Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Jan Veldeman 
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Of course, it would be easier to install directly to the reiserfs.  So I've
> taken a while to ask the simple question - Is there a reiserfs root.bin and
> rescue.bin and of course a reiserfs kernel?
>



Jan

Query on CF cards..

2001-04-09 Thread anup neelanath 

Hi,
	Let me intoduce myself first. I am Anup from India. I am looking in the net 
for buying a digital camera - one with compact flash card. I got ur mail 
address from one of the replies u had given for a query on compact flash 
card. I hope u will be able to answer my query..


	I have a desktop PC - windows, and no USB port. The cameras now adays come 
with USB cables. I saw that the CF card is IDE compatible. Does it mean that 
I can directly connect the CF card to the IDE interface (as if connecting a 
HD), or do I need to have some interface to connect it to the IDE cable.


	I understand that if I buy a PCMCIA adaptor for CF card I can use it in the 
PCMCIA slot of a laptop and in that case also will I see the CF card as a 
Hard disk?


I will be really grateful if u can answer my queries...

Thanx a lot in advance//
Anup

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Re: apmd on Dell Inspiron 7500

2001-04-09 Thread Kevin A. Burton 
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Iain Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 and have tried compiling the apm in the
> kernel with several different configurations.. the battery monitor and all
> that good stuff works fine, but I've never had any luck with resuming
> after a suspend (I close the lid and the machine freezes completely).


I have a 7500 (wish I had the 8000 though).  The APM support seems to work
flawless for me.  Could you post your software config?

I do have some problems when running under XFree 4.  I can only run the patched
XFree 3.3.6 linked from the linux-laptops site.  If you run XFree 4 you won't
suspend correctly.  I don't understand why.  I haven't tried the latest XFree
4.0.2 I think.  There are some significant fixes in there so maybe this would
solve my problem.

... currently it is running RedHat 7.0 but will soon be running Debian GNU/Linux
(yay!)

I am running:

Kernel 2.4.3 (all the APM combinations seem to work)
XFree 3.3.6 with the patched XServer to get the LCD to initialize

and everything is good... (2.4.3 seems slightly buggy when compared to 2.2.19
though) 

Kevin

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Re: sound on a Tecra 8000

2001-04-09 Thread Joanne Hunter 
once upon a Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:04:55 +0200 dreary, while I emailed weak
and weary, quoth Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:23:21AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > has anybody got the sound working on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using the
> > 2.4.2 kernel?
> 
> I've had the same problem, 2.4.1 was the last version I could get the
> opl3sa2 modules working. On 2.4.2 something aparantly broke, but I
could
> still use the modules for 2.4.1 to get sound working in 2.4.2.
> I'm now running 2.4.3 (+int crypto + freeswan) and sound doesn't work
> either.
> 
> I've already sent a mail to one of the opl3sa2 coders, but haven't
gotten
> any response.
> 
> If anyone has any success please let me know too.
> 
> Mark

I ran into the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. Searching
through the Linux On Laptops pages got me here:

http://home.intcom.de/czap/pages/linuxonlap.html

which, while it's specific to SuSE, told me enough.

The short version:

I used to use this series of insmods to start sound on my system:
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod ad1848
insmod opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
insmod opl3 io=0x388

Now I use this:
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
insmod opl3 io=0x388

Basically, I didn't try to start the opl3sa2 module, and moved all its
options except io to ad1848, changing "mss_io" to "io".

It works perfectly on my system. YMMV. :)


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Re: Query on CF cards..

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes 
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:17:24AM +, anup neelanath wrote:
> Hi,
>   Let me intoduce myself first. I am Anup from India. I am looking in the 
> net 
> for buying a digital camera - one with compact flash card. I got ur mail 
> address from one of the replies u had given for a query on compact flash 
> card. I hope u will be able to answer my query..

 This is a mailing list for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.  (see
www.debian.org).  Your question doesn't depend on windoze software, so I
know the answer, but this isn't really the right mailing list for it.

>   I have a desktop PC - windows, and no USB port. The cameras now adays 
> come 
> with USB cables. I saw that the CF card is IDE compatible. Does it mean that 
> I can directly connect the CF card to the IDE interface (as if connecting a 
> HD), or do I need to have some interface to connect it to the IDE cable.
> 
 You can't connect it to an IDE cable.  You need a PCMCIA adapter.

>   I understand that if I buy a PCMCIA adaptor for CF card I can use it in 
> the 
> PCMCIA slot of a laptop and in that case also will I see the CF card as a 
> Hard disk?

 Yup, my friend's camera works that way.  When you put the card in a pcmcia
slot, it shows up as an IDE device with a normal FAT filesystem.  It was
/dev/hde, IIRC.  (Actually, it might have been a RAM card with a battery,
not a flash card.)

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Re: sound on a Tecra 8000

2001-04-09 Thread Mark Janssen 
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Joanne Hunter wrote:
> once upon a Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:04:55 +0200 dreary, while I emailed weak
> and weary, quoth Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:23:21AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > has anybody got the sound working on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using the
> > > 2.4.2 kernel?
> 
> I ran into the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. Searching
> through the Linux On Laptops pages got me here:
> 
> http://home.intcom.de/czap/pages/linuxonlap.html
> Now I use this:
> insmod soundcore
> insmod sound
> insmod mpu401
> insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
> insmod opl3 io=0x388
> 
> Basically, I didn't try to start the opl3sa2 module, and moved all its
> options except io to ad1848, changing "mss_io" to "io".

I can verify that this works also on the tecra 8000, since I'm now
listening to my Mp3z again under 2.4.3

I've attached my /etc/modutils/aliases.sound file for those who want it...

Thanks Joanne :)


Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT
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# Sound Settings for 2.2.x upto (and including) 2.4.1
#alias char-major-14 opl3sa2
#pre-install opl3sa2 modprobe "-k" "ad1848"
#post-install opl3sa2 modprobe "-k" "opl3"
#options opl3sa2 io=0x220 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
#options opl3 io=0x388

# Sound settings for 2.4.2 and beyond (tested with 2.4.3)
alias char-major-14 ad1848
pre-install ad1848 modprobe "-k" "mpu401"
post-install ad1848 modprobe "-k" "opl3"
options ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
options opl3 io=0x388


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RE: Query on CF cards..

2001-04-09 Thread Glen S Mehn 
if you get a pcmcia adaptor for CF cards, you can insert it (if you have the
PCMCIA kernel modules installed!) and then mount it as a hard disk. on most
systems, it will be mountable as a vfat volume (you need this in your kernel
too!) on the first available IDE controller: most systems will see it as
/dev/hde1 (hda=bus0-master, hdb=bus0-slave, hdc=bus1-master,
hdd=bus1-slave).

I think that it should work the same way if you get a pcmcia pci adapter for
your desktop.

I've heard lots of tales about fiddling around: probably best to go to
linuxdoc.org and search for the particular model of digital camera.

but the best thing that I've found is to spring for the $15 and go the
pcmcia route. it's super simple and works great.

the command would be (as root or with sudo)

mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /

glen

-Original Message-
From: anup neelanath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:17 AM
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Query on CF cards..


Hi,
Let me intoduce myself first. I am Anup from India. I am looking in the 
net
for buying a digital camera - one with compact flash card. I got ur mail
address from one of the replies u had given for a query on compact flash
card. I hope u will be able to answer my query..

I have a desktop PC - windows, and no USB port. The cameras now adays 
come
with USB cables. I saw that the CF card is IDE compatible. Does it mean that
I can directly connect the CF card to the IDE interface (as if connecting a
HD), or do I need to have some interface to connect it to the IDE cable.

I understand that if I buy a PCMCIA adaptor for CF card I can use it in 
the
PCMCIA slot of a laptop and in that case also will I see the CF card as a
Hard disk?

I will be really grateful if u can answer my queries...

Thanx a lot in advance//
Anup

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Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 
On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here's a good one. :)
>
heres a better one... :)

I have been considering installing reiserfs on my laptop, not for the
journaling stuff however because (according to the documentation) that it
is faster, more economic on disk space and.faster.

I understand that it uses balanced-trees, however what I have been told
by my student flats computing students this tree will have to be balanced
everytime a entry is altered, etc.  If this is true this means CPU usage,
this translated to lower battery time.

Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
uses juice.

or am I just bantering on about nothing :)

Alex

Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes 
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
> tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
> anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
> uses juice.

 It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.

 Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.

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(solved :)Re: sound on a Tecra 8000

2001-04-09 Thread Philipp Bliedung 
Mark Janssen wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Joanne Hunter wrote:
> > once upon a Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:04:55 +0200 dreary, while I emailed weak
> > and weary, quoth Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:23:21AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > has anybody got the sound working on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using the
> > > > 2.4.2 kernel?
> >
> > I ran into the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. Searching
> > through the Linux On Laptops pages got me here:
> >
> > http://home.intcom.de/czap/pages/linuxonlap.html
> > Now I use this:
> > insmod soundcore
> > insmod sound
> > insmod mpu401
> > insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
> > insmod opl3 io=0x388
> >
> > Basically, I didn't try to start the opl3sa2 module, and moved all its
> > options except io to ad1848, changing "mss_io" to "io".
>
> I can verify that this works also on the tecra 8000, since I'm now
> listening to my Mp3z again under 2.4.3
>
> I've attached my /etc/modutils/aliases.sound file for those who want it...
>
> Thanks Joanne :)
>
> Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT
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> http: markjanssen.homeip.net and markjanssen.[com|net|org|nl]
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>
>   
>
>aliases.soundName: aliases.sound
> Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>
>Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature

Thank you s much :)   It's working!! Thank's a lot again!
Thank you

Philipp

pcmcia statup order

2001-04-09 Thread Eric Richardson 
Hi,

More than one person(debain-user) is having problems with the startup
sequence with
pcmcia. I thought I'd ask here as this list is very familiar with
pcmcia. Please read the messages below. It seems that
/etc/init.d/networking gets called before /etc/init.d/pcmcia. 

I searched open and closed bugs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could not find
anything reported
about this.

Is this a problem that needs to be looked at for the distribution? 

It sure makes the out of box experience with Debian a little rough.

Eric :-)


Eric Richardson wrote:
> 
> "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote:
> > >
> > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40networking .So if
> > > you start pcmcia at 39(with S39 a symlink to /etc/init.d/pcmcia or
> > > wahtever the script name is) in rcS.d you'll be just fine.I don't have
> > > my laptop at home so can't tell
> > > exactly but that's the idea.
> > > rcS.d is executed first,then rc(0-6).d .Actually rc.boot is really the
> > > first one but that is deprecated and it shouldn't be used.
> > > man init
> > > will tell you more about the boot process.
> > >
> >
> > That did the trick.  Thanks!
>
> I have a similar problem running stable using pcmcia and DHCP. I have
> the following in relevent files in
> 
> /etc/rcS.d.
> S35mountall.sh
> S39dns-clean
> S40hostname.sh
> S40networking
> S40pump
> 
> In /etc/rc0.d
> S35networking
> 
> In /etc/rc1.d
> S20single
> 
> In /etc/rc2.d
> S11pcmcia
> S14ppp
> S20inetd
> S50netatalk
> 
> Netatalk fails but pump must keep working as eventually eth0 comes up
> but usually after the boot is complete and I have GDM running.
> 
> Should I move dnsclean down towards 35 and insert pcmcia afterwords? If
> I move the pcmcia up to rcS.d then do I also need to make sure that the K
> scripts make sense as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric :-)

Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>> Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
>> tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
>> anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
>> uses juice.
>
> It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
>noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
>something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
>all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
>doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
>Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.
>
> Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.
>
>

Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>> Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
>> tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
>> anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
>> uses juice.
>
> It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
>noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
>something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
>all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
>doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
>Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.
>
> Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.
>
>

Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 
firstly sorry about the *useless* e-mail, I hit Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C
(I'm using pine), I only noticed when I saw the "message sent"
messagebugger :)

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
>noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
>something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
>all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
>doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
>Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.
>
I was only wondering if it sorted out the tree whilst it was idle,
however after your comments it looks like I have no problems.

> Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.
>
looks like I'll be doing ReiserFS when I'm back at university, however
not till my exams are over :(

Alex

PS.  I noticed you have a nslug.ca e-mail, you know Ben Armstrong (aka
Fishy in the xpilot circles?), only curious..

Re: Thinkpad video and digital camera issues

2001-04-09 Thread Hank Barta 
> Check the video4linux section of the kernel config?  (I don't have an
> Olympus ... our digital camera writes on a PCMCIA memory card, which works
> fine)

The Olympus writes on 'Smart Media' flash cards.

> It should spot it, but fail to identify it (hibeep, lowboop) if it doesn't
> know what it is... a mite odd to not see it at all.

My 'Simple Technology' smart media card is not recognized until I
put a smart flash card in it.

> I've been told by a friend with a laptop that has a real SmartMedia port,
> that smartmedia cards are spotted easily as USB devices when he plugs them
> in.  So, you might need USB support to spot them ... which doesn't come in
> the "stock" kernels, even though the code's in there for 2.2.18.

That sounds like a Sony VAIO that uses their proprietary flash memory
card in a built in USB device. (But I have also heard of external USB
smart media readers, so there may be laptops that have this built in.)

> It does however seem logical if the PCMCIA interface card isn't being 
> spotted, that its further smartmedia item wouldn't be spotted either :(

Logical, but not the way mine works. ;)

The only other thing I would add is that inserting smart media into
the PC locks it up for what seems like eternity. Then it proceeds
and all is well. At that time, I have no problem reading or writing
the smart flash.  IIRC, if you forget to unmount the card (unmount
the FS) it does not shut down cleanly and ties up the IRQ. I don't
recall whether reloading drivers fixed this or if I had to reboot.

Re: Thinkpad video and digital camera issues

2001-04-09 Thread William R. Ward 
Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:30:35AM -0700, William R. Ward wrote:
> > Also, I bought an Olympus Camedia D-360L digital camera.  I want to
> > upload images into the Thinkpad.  There are two ways: RS-232 or
> > SmartMedia.  I tried with several different packages to get the RS-232
> > interface to work, and couldn't get any results.  But it works like a
> > charm with the Windows software they include, of course.
> > 
> > The ADI SmartMedia/PCMCIA card I bought doesn't seem to be recognized
> > at all (the computer doesn't even realize it's been plugged in).
> > Should I just take it back for a refund?  What other brands are there
> > that you would recommend instead?  Or is there something else I can
> > try to make this one work?
> 
> I am not sure if I have the same smartmedia pcmcia adaptor as you. But
> the one I have works beautifully, I insert the pcmcia card, then the
> smartmedia card. Hear the two beeps (you get no beep until the smarmedia
> card is inserted) then mount the card to some mountpoint. It appears as
> an IDE interface to a dos formatted partition.
>  One wierdness though, twice I have somehow destroyed the smartmedia
> such that it no longer is formatted or registers as a proper block
> device. I have no idea why, and it makes me somewhat nervouse. But other
> than that minor (?) issue, all is well.
>  Anyone else have this problem with smartmedia in general? or is it just
> me?

Insert the PCMCIA card without a SmartMedia card in it?  I hadn't
thought of that.  I have been inserting the card with SmartMedia
already in it.

Another thing that may be an issue is that my SmartMedia card came
pre-formatted from Olympus.  Do I need to reformat it, to make it
work?  How can I reformat it if the computer doesn't even notice that
it's there?  I saw instructions on the web somewhere that involved
running a format command using /dev/mem0a0 or something like that, but
there is no such device in my /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to do
it.  Maybe it's called something else under Debian?

I'm kind of new to the whole PCMCIA thing.  I know the PCMCIA port
works, because I have a 3COM ethernet/modem card which works
perfectly.

If it matters, I'm running kernel version 2.2.18pre1, custom
compilation (and corresponding custom pcmcia-cs package), with Debian
"stable".

--Bill.

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Re: Thinkpad video and digital camera issues

2001-04-09 Thread Jim Richardson 
On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:21:14PM -0700, William R. Ward wrote:
> Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > I am not sure if I have the same smartmedia pcmcia adaptor as you. But
> > the one I have works beautifully, I insert the pcmcia card, then the
> > smartmedia card. Hear the two beeps (you get no beep until the smarmedia
> > card is inserted) then mount the card to some mountpoint. It appears as
> > an IDE interface to a dos formatted partition.
> >  One wierdness though, twice I have somehow destroyed the smartmedia
> > such that it no longer is formatted or registers as a proper block
> > device. I have no idea why, and it makes me somewhat nervouse. But other
> > than that minor (?) issue, all is well.
> >  Anyone else have this problem with smartmedia in general? or is it just
> > me?
> 
> Insert the PCMCIA card without a SmartMedia card in it?  I hadn't
> thought of that.  I have been inserting the card with SmartMedia
> already in it.

It doesn't matter on mine, either way works fine.

> 
> Another thing that may be an issue is that my SmartMedia card came
> pre-formatted from Olympus.  Do I need to reformat it, to make it
> work?  How can I reformat it if the computer doesn't even notice that
> it's there?  I saw instructions on the web somewhere that involved
> running a format command using /dev/mem0a0 or something like that, but
> there is no such device in my /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to do
> it.  Maybe it's called something else under Debian?
>

that sounds like a flashmem device, on the PCMCIA adapter I have, (which
has no markings and came in a plain white box :) the card looks like an
ide device.

> I'm kind of new to the whole PCMCIA thing.  I know the PCMCIA port
> works, because I have a 3COM ethernet/modem card which works
> perfectly.
> 
> If it matters, I'm running kernel version 2.2.18pre1, custom
> compilation (and corresponding custom pcmcia-cs package), with Debian
> "stable".
> 


I have only used the device under 2.2.14 and 2.2.16 so far. But the
pcmcia stuff is external so it shouldn't matter much.

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Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Jan Veldeman 

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Of course, it would be easier to install directly to the reiserfs.  So I've
> taken a while to ask the simple question - Is there a reiserfs root.bin and
> rescue.bin and of course a reiserfs kernel?
>



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Query on CF cards..

2001-04-09 Thread anup neelanath 

Hi,
Let me intoduce myself first. I am Anup from India. I am looking in the net 
for buying a digital camera - one with compact flash card. I got ur mail 
address from one of the replies u had given for a query on compact flash 
card. I hope u will be able to answer my query..

I have a desktop PC - windows, and no USB port. The cameras now adays come 
with USB cables. I saw that the CF card is IDE compatible. Does it mean that 
I can directly connect the CF card to the IDE interface (as if connecting a 
HD), or do I need to have some interface to connect it to the IDE cable.

I understand that if I buy a PCMCIA adaptor for CF card I can use it in the 
PCMCIA slot of a laptop and in that case also will I see the CF card as a 
Hard disk?

I will be really grateful if u can answer my queries...

Thanx a lot in advance//
Anup

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Re: apmd on Dell Inspiron 7500

2001-04-09 Thread Kevin A. Burton 

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> Hello,
> 
> I've got a Dell Inspiron 7500 and have tried compiling the apm in the
> kernel with several different configurations.. the battery monitor and all
> that good stuff works fine, but I've never had any luck with resuming
> after a suspend (I close the lid and the machine freezes completely).


I have a 7500 (wish I had the 8000 though).  The APM support seems to work
flawless for me.  Could you post your software config?

I do have some problems when running under XFree 4.  I can only run the patched
XFree 3.3.6 linked from the linux-laptops site.  If you run XFree 4 you won't
suspend correctly.  I don't understand why.  I haven't tried the latest XFree
4.0.2 I think.  There are some significant fixes in there so maybe this would
solve my problem.

... currently it is running RedHat 7.0 but will soon be running Debian GNU/Linux
(yay!)

I am running:

Kernel 2.4.3 (all the APM combinations seem to work)
XFree 3.3.6 with the patched XServer to get the LCD to initialize

and everything is good... (2.4.3 seems slightly buggy when compared to 2.2.19
though) 

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Re: sound on a Tecra 8000

2001-04-09 Thread Joanne Hunter 

once upon a Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:04:55 +0200 dreary, while I emailed weak
and weary, quoth Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:23:21AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > has anybody got the sound working on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using the
> > 2.4.2 kernel?
> 
> I've had the same problem, 2.4.1 was the last version I could get the
> opl3sa2 modules working. On 2.4.2 something aparantly broke, but I
could
> still use the modules for 2.4.1 to get sound working in 2.4.2.
> I'm now running 2.4.3 (+int crypto + freeswan) and sound doesn't work
> either.
> 
> I've already sent a mail to one of the opl3sa2 coders, but haven't
gotten
> any response.
> 
> If anyone has any success please let me know too.
> 
> Mark

I ran into the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. Searching
through the Linux On Laptops pages got me here:

http://home.intcom.de/czap/pages/linuxonlap.html

which, while it's specific to SuSE, told me enough.

The short version:

I used to use this series of insmods to start sound on my system:
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod ad1848
insmod opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
insmod opl3 io=0x388

Now I use this:
insmod soundcore
insmod sound
insmod mpu401
insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
insmod opl3 io=0x388

Basically, I didn't try to start the opl3sa2 module, and moved all its
options except io to ad1848, changing "mss_io" to "io".

It works perfectly on my system. YMMV. :)


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Re: Query on CF cards..

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes 

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 11:17:24AM +, anup neelanath wrote:
> Hi,
>   Let me intoduce myself first. I am Anup from India. I am looking in the net 
> for buying a digital camera - one with compact flash card. I got ur mail 
> address from one of the replies u had given for a query on compact flash 
> card. I hope u will be able to answer my query..

 This is a mailing list for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.  (see
www.debian.org).  Your question doesn't depend on windoze software, so I
know the answer, but this isn't really the right mailing list for it.

>   I have a desktop PC - windows, and no USB port. The cameras now adays come 
> with USB cables. I saw that the CF card is IDE compatible. Does it mean that 
> I can directly connect the CF card to the IDE interface (as if connecting a 
> HD), or do I need to have some interface to connect it to the IDE cable.
> 
 You can't connect it to an IDE cable.  You need a PCMCIA adapter.

>   I understand that if I buy a PCMCIA adaptor for CF card I can use it in the 
> PCMCIA slot of a laptop and in that case also will I see the CF card as a 
> Hard disk?

 Yup, my friend's camera works that way.  When you put the card in a pcmcia
slot, it shows up as an IDE device with a normal FAT filesystem.  It was
/dev/hde, IIRC.  (Actually, it might have been a RAM card with a battery,
not a flash card.)

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Re: sound on a Tecra 8000

2001-04-09 Thread Mark Janssen 

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Joanne Hunter wrote:
> once upon a Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:04:55 +0200 dreary, while I emailed weak
> and weary, quoth Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:23:21AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > has anybody got the sound working on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using the
> > > 2.4.2 kernel?
> 
> I ran into the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. Searching
> through the Linux On Laptops pages got me here:
> 
> http://home.intcom.de/czap/pages/linuxonlap.html
> Now I use this:
> insmod soundcore
> insmod sound
> insmod mpu401
> insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
> insmod opl3 io=0x388
> 
> Basically, I didn't try to start the opl3sa2 module, and moved all its
> options except io to ad1848, changing "mss_io" to "io".

I can verify that this works also on the tecra 8000, since I'm now
listening to my Mp3z again under 2.4.3

I've attached my /etc/modutils/aliases.sound file for those who want it...

Thanks Joanne :)


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# Sound Settings for 2.2.x upto (and including) 2.4.1
#alias char-major-14 opl3sa2
#pre-install opl3sa2 modprobe "-k" "ad1848"
#post-install opl3sa2 modprobe "-k" "opl3"
#options opl3sa2 io=0x220 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
#options opl3 io=0x388

# Sound settings for 2.4.2 and beyond (tested with 2.4.3)
alias char-major-14 ad1848
pre-install ad1848 modprobe "-k" "mpu401"
post-install ad1848 modprobe "-k" "opl3"
options ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
options opl3 io=0x388

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RE: Query on CF cards..

2001-04-09 Thread Glen S Mehn 

if you get a pcmcia adaptor for CF cards, you can insert it (if you have the
PCMCIA kernel modules installed!) and then mount it as a hard disk. on most
systems, it will be mountable as a vfat volume (you need this in your kernel
too!) on the first available IDE controller: most systems will see it as
/dev/hde1 (hda=bus0-master, hdb=bus0-slave, hdc=bus1-master,
hdd=bus1-slave).

I think that it should work the same way if you get a pcmcia pci adapter for
your desktop.

I've heard lots of tales about fiddling around: probably best to go to
linuxdoc.org and search for the particular model of digital camera.

but the best thing that I've found is to spring for the $15 and go the
pcmcia route. it's super simple and works great.

the command would be (as root or with sudo)

mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 /

glen

-Original Message-
From: anup neelanath [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 11:17 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Query on CF cards..


Hi,
Let me intoduce myself first. I am Anup from India. I am looking in the net
for buying a digital camera - one with compact flash card. I got ur mail
address from one of the replies u had given for a query on compact flash
card. I hope u will be able to answer my query..

I have a desktop PC - windows, and no USB port. The cameras now adays come
with USB cables. I saw that the CF card is IDE compatible. Does it mean that
I can directly connect the CF card to the IDE interface (as if connecting a
HD), or do I need to have some interface to connect it to the IDE cable.

I understand that if I buy a PCMCIA adaptor for CF card I can use it in the
PCMCIA slot of a laptop and in that case also will I see the CF card as a
Hard disk?

I will be really grateful if u can answer my queries...

Thanx a lot in advance//
Anup

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Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Here's a good one. :)
>
heres a better one... :)

I have been considering installing reiserfs on my laptop, not for the
journaling stuff however because (according to the documentation) that it
is faster, more economic on disk space and.faster.

I understand that it uses balanced-trees, however what I have been told
by my student flats computing students this tree will have to be balanced
everytime a entry is altered, etc.  If this is true this means CPU usage,
this translated to lower battery time.

Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
uses juice.

or am I just bantering on about nothing :)

Alex


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Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Peter Cordes 

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
> tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
> anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
> uses juice.

 It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.

 Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.

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(solved :)Re: sound on a Tecra 8000

2001-04-09 Thread Philipp Bliedung 

Mark Janssen wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 10:26:15AM -0500, Joanne Hunter wrote:
> > once upon a Sun, 8 Apr 2001 17:04:55 +0200 dreary, while I emailed weak
> > and weary, quoth Mark Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > > On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 11:23:21AM +0200, Philipp Bliedung wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > has anybody got the sound working on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 using the
> > > > 2.4.2 kernel?
> >
> > I ran into the same problem on a Toshiba Satellite 2545CDS. Searching
> > through the Linux On Laptops pages got me here:
> >
> > http://home.intcom.de/czap/pages/linuxonlap.html
> > Now I use this:
> > insmod soundcore
> > insmod sound
> > insmod mpu401
> > insmod ad1848 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0
> > insmod opl3 io=0x388
> >
> > Basically, I didn't try to start the opl3sa2 module, and moved all its
> > options except io to ad1848, changing "mss_io" to "io".
>
> I can verify that this works also on the tecra 8000, since I'm now
> listening to my Mp3z again under 2.4.3
>
> I've attached my /etc/modutils/aliases.sound file for those who want it...
>
> Thanks Joanne :)
>
> Mark Janssen Unix Consultant @ SyConOS IT
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>   
>
>aliases.soundName: aliases.sound
> Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
>
>Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature

Thank you s much :)   It's working!! Thank's a lot again!
Thank you

Philipp





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pcmcia statup order

2001-04-09 Thread Eric Richardson 

Hi,

More than one person(debain-user) is having problems with the startup
sequence with
pcmcia. I thought I'd ask here as this list is very familiar with
pcmcia. Please read the messages below. It seems that
/etc/init.d/networking gets called before /etc/init.d/pcmcia. 

I searched open and closed bugs for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and could not find
anything reported
about this.

Is this a problem that needs to be looked at for the distribution? 

It sure makes the out of box experience with Debian a little rough.

Eric :-)


Eric Richardson wrote:
> 
> "Stephen E. Hargrove" wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Mircea Luca wrote:
> > >
> > > ammit is.IF you browse /etc/rcS.d you'll see S40networking .So if
> > > you start pcmcia at 39(with S39 a symlink to /etc/init.d/pcmcia or
> > > wahtever the script name is) in rcS.d you'll be just fine.I don't have
> > > my laptop at home so can't tell
> > > exactly but that's the idea.
> > > rcS.d is executed first,then rc(0-6).d .Actually rc.boot is really the
> > > first one but that is deprecated and it shouldn't be used.
> > > man init
> > > will tell you more about the boot process.
> > >
> >
> > That did the trick.  Thanks!
>
> I have a similar problem running stable using pcmcia and DHCP. I have
> the following in relevent files in
> 
> /etc/rcS.d.
> S35mountall.sh
> S39dns-clean
> S40hostname.sh
> S40networking
> S40pump
> 
> In /etc/rc0.d
> S35networking
> 
> In /etc/rc1.d
> S20single
> 
> In /etc/rc2.d
> S11pcmcia
> S14ppp
> S20inetd
> S50netatalk
> 
> Netatalk fails but pump must keep working as eventually eth0 comes up
> but usually after the boot is complete and I have GDM running.
> 
> Should I move dnsclean down towards 35 and insert pcmcia afterwords? If
> I move the pcmcia up to rcS.d then do I also need to make sure that the K
> scripts make sense as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> Eric :-)


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Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>> Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
>> tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
>> anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
>> uses juice.
>
> It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
>noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
>something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
>all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
>doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
>Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.
>
> Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.
>
>


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Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:55:36PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote:
>> Anyone have any ideas about how a laptop's battery time is lowered by the
>> tree-balancing.  This is not a problem for mains-computers however laptops
>> anything that uses CPU cycles (although they may normally be idle ones)
>> uses juice.
>
> It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
>noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
>something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
>all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
>doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
>Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.
>
> Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.
>
>


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Re: reiserfs?

2001-04-09 Thread Alexander Clouter 

firstly sorry about the *useless* e-mail, I hit Ctrl-X instead of Ctrl-C
(I'm using pine), I only noticed when I saw the "message sent"
messagebugger :)

On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Peter Cordes wrote:
>
> It wouldn't be very fast if it used so much CPU that it consumed a
>noticeable amount more electric power.  Rebalancing only has to happen when
>something else is writing, and usually rebalancing doesn't take much time at
>all.  Every file system has some CPU overhead for management.  Reiserfs
>doesn't do a lot of copying around blocks on disk, since that would be slow.
>Rearranging a bit of memory is really quite fast.
>
I was only wondering if it sorted out the tree whilst it was idle,
however after your comments it looks like I have no problems.

> Don't worry about the CPU load from reiserfs.
>
looks like I'll be doing ReiserFS when I'm back at university, however
not till my exams are over :(

Alex

PS.  I noticed you have a nslug.ca e-mail, you know Ben Armstrong (aka
Fishy in the xpilot circles?), only curious..


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Re: Thinkpad video and digital camera issues

2001-04-09 Thread Hank Barta 

> Check the video4linux section of the kernel config?  (I don't have an
> Olympus ... our digital camera writes on a PCMCIA memory card, which works
> fine)

The Olympus writes on 'Smart Media' flash cards.

> It should spot it, but fail to identify it (hibeep, lowboop) if it doesn't
> know what it is... a mite odd to not see it at all.

My 'Simple Technology' smart media card is not recognized until I
put a smart flash card in it.

> I've been told by a friend with a laptop that has a real SmartMedia port,
> that smartmedia cards are spotted easily as USB devices when he plugs them
> in.  So, you might need USB support to spot them ... which doesn't come in
> the "stock" kernels, even though the code's in there for 2.2.18.

That sounds like a Sony VAIO that uses their proprietary flash memory
card in a built in USB device. (But I have also heard of external USB
smart media readers, so there may be laptops that have this built in.)

> It does however seem logical if the PCMCIA interface card isn't being 
> spotted, that its further smartmedia item wouldn't be spotted either :(

Logical, but not the way mine works. ;)

The only other thing I would add is that inserting smart media into
the PC locks it up for what seems like eternity. Then it proceeds
and all is well. At that time, I have no problem reading or writing
the smart flash.  IIRC, if you forget to unmount the card (unmount
the FS) it does not shut down cleanly and ties up the IRQ. I don't
recall whether reloading drivers fixed this or if I had to reboot.


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Re: Thinkpad video and digital camera issues

2001-04-09 Thread William R. Ward 

Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 03:30:35AM -0700, William R. Ward wrote:
> > Also, I bought an Olympus Camedia D-360L digital camera.  I want to
> > upload images into the Thinkpad.  There are two ways: RS-232 or
> > SmartMedia.  I tried with several different packages to get the RS-232
> > interface to work, and couldn't get any results.  But it works like a
> > charm with the Windows software they include, of course.
> > 
> > The ADI SmartMedia/PCMCIA card I bought doesn't seem to be recognized
> > at all (the computer doesn't even realize it's been plugged in).
> > Should I just take it back for a refund?  What other brands are there
> > that you would recommend instead?  Or is there something else I can
> > try to make this one work?
> 
> I am not sure if I have the same smartmedia pcmcia adaptor as you. But
> the one I have works beautifully, I insert the pcmcia card, then the
> smartmedia card. Hear the two beeps (you get no beep until the smarmedia
> card is inserted) then mount the card to some mountpoint. It appears as
> an IDE interface to a dos formatted partition.
>  One wierdness though, twice I have somehow destroyed the smartmedia
> such that it no longer is formatted or registers as a proper block
> device. I have no idea why, and it makes me somewhat nervouse. But other
> than that minor (?) issue, all is well.
>  Anyone else have this problem with smartmedia in general? or is it just
> me?

Insert the PCMCIA card without a SmartMedia card in it?  I hadn't
thought of that.  I have been inserting the card with SmartMedia
already in it.

Another thing that may be an issue is that my SmartMedia card came
pre-formatted from Olympus.  Do I need to reformat it, to make it
work?  How can I reformat it if the computer doesn't even notice that
it's there?  I saw instructions on the web somewhere that involved
running a format command using /dev/mem0a0 or something like that, but
there is no such device in my /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to do
it.  Maybe it's called something else under Debian?

I'm kind of new to the whole PCMCIA thing.  I know the PCMCIA port
works, because I have a 3COM ethernet/modem card which works
perfectly.

If it matters, I'm running kernel version 2.2.18pre1, custom
compilation (and corresponding custom pcmcia-cs package), with Debian
"stable".

--Bill.

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Re: Thinkpad video and digital camera issues

2001-04-09 Thread Jim Richardson 

On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 07:21:14PM -0700, William R. Ward wrote:
> Jim Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > I am not sure if I have the same smartmedia pcmcia adaptor as you. But
> > the one I have works beautifully, I insert the pcmcia card, then the
> > smartmedia card. Hear the two beeps (you get no beep until the smarmedia
> > card is inserted) then mount the card to some mountpoint. It appears as
> > an IDE interface to a dos formatted partition.
> >  One wierdness though, twice I have somehow destroyed the smartmedia
> > such that it no longer is formatted or registers as a proper block
> > device. I have no idea why, and it makes me somewhat nervouse. But other
> > than that minor (?) issue, all is well.
> >  Anyone else have this problem with smartmedia in general? or is it just
> > me?
> 
> Insert the PCMCIA card without a SmartMedia card in it?  I hadn't
> thought of that.  I have been inserting the card with SmartMedia
> already in it.

It doesn't matter on mine, either way works fine.

> 
> Another thing that may be an issue is that my SmartMedia card came
> pre-formatted from Olympus.  Do I need to reformat it, to make it
> work?  How can I reformat it if the computer doesn't even notice that
> it's there?  I saw instructions on the web somewhere that involved
> running a format command using /dev/mem0a0 or something like that, but
> there is no such device in my /dev and MAKEDEV doesn't know how to do
> it.  Maybe it's called something else under Debian?
>

that sounds like a flashmem device, on the PCMCIA adapter I have, (which
has no markings and came in a plain white box :) the card looks like an
ide device.

> I'm kind of new to the whole PCMCIA thing.  I know the PCMCIA port
> works, because I have a 3COM ethernet/modem card which works
> perfectly.
> 
> If it matters, I'm running kernel version 2.2.18pre1, custom
> compilation (and corresponding custom pcmcia-cs package), with Debian
> "stable".
> 


I have only used the device under 2.2.14 and 2.2.16 so far. But the
pcmcia stuff is external so it shouldn't matter much.

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