Re: [SLUG] flowchart drawing on linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm in need of a flowchart diagram drawing program, any ideas? dia? -- Pete de Zwart BCompSc (SDS) de Zwart Networks, http://dezwart.net.au/~pete/ Ph: +61 4 1164 8655 Fax: +61 2 9698 9843 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Unwired for Broadband ?
If you are considering going with Unwired, please be aware that they will not support you if they smell Linux. I've had a lot of DHCP issues as their DHCP server that serves my area around Central Station keeps running out of leases so I get stuck waiting for a lease to expire for hours on end and they refuse to purge stale leases from their database. Anyhoo, you may experience a much better service but I'm happy with it's bang for buck, however, any sort of real time gaming is out of the question, I got better latency with my 2400baud modem. Pete de Zwart. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Rennie Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 1:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Unwired for Broadband ? As with all wireless stuff, your mileage will vary, but it's probably worth trying it out. It would be interesting to hear more details about the disser's experience. There are lots of factors that can make something slow and crap. Thanks everybody who responded. I just thought i'd ask because of the negative comment I heard. Based on some comments I got at work about the service, it seems like I will go with Unwired (or IBurst through Ozemail). Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
RE: [SLUG] Unwired for Broadband ?
I managed to navigate through all the layers of tech support troll pits by implicating that they didn't have opposable thumbs to locate their posterior given desktop GIS. Yes, it is true that the majority of suppliers, except for Telstra Internet Direct I've found, will not support anything apart from Microsoft Windows. The problem lies more in the fact that their tech support crew can't diagnose faults from their end and have to fault find from the customer via the phone first. Seriously, how hard is it to set up a system to check various logs to see what the problem could be. Not that they even know what the OSI layer model is to find out where the problem could be. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marek Wawrzyczny Sent: Tuesday, 14 December 2004 2:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Unwired for Broadband ? Hehe... is that not true for 99.9% of ISPs? It's not just Linux though, BSD, Unix, OS X... all suffer from the Oh, if it's not Windows then the problem is at your end... syndrome. When dealing with them, don't disclose your OS. Marek Wawrzyczny smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [pjtraynor@eircom.net: Anyone care to read this!]
humor I disagree, if the software doesn't come in on punched cards or ticker tape, then what's the point? /humor I have to agree with you James, especially in a produciton environment, if you want to have that five 9s uptime (99.999%) then you have to splash the money around. Then hope that one of the PFYs doesn't kick out the power cable. Around about 1236h 21/04/2004, James Gray emitted the following wisdom: I usually stick with SCSI or basic PATA for hard drives for that reason. After being burned with promise of a Promise controller (back when they were new and hip and fast) I've since stuck with what I know is good; SCSI for power users, Standard PATA for anyone else (and a select few mature Ultra100/133 PATA chipsets too). SATA is probably OK (it will no doubt mature) but I know for *sure* that SCSI (U160/U320) is going to be better AND that Linux will drive it 100% *today*. SCSI kit costs a bit more (ok, a lot more), but for me time is money (yadda, yadda...) and the extra outlay pays for itself very soon after the credit card stops smouldering :P -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: somebody was calculating pi on the server -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Arkeia Performance
Can you give us some info on your setup? CPU, memory, file system layout, SCSI card, tape drive, etc... How many machine being backed up, total size of all data, stuff like that. Regards, Pete de Zwart. Around about 1047h 01/03/2004, Terry Collins emitted the following wisdom: Yes, I know there is a few that says don't use it, but for a SOHO, the light (free) version is quite useful (Novell, NT, etc suck). Whilst it would be ideal if it could spit out tapes like it did at 3am (1 DDS3 1hr) last night, it tends to want to compete with the old North West mail train and takes longer than 12 hours. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: We've picked COBOL as the language of choice. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Stupid Console Screensaver.
That is the right syntax, you might want to check the console-tools settings if you are using Debian, I've noticed that they have sometimes screwed with my console settings. Pete. Around about 1718h 12/01/2004, Eddie F emitted the following wisdom: Doesn't seem to be working for me, on several boxes! # setterm -blank 0 Do I have the syntax right?... Am I missing a paramater?... It's so un-obvious, it must be obvious! -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Melting hard drives -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Stupid Console Screensaver.
Apart from your choice of distrobution, I don't think that you are doing anything wrong. ;) Around about 2021h 12/01/2004, Eddie F emitted the following wisdom: RedHat 9 ! -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: It's union rules. There's nothing we can do about it. Sorry. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Stupid Console Screensaver.
Which user and which terminal are you attempting to disable it from? Generally, doing so as root on one of the virtual consoles will work. YMMV when doing it from an init script. Regards, Pete de Zwart. Around about 1112h 12/01/2004, Eddie F emitted the following wisdom: Hi all, I have tried to disable the console screensaver (on RedHat 9) with; setterm -blank 0 but have had no luck. Anyone have any ideas? -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Program load too heavy for processor to lift. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Debian au mirror
The mirror's rsync has been futzed up for quite some time now, if you want to use a primary debian mirror in .au use ftp.wa.au.debian.org http/ftp as you need. Around about 1146h 25/12/2003, Alexander Samad emitted the following wisdom: I have apt-proxy setup at home, I use ftp.au.debian.org and it seems to be a rather old sync. Is this me or are other people also experiencing this as well. Alex -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Smell from unhygienic janitorial staff wrecked the tape heads -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fortran Compiler - Unknown fortran files!
Hope to $DIETY that it's Fortran77 or later if you want to have a sane chance of converting it to another language without major hair loss. At least that version of Fortran has the Dijkstrafications so that loops and other control structures no longer have to be done with GOTOs and labels. Fortran, a very powerful language. Where powerful is easily defined and the ease that a programmer can shoot themselves in the foot and still do cool stuff in minimal amount of code. The cool thing I like about Fortran is that there is a difference between a function and a subroutine. That and the ability to pass a list of labels that a subroutine can return to once it's done it's thing. Pete. Around about 1137h 05/12/2003, Gerard Blacklock emitted the following wisdom: If anyone can help regarding this it would be greatly appreciated - unfortunately i cannot post the entire scripts since they are propriety and contain sensitive data.(I can post bits of it though if it may help) -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: It's stuck in the Web. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] What's up with the Debian Mirrors?
I wonder if any of the packages on security.debian.org have been compromised and if so what affect that could have on current stable boxes. I tried to see if there was any more news about it at Debian's web site but it isn't listed in the news section yet. Pete de Zwart. Around about 2343h 21/11/2003, Matthew Palmer emitted the following wisdom: That is identical to the announcement I saw earlier, yes. I've reproduced it here and signed it, so it can be verified as not being a hoax. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: The file system is full of it pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] What's up with the Debian Mirrors?
Around about 0939h 22/11/2003, Matthew Palmer emitted the following wisdom: Short answer, no, none of the packages have been compromised. Longer answer, All packages have MD5 sums, and those sums are signed by a GPG key stored offline. Those signatures and sums have been verified before the archive goes back online, and you can be sure that if any packages had been compromised the information would have gone public immediately. Excellent. Brain was partially offline with this e-mail, post exam marking. Oddly enough, the compromise isn't listed on the News section at all. That's OK, slashdot has 553 comments, and I'm sure they're all constructive and factual, so there's no shortage of news about the event. g Yes, I'm very curious to the particulars and slashdot contains more cruft about the incident than any sane person would be willing to wade through. IMHO, slashdot has lost it's edge and has become a haven for advocates of various technological paradigms to bash each other over recent events. Pete de Zwart. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: operation failed because: there is no message for this error (#1014) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Securing Your Web Server - (OP12181637)
Bloody Verisign and their distateful antics. Sounds like it's time they got placed in a nice BGP black hole. Around about 0630h 01/10/2003, VeriSign Internet Sales emitted the following bogons: Your FREE Internet Security Guide and 14-Day FREE SSL Security Trial! -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: temporary routing anomaly signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sun Sparcstation5: useful for what ?
I've got an SS4 as a logs box, the screen is sufficently large enough to fill this role. It's only got 32MB of RAM and has about the same crunch power as my Pentium 100MHz firewall but looks much cooler. Love those pizza boxen. Around about 1647h 17/09/2003, Colin Humphreys emitted the following wisdom: Probably a late 486 or early Pentium Early Pentium, but much more reliable. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Root nameservers are out of sync -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Sun Sparcstation5: useful for what ?
Around about 2139h 17/09/2003, Terry Collins emitted the following wisdom:
Linux or Solaris?
Linux.
If Linux, could you tell me how you set up syslog to accept the remote
logging?
syslogd needs the -r flag for remote reception, -s yourdomainname.here will
strip the superflous tail part of the domain name of the machines logging
to the logs box.
I've attached my Debian Woody /etc/init.d/sysklogd for people perusal
Good luck,
Pete de Zwart.
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Root nameservers are out of sync
#! /bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/sysklogd: start the system log daemon.
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
pidfile=/var/run/syslogd.pid
binpath=/sbin/syslogd
test -x $binpath || exit 0
# Options for start/restart the daemons
# For remote UDP logging use SYSLOGD=-r
#
SYSLOGD=-r -m 0 -s intranet.froob.net
create_xconsole()
{
if [ ! -e /dev/xconsole ]; then
mknod -m 640 /dev/xconsole p
else
chmod 0640 /dev/xconsole
fi
chown root.adm /dev/xconsole
}
running()
{
# No pidfile, probably no daemon present
#
if [ ! -f $pidfile ]
then
return 1
fi
pid=`cat $pidfile`
# No pid, probably no daemon present
#
if [ -z $pid ]
then
return 1
fi
cmd=`cat /proc/$pid/cmdline | tr \000 \n|head -1`
# No syslogd?
#
if [ $cmd != $binpath ]
then
return 1
fi
return 0
}
case $1 in
start)
echo -n Starting system log daemon: syslogd
create_xconsole
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $binpath -- $SYSLOGD
echo .
;;
stop)
echo -n Stopping system log daemon: syslogd
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $binpath --pidfile $pidfile
echo .
;;
reload|force-reload)
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal 1 --exec $binpath --pidfile $pidfile
;;
restart)
echo -n Stopping system log daemon: syslogd
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $binpath --pidfile $pidfile
echo .
sleep 1
echo -n Starting system log daemon: syslogd
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $binpath -- $SYSLOGD
echo .
;;
reload-or-restart)
if running
then
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --signal 1 --exec $binpath --pidfile $pidfile
else
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $binpath -- $SYSLOGD
fi
;;
*)
echo Usage: /etc/init.d/sysklogd
{start|stop|reload|restart|force-reload|reload-or-restart}
exit 1
esac
exit 0
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Re: [SLUG] Dual head question
Around about 0258h 13/08/2003, Dave Airlie emitted the following wisdom: I've got my Nvidia dual heading with an el-cheapo SiS PCI card, Are you using the nvidia driver or the nv driver? I've found that the nvidia driver segfaults when probing the other cards. didn't do anything special.. using the nvidia drivers and XFree86 4.2 from RH80 and the SiS driver from XFree4.2...Xinerama works.. I've noticed some odd issue with xemacs that I'm blaming on Xinerama, but it might be something else.. So you got it doing 3D in a multi headed configuration with other cards Could you be so kind as to post the perternant sections of your conf file to the list? Pete de Zwart. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: it has Intel Inside -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Dual head question
What video cards were you considering on using? Matrox has some nice dual headed cards. NVidia only likes doing dual head set up with other NVidia cards, if you can prove me wrong, please let me know how you did it. http://www.tldp.org/ has some good documents about it. Pete de Zwart. Around about 1104h 13/08/2003, Kevin Saenz emitted the following wisdom: I would like to configure my machine so that can have 2 monitors hanging off one machine. Am I correct in assuming that I would need to buy another video card which will send signals to the second monitor? Would I experience some issue with running pci and agp graphic together? Ideally I would need to have identical graphic cards. Or are there cards that have 2 monitor outputs? Matrox, or ATI would be the way to go for dual head on one card. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Unfortunately we have run out of bits/bytes/whatever. Don't worry, the next supply will be coming next week. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] looking for Ye olde tape drive
I believe that I have a drive that can read that beasty. That 486 that I was talking about has an old Wangtek QIC tape drive that I've just got working, tested it and all is hunky dory. If you want to bring in the tape to the IEEE lab I'll dump the data on to a CD for you. Pete. -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Your packets were eaten by the terminator pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] looking for Ye olde tape drive
Matt, If you don't get anyone to read it before Uni comes back, I'll give it a go. Should be able to ferret around for the gear needed to read it. Pete de Zwart. Around about 0913h 11/07/2003, Matthew Palmer emitted the following wisdom: Just had an odd request - someone has asked me to extract the data off what looks to be an old DDS-style tape cartridge. It's an Imation/3M branded tape, with the following useful information: DC2120 307.5ft (93.7m) 120MB -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Stray Alpha Particles from memory packaging caused Hard Memory Error on Server. pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Which Process to Kill?
If you need to find out what processes are using /dev/dsp, fuser will be of help as it will show you the pids of all the processes which has it open. eg: fuser /dev/dsp Regards, Pete de Zwart. Around about 1833h 04/03/2003, Mick Boda emitted the following wisdom: Here are the running process no esd unfortunately (and still no sound) -- The real cause of your computer problem according to the BOFH: Unoptimized hard drive pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SLUG] Blackdown Java SDK for Debian
Hi All, A few months ago, unofficial debs were available for the Blackdown port of the Java SDK over at planetmirror.com Now they have moved but I can't find where. Could someone enlighten me on this matter? Regards, Pete de Zwart. -- And remember... May the Source be with you... Always... msg27253/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Blackdown Java SDK for Debian
Excellent, Thank you Mary. Pete de Zwart. Around about 0658h 25/10/2002, Mary emitted the following wisdom: deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian testing main non-free -- And remember... May the Source be with you... Always... msg27260/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Optus Cable
Around about 2304h 15/10/2002, Ken Foskey emitted the following wisdom: It is dead easy. Set up a network card as dhcp and you are away. The 'old' Optus notes said you had to force hostname in dhcp but this is no longer required. Now I am curious. How are they keeping track of user data if the hostname is no longer required to obtain a DHCP lease? Unless they can snarf some sort of data from the DOCSIS modem... Pete de Zwart. -- And remember... May the Source be with you... Always... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server
It looks like your Layer 1's SNR is too low. In short, your telephone connection is very bad, you may want to get your provider to do a line noise check on it. Try borrowing a nullmodem to test the ppp connection first. Pete de Zwart. Around about 2320h 13/08/2002, ramon buckland emitted the following wisdom: 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Recv: CONNECT 9600/ARQ 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Interpreted response: Connect 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Connection established at 9600bps. 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Error-control on. 08-01-2002 12:26:46.73 - Data compression off or unknown. 08-01-2002 12:26:46.74 - 9600,N,8,1 08-01-2002 12:27:20.59 - Hanging up the modem. 08-01-2002 12:27:20.59 - Hardware hangup by lowering DTR. 08-01-2002 12:27:21.32 - Recv: crlfNO CARRIERcrlf -- The real reason your computer crashed, thanx to the BOFH: NOTICE: alloc: /dev/null: filesystem full msg25465/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Problems setting up a PPP Dial in Server
You will want Windows to do a ppp session log. I found that the problem was that windoze was too retarded to realise that pppd was using a dynamic IP so it kept refusing the LCP options that the ppp server was giving it. Get the windows box to force an IP and see what happens. Getting it to dump a log of the session will tell you EXACTLY where the LCP connection died. the log is usually in $WINDOWS\ppp.log Pete de Zwart. Around about 0005h 13/08/2002, ramon buckland emitted the following wisdom: Debian box is Default install NOTHING out of the ordinary IP of debian box on the local network is 192.168.1.109 .. I am trying yto give the Win95 box an IP of 192.168.1.19 Interesting, what it being dumped in /var/log/syslog by pppd in regards to the LCP layer? -- The real reason your computer crashed, thanx to the BOFH: dry joints on cable plug msg25378/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] Fighting spam for me dear old Dad.
Can you check that all the messages have the spamassassin custom e-mail headers attached to them? Pete -- And remember, may the source be with you, always... msg24254/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [SLUG] PPP - PAP - PAM - Radius
PAM complains about a missing symbol: pam_sm_acct_mgmt I'm guessing that the radius module for PAM is for auth only. The strange thing is that, even if I disable all other PAM modules for PPP PAM_unix is still consulted. Pete. Around about 1055h 26/04/2002, Steve Kowalik emitted the following wisdom: Add 'account sufficient pam_radius_auth.so' (above the other account line), to get the account information from radius. -- And remember, may the source be with you, always... msg22950/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SLUG] PPP - PAP - PAM - Radius
Righteo, I've been fooling around with my CD only firewall for the past few days and everything is working sweet except for the modem dial-in. To ensure greater security of the firewall and internal network I decided against the use of NIS for password information that PAM would use to authenticate users who wanted to dial in. Following the advice of the folks on #slug I went ahead with the Radius idea. PPP talks to PAM which talks to an internal radius server. The Radius server is working fine, users authenticate properly. The trouble seems to be between PPP and PAM. PAM authenticates with the Radius server and gets the green light but then for some reason asks pam_unix.so as well for login info. Of course, since there is no user account data on the firewall this fails and the PPP connection is dropped. Hopefully someone has been in this situation before and can help me out. I've attached a copy of the /etc/pam.d/ppp config to this e-mail to show what the PAM setup is like for PPP. The /etc/ppp/pap-secrets file is the standard one that comes with Debian with the alpha server changed to what the firewall is actually called. Apart from that problemo, the CD firewall works as it was planned to. Pete de Zwart. -- And remember, may the source be with you, always... #%PAM-1.0 # $Id: ppp,v 1.4 2002/04/25 13:37:19 dezwart Exp $ # Information for the PPPD process with the 'login' option. authrequiredpam_nologin.so authsufficient pam_radius_auth.so authrequiredpam_unix_auth.so account requiredpam_unix_acct.so session requiredpam_unix_session.so msg22911/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
[SLUG] PDF to PS manipulations
Okies, Here's one that I've been attempting to do with varying success. Convert a PDF file to PS and change it to display 6 pages per A4 page. Help!?!?!? Pete. -- $Id: .signature,v 1.2 2001/12/22 02:46:10 dezwart Exp $ Behold, as a wild ass in the desert, go I forth to my work. - Gurney Halleck (Dune) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] gkrellm
Why not use SNMP with custom scripts for gathering the data? Pete de Zwart Around about 1524h 05/11/2001, George Vieira emitted the following wisdom: What I'd like to do is know how my firewall,mail server,etc are working along after a weekend or a day so it needs to be logged... -- $Id: .signature,v 1.1 2001/11/03 13:32:17 dezwart Exp $ And Remember, may the Source be with you... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] via82cxxx_audio driver problem in 2.4.x
Hi All, Has anyone come across the problem with the via82cxxx_audio driver in the 2.4 series of the Linux kernels, where the sample rate is fixed to 48KHz? This problem was not apparent in the 2.2 series. Also, is there an IRC channel for Slug? Regards, Pete de Zwart. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] via82cxxx_audio driver problem in 2.4.x
Thanx for the info Greg. AFAIK, the 48KHz is a hardware limitation and the rest was done in software. The sad thing is that there is very little about it on Google and I think the issue has been resolved as far as the kernel goes. Hmmm. Ponders the thought of going to alsa... I think this will be one of the things to fix with Linux that I will get around to doing when I have the time and experience, like getting the Kodak EZ200 to work with USB. Regards, de Zwart. Around about 2107h 03/11/2001, Greg Hosler emitted the following wisdom: The via82cxxx_audio driver in the Kernel 2.2 series used soundblaster legacy support to implement itself. The maintainer decided it was better to go with native audio support in the Kernel 2.4 series, and a side effect of that is that the sample rate ends up getting locked at 48khz. Not sure if this is a limitation of the harware, or just the driver (though I suspect the latter). I believe that the ALSA support still uses legacy support. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
