Linux-Hardware Digest #846
Linux-Hardware Digest #846, Volume #14 Wed, 30 May 01 15:13:06 EDT Contents: Framegrabber PMC with driver (Michael B. Matthews) Strange problem, related to sound and pcmcia (Edward Ned Harvey) RedHat 7.1 sur Compaq Deskpro (jormungandr) X problems with Dell Latitude Xpi 133st (Steven Shapiro) Re: Shutting down Beep (The Doctor) Re: Can't get disk DMA with PIIX (reader of news) FA: Hayes ESP High Speed Serial Port - 16-bit (1mikef) Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP! (Ricardo da Silva) Re: Debian Potato webcam (Ricardo da Silva) Re: ide-tape.o errors (Leonard Evens) Re: SCSI problems (Leonard Evens) Re: how to set console colors (The Doctor) Re: Via VT82C686 Sound Card (Markku Kolkka) Genius HR6 usb scanner works with linux? (Mario Giammarco) Re: linux and the Mac (The Doctor) installing NIC (Andrey Shcherbina) From: Michael B. Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Framegrabber PMC with driver Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 07:20:51 -0700 Hello; I'm looking for a video framegrabber PMC module with RS-170 input, RS-170/RGB output, and Linux driver. I'm considering boards from both Visicom (VigraVision) and Radstone (GA-2), but they have no Linux drivers. Any ideas? Thank you, -Mike -- From: Edward Ned Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Strange problem, related to sound and pcmcia Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:15:50 GMT I've got a Dell Inspiron 8000 running Mandrake 8.0. You can get details of my procedure and problem at nedharvey.com but here's what it's about: By default, the pcmcia doesn't work on this laptop. If you insert a pcmcia card, the whole system instantly crashes. So I download the newest package and install it. Now, when I reboot, insert the pcmcia card, the system doesn't crash, but the card doesn't work properly. Then, I install the package for a second time, and reboot, and the card works perfectly. ... BUT, the sound gets a little messed up. (Details below). Ordinarily, with a problem like this, you'd think that there's a problem with irq's or something. So to test this theory, I disabled the pcmcia package entirely. (remove /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S09pcmcia) Of course, pcmcia doesn't start, but the sound is unaffected. still messed up. This suggests that the problem is not with the pcmcia itself, but with the installer -- that during the part when it calls depmod or the like, it changes something for the sound modules. Unfortunately, that's a subject that I don't fully understand. Now, the details of what's wrong with the sound: It can only play one sound at a time. So on startup, the startup sound plays, and tricks me into thinking that sound works. But then I do something else, like play a video game, and suddenly it's obvious that it's messed up. Finally... I do keep regular backups of my system, so if anybody has a suggestion for some files to compare, I have both the before-version and the after-version. -- From: jormungandr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RedHat 7.1 sur Compaq Deskpro Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:19:07 +0200 Bonjour Je désire installer le RedHat 7.1fr sur mon (vieux) Compaq Deskpro XL 133. J'ai donc downloadé sur un ftp assez rapide les iso, puis les ai gravés.Tout ok Mais impossible de trouver, lors de la premiere phase d'installation, le driver pour le lecteur CD, qui est cablé en SCSI (a la vente par Compaq). Le disque dur SCSI ayant rendu l'ame il y a qlqs mois, j'ai du le remplacer par un IDE ... Donc, il m'est impossible de trouver le bon drivers pour le CD ... meme sur la D7 sup. (drivers.img). Qlq'un connait-il un moyen de contourner ce pb? Dois-je upgrader le firmware (sur compaq.com, uniquement des drivers pour les proliants :0) ... Merci par avance, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.jormungandr.net -- Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.redhat From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven Shapiro) Subject: X problems with Dell Latitude Xpi 133st Date: 30 May 2001 16:03:36 GMT I've installed Red Hat 7.1 (with XFree86 4.0.3) on an Dell Latitude XPi P133ST (NeoMagic 2070 video controller) but I'm having some problems with the display under X. When I move a window it does not refresh properly (although anything below the window does refresh properly). Also, when I move the mouse to about an inch from the right edge of the screen a small white square appears under the mouse cursor and a vertical line of moving white dots also appears. I've played with the XF86Config-4 file, but I have not been able to remedy the problem. Although, I have not been able to find the horizontal or vertical sync rates for the laptop screen, so I've been shooting in the dark. Any ideas how to fix this problem? Thanks, Steven
Linux-Hardware Digest #846
Linux-Hardware Digest #846, Volume #13Sun, 5 Nov 00 09:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: X doesn't like SBLive? (Frank Paysen)
Epson 1160 wide format printer (Puddin tane)
Linksys Net work card ("Burnie")
Advice needed on experiences with Linksys PCMPC200 PCMCIA NIC card
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cdrecord w/Plextor 12x/4x/32x (Brian Hall)
Microsoft Optical Mouse (linuxfrk16)
Re: Looking for soundcard with Linux microphone support (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Hard Drive Drive problems. (Dr Aldo Medina)
Want Sound Card for Recording (Mark Bratcher)
Linksys LNE100tx ("Burnie")
Linux Newbie Help ("Nitrus")
Hardware requirements for a print server, file server and firewall/gateway. (James
D. Robinson)
Re: Hardware requirements for a print server, file server and firewall/gateway.
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Re: HP 4050 network printer (Alberto Bellorin)
Re: 1GB Linux memory limitation? (Steve Gage)
Crystal Sound card help please (root)
ParPort: AP138B ("Petricca Antonio")
Best NIC for Red Hat 6.1 internet connection? ("Roy Troxel")
From: Frank Paysen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X doesn't like SBLive?
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 02:40:19 GMT
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 09:09:30 -, "Dave Stanton"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Frank Paysen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Could anybody help? I have the following problem:
I'm running SuSE 7.0 with a Soundblaster Live! card and emu10k.
The SBLive runs fine under Windows ME, and it runs fine under Linux,
too, as long as X is not running.
As soon as I enter KDE (or any other Desktop), I no longer have access
to the sound card, it plays dead. When I switch to a virtual
console, however, "play /.../..wav" plays the .wav, audibly.
If I use Yast2 to reinstall the modules while KDE is running, the
sound card works till I log out. When I log back in again, it's gone.
What does Yast do? Can one somehow configure X to stay connected to
the card?
Thanks for any help!
Frank
If you look at the sound card section of the manual you will find reference
to altering a text file for KDE to allow it to access the soundcard.
Thanks for the tip. (Thanks to Steve and Sebastian as well).
Unfortunately I've tried everything in the manual and it hasn't
worked.
Meanwhile I've integrated a "alsasound restart" into the kdestart
script, reinstalling the sound card driver with each kde-start. For
this I regret having had to extend execution privileges to all for
insmod--certainly not very pretty. Not a good solution at all, but
till something better turns up, it'll have to do.
Frank
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From: Puddin tane [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Epson 1160 wide format printer
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 02:51:14 GMT
Can anyone let me know if they have been using the Epson Stylus 1160
successfully with Linux? I see on the Linux Harware database listings for
Epson printers through the 900 series. Thanks,
JWDougherty
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From: "Burnie" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linksys Net work card
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 02:57:39 GMT
I have the linksys hpn100sk..Has anyone had any luck w/ them for
linux yet??
Please notify me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Burnie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Advice needed on experiences with Linksys PCMPC200 PCMCIA NIC card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 03:14:10 GMT
Sorry for my earlier accidental posting as a reply to a different
message.
Please copy reply to me: sundar_n AT nospam.hotmail.com
Remove nospam. and replace AT with @
Thanks in advance
I am planning on buying a Linksys PCMPC200 Integrated Cardbus
PCMCIA card (since I want to move up from the 10 MBPS 3COM 3c509 PCMCIA
card I have now.
I am running RedHat 7.0 and the only reason for the upgrade is to move
up to a 100 MBPS networking speed.
I would really like to hear:
1. Is this Linksys PCMPC200 well supported in RH7
2. If you have used it, how satisfied have you been
3. Can I expect 100 MBPS or 200 MPBS (duplex) using this card - I have
a LAn at home with 2 m/cs. The other m/c has RH 6.2 and 2 100 MBPS
cards (an Intel Ether Express Pro/100+ and a SMC RealTek 8139 with the
SMC card connecting out over cable modem.
My existing PCMCIA card is a 10 MBPS and I have felt it is the
bottleneck for LAN communications.
Before buying the new card I would like to know whether I can expect
100 MBPS performance with the new card.
Any idea what is a reliable way to test whether I am getting 100 MBPS
performance? Are there any utilities?
Thanks in advance.
Sundar Nagarajan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hall)
Subject: Re: cdrecord w/Plextor 12x/4x/32x
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2000 03:16:01
