Linux-Hardware Digest #754, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 21:13:27 EDT
Contents:
miro Video D1 (Andre)
Re: What about DVD Drives ?
Re: Fastest CPU for 60ns simm memory? (Greg Leblanc)
aha152x synchronous mode ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Unsuported PCMCIA card help (Roy Goodman)
Avermedia TV Phone (bt848) TV card not working...help! (Ken Overgard)
Re: SoundBlaster Live! (Mike Simos)
Advanced CAD for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel Panic, initrd problem? (Richard Bumby)
Re: Zip plus always busy (Richard Bumby)
Re: What about DVD Drives ? ("Drew A. Dunn")
Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy ("Gene Heskett")
For about the 1000 th Time ("Dennis")
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Ron Gibson)
Advanced CAD for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:25:17 +0200
From: Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: miro Video D1
Hi there!
I have an old video grabber card called "miro Video D1". I know its
really old and not so powerfull, but I have it and its enough for me, I
just cant find drivers to run it under Linux. Maybe someone heard of a
solution...
cya
-andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: What about DVD Drives ?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:14:42 -0700
On 13 Jul 1999 18:29:35 GMT, Tsmanlyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>VERY COOL. Soon I'll be able to kill windows entirely :) I got a Q now tho..
>are there any drivers for the newer DVD burners? I'd love to get into 4gig
As much as one of those puppies cost, you just might be
able to afford someone to write a driver for you...
>storage CDs.. :)
>
> Send replies via e-mail !
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From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fastest CPU for 60ns simm memory?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:47:03 GMT
I'm not sure what chipset that board has, but I'm guessing that it will
allow you to run the RAM asynchronsly with the CPU bus. I.E. You can
run the RAM at 66MHz (the fastest it will do) and the CPU and L2 cache
at 100MHz. If this board can't do that, find another one that can.
This will allow you to keep your existing RAM, and get the fastest
socket 7 CPU on the market. I'd check www.tomshardware.com (getting a
little too comertial, but still a good source) or anandtech.com. They
are great references for hardware.
Greg
In article <7mg7vh$qn9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Hecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wish to upgrade my motherboard/CPU to a faster combination.
Currently, I
> have 60ns 72 pin (non-EDO) simms and would like to use them on the new
> motherboard.
>
> So my question is, what is the fastest CPU that can run reliably with
my
> existing simms?
>
> I am looking at a Tyan 1590S socket seven motherboard with either a
233MMX
> Pentium or AMD 350. I would underclock the CPU's if necessary.
>
> In the future, I will upgraded to faster memory. For now, I am trying
to
> keep the costs down.
>
> Thanks
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: aha152x synchronous mode
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:41:36 GMT
Hey there, does anyone know what happened to Juergen Fischer, the author
of the aha152x SCSI driver? The latest version is from 1996 and doesn't
have synchronous SCSI support working. Has anyone looked into what it
would take to get this finished?
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From: Roy Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unsuported PCMCIA card help
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:11:00 -0400
Sorry for the long message, but it should contain the answers to any
questions anyone has about what I'm trying to do. Any help appreciated.
I have an Ambicom 80002t ethernet card which is a 10Base-t card, which is
unsupported by PCMCIA card services although their 8002 (which is 10base2
is supported. I'm attempting to follow the directions in section 6 of the
PCMCIA HOWTO for unsupported cards. I have two PCMCIA slots, and the
Modem in socket 0 worked from the first time I slipped it in, so I know
that the card services module is compiled.
If I try to just insert the card, I get a single low beep and my
/var/log/messag
es tells me:
>> Jul 10 17:01:53 localhost cardmgr[306]: initializing socket 0
>> Jul 10 17:01:53 localhost cardmgr[306]: unsupported card in socket 0
>> Jul 10 17:01:53 localhost cardmgr[306]: product info: "AmbiCom Inc",
"AMB8002T", "Ethernet TP Only", "RevB"
>> Jul 10 17:01:53 localhost cardmgr[306]: function: 6 (network)
So I added the following lines to my /etc/pcmcia/config: I'm not sure
about the binding, but most of the ethernet cards seem to use it. Can
someone tell me if this is correct.
card "AmbiCom AMB8002t Ethernet"
version "AmbiCom Inc", "AMB8002T", "Ethernet TP Only", "RevB"
bind "pcnet_cs"
I reboot to see what happens. Here's the relevant section of the log
file:
>> Jul 10 17:35:58 localhost cardmgr[306]: initializing socket 0
>> Jul 10 17:35:58 localhost kernel: cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff:
clean.
>> Jul 10 17:35:58 localhost cardmgr[306]: socket 0: AmbiCom AMB8002t Ethernet
>> Jul 10 17:35:59 localhost rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded
>> Jul 10 17:35:59 localhost cardmgr[306]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.5
-15/net/8390.o'
>> Jul 10 17:35:59 localhost cardmgr[306]: executing: 'insmod /lib/modules/2.2.5
-15/pcmcia/pcnet_cs.o'
>> Jul 10 17:35:59 localhost kernel: eth0: NE2000 Compatible: port 0x300, irq 3,
hw_addr 00:10:7A:98:03:43
>> Jul 10 17:35:59 localhost cardmgr[306]: executing: './network start eth0'
>> Jul 10 17:35:59 localhost cardmgr[306]: + usage: ifup <device name>
>> Jul 10 17:35:59 localhost cardmgr[306]: start cmd exited with status 1
If I eject and reinsert the card, I now get a high-low pair of beeps and
the same set of log messages as above. The only advice related to this in the
HOWTO seems to be
1: I need to write a new driver myself.
2: I need to recompile the kernel and/or the modules.
I'm hoping none of that is necessary.
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From: Ken Overgard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Avermedia TV Phone (bt848) TV card not working...help!
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:12:23 -0400
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
I have an Avermedia TV Phone card (based off the Brooktree bt848 chipset)
and Linux 2.2.10.
<p>I have successfully compiled and installed kwintv, xawtv, all necessary
kernel modules, devices, etc:
<p>athena% lsmod
<br>Module
Size Used by
<br>tuner
2120 1
<br>bttv
35012 0
<br>videodev
2268 3 [bttv]
<br>i2c
3160 2 [tuner bttv]
<p>athena% ls -al /dev | egrep 'tv|radio'
<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root
10 Jul 12 18:50 bttv -> /dev/bttv0
<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root
13 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-fm -> /dev/bttv-fm0
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 64 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-fm0
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 65 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-fm1
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 66 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-fm2
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 67 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-fm3
<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root
14 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-vbi -> /dev/bttv-vbi0
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 224 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-vbi0
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 225 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-vbi1
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 226 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-vbi2
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 227 Jul 12 18:50 bttv-vbi3
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 0 Jul 12 18:50 bttv0
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 1 Jul 12 18:50 bttv1
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 2 Jul 12 18:50 bttv2
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 3 Jul 12 18:50 bttv3
<br>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root
root
11 Jul 12 18:50 radio -> /dev/radio0
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 64 Jul 12 18:50 radio0
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 65 Jul 12 18:50 radio1
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 66 Jul 12 18:50 radio2
<br>crw-rw-rw- 1 root
root
81, 67 Jul 12 18:50 radio3
<p>The problem is that when I run kwintv, all I get is static, no matter
what channel I choose. I've followed all instructions properly (afaict).
<p>kradio also doesn't play anything (not even static), so that might be
related.
<p>the card itself is configured properly. here's some dmesg output:
<p>i2c: bus unregistered: bt848-0
<br>bttv0: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 17) bus: 0, devfn: 88, irq: 9, memory:
0xe7000000.
<p>everything looks right, and i've looked over all of the braindead stuff
(cables plugged in properly, input source chosen correctly, etc.)
<p>Any ideas?
<p>Please respond via email (remove removethis from my email address).
<p>Thanks in advance,
<p>Ken
<br> </html>
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From: Mike Simos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live!
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:34:19 GMT
There is a new driver (0.3b) at http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
you might want to give a try.
Mike
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Subject: Advanced CAD for Linux.
Date: Tue,13 Jul 1999 19:07:51+2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Bumby)
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic, initrd problem?
Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:03:01 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Ries) writes:
>Greetings all. I've been gone from the linux world for a while, but I
>thought I'd come blazing back on the scene with RH 6.0. It works quite
>well, but I cannot seem to get the 2.2 kernel recompiled. This was never a
>problem back in the 2.0 days, so I can't figure out what's going on.
>When I boot my new kernel, I get an error: "Kernel Panic: cannot mount
>root VFS" (not exact text)
>I have no idea what this means, but I suspect it has something to do with
>the fact that RH installs an initrd image, and my new kernel does not.
>Anyone have any clue? All I'm trying to do is get my ATAPI CDRW and
>Ensoniq AudioPCI to work - you'd think this would be easier!
>Any comments/suggestions are welcome.
>Thanks so much,
I can only offer some speculation, but do it in the hope that this
thread will stay alive long enough to generate some answers.
I have seen this "panic" message when I was trying to teach the lilo
of a 2.0.x installation to recognize the new 2.2.x partition that I
added to the system. I gave it information about the kernel and the
filesystem, and ran lilo. However, I failed to include information
about the initrd and got this message. Since I have an all-scsi
system, I think that the only alternative to using the initrd would be
to have the scsi support in the kernel, but this might lead to a
kernel too large to boot (clarification of this would be useful).
There probably are some things in the (very large) kernel provided
with the Caldera distribution that I could do without, but previous
experience building the kernel for the 2.0.x to include support for my
scsi card taught me that I don't know enough to give the best answers
to the questions that the configuration program asks. The present
2.2.x kernel works nicely, so I'll stick with it for a while.
It seems that the 2.2.x kernels make better use of modules, so you may
not need to add the support you want to the kernel. I had some
difficulty configuring my sound card, because no instructions were
included, but I stumbled on the right tool while exploring the KDE
desktop, and I found that it left some notes to allow the modules to
be found at startup and given the correct parameters.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Bumby)
Subject: Re: Zip plus always busy
Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:21:03 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Busey) writes:
>This question involves unmounting my zip plus parallel port drive.
>Any time after I've mounted it I can't unmount, even when no one is
>accessing any files on it and its resources aren't used. Instead I
>get the message "umount: /mnt/zip: device is busy"
>That sure is annoying.
>Here's the relevant line from my fstab:
>/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip auto user,noauto,defaults 0 0
>Thanks a mil,
>Jon
The fstab line looks right. Besides, an error there would probably
keep you from mounting the drive.
I have a Zip-Plus, and have not met this problem. My situation is
currently different, since I haven't put a line in the fstab file
because I only use the drive rarely, and don't mind logging in as root
on one of the other virtual terminals and using the long form of the
mount command.
It is possible that the device really is busy. It doesn't have to
*look* busy for the system to insist that it stay mounted. You may
need to look very closely to find something that contains a reference
to a file or directory on the drive.
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From: "Drew A. Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What about DVD Drives ?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:11:06 -0400
I have a Creative Labs DVD player and it works fine under redhat 6.0.
I've used CDs in it, but haven't tried any DVDs yet.
Drew A. Dunn
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Alex Roussel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to buy a DVD drive, but when I saw that there was no support
> for DVD drives in Linux, I got scared. After browsing around, it seems that
> some drive work as CD-ROM. I also saw that there is dvd burning sofwares
> availbale for linux. I'm confused now. Has anyone out there a DVD-Drive
> working under linux, and if yes, what brand/type is it ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
>
>
>
>
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Date: 13 Jul 99 20:30:42 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.arch.storage
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Barry Samuels;
BS> On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:24:59, "Gene Heskett"
BS> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> And by golly, there it is, with a lot more options set that make sense
>> for this drive. Lemme fill in the blanks...
>>
>> BS> Example:
>> ---------
>> BS> #KDE Config File
>> BS> [KDE Setup]
>> ejectOnUnmount=true
>> defaultTapeSize=8388608
>> lockOnMount=true
>> loadOnMount=true
>> tapeDevice=mt
>> [KfileDialogSettings]
>> ejectOnUnmount=true
>> defaultTapeSize=8388608
>> lockOnMount=true
>> loadOnMount=true
>> tapeDevice=/dev/tape
>> tapeBlockSize=512
>> ------EOF
>>
>> BS> tapeBlockSize=1024
>> BS> tapeDevice=/dev/nst0
>>
>> Now, I note that there are 2 tapeDevice= statements there, as are most
>> of the rest of the conf file's statements. Do I need to fix something
>> there since with the exception of the tapeDevice, nothing else is
>> visible in the prefs pulldown when clicked on..
BS> I would suggest the following:
BS> In the [KDE Setup] section copy the tapeBlockSize line from the
BS> [KFileDialogSettings] section assuming that it is correct for your
BS> drive.
BS> Change the tapeDevice in [KDE Setup] to /dev/nst0.
Did that, also tried /dev/tape, a softlink to nst0. Its reported by
whatever when I restart kdat, but it still doesn't tag the bus led on
the card, or the led on the drive before reporting that there is no tape
in the drive when you try to 'mount' it. Nearly all the other options
are of course ghosted out if the tape isn't mounted.
BS> Comment out the whole section under the [KFileDialogSettings] header.
BS> Assuming that the defaultTapeSize is correct for your drive - try it
BS> now!
No difference Barry.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: For about the 1000 th Time
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:14:05 -0500
First time player installed RH 6.0 and it does not see my SCSI internal
Iomega Zip. Setup includes Adaptec 2940 UW which sees it just fine. Also
how the hell do you set up a Courier V. Everything Ext. to use on the net
with Netscape. Also, how the hell do you setup Netscape. If all else
fails, what book for a complete Linux IDIOT would you recommend. One last
request, I have RH 6.0, SuSE 6.1, Caldera 2.2, Slackware 4.0, Linux Pro, &
TurboLinux .......which would be the easiest to work with. This is a small
office, stand alone application.
Thanks in Advance!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dev's won't work???
Date: 14 Jul 1999 00:10:08 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) wrote:
> > > > For instance invoking commands such as "ftape" or "fd0" I get a no such
> > > > device message. However when viewing the directory with MC the devices
> > > > and or links are there and they have been made.
> > > Those are not commands, they are devices.
> > >
> > > Just what would you expect executing /dev/fd0 to do?
> > Oh brother. I made a typo. That should read "invoking commands that
> > includes a dev such as ftape or fd0"
> > Clear now?
>
> Then assuming they have the right major and minor (2,0 for fd0 and 27,0
> for rft0, which is what ftape usually points at), it's probably that you
> built a kernel lacking support for floppy devices.
>
> Look at /proc/devices. If you don't see fd as major 2 under block
> devices, that's your problem.
Turned out to be a kernel problem. Even the install kernel had the
problem. Recompiling and remaking modules solved the problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Advanced CAD for Linux.
Date: Tue,13 Jul 1999 19:07:51+2000
Look at this web page to learn more about the best new application
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