Linux-Hardware Digest #120
Linux-Hardware Digest #120, Volume #14Tue, 2 Jan 01 17:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Help!! Geforce2 MX is almost working. (moonie;))
Re: CD Burner (Aulne)
Re: Two mice? (Marcus Lauer)
Re: CD Burner (Bill Unruh)
Computer goes whacky installing KDE 2.01 ("Greg S. Trouw")
Re: ??? RH7.0 on a Pentium Pro 200 (Michael Meissner)
What is the best bttv TV Card? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A good place to buy components? (Michael Meissner)
Re: CD Burner (scatterman)
Re: Matrox G450 and Xfree86 question (Michael Meissner)
Re: CD Burner (Neuromancer)
Realtime audio processing ("Theo van der Merwe")
Re: i810 audio configuration (Susan Stewart)
Re: Computer goes whacky installing KDE 2.01 (Mark Dickie)
Re: ??? RH7.0 on a Pentium Pro 200 (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Realtime audio processing (bob)
From: moonie;) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Help!! Geforce2 MX is almost working.
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:12:41 -0500
On Mon, 01 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
YYEESS! I got it working. I loaded the module after
rebooting and the gui would come up but then it locked up. I rebooted
and hooked up a ps2 mouse instead of usb. I loaded the module and
started x it worked. It is awesome. How do I get my usb mouse working.
It is a kensington 5 button optical mouse. I don't really care if the
5 buttons just 2 or 3 of them but I would really like to get the scroll
wheel working. How do I do this? Other than that it is all good here.
Thanks.
I added: Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
To my "Core Pointer's InputDevice section" of my XF86Config file, and run
imwheel. This works with XF86 4.0 and my Logitech scroll.
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moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Aulne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: CD Burner
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 19:21:46 GMT
In article 92qmil$caj$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
Because the cdrecord software, which is THE software for burning CDs
interfaces to the drive via scsi commands. Since an ide drive can be
made to obey scsi commands via the ide-scsi interface, this is not a
problem, but it must be set up or cdrecord cannot be used.
While on the subject of burners, what is your favorite recipe to make your
own audio CDs from different CDs like for instance, to make CDs to play in
the car?
Cheers,
Alain
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Marcus Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Two mice?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 11:41:42 -0800
Julie Brandon wrote:
On 1 Jan 2001 09:50:30 GMT, John Hong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
Is it possible to have two mouse interfaces loaded? I ask this
because I run Linux on a notebook and sometimes I have a USB mouse
attached and sometimes I don't. The notebook already has a stick mouse on
it.
Yes. You can configure gpm to handle two mice -- when you've got that
working, you can use the gpm repeater mode, which outputs the mouse data
elsewhere, and feed it into XFree86 with a suitable mouse dev and mouse type
set up.
Use two mice here- one PS/2 one specialised serial trackball (for my
partner, who is disabled.)
Ta-ra,
You can also run two mice under X 4.0.x. Your XF86Config-4 file
should have "InputDevice" sections for both mice, named "Mouse1" and "Mouse2"
(or whatever, just as long as they're different). The in the "ServerLayout"
section, put this:
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Mouse2" "SendCoreEvents" "T"
Note the extra stuff after the "InputDevice". This lets you run two (or
more?!) mice. I have both a MouseMan+ and a Cirque Smartcat running on my
computer, and they work fine. And no, I'm not using gpm at all.
Marcus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: CD Burner
Date: 2 Jan 2001 19:46:01 GMT
In 92t9o1$com$[EMAIL PROTECTED] Aulne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
]In article 92qmil$caj$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh) wrote:
]While on the subject of burners, what is your favorite recipe to make your
]own audio CDs from different CDs like for instance, to make CDs to play in
]the car?
I use the latest version of XCDROAST (.98test8). Easy, intuitive.
Read in the tracks
Linux-Hardware Digest #120
Linux-Hardware Digest #120, Volume #13 Mon, 26 Jun 00 17:13:07 EDT Contents: Re: Module Parameters for pctel.o HSP Modem Driver (Edward Lee) Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds (gLaNDix) Re: Thoughts on this configuration? (no one) Re: Exabyte -- a bad support company (no one) Scanner HP Scanjet 5100c (Louis Cyfer) Re: Thoughts on this configuration? (no one) Re: Integrated Audio on new Motherboard (D G) Re: ATAPI CD ROM WRITER (C. C. McPherson) Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution (Tim Haynes) Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds (sysop) Re: ES1371 -- any good ? (Matthew Gatto) From: Edward Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Module Parameters for pctel.o HSP Modem Driver Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 13:02:42 -0700 If I remember correctly, the country code is only for sending out different log messages. I don't think this will solve your problem, but you can try with "insmod pctel country_code=8". More like is that you have bad line conditions that the DAA module is unable to detect the signals. I had one site that can detect dial tone, dial out, but never connected (Carrier Detect Signal). It turns out that they have over 5 devices connected to the same line. Finally, only an expensive external modem can do it. David Masters wrote: Hi. I have successfully downloaded, linked and installed the PCTel HSP modem driver and it loads up correctly. Only problem is that it doesn't seem to be able to detect a dial tone, which is probably because the driver's country selection is incorrect (I am in Australia). The README that comes with the driver talks about setting the country in module parameters, but being a little new to Linux I am not sure how this is done. It says that the module parameter I need to use is "country_sel 8". Can someone please tell me how to pass the module parameter to the pctel.o module. I assume an entry needs to be made in the /etc/conf.modules file, but I am not sure of the syntax. I am running RedHat 6.2. Thanks, David -- From: gLaNDix [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:09:36 -0500 I have an Ensoniq AudioPCI (es1370) sound card i'm trying to get working (again) in linux... back in the day (k2.0.34) i was using the ALSA drivers (~0.4.x) and they worked great... however when i upgraded to 0.5.x (on my new slack box), all the sounds get queued when i am using /dev/dsp... for instance: 1.) play an mp3 2.) open up a term and do 'play soundfile' the 'play soundfile' command just sits there waiting until i stop the mp3, then it finally plays... this is not the desired effect... i would like it to return something like "device is in use" the same thing happens w/ the k2.2.16 es1370 driver compiled into the kernel (ie: not a module)... does anyone have any idea why this is happening? i know other people using k2.2.x w/ the es1370 chip that do not experience this problem... thx, gLaNDix -- Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.sys.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Thoughts on this configuration? From: no-one@all (no one) Date: 26 Jun 2000 15:08:37 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While the Adaptec SCSI adapters are nice, I've found Buslogic works well under Linux. I use a BT-946C in my current P90 and it does seem to work well. I just don't see as much marketting information for BusLogic these days. I originally purchased it because at the time BusLogic was all that BSD/OS supported. I echo the question about IDE hard disks. If you go for SCSI, do that for your hard disks. Agree with the recommendation of the IBM SCSI hard disks. I intend to use both IDE and SCSI. I need to be able to swap in and out a variety of different peripherals between the Intel box and my SUN Sparc equipment, so the SCSI is more of an addon that will allow me to mix and match components. You leave out any tape backup drive. Don't. I have an old Exabyte 8205 on a networked SUN machine. MY current backup involves doing cpio transfers to a software RAID configuration on a UNIX box. I fully expect that I'll have to rebuild NT every few months so as long as I've copied my user files to the RAID then I feel safe. I've always used various Matrox Millenium cards under Linux, and recommend them highly. Currently, the G400 Extra. Roger that, Matrox is on my (to check out) list. I just want to make sure that I have something that works 100% on both Linux/X and NT. I also play with DOSEMU for Generic Cadd 6.0 so it must support BIOS level VESA access. I never got that bastard of a program to run under NT. NT is too tight with their i/o port control...WINE is another issue. I've started playing with it so that I can do as much as possible from Linux without booting NT. 256 RAM do
Linux-Hardware Digest #120
Linux-Hardware Digest #120, Volume #10 Thu, 29 Apr 99 13:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: Programmers are gods (Craig Kelley)
Re: ATI Xpert 98 AGP problems in Xwindows (Neil Steadman)
ATI Mach64 tiny HOWTO (Neil Steadman)
Re: X Windows problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3COM V90 Modem Problem ("Anil Rao")
Re: ps/2 mouse (**Nick Brown)
Re: SB 16 *PCI* ("Jose M. Urena")
Re: Q: ABIT vs ASUS vs GIGABYTE for linux (Jay Ribak)
Re: halt -p not working??? help (Timothy Riehle)
Re: Programmers are gods (westprog)
Re: Programmers are gods (westprog)
Re: Programmers are gods (Chris Costello)
Re: SMP : How do I know if it's working ok. Use top? (Christophe Kumsta)
USB status question... (Stephen Quattlebaum)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
From: Craig Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Apr 1999 06:39:16 -0600
westprog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the context of a modern language, the runtime error would probably be an
exception, catchable at a higher block, but that isn't Dijkstra's concept.
C, it isn't.
Strangely enough, running Perl with 'use diagnostics' and 'use strict'
will get you that type of behavior:
my $var;
{ some block here}
foo($var);
It will complain in $var is still undef at that point.
Of course, you throw out most type-checking with perl...
(But then again Perl is smart enough to know what type you *meant*
to use) :-)
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Steadman)
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert 98 AGP problems in Xwindows
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:12:18 +0059
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Apr 1999 13:26:36 -0400, Robert August Vincent II wrote:
I'm confused. I've got an ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP, and it's strictly 2D.
I'm using the Mach64 X server with generic ATI chipset support.
AFAIK your ATI board has it's own 3D accelerator. I've played GLQuake
Quake 2 under Win95 using the Xpert98 OpenGL extensions. Granted it's slower
than Voodoos, but Quake2 was playable and looked great!
Also have a 3D add-on board (Diamond Monster3d, IIRC) and got Mesa-GL and
Quake-III up with a little tweaking. (had to download and recompile Mesa).
Runs up to 1280x1024 at 32bpp, and 800x600 in 3D mode
Which is the proof I needed that a voodoo accelerator wouldn't clash with
the Xpert98, but I'd still rather get the ATI running 3D than buy another card.
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How many shopping days till Xmas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Steadman)
Subject: ATI Mach64 tiny HOWTO
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:47:47 +0059
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In an effort to remove the countless postings on:
"How do I get my ATI... to work?"
I offer the following for Mach64 based ATI users. (Though I reckon
this will work with other programmable clockchip cards).
I'll assume you have XFree86-Mach64 installed.
I'll assume you have Xconfigurator.
Run it as root.
I'll assume the first thing it says is that it probed for the right card.
The next screen is crucial. You must set your monitor for the correct
Horizontal / Vertical rates. If your monitor isn't listed select
'custom' and choose whatever looks the nearest to what you've got.
Then select the correct Hz / Vert rates if asked.
If you don't know your monitor rates, check the back of the monitor and
do an internet search for it's make model. You should find something.
(I used '+Sony +GDM +"17e10" +rate' in altavista).
Next you get screen configuration. Select "DON'T PROBE"
Choose the correct amount of video RAM.
At the clockchip selector select "No clockchip setting"
The next screen offers to probe for clocks. Select "SKIP"
Now choose your video modes. Since this is a test run, choose all that you
know your monitor / card can cope with. Be warned X will startup in the
lowest resolution possible. This is a good thing since that's most likely
to work correctly. You can shift up and down resolutions with CTRL+ALT+'keypad+'
and CTRL+ALT+'keypad-'. If you get in a mess, bail out with CTRL+ALT+Backspace.
Now it's working, either run Xconfigurator again and select the resolutions you
actually want, or edit /etc/X11/XF86config with your favorite editor.
If people mail me regarding video cards that work using the above, I'll add a
list of cards next time I post this, and change the Mach64 bit...
(When the 'How Do I...' count goes up again).
Good Luck
Neil.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X Windows problems
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 11:04:51 GMT
http://www.kom.auc.dk/~sonic/pres_howto.html
http://www.kom.auc.dk/~sonic/presario.html
Video and Monitor - The video card is an ATI Rage LT Pro
