Re: [newbie] Kernel
I had a teacher that called your current state as the dawn of knowledge. Not all things are easy. Destroying old habits is the hardest. When you have hundreds or thousands of people who like to code make a system you should not be surprised that they are lousy technical writers. I think it is interesting that most of the for profit companies forming around Linux are going to sell services. Someone has to help with those configuration problems. I have been paying around with Linux for about a year now. I still spend more time in Windows than Linux but that could change if I could find an email client and new group reader that I like. There is a lot I don't like but the potential is so much greater than Windows that I want to keep learning more. Maybe it is just a challenge much greater than most PC games. Linux is a work in progress. They haven't taken the time yet to hide the plumbing in the walls yet. I want to see it done also, I am not a programmer, I am a draftsman. I want a system that I can play with and learn some programming. But from looking around the source code in the system I can tell that I will never get to their level. I don't have the time to live Linux. I just have learned enough to make do and forgive the rest. Maybe someday it will be finished, we can only hope. PBen On Sun, 19 Dec 1999 22:41:35 -0600, Audrey Beck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm SO sick of people that seem to LIKE hurting, telling those of us that are just not masochists to do this. Until you get some experience, sometimes only one little piece at a time, the mans mean nothing. Most of the time, you don't know what to look for. Gee, I'd like to print. What do I do? Check the FAQ and HOWTO that TRY to help, but just never seem to apply, or they refer you to another one for a part that has to work first, which then refers you to the previous one because that part has to work first... Not everyone learns or understands the same way. The lilo manual tells you everything you never wanted to know unless you need that part of it. When you are a brand new Linux user, reading it and understanding it can take weeks! All you usually need is a small part of something. Once you understand that part, you can gather more information relating to it and the next and the next. It sure ain't magic. Real multitasking and real multiuser in Linux are great. The rest hurts. I am not a newbie to the world of computers, programming or operating systems. I've been in world of hurt since I installed this OS. I'm learning a little at a time. But it will take me LOTS of time to figure even some of it out. I actually have a life aside from learning Linux and I like it MUCH better. Linux is just a tool for me to use to get something accomplished. I don't worship it. And it's good none of you know how many times I've wanted to stomp the cd into dust. The good part about having the source code is you can change/fix things if you need to. The bad part about having the source code is you probably have to. There are MANY people on this list, that take the time to help those of us that are lost, to go in the right direction. They do help. The best help is personal, to the problem you are having. To those, THANK YOU! Sometimes it's not so difficult to figure out what to do, or where to find it, as it is what applies. You might get sick of answering the same question a hundred thousand times, but it just means that there are a hundred thousand new users with the same problems. To the rest, just because someone wants to use Linux, that doesn't mean they want to LIVE it.
Re: [newbie] Any Linux web server to recommend ?
I think that you meant: http://squishdot.org/ or http://www.zope.org/ http://www.zope.org/Resources/Info From what I understand Slashdot hasn't released their source code in quite a while. Squishdot can build a similar looking site, so can Zope. I haven't actually used it but it does look interesting if you are looking to put up a web log. The closest LUG to me uses squishdot to run their web site. (http://www.aclug.org/ACLUG/news/) PBen On Mon, 20 Dec 1999 09:09:14 -0800, Hidong Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: coin wrote: Dear ALL, Anyone has any idea of any web hosting using linux with apache and mysql Thanks.. Luff, coin http://www.slashdot.org
Re: [newbie] LILO
FDISK/MBR You will probably have to reinstall NT. NT has it own stupid boot loader, even Windows 2000, I hate it. On Wed, 8 Dec 1999 20:34:40 -0500, "Corky Ashford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know how to remove Lilo boot loader ? i've taken linux off and loaded NT but i can't boot it because the Lilo boot prompt always comes up and doesn't give me the NT option. help.
Re: [newbie] Lots of problems on install
The answer to question one is SCSI emulation. I wrote up what I did to get it to work on my PC. http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm PBen On Thu, 2 Dec 1999 23:28:00 -0700, Dan Ferris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First is this, I have an HP CDRecorder Plus IDE cdrecorder on /dev/hdd. I would like to be able to burn cds with it. I have cdrecord version 1.8. Is this an issue with cdrecord not seeing the cd writer, or could it be something else. I can use it as a normal cd rom drive to play music cds etc etc etc. Sorry I haven't tried Samba.
Re: [[newbie] Macmillan Mandrake Books (was Mouse Driver screwup in KDE)]
Yes it would be against the copyright laws to copy to your personal FTP site. Please read the license, they are copyrighted by McMillain Digital Publishing, NOT GPL. So be sure that your lawyers are much better than theirs! If you had bought the Mandrake 6.5 (sic) in the retail channel in the USA the CD is in separate envelope with a lot of fine print on it about not giving it away. PBen On 26 Nov 99 14:29:57 EST, Jaguar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would it be against the GPL or something for someone to offer THESE files for d/l...ie: a personal FTP site or something??? Jaguar "Charles Raymond" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone happen to know if these are available online somewhere for my poor self to access? :) I've been using my work's T1 after hours to get additional resources (ie, aside from purchasing Mandrake, I downloaded it), so size isn't much of an issue. Thanks. --Charles Sams Teach Yourself KDE 1.1 in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself GIMP in 24 Hours Sams Teach Yourself Linux in 24 Hours Second Edition QUE Special Edition Using WordPerfect 8 for Linux QUE Special Edition Using StarOffice 5.0 QUE Special Edition Using Linux Red Hat Linux 6 Unleashed Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Segmentation Faults?
Are you using the static linked version or a dynamic link version. If Dynamic which version of the lib are you using? I got the static link version to work but back then I had Mandrake 5.3 and they didn't have a version for the glib used in 5.3 I haven't upgraded since then since they are still haven't released a new release since 1.3. On Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:20:47 -0500, "Clyde J. Kell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help, Whenever I try to run a particular program I receive an: Segmentation Fault core dumped Then when I try to do anything else I receive: unable to load interpreter init: Id "3" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes If I wait nothing happens. If I switch to another console Root or whatever I receive the same error. I have to RESET the machine to reboot. I am running Mandrake 6.0 on an AMD K6-2 400mhz with 64 megs ram. I recently upgraded to this mother board from an AMD 586/133mhz machine running Red Hat 5.2 Everything was wonderful and I really loved it. However, the motherboard was old and had a crack so it DIED and well now the nightmare has begun. I ended up re-installing Mandrake 6.0. Any suggestions as to why I am receiving the above errors. Regards, Clyde J. Kell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How to market Linux?
I have been thinking about this lately also. Marketing of small computers is an interesting and complex task. Here is some stuff I came across: http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnZedlewski/JohnZedlewski4.html http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/JohnZedlewski/JohnZedlewski1.html In fact I would go through the old pages in OSOpinion there are some good thoughts in there amongst the dross. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue4_10/bezroukov/index.html http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue46/al-mohssen.html http://www.businessweek.com/cgi-bin/bwdaily_full?right=dnflash/apr1999/nf90427b.htm The major threats are, internal politics, splits or people just leaving because of arguments. Software patents or trade secrets from a developers day job wind up in the kernel. A large company could just ignore GPL and grind up the volunteers with a long lawsuit. How many depositions would you want to set through before you gave up and stopped coding for Linux? It would be a very dirty campaign but dying companies will do desperate things. Microsoft Linux or MS-BSD with all sorts of non-GPL add-ons. Evil thoughts I should stop here. PBen
Re: [newbie] CDWR and Zip
Are you using Gnome, KDE, or something else for your desktop?
Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?
I agree I have been starting to relearn C and learn the *nux way of doing things. It is kind of discouraging when the Qt examples that were installed with Linux-Mandrake will not compile. (Oh no! "hello world" doesn't work? I think something is wrong!) At least when you are following the tutorial linked off the Qt home page (I think it is also installed on the hard drive with the Qt lib when you select the development install) I haven't given up! I just have found other distractions right now. I have the red book (Linux Programming) from Worx and will probably dig into it when the snow flies. I will have to check /etc/ld.do.conf, I know it isn't in the bash profile. This is the newbie list right? Thanks, PBen On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 06:12:04 +, Richard Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Under normal curcumstancies its not so important as to where the libs are situated, its a question of the system knowing where they are, there are several ways of doing this,. For example in the systems /etc/profile or bash_profile depending on what distro is in use you can define lib paths in those files, another way would be to change paths in the Makefiles for programs needing those libs, putting the directory path in /etc/ld.do.conf and rerunning ldconfig, there are many ways. Its not what you do but HOW you do it. Realy the best way is to read the documentation in the to be made program first and understanding what the program expects to find and where it wants to look. You may have noticed that many programs say "ajust the Makefile accordingly" to point it to the correct lib paths.
Re: [newbie] Large HDD how to partition??
On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:07:30 -0500, "Michael Seltenright" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm planning to replace my current 8 gig Windows HD with a 20 or 27 gig drive. I know that LILO has a problem with drives that have more than 1023 cylinders. How should I partition this drive so that I can still use LILO? I will install Linux to the 8 gig drive all by it's lonesome. If Windows is all by it lonesome on the 27G drive and Linux is on the 8G you don't have any problems. LILO only has a problem if the Linux /boot partition is beyond the 8G mark on it's physical hard drive. It shouldn't have any problem with the Windows drive. If you don't use a boot manger put LILO on the hda (Windows C:) drive. If you are going to use a third party boot manager or boot off a floppy put LILO in the Linux partition. If you are going to mix Windows and another OS on the 27G drive be sure to install Windows first. After all Windows thinks it is the center of the universe and will screw up any other OS on the drive if you give it half a chance. PBen
Re: [newbie] KDE Libraries... Where?
I was told that the Qt Lib is in the /usr/lib and the headers are in the /usr/include/qt. This will cause all kinds of headaches for KDE development since it is not the standard place that Qt and SuSE expects. I haven't even written hello world yet in Linux but I have compiled a few source tar balls for KDE apps. It is a pain for that. PBen On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 18:54:24 -0700, "Eric L. Damron" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone tell me where Mandrake 6.0 puts the KDE libraries? The K-Develop IDE is asking for them but I can't seem to find them anywhere! Thanks
Re: [newbie] scsi emulation
I have written up what worked for me. Go to: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm I hope that it will clear up a few things. At least it worked for my CD-R. PBen On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:53:59 -0700 (PDT), "R. David Whitlock" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hrm. OK, here's one I don't understand... I am trying to follow the directions on the website at http://www.whitem.demon.co.uk/idescsi_idx.htm for getting a cd-burner to work under Mandrake 6.0 using scsi emulation. I have also seen this posted a time or two, with the same answer, but neither the man pages or online looking seems to give a different answer. At the stage in the directions where you alter the lilo.conf file to add a parameter to pass the kernel, the following is a sample from my lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=lin root=/dev/hda5 read-only append="hdd=ide-scsi" However, on reboot, my kernel flashes by the following message: [david@pandora david]# dmesg|more Linux version 2.2.9-27mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version pgcc-2.91 .66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Jun 14 16:44:05 CEST 1999 Detected 434328240 Hz processor. ide_setup: hdd= -- BAD OPTION ide_setup: ide-scsi -- BAD OPTION What syntax error am I commiting, and what is supposed to be going on here? I can load the ide-scsi module, and I think scsi emulation is built in to the kernel, but i still get this on startup: scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. What's with the errors? Later, David "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice, there is no Law."
Re: [newbie] Multimedia performance
I am sorry. The development on this chip set should have gone in to maintenance mode by now. I would suggest a log at the change logs and see if anything has been added in the last few revisions. It also might be worth looking in the config file to see if there is an option for acceleration. Virge is very common and should be well understood by the developers by now. Please forgive my over reaction. PBen On Tue, 14 Sep 1999 14:06:19 +0800, Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: S3 Virge GX2 (4 meg) on the Linux machine. Xfree is the standard one found on the Mandrake 6.0 cd. The work machine has an S3 DX. There may well be acceleration on the windows machine as the S3 virge uses an svga server. Yeah you are right I can probably figure out my own problems from that information however I am actually interested more in why I seemed to get better video performance from RH5.2 Aaron
Re: [newbie] scsi
If you are talking about SCSI emulation to burn some CDs check out my web site. I wrote up what I did to get it to work. The URL is: http://www.midkan.com/paulb/mycdr.htm PBen On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 03:49:57 -0400, Ralph|byte-runner| [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Can someone plz give me the line i need to put in my lilo conf to get my cdr to work. I know it's append??? plz help. thanks Ralph -- *** Where Ever Your Head Goes Your Ass Will Follow ***
Re: [newbie] Multiple CPU (2 Celerons or one Pent-3)
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 09:03:13 +0800 , Aaron deRozario [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A few more questions. Overclocking a Celeron - I know a lot has been written about this in a lot of places but 1 quick question - I know overclocking voids the Intel warranty (in fact I think running dual-Celerons voids the warranty also - I might have read that on Slashdot) but can it actually fry the CPU, or does it just make the system unstable? I have also read (RedHat site perhaps?) that Linux does not take kindly to overclocked systems because it has a faster kernal and therefore more susceptible to system timing problems. Is this still true? There are claims that it will shorten the life of the CPU. If you have to bump up the voltage on the CPU the dopants, trace impurities in the silicon that makes it an semiconductor, will migrate and eventually kill the transistors. Then there is the problem of extra heat created by running it at a higher clock rate. The heat in a transistor is generated by changing states. If you change states more times per second you will generate more heat. I managed to get to 92MHz from 66MHz without raising the voltage applied to the CPUs. I did stick in an extra fan in my case to increase the air flow in my case. So it stays under 40 C in the case, the motherboard reports the CPUs are running at about 50 C. A little warm but not too bad. (Has anybody got KLM to work for them? I would love to keep track of the CPU temperature in Linux.) I haven't had any problems with Linux. Windows 2000 gave me a few problems. So I would say that Win2k doesn't take too kindly to OC. Some of you mentioned that SCSI gives a much higher performance than IDE, especially when dealing with multiple requests. IF I have 4 IDE devices on 4 separate channels (as opposed to two), can Linux make a request to each device concurrently? How does this differ from the way SCSI makes requests to drives? It might work but I am not the one to ask on that. From what I have read and my experience SCSI is still better when you are hitting the drive with multiple requests. I haven't read up on the changes made with UDMA66. I think I read some place there were a few on the request queue problem. For PBen - SLab runs on Linux. Have a look at http://www.llornkcor.com/SLab/SLab.html As the web site says it takes a bit to learn. I am still very much in the learning stage at the moment. I need a month off work so I can sit down and learn. Thanks I will check it out. PBen
Re: X11Amp (was --Re: [newbie] C++ compiler error when loading programs)
Take a look at http://www.freeamp.org/ they claim to support streaming. I haven't tried this yet but I have been meaning to. PBen On Sun, 05 Sep 1999 10:48:25 -0400, Steve Philp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does it support streaming via URL? I like to listen to Geeks In Space, but don't want to download the whole thing or fire up RealPlayer to listen.
Re: [newbie] 32 Bit Video Cards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I checked at www.iomagic.com and the 3d/ep does use a Permedia 2 chip set. I had a Diamond Fire Pro 1000 in my last PC that also used a Permedia 2. SuSE and Elisa developed the XFree86 driver for that chip set. You might need to get the RPM off of your install CD but if you have Mandrake 5.3 or 6.0 it will be there. I am on my windows notebook so I can't look up the RPM name, email me if you need it. Just select a Diamond Fire 1000 and it should work for you. - From looking at the manual for the card on the web site they are just using the referance driver as shipped by 3DLabs for Windows so they aren't doing anything tricky with the hardware. You should also check www.3dlabs.com to be sure that you have the current referance driver for Windows. I/O Magic doesn't put a lot of effort in on their hardware. They sell on price not added value. PBen At 11:28 AM 9/2/99 -0400, you wrote: As for the I/O Magic video card, any idea what chipset it uses? It uses the PERMEDIA 2 chipset. I tried a couple of pre-defined cards with PERMEDIA 2, but was unsure which accellerated x server to run. Even tried to manually configure the card. Regardless, after typing startx, KDE would come up at approx. 300 x (some small #) resolution whereas just the "Taskbar" would take up half the screen, or worse nothing would come up and I would have to re-boot. Might be able to get it to work by using a different X-server, or using the Frame Buffer device instead, from what one of the guys at Mandrakesoft says... :-) Don't recall seeing anything about Frame Buffer Device. What is it? Thanks, Bryan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGP Personal Privacy 6.0 iQA/AwUBN868e/TjuG8p6IWbEQKhsACeMvyg6VLLTJptyWTSgFYLmc8oEowAoI5l ttWQ7AAp8h/6lDQJS7NP6/7k =vgkq -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [newbie] Repost url to linux realplayer g-2
http://www.real.com/products/player/linux.html Please be sure to read and follow the directions on the download page. I works ok for me but I don't use it that much. On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 12:42:51 -0600, Rick Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost the site. Can someone repost the location to download real plater G-2 . Thanks Rick
[newbie] QTDIR enviroment?
HELP! I am trying to install the krecorder program to do some simple recording to a wave file. The problem is that the precompiled one I downloaded crashes with a segmenation fault. The autor must have expected that because he say just recompile the source code in the tar. The makefile failes when it looks for a QTDIR enviroment string. I take my best stab at creading it by typeing: QTDIR=/usr/include/qt exprot QTDIR printenv Then the compiler spits up on all the QT header files! I go looking in the Makefile and I find: -I$(KDEDIR)/include -I$(QTDIR)/include -I/usr/X11R6/include and later LDFLAGS = -L$(KDEDIR)/lib -L$(QTDIR)/lib -L/usr/X11R6/lib \ when I go back to the begining of the comple I found out that the make file feed the compiler /user/include/qt/include!?! That doesn't exist. Question 1: So where is the QT lib in Mandrake-Linux? I know the headers are in /user/include/qt but I also know there isn't a lib in /user/include/qt/lib. Question 2: Am I going to have this problem whenever I compile a KDE app? Is the QT "stuff" in an unusual place in Red Hat/Mandrake? Thanks, PBen
Re: [newbie] Thanks Steve Axalon / HP8100CDR/RW - MYCDR.HTM
Sorry for the HTML but I have started to work on updating my web page and I thought I would stick a few of the thinks I have had to do to get Linux to work my way on it. It still needs some work but maybe it will help you. Just skip the : ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom Since you already have a /dev/cdrom hooked to something different. PBen On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 08:54:12 -0500, "Ed Santiago" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks you for the help, I am now able to mount my HP8100 CDR/RW and use it as a second CDROM. I very much appreciate your help. The HP8100 is an IDE CDR/RW can I write to it or do I need special software? Thanks again, Ed Santiago Title: IDE-SCSI Emulation How I Got the IDE-SCSI Emulation to Work To record on a IDE CD-R under Linux you need to have the IDE emulate a SCSI drive. This is how I got my IDE CD-R to work. Thanks to Deja-news and: > Subject: CD-Writer mini-Howto [was Re: Configuration Questions] > From: Jean-Michel Dault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 1999/06/19 > Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake First become root and edit the /etc/lilo.conf and add an append="hdd=ide-scsi" to it. Here is mine: /etc/lilo.config boot=/dev/hda6 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 append="hdd=ide-scsi" image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdksmp label=linux root=/dev/hda11 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdksmp.img read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.9-19mdk label=linux-up root=/dev/hda11 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.9-19mdk.img read-only other=/dev/hda1 label=dos table=/dev/hda Then, add the following lines at the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local: /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi /sbin/modprobe sg This will configure your CD-RW to emulate a SCSI device. The last step is to link /dev/cdrom to your CD-RW. ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom Reboot! make sure everything works. As root type cdrecord -scanbus My resutlts were: Cdrecord release 1.8a22 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 Jörg Schilling scsibus0: 0) * 1) * 2) * 3) * 4) 'iomega ' 'jaz 1GB ' 'H.72' Removable Disk 5) * 6) * 7) * scsibus1: 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' '3.01' Removable CD-ROM 101) * 102) * 103) * 104) * 105) * 106) * 107) * I had an error message about block-major-11 so I addded this change: /etc/config.modules alias scsi_hostadapter0 ide-scsi alias scsi_hostadapter1 advansys alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start alias sound es1370 alias block-major-11 ide-scsi Note that I have a real SCSI card installed for a Jaz drive and I had to change the alias for the Advansys SCSI card.
Re: [newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999 01:13:52 -0600 (MDT), Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I need to run as root: isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf This one gets handled automaticly in rc.sysinit You are right about that. Since I didn't have any ISA cards before I didn't have a /etc/isapnp.conf until I created it. So the rc.sysinit script didn't have the isapnp.conf script to feed iaspnp. modprobe videodev.o modprobe radio-cadet.o io=0x330 just put them in /etc/conf.modules options radio-cadet io=0x330 post-install videodev modprobe radio-cadet Now if i'm remebering correctly, when something requests v4l the kernel will autoload videodev, then radio-cadet. This part didn't work. I still had to run modprobe at the root CLI prompt to get the card to tune to my favorite FM station. No big deal. I can put it in rc.local, I have already stuck a few things in there for my IDE CD-R. I couldn't find any information on /etc/conf.modules. Do you have any recommendations on a good book for Linux or Unix System Administration? I found "A Practical Guide to Linux" by Mark Sobell to be good for using Linux but it is a light on the Administration side. Thanks, PBen The io=0x330 I got from digging into the source code of radio-cadet. So where do I stick the three lines above? I assume that it goes into rc.local right? Well I am learning a few things about Linux and trying to remember enough C to figure it out what the HOWTOs don't cover. Yes you could also modprobe from rc.local Thanks, No problem, let me know if the conf.modules doesn't work and i'll dig out my radiocard and bush the dust off..
Re: [newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio
I figured out what I did wrong. I needed to run isapnp. So I ran "pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf" and modified the results of that and saved it. That would reserve the 0x0330 I/O port for the card, no IRQ or DMA used. So I need to run as root: isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf modprobe videodev.o modprobe radio-cadet.o io=0x330 The io=0x330 I got from digging into the source code of radio-cadet. So where do I stick the three lines above? I assume that it goes into rc.local right? Well I am learning a few things about Linux and trying to remember enough C to figure it out what the HOWTOs don't cover. Thanks, PBen On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 15:18:11 -0600 (MDT), Axalon Bloodstone I ran: /sbin/modprobe videodev.o /sbin/modprobe radio-cadet.o when I /sbin/lsmod they seem to be loaded and working. The problem is I still don't have a /dev/radio so I can't get Ktuner to work. --- The question at last! --- How do I create a char device with a minor range between 64-127 (major range unknown) as /dev/radio that is associated with the v4l driver radio-cadet? (cd /dev/ ./MAKEDEV radio ln -s radio0 radio) --- Why does all of the v4l web sites leave this step out? I guess they all assume that you are rolling your own with bttv, a makefile, and a TV tuner card.I am almost there I just need a /dev/radio entry. How do you do that? PBen P.S. Would this have worked better if I had the card back when I installed Mandrake or would it still failed? Would have done the same, i'll add a /dev/radio for the next release Two more good sites are: http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ Bookmark this site if you ever want to do anything with Linux sound: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
[newbie] kernal modules - video4linux - FM tuner - dev/radio
OK I have looked under every rock I can think off, I can't get my Cadet FM tuner card to work. Russel Kroll has a web page at: http://linux.blackhawke.net/cadet.html He says that he has done a v4l driver. So how do I get it to go? I looked at the official v4l homepage at: http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml That site has the same API document that is in the docs that Mandrake installed on my hard drive from the CD-ROM (file:/usr/doc/ kernel-doc-2.2.9/video4linux/API.html). It will be need if I ever get the card going and I want to do some programming but it has little to do with setting up the card. I found the videodev.o and radio-cadet.o in the /lib/modules/... branch of my hard drive. So the good people at Linux-Mandrake have compiled it for me. I ran: /sbin/modprobe videodev.o /sbin/modprobe radio-cadet.o when I /sbin/lsmod they seem to be loaded and working. The problem is I still don't have a /dev/radio so I can't get Ktuner to work. --- The question at last! --- How do I create a char device with a minor range between 64-127 (major range unknown) as /dev/radio that is associated with the v4l driver radio-cadet? --- Why does all of the v4l web sites leave this step out? I guess they all assume that you are rolling your own with bttv, a makefile, and a TV tuner card.I am almost there I just need a /dev/radio entry. How do you do that? PBen P.S. Would this have worked better if I had the card back when I installed Mandrake or would it still failed? Two more good sites are: http://www.exploits.org/v4l/ Bookmark this site if you ever want to do anything with Linux sound: http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
