Re: [expert] TV Cards under Mandrake...
I have an AIW Radeon that I have never bothered to try TV with on Mandrake 9.0. Any tips on how you got this working for us other users? Perhaps you could post your procedure here. Thanks. Regards, Mike --- Dave Laird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good morning, Lorne... On Monday 20 January 2003 09:01 pm, Lorne wrote: I know this isn't what you are going to want to hear, but I've had Hauppauge PCI TV cards (Actually I have 3 of them currently) and I've had the ATI all in wonder radeon and a newer one a few months ago. I've had nothing but trouble with the ATI cards. I've had them in 4 different computers, XP, ME, and 98. Drivers don't matter. I had it up and running in I was somewhat *startled* to discover that the drivers for Windows 98 and Windows ME both had substantial problems. I sent the card back to ATI for replacement when the first card wouldn't initialize the BIOS. They were very good, actually, about troubleshooting the card, and about getting me another card. That *really* surprised me, given the bad experiences I had in the past. Linux 8.2, but it is was just flat erratic and unstable. Support for ATI sucks big time. Ever try to call those folks? I've fought with ATI products for 2 years now. I will never go back. I now have NVIDIA chipset video card and HAUPPAUGE tv card and have no problems at all in any OS I've choses so far. After getting this card working with xawtv earlier this evening, and after consideration of what praise you gave for Hauppage cards, I may simply get a Hauppage card for my own use. The guy whose system now has a working ATI card is happy, and now that I've had a bit of experience with xawtv and the interfaces involved, I'm feeling a lot more confident about it. I fairness I think the worst thing is their drivers, but who knows. Good luck man. Thanks. The ATI card is working, although perhaps not as well as I'd like it tow work. However, I think for my own use, I'm simply going to go get a Hauppage card and see how that works out. Dave - -- Dave Laird ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) The Used Kharma Lot / The Phoenix Project Web Page: http://www.kharma.net updated 01/02/2003 Music Calendar Website: http://www.kharma.net/calendar.html Usenet news server : news://news.kharma.net An automatic random thought For the Minute: bureaucracy, n: A method for transforming energy into solid waste. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+LRH5aE1ENZP1A28RAuBgAJ9EYl7eCUg9l944cJFy7dlMpEEA2QCeJo6M VDiazywwaH/HLLkTczkbsdo= =AA5X -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Low-Latency Patch for 2.4.20
These may be what you want: http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ --- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick question... Does anyone know if there is a low-latency patch available for kernel 2.4.20? I was running 2.4.19 with BOTH the preempt kernel patch and the low-latency patch applied. I have applied the preempt patch to 2.4.20 but have been unable to find a low-latency patch for it. TIA, Rick Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] need help to configure X
Looks like the 1280x1024 mode is too high for your monitor to handle. Try changing to lower res mode to see if that helps (CTRL,ALT,-). Also, you are running at 24bit color depth. Try 16bit to see if that helps. --- Tim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, (BTW thanks to others who have replied, too. I need all the help I can get. :-) My most recent attempt was to re-run X Config from install, using the detected SiS card but selecting XFree-3. This gives a screen that is now very close to being usable. That is, I can click on everything, but the display only takes up 2/3 of the screen, then the right 1/3 is a frizzy repeat of part of the main display. Also, I get artifacts (mostly across the top) and highlighted areas sometimes get blacked-out. It's hard to describe; the point is it's not really usable, although I can at least navigate my way through most of it. The first-time wizard was not usable, however. (BTW, will I be able to run that later?) Still can't figure out how to configure the card as vesa, as you suggested yesterday, unless I do it as XFree-4 X server. I can try that if you think it might yield some clues. That will produce a log file with errors. With the configuration above (detected SiS card and XFree-3), I don't get any log file, presumably because X doesn't think there's anything wrong. I am listing the XF86Config-4 and XF86Config files below. Please let me know what you think, and if you can remember how to configure as generic vesa. I'll be happy to keep trying different things as long as someone keeps responding. :-) Also, I couldn't figure out where to turn off X, so that it will boot into console mode instead of automatically starting X. Is there an easy way to toggle that without re-running xconfig? Thanks again, Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Mike Morrell Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] need help to configure X Tim, Try this to post your XF86config-4 file and xfree log file. [...] Post those two files here. = HERE IS XF86Config-4: = # File generated by XFdrake. # ** # Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of # this file. # ** Section Files # Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together) # By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of # the X server to render fonts. FontPath unix/:-1 EndSection Section ServerFlags #DontZap # disable CrtlAltBS (server abort) AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work #DontZoom # disable CrtlAltKP_+/KP_- (resolution switching) EndSection Section Module Load dbe # Double-Buffering Extension Load v4l # Video for Linux Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx # 3D layer EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard1 Driver Keyboard Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout us Option XkbOptions EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option Protocol IMPS/2 Option Device /dev/psaux Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier monitor1 VendorName Plug'n Play ModelName NEC MultiSync FP1370 HorizSync 31-130 VertRefresh 55-160 # Sony Vaio C1(X,XS,VE,VN)? # 1024x480 @ 85.6 Hz, 48 kHz hsync ModeLine 1024x48065.00 1024 1032 1176 1344 480 488 494 563 -hsync -vsync # TV fullscreen mode or DVD fullscreen output. # 768x576 @ 79 Hz, 50 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 50.00 768 832 846 1000 576 590 595 630 # 768x576 @ 100 Hz, 61.6 kHz hsync ModeLine 768x576 63.07 768 800 960 1024 576 578 590 616 EndSection Section Device Identifier device1 VendorName Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] BoardName SiS 6326 Driver sis Option DPMS Option sw_cursor # Option no_accel # Use this if acceleration is causing problems # Option fifo_moderate # Option fifo_conserv # Option fifo_aggresive # Option fast_vram # Option pci_burst_on # Option xaa_benchmark # DON'T use with ext_eng_queue !!! # Option ext_eng_queue # Turbo-queue. This can cause drawing # errors, but gives some accel EndSection Section Screen Identifier screen1 Device device1 Monitor monitor1 DefaultColorDepth 24 Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1280x960 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 15
Re: [expert] need help to configure X
Tim, Try this to post your XF86config-4 file and xfree log file. 1. put dos formated floppy in drive. I think that supermount should mount it automatically. If not manually mount it with mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy 2. cp /etc/X11/XF86config-4 /mnt/floppy 3. cd /var/log 4. ls look for a file that starts with xfree or something like that. not sure of file name for log file but something close to this I think... 5. cp xfree /mnt/floppy 6. unmount floppy if needed. Post those two files here. --- Tim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm still trying to get my PCI SiS 5598/6326 video card to work on ML9.0. Yesterday Mike suggested that I configure it as 'vesa', but from the X Configuration install step, that selection is only available under XFree-4. I tried it anyway, and got the following errors: (EE) no core pointer device specified (EE) Unable to determine the screen layout I also tried choosing XFree-3 server SVGA, and got the error Config error /etc/X11/F86COnfig.test:10 I also booted into console mode and ran xf86config. I think I entered the right numbers, but couldn't figure out how to get XFree-3 to run. Startx seems to run XFree-4, and I get the same errors (no core pointer, etc.) as when I tried to configure at install time. Can anyone 'splain to me how to configure X to let me use the card generically? This is frustrating, since I really only need the same kind of resolution that the install program has. Everything looks hunky-dory until I configure X. How do I get X to use the same video mode as the installation program? I found a framebuffer HOWTO that seems to list my card as VESA 2.0 compliant, but I don't understand how to use the info in the document to make a xconfig file, or to pick the right arguments for startx. Thanks, Tim - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
I find that the VESA driver usually works on XFree4.x on the unsupported cards. No acceleration though and not sure if you can go bigger than 1024x768. You can change your default boot OS by editing the /etc/lilo.conf file. Change the line with default=linux to default=windows or whatever the label is for that partition. See the man page for lilo.conf. Also, make sure you run lilo from the command prompt after you edit the file to update the boot sector. Hope this helps. --- Tim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikko, Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me many options -- it seemed to be making most decisions for me. I was surprised, in fact, that it installed boot manager with linux as default without even asking. I couldn't figure out how to change the default OS later, which is why I had to uninstall. I'll give it another try, and see if there's some way to pick the X version. It's a shame they would be dropping support for perfectly good hardware that isn't that old. :-( I was running Slackware in '93, on a 486 box, and I liked it a lot, but I started to get busy with the Windows side and when I got a new system in '98 I didn't want to go through all that pain again, and have been admiring Linux from afar since then. Mandrake has been getting a lot of good press about ease of use. I was hoping I wouldn't be spending a lot of time fiddling with X config files etc., especially since my video card was (I thought) kind of generic. It took me two weeks to download 9.0 over my dial-up connection. Don't think I want to go through that again to get 8.2. :-) Anyway, I'll give it another shot. Thanks again. Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Mikko Lipasti Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Display messed up after install On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: Hi, the display was all messed up. You probably got gdm/kdm login screen. Sounds like poorly supported video controller. From http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30 --- [quote] --- 30. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) 3.3.6: Support (accelerated) for the SiS 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, 86C225, 5597, 5598, 6326, 530, 620, 300, 630 and 540 is provided by the XF86_SVGA server with the sis driver. 4.2.1: Support (accelerated) for the SiS 530, 620, 6326 is provided by the sis driver. The 630, 300, and 540 are also supported, but this code is new and there are some problems with it in this version. Summary: Support for the 86C201, 86C202, 86C205, 86C215, 86C225, 5597 and 5598 is currently only available in 3.3.6. --- [end quote] --- You specify the display driver as 5598/6326. Seems to me that 5598 isn't supported by XFree86-4.2.1, which is the default (right?). However, 9.0 does provide XFree86-3.3.6, which supports them both. At least Mandrake 8.2 install asked which X version to install when installing in Expert mode. I haven't checked if this is still the case with 9.0 installer, but you should try it. -- Mikko Lipasti Polarcom Consulting Oy :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :: +358 (0)40 5590 988 - Introducing NetZero Long Distance 1st month Free! Sign up today at: www.netzerolongdistance.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Display messed up after install
I agree that XFree is still not as bullet proof as it should be. This is probably mostly due to the lack of card/chipset data from the video card makers as well as just the pure difficulty in writing drivers. There are lots of cards that are working well and I would suggest to anyone that wants to try Linux that they check into hardware support and stick with the most popular mainstream hardware because that gets the most attention from developers and testers. I know this does not help you. Sorry. If you still need help and you can manage a command line, I suggest that you post your xfree log file here. Maybe we can give you some hints. --- Tim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike, Thanks for the info and advice. I tried re-installing in expert mode, which allowed me to configure the boot manager, so that part I'm happy with. As far as X is concerned, right now it's pretty much a disaster. I tried all sorts of configurations, and I either get a test screen that doesn't work, or I get an error message about no keyboard configured, or other confusing error, and a suggestion that I should try to change some parameters. Any attempt to select XFree3 resulted in suggestion to try some other parameters. Same thing with attempt to select XFree4 with VESA. Just about the only config that actually resulted in a test screen was the one with my actual SiS card (as auto-detected) [emotional outburst on] Apparently Xfree is still not ready for prime-time, which is a little discouraging to me. This really isn't any easier than it was 9 years ago. From the mailing list and other linux-centric web sites that I've been reading, I can tell that a lot of other people are at least able to get the desktop up and running. I really expected to get past this point before I started running into trouble. :-( [emotional outburst off] Not sure where to turn at this point. I seem to have a combination of bad X support for my video card, and Mandrake X-configuration bugs. Probably I'll have to wait until broadband becomes available in my area and try redhat or else the next rev of mandrake. Maybe after a nap things will seem different and I'll try something else. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Mike Morrell Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [expert] Display messed up after install I find that the VESA driver usually works on XFree4.x on the unsupported cards. No acceleration though and not sure if you can go bigger than 1024x768. You can change your default boot OS by editing the /etc/lilo.conf file. Change the line with default=linux to default=windows or whatever the label is for that partition. See the man page for lilo.conf. Also, make sure you run lilo from the command prompt after you edit the file to update the boot sector. Hope this helps. --- Tim Werner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mikko, Thanks for the info. ML9.0 install didn't give me many options -- it seemed to be making most decisions for me. I was surprised, in fact, that it installed boot manager with linux as default without even asking. I couldn't figure out how to change the default OS later, which is why I had to uninstall. I'll give it another try, and see if there's some way to pick the X version. It's a shame they would be dropping support for perfectly good hardware that isn't that old. :-( I was running Slackware in '93, on a 486 box, and I liked it a lot, but I started to get busy with the Windows side and when I got a new system in '98 I didn't want to go through all that pain again, and have been admiring Linux from afar since then. Mandrake has been getting a lot of good press about ease of use. I was hoping I wouldn't be spending a lot of time fiddling with X config files etc., especially since my video card was (I thought) kind of generic. It took me two weeks to download 9.0 over my dial-up connection. Don't think I want to go through that again to get 8.2. :-) Anyway, I'll give it another shot. Thanks again. Tim -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:expert-owner;linux-mandrake.com]On Behalf Of Mikko Lipasti Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 9:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Display messed up after install On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 16:15, Tim Werner wrote: Hi, the display was all messed up. You probably got gdm/kdm login screen. Sounds like poorly supported video controller. From http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status30.html#30 --- [quote] --- 30. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) 3.3.6: Support (accelerated) for the SiS 86C201, 86C202, 86C205
[expert] Adding fonts in V9.0 lockup MCC
Hi list, I tried adding fonts from my Win2K partition and it locks up every time. It is a ntfs filesystem so that may be part of the problem but I don't see why it should matter. I tried editing fstab to make it mount read-only with user option, but I still get the same problem. I am able to view the contents of the windows mount without any problems. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks, Mike. __ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos More http://faith.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
