Linux-Hardware Digest #714, Volume #14 Wed, 2 May 01 04:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Dell Dimension 8100 ("Timmy")
Re: video playback improvement question (olgnuby)
Re: Boot Error (Dances With Crows)
Re: Dell Dimension 8100 (Dude)
Re: Which adaptor card to buy for simple 2-PC home network? ("japhilp")
Re: mouse wheel (Pete White)
Re: Ensoniq Soundscape ISA PnP (modell 2) (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Modem trouble (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Mother Board Question with ABIT KT7A-RAID (Eric Kuhn)
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Firewire, anyone (gman1)
Re: jj asks: secondary floppy controller, reading hundreds of floppies (hac)
adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid... ("William B. Cattell")
Re: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND ("pjsf")
Re: two harddisks crashed and third one expected ("Dave Stanton")
Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: jj asks: secondary floppy controller, reading hundreds of floppies (Jeff Jonas)
Configuration of a D-Link DFE-570TX (Andreas Gutowski)
A (hopefully helpful ! ) suggestion for Linux installs ... an auto-generated
inventory file ("Andy Elvey")
Re: Kernel 2.4 IRQ conflicts (Nicolas Delestre)
Re: lucent modem (Chris Howells)
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From: "Timmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Dimension 8100
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 01:20:28 +0100
Has anyone installed Linux on an 8100? (1.4gig P4, i850 chipset)
I am looking for any pointers / experiences.
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video playback improvement question
Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 19:30:22 +0000
uncle freddy wrote:
> Ok I have an AMD K6-2 450, 192M PC100 ram, Voodoo3 3500 TV When playing
> back Divxs it's very slow and choppy on almost everything. If you had
> around $140 to spend to make video better on this what would you get? A
> new videocard? A new MB + cpu (Duron 800 w/ MBs are as low as $124+
> shipping on pricewatch now) Or does this hardware seem ok and I just need
> to tweak some stuff? I'm also running 2.4.3 kernel, with agppart and DRI
> enables and XF 4.0.2 which I compiled myself. What is a good player as
> well? I have been using aviplay which is part of the avifile package.
>
> tia
>
Don't know Freddy. I've run the WinTV card on a Pentium MMX233, STB
Velocity 128 video card w/8 meg vid memory and 320 ram, on an AMD K-6
2/550, and currently on an AMD K-7 Duron 700 MHz. All three have been on
plain vanilla mother boards, VIA and ALI chip sets, with frame buffer
enabled in kernel compiles from 2.2. 10(Ithink that was RH 6,1's out of the
box kernel) all the way up through all the 2.3.x kernels and now on the
2.4.3 with excellent results except on occasion when I try to run too on
color vga console prior to going into X I will get a loss of colors with
really color intensive applications. Particularly with Mandrake 7.2.
I've not run any DVD stuff under Linux, but otherwise all my streaming
video, for example captures with the connectrix vid cam and some of the
experimental v4l stuff and it's all pretty crisp, clear and real time. DVD
under Win98 is and has been excellent on all the configurations except when
I dropped below 124 meg of ram on a couple of installs.
Cheap as memory is now, I think I'd venture a little on that direction to
see what kind of results you get .
Charlie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Boot Error
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 02 May 2001 00:56:51 GMT
On Wed, 2 May 2001 01:15:21 +0800, Justinian staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>I think it may partition problem. Windows 98 support 1 primary
>partition and other should under ext partition and logical partition.
>
>I'm not sure that Windows 98 can works fine if linux partition (ext2)
>have been add more than one and it's not under ext partition.
Where'd you get that idea? Lose9x can handle more than one primary
partition just fine *IFF* there's only one primary FAT partition. The
other primary partitions have to be ext2, BSD, ReiserFS, Amoeba...
anything but the codes used for FAT and NTFS types. A stock Lose9x
installation will completely ignore these partitions, and you will not
be able to access them without special software such as explore2fs.
Note that some disk manglement utilities will "correct errors" in these
non-FAT partitions; avoid these.
If you have more than one primary FAT partition on a disk 'Doze is
using, then 'Doze will behave oddly, showing inaccessible phantom drives
for every partition on the disk, possibly corrupting data on any
partition other than /dev/hda1, and so forth.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Dude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Dimension 8100
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 01:27:10 GMT
On Wed, 2 May 2001 01:20:28 +0100, "Timmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have just installed Mandrake8 and still finding my way around.
I'm still looking for a better driver for my santa cruz sound card.
The default driver plays ok but I think it could be better. It
detected my tnt2 as geforce32 ddr generic but very useable.
It found all my attached hardware and booted up ok.
Was able to connect with my @home cable immediately after install;
didn't have any problem with the integrated nic.
I'm pleasantly surprise with this version , compared to redhat 5 a few
years back. It almost feels like a windoze OS. Back then it took me a
week to figure out how to get on the internet.
I still have a lot of cleaning up to do.
To make it an easy install, I used PQmagic and created 5g ext2
partition and booted with the cd. Just followed the prompts.
Dim8100 1.4g
ada885
santa cruz sound
Plex1210A
SD12
>Has anyone installed Linux on an 8100? (1.4gig P4, i850 chipset)
>
>I am looking for any pointers / experiences.
>
>
>
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From: "japhilp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which adaptor card to buy for simple 2-PC home network?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 01:36:04 GMT
AOpen has a few 10/100 Mb cards. the floppy disk included contains drivers
for linux.
The packaging also states that linux is supported.
they are about $40 here in canada after tax. works like a charm.
Also the dlink 538 tx cards work , and the driver should be part of the
kernel source.
"Garry Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9chr80$cdr$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone advise me or point me to information on purchasing a pair of
> Linux 2.4 compatible network cards to create a simple 2-PC desktop
network?
> Thanks
>
> Garry Heaton
>
>
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From: Pete White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse wheel
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 01:50:11 GMT
Get imwheel ( http://jcatki.dhs.org/imwheel/ ). You'll need to tweak it
a bit to get the behavior you want, but it works great.
"E. Carrillo" wrote:
>
> I got a quick question, Is there a way to enable the mouse wheel to scroll
> the windows in KDE 2 or linux in general? I'm using a standard PS/2 mouse
> with a scrolling wheel and I really want to use it in linux. I got SuSe
> 7.1, if that's important to determine if the wheel will work or not.
> Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: Ensoniq Soundscape ISA PnP (modell 2)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:11:14 GMT
Chris Rankin <pacbell.net@{no.spam}rankinc> wrote:
> > Ich habe in meinem Linux Rechner eine Ensoniq Soundscape ISA PnP (modell 2)
>
> I have an Ensoniq soundScape PnP card working fine under Linux 2.4, but
> don't speak German! Can anyone translate this person's question for me,
> please?
Well, I was hoping someone would do this right, but failing that,
here's what babel.altavista.com has to say:
I have a Ensoniq Soundscape ISA PnP (model 2) in my Linux
computer card and get her unfortunately not for running.
Suse Linux 7,1 Professor does not bring along only one
driver to this card. Then I wanted to bring it with OSS
(www.opensound.de) to running. Unfortunately OSS asks me
for a firmware file, which I do not have and also nowhere
find, there the ftp
HTH.HAND.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:29:10 GMT
James Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sm9uYWRhYiB0aGUgVW5zaWdodGx5IE9uZSB3cm90ZToNCg0KPiAiUm95IEJhbWZvcmQiIDxi
> YW1mb3JkckBiYW1mb3Jkci5ub3NwYW0uZnJlZS1vbmxpbmUuY28udWs+IHdyb3RlOg0KPg0K
[snip]
Now, there's some good old-fashioned modem trouble!
;-)
- jonadab
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From: Eric Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mother Board Question with ABIT KT7A-RAID
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:30:09 -0000
The main question i have with this mother board is there semmes to be
two "RAID" controlers, what does it mean (never had o good expnation of it.
If you could tell me if Red Hat 7.1 Could suport this feature? will this
mother board even work with Linux? because it would be great if it did!!
Please let me know what you find out good or bad the web site for this
ABIT is www.abit-usa.com
Please let me know about your feelings on this mother board good and bad
and your concerns!!
Thank you very much for your help!!
Eric K K
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:28:13 GMT
"Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Still not good enough. They might be building a unit, and this might take
> 30, 40, 60 minutes, meanwhile their workorder is up and in the "in-process"
> stage. Resetting the terminal can have a nasty effect on that.
So you don't autoreset terminals when they have workorders up.
> Further, how exactly do you know when the terminals screen
> saver has kicked in with a vt100 terminal?
Dunno. I thought everybody was using VT420s or VT510s by
now. Perhaps I was deluded. But for that matter, with
a truly dumb terminal, you can build the screen-blanking
function right into the app.
> > > That "page"? We're talking about a standalone application versus HTML.
> >
> > Page, screen, menu, record, file, function, whatever. I was
> > trying to be general, since obviously the precise content of
> > the CRT display will vary from application to application.
>
> And how do you update only that page, or rather the other pages without
> effecting that one in a standalone app?
Usually, with a decently-well-designed app, the information
displayed on the screen is not hardcoded. It may be built
or arranged dynamically by the app, but it usually comes
from a data file someplace, UIAGM.
- jonadab
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From: gman1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Firewire, anyone
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:46:34 GMT
mandrake 8.0 I believe
Helmut Steinwender wrote:
> How does one use firewire devices, i.e. scanner, camcorder etc. under linux?
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: jj asks: secondary floppy controller, reading hundreds of floppies
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 03:11:38 GMT
Jeff Jonas wrote:
>
> Is anybody running >1 floppy controller via Linux
> (secondary address, Compaticard, etc) ?
> If so, how?
>
> I have hundreds of floppy disks I need to read and archive to CD.
> I figure that using 2 controllers would allow having 2 drives
> running simultaneously, or are my suspicions correct that despite having
> primary/secondary addresses, they can't share the DMA and IRQ
> so only one's reading/writing at a time?
> What of the floppy-tape interface cards?
>
A radical solution: use more than one PC. For what you want to do, a
stack of junker 486's should do. Network them, open an xterm for
each, and away you go.
It may not be elegant, but it's cheap.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid...
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 03:15:24 GMT
Yo all;
I installed Mandrake 8.0 on a mchine with a 1Gb drive and CDROM (from a
CD). I want to remove the cdrom and put an 18Gb IDE hard disk in its
place as /dev/hdb.
I [thought] it would be simple however when I connect the hard disk it
shows up correctly in the messages file but if I try to access through
fdisk I get an error about a driver not having been loaded for it.
Mandrake 8 install kernel 2.4.3 by default - is the driver thing new with
2.4? I don't remember having this trouble under 2.2.
Help??!?
TIA,
Bill
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From: "pjsf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:42:35 +1000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David
Leblond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have tried everything I have seen in this newsgroup to get my WinTV to
> have sound, but so far nothing has worked. I am not getting any sound
> through my Line Out jack on my TV card, so it is not the mixer itself.
> Here are my current settings.
<snip>
> I am running kernel 2.4.4. -David
For what it's worth I'm running a WinTV under 2.4.4 with no problems, but
I've got all the drivers compiled into the kernel.
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From: "Dave Stanton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: two harddisks crashed and third one expected
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 05:11:28 +0100
In article <uKBH6.7109$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rinaldi J. Montessi"
<
> This power supply thing has always puzzled me. The HD's claim to run on
> 5/12vdc .56/.27 amps which (w=va) = ~2.8 watts. Cooling fans (here) are
> 12v x .08 amps or .96 watts. Why do we need 250 - 300 watt power
> supplies? How much does the mobo and isa/pci stuff suck up?
>
> Mostly rhetorical - thinking out loud - but if anyone knows, by all
> means...
>
> Rinaldi
When drives startup there can be a large surge of power until things
stabilise.
CHeers
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 04:51:29 GMT
"Erik Funkenbusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The point here is what happens when you need to update the APP, not the data
> (though frequently they coincide).
If the app is sufficiently modular, you can indeed update pieces
of it en media res. However, even with a monolithe, it's not
hard to install a new version and set the initialisation scripts
so that the new version is used at each terminal the next time
that terminal finishes whatever it is doing and goes back to the
(if I may use a term from the jargon if the early 1980s) main
menu. Or when a different user logs on. Or whenever it's
appropriate; insert your favourite criterion here.
> > The drawback to HTTP for this application is that when a page is
> > requested, a connection is opened, the page downloaded, and the
> > connection is then dropped. It's designed to be stateless,
> Nonsense, you need only provide state information in the
> URL, or via a cookie.
That stores state from the client's perspective, but he was
talking about state from the server's perspective, which is
at least as important. For some applications, the server
NEEDS to know what each client is doing. Especially when
you're dealing with a database, where there are consistency
issues to be handled. And, as he said, you can throw some
CGI or something into the picture and keep track of the
last page each client loaded, but that isn't quite the same
as knowing what each client is DOING. It might do in a
pinch, but there are better solutions.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Jonas)
Subject: Re: jj asks: secondary floppy controller, reading hundreds of floppies
Date: 2 May 2001 00:56:54 -0400
>> Is anybody running >1 floppy controller via Linux
>> If so, how?
>A radical solution: use more than one PC. For what you want to do, a
>stack of junker 486's should do. Network them, open an xterm for
>each, and away you go.
...
Yes, that's a workaround, but I'm still frustrated at the way the
PC interface was crippled for the PC and we never recovered.
Pre-PC systems used all 4 floppies on the cable.
Older floppy controllers have jumpers for primary/secondary addresses,
but with shared IRQ and DMA, I can't see them working at the same time :-(
--
Jeffrey Jonas
jeffj@panix(dot)com
The original Dr. JCL and Mr .hide
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From: Andreas Gutowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuration of a D-Link DFE-570TX
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 08:11:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
how can I configure a 4-Port D-Link DFE-570TX networkcard.
The configuration of each port is not the problem.
The poroblem is:
I want to bundle 2 ports to a virtuall device with one IP-adress.
And I can't find any documentation about this.
With best regards
Andreas Gutowski
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From: "Andy Elvey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A (hopefully helpful ! ) suggestion for Linux installs ... an auto-generated
inventory file
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 19:01:52 +1200
Hi all .
I wasn't sure exactly where to post this comment (either here or in the
linux.setup group) - anyway , here it is ! .... :-)
I've just had the unfortunate experience of trying to install RH7.1 and
Mandrake 8.0 ( neither install worked , as my hard drive was not detected -
I have an Ultra-DMA system which can be bad news for Linux installs) .
Anyway - that's not my point here ....
My point is that IRQ probing is *one* way of detecting what's on the system
and getting the install to then run correctly. Another way (which seems to
have been overlooked - please correct me if I'm mistaken ! ) is the option
that I've thought of as follows (this applies to users installing Linux on a
PC which already has Win9x on it , of which there are many ).
The idea would be that a user installing Linux could first run an
ultra-cool "soup-to-nuts" utility in Win9x (or in Dos for that matter) which
did a **complete** system inventory of what was on the system - processor,
monitor , whether the system is UDMA (mutter, mutter ) .... everything.
This could be saved as (say) an XML "inventory file" in Win9x. ( or Dos.
Whatever .... :-)
Ok - we've done this . Grab the Linux distro and go for it. If the
IRQ probing fails (as it sometimes does) , the installer program could
*then* (as a second resort) do a lookup on the "inventory file" in Win9x /
Dos - thereby saving the hassle of doing "cat /proc/pci " and so on . If
this second method succeeds (where the IRQ probe failed) , it should then
be possible for the install program to append the necessary boot parameters
*automatically* to the lilo.conf file. After all, that is what is done
*manually* at present when you go to the Howto pages to find a workaround
for UDMA installs.
Yes - it is possible (and doesn't take that long) to first go into the
"device manager" in Win9x and write down "x,y,z" about your system. My point
is that this manual way of doing things *always* misses something crucial
out. Computers are much better than people at zooming through and doing an
inventory of *everything* .
I see ESR's new CML2 kernel config utility as being one *really* great
step forward . This idea here could be another (small ) one ....
It is (of course) possible that *both* methods above may fail, but at
least the second method (looking up an automatically-generated inventory
file) at least gives another option ..... :-)
I don't mean any comments above to sound carping , and I'll say that
no-one wants Linux to succeed more than I do. I'm just wanting to add my 2
cents worth to make a positive suggestion (not that 2 New Zealand cents is
worth much !...
:-)) Would like to hear your comments , and thanks for your time !
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From: Nicolas Delestre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4 IRQ conflicts
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 09:22:10 +0200
David Hinds wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.portable Delestre Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Apr 26 16:14:39 psi-j2-macnd kernel: Bad bridge mapping at 0x1fff0000!
>
>
> This is your problem. You have a memory configuration problem; the
> CardBus bridge got assigned a memory address that conflicts with the
> top of your system RAM (you've got 512MB, right?)
>
> Do you use the grub boot loader? I don't know why but that seems to
> frequently be to blame. Booting with a "mem=512M" option should fix
> the problem.
>
> -- Dave
Thank you very much for your answer, it was the problem.
In fact the problem seems to appear with lilo since i use the lilo boot loader.
One more time thank you very much.
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From: Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lucent modem
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 08:30:43 +0100
Declan McMullen wrote:
> I've searched the web and saw some patches for other lucent modems for
> linux
> however i read that the driver i had found did not support the modem in my
> thinkpad.
> It's a long shot but has anyone gotten the modem in the thinkpad to work
> under linux??
I think IBM have produced some drivers. No ideas what the URL is, sorry.
--
Chris Howells
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 93699029
Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net
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