Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Manuel Teira Paz
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > I can confirm that the thing does NOT scratch when playing CD's (playing > both at the same time, with the mp3 scratching, the CD not). It also > scratches for wav files though - I played mp3's until it started > scratching, then played a wave, and

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Manuel Teira Paz
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Hello, > > Should I CC this to debian-user? I'd guess this sound card is probably not > Laptop-only... > > I have an ESS Maestro 2, with which I am having a small problem: after > playing music for a while, the left channel starts scratching. Thi

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Greg Woods
I am not a hardware geek or an expert on sound stuff. I'll just refer you to Zach Brown's page on this at Red Hat, that's where I got the driver from that I'm using. http://people.redhat.com/~zab/maestro/ --Greg

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Greg Woods
I am not a hardware geek or an expert on sound stuff. I'll just refer you to Zach Brown's page on this at Red Hat, that's where I got the driver from that I'm using. http://people.redhat.com/~zab/maestro/ --Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Setting hwclock Time

2000-06-11 Thread Jack Morgan
I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages,

Setting hwclock Time

2000-06-11 Thread Jack Morgan
I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages,

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > I used to have this problem after a resume. Surprisingly it was fixed by > changing a BIOS option or two. On my laptop I had to turn off 'CPU Idle' > calls in the *BIOS* and also (probably due to a dodgy Pheonix BIOS) had to > turn off 'PnP OS'.

Re: installation help

2000-06-11 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i need help installing debian onto my laptop everything loads up i > press enter to start the process it checks everything then it locks up > the last line reading "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0" how > do i get aorund this problem

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've > noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume > cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS >

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> What type of music are you playing? I too have noticed the scratching > on my laptop with an ESS Maestro 2 sound chip, but only when playing > MP3 files, I don't hear this when I play CD's, and I don't hear it > when I play MP3's on my desktop with a Soundblaster card. If, in fact, > we are talki

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Jim Ray
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I have an ESS Maestro 2, with which I am having a small problem: after > playing music for a while, the left channel starts scratching. This is > also sometimes triggered by a small processing task, e.g. starting X... or > sometimes something as

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Alexander Clouter wrote: > I used to have this problem after a resume. Surprisingly it was fixed by > changing a BIOS option or two. On my laptop I had to turn off 'CPU Idle' > calls in the *BIOS* and also (probably due to a dodgy Pheonix BIOS) had to > turn off 'PnP OS'.

Re: installation help

2000-06-11 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > i need help installing debian onto my laptop everything loads up i > press enter to start the process it checks everything then it locks up > the last line reading "ramdisk: compressed image found at block 0" how > do i get aorund this problem

Re: Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Alexander Clouter
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill wrote: > > Hello all, > > I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've > noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume > cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS >

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
> What type of music are you playing? I too have noticed the scratching > on my laptop with an ESS Maestro 2 sound chip, but only when playing > MP3 files, I don't hear this when I play CD's, and I don't hear it > when I play MP3's on my desktop with a Soundblaster card. If, in fact, > we are talk

Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill
Hello all, I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS confirms this; the rating is either 158 or 238; if I'm inferring things

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Jim Ray
On Sun, 11 Jun 2000, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > > I have an ESS Maestro 2, with which I am having a small problem: after > playing music for a while, the left channel starts scratching. This is > also sometimes triggered by a small processing task, e.g. starting X... or > sometimes something as

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Greg Woods
What type of music are you playing? I too have noticed the scratching on my laptop with an ESS Maestro 2 sound chip, but only when playing MP3 files, I don't hear this when I play CD's, and I don't hear it when I play MP3's on my desktop with a Soundblaster card. If, in fact, we are talking about t

Re: Input overruns on PCMCIA-modem

2000-06-11 Thread andreas bruegmann
Nate Bargmann wrote: > > What version of PCMCIA is installed? 3.1.8 has serial problems so > you may want to check the list archives from the past week for a > work-around. You may try removing PMCIA 3.1.8 and then install a > newer version manually. > Thank you very much for your reply, Yes

Changing processor speeds

2000-06-11 Thread Benjamin Tyger Sunshine-Hill
Hello all, I have a Toshiba Libretto 70CT that I use a fair amount for MP3s. I've noticed over the last couple of months that after some suspend/resume cycles, the processor will go slower, causing the player to skip. BogoMIPS confirms this; the rating is either 158 or 238; if I'm inferring thing

Re: Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Greg Woods
What type of music are you playing? I too have noticed the scratching on my laptop with an ESS Maestro 2 sound chip, but only when playing MP3 files, I don't hear this when I play CD's, and I don't hear it when I play MP3's on my desktop with a Soundblaster card. If, in fact, we are talking about

Re: Input overruns on PCMCIA-modem

2000-06-11 Thread andreas bruegmann
Nate Bargmann wrote: > > What version of PCMCIA is installed? 3.1.8 has serial problems so > you may want to check the list archives from the past week for a > work-around. You may try removing PMCIA 3.1.8 and then install a > newer version manually. > Thank you very much for your reply, Ye

Input overruns on PCMCIA-modem

2000-06-11 Thread andreas bruegmann
Hi, I´m currently using Slink with kernel 2.0.36 on a Sharp PC9090 notebook. My PCMCIA-modem works fine on ttyS2, IRQ 5. I recently installed potato on a separate partition, installed PCMCIA (installed without errors, never had this before). In pppconfig my PCMCIA-modem is auto-detected on ttyS2,

Input overruns on PCMCIA-modem

2000-06-11 Thread andreas bruegmann
Hi, I´m currently using Slink with kernel 2.0.36 on a Sharp PC9090 notebook. My PCMCIA-modem works fine on ttyS2, IRQ 5. I recently installed potato on a separate partition, installed PCMCIA (installed without errors, never had this before). In pppconfig my PCMCIA-modem is auto-detected on ttyS2,

Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, Should I CC this to debian-user? I'd guess this sound card is probably not Laptop-only... I have an ESS Maestro 2, with which I am having a small problem: after playing music for a while, the left channel starts scratching. This is also sometimes triggered by a small processing task, e.g.

Maestro sound card, scratching

2000-06-11 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, Should I CC this to debian-user? I'd guess this sound card is probably not Laptop-only... I have an ESS Maestro 2, with which I am having a small problem: after playing music for a while, the left channel starts scratching. This is also sometimes triggered by a small processing task, e.g.