source in the UK :-) . If I find one, I'll let the list know. Cheers, Nick. -- Why don't you go and bother that nice Ms Rowling? - Terry Pratchett http://www.chiark.com .
[LIB] Toshiba PCB F31PRT P000217580 Does anyone have a schematic?
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 21:29:26 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: Toshiba PCB F31PRT P000217580 Does anyone have a schematic? Hi, Does anybody have such a thing? It is a tester for boot rom diagnostics that connects on the parallel port. It is described in the L100mm.pdf. Avi.
RE: [LIB] I'm looking for a good rtc battery replacement Libretto 100CT/110CT
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:11:58 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: RE: [LIB] I'm looking for a good rtc battery replacement Libretto 100CT/110CT I found batteries at the Small Battery in the UK. But... I was fooled using my 110CT with Linux. Using the date command changes the RTC time but for some reason it does NOT update the RTC. Which means that I had to change the date every time after a reboot. Only a dos floppy with date and time allows a permanent change. The battery that I had in my Libretto was still good. I have to dig deeper into this... My other libretto is running Windows 2000. I'm not sure whether the time changes there are also permanent. Avi. -Original Message- From: David Chien [mailto:adorablelibre...@yahoo.com] Sent: woensdag 4 februari 2009 1:15 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] I'm looking for a good rtc battery replacement Libretto 100CT/110CT Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 16:13:26 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien adorablelibre...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [LIB] I'm looking for a good rtc battery replacement Libretto 100CT/110CT impactcomputers.com or an authorized toshiba reseller. otherwise, you'll have to unwrap the plastic, figure out what cell is inside,then find a replacement from digikey.com or some other battery supplier.
[LIB] I'm looking for a good rtc battery replacement Libretto 100CT/110CT
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:43:11 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: I'm looking for a good rtc battery replacement Libretto 100CT/110CT Hi, Any tips anyone? One of the 'problems' I have is that the time gets reset to 1970. Avi.
RE: [LIB] Anybody home?
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:00:48 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart avi.cohenstu...@infor.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Anybody home? I'm here as well. Still messing with the libretto, gentoo, linux-2.6.27.8 and the margi dvd-to-go... Avi. -Original Message- From: Meir Oktan [mailto:mei...@rad.com] Sent: dinsdag 16 december 2008 7:36 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Anybody home? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:32:59 +0200 From: Meir Oktan mei...@rad.com Subject: RE: [LIB] Anybody home? Me 2! -Original Message- From: Fran [mailto:f...@mobilecomputing.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2008 8:30 AM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Anybody home? Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:03:26 +1300 From: Fran f...@mobilecomputing.co.nz Subject: Re: [LIB] Anybody home? On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Lee Schwartz wrote: Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:07:00 -0800 (PST) From: Lee Schwartz co_mos...@yahoo.com Subject: Anybody home? Hi, I used to subscribe to this list, and have been away for a while. Philip, Matt, Pres? Any of you guys still here? Lee I'm here. Fran :):):)
[LIB] Finally it is there: The alpha version of the Margi DVD-to-Go for Linux 2.6.24.3
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 12:08:40 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Finally it is there: The alpha version of the Margi DVD-to-Go for Linux 2.6.24.3 Hi guys, a nice project for the weekend. Check my updated http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics page. It now contains the linux driver for the Margi DVD-to-Go on Linux 2.6.24.3 kernel. Note that a lot of work still needs to be done: - I'm still struggling with the overlay plane and it's parameters which the neomagic needs ( see http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics/NM2160%20Register%20GUESS.html ) - The dvd player needs to be enhanced etc... Enjoy and let me know if you find anything that is irregular. (Don't spam me :-) ) Note that you need to update your kernel, configure it (there is a ..config that I use), update some files like topic.h and opl3sa2.c, add the margi stuff in the kernel source tree, get a copy of libdvdread, libcssread and libdvdnav. Maybe update your X stuff, install my version of the Neomagic driver (the source code of neovideo.c fix is included). And needless to say: THIS IS UNFINISHED WORK :-) Please realize that when I got the first version running on 2.4 it took me a couple of months... Avi.
[LIB] QUERY: Toshiba Power extentions VALD etc
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:42:08 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: QUERY: Toshiba Power extentions VALD etc To all, On my website http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics I have the tosapc2k.exe Toshiba VALD driver for W2K w2kmobx1.exe Toshiba Mobile Extensions w2kpwrx1.exe Toshiba Power Utilities Is any one using these on W2K or on XP? I plucked them from the Toshiba site once and saved them but I was wondering if one uses or if they are needed... Avi.
RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:33:28 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT John, It is a bit more complex :-) There are a few parts that need to work together. - First there is a kernel driver for the margi which is a module that relies on the dvb framework. This is also with the original margi driver found at linuxtv.org. I adapted that driver first to work again on 2.4 and later on 2.6 with the help of someone else. The current version that I have works with 2.6.21.5 on a gentoo installed libretto. - The second part is the in the PCMCIA driver. In order to enable the ZV to work, a small adaption in the topic driver is needed (actually delete a few lines) - The third part is the enabling of the ZV port in the opl3sa2 driver. Also add one line there. - The fourth part which took considerably a lot work is to get the ZV to work on the Neomagic. I based my work on what Shigehiro Nomura did to get Xv working on the Neomagic. The Xv(3) library allows to work with overlays. I did a lot of reverse engineering using IDA Pro on the windows neo20xx.dll which does handle the Overlay stuff for Direct X. And I adapted the Neomagic X server driver. - The fifth part is the program which connects all this stuff together. Also based on previous work I changed the program which uses libdvdread, libdvdcss and libdvdnav to handle the dvd stuff, including navigation. Somewhere in the code it does of course a write() call to the driver which sends the dvd stream thru dvb to the margi driver which sends it into the hardware and sends the frames + sound via the ZV bus (without CPU intervention) into the Neomagic and the Yahama 715 chips. And it almost works like a charm! And the last 5 years I had a lot of fun with understanding how the DVD works, learned how to use IDA Pro (www.datarescue.com), learned how to kernel debug under windows with windbg, asked and got the sources for the Margi DVD-to-Go WDM (and MCI) driver and DVDPlay program which helped a lot btw, learned a great deal (again) about linux 2.4 and 2.6 device driver writing and how to use kgdb to debug the linux kernel using a Vmware system as my debugging host and the libretto as a target, bored my collegues endlessly about the above... Avi. N.B. I have to find time to dump this stuff on a web site once... in an orderly fashion... -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 14 November, 2007 1:47 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:46:36 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT how does a dvd decoder like that work? Do you just echo the dvd to the decoder like: echo /dvd/movie /dev/dvd decoder ? Or is it more complex? john --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:49:31 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Hi John, I'm using the Margi DVD-to-Go as a hardware DVD decoder. It pumps the video frames into the Neomagic using the Zoomed Video port without CPU intervention. However, I'm having some BSOD in windows. I have also worked on a linux 2.6 driver which IMHO works relatively OK. In one of these months I want to release a beta version. I also looked at mplayer but it doesn't use the margi which does all the hard decoding work in hardware... Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 November, 2007 20:21 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:19:55 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT hello avi I am using mplayer and slackware linux 12.0 on a libretto 110CT with 32MB ram. I can play homemade mpeg2 videos full screen also but they don't play well. There is alot of pausing and halting of the video. A professenionally made dvd movie plays really badly--will hardly play at all. I thought with my problems a video ram upgrade is needed. However if you are able to play videos ok maybe it is just my setup. I haven't been able to play them on windows 98, 2000 or XP when I was using them either. john --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:19:30 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I can try but what do I need to install and what to test? Another thing I don't understand about the full screen on the Neomagic: I can play DVD's full screen (16 bit) and I don't have memory problems on the Neomagic. Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 05 November, 2007 20:50 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB
RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display (Test results www.pchub.com)
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 10:57:42 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display (Test results www.pchub.com) Hi guys, Looks like a good company to get stuff from. The display was without lines or cracks and seems OK. The rest of the goods like the HD bracked (finally two more!) looked new/good. Avi. (took a while due to those customs thievery...) -Original Message- From: Avi Cohen Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 13:17 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:16:30 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display I ordered 2 of those HD caddy thingies as well... and some screws and two pcmcia slot covers... It might take a 1-2 weeks before it arrives. Don't be misled by the 640x480 screen size, most web pages appear to have that wrong. Secondly, I did see also a motherboard for a 100ct here http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/64-27195-5108/Toshiba-Libretto -100CT-Mai n-Board-Motherboard-.html (it is almost too cheap to be true) Avi. -Original Message- From: Chris Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 12:35 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:34:40 +0100 From: Chris Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Matt, I can't help agreeing with Avi -- I managed not to spend any money but I spent over an hour browsing the site instead of working ;-) I've always wanted a spare HD caddy as I'm always swapping them in and out, but I managed to stop myself. If they have a motherboard for another dead laptop that I have then I might put that order in. Look forward to the results of your test order Avi, Chris -Original Message- From: Avi Cohen Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 October 2007 09:07 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:06:30 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Dear Matt. Will you please refraining for posting these links, it will cost me too much :-) Just ordered some stuff over there, including a display as the displays on one of my libby gets has too many lines... Very good prices! I'll let you guys know about my experience with this seller. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 7:03 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:02:51 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display I did a little Googling as you suggested Mark. Is this not the LCD you're looking for at $ 68.02: http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/498-27202-5152/Sharp-LQ71Y03-7 -TFT-LCD.html Looks like they have a replacement for my 100/110 'Palm Rest Casing': http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/352-27199-5152/Toshiba-Librett o-100CT-Palm-Rest-Casing.html They seem to stock a lot of Libretto parts at pretty reasonable prices: http://www.pchub.com/uph/brand/-5/Toshiba-part-spare.html Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your suggestions, Matt... Meanwhile, FWIW, it seems that librettosource.com is not active anymore... Will keep an eye out for them on ebay Mark _ Get a FREE Web site and more from Microsoft Office Live Small Business! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0930004958mrt/direct/01/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.6/1086 - Release Date: 22/10/2007 19:57 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.6/1086 - Release Date: 22/10/2007 19:57
[LIB] Libretto RTC battery replacement
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:01:53 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libretto RTC battery replacement Hi, Does anyone know how to revamp or make one oneself? Did anyone boldly go where I didn't had gone before? (did check pchub.com already... no stock...) Avi.
RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:49:31 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Hi John, I'm using the Margi DVD-to-Go as a hardware DVD decoder. It pumps the video frames into the Neomagic using the Zoomed Video port without CPU intervention. However, I'm having some BSOD in windows. I have also worked on a linux 2.6 driver which IMHO works relatively OK. In one of these months I want to release a beta version. I also looked at mplayer but it doesn't use the margi which does all the hard decoding work in hardware... Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 November, 2007 20:21 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:19:55 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT hello avi I am using mplayer and slackware linux 12.0 on a libretto 110CT with 32MB ram. I can play homemade mpeg2 videos full screen also but they don't play well. There is alot of pausing and halting of the video. A professenionally made dvd movie plays really badly--will hardly play at all. I thought with my problems a video ram upgrade is needed. However if you are able to play videos ok maybe it is just my setup. I haven't been able to play them on windows 98, 2000 or XP when I was using them either. john --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:19:30 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I can try but what do I need to install and what to test? Another thing I don't understand about the full screen on the Neomagic: I can play DVD's full screen (16 bit) and I don't have memory problems on the Neomagic. Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 05 November, 2007 20:50 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card I always thought the vt book would be a great solution for upgrading the 2M neomagic card in the libretto and improve it enough to play DiVX videos full screen. Any chance you'll try it out? I understand it works in linux also. --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:09:10 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I own a village tronic vt book but I never tried it on my libretto. It is a great PCMCIA card. I also own a Margi Display-to-Go 4Mb which was also great back then. Whether it is worth the money, I think so but I'm not always objective :-) Avi. long snip __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:24:14 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Hi, You don't need a ZV port for the margi dvd-to-go as you can send the video/audio out via the dongle. That does work for windows as well. I don't know if the 50/70ct is fast enough to feed the dvd-stream-hungry HW decoder. The ZV works great btw with good sound and a *very* sharp picture on the libretto :-) What options are you missing in the margi player? Note that the options might be limited because the DVD HW decoder chip (L64020) doesn't maybe handle all the options you would like to have. Avi. -Original Message- From: Anders Nordin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 13 November, 2007 19:09 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:07:26 +0100 From: Anders Nordin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT I read on the Margi homepage once that the Linux(?) driver did not need a ZV-port (Zoomed Video port). Does that mean that it would be possible to hack a Windows driver to make the Dvd-To-Go card work on a non ZV-port laptop, like the Libretto 50/70ct? It would probably not work as great as with a ZV-port, but perhaps good enough? Also, does anybody know of a video player, besides Margi's own, that can use the dvd-to-go hardware? The options in the Margi player are too few in my opinion. Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:49:12 -0800 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: libretto@basiclink.com Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:49:31 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Hi John, I'm using the Margi DVD-to-Go as a hardware DVD decoder. It pumps the video frames into the Neomagic using the Zoomed Video port without CPU intervention. However, I'm having some BSOD in windows. I have also worked on a linux 2.6 driver which IMHO works relatively OK. In one of these months I want to release a beta version. I also looked at mplayer but it doesn't use the margi which does all the hard decoding work in hardware... Avi.-Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 November, 2007 20:21 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:19:55 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] videos on 110CT hello aviI am using mplayer and slackware linux 12.0 on a libretto 110CT with 32MB ram. I can play homemade mpeg2 videos full screen also but they don't play well. There is alot of pausing and halting of the video. A professenionally made dvd movie plays really badly--will hardly play at all. I thought with my problems a video ram upgrade is needed. However if you are able to play videos ok maybe it is just my setup. I haven't been able to play them on windows 98, 2000 or XP when I was using them either.john --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:19:30 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I can try but what do I need to install and what to test? Another thing I don't understand about the full screen on the Neomagic: I can play DVD's full screen (16 bit) and I don't have memory problemson the Neomagic. Avi. -Original Message-From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Monday, 05 November, 2007 20:50To: LibrettoSubject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash cardDate: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:50:02 -0800 (PST)From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash cardI always thought the vt book would be a great solution forupgrading the 2M neomagic card in the libretto and improve itenough to play DiVX videos full screen. Any chance you'll tryit out? I understand it works in linux also. --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:09:10 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I own a village tronic vt book but I never tried it on mylibretto. It is a great PCMCIA card. I also own a Margi Display-to-Go 4Mb which was also great back then. Whether it is worth the money, I think so but I'm notalways objective :-) Avi. long snip __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?!
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:31:17 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! OK. That I can try! Didn't know that about FAT16... Thanks. Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 11 November, 2007 17:59 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 08:58:15 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Sorry I misread. Your FAT16 (d:) drive needs to follow the rules of dos installation, has to be located within the first 2 gigbytes. That is how I've always partitioned even larger 40GB hard drives for the libretto and never had a problem with seeing partitions. Why not just make it FAT32? You are using WIN98 DOS which has no problems with it.:) john --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:44:36 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Hi John, partition 1 FAT32 c: partition 2 FAT d: partition 3 102 MB empt y partition 4 logical with nfts I'm talking about the d: which cannot be accessed and should be accessable, even if it is followed by another partition which is ntfs? when I remove the 4th partition it works. Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 05 November, 2007 20:38 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:36:47 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! hi Avi, win98 does not read ntfs. john --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:18:17 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can someone explain the following?! Case: Libretto 110 HD: 40 Gb First partition: Primary Partition approx 5 GB this will be the W2K root (FAT32) Second Partition: Primary Partition approx 2Gb this will contain the Installation files (FAT) I leave 102 Mb empty Then I create a Logical Partition with 1 large NTFS partition The partitions I create on my XP Laptop using a USB-to-HD converter thingy (Kama Connect) Then I copy the W2K CD to the second partition. Remove the HD from the USB (on a nice way etc...) Insert the HD into the libretto Boot using a Win98 disk Do a cd C: looks OK cd D: Abort/Fail/Retry... GR!!! Go back to the XP delete the Logical Partition Boot again in Win98 and then I can access the D: driver WHY DO I HAVE TO DELETE THE LOGICAL Partiton!? Avi. (yeah, I know, the 40 Gb is probably BIG for the bios... but I don't understand it...) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 23:06:23 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Yeah, Typo: Fantom CD... (I still have an installable and a keygen...) Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 11 November, 2007 20:53 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:52:11 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Just found this post that I missed earlier: Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 20:35:53 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hmmm I tried Daemon Tools. But those MF's still didn't remove their anti Kernel debugger thingy. Not workable for a hacker like me... I'm switching back to old copy of Fathom CD. Or are there other alternatives...? Fathom CD??? The only other tool I used a long time back was FarStone Technology's 'Virtual CD'. But I haven't used it in ages. Matt Libretto list info:List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html _ Boo! Scare away worms, viruses and so much more! Try Windows Live OneCare! http://onecare.live.com/standard/en-us/purchase/trial.aspx?s_c id=wl_hotmailnews
RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?!
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 21:58:37 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Hi Philip, Ok. I can live with it that DOS cannot handle it. My partition scheme was not particualary smart, I agree. In the end it didn't matter as I still get a BSOD with the margi DVD-to-Go with a vanilla W2K or W2K-SP4 or XP-SP2 in stream.sys. I've to get back to IDA Pro with Hex Rays and continue to reverse engineer it... or there is some nasty hard to find bug in the margi driver. (I have the source code...) Does any one know of a Daemon Tool hack that will allow me to use a kernel debugger? I'm using Fathom CD for my DVD emulation currently. Avi. -Original Message- From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 07 November, 2007 21:30 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:29:19 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Hi Avi: As far as I understand your questions: Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:18:17 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can someone explain the following?! Case: Libretto 110 HD: 40 Gb First partition: Primary Partition approx 5 GB this will be the W2K root (FAT32) Second Partition: Primary Partition approx 2Gb this will contain the Installation files (FAT) I leave 102 Mb empty For hibernation? if so, it's probably at the wrong place. 5 GB + 2 GB = 7 GB; hibernation area should be around 8 GB. It starts at about 8.35 GB (7.775 GiB). Then I create a Logical Partition with 1 large NTFS partition You mean, you first create an extended partition, and then inside that a logical partition? The partitions I create on my XP Laptop using a USB-to-HD converter thingy (Kama Connect) Then I copy the W2K CD to the second partition. Remove the HD from the USB (on a nice way etc...) Insert the HD into the libretto Boot using a Win98 disk Do a cd C: looks OK cd D: Abort/Fail/Retry... Problem is almost certainly that DOS can only use 1 (one) primary FAT partition with some reliability. When I tried this myself long time ago, I remember it took DOS (Win98) a lng time to come up with an error message while still booting. It just didn't like 2 readable primary partitions + an extended one. If you have one of those primary partitions non-readable for DOS (e.g., NTFS) you'll have no problems. It's just DOS's drivers which cannot emulate drive letters for more than one primary partition. Remember, the extended partition (where your logical partitions live) is really a primary partition. GR!!! Go back to the XP delete the Logical Partition Boot again in Win98 and then I can access the D: driver WHY DO I HAVE TO DELETE THE LOGICAL Partiton!? AFAICT, because of limitations of DOS. Why not make: - A 5 GB primary partition - An extended (in fact, also primary) partition for the rest of the disk - Inside the extended partition: - A logical 2.7 GB for your W2K stuff, extending almost til the start of the hibernation area - 100 MB hibernation partition - Other logical partitions as you see fit - Then just delete the 100 MB hibernation partition to get rid of the drive letter it uses. Lots of this type of misery stuff has been described in the archives of the Lib mailing list (use www.webarchive.org to get to e.g., the technoir archive). Philip
[LIB] Can someone explain the following?!
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:18:17 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can someone explain the following?! Case: Libretto 110 HD: 40 Gb First partition: Primary Partition approx 5 GB this will be the W2K root (FAT32) Second Partition: Primary Partition approx 2Gb this will contain the Installation files (FAT) I leave 102 Mb empty Then I create a Logical Partition with 1 large NTFS partition The partitions I create on my XP Laptop using a USB-to-HD converter thingy (Kama Connect) Then I copy the W2K CD to the second partition. Remove the HD from the USB (on a nice way etc...) Insert the HD into the libretto Boot using a Win98 disk Do a cd C: looks OK cd D: Abort/Fail/Retry... GR!!! Go back to the XP delete the Logical Partition Boot again in Win98 and then I can access the D: driver WHY DO I HAVE TO DELETE THE LOGICAL Partiton!? Avi. (yeah, I know, the 40 Gb is probably BIG for the bios... but I don't understand it...)
RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?!
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 20:44:36 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Hi John, partition 1 FAT32 c: partition 2 FAT d: partition 3 102 MB empt y partition 4 logical with nfts I'm talking about the d: which cannot be accessed and should be accessable, even if it is followed by another partition which is ntfs? when I remove the 4th partition it works. Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 05 November, 2007 20:38 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:36:47 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Can someone explain the following?! hi Avi, win98 does not read ntfs. john --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:18:17 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can someone explain the following?! Case: Libretto 110 HD: 40 Gb First partition: Primary Partition approx 5 GB this will be the W2K root (FAT32) Second Partition: Primary Partition approx 2Gb this will contain the Installation files (FAT) I leave 102 Mb empty Then I create a Logical Partition with 1 large NTFS partition The partitions I create on my XP Laptop using a USB-to-HD converter thingy (Kama Connect) Then I copy the W2K CD to the second partition. Remove the HD from the USB (on a nice way etc...) Insert the HD into the libretto Boot using a Win98 disk Do a cd C: looks OK cd D: Abort/Fail/Retry... GR!!! Go back to the XP delete the Logical Partition Boot again in Win98 and then I can access the D: driver WHY DO I HAVE TO DELETE THE LOGICAL Partiton!? Avi. (yeah, I know, the 40 Gb is probably BIG for the bios... but I don't understand it...) __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 21:19:30 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I can try but what do I need to install and what to test? Another thing I don't understand about the full screen on the Neomagic: I can play DVD's full screen (16 bit) and I don't have memory problems on the Neomagic. Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 05 November, 2007 20:50 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card I always thought the vt book would be a great solution for upgrading the 2M neomagic card in the libretto and improve it enough to play DiVX videos full screen. Any chance you'll try it out? I understand it works in linux also. --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:09:10 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I own a village tronic vt book but I never tried it on my libretto. It is a great PCMCIA card. I also own a Margi Display-to-Go 4Mb which was also great back then. Whether it is worth the money, I think so but I'm not always objective :-) Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 03 November, 2007 18:44 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:44:05 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:50:56 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card John wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:01:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:51:48 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card long snip Sometimes I feel a bit sorry to have decommissioned my L110; it merely serves as a sort of book stand, right on top of a What do you use in place of it? I tried the U100 but JVC MP/XP741 http://home.hccnet.nl/pr.nienhuis/jvc/JVC-main.html I use this for real work (number crunching etc virtualisation), a Lib with just 64 MB RAM simply lacks power for that. At its time my Lib110 served very well nevertheless. I like it still. What is virtualisation? I notice linux 2.6 has a section called that in the kernel. Is it the same? So far, my libby with 32MB of ram has handled everything I've thrown at it except full screen video. And that is really a matter of lack of video ram. Heh, there's an upgrade cardbus card that adds 32 meg of video ram and video acceleration, made by vt village. wonder if its worth the 250 dollars they are asking. john __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 23:16:38 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Matthew. One more question: what is your version of the mdvdwdm.sys (the margi driver itself)? I tried a w2k without sp4 and it crashed after 1 1/2 hour... Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2007 7:01 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a W2K vanilla or one upgraded with Service Packs? It could be very well that this bug was introduced in a later version. I slipstreamed SP4 into a copy opf W2K SP3 a while back, and have been using that to set up W2k on the L110 as a fresh installation. Care to share with me the version of: stream.sys: 5.0.2195.5200 and ks.sys: 5.0.2189.1 Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? I'm using DVDShrink to shrink DVDs to ISO files that DAEMON Tools mounts as a drive. Margi pops up right after mounting the image. I do have a lot of MPEG2 vidoes captured with a Hauppage card from the TV cable Haven't tested them recently. Hope that helps. I'll try to answer whatever you can toss me, and I can understand. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 5:20 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:17:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video I'll leave my system playing video over the weekend and will report back on what the BSODs say. Well Avi... I've got good news and bad news. The good news (for me) is that after 3 days of playing 3 ~2 hour DVD images in W2K, I didn't get a single BSOD. The bad news (for you) is I didn't come up with any data that might help diagnose your setup. I did experience a couple of problems, but I wasn't able to determine the causes. Day 1: Played a 2 episode DVD. Each episode ~2 hours. 1st episode played through and returned to the title menu unattended. The 2nd episode was playing for more than an hour, but at some point before I checked in the next couple of hours, the system had rebooted for some reason. But that's happened from time to time with the L110 just playing MP3s in W2K through my Echo Indigo. Maybe heat. It just shut down today because of heat. Day 2: Played the same DVD. 1/2 way through the 1st episode 1st episode I pulled the power cord and brought the L110 with me on a drive. That episode ended on the drive, and I started episode 2. Somewhere along the way the system shut down when the battery got low. Day 3: Everything went flawlessly. I played 2 different ~2 hour DVD images, one of them twice making about 6 hours of flawless playback. They were concert videos, and I actually paused playback several times. Now I didn't do any fast forwarding/reversing, navigating chapter and extra menus. It seems that's where I've run into playback problems in the past. But the only BSOD I've seen since you told me to set the screen resolution to 16 bit was when after doing that, I reinstalled and ran Margi. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several more times since then, and everything has been working darned well. I was having a problem with my mouse, which was why I tried uninstalling Margi. But I'm sure the mouse problem was unrelated. My case is broken at the right hinge, and I think the ribbon cable is the source of the mouse problem, as I wiggled things and the problem went away. I'm also pretty sure that the colored vertical lines on the edge of the screen that Librettos are famous for are due to faulty connections through that ribbon cable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:25:47 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Matthew, Is there a chance I can download your ISO image? And the version of the Daemon tools you are using? Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2007 7:01 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a W2K vanilla or one upgraded with Service Packs? It could be very well that this bug was introduced in a later version. I slipstreamed SP4 into a copy opf W2K SP3 a while back, and have been using that to set up W2k on the L110 as a fresh installation. Care to share with me the version of: stream.sys: 5.0.2195.5200 and ks.sys: 5.0.2189.1 Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? I'm using DVDShrink to shrink DVDs to ISO files that DAEMON Tools mounts as a drive. Margi pops up right after mounting the image. I do have a lot of MPEG2 vidoes captured with a Hauppage card from the TV cable Haven't tested them recently. Hope that helps. I'll try to answer whatever you can toss me, and I can understand. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 5:20 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:17:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video I'll leave my system playing video over the weekend and will report back on what the BSODs say. Well Avi... I've got good news and bad news. The good news (for me) is that after 3 days of playing 3 ~2 hour DVD images in W2K, I didn't get a single BSOD. The bad news (for you) is I didn't come up with any data that might help diagnose your setup. I did experience a couple of problems, but I wasn't able to determine the causes. Day 1: Played a 2 episode DVD. Each episode ~2 hours. 1st episode played through and returned to the title menu unattended. The 2nd episode was playing for more than an hour, but at some point before I checked in the next couple of hours, the system had rebooted for some reason. But that's happened from time to time with the L110 just playing MP3s in W2K through my Echo Indigo. Maybe heat. It just shut down today because of heat. Day 2: Played the same DVD. 1/2 way through the 1st episode 1st episode I pulled the power cord and brought the L110 with me on a drive. That episode ended on the drive, and I started episode 2. Somewhere along the way the system shut down when the battery got low. Day 3: Everything went flawlessly. I played 2 different ~2 hour DVD images, one of them twice making about 6 hours of flawless playback. They were concert videos, and I actually paused playback several times. Now I didn't do any fast forwarding/reversing, navigating chapter and extra menus. It seems that's where I've run into playback problems in the past. But the only BSOD I've seen since you told me to set the screen resolution to 16 bit was when after doing that, I reinstalled and ran Margi. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several more times since then, and everything has been working darned well. I was having a problem with my mouse, which was why I tried uninstalling Margi. But I'm sure the mouse problem was unrelated. My case is broken at the right hinge, and I think the ribbon cable is the source of the mouse problem, as I wiggled things and the problem went away. I'm also pretty sure that the colored vertical lines on the edge of the screen that Librettos are famous for are due to faulty connections through that ribbon cable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 20:35:53 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Hmmm I tried Daemon Tools. But those MF's still didn't remove their anti Kernel debugger thingy. Not workable for a hacker like me... I'm switching back to old copy of Fathom CD. Or are there other alternatives...? Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 19 October, 2007 7:01 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:01:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is this a W2K vanilla or one upgraded with Service Packs? It could be very well that this bug was introduced in a later version. I slipstreamed SP4 into a copy opf W2K SP3 a while back, and have been using that to set up W2k on the L110 as a fresh installation. Care to share with me the version of: stream.sys: 5.0.2195.5200 and ks.sys: 5.0.2189.1 Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? I'm using DVDShrink to shrink DVDs to ISO files that DAEMON Tools mounts as a drive. Margi pops up right after mounting the image. I do have a lot of MPEG2 vidoes captured with a Hauppage card from the TV cable Haven't tested them recently. Hope that helps. I'll try to answer whatever you can toss me, and I can understand. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 5:20 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:17:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video I'll leave my system playing video over the weekend and will report back on what the BSODs say. Well Avi... I've got good news and bad news. The good news (for me) is that after 3 days of playing 3 ~2 hour DVD images in W2K, I didn't get a single BSOD. The bad news (for you) is I didn't come up with any data that might help diagnose your setup. I did experience a couple of problems, but I wasn't able to determine the causes. Day 1: Played a 2 episode DVD. Each episode ~2 hours. 1st episode played through and returned to the title menu unattended. The 2nd episode was playing for more than an hour, but at some point before I checked in the next couple of hours, the system had rebooted for some reason. But that's happened from time to time with the L110 just playing MP3s in W2K through my Echo Indigo. Maybe heat. It just shut down today because of heat. Day 2: Played the same DVD. 1/2 way through the 1st episode 1st episode I pulled the power cord and brought the L110 with me on a drive. That episode ended on the drive, and I started episode 2. Somewhere along the way the system shut down when the battery got low. Day 3: Everything went flawlessly. I played 2 different ~2 hour DVD images, one of them twice making about 6 hours of flawless playback. They were concert videos, and I actually paused playback several times. Now I didn't do any fast forwarding/reversing, navigating chapter and extra menus. It seems that's where I've run into playback problems in the past. But the only BSOD I've seen since you told me to set the screen resolution to 16 bit was when after doing that, I reinstalled and ran Margi. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several more times since then, and everything has been working darned well. I was having a problem with my mouse, which was why I tried uninstalling Margi. But I'm sure the mouse problem was unrelated. My case is broken at the right hinge, and I think the ribbon cable is the source of the mouse problem, as I wiggled things and the problem went away. I'm also pretty sure that the colored vertical lines on the edge of the screen that Librettos are famous for are due to faulty connections through that ribbon cable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 21:09:10 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card John, I own a village tronic vt book but I never tried it on my libretto. It is a great PCMCIA card. I also own a Margi Display-to-Go 4Mb which was also great back then. Whether it is worth the money, I think so but I'm not always objective :-) Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 03 November, 2007 18:44 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 10:44:05 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] virtualization - was: speed gain using flash card --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:50:56 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card John wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:01:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:51:48 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card long snip Sometimes I feel a bit sorry to have decommissioned my L110; it merely serves as a sort of book stand, right on top of a What do you use in place of it? I tried the U100 but JVC MP/XP741 http://home.hccnet.nl/pr.nienhuis/jvc/JVC-main.html I use this for real work (number crunching etc virtualisation), a Lib with just 64 MB RAM simply lacks power for that. At its time my Lib110 served very well nevertheless. I like it still. What is virtualisation? I notice linux 2.6 has a section called that in the kernel. Is it the same? So far, my libby with 32MB of ram has handled everything I've thrown at it except full screen video. And that is really a matter of lack of video ram. Heh, there's an upgrade cardbus card that adds 32 meg of video ram and video acceleration, made by vt village. wonder if its worth the 250 dollars they are asking. john __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] speed gain using flash card
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:14:48 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] speed gain using flash card John, I've read a lot about Flash instead of a 'real' HD. How does the Sandisk handle the write wear-out? What are you running as an OS on the libretto? Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 26 October, 2007 20:49 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] speed gain using flash card Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:46:51 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: speed gain using flash card Hello fellow members I am using a sandisk extreme II 8 gig compact flash as a solid state hard drive in my Libretto 110CT and am having twice the speed for read and writes as I was getting with a standard hard drive. The extreme III and IV are opproximatly twice and three times as fast as the II so if I would get another increase if I upgraded to one of those. I am getting 4 MB as opposed to 1.5 to 2 with the hard drive. I should expect 6 and 8MB with the extreme III and IV. I am also using a second flash card for a virtual memory drive but it is an old one so only gives hard drive speeds. If I updated that with a newer one I would think the increase in speed be noticalbe in swap file use. I notice a real reduction in temperature also using a solid state drive. My libretto was always having to slow down to cool off but it is very cool now when it runs. john __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] speed gain using flash card
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 06:01:26 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] speed gain using flash card John, I am very interested in the technical details on the 64MB libretto upgrade. I don't mind to experiment but currently don't have a clue to do what... Avi. -Original Message- From: John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 29 October, 2007 0:03 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:01:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card --- Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:51:48 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] speed gain using flash card Hello Philip : snip getting with a standard hard drive. The extreme III and IV are opproximatly twice and three times as fast as the II so if I would get another increase if I upgraded to one of those. I am getting 4 MB as opposed to 1.5 to 2 with the hard drive. I should expect 6 and 8MB with the extreme III and IV. AFAIK (based on a vague reminiscence and a google search) the theoretical maximum data transfer speed on an ISA bus is about 6 MB/s. As the Lib110's HD is attached through a 16 bit ISA connection (without DMA), that 6 MB/s is about all you'll get. Or am I wrong here? (hopefully not, for your sake) I knew there was some sort of limit, I thought it was 32 MB/s about half of the memory subsystem. But that could be the pci limit. I am also using a second flash card for a virtual memory drive but it is an old one so only gives hard drive speeds. If I updated that with a newer one I would think the increase in speed be noticalbe in swap file use. How did you connect that 2nd one? thru the PCMCIA slot? Yes. I remember I found an external -PCMCIA, or rather, Cardbus- HD to be clearly faster than the internal one (I had a 7200 rpm Hitachi inside). There was also a thread on this in the mailing list. the differance is in the clock speeds, ISA is slower than PCI. I notice a real reduction in temperature also using a solid state drive. My libretto was always having to slow down to cool off but it is very cool now when it runs. Anyway it all sounds like a bright idea to me. Thanks. I like it so much because the libretto is perfectly silent when it runs now too!! Any idea about battery power savings using flash rather than rotating storage? I don't think there is much differance, my libby reports about 5 1/2 hours usually but I notice I don't have to plug in the adapter now until I am ready to shut down. It kinda did that before but not so routinely. Battery life is so dependant on what a person is doing. Where I really notice a differance is in spin up times. There are none, with a hard drive spin up times were very noticeable. Sometimes I feel a bit sorry to have decommissioned my L110; it merely serves as a sort of book stand, right on top of a What do you use in place of it? I tried the U100 but it fried like twice on me. It was a piece of junk. They run too hot and Toshiba doesn't cover them under warrenty. My 110 keeps plugging along no matter what:). much older DEC 450SLC/e notebook (with a 50 Mhz 486-DX2 inside - wow). Sometimes I start them up just for fun, like today when the clocks in my place must be reset to winter time. BTW have you ever had any luck upgrading the RAM beyond 64 MB? (I remember you were busy with that). There were some guys who have fitted And still am:). I am fitting a wire buss to an old libretto 32MB ram upgrade board. I am going to solder the buss to a couple, maybe three, of so-dimm sockets. I am going to run the so-dimm sockets into the hard drive bay, where I have room now (I was just waiting until compact flash capacity got large enough to use as a hard drive so I could try this and have space inside the libretto), and try using standard so-dimm edo plug-in modules. It is slow going because I don't have anywhere to work and lack tools. I don't think I'll have to remove the soldered chips on the motherboard. I have also been thinking of installing a sdram controller and use sdram but all of that is very hard to do since all I have is the memory upgrade port to use for access. The hard drive bay is a great place for all kinds of fun!! a Portege 64 MB module in the extension slot to get 96 MB; that was the max I've ever heard of w.r.t. Lib110. Yes I remember the upgrade. I am sure the libretto can handle ram up to, at least, 512MB and 8 socketed modules. john Best wishes, Philip __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http
RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:06:30 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Dear Matt. Will you please refraining for posting these links, it will cost me too much :-) Just ordered some stuff over there, including a display as the displays on one of my libby gets has too many lines... Very good prices! I'll let you guys know about my experience with this seller. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 7:03 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:02:51 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display I did a little Googling as you suggested Mark. Is this not the LCD you're looking for at $ 68.02: http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/498-27202-5152/Sharp-LQ71Y03-7 -TFT-LCD.html Looks like they have a replacement for my 100/110 'Palm Rest Casing': http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/352-27199-5152/Toshiba-Librett o-100CT-Palm-Rest-Casing.html They seem to stock a lot of Libretto parts at pretty reasonable prices: http://www.pchub.com/uph/brand/-5/Toshiba-part-spare.html Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your suggestions, Matt... Meanwhile, FWIW, it seems that librettosource.com is not active anymore... Will keep an eye out for them on ebay Mark _ Get a FREE Web site and more from Microsoft Office Live Small Business! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0930004958mrt/direct/01/
RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:16:30 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display I ordered 2 of those HD caddy thingies as well... and some screws and two pcmcia slot covers... It might take a 1-2 weeks before it arrives. Don't be misled by the 640x480 screen size, most web pages appear to have that wrong. Secondly, I did see also a motherboard for a 100ct here http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/64-27195-5108/Toshiba-Libretto-100CT-Mai n-Board-Motherboard-.html (it is almost too cheap to be true) Avi. -Original Message- From: Chris Hogan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 12:35 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:34:40 +0100 From: Chris Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Matt, I can't help agreeing with Avi -- I managed not to spend any money but I spent over an hour browsing the site instead of working ;-) I've always wanted a spare HD caddy as I'm always swapping them in and out, but I managed to stop myself. If they have a motherboard for another dead laptop that I have then I might put that order in. Look forward to the results of your test order Avi, Chris -Original Message- From: Avi Cohen Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 October 2007 09:07 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:06:30 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Dear Matt. Will you please refraining for posting these links, it will cost me too much :-) Just ordered some stuff over there, including a display as the displays on one of my libby gets has too many lines... Very good prices! I'll let you guys know about my experience with this seller. Thanks! -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 October, 2007 7:03 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:02:51 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display I did a little Googling as you suggested Mark. Is this not the LCD you're looking for at $ 68.02: http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/498-27202-5152/Sharp-LQ71Y03-7 -TFT-LCD.html Looks like they have a replacement for my 100/110 'Palm Rest Casing': http://www.pchub.com/uph/laptop/352-27199-5152/Toshiba-Librett o-100CT-Palm-Rest-Casing.html They seem to stock a lot of Libretto parts at pretty reasonable prices: http://www.pchub.com/uph/brand/-5/Toshiba-part-spare.html Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your suggestions, Matt... Meanwhile, FWIW, it seems that librettosource.com is not active anymore... Will keep an eye out for them on ebay Mark _ Get a FREE Web site and more from Microsoft Office Live Small Business! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0930004958mrt/direct/01/ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.6/1086 - Release Date: 22/10/2007 19:57 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: 269.15.6/1086 - Release Date: 22/10/2007 19:57
RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:54:39 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Mark, Just wondering, what is wrong with the current display? Avi. -Original Message- From: Mark Srebnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 21 October, 2007 16:49 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:47:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Thanks for the suggestions, Avi... I had checked Impact, they want $319 for one...bit more than I want to spend on an ol' 100CT ;-) As librettosource, dealt with him a few years back, don't think he's selling Libretto stuff anymore, but will give him a try If anyone else has any suggestions, would appreciate it Otherwise, if anyone wants a very good condition 100CT that's missing a display, let me know off-list... Thanks, Mark --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:34:43 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display 1. You can check here: http://www.impactcomputers.com/toshiba-libretto-110ct-parts-di splay-hard ware.html 2. you can try [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure if he still is there. Avi. -Original Message- From: Mark Srebnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 21 October, 2007 4:27 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:26:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WTB: 100CT LCD Display Would be interested in a LCD Display for my Libby 100CT that's been sitting here unusable due to lack of display. If anyone on the list has one for a reasonable price or knows where I can get one reasonably, I'd greatly appreciate knowing about it Have looked at some of the Toshiba parts supply webpages but they want way too much for one If I can't get this Libby working again, then will just sell it for parts to someone... Thanks, Mark PS. Thanks to Matt for posting for me recently. For some reason I have not been able to post using my other email address. Matt suggested trying another address and resubscribing which I've now done...seems that this one worksgo figure __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:34:43 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display 1. You can check here: http://www.impactcomputers.com/toshiba-libretto-110ct-parts-display-hard ware.html 2. you can try [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm not sure if he still is there. Avi. -Original Message- From: Mark Srebnik [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 21 October, 2007 4:27 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] WTB: 100CT LCD Display Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:26:32 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Srebnik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: WTB: 100CT LCD Display Would be interested in a LCD Display for my Libby 100CT that's been sitting here unusable due to lack of display. If anyone on the list has one for a reasonable price or knows where I can get one reasonably, I'd greatly appreciate knowing about it Have looked at some of the Toshiba parts supply webpages but they want way too much for one If I can't get this Libby working again, then will just sell it for parts to someone... Thanks, Mark PS. Thanks to Matt for posting for me recently. For some reason I have not been able to post using my other email address. Matt suggested trying another address and resubscribing which I've now done...seems that this one worksgo figure __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 10:26:15 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Matthew, is this a W2K vanilla or one upgraded with Service Packs? It could be very well that this bug was introduced in a later version. Care to share with me the version of stream.sys and ks.sys? Are you playing DVD's using a ISO image or ripped MPEG2 files? Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 18 October, 2007 5:20 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:17:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video I'll leave my system playing video over the weekend and will report back on what the BSODs say. Well Avi... I've got good news and bad news. The good news (for me) is that after 3 days of playing 3 ~2 hour DVD images in W2K, I didn't get a single BSOD. The bad news (for you) is I didn't come up with any data that might help diagnose your setup. I did experience a couple of problems, but I wasn't able to determine the causes. Day 1: Played a 2 episode DVD. Each episode ~2 hours. 1st episode played through and returned to the title menu unattended. The 2nd episode was playing for more than an hour, but at some point before I checked in the next couple of hours, the system had rebooted for some reason. But that's happened from time to time with the L110 just playing MP3s in W2K through my Echo Indigo. Maybe heat. It just shut down today because of heat. Day 2: Played the same DVD. 1/2 way through the 1st episode 1st episode I pulled the power cord and brought the L110 with me on a drive. That episode ended on the drive, and I started episode 2. Somewhere along the way the system shut down when the battery got low. Day 3: Everything went flawlessly. I played 2 different ~2 hour DVD images, one of them twice making about 6 hours of flawless playback. They were concert videos, and I actually paused playback several times. Now I didn't do any fast forwarding/reversing, navigating chapter and extra menus. It seems that's where I've run into playback problems in the past. But the only BSOD I've seen since you told me to set the screen resolution to 16 bit was when after doing that, I reinstalled and ran Margi. I've uninstalled and reinstalled it several more times since then, and everything has been working darned well. I was having a problem with my mouse, which was why I tried uninstalling Margi. But I'm sure the mouse problem was unrelated. My case is broken at the right hinge, and I think the ribbon cable is the source of the mouse problem, as I wiggled things and the problem went away. I'm also pretty sure that the colored vertical lines on the edge of the screen that Librettos are famous for are due to faulty connections through that ribbon cable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html _ More photos; more messages; more storage-get 5GB with Windows Live Hotmail. http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-usocid=TXT_ TAGHM_migration_HM_mini_2G_0507
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:20:37 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Matthew, The problem can occur after 5 minutes or after 1 1/2 hours and somewhere in between :-) I'm trying to nail down the problem by dissasembling and decompiling stream.sys using IDA Pro and Hex-Rays. Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2007 4:48 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:46:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew, Check the neomagic driver and place it at 16 bit video. I've never had problems with the display resolution. That was it, but not before a bit of BSOD shock treatment. I reset that after I 1st read your post. But I immediately got the BSOD when the Margi player popped up. I didn't even try again for a cfew more days, remembering what you said about not being able to get Margi to work in W2K because of BSODs. The next time I slide the Margi card in, W2K couldn't find the driver and popped up a New Hardware found window. After getting that ironed out, Margi now does run pretty well at the 16 bit screen resolution. As long as I don't do too much in the way of pausing, fast forwarding or fast reversing video playback.. I can usually play a video through. But I do still get the BSOD from time to time. Did you say you can't play video at all, or can't play it for very long before having that problem? Funny beasts... Margi in W98SE is a bit more stable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ __ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545433
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 04:51:38 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video The WDM driver has a problem somewhere. I'm currently deep into the stream.sys and the ks.sys with IDA Pro to figure out what goes wrong. Can you tell me more about the BSOD? Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 11 October, 2007 4:48 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:46:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew, Check the neomagic driver and place it at 16 bit video. I've never had problems with the display resolution. That was it, but not before a bit of BSOD shock treatment. I reset that after I 1st read your post. But I immediately got the BSOD when the Margi player popped up. I didn't even try again for a cfew more days, remembering what you said about not being able to get Margi to work in W2K because of BSODs. The next time I slide the Margi card in, W2K couldn't find the driver and popped up a New Hardware found window. After getting that ironed out, Margi now does run pretty well at the 16 bit screen resolution. As long as I don't do too much in the way of pausing, fast forwarding or fast reversing video playback.. I can usually play a video through. But I do still get the BSOD from time to time. Did you say you can't play video at all, or can't play it for very long before having that problem? Funny beasts... Margi in W98SE is a bit more stable. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ __ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=listsid=396545433
RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:59:40 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Matthew, Check the neomagic driver and place it at 16 bit video. I've never had problems with the display resolution. Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 06 October, 2007 3:34 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Margi failing to play video Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 18:33:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi failing to play video --- Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm besides the Margi guys themselves probably the most knowable about the margi dvd-to-go. But I still have to release sometime the linux version... Avi... Do you know how to deal with Margi failing to play video, popping up an error window in W2K complaining about incorrect screen resolution? I had it working in my 1st W2K installation, but after reinstalling W2K I was never able to resolve the problem. Margi works fine on my W98SE partition though. Matt Libretto list info: List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html __ __ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
RE: [LIB] Basic libretto 110 hard disk upgrade not working!!
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 21:01:21 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Basic libretto 110 hard disk upgrade not working!! I've tried to dissasseble the BIOS with IDA pro and figuring out where the hibernation stuff is. I got to admit that I didn't get far... Get a overlay or leave a gap of 100Mb after 8,something Gig is the second best solution (besides a bios rewrite...) Avi. -Original Message- From: David Chien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 06 October, 2007 7:48 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Basic libretto 110 hard disk upgrade not working!! Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 22:47:05 -0700 (PDT) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Basic libretto 110 hard disk upgrade not working!! Looks like I went a bit too fast with that new hard driveI never for a second thought about the hybernation problem (of which I had read about already, but forgotten). So when does a Libretto hybernate? Could I simply switch hybernation off? There are always two seperate issues upgrading the Libretto HD with something larger than 8GB on the older models (the U100 for example uses a modern BIOS that handles much larger HDs w/o any problems - this problem would affect only older models such as the L20-110, etc). 1) BIOS support for reporting the correct HD size for partitioning and formatting it. As we've seen before, the BIOS itself doesn't report the correct size (as I recall) - as long as the OS (not DOS for example, which does this incorrectly) is modern enough to calculate the HD size itself and not depend on what's reported by the BIOS, then it can format the HD and partition it correctly. Modern OSs such as Linux and Windows XP have no problem in this regard, older OSs will most likely do (such as DOS for sure). You can get around this with older OSs by using modern OSs or another computer for formatting and partitioning, which is why doing so in a desktop PC often works fine for most upgraders; or simply using Linux or WXP for this. Naturally, you can easily bypass the low-level problems either by using a modern OS/partitioning tool, or simply using a disk overlay program like EZDrive like I've done. Both methods are reliable and work fine. 2) Allocating space for the hibernation data to be written to the 8GB boundary. This again doesn't affect the U100, but does affect the older models such as the L20-110. When the older Librettos were designed, the had HDs only smaller than about 10GB available, so noone thought of designing for a larger HD at Toshiba. (In fact, when some L110's shipped with larger HDs later on in its production life, they merely set the BIOS to think it was a 8GB HD.) As a result, they put the hibernation data at the end of the HD if the HD was smaller than 8GB or so; at the 8GB boundary if it was larger than 8GB. They definitely had no idea that 2.5 HDs now come in 300GB models! If someone has BIOS modification knowledge, they can edit it and get around both #1 and #2 problems, but this naturally requires reverse engineering and low-level BIOS skills. As a result of this fixed hibernation location, the Libretto, when hibernating to disk, will always save to the 8GB boundary on HDs larger than 8GB -- thus destroying and overwriting anything there!! The best way to get around this which has worked reliably for many users is to create two partitions. One up to the 8GB boundary where the hibernation data will begin. One afterwards. (Naturally, avoid setting the partition boundaries over or near the hibernation boundaries.) You can check where this is reliably on any libretto in several ways. My way is simple. a) create a small 2GB partition on the new drive, install Windows. b) run any zeroing program to zero out the rest of the drive. c) open a text file and type in anything unique, such as Librettos are cool!. d) hibernate, then wake up, and search the disk using a hex disk editor for the string Librettos are cool!. The areas before and after the string will contain non-zeros -- this is the hibernation area. Naturally, create partitions with a few dozen MB unused as extra safety zones around both ends. If you have a reliable OS that doesn't move data around, then you can also create a single file that occupies the hibernation data area and a few MB around it as a safety buffer with nothiing important inside. You can then leave that single file there always so that hiberation of the Libretto does not overwrite any important data by accident. adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ __ Pinpoint customers who
RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)!
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:28:52 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! I have a working driver for the margi under gentoo 2.6 (I used 2006.1 as the install base) I had a working driver under 2.4 but I have to look as I did recently had a HD crash with my 2.4 stuff on it. I also have a DSL CD waiting to be (ab)used for a couple of months. I've been messing with the DVD-to-Go for more than 5 years now trying to fix a bug with the WDM driver under W2K and XP (I get BSOD in stream.sys) What DVD drive do you use under w98se or do you rip them to the HD and play them as files or as iso? I'm besides the Margi guys themselves probably the most knowable about the margi dvd-to-go. But I still have to release sometime the linux version... Avi. -Original Message- From: Dan V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 03 October, 2007 12:56 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:54:44 + From: Dan V [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Hi Avi How is Gentoo (what version are you using?) working for you? I still prefer Win98se for two reasons: - I can't get my horrible Linksys wpc54 v4 WLAN card to work under Linux (but I could simply buy another model) - Most important reason: my DVD-to-Go card works very well under 98se. If I could get it to work under linux, I would definately abandon 98se. On this mailinglist I noticed some (not many) remarks on Linux with the DVD-to-Go card: Paul bristow said he got one working (did not say how), and I believe you wrote somewhere that it is possible to get one to work under linux. Does your Margi card work well with Gentoo? I know there are linux drivers out there, but I keep running into dead links... Maybe I should start a new topic on DVD-to-Go under Linux... _ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=T XT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline
RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)!
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:10:51 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Hi Dan I use TMPGenc4 to convert my divx movies to 2.5GB .mpg files. I copy those onto the Libretto's harddisk. I'll try converting them to ISO's though, because of the DVD-to-go controls problem. OK. A collegue of mine is using w98se with a NTFS driver and ISO images in order to allow files larger than 4GB. He has a small w2k partition as well for ripping the stuff. BSOD IO system verification error in stream.sys, I assume? I've had my share of those WDM errors ;). I can imagine why 5 years is not enough to find a solution... It has something to do with a STREAM_REQUEST_BLOCK that has an IRP that is finished already. I'm currently reverse engineering the stream.sys using IDA Pro and the newest Hex-Rays decompiler to crack this m*ther beep So for as far as we know, nobody got the Margi card to work on a Libretto under Linux? I've had it running under 2.4 and currently under 2.6.22 or 23. Need to check. I've updated the driver from linuxtv.org. By the way, isn't kernel 2.6 a bit on the heavy side for a 110ct? Or is it still pretty fast? I've stripped it a bit... And it is working as I can see pretty fast even with X windows which I need anyway. The linux port also contains the full load of Zoomed Video support as well. Which means that before I got again burned with the stream.sys I reversed engineered the Video Port part of the Neomagic driver. When I get the time (which is hard... 4 kids) I'll post my findings... I'm using ripped DVD's to the HD (120Gb currently...) to do dvd playback. I'll prepare in the near future a patch for 2.6 Yes, I'm currently probably the only one who has the libretto with linux and margi dvd-to-go with Zoomed Video. And I'll have to thank a lot of people. Avi.
RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)!
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 19:53:36 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Dan, Is DSL using 2.4 or 2.6 as a kernel? Avi. -Original Message- From: Dan V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 02 October, 2007 17:30 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 15:28:16 + From: Dan V [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Hi everyone, A while ago, I installed Damn Small Linux on my 110ct. Works great, DSL supports my USB-harddisk connected via a usb 2.0 PCMCIA card out-of-the-box. Boots fast too. Great OS to dual boot with Windows 98se and/or 2000. Check out my Libretto site for details: www.everyoneweb.com/libretto Cheers My Libretto 110ct:--64 MB RAM120GB Seagate Momentus 5400.3Margi DVD-to-Go MPEG2 codec card (PCMCIA)USB 2.0 PCMCIA (Conceptronic)Destinator CF-GPS receiverOriginal (Optegra / Mitsumi) PCMCIA CD-ROM driveOriginal disk drive, port expander, docking station _ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Café. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=T XT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline
RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)!
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 07:56:46 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Hi Dan. Ok thanks. I'm currently using Gentoo on my libretto which I bootstrapped via another laptop. And I'm using a vmwareplayer with a Gentoo to compile kernels with (goes a bit faster) Avi. -Original Message- From: Dan V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 03 October, 2007 0:28 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 22:27:12 + From: Dan V [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Succesfully installed Damn Small Linux (DSL)! @Avi: DSL uses kernel 2.4 (mine uses 2.4.26). DSL does not use kernel 2.6, as this would easily cause the distro to grow above their beloved maximum of 50 MB. If you want to use a distro similar to DSL, but with 2.6, you could have a look at DSL-N (Damn Small Linux-Not), which does use kernel 2.6. By the way, the reason why I chose DSL is the hardware detection. This is why one can install it one one system and run it on another without any problems. Once DSL is installed, it is also easier to install a full-size distro (like Debian) than it would be to install from scratch. _ Peek-a-boo FREE Tricks Treats for You! http://www.reallivemoms.com?ocid=TXT_TAGHMloc=us
RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up?
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:15:15 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Matthew, What do you mean with unstable? With W2K and XP I get from time to time BSOD sometimes after 5 min sometimes after 1.5 hours. It dies in stream.sys which is the M$ kernel stream driver. Since it is hard to reproduce I don't know where I should place the blame. Did you try on W98SE both the WDM and the MCI driver? You can find them on http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics/ Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 14 July, 2007 4:39 To: Libretto Subject: RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:37:39 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] The margi dvdplay.exe doesn't need that much memory. The whole dvd play with the margi works with kernel streams that connect 'pins' together. The app says 'play' and a whole orgestra of kernel thingies start to push a lot of bytes into the margi which does the HW decoding and streaming it back via Zoomed Video into the graphical card memory without the processor intervening. It took me some time to find the option to enable the ZV port in W98SE. which is in the advanced setting for the Yamaha volume control. The only issue with the margi is: how do I get the DVD stream with a sustained of 5Mbytes/s into the margi. Don't need much RAM for this, only speed. It works also under linux 2.6 but the X application needs to be enhanced a bit more but menus, display etc work. Avi. (Trust me: i know the margi dvd-to-go inside out...) Do you know why it's been so fincky and unstable for me in both W2K and W98SE Avi? Matt Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html _ http://liveearth.msn.com
RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up?
Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 18:29:18 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? The answer is simple. The margi dvdplay.exe doesn't need that much memory. The whole dvd play with the margi works with kernel streams that connect 'pins' together. The app says 'play' and a whole orgestra of kernel thingies start to push a lot of bytes into the margi which does the HW decoding and streaming it back via Zoomed Video into the graphical card memory without the processor intervening. The only issue with the margi is: how do I get the DVD stream with a sustained of 5Mbytes/s into the margi. Don't need much RAM for this, only speed. It works also under linux 2.6 but the X application needs to be enhanced a bit more but menus, display etc work. Avi. (Trust me: i know the margi dvd-to-go inside out...) -Original Message- From: Alan Middleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 12 July, 2007 17:55 To: Libretto Subject: Re: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:54:28 +0100 (BST) From: Alan Middleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:08:47 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? From: Alan Middleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did find time to dig out the 32mb card to give the libretto it's full 64Mb and it didn't seem to make a blind bit of difference in terms of mounting and playing DVD images. I was surprised to find the same. So it worked with the base 32Mb and a disconnected card or it didn't work with either 32 or 64Mb of ram? I'm not sure if it's something in my configuration (it seems I had to mount a region 2 image to get margi to decode region 2 vobs), something I've introduced in the ripping process, some extra processing introduced by it being region 2 or something still adrift with the libretto hard disk, to many parameters at the moment and I've lost my motivation and spare time to follow up so the project is officially on hold. Are you using DVD Shrink to create and ISO file from the DVD? It has a region free option when making backups. I tried region 0 on the first attempt and it didn't work but at that time it was work in progress. I think I'll try the same process in my thinkpad and once I have a working solution try to apply it to the libretto. And oh... does anyone know what happened to Mike Kopplin's list archives on thre technoir.org site? Matt Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html _ http://imagine-windowslive.com/hotmail/?locale=en-usocid=TXT_TAGHM_mi gration_HM_mini_2G_0507 - End Original Message -
RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up?
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:22:44 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Philip, Ok SPF=WFP :-) I've used nlite before to make a dedicated Libretto installer Avi. -Original Message- From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 08 July, 2007 13:36 To: Libretto Subject: Re: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 13:35:30 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 07:20:35 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? SFP? Care to tell me what it is? and can it be disabled on XP as well? System File Protection. Windows makes back-ups of critical system files from \windows\system32 in a protected subdir called dllcache. As soon as some bad written installer overwrites those dll's, Windows copies them back from the cache. And yes, on XP it can be disabled too. google for nLite and you can learn how to make XP installation CDs with SFP disabled and much more. P.
RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up?
Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2007 07:20:35 +0200 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? SFP? Care to tell me what it is? and can it be disabled on XP as well? Avi. -Original Message- From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 08 July, 2007 0:26 To: Libretto Subject: Re: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 23:06:29 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? Matthew Hanson wrote: Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 22:59:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MARGI - Was: [LIB] Lib list server belly up? snip I was reading Philip's page on setting up W2k on the 110, and was wondering if I ought to try disabling SFP. But it seems he was dealing with SP2. I've got SP3 installed, and will probably upgrade that to SP4. I don't see any info on disabling SFP in W2K SP4 though. I ran SP4 on my Lib, maybe even a SP5 a la Fred Vorck. Fred Vorck's pages are also based on SP4. And yes, disabling SFP makes a huge difference, no so much for RAM usage but rather for starting up / shutting down times. BTW I read your mail three times, on to my personal e-mail, two in the LIB list. Philip
[LIB] RE: Liberato Help
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:12:50 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Liberato Help Hi Kevin, I haven't heard about the Cuaderia till now... I cannot help you here. I send the e-mail also to the libretto group, maybe they know Avi. -Original Message- From: Kevin Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 12 February, 2007 19:00 To: Avi Cohen Stuart Subject: Liberato Help Hi, i was wondering if you can help me. I recently bought a Cuaderia (just like the Liberato but pen based) but the screen has a problem. It seems that someone swapped out the touch screen into another one, and just left the standard LCD screen in this computer. I've looked many places on the net and can not find anything usefull on the cuaderia. Just a few japanese pages that advertize it. I found the Liberito service manual and tried to find the pinouts for some of the cables, but ...of course, the numbers do not match up. There is only 1 ribbon connector in the computer that is not connected to something (RTC battery, LCD, Internal Speaker, etc). It has a IC with SMK written on it. I searched on the net with it, and i found the SMK Corporation, which ironicly enough manufactures Touch Screens in Japan. I'm not sure which one that this uses though. I think that if i could track down a service manual for the cuaderia, i should be able to determine which touch pannel is needed. thanks, -Kevin __ __ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php
[LIB] E-mail test with Word as editor
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 13:12:14 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: E-mail test with Word as editor A test ... Avi. -Original Message- From: Avi Cohen Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 21:28 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] John Martin Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:09:34 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] John Martin John, (message 1 in Rich Text for test) For some reason it still is empty on my end. What type of mime extension/type are you using? What is the mail program? I'm still puzzled. Avi. _ From: John Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 16:12 To: Libretto Subject:RE: [LIB] John Martin
RE: [LIB] John Martin
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:09:34 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] John Martin John, (message 1 in Rich Text for test) For some reason it still is empty on my end. What type of mime extension/type are you using? What is the mail program? I'm still puzzled. Avi. _ From: John Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 30 January, 2007 16:12 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] John Martin
RE: [LIB] John Martin
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RE: [LIB] Empty Emails... Avi Cohen Stuart and Richard.Sullivan
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RE: [LIB] Empty Emails... Avi Cohen Stuart and Richard.Sullivan
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RE: [LIB] Empty Emails... Avi Cohen Stuart and Richard.Sullivan
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RE: [LIB] Largest possible HD in 100/110?
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:20:56 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Largest possible HD in 100/110? Dan, Avi Cohen Stuart John Martin: Allright, thanks for the reply! Let me get this right: the libretto uses 28-bit adressing, so it can adress 2^28 x 512 bytes = 128GB (base2 notation) which is 137GB in base10 notation (you're both right). Avi Cohen Stuart: You say the Libretto cannot support 48-bit LBA drives because of a hardware limitationI don't understand. It can only be a hardware limitation when you use an external IDE controller, but since almost all harddrives have a built-in controller (be it 28-bit or 48-bit) it can only be a BIOS limitation or OS limitation By the way I did not know about 48-bit LBA until you mentioned it and I Googled it, found this site: www.48bitlba.com Very useful site, and it says even Win98 can be upgraded to support 48-bit LBA drives, so the only limitation can be the BIOS, right? I'm talking about the IDE controller in the libretto, not on the hd. It depends if the IDE controller can handle the full 48 bits or not. I'm not sure whether the hardware of the libretto is capable to handle the full 48 bits. It seems do use SCSI-over-IDE (the package command in IDE terms) to access the harddrive when reading in one part of the BIOS. (Still working in disassembling the BIOS...) Avi.
RE: [LIB] Largest possible HD in 100/110?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:33:44 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Largest possible HD in 100/110? Dan, the largest possible is 137Gb as it is the limit of the 48bit of the LBA sector addressing. This is a hardware limitation of the hardware. The 8Gb limit is a bios problem. 160Gb is too big :-) Avi. -Original Message- From: Dan V [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 27 January, 2007 16:20 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Largest possible HD in 100/110? Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:17:22 + From: Dan V [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Largest possible HD in 100/110? Hi guys, I want to upgrade my HD to 160GB, and was wondering if anyone has tried a harddisk of this size. The lagerst harddrive I could find that someone succesfully spooned into a libretto 100/110 was 100GB. And what about this 120GB limit I read about? _ Valentine's Day -- Shop for gifts that spell L-O-V-E at MSN Shopping http://shopping.msn.com/content/shp/?ctId=8323,ptnrid=37,ptnrd ata=24095tcode=wlmtagline
RE: [LIB] Flaky PCMCIA Ports...
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:28:15 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Flaky PCMCIA Ports... The message is still empty here on my end of the mail. (Read your message here: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/) I'm using Outlook and the message says 615 bytes large... In any case, I have similar problems from time to time with the PCMCIA ports in the dockingstation where LAN cards don't seem to work either. Inserting them again (on the fly, without reboot) in the internal ones then all the packets that were waiting start to come in. I didn't look in to it any further back then. It didn't matter wether it was W2K or Linux 2.4 (back then) Avi. _ From: John Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 20 January, 2007 20:21 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Flaky PCMCIA Ports...
RE: [LIB] 96MB in L100/110 should work!
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 19:50:59 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] 96MB in L100/110 should work! Danny, I've no idea. I'm currently dis-assembling the bios with IDA Pro and I haven't found anything that could/should/would limit the memory size. The chipsets used appeared to be somewhat Toshiba propriety, where some special I/O address are used for initialization. One of the problems might be the LGDT table that is used by the Pentium to tell which memory areas are doing and are protected, 32bit or 16bit access etc. There a lot of things not clear. If there is interest I'll place the total disassembled stuff on my http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics/index.html web site. I'm going to need a lot of help to understand more of this bios. One of the goals is try to change the splash screen (easy) and disable the BIOS hibernation (hard) and/or fix the 8Gb HD limit bug in the BIOS. This is the dump from IDA Pro. BIOS2:0140 lgdtsegdesc 0 BIOS2:0148 segdesc 0h, 0, 0, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or slim or avl or d_b or g, 0 BIOS2:0150 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FEh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or slim or avl or g, 0FFh BIOS2:0158 segdesc 0h, 0, 0, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or slim or avl or g, 0 BIOS2:0160 stru_F90160 segdesc 0h, 0, 0, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr, 0 BIOS2:0168 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Fh, t_b or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0170 stru_F90170 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Dh, t_b or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0178 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FCh, t_b or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:0180 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FDh, t_b or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:0188 stru_F90188 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FFh, t_b or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:0190 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Dh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0198 segdesc 0h, 0, 0F9h, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:01A0 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FBh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:01A8 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FFh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:01B0 stru_F901B0 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FCh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:01B8 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FDh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:01C0 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FEh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:01C8 segdesc 0h, 0, 0FFh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:01D0 segdesc 0h, 400h, 0, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:01D8 segdesc 0h, 0, 3, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:01E0 stru_F901E0 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Ah, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:01E8 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Bh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:01F0 segdesc 0h, 8000h, 0Bh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:01F8 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Ch, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0200 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Dh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0208 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Eh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0210 segdesc 0h, 0, 0Fh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0218 segdesc 0h, 4000h, 0Eh, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0220 segdesc 0h, 0, 0, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0228 segdesc 0h, 0, 0, t_b or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0230 segdesc 0h, 0, 0F8h, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0FEh BIOS2:0238 stru_F90238 segdesc 0h, 0, 11h, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0240 segdesc 0h, 0, 12h, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0248 segdesc 0h, 0, 13h, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 BIOS2:0250 segdesc 0h, 0, 5, t_3 or s or dlp0 or pr or avl, 0 This is a copy of the excel version (copied limit lim 19-16 15-00 23-16 31-24 start addr end addrNotes 0 F 0 00 t_3 s dlp0 pr slim avl d_b g 0 0x 0x g=1 4kb 32 bit access 0 F 0 FE t_3 s dlp0 pr slim avl g FF 0xFFFE 0xFFFE 0 F 0 00 t_3 s dlp0 pr slim avl g 0 0x 0x g=1 4kb 16 bit access 0 0 0 00 t_3 s dlp0 pr0 0x 0x 0 0 0 0F t_b s dlp0 pr avl 0 0x000F 0x000F 0 0 0 0D t_b s dlp0 pr avl 0 0x000D 0x000D 0 0 0 FC t_b s dlp0 pr avl FE 0xFEFC 0xFEFC 0 0 0 FD t_b s dlp0 pr avl FE 0xFEFD 0xFEFD 0 0 0 FF t_b s dlp0 pr avl FE 0xFEFF 0xFEFF 0 0
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 16:57:15 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! hi Matt, The signal on my test DVD ISO was pretty weak through the headphones, but listenable. Powered headphones might be nice when using W2K. I never had any problems with the audio directly thru the libby via the ZV port on the yahamah. Are you using DirectX 8 or 9 on W2K? I'm pretty sure it's 9.0c like in my W98SE partition, as I downloadws the upgrade when I set up W98 W2K to dual boot. I only have DX9.0c in my software archives now, and am pretty sure I never downloaded a different copy. It was the latest version at that point. I'll check it when I get a chance though. One other question: did you install any service packs and what is the version of stream.sys because that is where I get BSOD under w2k (and also now on xp...) Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:35:36 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! The driver/software package has an audio glitch in W2K which is documented in the program's readme. For some reason in W2K, it can't output audio through any notebook's internal circuitry. The recommended work-around is to connect an audio adapter cable from the output RCA jacks on card's dongle to the notebook's audio input. Problem there is that the 100/110 libs only have a microphone input jack. But a pair of headhones connected to the dongle works pretty well, as does connecting the output to a PC's external audio system. The signal on my test DVD ISO was pretty weak through the headphones, but listenable. Powered headphones might be nice when using W2K. I never had any problems with the audio directly thru the libby via the ZV port on the yahamah. Are you using DirectX 8 or 9 on W2K? Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 07:14:10 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Michael, That was it DirectX 8.1 is the version that you need including the driver. Just about cracked it now! Updated the DirectX to v8.1 ensured I had the correct Yamaha sound driver loaded and I now have sound to go along with the video. So under 98SE using WDM V1.05.1063 driver/software, DirectX V8.1, I have flawless (and I mean flawless, no chopping or stuttering at all) video sound either from my external DVD-ROM drive or copied VOB's on the hard drive. The only problem now is that I can only play region free/macrovision free dvd's. Don't know why, I could under W95 with the same DVD-ROM drive? That is stange as the Margi is supposed to do the decryption as well. The region must be set but check the region settings of your dvd drive and do a google if there isn't a region free firmware update somewhere. If I can't crack that one I can always DVD shrink my originals use copies, which I can then copy onto the hard drive of course...may need a bigger HDD then though! DVD decrypter is THE tool for this. Or do you use something else? (Let me know :-)) And what DVD player do you have that I don't :-) Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:46:54 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note using W95 I used the MCI v2.18 successfully. Now using W98SE I have tried MCI v2.18 and the driver appears to be okay, but have no picture or sound, That's what ended up happening to me no matter what I tried. For the sound you need to find the toggle that says ZV port. If you don't have it then the driver for the Yahama is outdated. The Neomagic driver might also be outdated. Another possibility is that you need a newer version of DirectX. the dongle output may work but have not tried. I can't get any of the 3 drivers under WDM v1.05 to work at all, I get the message NTKERN.VXD device loader for this device could not load the device driver So for W98SE, should I be using the MCI or WDM driver/software set? Does anyone have a set of drivers later than the set I have tried? Any other tips, I am all ears! ...I don't want to go back to W95! I tried and tried setting up the Margi card both in W98SE and W2K before I fially gave up. I never got it to output either sound or video. But from what you've written, I'm now tempted to install a copy of W95 to a new partition or drive, and see if it'll work there. However... that means taking some time to drive over to where it's stashed in storage and digging around for the beast. It would be great if I could get the card to play MPEG-2 encoded files from the HDD. Too bad the L110 lacks the power to process DivX and XVid encoded vids. Check also the DirectX version installed. You need at least 7 or 8 if I'm not mistaken. Avi.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 20:49:52 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! In any case, In one of these days I'll update http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics with the margi drivers that I downloaded before the site went down and with pictures of the margi inside. You might need to use the upgraded MCI or WDM driver. Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 23 December, 2006 19:36 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 18:35:12 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note using W95 I used the MCI v2.18 successfully. Now using W98SE I have tried MCI v2.18 and the driver appears to be okay, but have no picture or sound, That's what ended up happening to me no matter what I tried. the dongle output may work but have not tried. I can't get any of the 3 drivers under WDM v1.05 to work at all, I get the message NTKERN.VXD device loader for this device could not load the device driver So for W98SE, should I be using the MCI or WDM driver/software set? Does anyone have a set of drivers later than the set I have tried? Any other tips, I am all ears! ...I don't want to go back to W95! I tried and tried setting up the Margi card both in W98SE and W2K before I fially gave up. I never got it to output either sound or video. But from what you've written, I'm now tempted to install a copy of W95 to a new partition or drive, and see if it'll work there. However... that means taking some time to drive over to where it's stashed in storage and digging around for the beast. It would be great if I could get the card to play MPEG-2 encoded files from the HDD. Too bad the L110 lacks the power to process DivX and XVid encoded vids. Matt _ Fixing up the home? Live Search can help http://imagine-windowslive.com/search/kits/default.aspx?kit=im provelocale=en-USsource=hmemailtaglinenov06FORM=WLMTAG
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:37:17 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! You should be able to play full DVD's including the menu structure. For the audio, be sure you have the correct driver and find that ZV port toggle! The difference in my driver is that it doesn't use Kernel Stream Synchronization when using the kernel streams. (don't ask) Also it modifies a timeout value somewhere. Use at own risk :-) Note that a large part of the DVD menu handling is being done by Windows in the Kernel Streaming (KS) software. The Margi only does the hardware decoding. The DVDplay.exe sets up the kernel streams etc and sends events like play, menu etc. to the KS modules. Me thinks that I had audio running with SE as well. BE SURE TO FIND THE ZV PORT ENABLE :-) That will do the audio trick. It should be hidden somewhere in the Advanced settings of your audio volume controls. (I hope. SE was a very long time ago...) Avi. -Original Message- From: Michael Heathcote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 24 December, 2006 0:16 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 23:16:15 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I'm getting nearer using 98SE! I am now using the WDM driver/software set very slightly a higher version number v1.05.1063 that works...partly! I have seamless video, again using my external DVD-ROM drive, but no audio. Also I can't play DVD's with a menu structure, only my own DVD's that play without an opening menu? wheird! I will have to now check a few things following your post Aviwhat are the slight mods that you have made to your WDM driver listed on your web site? I assume that you have the DVD-to-Go working normally with video audio on your libretto with 98SE installed? The fact that I can now get seamless video playback (only) using 98SE is pushing me to crack this one! Cheers, Mike.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:45:27 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hi Matt, From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. What kinds of issues did you have with stabilty in W98 W2K? W98 the playback was not smooth and with W2K I got BSOD in stream.sys from time to time. Just got a BSOD in stream.sys under XP as well... maybe I should try 95 again or work again on the linux driver... And XP was more stable for you!? I'll be interested in hearing how W95 works for you. Yesterday I tried a test with a PCMCIA DVD drive to try to follow up on what Phillip wrote in relation to thruput speed ISA vs PCI/PCMCIA. For some reason my Freecom drive isn't pushing bytes fast enough into the Margi. As I have the sources of the Margi driver I have to check if I didn't make a slight change somewhere in the code as my tests that I did (before my 40Gb hd drive made problems) a couple of months ago was with DVD's ripped to the HD. Also I played a bit with the bios setting by letting the OS do the irq assignments. That didn't made any real difference as far as I could see. I diff-ed the code I got vs the changes I made and I'm going to do a test again with my modified driver. The changes are little but might be significant. I don't know if I'm going to reinstall W95 again to check dvd replay. I might either try to write an own driver without leaning on Kernel Streams and reuse the existing sources partially and make a user mode driver with giveio or something else. (If i find some time.) Avi. N.B. For NDA reasons I cannot share the source code.
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:41:33 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hi, I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. And of course I got the card running with Mandrake 9.2 with a modified kernel 2.24.something, a margi linux driver I found and updated and the x program I wrote to playback the DVD's with linux plus changing the Neomagic Xserver (and the sound card driver) after a lot of and really a lot of reverse engineering the windows drivers. (And the end I called Margi and they gave me the source code of the Margi WDM driver...) Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 20:27 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:20 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html Wow I'm bown away here on the dialogue about getting the Margi DVD-to-Go card to work. Michael Heathcote (quoted above and below) indicated that he got his up and running in Win95 with only the small hitch of having to replace the driver Win95 loaded with the proper one that came with the card! Seems that was the OS the margi card was tweaked for. And I'd guess Win95 was probably the lease resource hungry of the beasts that followed. From what Avi has been talking about, I'm not sure if he's running Win98 or Win2000 with the card. He spoke about replacing an existing Win98 driver with the same from Win2000... and I assumed that meant his Margi card was working in Win98. But from Avi's dialogues with Phillip, it sounds like he's got the card working in Win2000, or both Win2000 and Win98. So I'm extremely tempted at this point to dig my card out of storeage, set up Win95 on my 100's 20GB HDD, and do some testing myself here. Video encoded to MPEG-2 files would look a lot sharper than the ones I've been re-encoding with MPEG1 compression with Tsunami. Matt From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:38:35 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi DVD-to-Go card works okay under Windows 98SE! Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT drives for my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers available for the 110CT on the Toshiba website for 98SE. Thanks, Mike. _ Get FREE Web site and company branded e-mail from Microsoft Office Live http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/mcrssaub0050001411mrt/direct/01/
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:10:47 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hmmm Just got a BSOD in stream.sys under XP as well... maybe I should try 95 again or work again on the linux driver... Avi. (sh*t) -Original Message- From: Avi Cohen Stuart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 21:53 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:41:33 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Hi, I got the card running with 98SE, W2K and XP. But only with XP I got it stable enough. And of course I got the card running with Mandrake 9.2 with a modified kernel 2.24.something, a margi linux driver I found and updated and the x program I wrote to playback the DVD's with linux plus changing the Neomagic Xserver (and the sound card driver) after a lot of and really a lot of reverse engineering the windows drivers. (And the end I called Margi and they gave me the source code of the Margi WDM driver...) Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 21 December, 2006 20:27 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:24:20 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html Wow I'm bown away here on the dialogue about getting the Margi DVD-to-Go card to work. Michael Heathcote (quoted above and below) indicated that he got his up and running in Win95 with only the small hitch of having to replace the driver Win95 loaded with the proper one that came with the card! Seems that was the OS the margi card was tweaked for. And I'd guess Win95 was probably the lease resource hungry of the beasts that followed. From what Avi has been talking about, I'm not sure if he's running Win98 or Win2000 with the card. He spoke about replacing an existing Win98 driver with the same from Win2000... and I assumed that meant his Margi card was working in Win98. But from Avi's dialogues with Phillip, it sounds like he's got the card working in Win2000, or both Win2000 and Win98. So I'm extremely tempted at this point to dig my card out of storeage, set up Win95 on my 100's 20GB HDD, and do some testing myself here. Video encoded to MPEG-2 files would look a lot sharper than the ones I've been re-encoding with MPEG1 compression with Tsunami. Matt From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:38:35 -0800 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:09:57 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Philip, I'll check the 32 bit properties. Any hints where I should look? As far as I can see on XP the PCMCIA takes irq 11. I also have these problems with DVD playback even I use a USB 2.0 and a HD or a DVD drive. Any tips on the settings? Avi. -Original Message- From: Philip Nienhuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 December, 2006 22:35 To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 22:32:21 +0100 From: Philip Nienhuis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Avi Cohen Stuart wrote: Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:47:02 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! snip I use XP with a dvd iso copied to HD and that also works with the WDM driver. I've read your post on this subject a few days back. What strikes me is that you copy DVDs to your HD, as cardbus (=32 bit) DVD players are supposedly faster than the Lib100/110's internal hard disks which are on an ISA bus (= 16bit no DMA). And on top of that there's a software layer simulating iso image access which adds overhead, too (though a similar HW or SW layer is present in the DVD player stuff). Have you properly enabled 32-bit on the pcmcia ports? Does XP use proper drivers for them? I read somewhere that the Lib100/110 cardbus ports use polling rather than IRQ for a number of things. That might explain some of the slowness you've encountered when playing DVDs. Philip
RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works!
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:47:02 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Mike, The 100CT and 110CT are the same, except for a faster CPU. Any 100CT or 110CT can be overclocked to 266 MHz. Interresting that you could get the Margi working with a PCMCIA DVD player. I used (several) freecoms and all where too slow... I use XP with a dvd iso copied to HD and that also works with the WDM driver. But with 98SE I don't think you can have DVD iso as they are bigger than 2Gb. Avi. -Original Message- From: Michael Heathcote [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 19 December, 2006 21:39 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Margi DVD-to-Go card works! Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:16:42 - From: Michael Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Margi DVD-to-Go card works! I've been a member of this list for over 6 years or more, but I have not used my 50CT for quite a while since buying a Portege 3490CT. The main problem of the 50CT been lack of 32 bit cardbus USB with modern peripherals. While surfing on ebay last week I noticed a 100CT going for a good price with only a few minutes left, an impulse bid and I won! For only 87 pounds I now have a 100CT, std extended batteries, standard dock, enhanced dock, power supply floppy. Well pleased! Unmodified standard clock speed, original HDD but unfortuately only the on board 32MB RAM...you can't have it all I guess!!! Now a few years ago I bought a Margi DVD-to-Go card with dongle for my Portege, but at the time I did not realise the Portege was not Zoom Video supported, so the card has not been used. Today I gave the card a go in the 100CT, and after reading many posts over the years with people not been able to get the card to work in the 100 or 110CT, I was quite shocked when it worked! Presently the 100CT is running windows 95 with only 32MB Ram running at 166MHz. What I did notice was that windows automatically loaded the incorrect driver for the card when first inserted and did not initially work. Updating the driver for the correct one from Margi solved the problem. Full screen seemless DVD playback audio playing a DVD from my 16 bit PCMCIA 4x Argosy external DVD ROM drive. Amazing! Now that I know it works I am going to change the HDD for something larger and load Windows 98SE for the USB support. Hope the Margi DVD-to-Go card works okay under Windows 98SE! Now a quick question. Does it matter whether I use 100CT or 110CT drives for my 100CT? There appears to be more drivers available for the 110CT on the Toshiba website for 98SE. Thanks, Mike.
RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery)
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:12:50 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery) Matthew, In order to let that work you have to disable/tweak/destroy/whatever the windows file protection system because before you can say 'it works' Windows will have copied the file back and it crashes again. Note that in order to get sound you need to enable the ZV port somewhere buried deep into the advanced options of the sound card. Note(2) that the extremely simple explanation costed me several years of fun (and frustration) with windbg (to kernel debug Windows) IDA Pro (to disassemble the stream.sys and mdvdwdm.sys driver) but in the end I learned a very great deal about: 1. kernel streams 2. the whole technology behind DVD's (amazing stuff...) 3. IDA pro, the most wonderful tool ever written 4. The Margi DVD-to-Go card. (I even requested the source code for the WDM driver and I got it!) 5. Linux kernels in getting the card running 6. learned my libretto inside out 7. a lot of W2K and XP tricks 8. WINDDK (windows Driver Development Kit) 9. and a lot, lot more. When (not if) it works you still have the best gadget in your hand: I can play dvd's crystal clear on my libretto that is 9 years old. I don't think that the original engineers envised this but I'm still having a lot of fun with this computer. (2 actually as I own 2 libretto's :-) ) Avi. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 14 December, 2006 23:55 To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:53:17 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery) From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1) Use XP as the stream.sys driver on W2K has a bug which causes BSOD when playing DVDs (took me 2-3 years to find that out. Did kernel debugging, etc... long story... 2) use the WDM driver 3) rip dvd's with DVD Decrypter as an ISO to a large HD and play the Man that's it! Just replace Win2000's stream.sys with one from XP and install WDM as I tried many times. The trick behind an illusion can be perplexing to figure out, but there's often an extremely simple explanation. Good work. Now I've just got to remember what I did with the card. I think I buried it in storage ages ago... DVD's from the HD. a bit of a hassle but what a sharp image you have :-) I'll post my DVD findings with the libretto with a lot of tech details one of these days/weeks/months... It's good to have another person on the list who's interested in getting multimedia related issues tweaked on a Libretto, esp someone with technical know-how. Thx Avi, Matt Libretto list info: List archive 1: http://www.technoir.org/cgi-bin/libretto.cgi List archive 2: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com To unsubscribe: http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto@basiclink.com/msg16212.html _ WIN up to $10,000 in cash or prizes - enter the Microsoft Office Live Sweepstakes http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0050001581mrt/direct/01/
RE: [LIB] Re: State of the Art on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:47:53 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Re: State of the Art on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!) Hi, I also have a Mandrake 9.2 running. I think I had the CD images ripped to the DOS image. (Image, first installed WIN98 to get a program to rip the ISO images or ftp them and then use the floppy to boot :-) Didn't try the network option then. I also tried 10.0 but that didn't work out. Indeed too heavy. Another option I tried was Gentoo (3th stage) using a second computer to bootstrap and to compile the kernel. Took me some rebuilds before I had a working kernel (wrong processor selected...) Forgot how I did it but that worked also after a while. The mandrake 9.2 did very well. And after a lot of hard work I even got the Margi DVD-to-Go with Zoomed Video working! Took me some kernel changes in the PCMCIA driver, sound driver and a lot of hacking into the Neomagic driver. I even IDA pro-ed the windows driver to have it reveal it's dark secret about the Zoomed Video interface. In one of these days/weeks/months I might add the gory details here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~avics In the meantime it contains the two sides of the Libretto motherboard scanned in using my flatbed scanner and a collection of the Windows 2000 and XP drivers. Avi. -Original Message- From: T. Ribbrock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 13 December, 2006 14:05 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Re: State of the Art on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!) Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:51:42 +0100 From: T. Ribbrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: State of the Art on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM (and the 96MB thing!) On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:50:19AM -0700, Lines, Nick wrote: Thanks for all the input - keep 'em coming if anyone else has any tips! Ok, even if I'm late to the party... ;-) I had Mandrake Linux 9.1 running on my 100CT (later 110CT), on a 20GB drive. That combo worked *very* nicely and that Linux version was easy to install, as Mandrake at the time had PCMCIA network drivers in the installer, hence, you just needed to boot from one floppy (with BIOS support), then switch to network install. Obviously, this requires a network card and ideally a second machine that can be used as server (though an internet connection might do). I later switched to Mandrake 10.0 which was a nuissance - much, much slower (most likely too much going on in the default install) and more difficult to install (the PCMCIA networks drivers now reside on a second floppy, which cannot be read due to Linux not supporting the Libby's floppy - but you can install from a PCMCIA SCSI adapter and a SCSI CD-ROM drive instead, if you happen to own both...). This was on a 60GB drive. Not impressed, I moved on to SuSE Linux 10.0 - for this, I had to install the 60GB drive in another machine, as I could not figure out a way to install otherwise. I still have this combo running (mainly as MP3/OGG Vorbis player in our living room), but it's too slow to be comfortably used as web browsing machine (also, the small screen doesn't help - most websites basically *require* = 1024x768 these days, alas). I've also used it for some simple web development in this configuration (Apache installed, with some PHP/CMS). To safe memory, I'm running Window Maker and the odd xterm - I would not recommend even thinking about any of the big desktop environments a la KDE or Gnome. If I just want to check some mail, I don't even bother starting up X - just the command line is sufficient and very fast. Even browsing web sites works to some extend on the command line (links, w3m), though less so than a couple of years ago. SuSE 10.0 is still slow, though less so than MDK 10.0 - the biggest annoyance being yast2 (SuSE's configuration tool), which uses oodles of memory and hence runs as molasses on the Libby. I'm still wondering whether I'll try OpenBSD on that box one day - I'd still have to put the drive into another machine to install, but the system as such is so nice and lean that it might well be worth the effort - I still have the 20GB drive... ;-) Or I might switch back to an older Linux version or something like DamnSmallLinux. I never even considered running Windows on the Libby - the whole user experience of a Windows desktop is so annoyingly cumbersome to me that it drives me insane within a very short period of time. Bad enough that I have to use it at work... :-} Cheerio, Thomas -- -- --- Thomas Ribbrockhttp://www.ribbrock.org You have to live on the edge of reality - to make your dreams come true!
RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery)
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 19:39:48 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery) Matthew, One way or the other, you're looking at a problem with USBx that may not have been envisioned back the 90s when the 100CT was developed, and 1st released in February of '98. Raymond and other list members know more about the inner workings of these Libs, but my guess is that starting and stopping PCMCIA devices may be dependent on the Lib's BIOS. In '97-'98 I doubt any of the Libretto developers at Toshiba ever guessed that at some point people would need to not only stop a PCMCIA device, but a USB2 device plugged into a PCMCIA device too. If they did, it may have been one option among many others that they may have dismissed due to timetable restraints in getting the product released and shipped. The W2K or XP users don't have any of the problems. Don't worry about the Libretto's design in regard to PCMCIA: it is a fully supported 32-bit Cardbus interface with even on both ports a Zoomed Video port (works nicely with the Margi DVD-to-Go hardware DVD decoder). It works also very well with linux 2.4 and 2.6 btw. I also do own a PCMCIA USB 2.0 card and there is no problem with it unplugging devices. Note that the OS Meir mentioned is... windows 98... There lies the problem? Indeed, you need first to stop any USB2.0 devices and then the PCMCIA device. The W2K and XP drivers ask you that if you want to close the USB2.0 devices if you select the USBx.x PCMCIA card to be ejected. Avi.
RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 08:48:48 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Two questions (USB Battery) Hi Matthew, The W2K or XP users don't have any of the problems. Don't worry about the Libretto's design in regard to PCMCIA: it is a fully supported 32-bit Cardbus interface with even on both ports a Zoomed Video port (works nicely with the Margi DVD-to-Go hardware DVD decoder). Wow You got the Margi DVD-to-Go card to work!! I never got mine working. What's the secret? 1) Use XP as the stream.sys driver on W2K has a bug which causes BSOD when playing DVDs (took me 2-3 years to find that out. Did kernel debugging, etc... long story... 2) use the WDM driver 3) rip dvd's with DVD Decrypter as an ISO to a large HD and play the DVD's from the HD. a bit of a hassle but what a sharp image you have :-) I'll post my DVD findings with the libretto with a lot of tech details one of these days/weeks/months... Avi.
RE: [LIB] 110 HD upgrade??
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 13:38:00 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] 110 HD upgrade?? just as well fit in the Libby. Any idea about the HD LED operation in the Libs? As that seems flawed with recent high-capacity hard disks. This is what I also observe with several HD's that the lib-disk-led remains burning all the time. Is this a libretto problem? Please note that you have to take special care when partioning the drive for the Libby - 8 gig overlay issue AND you need EZ Bios to properly map the larger drive. (Not wanting to start a flame war :-) but...) ...no, you do NOT really need EZ Bios or any other overlay, although for many users that seems an easier solution than simply avoiding DOS FDISK. This has been covered repeatedly and in detail in this mailing list. Hmmm, maybe we should try to fix the bios... I'm trying to disassemble the BIOS image of 8.10 with IDA pro but a BIOS is a pretty complex piece of code... Avi.
RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct QUESTIONS Please
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:12:36 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct QUESTIONS Please Joseph, One important addition to point 7. http://www.askiris.toshiba.com/ToshibaSupportSite/search.do?cmd=displayK CdocType=kcexternalId=106492xmlsliceId=dialogID=17480718stateId=0%2 00%209559424 7. Where can I find updates to all the 110CT drivers? http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_modItemList.j sp?moid=10 73769617ct=DLBV_SessionID=0173384996.1164484011BV_E ngineID=cc cfaddjhhgjldmcgfkceghdgngdgnj.0 Needed is the BIOS update to 8.10. http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp ?soid=1207 36moid=1073769617BV_SessionID=0173384996.1164484011 BV_EngineI D=cccfaddjhhgjldmcgfkceghdgngdgnj.0ct=DL Toshiba Power Extensions for Windows 2000 (v1.00.01; 02-15-2000; 1.29M) http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlViewDL.jsp ?soid=1064 94moid=1073769617BV_SessionID=0173384996.1164484011 BV_EngineI D=cccfaddjhhgjldmcgfkceghdgngdgnj.0ct=DL This one also works on XP. Good luck. Avi.
RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct from 32 to 64Mb
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:04:26 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct from 32 to 64Mb Hi Joseph, Questions: 2. Can I increase the memory from 32.0MB? you can increase to 64Mb by getting a memory upgrade. find one on ebay. Avi. . I thought there was a limitation on the 110 of 32Mb only. Is this a special kit I need to buy? I tried eBay but found nothing. Any other place I can get it at? The 110 can handle max 64Mb. Try google (libretto 100ct memory module) to find modules. They are still around. Avi.
RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct from 32 to 64Mb
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 15:37:48 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct from 32 to 64Mb Hi, Avi: Thank you for responding!! So I understand; the 110 comes default with 32Mb of non-removable and an open slot that allows for a maximum of 32Mb more? Correct? Yes. I thought that you had to move the connector that is in the way and cut of a piece of the libretto to fit the memory module?! NO! ;-) Are there instructions on disassembling the 110 to get at the memory, etc? Check here for the file L100mm.pdf (http://downloads.conics.net/old-lib/) on the net. Instructions on how to dissassemble the libretto can be found around page 4-10 to install the memory module. Avi. Thank you again Avi. Joseph - Original Message - From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto libretto@basiclink.com Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 1:06 AM Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct from 32 to 64Mb Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:04:26 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 110ct from 32 to 64Mb Hi Joseph, Questions: 2. Can I increase the memory from 32.0MB? you can increase to 64Mb by getting a memory upgrade. find one on ebay. Avi. . I thought there was a limitation on the 110 of 32Mb only. Is this a special kit I need to buy? I tried eBay but found nothing. Any other place I can get it at? The 110 can handle max 64Mb. Try google (libretto 100ct memory module) to find modules. They are still around. Avi.
[LIB] Libretto Internals
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:23:05 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libretto Internals Hi, I'm trying to disassemble the bios of the libretto (v8.10). Is there anybody on this mailinglist who tried something similar? Or knows something more about special I/O addresses or PCI Addresses? Or some information about the PCI-to-ISA bridge? Or where to look? Any information might be interesting. Avi.
Re: [LIB] State of the Art on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:41:11 +0100 From: Avi Cohen Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] State of the Art on OS for the 100CT/64MB RAM Hi Nick, I'm using Win XP. With Office 2000 (use it rarely) and I even had VC6++ installed. I use the libretto for playing RealAudio files, navigation using Route66 and sometimes I watch DVD's with it. Ripped to disk as an ISO image using DVD Decryptor and Fantom CD to emulate in combination with the Margi DVD-to-Go card. Currently I have some problems because of an apperant bad disk but I'm not clear on that yet. I have a second libretto with Mandrake 2.4 and a hacked kernel and another disk with Gentoo 2.6 but that one is outdated already. need to find some time to restart that project again :-) In the mean time I'm trying to disassemble the BIOS with IDA Pro. Avi.
