Hi All, I just wanted to share with your some news and answering some private emails I got regards those issues.. * VIA chipset support in kernel 2.4.x: Starting with kernel 2.4.2ac13 - the chipset IDE's interface are both supported (ATA 66 and ATA 100), so you can compile now kernel and boot from ATA-100 controller. Just make sure to compile a kernel on ATA-33 first. * DMA support for your hard disks and DVD-ROM's - finally - it's back, so those who wants to watch DVD movies with programs like xine can enable the DMA now on your hard disks with a simple command like: /sbin/hdparm -d 1 -c 1 Don't forget to save it in a place like rc.local * TV Tuner cards: The drivers for all those cards who are based on BT848/858/878/888 chipsets (most of the FlyVideo cards here in Israel comes with those chip). This new driver, along with XFree 4.0.2 will give you a real full-screen and not full window with a small picture in the middle. BTW - the Linux driver also fixes some garbage that the windows driver shows when you drag your TV window on applications like Netscape in Windows. * Sound Blaster Live: As some of you know, the driver for the Sound Blaster live comes without Bass/Treble support. To enable Bass/Treble support. In order to enable it, you should add a line: #define TONE_CONTROL in the /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/emu10k1/main.c This should give you bass and treble. If you're using ALSA - then you might want to upgrade to there 0.9.0 beta 1 version. Thats all for this time.. -- Hetz Ben Hamo Hardware Research * The opinions expressed here are my own and does not reflect my employee's opinions. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
