Re: [Flexradio] Difficulties with my 64 bit firewire drivers
In windows 7 you need to go into control panel ,device manager and change ieee1394 controller to legacy drivers, search reflector and this is well documented cheers Paul GI4FZD ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] Difficulties with my 64 bit firewire drivers
If you search for legacy in the reflector you will see my walkthrough in installing legacy driver. Cheers Paul GI4FZD ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] Exchanging CAT data between two computers.
Hi Group: I have a Flex 5000A and I am using a HP Pavillion computer running under Windows Vista. This OS has been Ok so far, running PSDR and through virtual COM Ports running DXLab logging program. Problems began yesterday when I tried to connect a Startech USB to 4 RS232 converter to run my linear, antenna etc. There is a problem with the drivers since this converter runs fine on my XP. I contacted the manufacturer and apparantly they dont have a solution for this yet. One idea that occured to me is to run PSDR on the Pavillion (VISTA) and run the peripherals off my other XP computer. The question is, is there a way to send CAT data from PSDR from one computer to the other since I would be running the logging program on the other computer? 73's Mario/YS1MAE ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] Exchanging CAT data between two computers.
Mario, I think your hardware uses the Prolific chipset, there are new VISTA drivers available: http://www.prolific.com.tw/eng/downloads.asp?ID=31 I use this hardware without problem on VISTA and W7. Simon Brown, HB9DRV www.ham-radio-deluxe.com - Original Message - From: Mario Aviles mario.avi...@amnetsal.com Problems began yesterday when I tried to connect a Startech USB to 4 RS232 converter to run my linear, antenna etc. There is a problem with the drivers since this converter runs fine on my XP. I contacted the manufacturer and apparantly they dont have a solution for this yet. ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
[Flexradio] My new cheap computer has arrived...
The $165 machine showed up this afternoon. Here's a link where you can see the gory details, the bottom line is it's a 3.2GHz P4, all the usual computer stuff, and includes an XP Pro license. http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348774/hp-dc7600-p4-3.2ghz-1gb.html They messed up and shipped me a 512M RAM unit instead of the 1GB that I ordered - more later on this. The bottom line - it worked first time, like a champ! I put in a low-profile TI-chip firewire card (the system has two free PCI slots and 1 PCIe-1 and 1 PCIe-8 slot - all low profile), applied the MS firewire hotfix, installed the Flex driver, installed .Net 3.5 - and brought up PowerSDR 1.19.1 svn 3345. And it worked. I'm running with smaller buffer sizes on both the driver and the audio settings, and I can run with higher DSP buffers than I could on my Atom 330 box. The standare Flex driver settings worked FB right out of the box. I tried my worst-case test of settings of turning on NR, both NB's, ANF, everything, and there is no stuttering, just no problem at all. I also installed the other ham software that I want to use - Ham Radio Deluxe - the current beta version. Running that, the HRD logger (which seems to be a resource hog) and DM780 using VAC - everything runs just fine. My CPU usage percentage seems to hover between 18% and 30%. I set the CPU affinity to let PSDR have any CPU it wants, and on this box I've set up all my other apps to only use CPU1. I don't know how necessary or effective that is but I figured it can't hurt. And none of the other apps locked down to the second CPU seem to care or be slow or laggy at all. Oh yeah, I also put in my USB VGA adapter so I can have two monitors. It is a bit of a resource sink but it runs just fine. It generates a bunch of hash on 17 meters but ferrites fixed that right up. What surprised me was that with only 512M of RAM and all the above running - plus Firefox with 5 or 6 tabs open - I still have 100M of RAM free and the system isn't paging! They're going to send me the missing 512M stick. I could probably get email up and running on it as well if I felt the urge. So I think that's pretty good. Cheap, easy - just what the doctor ordered. Best regards, Michael Jones W0STB ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
Re: [Flexradio] My new cheap computer has arrived...
Congratulations! I did the same thing with a similar single-core machine a few months ago, and had almost exactly the same experience. I think the key is to start with a fresh machine - i.e., newly loaded O/S on blank disk. Then add just the stuff you need. My machine typically runs 15-25%, even with HRD (v5 beta) running and PSDR of course. Google Earth qso lookups add a bit too, but not worrisome. The display can freeze for a second or two during QRZ.com lookups. The only thing I've found so far that makes a noteworthy difference in CPU usage is the MultiRx. If it's processing two SSB signals at a time, CPU usage can get up to the 50% range. You can reduce the frames-per-second setting on the display to save some computer cycles at the cost of a slightly less smooth display. Have fun! Jack K3FIV Point Arena, CA On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 20:38 -0600, Michael Jones wrote: The $165 machine showed up this afternoon. Here's a link where you can see the gory details, the bottom line is it's a 3.2GHz P4, all the usual computer stuff, and includes an XP Pro license. http://www.surpluscomputers.com/348774/hp-dc7600-p4-3.2ghz-1gb.html They messed up and shipped me a 512M RAM unit instead of the 1GB that I ordered - more later on this. The bottom line - it worked first time, like a champ! I put in a low-profile TI-chip firewire card (the system has two free PCI slots and 1 PCIe-1 and 1 PCIe-8 slot - all low profile), applied the MS firewire hotfix, installed the Flex driver, installed .Net 3.5 - and brought up PowerSDR 1.19.1 svn 3345. And it worked. I'm running with smaller buffer sizes on both the driver and the audio settings, and I can run with higher DSP buffers than I could on my Atom 330 box. The standare Flex driver settings worked FB right out of the box. I tried my worst-case test of settings of turning on NR, both NB's, ANF, everything, and there is no stuttering, just no problem at all. I also installed the other ham software that I want to use - Ham Radio Deluxe - the current beta version. Running that, the HRD logger (which seems to be a resource hog) and DM780 using VAC - everything runs just fine. My CPU usage percentage seems to hover between 18% and 30%. I set the CPU affinity to let PSDR have any CPU it wants, and on this box I've set up all my other apps to only use CPU1. I don't know how necessary or effective that is but I figured it can't hurt. And none of the other apps locked down to the second CPU seem to care or be slow or laggy at all. Oh yeah, I also put in my USB VGA adapter so I can have two monitors. It is a bit of a resource sink but it runs just fine. It generates a bunch of hash on 17 meters but ferrites fixed that right up. What surprised me was that with only 512M of RAM and all the above running - plus Firefox with 5 or 6 tabs open - I still have 100M of RAM free and the system isn't paging! They're going to send me the missing 512M stick. I could probably get email up and running on it as well if I felt the urge. So I think that's pretty good. Cheap, easy - just what the doctor ordered. Best regards, Michael Jones W0STB ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to j...@3kitty.org ___ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/ Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
