[expert] 'Hoary old' Q: /dev/sequencer
Hello. This lot is to do with finding a way to introduce a valid /dev/sequencer socket on MDK 8.2 The sound/audio subsystem is as per original installation. Under W2K SP3 , one needs to introduce a special driver to get the (on board) sound working, which (to me) implies that the sound system has something `funny' about it ( getting technical now eh? g) The (on board) purports to be ep 1370 and the driver loaded is i_810_audio. So far so good. Timidity Kmid work OK - well, a bit glitchy but i have never bothered about that, since I have (so far) only used 'em to play back MIDI files generated from ABC scripts. The actual music eventually coming planks with bits of string fastened to them ;=) I assume that Kmid (like timidity) is doing the MIDI - wav conversion in software BTW, which would explain the 'glitches' i think. I have quite recently though started to look at things like rosegarden, which (as I expect is true of most more recent MIDI software) DOES require /dev/sequencer Quite a lot of the multimedia stuff has never worked on my Linux side because of the 'can't' find /dev/sequencer socket, which judging by the mail archive is a very common problem. On this system , for ex, /dev/sequencer does not even exist, which I gather means that either: a. The incorrect set of drivers is loaded. b. The driver loaded is correct but needs some additional configuration. c. The driver does not provide /dev/sequencer because the sound hardware will not support it. The documents in the kernel source appear to support [c] especially as wav / mp3 playing work quite adequately which implies that the driver IS `correct'. If [c] is the case, then no amount of adding things to modules.conf or rebuilding bits of the kernel is going to sort it out, so I reckon that the two options open are: 1. Sack the on-board sound put in something that works instead. 2. Find a way of introducing an extra bit of software that will provide a /dev/sequencer socket - which would at least get it working after a fashion .. Anybody got any useful ideas on this? - 'twould be nice to get this part of linux working here finally! Regards, RJP -- RJP Mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] || [EMAIL PROTECTED] RJP Webhttp://sedric.co.uk. || http://www.apum26.dsl.pipex.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] test message - please don't read...
On 29 Aug 02 2:20 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: I told you not to read this! now certain precious parts of your anatomy are going to fall off. Thank you for that - i had not recieved any crap yet today, - now i have :) -- RJP - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sedric.co.uk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] ping, ping, doesn't ping
On 03,Apr/01 22:40, David C. Hoos, Sr. wrote: all this lot sounds suspiciously familiar. I too originally had a working LAN with a W2K machine talking to this Mandrake box using Samba. Then along came the hard disc failure rebuild from CD backups. I used a Mandrake re-install to alter my disk partitioning,and CAREFULLY put back qmail,KDE_2_1 et. al. cat /proc/ioports --- -001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(auto) 0300-031f : NE2000 --- OK 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(auto) d000-d007 : ide0 d008-d00f : ide1 dc00-dcbe : aic7xxx e000-e03f : es1370 cat /proc/interrupts - CPU0 0:9206323 XT-PIC timer 1: 71762 XT-PIC keyboard 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade 3:178 XT-PIC serial 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc 9: 0 XT-PIC NE2000 OK 10: 39243 XT-PIC es1370 11:293 XT-PIC aic7xxx 12: 533376 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu 14: 35683 XT-PIC ide0 15:1280013 XT-PIC ide1 NMI: 0 cat /proc/modules - es1370 21524 1 soundcore 3780 4 [es1370] ne 6640 1 (autoclean)- OK 83906204 0 (autoclean) [ne] nls_iso8859-1 2308 4 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3816 4 (autoclean) vfat 11164 4 (autoclean) fat32832 4 (autoclean) [vfat] aic7xxx 111024 2 C /sbin/route shows eth0 up UH Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 192.168.1.4 * 255.255.255.255 UH0 00 eth0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 00 eth0 127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 00 lo ddresX ping localhost OK ping anywhere else NO! If I re-boot into W2K the LAN comes up OK - so hardware works same addr irq on both W2K amd linux. ping anywhere on my sub-net seems to transmit (packet count goes up) but no replies come in. ping outside my sub net produces can't connect. ping from W2K machine to linux host IP gives packet loss. cat /proj/interrupt does not show anything on LAN irq (assume irq is used to catch incoming packets) modprobe will not successfully install ne driver with `wrong' addres or irq so LINUX thinks the driver is working so does the net transport system. All this looks like some kind of misguided security measure that is sodding up the LAN at a level below ping -- has anyone got any ideas? it would be nice to get SMB back - getting tired of trolling up down stairs with zip discs ! Regards, RJP -- RJP - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sedric.demon.co.uk.
