Linux-Hardware Digest #980, Volume #12 Sat, 3 Jun 00 16:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: download LINUX ("devdut")
Re: onboard yamaha sound chip (Martin Herrman)
Video howto for Linux???????? ("Walter L. Williams")
Re: Building a wearable computer ("Adrian JOICE")
Re: Sound Card ("P.V.Subramanian")
Re: CD burner (JEDIDIAH)
Re: swap-partition.... (hac)
Re: USB Mouse and PS/2 Mouse under X (Lee Sau Dan)
Re: Additional hard drive for Linux (David C.)
Re: 3com voice fax/modem oem 2976 ("CNPOS")
SV: onboard yamaha sound chip ("Mats Nyberg")
Re: USB and Linux (SageMage)
SV: American modem ("Mats Nyberg")
Re: SV: American modem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Ultra ATA-66 driver ("Peter Somers")
Re: swap-partition.... ("Steve D.")
Canon BJ80 ("Mike Crook")
Re: SB16 problem on Mandrake 7.0, Help meeeeeee... (Leandro Gelasi)
Re: Additional hard drive for Linux (Johan Kullstam)
Re: The Perfect Linux Video Card (Ronald Cole)
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Reply-To: "devdut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "devdut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: download LINUX
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 15:26:54 +0200
Thanks dude..
busy downloading :)
Keep it real!
devdut
"Lien-Fei (Alex) Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> You can try
>
> www.linuxiso.org
>
> It has many distro... However, I don't know how fast it is.
>
> You can check out whichever distro's web site.
>
> www.susu.com
> www.redhat.com
> www.slackware.com
> ...
>
> Good luck
>
> Alex.
>
> devdut wrote:
>
> > where can I DL linux from?
> >
> > --
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> > Tel: +27 82 5518557
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: onboard yamaha sound chip
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 03 Jun 2000 13:27:01 GMT
On Sat, 3 Jun 2000 14:57:37 +0200, Julien du payrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Does someone has info one making a onboard yamaha YMF740E chip under linux.
> I have already tried OPL3-SA2 driver without success.
Ehm.. I do have A yamaha on board soundcard in my toshiba 320 cdt laptop.
It works with the opl3sa2 driver, but I also needed the mpu401 driver,
did you also compile it with your kernel?
Martin
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Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 07:30:12 -0600
From: "Walter L. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video howto for Linux????????
Hi
I am interested in getting a small video camera to put on to of my
monitor and use. Does anyone know of any documentation on how
to setup a camera for use on Linux? I want to read up on it before
I buy anything so I can get one that is compatable.
Walt in Colorado
FYI: I have already looked at the web site containing the Linux
Documentation Project for a HOWTO.
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From: "Adrian JOICE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Building a wearable computer
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 14:30:57 +0100
you're going about this the wrong way folks. Just use a normal computer
system with a new fancy flat screen and then eat and eat and eat to put on
weight - then you'll be able to lug it all around!!
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"Jim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:mWRZ4.2209$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm looking to build myself a wearable computer; ideally, it would run
> linux/win98, and be pentium-class, 3d accelerated. I'd be tickled if I
could
> make it run Linux, and any class pentium. I'd settle for a 486/680x0
running
> Linux. I have a pentium laptop that I'd be willing to sacrifice to the
> effort, but I'm not a hardware guru (I can use a soldering iron, but the
> results won't be pretty 8c) What's holding me up mostly is the display. I
> see some very nice, very expensive display systems (clip-on to glasses,
that
> sort of thing,) but even they only manage 320x200 resolution. I'd even
> settle for that if the displays weren't so terribly expensive. I've also
> seen some examples of where people used camera/camcorder viewfinders as
> displays. The problem again is that I wouldn't know how to hook one up (I
> have an old Amiga 1200 that I'd settle for making into a wearable that has
> composite and rf-modulated output, but that introduces the problem of
> creating a power supply for it.)
>
> So, could anyone give me some advice on how to A) connect a vga-out (from,
> say, a laptop) to a camcorder viewfinder B) what such viewfinders would
work
> for this, C) an existing video solution for < $500 US that I could use
> instead. What I'm hoping for is a display I can connect to the external
svga
> port of my notebook, build a mini-backpack to hold the notebook, and use
the
> display/notebook and twiddler keyboard as a short-term solution until I
can
> rebuild the laptop into a smaller formfactor (by getting rid of the cd-rom
> and floppy, for example.)
> I've considered building one from scratch using PC-104 and/or other
embedded
> hardware, but I don't think I'm up to the challenge, particularly
regarding
> the power supply required. That path also quickly exceeds the $1,000 US
> price limit I've placed on this project.
>
> As I said, any advice anyone can give me would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jim Williams
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "P.V.Subramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Card
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 07:02:38 -0700
Hi,
By Linux 6.2 I meant Red Hat Linux 6.2 (sorry for the confusion). I have
Creative Sound Blaster 16 Plug and Play Sound Card. I want to play the CD
music and send the output to the computer speakers (just like I do in my
Windows 98) or play music from some web sites.
Thanks,
P.V.Subramanian
Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "P.V.Subramanian" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have installed Linux 6.2 on my Packard Bell 133MHz Pentium PC. It
> > already has Windows 98 nstalled. My question is what should I do so that
> > LINUX recognizes the sound card and plays the wave files and also plays
the
> > audio CD?
> >
> > Any response is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > P.V.Subramanian
>
> Audio CDs can be played even without configuring the sound card.
> Put in a CD and press the play button on the front of the CD drive.
> The disk turns, the CD Audio data is converted to audio in the drive,
> goes down a skinny wire to the amplifier circuit of the sound card and
> out to the speakers. Linux (or Win*) plays no part in this.
>
> KR.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: CD burner
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:06:34 GMT
On Sat, 03 Jun 2000 02:17:26 GMT, J. Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have to exact same problem trying to load my CD-RW (Plextor 8/4/32)
>under RH6.2.
>
>As I did not have lilo.conf put on my HD, I am booting off a floppy.
>I did a full install of RH6.2, and this CDRW is currently being
>recognized upong bootup as HDD. I also have a CD drive as HDC.
>
>I have read the CD-Writing HOWTO and according to its instructions, I
>have done the following:
>
>1) In my lilo.conf file, I added "append="hdd=ide-scsi"
>2) Under the conf.modules, I added:
>
> options ide-cd ignore=hdd
If you can run all of your CD devices as SCSI, then you
should be able to just drop ide-cd and load ide-scsi
instead.
Do:
rmmod ide-cd
modprobe ide-scsi
and see what happens.
Unless ide-cd is ignoring your "ignore" directive you should
never see hdd as an IDE device. At the very least it should
be "unloaded".
> pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
> pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
> pre-install ide-scsi modproble ide-cd
>
>
>When I reboot the system, I notice that HDD is still shown as the
>CDRW, and no SCSI hosts are found.
>
>I then tried: insmod ide-scsi but this didn't seem to help either.
>After this, I tried to insmod sr_mod and sg but these modules could
>not be found. Could this be part of my problem?
>
>I am wondering if I need to recompile the Kernel as I have noticed in
>other postings?
>
>thanks for any assistance!
>
>Jeff Peterson
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swap-partition....
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 15:57:36 GMT
Thirsty McGuinness wrote:
>
> Does it bring a better performance if I place the swap-partition to another
> physical drive than the rest of the linux-system, i.e. at the beginning of a
> second drive?
You could always put a swap partition on each drive, for the best
performance.
But if disk performance when paging is really an issue, you need more
memory. No matter how much you tweak the swap partition, it's still
several orders of magnitude slower than RAM.
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From: Lee Sau Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Mouse and PS/2 Mouse under X
Date: 03 Jun 2000 23:59:43 +0800
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thomas> Hello to you, I have a problem with my USB Mouse I want to
Thomas> use my USB-Mouse and my PS/2 Mouse at the same time in on
Thomas> X-Window Session
Can you configure 'gpm' to work with your USB mouse? If so, you can
do what you want with 'gpm'. Read 'man gpm' and look for the '-M'
option.
Hint: You'll have you modify your XF86Config and tell X to listen to the
device "/dev/gpmdata" instead of "/dev/mouse".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Additional hard drive for Linux
Date: 3 Jun 2000 17:14:10 GMT
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> nod. they don't give you near enough PCI slots. 3-4 is *not* enough;
> i want 8.
How about one of these:
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunder2400_p.html
Dual Slot-1, up to 4G RAM, built in Ethernet. Built in dual-channel
Ultra2 SCSI controller. AGP slot. 4 32-bit PCI slots. 2 64-bit 66MHz
PCI slots.
Not quite 8 PCI slots, but with on-board Ethernet and two LVD SCSI
channels, you won't need as many, either. (And those 64-bit PCI slots
will come in handy if you decide to get an OC-12 ATM adapter :-)
(No, I don't know what it costs. I don't think I want to know, either.)
-- David
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From: "CNPOS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3com voice fax/modem oem 2976
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 13:27:54 -0500
> The system; Athlon 550mhz, Soundblaster live value (not supported), 3dfx
> voodoo 3 and 3com voice fax/modem.
Since when is the Sound Blaster Live! not supported?
http://opensource.creative.com
> The trouble: Unable to link the modem to a com port in Redhat Linux 6.1.
> Did somebody knows if there's a problem with this modem in this version?
> Please give me a chance to appreciate linux.
>
> P.L.
Is it a winmodem? a PNP?
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From: "Mats Nyberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SV: onboard yamaha sound chip
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 17:55:36 +0200
There is a commercial OSS-driver for YMF-740, and i belive it is coming a
free Alsa-driver. Julien, i guess you may have a Intel SE440BX-2 mainboard.
If so, coud you please let me know if you have had any trouble with
serialports/modem/ppp-connection. Please.
Julien du payrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Does someone has info one making a onboard yamaha YMF740E chip under
linux.
> I have already tried OPL3-SA2 driver without success.
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From: SageMage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB and Linux
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 13:10:19 -0500
Daniel McLean wrote:
>
> The correct article to use would be 'an' not 'a' when referring to an "EFA
> board"
>
> >
> > I have a EFA board with VIA chips and USB support.
> >
Thanx grandpa grammer :)
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From: "Mats Nyberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SV: American modem
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 18:08:39 +0200
Paul Voller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:Pine.GSO.4.21.0006021617200.29752-100000@helpfu
l.dcs.warwick.ac.uk...
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Yns wrote:
>
> |I'm based in the UK and recently bought an external US Robotics
> |Sportster modem from an american friend.
> |
> |Unfortunatly, I cannot get it to work on my linux machine.
> |
> |I couldn't even get it to work on a windows pc.
> |
> |I've probably tried all dip switch settings without success.
> |
> |I gave up on the modem about 2 weeks ago - however
> |is there anyone who can shed some wisdom on why an
> |american modem won't work in the UK.
>
> I do not think that the two telephone systems are compatible in terms of
> the hardware that you can pout into the plug in the wall. Also, the modem
> will not be BABT approved, which means that it is actually /illegal/ to
> use it on BT sockets.
>
> I would ditch it and spend 30 quid on a new one from the UK.
>
> Good luck,
>
> P.
Try adding B&G2&P1 to your modem-initstring.>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SV: American modem
Date: 3 Jun 2000 18:14:38 GMT
Mats Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Paul Voller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
: diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:Pine.GSO.4.21.0006021617200.29752-100000@helpfu
: l.dcs.warwick.ac.uk...
:>
:> |I'm based in the UK and recently bought an external US Robotics
:> |Sportster modem from an american friend.
:> |
:> |Unfortunatly, I cannot get it to work on my linux machine.
:> |
:> |I couldn't even get it to work on a windows pc.
:> |
:> |I've probably tried all dip switch settings without success.
:> |
:> |I gave up on the modem about 2 weeks ago - however
:> |is there anyone who can shed some wisdom on why an
:> |american modem won't work in the UK.
:>
:> I do not think that the two telephone systems are compatible in terms of
:> the hardware that you can pout into the plug in the wall. Also, the modem
:> will not be BABT approved, which means that it is actually /illegal/ to
:> use it on BT sockets.
:>
:> I would ditch it and spend 30 quid on a new one from the UK.
: Try adding B&G2&P1 to your modem-initstring.>
Interesting. But I'va always run US USR modems on BT systems. They tend
to die however ... victims of the 50Hz on the PS. When the PS dies you
can cut it off and feed it DC instead however! It goes striaght into
a bridge rectifier.
Peter
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From: "Peter Somers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra ATA-66 driver
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:21:19 +0200
Hello,
I have a Abit BE6-II with the Ultra DMA-66 built in and 2 Quantum disks
(26Gb and 10Gb)
I use the Mandrake 7 distribution and installed it with one disk
connected to ide0 (The disk is /dev/hda for Linux).
I tried to patch kernel 2.2.14-15 with the ide.2.2.14.20000111.patch from
Hedrick. This did not compile.
I then downloaded Kernel 2.2.14 from www.kernel.org and used the same patch,
this time it worked.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/old/ide.2.2.14.2000011
1.patch.bz2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2
Peter.
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"K. Xu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi there,
> I'm having trouble finding a driver for Ultra ATA-66 driver. I have one
> large hard drive connected to a Promise Ultra ATA/66 controller card.
> The driver that came with the card didn't compile on my machine (Redhat
> 6.2, kernel version 2.2.14-5.0).
> Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.
> -Xu
>
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From: "Steve D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: swap-partition....
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 18:40:57 -0600
In article <8halo5$ha8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Thirsty McGuinness"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does it bring a better performance if I place the swap-partition to
> another physical drive than the rest of the linux-system, i.e. at the
> beginning of a second drive?
>
>
Yes, but make sure the 2nd disk is MASTER on ANOTHER controler.
if your main disk is on MASTER and your swap partition is on a secondary
it won't make a difference, at least on an IDE system. Only one device on
each IDE controler can be read/written to at a time.
If you go to
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
it talks about this. It would also be great help if you want a RAID swap partition.
That would probably be just about as fast as you could get a swap partition.
steve...
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From: "Mike Crook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon BJ80
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 20:16:11 +0100
Any suggestions as to how to set up a Canon BJ80 printer under Suse 6.3
would be gratefully received
Mike Crook
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leandro Gelasi)
Subject: Re: SB16 problem on Mandrake 7.0, Help meeeeeee...
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 15:24:41 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
YamYam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using Mandrake 7.0 on my computer, with SB16 'sound blaster 16', but many times
> when I boot in Mandrake 7.0, I see that there is a problem when loading opl3 module.
> So I have to run sndconfig to reload the sound modules normally, I hope that this is
> the last time I see this message, but many next times I see it. So what it the
> solution?
> Note!: 1. I'm using RedHat 6.2 on the same machine 'on another partition',
> but I've never faced this problem. -running the same mp3, sound
> players-.
> 2. These lines are copied when Mandrake 7.0 tries to load up, and
> when it has the problem.
>
>
> #########################
>
> Setting up ISA PNP devices [ OK ]
> Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode [ OK ]
> Loading sound module [ OK ]
> Loading midi module
> /lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/misc/opl3.o: init_module: Device o
> r resource busy
> sound: Device or resource busy [FAILED]
> Checking filesystems [ OK ]
>
It seems to depend on a IRQ/DMA conflict
Check /etc/modules.conf for the actual settings, and set them as in RedHat's
modules.conf.
Hope this helps
Leandro
>
> -YamYam.
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Additional hard drive for Linux
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 19:32:14 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > nod. they don't give you near enough PCI slots. 3-4 is *not* enough;
> > i want 8.
>
> How about one of these:
>
> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunder2400_p.html
>
> Dual Slot-1, up to 4G RAM, built in Ethernet. Built in dual-channel
> Ultra2 SCSI controller. AGP slot. 4 32-bit PCI slots. 2 64-bit 66MHz
> PCI slots.
>
> Not quite 8 PCI slots, but with on-board Ethernet and two LVD SCSI
> channels, you won't need as many, either. (And those 64-bit PCI slots
> will come in handy if you decide to get an OC-12 ATM adapter :-)
nice.
> (No, I don't know what it costs. I don't think I want to know,
> either.)
however, it has the i840 chipset. RDRAM is very expensive and
performance reviews haven't been glowing (which they damn well ought
to be for the price).
i can't justify getting a new computer, but if i were in the market
i'd wait a little bit. overclocking the BX seems to be tying yourself
to an obsolete technology. having a pair of socket 8 ppro computers,
i don't want to repeat this no-upgrade path and buy the last slot-1
out the door. AMD should come out with a new athlon revision and
chipset. intel is getting an SDRAM chipset (i815) ready.
--
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: The Perfect Linux Video Card
Date: 03 Jun 2000 12:50:07 -0700
"LhD Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I know this is a tough subject, but instead of trying to get my current
> > card to work with Linux, I want to buy a card that is already
> > well-supported. What would be the best choice for a card that has great
>
> You should check out LhD, if you haven't already, and see what kinds of
> ratings other Linux users have given the most popular cards. There is
> also driver and workaround information.
>
> Opinions differ wildly, and having numeric scores from different users can
> help make sense of people's attitudes -- so you can immediately see
> the difference between something that's "very nice *once* you get it
> running" and something that's "easy enough for grandma to setup".
It was hard to get exactly the information I needed from the LhD. I
have a ASUS dual PPro200 mainboard. It's ISA/PCI with no AGP. I'm
running RH6.1. I want a card that's easily supported by XFree86 and
can do 24-bit color at 1280x1024 with the best performance for
running, say, xmame or quake. It should also be an easy to get card,
i.e., not one that's no longer made.
What suggestions would you have for me?
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