Linux-Hardware Digest #404, Volume #14 Mon, 26 Feb 01 11:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: SB live, *has* to be module? (AzCowboy)
Re: HP 5100C Scanner problems ("Adam Warner")
cyber beetle USB mouse support (Mr Ly)
Re: ALSA & Intel 8x0 sound card: Error... (Tjeerd Mulder)
Re: Adaptec 2100s - Nightmare ("TN")
Re: Epson question (John Thompson)
Re: Install LINUX on ATA/100 Promise ("Markus Kiener")
Linux Install and ASUS cubx-E motherboard (Stephane Massou)
Re: Trouble connecting SCSI AIT drive (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: mounting udf cds as nonroot (Chris Elvidge)
Safe to use UDMA? ("Michael E. McColm")
PIII motherboards ("Chris Harris")
Re: Dual NIC Problem (Chris Elvidge)
Re: Linux partitioning question ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Anybody experience on setup Mylex AcceleRaid on Linux?
Re: Safe to use UDMA? (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: Which CD-RW drive for Linux ? (Young4ert)
hisax-problem ("mben123")
Re: Sound module or kernal? (Young4ert)
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From: AzCowboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB live, *has* to be module?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:07:28 GMT
Yeah, compiles in quite nicely in 2.4.0... About the only thing I
haven't had any troubles with since my recent return to Linux. :-)
D. Stimits wrote:
> win wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I compiled a new kernel with the SBlive support, emu10k1, compiled
>> into it.
>> I do get the messages that it's found on boot..
>> Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 21:37:35 Sep 4 2000
>> emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 5 model 0x8040 found, IO at 0xb400-0xb41f, IRQ 11
>> But i can't get it to work...as in..i don't get any sound..
>> What am i missing here?
>>
>> Been doing some reading on the net and see a lot of SBlive installing
>> as module.
>> Does it only work when it's a module?
>>
>> running debian with 2.2.18pre21 kernel...
>>
>> Thanx and cheers
>> Wim
>
>
> I believe it was intended to only be a module, though that might have
> changed. Go to
> http://opensource.creative.com
>
> Get the most recent emu10k1 snapshot, or use cvs. Unpack it somewhere
> temporarily, and view the docs that come with it. I suspect those docs
> are more accurate than the make config option to compile as a
> non-module. In the past it could not be compiled in, but I haven't paid
> attention to this detail in a while, it may be possible to compile in
> with the 2.4.x kernels, but it is unlikely to succeed on a 2.2.x kernel.
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From: "Adam Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 5100C Scanner problems
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 22:03:14 +1300
Hi all,
Problem resolved. Refer sane-devel archives for details.
Regards,
Adam
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From: Mr Ly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cyber beetle USB mouse support
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:25:01 +1100
has anyone manage to get this mouse working on redhat 7?
Thanks
Rich
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From: Tjeerd Mulder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ALSA & Intel 8x0 sound card: Error...
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:16:33 +0100
Yes, the module loading is correct.
Can it be that your alsa drivers are newer then the alsa utilities ?
aplay version 0.4. is old, fetch a newer version (0.9.0-beta1) from
http://www.alsa-project.org/. Driver, library and utilities from
different versions do not always work together.
Dan Smith schrieb:
>
> Anyway, when I try 'aplay something.wav' I get this error:
>
> Aplay: version 0.4.1 by Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Error: audio open error: Sound protocol isn't compatible
>
> Can someone help me???
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Dan
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From: "TN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2100s - Nightmare
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:22:16 +0100
Hi!
I would like a copy of the driver for Redhat 7.0
Please email it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best regards
Tue
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson question
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 20:36:55 -0600
Gary I Kahn wrote:
> You said that you needed to update to kernel 2.2.18 to get your Epson 636U
> scanner working smoothly. Would you elaborate, please? I'm asking because
> I've just ordered a rebuilt 610U, and I want to be prepared for it when it
> arrives. My Mandrake 7.2 distribution came with a heavily patched 2.2.17
> kernel, and it appears that it'll support the USB scanner. /proc/bus/usb/
> seems to have valid USB port information, and the 'usbcore.o' and
> 'scanner.o' modules came pre-compiled with the distribution. Is there
> something that you recommend I watch out for?
Not really. I had been using kernel 2.2.16 and for whatever
reason I never got it all to work together at the same time.
When I went to 2.2.18 it all fell into place nicely. Try what
you already have first. If it doesn't work you can always try
the kernel upgrade.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Markus Kiener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install LINUX on ATA/100 Promise
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:30:37 +0100
I heard that Mandrake 7.2 supports UDMA 100 (ATA/100 Promise) ... at the
moment I use the UDMA 66 because I had an old RH 6.1 which did not support
UDMA 100.
Since I do not need RH any more I would like to change from UDMA 66 to 100.
If I do so and try to boot again (LILO) I get the message
"Can“t mount the hard disk ...."
Is there any chance to avoid a reinstallation of Mandrake?
I have a dual boot system with Win98 and Mandrake 7.2.
Thanks in advance!
Markus
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From: Stephane Massou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Install and ASUS cubx-E motherboard
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:14:55 +0100
I have a cubx-E motherboard with four ide connectors :
-the first and the second are UltraDMA/33 IDE
-the third and the fourth are UltraDMA/100 IDE).
So I connect my hardrive (UDMA 100MHz) on the third one.
When I try to install Linux (Red Hat 7.0), the harddisk is not
detected. I do not want to connect the harddrive on the first or the
second IDE connector because they are only UltraDMA 33MHz.
Is there a solution to this problem ?
Steph.
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trouble connecting SCSI AIT drive
Date: 26 Feb 2001 14:07:02 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Matt Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm having trouble connecting an externally mounted Seagate
>> Sidewinder-50 AIT drive to a RH 7.0 box. The machine is using an Adaptec
>> 29160N SCSI controller card and has all the latest RH updates.
>> I've heard that there may be some incompatibilities between the 29160
>> card and the Sidewinder-50 and was wondering if anyone had found
>> anything similar?
> Is that an AIT-1 drive? Be *very* careful. AFAIK, all AIT-1 drives
> are Fast or UW SCSI only. In other words, HVD. The external connector
> on a 29160 is LVD. Connecting HVD devices to an LVD chain can lead to
> serious damage to the devices or the adapter itself without an
> appropriate (and expensive) LVD-HVD adapter.
Following up to myself here, because I was wrong. The AIT-1 drive is
likely Single Ended (SE). You *can* put an SE device on an LVD chain --
it just forces the whole chain (including any other LVD devices) into
the much slower (and more highly restricted cable length) SE mode.
Oops.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mounting udf cds as nonroot
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:09:44 +0400
Matt Haley wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:28:38 -0500,
> Gregory Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >either an iso cd or a udf cd in the same drive as a user! Still, I don't
> >know why the auto entry in fstab doesn't find udf. Maybe this is something
> >that needs to be addressed in the next version of mount. dunno.
>
> From the man page for mount (concerning the '-t' option):
>
> The type iso9660 is the default. If no -t option
> is given, or if the auto type is specified, the
> superblock is probed for the filesystem type
> (minix, ext, ext2, xiafs, iso9660, romfs ,ufs,
> ntfs, qnx4, bfs are supported). If this probe
> fails, mount will try to read the file
> /etc/filesystems, or, if that does not exist,
> /proc/filesystems. All of the filesystem types
> listed there will be tried, except for those that
> are labeled "nodev" (e.g., devpts, proc and nfs).
>
> It appears that udf isn't in the list of filesystems that 'auto' checks for.
>
> --
> Matt Haley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Mandrake 7.2 / RedHat 6.1 / Windows 98 SE / FreeBSD 4.2 / Windows NT 4
I haven't got /etc/filesystems but in /proc/filesystems:
ext2
reiserfs
umsdos
msdos
vfat
nodev proc
nodev smbfs
nodev ncpfs
iso9660
nodev autofs
nodev devpts
Can/should I just copy this to /etc/filesystems? Does the nodev on
autofs stop an auto type mount?
TIA
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From: "Michael E. McColm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Safe to use UDMA?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 14:20:58 GMT
Hello,
I recently purchased a hard drive and would like to get the best
performance from it that I safely can. The hard drive is a Western
Digital WD200BB and is installed as primary/master (/dev/hda) on my Soyo
SY-5EHM (rev. 1.3) mainboard. When I installed the drive I used the
included 'EZ-Install' program to set the drive to UDMA/33 mode (the
fastest mode supported by the mainboard). When I run `hdparm -i
/dev/hda`, hdparm reports that dma is not enabled (I thought it would be
with CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y). When I run `hdparm -t /dev/hda` it averages
about 4.5 - 5.0 MB/sec. I would like to turn on dma (UDMA/33) with
`hdparm -d1 -X66` but have read that my data might get corrupted. Do I
need to worry or should I go ahead? I've included some information about
my configuration below.
Thanks,
Michael E. McColm
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
P.S. Should I use `hdparm -c1 /dev/hda` or `hdparm -c3 /dev/hda` to
enable 32-bit I/O?
BIOS
OnChip IDE First Channel: Enabled
IDE Prefetch Mode: Enabled
IDE HDD Block Mode: Enabled
IDE Primary Master PIO: Auto
IDE Primary Master UDMA: Auto
KERNEL BOOT MESSAGES
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: WDC WD200BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:251, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC WD200BB-00AUA1, 19092MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 4X CD-ROM changer w/4 slots, 128kB Cache
OUTPUT OF `cat /proc/pci`
Bus 0, device 7, function 1:
IDE interface: VIA Technologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master Capable.
Latency=64. I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
KERNEL CONFIG
#
# Block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
#
# Please see Documentation/ide.txt for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_IDE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD640 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RZ1000 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD is not set
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OPTI621 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ALI15X3 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRM290 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NS87415 is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82C586=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CMD646 is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_CS5530 is not set
# CONFIG_IDE_CHIPSETS is not set
OUTPUT OF `hdparm -i /dev/hda`
/dev/hda:
Model=WDC WD200BB-00AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6Y1953972
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=39102336
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2
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From: "Chris Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PIII motherboards
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 11:38:56 -0400
I am in the process of choosing a new PIII motherboard for a rebuild of my
system.
What are the pitfalls to avoid regarding chipsets, BIOS, onboard drivers
etc.. to ensure best compatability with linux?
Has anybody had and really good, or really bad, experiences with particular
manufacturers.
In short what do people think is the best motherboard to go for at the
moment, up to say $200 US or £150 GB..
Chris
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual NIC Problem
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 18:37:59 +0400
Ken Wilson wrote:
>
> I have installed two Linksys Ether16 LAN cards in a Packard Bell Legend
> 2051. I have been able to get one of the card recognized but not the
> second. Both have been reconfigured to be non-PNP using the DOS setup
> utility supplied with the cards and each given distinctive base IO addresses
> and IRQs, 0x280 IRQ 3 and 0x380 IRQ 15. The cards are NE2000 clones.
>
> My set up in conf.modules is as follows:
>
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 ne
> options ne io=0x280,0x380 irq=3,15
>
> Just the way the HOWTO says to. In addition I have tried append in lilo in
> order to get the two cards recognized. My append string is as follows
>
> append "ether=3,0x280,0,1,eth0 ether=15,0x380,0,1,eth1"
>
> Hunting around in the various logs it seems that the module for these cards,
> ne.c, only probes one card and never probes the second. The sad part is
> that individually, these cards both work.
>
> Current installation consists of RedHat 6.2 on a 486 w/12MB RAM.
>
> Any help ferreting out a solution is greatly appreciated as I'd like to get
> this router established before the real computer comes home from Compusmart
> this weekend.
>
> --
> Ken Wilson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What does cat proc/interrupts say?
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux partitioning question
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:21:14 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Doug Lutterloh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have never agreed with the suggested partitioning scheme in most
> install docs for Linux, at least not for the home user. I usually set up
> with 3 partitions on my machine. One for windoze because I dual
> boot, one for Linux swap, and one for Linux. Why confuse the issue?!!?
Because you will die horribly. Your /var and /home are on the same
partition as your fixed system. read the partition-HOWTO to learn more!
(ignorance is NOT a good reason for doing something ..=)
> Why do I want to guess how much I will need for /home and /usr when
> I can just lump them together in one big partition and use all my
> space as efficiently as possible.
If you don't know, then plainly you should go and find out. Check the
HOWTO.
Peter
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From: <¤Ń¤UµL¼Ä>
Subject: Re: Anybody experience on setup Mylex AcceleRaid on Linux?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:01:12 +0800
Thanks a lot!Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:976ceg$s8f$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You wrote:
> > I've bought it recently, it supposed to be support by kernel 2.2.16, but
it
> > failed to load the module (DAC960.o). Card model is AcceleRaid 170.
>
> I've been looking at these recently, although I haven't bought yet.
> From the installation guide, version 2.2.6 or higher of the driver is
needed
> to support the 170. My RH6.2 distro has 2.2.5. You can check the driver
> version via:
>
> strings /lib/modules/`uname -r`/block/DAC960.o | grep -i version
>
> The driver homepage is here:
>
> http://www.dandelion.com/Linux/DAC960.html
>
> RTFM.
>
> --
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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Subject: Re: Safe to use UDMA?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 26 Feb 2001 10:07:23 -0500
"Michael E. McColm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently purchased a hard drive and would like to get the best
> performance from it that I safely can. The hard drive is a Western
> Digital WD200BB and is installed as primary/master (/dev/hda) on my
> Soyo SY-5EHM (rev. 1.3) mainboard. When I installed the drive I used
> the included 'EZ-Install' program to set the drive to UDMA/33 mode
> (the fastest mode supported by the mainboard). When I run `hdparm -i
> /dev/hda`, hdparm reports that dma is not enabled (I thought it would
> be with CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y).
I assume you have the proper chipset selected in your kernel? A lot
of chipsets will seem to work with the incorrect driver selected, but
will not use all the features or not use them properly.
Do you get any messages about ide0 resets and DMA being disabled?
Boot your system in single-user mode (to reduce the chances of Bad
Things happening), turn on DMA, and run hdparm's tests. Then use
dmesg to check for DMA being disabled. If that happens, you probably
can't use DMA, even if both your hard drive and chipset claim to
support it. You can force the IDE driver to keep turning DMA back on,
but that may cause nasty data corruption.
I'm also suspicious about the "EZ-Install" program. The drive should
be able to automatically put itself in the correct mode depending on
what the BIOS/OS tells it to do.
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which CD-RW drive for Linux ?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:35:11 GMT
Eggert Ehmke wrote:
>
> If I want to burn audio and data cd's, which devices work ok ? I have a PIII
> 860 MHz box running SuSE 7.0 and Win ME.
> -cu
>
> --
> Eggert Ehmke
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just don't get any CDRW made by Acer. I had had problems with
Acer-6206A and Acer-8432IA CDRW. Both gave me all sort of problems.
When the local CompuSA had the IOMega 12x10x32 CDRW on sale for $100
(after rebate and huge marked down), I got one of this CDRW and have had
no problem writing a regular CDR (4x) at 12x speed. The IOMega 12x10x32
CDRW that I have could easily reap an audio CD in less than 3 minutes
and write on a regular 4x CDR at 12 speed for less than 6 minutes.
I one last thing. Should you need to get a CDRW drive, it certainly
will be a plus if has a burnt-proof feature.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS. Remove "4" from e-mail address should you want to reply.
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From: "mben123" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hisax-problem
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 16:50:11 +0100
Von: "MBen123" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Betreff: HiSax Modul unter Suse 6.4
Datum: Sonntag, 25. Februar 2001 22:18
Hallo,
kann mir jemand sagen, wieso ich unter Suse Linux 6.4 (Kernel 2.2.14) im
Yast bei HiSax kein Modul angeben kann? Im Handbuch ist diese Funktion zwar
beschrieben und sogar abgebildet, aber bei mir steht dies nicht zur
verfügung! Brauch es wegen der eumex anlage! Kann mnir jemand helfen??????
mfg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Sound module or kernal?
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 15:41:25 GMT
Robert wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I am using Slackware 7.1, win98 (sick) & Mandrake (some version) the big
> question is,
>
> Using a OLD sound blaster 16 non plug'n'play ISA it has a cdrom
> controler too(not used)
>
> I can get the sound card to function using a driver built into the
> kernal but the midi dont go the boot process seems to hang arround the
> time it is trying to use an irq for the MP401.I have never had the card
> working as a module without DOS booting first then soft booting slack
> this wont work for me at the moment this is for Slack7.1
>
> win98 the card just works.... few minor issues to do with age of card.
> jut using updated crative drivers for 95,98
>
> Mandrake... just having a look at it (too much hidden too SLOW trying to
> be a ...) well pluged in soundconfig a module was actervated and sound
> just worked (middi a little better than winXX) what does mandrake do
> that slack cant?
>
> I use this computer for work play and fun. I like slack nothing is
> hidden. I need win for my work and Saterlite connection. Mandrake is on
> my test partition.
>
> Thanks In advance Robert Cooze
My mobo has a built-in soundcard that is ac97 compliance but the linux
kernel was not able to initialize the midi. Then, I installed the ALSA
package and now am able to use the sequencer and midi ports. So, you
might want to try to install ALSA package instead of using the soundcard
driver from linux kernel. You can download the ASLA package from
http://www.alsa-project.org.
--
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