On Sat, 6 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 06:28:03PM -0500, Faheem Mitha wrote: > > Can you tell me the make of the drive? Also, does regular SCSI > > emulation (for 2.4.x) still get the hardware support for burning > > working, or do I have to do more? > > From /var/log/dmesg: > ... > hdc: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8162B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive > ... > You do not need to use scsi-emulation (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI in 2.6). > Instead, use cdrecord v2's ATAPI transport with kernel 2.6's device > spec: > > # cdrecord -v dev=/dev/hdc foo.iso (from the above drive) But scsi emulation suffices for 2.4 kernels? > This means also that you can remove the append="hdc=ide-scsi" from your > bootloader's conffile. I've got everything as modules, so I'm doing it in /etc/modutils. > > So it is possible they might be using some other ethernet card? And could > > there be problems in that case? Sigh... > > It's possible. Make sure you get the e1000. > > > I'm still trying to use 2.6.x (2.6.2) on my home machine. I've been > > having annoying problems with my mouse pointer being too jumpy. I > > thought that passing the psmouse.proto=bare option to the kernel > > should fix it, but it doesn't seem to. > > Shouldn't occur with these Dells and their USB mice. I'm using a Cirque Smartcat touchpad (PS/2) and a USB mouse simultaneously on my home machine. Dunno whether that has a bearing on it. I don't have this problem with 2.4.x. > > I've had lots of trouble with ALSA, at least on 2.4.x, which I am > > still using. I did get a similar integrated sound chipset (Intel8x0) > > working on both an IBM machine and on a Dell Optiplex, though I had to > > switch off KDE's arts daemon, which was interfering with it. I just > > figure the Audigy would work more nicely. > > Intel8x0s do not support hardware multiopen. ALSA provides a software > multiopen mixer at the API level known as dmix (which you can combine > with dsnoop for dshare), so you can multiplex simultaneous sounds. This > of course requires most applications to be updated to support dmix, but > it does work fairly well on this Dell. Hmm. Interesting. So the problem is with the hardware and not with Arts? > The Audigy uses an EMU10K1 variant, which does support hardware > multiopen, so dmix is not necessary (though I do use it at home for my > sblive). Thanks. Faheem. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
