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.

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,

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

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

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 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 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

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: 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 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'.

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: 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

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 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

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.

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,

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

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

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 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: 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: 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 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'.

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: 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